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- May 21st 2013CPPF program director Bill O'Neill analyzes legal decisions related to the pending appellate decision in the case against Haiti's former president Jean-Claude Duvalier for Haitian daily Le Nouvelliste [in French] →
- 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) →
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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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March 2011
- March 29th 2011
- Updates from the SSRC's Public Sphere Resources now also available on Twitter @PublicSphereHub →
February 2011
- February 24th 2011
- Seyla Benhabib on “The Arab Spring” in the Public Sphere Formation Essay Series →
- February 17th 2011
- Herbert Gans on “Toward a Public Social Science” in the Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series →
July 2010
- July 12th 2010
- Thomas Bender on “Historians in Public” in the Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series →
June 2010
- June 1st 2010
- Tony Judt and Michael Burawoy contribute essays to SSRC Forum on Transformations of the Public Sphere →
March 2010
- March 30th 2010
- Jürgen Habermas on “Intellectuals and their Public” in the Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series →
December 2009
- December 11th 2009
- Rogers Smith writes on recent attempts to eliminate NSF funding for political science research →
November 2009
- November 3rd 2009
- Special Feature: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall on the essay forum Transformations of the Public Sphere →
September 2009
- September 15th 2009
- Idea of the Day,a blog by Tom Kuntz and other editors of the NYT’s Week in Review, lists Herbert Gans’ essay for SSRC public sphere forum as recommended reading. →
- September 3rd 2009
- Herbert Gans argues for “Some Needed Disciplinary Changes for Creating Public Sociology” in the SSRC’s Transformations of the Public Sphere essay forum. →
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