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The Effect of Sponsorship upon Social Science Research
by Items Editors
...the natural science establishment. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the social sciences reached a peak of public and political optimism about their capacity to guide peaceful and relatively...
After September 11
On War and Peace-Building: Unfinished Legacy of the 1990s
by Susan Woodward
...even possibilities for genuine “global governance.”14This latter was the optimism of Greek foreign minister George Pappandreou, in conversation with the U.S. talk show host, Charlie Rose. What is striking, however,...
Race & Capitalism
Black Gold in El Dorado: Frontiers of Race and Oil in Guyana
by Ryan Cecil Jobson
...in 2015 sparked cautious optimism that racial divisions would dissolve along with first oil in 2020. While government ministers appealed to disaffected publics with hyperbolic projections that “[e]ach Guyanese is...
Disinformation, Democracy, and Conflict Prevention
Nigeria’s Disinformation Landscape
by Idayat Hassan and Jamie Hitchen
...but still limited focus on Africa by social media companies. Reasons for optimism While disinformation’s growing influence is a concern, social media platforms can, at the same time, provide avenues...
Insights
Early Cold War Research and the Enduring Relevance Question: Area Studies, Behavioralism, and the SSRC
by Michael C. Desch
...of area studies scholars with the wartime intelligence community, there was initial postwar optimism about continuing cooperation between the academy and the government, particularly upon their return to the groves...
Democracy and Pandemics
History Lessons: Can We Learn from the Past?
by Rosemary C. R. Taylor
...altered. Overall, his assessment is that the Black Death did not produce economic well-being and a sense of optimism. Instead, “darker climates of opinion and feeling became as chronic and...
10 Years After September 11
America’s Global Implosion: From the Washington Consensus to the Arab Spring
by Neil Smith
...to Spain to Ireland. What some had glimpsed earlier, in contrast to hegemonic US optimism, suddenly became a cliché, that is, the economic rise of China, and along with it,...
10 Years after the Arab Spring
Gender Justice and the Possibilities and Limits of Digital Mobilization in Post-Arab Spring Tunisia
by Ola Galal
When I first visited Tunisia a few months after the end of the 23-year-old rule of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, the optimism and hope for the...