Dr. Makridis and I had a wonderful conversation exploring the role of management policy and other “complements” in facilitating AI diffusion. Let us know your thoughts. We hope to see you at TPRC this year! @idpp.bsky.social @sisresearch.bsky.social @internetgovlab.bsky.social @kogodbiz.bsky.social

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🌴The third installment of the TPRC Summer Poolside Chat Series is here! Join @derrickcogburn.bsky.social and Christos Makridis for a conversation on "Measuring AI Beyond Compute" and why AI's real-world impact depends on more than just model performance. Watch now: youtu.be/A9d4-TtwIEk

In a new @warontherocks.bsky.social, @ausis.bsky.social PhD candidate Lily Wojtowicz examines French President Macron's major nuclear policy shift in service of a broader European security agenda, and how domestic French politics could stand in the way. Read more: warontherocks.com/macrons-nucl...

Macron’s Nuclear Gamble: Building a European Deterrent Faster Than French Politics Can Tear Down

In early March, French President Emmanuel Macron stood at a windswept submarine base on the Breton coast and quietly buried four decades of French nuclear

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Tomorrow at the UN, @ausis.bsky.social's @derrickcogburn.bsky.social will launch the CRPD Disability Rights Data Dashboard & mobile app developed with his team of @idpp.bsky.social research associates, including 5 AU students. Read more & register to join remotely: www.american.edu/sis/research...

SIS Professor Launches AI-Powered Disability Rights Dashboard at the United Nations

SIS Professor Derrick Cogburn is launching the CRPD Disability Rights Data Dashboard and mobile app at the UN’s 19th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabi...

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Two @ausis.bsky.social graduate students joined Research Prof. Rachel Nadelman & a team of international development professionals on a civil society engagement project with the Inter-American Development Bank, taking their research beyond the classroom: www.american.edu/sis/research...

SIS Grad Students Take Research Beyond the Classroom at the Inter-American Development Bank

SIS MA student Maria Ardila Rangel and PhD student Anushka Bose are part of a professional team led by SIS Research Professor Rachel Nadelman working on civil society engagement research for the Inter...

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Join @ausis.bsky.social Professor & @idpp.bsky.social Executive Director @derrickcogburn.bsky.social for the launch of the CRPD data dashboard and mobile app next Tuesday at the UN! Register here, or scan the QR code below, to attend the event remotely: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Congratulations to @ausis.bsky.social Professor @nina-yamanis.bsky.social who has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Tanzania for her project "Formative Research for a National Community Health Worker Program to Support HIV Prevention Services in Tanzania." www.american.edu/sis/research...

Nina Yamanis Selected as a 2026-27 Fulbright Scholar

Nina Yamanis has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2026-27 for her project "Formative Research for a National Community Health Worker Program to Support HIV Prevention Services in Tanzania...

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How do countries build durable peace? @ausis.bsky.social & @auwcl.bsky.social Prof. Paul Williams' new book explores how peace is negotiated, implemented and sustained in the world’s most challenging conflict zones and features six AU student co-authors. Read more: www.american.edu/sis/research...

Paul Williams, Building Durable Peace

Paul Williams' new edited volume reflects lessons from some of the most complex peace processes of the past three decades and explores how peace is negotiated, implemented and sustained.

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A new article in Race & Class by @ausis.bsky.social's @tazreenasajjad.bsky.social argues that President Trump's 2025 executive orders on immigration fit into a long history of exclusionary and race-based immigration policies in the United States. Read more: www.american.edu/sis/research...

Tazreena Sajjad, Still about race: white supremacy, immigration politics and Trumpism

Tazreena Sajjad's new article in Race & Class argues that President Trump’s executive orders are serving as routine technologies of racial statecraft.

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Six @ausis.bsky.social undergraduate students represented AU and SIS at the 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research, showcasing student research excellence and the overall commitment SIS has to undergraduate research. Read more about the conference⬇️ www.american.edu/sis/research...

Six Students Represent SIS at 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research

Six SIS undergraduate researchers represented AU and SIS at the 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) held April 13-15 in Richmond, VA.

