This collection contains all faculty works from the Department of Politics and Global Affairs, including those produced previously under International & Global Studies and Political Science. For lists of publications filtered by their original academic unit, please visit:
Submissions from 2025
Does COIL Build Social Capital? Trust, Tolerance, and Political Engagement Among Students in the USA and UAE, Lindsay J. Benstead, Kristina Katsos, Sally S. Mudiamu, and Corinne Hughes
Will Malaysia Become an Active Middle Power?, Bruce Gilley
Submissions from 2024
Trump and China: the Rocky Road Ahead, Mel Gurtov
Climate Hazards and Human Migration: Literature Review, Anna Ivanova, Deepti Singh, Pronoy Rai, Claire Richards, Hugo Vasconcelos, and Michael Goldsby
Fostering Resilience: Community Radio and Disaster Communication in Odisha, India, Manas Kumar Kanjilal, Kanchan K. Malik, and Priya Kapoor
Is the Future Female? Lessons from a Conjoint Experiment on Voter Preferences in Six Arab Countries, Ellen Lust and Lindsay J. Benstead
What Can We Learn About Teaching Excellence from Our Students? Lessons from Six Years of Teaching Award Data, Christopher Shortell, Kris Henning, and Carl Christiansen
Women Who Represent Men: Preserving Political Masculinities Through Women Allies, Melody E. Valdini
Submissions from 2023
Women’s Leadership and COVID-19 Pandemic: Navigating Crises through the Application of Connective Leadership, Chris Taylor Cartwright, Maura Harrington, Sarah Smith Orr, and Tessa Sutton
Evaluating Militant Decision-Making with Information Science: the Irish Republican Movement During the "troubles", Joshua C. Eastin, Emily Kalah Gade, and Michael Gabbay
The Experience Premium and Women's Nomination to Local Elections in South Africa's African National Congress Party, Safia Abukar Farole and Elif Sari-Genc
The China Balloon Incident: The Drama within the Drama, Mel Gurtov
Madame Justice Will Save Our Democracy: Gender Bias and Perceptions of the High Court in Transitional Regimes, Christopher Shortell and Melody E. Valdini
Conspiracy Theories and Ebola: Lessons Learned Important for Future Pandemics, Shawn C. Smallman
The AKP, Religion, and Political Values in contemporary Turkey: implications for the future of democracy, Birol A. Yeşilada
Policy Implementation in Crisis: Lessons from the Philippines, Steven T. Zech, Joshua Eastin, and Matteo Bonotti
Submissions from 2022
Do Islamist Parties Help or Hinder Women? Party Institutionalization, Piety and Responsiveness to Female Citizens, Mounah Abdel-Samad and Lindsay J. Benstead
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Innovation Ecosystems in Facilitating the Adoption of Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Dana Sami Bakry, Tugrul U. Daim, Marina Dabic, and Birol A. Yesilada
Explaining Backlash: Social Hierarchy and Men’s Rejection of Women’s Rights Reforms, Lindsay J. Benstead, Ragnhild L. Muriaas, and Vibeke Wang
Monarchism with a Human Face: Balkan Queens and the Social Politics of Nursing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Evguenia Davidova
Environmental Pressures and Pro-Government Militias: Evidence from the Philippines, Joshua C. Eastin and Steven T. Zech
Scientists' Warning of an Imperiled Ocean, Samuel Georgian, Sarah Hameed, Lance Morgan, Diva J. Amon, U. Rashid Sumaila, David Johns, and William J. Ripple
Can Fiscal Recentralization Strengthen Local Government? The Case of Thailand, Bruce Gilley and Sirisak Laochankham
Shaheen Bagh: Muslim Women Contesting and Theorizing Citizenship and Belonging during COVID-19, Priya Kapoor
Book Review of, Turkey's State Crisis: Institutions, Reform, and Conflict, Birol Yesilada
Submissions from 2021
