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Modeling Vulnerability of Opioid-Associated Hepatitis B and C Infections: A Spatial Epidemiological Approach
(Georgetown University, 2022)
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 ...
Uncertainty and the Black Swan Origin Story
(2022-02-04)
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 ...
Uncertainty and the Unimaginable
(2022-02-08)
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 ...
Are U.S. Capacity-Building Efforts in Ukraine Making an Impact? An Analysis of U.S. Government Spending and Foreign Aid Programs in Ukraine
(Georgetown University, 2022)
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 ...
Essays on the Impacts of Immigration in Germany
(Georgetown University, 2022)
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 ...
Library Associates Newsletter Issue 128
(2022-05)
Bulletproof Knowledge: How Foreign Service Generalism and Fortress Diplomacy Produce "Pseudo Expertise" About the Arab World
(Georgetown University, 2022)
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 ...
Peripheries of Contention and Resistance: Geographies of Protest and Police Behavior in Tunisia
(Georgetown University, 2022)
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. ...
Carceral Urbanism in Damascus and Aleppo: Trajectories of Socio-spatial Policing and Resistance
(Georgetown University, 2022)
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 ...