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Congratulations to @ausis.bsky.social Provost Associate Professor Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, who has been selected to join the Initiative for Participatory Research in Agroecology as the researcher and author of this year's U.S. national study. Read more about it here: www.american.edu/sis/research...

Garrett Graddy-Lovelace Joins Initiative for Participatory Research in Agroecology

Garrett Graddy-Lovelace was selected to join the international Initiative for Participatory Research in Agroecology as the researcher and author of this year's U.S. national study.

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@ausis.bsky.social Professor Carl LeVan's (@democracyprofdc.bsky.social) new article explores how African scientists contributed to global knowledge about the Covid-19 pandemic by defending public health from medical populism’s critique of science. Read more here: www.american.edu/sis/research...

Carl LeVan, Scientific solidarity as response to Africa’s pandemic populism

Carl LeVan's new article in Politikon shows how African scientists contributed to global knowledge about the pandemic by defending public health from medical populism’s critique of science

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A new open-access study by @ausis.bsky.social Prof. @fisherdanar.bsky.social & @au-cece.bsky.social Postdoc Julie Gonzalez synthesizes research on U.S. wildfire displacement and presents pilot data collected after the Jan. 2025 Palisades and Eaton Fires. Read more: www.american.edu/sis/research...

Julie Gonzalez and Dana Fisher, Wildfire displacement in the United States: a qualitative synthesis of the social consequences

CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Julie Gonzalez and CECE Director/SIS Professor Dana Fisher published a new open-access paper in Environmental Research: Climate.

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Congratulations to our @ausis.bsky.social 2025-26 Scholar-Teacher of the Year, Tamar Gutner (@tgutner.bsky.social)! On sabbatical this semester in Stockholm, Tammi accepted the award virtually following a lecture from last year's winner, Guy Ziv.

📌 - New Paper Out Now - 📌 One of the biggest challenges in cyber policy is surprisingly basic: we still don't know how to measure the true cost of cyber economic espionage. Trey Herr and I have a paper just published in the JCP where we show why existing approaches to measuring costs fall short.

Professor and Co-Director of AU’s Internet Governance Lab @derrickcogburn.bsky.social unpacks what a jury decision that found Meta and YouTube negligent for social media harms means for the future of tech in this new Q&A. https://bit.ly/3Omqgae

What does the Meta and YouTube Ruling Mean for the Future of Tech?

SIS professor and Co-Director of AU’s Internet Governance Lab Derrick Cogburn helps unpack the Los Angeles jury decision that found Meta and YouTube negligent in a social media harms trial.

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Another important essay on #Nigeria by my colleague Ernest Ogbozor, this one documenting the limitations of pursuing peace through blunt force in the counter-insurgency campaign against #BokoHaram and ISWAP .” Congratulations! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Operation Lafiya Dole and the paradox of peace by force: rethinking counterinsurgency and human security in Northeast Nigeria

Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD) is Nigeria’s longest-running counterinsurgency (COIN) campaign against Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP). It achieved significant territo...

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How could overconfidence draw the U.S. and China into a war? In a new piece for @foreignaffairs.com, @ausis.bsky.social professor @jrovner.bsky.social shows how a look back at history can offer new ways of understanding the trajectory of U.S.-Chinese relations. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The Real Thucydides Trap

Overconfidence could draw America and China into a war.

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Congratulations to @ausis.bsky.social's Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (@profptj.bsky.social) who has received the 2026 AU Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, Creative Activity, and Other Professional Contributions. Read more about Prof. Jackson and his research: www.american.edu/sis/research...

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson Receives AU Award for Outstanding Scholarship

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson has received the 2026 American University Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, Creative Activity, and Other Professional Contributions.

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Congratulations to our Interim Dean Rachel Sullivan Robinson, whose article "The Missing Millions: Uncovering the Burden of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths in the African Region" is among the top 10 most-cited papers published by Population and Development Review in 2024! www.american.edu/sis/research...

In a new @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social article, SIS PhD student @serayyalaz.bsky.social and her co-authors explore how rebel groups and governments compete to control and profit from natural resources. www.american.edu/sis/research...

