Note of Thanks

As the 2023-2024 academic year comes to a close, we want to thank you, our network, for your continued support. Your engagement with Bridging the Gap is invaluable to our mission and programs and we hope you will find time over the summer months for rejuvenation and reflection. We look forward to connecting with many of you when the new academic year begins!

2024 International Policy Summer Institute (IPSI)

2024 IPSI, June 2-6 in Washington, DC, was a great success! We always gain new and valuable insights from each cohort and group of panelists and this program was no different. This year, BTG was fortunate to utilize both Duke in DC and Brookings Institution conference spaces. We are grateful to the staff of both facilities for providing such accommodating experiences. We welcome our newest cohort to the BTG network!

New Voices Roundtable: May 2024

On May 3, 2024, Bridging the Gap and the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum convened a roundtable on “Mass Atrocities beyond Mass Killing.” Jacqueline Demeritt, Ryan Welch, and Robert U. Nagel served as scholar memo-writers. You can read the report from the roundtable compiled by HMM SSCPG Research Assistant Tallan Donine, here.

Petition for the Establishment of an International Studies Association Research and Policy Section (RAPS)

Are you an ISA member? If so, we, along with our colleagues from across international studies, would be grateful if you could sign our petition. We only need THREE more signatures!

SIGN HERE!

Updates from Our Network

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

Mikulas Fabry

The Effect of ’One China’ Policies of Foreign States on the International Status of Taiwan (Taylor & Francis)

Sanghyun Han

Data and Statecraft: Why and How States Localize Data (Business and Politics)

Austin Matthews

Elite Threats and Punitive Violence  in Autocratic Regimes: Evidence from Communist Eastern Europe (Comparative Politics)

Abosede Omowumi Babatunde & Fatma Osman Ibnouf

The Dynamics of Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Plateau State, Nigeria, and Central Darfur State, Sudan (Cambridge University Press)

Lawrence Rubin

A Middle East space race? Motivations, trajectories, and regional politics (Space Policy )

Kai M. Thaler

Levels of Analysis and Variation in Civil War Violence and Restraint: Ideology and Contestation in Nicaragua, Journal of Global Security Studies

BTG IN THE MEDIA

Kai M. Thaler

Is Central America Doomed? (Journal of Democracy ) (with Mateo Jarquín and Rachel Schwartz)

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