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Do Nuclear Alliances Create Nuclear Allies or Prevent Proliferation?
Do Nuclear Alliances Create Nuclear Allies or Prevent Proliferation?
About the author: Lauren Sukin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at Stanford University.
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May 31, 2018
Climate and Environment Team Attends SURF Capstone Conference
Climate and Environment Team Attends SURF Capstone Conference
With funding from an FSI Conference Grant, I attended the Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum (SURF) Capstone Conference as one of four members of…
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May 18, 2018
Setting Up the Chessboard: How States Shape the Interests of Potential Partners
It was my first time in Washington, DC in more than a year and much had changed. The president, of course, and the political environment…
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Sep 27, 2017
Estimating Nipah virus prevalence in West Bengal, India
Estimating Nipah virus prevalence in West Bengal, India
When humans are infected with Nipah virus, more than 70% die, making the virus at least as deadly as Ebola. So why haven’t you heard of it?
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Sep 26, 2017
Searching for Light in Ghana’s Interior
Searching for Light in Ghana’s Interior
Greetings from…well actually I am not exactly sure where I am at the moment. Tonight’s guesthouse is in a small town outside of Bui…
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Sep 15, 2017
The Effects of Greece’s Twin Crises
The Effects of Greece’s Twin Crises
In less than a decade, Greece has been gut-punched twice, its weary population and battered government doubling over in worsening states of…
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Sep 11, 2017
The Political Economy of Finance Decentralization in China: A Survey Experiment
The Political Economy of Finance Decentralization in China: A Survey Experiment
Social scientists have produced works that emphasize and re-emphasize the importance of strong political institutions — separation of…
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Aug 23, 2017
The Political Rhetoric of Alliance Maintenance
Military alliances, like the ones between the United States and South Korea or China and North Korea, are often formed in moments of…
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Jul 7, 2017
Learning by Doing — Presenting at CIES 2017
Learning by Doing — Presenting at CIES 2017
My research examines gender bias in textbooks used in different school systems and analyzes differences in the extent of bias across the…
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Jun 1, 2017
Return to Taiwan
Return to Taiwan
While the 16 months of dissertation field research that I conducted in Taiwan in 2014 and 2015 was open-ended, meandering, and prone to…
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Jun 1, 2017
Finding Community at AAS in Toronto
Finding Community at AAS in Toronto
This spring, I attended the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Toronto. This was the first time that I attended a…
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Jun 1, 2017
Academic Conference at CMU
Academic Conference at CMU
I did my first road trip on the North American continent to participate in an academic conference happening at Central Michigan University…
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Jun 1, 2017
Higher Education and the Gender Wage Gap in Mexico 2005–2015
As a recipient of a research grant, I would like to express my gratitude to the Freeman Spogli Institute for the funding. With this…
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May 9, 2017
No Time for Waffles
I flew to Atlanta in one of my busiest weeks of winter quarter. During the flight, I could not decide between revising my thesis proposal…
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May 9, 2017
In the Process of Making
In the Process of Making
“Welcome! Welcome to Atlanta! Let me know if I can be of any help to you!” announced the airport staff at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta…
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May 9, 2017
A Research Community Far from Home.
A Research Community Far from Home.
I come from Peru, a country of astonishing diversity, but also of deep inequalities. Since arriving at Stanford I have taken every…
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May 9, 2017
Talking Education in Atlanta
Talking Education in Atlanta
There is always something exciting about attending the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) conference. Colleagues gather…
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May 9, 2017
Welcome to Atlanta
Welcome to Atlanta
When I first heard that this year’s Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) conference was going to be held in Atlanta, GA…
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May 2, 2017
The (Un)Expected Effects of the Fading FARC in Colombia
The (Un)Expected Effects of the Fading FARC in Colombia
In 2016 the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government signed a peace agreement after 52 years of war. Now…
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May 2, 2017
Can You Be a Student and Still Learn About the Forest?
Can You Be a Student and Still Learn About the Forest?
Worldwide, formal education through schools is reaching ever-more remote corners of our planet and landing in diverse cultural contexts…
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May 2, 2017
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