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- May 13th 2013"The Ivory Tower in Cyberspace: Is Internet Publishing Publishing?": NDSP grantee Norris Chumley (2012) discusses SSRC Forums The Immanent Frame, Reverberations, and Frequencies as "creditable sources of scholarly research" in an article for the Huffington Post →
- May 6th 2013Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance: new book by Abe Fellow Hirokazu Miyazaki (1998) examines the decline of high finance through the lens of Japan in the 1990s and early 2000s (University of California Press) →
- April 24th 2013Leon Sigal, director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, discusses escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula in "Better Understanding North Korea," a Q&A with the Federation of American Scientists’ Strategic Security Blog →
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- May 15th 2013"How North Korea Evades Financial Sanctions": Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project director Leon Sigal writes for 38 North, a program of the US-Korea Institute at SAIS, Johns Hopkins →
- April 16th 2013"In Korea, Overheated War Rhetoric Obscures Real Dangers": Leon Sigal of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project writes for the International Peace Institute's Global Observatory →
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- May 16th 2013New essay at Kujenga Amani suggests historical connections between contemporary conflicts: "Congolese Crisis and Demographic Problems in the African Great Lakes," by Guy Aundu Matsanza →
- April 10th 2013New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Tanya Luhrmann (2012) opens her series of guest op-eds for the New York Times with "How Skeptics and Believers Can Connect" →
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January 2011
- January 28th 2011
- Commentators tout "Twitter revolutions," but SSRC President Craig Calhoun cautions about the complexity of Democracy, Anti-Democracy, and the Internet →
January 2010
- January 25th 2010
- Craig Calhoun writes about the recent Supreme Court decision on corporations and campaign finance →
September 2009
- September 17th 2009
- Philosopher and former SSRC Fellow Daniel Little, writing for his blog UnderstandingSociety, assesses Craig Calhoun’s Sociology in America: A History as the “best historical sociology of the disciplines of sociology that I’ve seen.” →
- September 14th 2009
- Before taking part in a major international forum on global security hosted by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, SSRC President Craig Calhoun answers questions on these topics for RT, Russia’s 24/7 English-language news channel. →
August 2009
- August 27th 2009
- Writing for the Huffington Post on recent events in the PRC, historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom recommends the essay by SSRC President Craig Calhoun and Guobin Yang on the rise of a green public sphere in China. →
- August 12th 2009
- SSRC President Craig Calhoun joins some 200 intellectuals, activists and defenders of rights in appealing to the UN secretary general to take action on Iran. →
July 2009
- July 24th 2009
- 3 Quarks Daily features an interview with Craig Calhoun →
- July 20th 2009
- New on The Immanent Frame: Craig Calhoun and others respond to recent reversal in case of Tariq Ramadan. →
June 2009
- June 4th 2009
- Craig Calhoun calls Jim Leach “outstanding choice” for NEH and says SSRC Board will miss him. →
May 2009
February 2009
January 2009
- January 30th 2009
- Craig Calhoun comments on the social agenda within Obama’s stimulus package in interview with NPR’s Liz Halloran →
- January 5th 2009
- Craig Calhoun named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) →
December 2008
- December 22nd 2008
- President’s Question: What do we know about bailouts? →
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