When Rebels Win: Power and Violence in Post-Conflict Societies
Lindsay: Many of us can remember, in 2021, images of frantic crowds at the airport…
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Taking a Deep Breath after the New START Treaty Expires
Following a flurried week of op-eds and articles about the expiration of the New START…
Cross-Border Repression in the Cameroon Anglophone Transnational Movement
Starting in 2017, the Cameroonian government, an authoritarian regime in power since 1982, aggressively extended…
Novels on Authoritarian Rule III
In this third entry in our series reviewing books of fiction on authoritarian rule, we…
Why a Populist Trump Administration Struck a Side Deal with the OECD
In the past year, the Trump administration has pursued a range of policies that reject…
The Second Trump U.S. National Security Strategy and the Indo-Pacific
In November 2025, the Second Trump administration released its National Security Strategy (NSS) with the…
Taiwan and the Trump Administration’s National Security Strategy
The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy (NSS), which was released in November 2025, purports to…
The National Security Strategy: Structure, Contradictions, and China
China will have found much to like in the National Security Strategy (NSS) that the…
What’s Next for the U.S.-Japan Partnership?
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) makes very little mention of the alliance…
The Trump Revolution—One Year Later
Lindsay: Hi, I’m Lindsay Shingler, the host of Talking Policy. Happy New Year. I hope…
Rethinking South Korea’s Failed Martial Law Declaration
The anniversary of the martial law declaration in South Korea suggests two contending questions—and their…
Changing How Police View the Public: Lessons from the Philippines
Around the world, community policing is often promoted as a way to repair strained relations…
Regaining U.S. Nuclear Energy Leadership
Since Dwight Eisenhower’s 1953 Atoms for Peace initiative, 70 years of incremental achievements have engineered…
IGCC Postdoc Adi Rao Talks Cyber, Wargaming, and Network Theory
What about IGCC initially caught your eye? The connection between my research interests and the…
How to Write an Academic Article in Political Science
Step One: The Point What is the point—your contribution? You are only allowed one. Save…
Overcoming Obstruction and Reimagining the Planetary Climate System at COP30
As delegates gather in Belém, Brazil, for COP30 (Conference of the Parties) this November, the…
Novels on Authoritarian Rule II
We understand, more than ever, what makes authoritarian regimes work. In a previous post, IGCC…
IGCC Postdoc Jung Jae Kwon Talks War, Peace, and Nukes
You conduct research on nuclear weapons, the bread‑and‑butter of the IGCC postdoctoral fellowship. What first…
Oceans of Ambition: The Rise of China’s Blue Science
When Xi Jinping said “the ocean has always been something I care about… It nurtures…
American Party Politics and the Crisis of Representation
Lindsay: We are in the third week of a U.S. government shutdown that is a…