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2025:

Chinese ties and low carbon industrialization in Africa
S Owusu, K Tang, G Ndubuisi
Energy Economics 144, 108352, 2025

Climate transition spillovers and sovereign risk: evidence from Indonesia
R Gourdel, I Monasterolo, K Gallagher
Energy Economics, 108211, 2025

Developing countries locked out of low-carbon technology trade
P Bandara, R Ray, J Lu, KP Gallagher
Science 388 (6744), 248-250, 2025

 Firm Volatility in an Era of Global Value Chain: The Role of Product Quality
G Ndubuisi, S Owusu
African Economic Research Consortium Working Papers,  2025

Germany and Japan:“Reluctant warriors” no more?
A Sakaki, HW Maull, K Lukner, ES Krauss, TU Berger
Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 20578911251326143, 2025

Golden Passports and Golden Visas in the Gulf.
N LORI
Brandeis University, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Middle East Brief, 2025

The international financial architecture and sustainable prosperity
K Gallagher
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) Working Paper, 2025

Navigating Change in the Family Planning and Reproductive Health Landscape
V Boydell, F Obare, M Karra
Studies in Family Planning, 2025

Not Picking Sides and the “New Neutrals”: Active Nonalignment, Great Power Competition, and the Global South
J Heine
Journal of World Affairs, 29769442251324710, 2025

Rethinking the science-policy interface for chemicals, waste, and pollution: Challenging core assumptions
Allan, Jen Iris ; Borthakur, Anwesha ; …  Selin, Henrik ; Sun, Yixian ; Vadrot, Alice
Global environmental change, 2025-07, Vol.92, p.102995, Article 102995 

Security in context (SiC): a novel theoretical and empirical approach to the US-China rivalry
Ye, Min
Review of social economy, 2025-01, Vol.83 (1), p.79-105

Son Preference, Women’s Mental Health, and Well-Being in India
S Anukriti, CH Almanza, S Hossain, M Karra
2025

The Spirit and/of Political Science
Menchik, Jeremy
Political science quarterly, 2025-02

Who Actually Governs? Gender Inequality and Political Representation in Rural India
Heinze, Alyssa R. ; Brulé, Rachel E. ; Chauchard, Simon
The Journal of politics, 2025-04, Vol.87 (2), p.818-822

2024:

Adjusting Injectable Contraceptive Use for Months Since the Last Injection
M Karra, D Canning
Studies in Family Planning,  2024

Afterword: Consociationalism and the State: Situating Lebanon and Iraq in a Global Perspective
Shamiran Mako, Allison McCulloch
Nationalism & ethnic politics, Vol.30 (1), 2024

Defense industrial policy in a changing international order: rethinking transatlantic burden-sharing
J Guiberteau, L Hellemeier, K Schilde
Defence Studies 24 (1), 166-173, 2024

Sustainable future bonds: Boosting multilateral development banks lending and improving the global reserve system: Sustainable future bonds
M Zucker‐Marques, KP Gallagher
Global Policy 15 (1), 166-182, 2024

Understanding household evacuation preferences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico
S Meng, N Halim, M Karra, P Mozumder
Safety science 171, 106405 2 2024

The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation
Y Lee, WW Grimes, WN Kring
The Pacific Review 37 (5), 913-939, 2024

2023:

Climate Shocks and Gendered Political Transformation: How Crises Alter Women’s Political Representation
Brulé, Rachel
Politics & gender, p.1-7, 2023

Colonized Countries Rarely Ask for Redress Over Past Wrongs - the Reasons Can Be Complex
Manjari Chatterjee Miller
AllAfrica.com, (The Conversation Africa Johannesburg), 2023

Competing Projects in Global Governance
Slobodian, Quinn
Business history review, Vol.97 (3), p.626-631, 2023

The effectiveness of global chemicals treaties
H Selin
Nature Sustainability 6 (11), 1289-1290 2023

Exploring the Relationship between Anemia and Postpartum Depression: Evidence from Malawi
Cheng, Zijing ; Karra, Mahesh ; Guo, Muqi ; Patel, Vikram ; Canning, David
International journal of environmental research and public health Vol.20 (4), p.3178,  2023

Financial cooperation in the Asia-Pacific as regime complex: explaining patterns of coverage, membership, and rules 
William W Grimes, Yaechan Lee, William N Kring
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific,  November 2023

Geocultural Power: China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century
Ye, Min
The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.82 (3), p.539-540, 2023

The Global South and Climate Coverage: From News Taker to News Maker
Ejaz, Waqas ; Najam, Adil
Social media + Society Vol.9 (2), 2023

Hormonal Contraception and Hemoglobin Levels in Urban Malawi: A Longitudinal Analysis
M Karra, D Canning
ResearchSquare 2023

Human Shields and the Gulf War
Alexander de la Paz
International Studies Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 3,  2023

The human–technical–environmental systems framework for sustainability analysis
H Selin, NE Selin
Sustainability Science 18 (2), 791-808, 2023

Islamic political parties and election campaigns in Indonesia
Fox, Colm A ; Menchik, Jeremy
Party politics, Vol.29 (4), p.622-635, 2023

