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Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and artists fight for infrastructural and environmental justice.

Residual Governance

graphic represntations of computers and phones connected to tettering boxes of files and then connected to law enforcement in a complex web on a blue background.

The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Online Child Safety Ecosystem

Scholars from the Stanford Internet Observatory outline what needs to be done to improve the CyberTipline pipeline as incidents of AI-generated CSAM escalate.

Online Child Safety

Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief

Using the first global data set of autocratic propaganda, Erin Baggott Carter and Brett Carter examine the intertwined relationship between citizens' beliefs and a the security of a dictator's power.

Propaganda in Autocracies

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Working Papers

Domestic and International Influences on the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991) and Russia's Initial Transition to Democracy (1993)

CDDRL Working Papers, 2009

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Featured Publications

Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Online Child Safety Ecosystem

Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief

Proceedings of The Second U.S.-Russian Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference, March 18-20, 2009

Consolidating Fissile Materials in Russia's Nuclear Complex

Iran's Nuclear and Missile Potential: A Joint Threat Assessment by U.S. and Russian Technical Experts

Russia and the Global Financial Crisis: The End of "Putinism"?

Domestic and International Influences on the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991) and Russia's Initial Transition to Democracy (1993)

Cost-effectiveness of voluntary HIV screening in Russia

Russian and Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Plans in Space

U.S.-Russia Relations in the Aftermath of the Georgia Crisis

Don't block U.S.-Russian nuclear cooperation

Between Assertiveness and Insecurity: Russian Elite Attitudes and the Russia-Georgia Crisis

New Russia, new threat

President Putin's Third Term: Russia is a democracy in name only

Russia: Rebuilding the Iron Curtain

Constructing Self-Enforcing Federalism in the Early United States and Modern Russia

The Russian Republic

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded Antiretroviral Therapy in St. Petersburg, Russia

Russia's No Democracy? So What?

Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia

When the Wave Hits a Shoal: The Internal and External Dimensions of Russia's Turn Away from Democracy

U.S. Policy on Human Rights in Russia

Russian Resilience as a Great Power

Constitutional Roulette: The Russian Parliament's Battles with the President Over Appointing a Prime Minister

American Efforts at Promoting Regime Change in the Soviet Union and then Russia: Lessons Learned

Russia and the West: A Dangerous Drift

What to Do about Russia