Civil Society, Insecurity and Arab Support for Normalization with Israel: Contextualizing the Abraham Accords, Lindsay J. Benstead
Eroding Support from Below: Performance in Local Government and Opposition Party Growth in South Africa, Safia A. Farole
Presidential Warfare and the “Forever Wars”, Mel Gurtov
The Afghanistan Debacle, Mel Gurtov
Can a Large-Landscape Conservation Vision Contribute to Achieving Biodiversity Targets?, Mark Hebblewhite, Jodi A. Hilty, Sara Williams, Harvey Locke, Charles Chester, David Johns, Gregory Kehm, and Wendy L. Francis
Female Electability in the Arab World: the Advantages of Intersectionality, Kristen Kao and Lindsay J. Benstead
Theory(ies) of Culture and Compassion: Indian Writers Call out Local and Global Politics Under the Pall of Covid-19, Priya Kapoor
Poor People's Beliefs and the Dynamics of Clientelism, Miquel Pellicer, Eva Wegner, Lindsay J. Benstead, and Ellen Lust
The Politics of Women's Presence on High Courts: Bias and the Conditional Nature of Cultivating Legitimacy, Christopher Shortell and Melody E. Valdini
State, Society, and Pro-Government Militias in the Philippines, Steven T. Zech and Joshua Eastin
Submissions from 2020
State Atrophy and the Reconfiguration of Borderlands in Syria and Iraq: Post-2011 Dynamics, Harout Akdedian and Harith Hasan
Conceptualizing and Measuring Patriarchy: The Importance of Feminist Theory, Lindsay J. Benstead
Does It Matter What Observers Say? The Impact of International Election Monitoring on Legitimacy, Lindsay J. Benstead, Kristen Kao, and Ellen Lust
Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Biodiversity Conservation, Richard T. Corlett, Richard B. Primack, Vincent Devictor, Bea Mass, Varun Goswami, Amanda Bates, Lian Pin Koh, Tracey Reagan, Rafael Loyola, Robin J. Pakeman, Graeme S. Cumming, Anna Pidgeon, David Johns, and Robin Roth
Circuits of Mobile Workers in the 19th-Century Central Balkans, Evguenia Davidova
Teaching an International Bestseller: Reflections on Encouraging Caring Global Citizenship, Evguenia Davidova
The Wandering Orthodox Nuns: Religion and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Central Balkans, Evguenia Davidova
Eco-Critique and Thought As a Force of Nature, Stephanie Erev
The “End of Poverty” Illusion: Global and East Asian Realities in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mel Gurtov
Human Confusion: Why There Must Be Justice for Non-Humans, David Johns
Towards an Ecocentric Movement?, David Johns
Community Radio for Creating Communication Channels: Theoretical Musings Emanating from Himalayan Rural Locales, Priya Kapoor
India Transitions: Culture and Society during Contemporary Viral Times, Priya Kapoor
Precarious Lives and Infinite Hope: COVID-19 challenges us, Priya Kapoor
Shah Rukh Khan: Journey from Charisma to Celebrity, Priya Kapoor
Murder of Musicians in South Asia, Priya Kapoor and Shawn Smallman
The Negotiated Syllabus: How to Create Community in Online International Studies Classes, Shawn Smallman
Making Enemies: the Mainstream Media Spectacle and US Foreign Policy, Gerald Sussman
Submissions from 2019
Differentiation and Diffusion: Shifting Public Opinion Attitudes Toward Foreign Policy in North Africa, Lindsay J. Benstead
Do Female Local Councilors Improve Women’s Representation?, Lindsay J. Benstead
Introduction: The Enduring Relevance of the State Assemblies, Richard A. Clucas
Echoes of Tumultuous Wars: Prosperity and Poverty of the Balkan Entrepreneurial Strata (1800s–1880s) [Chapter 5], Evguenia Davidova
Joining the Counterinsurgency: Explaining Pro-Government Militia Participation in the Philippines, Joshua Eastin and Steven T. Zech
Belonging to Spontaneous Order: Hayek, Pluralism, Democracy, Stephanie Erev