We are excited to announce the winners of two of our @ausis.bsky.social internal research awards: Anthony Fontes (Innovative Scholar Award) and @susannacampbell.bsky.social & Sarah Snyder (Research Catalyst Award). Read more about their research projects here: www.american.edu/sis/research...

SIS Announces Winners of SIS Innovative Scholar and Research Catalyst Awards

Anthony Fontes, Susanna Campbell, and Sarah Snyder are the 2026 winners of the SIS Innovative Scholar and Research Catalyst awards.

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How can ecological thinking inform better international cooperation? A new research article by @ausis.bsky.social Prof. Hansong Li highlights how the ideas of Arctic explorer/humanitarian leader Fridtjof Nansen can offer lessons for today's interconnected world. www.american.edu/sis/research...

Hansong Li, The Arctic world in Fridtjof Nansen's international thought

Professor Hansong Li's new research article in Political Geography revisits the ideas of Fridtjof Nansen to shed light on today’s growing political tensions in the Arctic.

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Learn more about SIS professor @cgallaher.bsky.social and SPA professor Kimberly Cowell-Meyer's new book "Building a Green Wall: Irish American Resurgence Post-Brexit" in their new article in Irish Central, the largest Irish American news outlet! www.irishcentral.com/opinion/othe...

How the Irish American lobby re-emerged during Brexit

In "Building a Green Wall: Irish American Resurgence Post-Brexit," two professors examine how Irish America helped prevent a hard land border on the island of Ireland during Brexit, the UK's withdrawa...

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SPA's Kimberly Cowell-Meyers and SIS Prof. Carolyn Gallaher coauthored a guest essay for @bostoncollege.bsky.social Irish Institue about their book, "Building a Green Wall." They explore how Irish America shaped U.S. foreign policy after Brexit. Read the full essay: https://bit.ly/40oZS1R

In a new episode of the London School of Economics podcast Displacement Urbanism, @ausis.bsky.social professor @tazreenasajjad.bsky.social shares findings from her current research project on migration and displacement in Bangladesh. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6i5E...

Char land as wasteland: Migration and Displacement in Bangladesh | Tazreena Sajjad

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At the #ISA2026 conference last week, 21 @ausis.bsky.social faculty and 6 PhD students showcased their research and engaged with scholars from across the US and the world during roundtable discussions. Check out a few key highlights from the sessions: www.american.edu/sis/research...

ISA 2026 Conference in Columbus Highlights SIS Faculty and PhD Student Research

SIS professors and PhD students presented their research and connected with scholars from across the globe at the 2026 International Studies Association conference in Columbus.

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Glad to be part of this new @ispjournal.bsky.social Forum on strengthening the societal impact of research, available open access. Thanks Louise Olsson, Sarah Dorr, and Birthe Einen for leading the effort. cc: @sisresearch.bsky.social, @bridgingthegap.bsky.social academic.oup.com/isp/article/...

📌 - New Paper Out Now - 📌 Why do only a handful of states run sustained cyber campaigns while most hack only occasionally? My newest article, just published in the Journal of Global Security Studies, addresses this puzzle. @ausis.bsky.social @sisresearch.bsky.social @csint-au.bsky.social

Last Saturday, @ausis.bsky.social and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy hosted the inaugural SIS-YPFP Research Symposium featuring research from SIS grad students, breakout discussion sessions, and networking opportunities. Read more about the event here: www.american.edu/sis/research...

SIS and YPFP Host Inaugural Research Symposium

On March 21, SIS and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy hosted the inaugural SIS-YPFP Research Symposium, “Reimagining Foreign Policy in a Transforming World.”

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Congratulations to @ausis.bsky.social Professor @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social, who has been named a fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences for 2026-27!

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ANNOUNCING THE 2026-27 CASBS FELLOWS CLASS The class will take residence in early September and is comprised of 36 scholars representing 19 U.S. institutions and 11 international institutions and programs. Read the full announcement and meet the fellows. casbs.stanford.edu/news/casbs-a...