Leadership experience and coping strategies of women secondary school principals: lesson from Ethiopia
Woldegebriel, Mesfin Manaze ; Mekonnen, Geberew Tulu
International journal of leadership in education, 2023-11, p.1-15

Making EU Economic Governance Fit for Purpose: Investing in the Future and Reforming the Fiscal Rules While Decentralizing and Democratizing
VA Schmidt
Reform of the EU Economic Governance–Why and How?, CESifo EconForum 2023

Manifesting the embedded developmental state: the role of South Korea's National Pension Service in managing financial crisis
Lee, Yaechan ; Grimes, William W.
Review of international political economy : RIPE Vol.30 (5), p.1933-1956, 2023

Modi Comes to Washington: Prospects and Challenges for India-US Relations
MC Miller
The Diplomat 2023

No Apology Necessary? How Narratives Impact Redress for Colonialism in Namibia and India
MC Miller
International Affairs 2023

Practices and Needs in Reintegration Programs for Violent Extremist Offenders in the United States: The Extremist Perspective
JE Stern, MK McBride, JL Mellea, E Savoia
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 1-30, 2023

Productive efficiency, structural change, and catch-up within Africa
EB Mensah, S Owusu, N Foster-McGregor
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 65, 78-100, 2023

Responsiveness and Responsibility in the EU Post-Pandemic Economic Governance
A Crespy, T Moreira Ramalho, V Schmidt
Special Issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, 2023

South Sudan and the cultural politics of East Africa
Mondesire, Zachary
Cultural dynamics, Vol.35 (3), 2023

Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency
G Ndubuisi, S Owusu
Journal of Productivity Analysis 59 (2), 195-215, 2023

The Unequal Mind: How Charles Murray and Neoliberal Think Tanks Revived IQ
Slobodian, Quinn
Capitalism (Philadelphia, Pa.), Vol.4 (1), p.73-108, 2023

Unwanted Family Planning: Prevalence Estimates for 56 Countries
Canning, David ; Karra, Mahesh
Studies in family planning, Vol.54 (1), p.75-93, 2023

The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation
Lee, Yaechan ; Grimes, William W. ; Kring, William N.
The Pacific Review, 1-27, 2023

When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance
F Kinniburgh, H Selin, NE Selin, M Schreurs
Regulation & Governance 17 (2), 425-448, 2023

Women and Power in the Developing World
Brulé, Rachel E
Annual review of political science, Vol.26 (1), p.33-54, 2023

Writing IR after COVID-19: Reassessing Political Possibilities, Good Faith, and Policy-Relevant Scholarship on Climate Change Mitigation and Nuclear Disarmament
Pelopidas, Benoît ; Verschuren, Sanne Cornelia J
Global Studies Quarterly, Vol.3 (1) 2023

2022:

Assessing the climate change exposure of foreign direct investment
Xia Li & Kevin P. Gallagher 
Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 1451, 2022

A Black exit interview from anthropology
Mondesire, Zachary
American anthropologist, Vol.124 (3), p.613-616, 2022

The causal effect of a family planning intervention on women’s contraceptive use and birth spacing
Mahesh Karra, Dan Maggio, Muqi Guo, Bagrey Ngwira, David Canning
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.  119(22): e2200279119, 2022

China’s global development finance poses heterogeneous risks to coastal and marine socio-ecological systems
Simmons, B. Alexander ; Butt, Nathalie ; O’Hara, Casey C. ; Ray, Rebecca ; Ma, Yaxiong ; Gallagher, Kevin P.
One earth (Cambridge, Mass.), Vol.5 (12), p.1377-1393, 2022

Citizens-in-waiting: strategic naturalization delays in the USA and UAE
N Lori
Ethnic and Racial Studies 45 (6), 1075-1095, 2022

Failure of Mobile Money Services: Standards for Systemic Risk
Jonathan Greenacre
Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, #6, 2022
OpenBU 

The Fiscal Impacts of Trade and Investment Treaties
Dutt, Devika ; Gallagher, Kevin P.
International journal of political economy, Vol.51 (3), p.176-207, 2022

The Genesis of Miracle Stories in Jihad
de la Paz, Alexander
International studies quarterly, Vol.66 (4) 2022

Investor-state disputes threaten the global green energy transition
Tienhaara, Kyla ; Thrasher, Rachel ; Simmons, B Alexander ; Gallagher, Kevin P
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Vol.376 (6594), p.701-703, 2022

Manifesting the embedded developmental state: the role of South Korea’s National Pension Service in managing financial crisis
Lee, Yaechan; Grimes, William W. 
Review of International Political Economy,  2022

Measurement of Unmet Need for Contraception: A Counterfactual Approach
Karra, Mahesh
Studies in family planning, Vol.53 (4), p.657-680, 2022

Mennonite Central Committee and National Socialism, 1933–1955
Goossen, Benjamin W
Journal of Mennonite studies, Vol.40 (1), p.77, 2022

The Politics of the Fatwa: Islamic Legal Authority in Modern Indonesia
Menchik, Jeremy
Indonesia (Ithaca), Vol.114 (1), p.75-97, 2022