Feeling the Vibrations: On the Micropolitics of Climate Change, Stephanie Erev
30 Years After Tiananmen: The Young and the Restless, Bruce Gilley
The Dangerous New US Consensus on China and the Future of US-China Relations, Mel Gurtov and Mark Selden
Provincializing Whiteness: We Are All Calibans, Priya Kapoor
Seasonal Masculinities: Seasonal Labor Migration and Masculinities in Rural Western India, Pronoy Rai
Labor in the Age of Digital (Re)Production, Gerald Sussman
RussiaGate: The Construction of Enemy, Gerald Sussman
The Household Economics of Counterinsurgency, Steven T. Zech and Joshua Eastin
Submissions from 2018
A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic, Andreas Avgousti
Survey Research in the Arab World: Challenges and Opportunities, Lindsay J. Benstead
The Roberts Dynasty, Richard A. Clucas and Skyler Lillian Brocker-Knapp
Governing Oregon: Continuity and Change, Richard A. Clucas, Mark Henkels, Priscilla L. Southwell, and Edward P. Weber
Les infirmières au service du nouvel État bulgare (1878-1941), Evguenia Davidova
Serving the State: Military and Public Health Practices in Bulgaria (1878–1908), Evguenia Davidova
Climate Change and Gender Equality in Developing States, Joshua Eastin
Hell and High Water: Precipitation Shocks and Conflict Violence in the Philippines, Joshua Eastin
Beheading the Hydra: Counterinsurgent Violence and Insurgent Attacks in Iraq, Joshua Eastin and Emily Kalah Gade
What Is It Like to Become a Bat? Heterogeneities in an Age of Extinction, Stephanie Erev
At Home and Abroad, Trump Tramples Human Rights, Mel Gurtov
The Question of Profits, Robin Hahnel
Thailand's 'English Fever', Migrant Teachers and Cosmopolitan Aspirations in an Interconnected Asia, Maureen Hickey
Foucault, Simon Springer, and Postneoliberalism, Jaycob Izsó
Global Muslim Audiences’ Polysemic Reading of “My name is Khan”: Toward an Emergent Multiculturalism, Priya Kapoor
Why the Gender of Traditional Authorities Matters: Intersectionality and Women’s Rights Advocacy in Malawi, Ragnhild L. Muriaas, Vibeke Wang, Lindsay J. Benstead, and Boniface Dulani
Biodiversity Gains? The Debate on Changes in Local- vs Global-Scale Species Richness, Richard B. Primack, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Richard T. Corlett, Vincent Devictor, David Johns, Rafael Loyola, Bea Hass, Robin J. Pakeman, and Liba Pejchar
The Labor of Social Change: Seasonal Labor Migration and Social Change in Rural Western India, Pronoy Rai
Conspiracy Theories and the Zika Epidemic, Shawn Smallman
Wet Markets and Avian Influenza: Public Policy Decisions in Hong Kong, Shawn Smallman
The US Media, State Legitimacy, and the New Cold War, Gerald Sussman
Economic Voting in Latin America: Rules and Responsibility, Melody E. Valdini and Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union, Birol A. Yesilada, Jacek Kugler, Gaspare Genna, and Osman Goktug Tanrikulu
Submissions from 2017
Coke, Pepsi or Mecca Cola? Why Product Characteristics Affect the Likelihood of Collective Action Problems and Boycott Success, Lindsay J. Benstead and Megan Reif
Has Capitalism Lost its Puritan Spirit? What do Recent WVS Data Say about Religiosity and Work Values?, Veysel Bozkurt and Birol A. Yeşilada
Adopting the Principles of Universal Design into International and Global Studies’ Programs and Curriculum, Kimberley Brown, Rosa David, and Shawn Smallman
Women Travelers as Consumers: Adoption of Modern Ideas and Practices in 19th-Century Southeast Europe, Evguenia Davidova
Local Governance Pathways to Decarbonization in China and India, Bruce Gilley
Technocracy and Democracy as Spheres of Justice in Public Policy, Bruce Gilley
Diplomatic Remedies for THAAD Madness: The US, China and the Two Koreas, Mel Gurtov