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News and Announcements

Congratulations Dr. Saera Lee
Monday, August 28, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Saera Lee on the successful defense of her dissertation, "How Shared Culture Influences Alliance Termination". She moves on from her graduate studies to a position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University.

Kuznetsova and Tolbert article: "Globalizing information networks, social media, and participation"
Thursday, July 6, 2023
In their recent paper, Daria Kuznetsova and Caroline Tolbert systematically evaluate the relationship between the Internet, social media use, and participation in politics in democracies and non-democracies.

Mitchell article "Insecure fisheries: How illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing affects piracy"
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Sara Mitchell and Cody Schmidt find that countries with maritime areas that have more frequent illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing also experience more piracy incidents.