The opioid epidemic in the United States has been associated with an increase in rates of hepatitis B and C infection across the country. This is due to an increase in the use of intravenous drug injection which allows the ...

The “black swan” metaphor is today frequently used in both academic and non-academic sources to describe a plethora of events that seem to have been previously unexpected and/or unpredictable. This working paper is mostly ...

How much can we “know”? In this essay, I sketch one stance on this question that, broadly speaking, posits that the resources of the human mind have some insurmountable limits, and that, as a result, the right answers to ...

In 2019, the United States government spent over $588 million to build partner capacity (BPC) in Ukraine. Within the U.S. government, departments and agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development ...

In this dissertation, I examine the impact of recent immigration to Germany on various outcomes. I explore the often-overlooked benefits migrants can bring to host countries, as well as policies which may facilitate ...

What is the nature of Arab regional expertise within the US Foreign Service? Relying on numerous interviews with Foreign Service Officers (FSOs), staff from the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), and FSI guest speakers, I ...

Both academic scholarship and popular discourse about Tunisian politics after 2011 have tended to regard the 2010-2011 revolution as a success (sometimes with caveats). Only few have instead sought to examine continuities. ...

Unlike most pathways of the Arab Spring, the head of the Syrian regime remained in power despite the atrocities committed and the evolution of peaceful protests into a militarized conflict. Prior to patent international ...