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A Year That Upended Our Thinking: IGCC Experts Look Back at 2023

Commentary / IGCC

National People’s Congress (NPC) in March 2023.

National Strategic Integration: How China Is Building Its Strategic Power

Policy Brief / Tai Ming Cheung

Hydroelectric dam, Holyoke Gas and Electric

Climate Change and the Political Economy of Hydropower Disruption

Policy Brief / Johnathan Guy, Ishana Ratan, Anthony Calacino

Shipping containers at a port

How Economic Interdependence Shapes International Security

/ Nazim Uras Demir

Applications Open for IGCC Pre- and Post-doctoral Research Fellowships

News / IGCC

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Emilie M. Hafner-Burton

Research Director for Democracy Studies

Neil Narang

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Richard Matthew

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Etel Solingen

Professor, UC Irvine

Eli Berman

Research Director for International Security Studies

Christina Schneider

Professor, UC San Diego; Co-Director, Future of Democracy Initiative

Stephan Haggard

Professor, UC San Diego

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Professor, UC Berkeley
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Rupal Mehta

Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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