Possible Citizens: Migration Enforcement as the Performance of Citizenship in the United Arab Emirates
N Lori
International Migration Review 56 (3), 727-753, 2022

Resolving Liquidity Problems in Mobile Money
Greenacre, Jonathan
Banking & finance law review, Vol.37 (3), p.439-470, 2022

Terrorists and the Boston-Area Institutions of Higher Learning that Educated Them
John Woodward
Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies, Winter-Spring (27 (1)  29-38, 2022 

2021:

Age is measured with systematic measurement error in developing country surveys: A diagnosis and analysis of consequences.
Rosenzweig, Steven C.  
Research & politics, Vol.8 (3) p.1-8, 2021

'China's Emergence as a Power in the Mediterranean: Port Diplomacy and Active Engagement'
Rhode, Grant F.
Diplomacy and statecraft, 2021-04, Vol.32 (2), p.394-415

Competence versus Priorities: Negative Electoral Responses to Education Quality in Brazil.
Boas, Taylor C.; Hidalgo, F. Daniel; Toral, Guillermo
The Journal of politics, Vol. 83 (4), p.1417-1431, 2021

The Effects of Dehumanizing Attitudes about Black People on Whites’ Voting Decisions 
Jardina, Ashley ; Piston, Spencer 
British journal of political science, p.1-23, 2021 

Islam and Institutional Religious Freedom in Indonesia
Hefner, Robert W.
Religions (Basel, Switzerland ), Vol.12 (6), p.415, 2021

On Pan‐Africanism and Secession: Thinking Anti‐Colonialism from South Sudan
Mondesire, Zachary
Transforming anthropology, Vol.29 (1), p.29-42, 2021

The Making of a Holocaust Denier: Ingrid Rimland, Mennonites, and Gender in White Supremacy, 1945-2000
Benjamin W. Goosen
Antisemitism Studies 5, no. 2,  233-265, 2021

Perceptions of Public Health Priorities and Accountability Among US Mayors.
Luisa Godinez Puig; Katharine Lusk; David Glick; Katherine L. Einstein; Maxwell Palmer; Stacy Fox; Monica L. Wang
Public health reports, Vol.136 (2), p.161-171, 2021 

Transforming Yemen? Divergent Saudi and Emirati Intervention Policies
Parker, Tyler B.
Middle East policy, Vol.28 (3-4), p.159-171, , 2021-09

2020:

A Benchmark for the Environment: Big Science and ‘Artificial’ Geophysics in the Global 1950s
Benjamin W. Goosen
Journal of Global History 15, no. 1, 149-168,  2020

COVID ‐19, nationalism, and the politics of crisis: A scholarly exchange.
Woods, Eric Taylor ; Schertzer, Robert ; Greenfeld, Liah ; Hughes, Chris ; Miller‐Idriss, Cynthia 
Nations and nationalism, Vol.26 (4), p.807-825, 2020

Do Mayors Run for Higher Office? New Evidence on Progressive Ambition 
Katherine Levine Einstein, David Matthew Glick, Maxwell Palmer, Pressel, Robert J.
American politics research, Vol.48 (1), p.197-221, 2020

Eastbound and down: The United States, NATO enlargement, and suppressing the Soviet and Western European alternatives, 1990-1992
Shifrinson, Joshua R. Itzkowitz
Journal of strategic studies, Vol.43 (6-7), p.816-846, 2020

Female Headship and Women's Work in Nepal
Joshi Rajkarnikar, Pratistha ; Ramnarain, Smita
Feminist economics, Vol.26 (2), p.126-159, 2020

Foreign direct investment screening and congressional backlash politics in the United States 
Canes-Wrone, Brandice, Mattioli, Lauren, Meunier, Sophie 
British journal of politics & international relations, Vol.22 (4), p.666-678, 2020 

How Neomercantilist Japan Became a Leading Defender of Economic Openness. 
Grimes, William W. 
Asia policy, Vol.27 (4), p.146-149 2020 

Imagining Yugoslavia – a social construct or/and an idea with the purpose.
Vesko Garcevic
Montenegrin Journal for Social Sciences, Volume 4, Issue 1,  2020
OpenBU

Male migration and women’s decision-making in Nepal
Rajkarnikar, Pratistha Joshi
Review of economics of the household, Vol.18 (4), p.959-982, 2020

Nationalism and Protest
Liah Greenfeld
SAIS Review of International Affairs, Vol.40,(2), p.5-14, 2020

Organizing for performance: coalition effectiveness on the battlefield 
Cappella Zielinski, Rosella ; Grauer, Ryan 
European journal of international relations, Vol.26 (4), p.953-978 2020 

The Pleasure(s) of Freedom.
Lida Maxwell
Theory & Event, Vol. 23 (1), p. 207-214, 2020

Theorizing institutional change and governance in European responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Schmidt, Vivien A. 
Journal of European Integration,  Vol. 42, (8) , p. 1177-1193, 2020

Twenty Years after Leave None to Tell the Story, What Do We Now Know about the Genocide of the Tutsi In Rwanda?
Longman, Timothy
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, Vol.2 (2), p.40-47, 2020

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