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Blaine's Name in Vain?: State Constitutions, School Choice, & Charitable Choice
(University of Denver, 2005)In this article, Ms. Goldenziel explores the growing controversy over no-funding provisions, state constitutional provisions that restrict state funding of religious institutions. These provisions, allegedly rooted in ... -
Administratively Quirky, Constitutionally Murky: The Bush Faith-Based Initiative
(New York University, 2005)In this article, Ms. Goldenziel explores the administrative and constitutional peculiarities of the Bush Administration's Faith-Based Initiative. She argues that the Supreme Court's establishment clause jurisprudence offers ... -
Russia: Grasping the Reality of Nuclear Terror
(SAGE Publications, 2006)Radical separatists based in the North Caucasus have the motive and are seeking the means to commit an act of nuclear terrorism as well as allies to help them carry it out. Their proximity to insufficiently secured Russian ... -
Russia's Support for Zero: Tactical Move or Long-term Commitment?
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Russia’s Non-strategic Nuclear Weapons in Their Current Configuration and Posture: A Strategic Asset or Liability?
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, 2010)Russia's military-political leadership envisions a formidable range of uses for the country's arsenal of non-strategic nuclear weapons (NSNWs). In the eyes of Russian leaders, these weapons play a critical role in the ... -
Developing Managers and Leaders: Experiences and Lessons from International NGOs
(Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)This paper explores the context, practice and lessons related to management and leadership development in a handful of large international NGOs (INGOs) focused on humanitarian and development efforts. The paper is based ... -
Seven Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis for the Karabakh Conflict
(Belfor Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, 2012)This paper will explore which lessons of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis Armenian and Azeri leaders should consider institutionalizing if they wish to prevent reheating of their conflict over Nagorny Karabakh into a war. ... -
Protestantism and Human Capital in Guatemala and the Republic of Korea
(2013)Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882, respectively). Yet, their impact on human capital has been divergent. The analysis presented in this ... -
Lee Kuan Yew’s Lessons For Armenia
(2013)There is hardly a statesman left in the world who has not heard about Singapore’s economic miracle, which began almost 50 years ago and continues to date. If there is a single person without whom Singapore’s phenomenal ... -
The socioeconomic drivers of China’s primary PM 2.5 emissions
(IOP Publishing, 2014)Primary PM2.5 emissions contributed significantly to poor air quality in China. We present an interdisciplinary study to measure the magnitudes of socioeconomic factors in driving primary PM2.5 emission changes ... -
When Law Migrates: Refugees in Comparative International Law
(2014)The current European migration crisis has been playing out worldwide. As record numbers of migrants have fled their countries in recent years, wealthier states have had an increasing interest in restricting their borders ... -
Displaced: Why We Need New International Law to Protect Refugees, Displaced People, and Human Rights
(2015)How can international law protect both international security and the human rights of displaced people? Existing international law protects only displaced refugees: those who flee persecution on the basis of religion, race, ... -
The Emergency Framing of Solar Geoengineering: Time for a Different Approach
(SAGE Publications, 2015)Solar geoengineering has been proposed as a possible response measure in the event of a "climate emergency." Scientific evidence for climate emergencies in the form of tipping points, however, is contested and unsettled. ... -
Designing Procedural Mechanisms for the Governance of Solar Radiation Management Field Experiments: Workshop Report
(Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2015)The unexpected ocean fertilization experiment off the west coast of Canada in 2012 highlights the reality that non-governmental actors can already initiate small- to medium-scale environmental experiments and solar radiation ... -
Stating Appointment Costs in SMS Reminders Reduces Missed Hospital Appointments: Findings from Two Randomised Controlled Trials
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Background: Missed hospital appointments are a major cause of inefficiency worldwide. Healthcare providers are increasingly using Short Message Service reminders to reduce ‘Did Not Attend’ (DNA) rates. Systematic reviews ... -
Displaced: A Proposal for International Law to Protect Refugees, Migrants, and States
(Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository, 2016)How can international law better protect both international security and the human rights of people fleeing violence? International refugee law protects only the refugees: those fleeing across borders due to a well-founded ... -
Climate change may alter human physical activity patterns
(Springer Nature, 2017)Regular physical activity supports healthy human functioning1,2,3. Might climate change—by modifying the environmental determinants of human physical activity—alter exercise rates in the future4? Here we conduct an ... -
Measuring National Power: Is Vladimir Putin’s Russia in Decline?
(2018)As Vladimir Putin embarks on another six-year term as Russia’s president, Western pundits and policymakers are left wondering whether his reelection means that Moscow’s muscular policies toward America and other Western ... -
Using arborescences to estimate hierarchicalness in directed complex networks
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)Complex networks are a useful tool for the understanding of complex systems. One of the emerging properties of such systems is their tendency to form hierarchies: networks can be organized in levels, with nodes in each ...