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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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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

Re-engaging Russia and Russians: A New Agenda for American Foreign Policy

Reengaging Russia: A New Agenda

Putin and the 'Delegative Democracy' Trap: Evidence from Russia's 2003-04 Elections

State Militarism and Its Legacies: Why Military Reform Has Failed in Russia

Russian Democracy in Eclipse: What the Elections Tell Us

Belarus Connection: Exporting Russian Gas to Germany and Poland, The

International Gas in Central Asia: Turkmenistan, Iran, Russia and Afghanistan

War in Chechnya as a Paradigm of Russian State-Building Under Putin, The

Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform

Yeltsin's Russia

Second Russian Revolution, The

Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000

Power and Purpose: American Policy toward Russia after the Cold War

Russia's Transition to Democracy and U.S.-Russia Relations: Unfinished Business

U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Missile Defense: Is It Really Possible?

Generational Change in Russia

Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin

History and the Current Status of the Russian Early-Warning System

Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Government

Russia's Transformation and American Policy

Russia's Poison Gases

Generational Change in Russia

George W. Bush and Russia

Are Russians Undemocratic?

Russian Civil Society