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651. Publications & Writing
The Measure of America 2010–2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience
Whites in Washington, DC, live, on average, twelve years longer than African Americans in the same city. In the 2007–9 Great Recession, college graduates faced an un- and underemployment rate of one in ten; the rate for high school dropouts was greater than one in three. In…
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652. Publications & Writing
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009
The Measure of America is the first-ever measure of the status of human development in the United States or any developed nation and provides a snapshot of Americans’ well-being by state, congressional district, gender, race and ethnicity. Using U.S. government statistics on lo…
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653. Publications & Writing
The Medieval Prison: A Social History
Written by 2004 IDRF Fellow Guy Geltner, The Medieval Prison rewrites penal history and reveals that medieval society did not have a “persecuting mentality” but in fact was more nuanced in defining and dealing with its marginal elements than is commonly recognized. Geltner ca…
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654. Publications & Writing
The Mesopotamian Turn in International Relations and Middle East Studies
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655. Publications & Writing
The Mirab Model Twelve Years On
Developed in the mid 1980s to explain economic processes in New Zealand's sphere of influence in the Pacific islands, the MIRAB model has proved applicable across a wide range of island economies. Identifying features of a MIRAB economy are heavy reliance on transfer payments, in…
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The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen
In this book, 1997 IDRF Fellow Flagg Miller uses the lives and works of individual poets, singers, and audiences to show how tribalism becomes a resource for critical reform and for morally evaluating political liberalism. From the 1940s onward, a new class of political activists…
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657. Publications & Writing
The New Landscape of the Religion Blogosphere
Blogs have given occasion to a whole new set of conversations about religion in public life. They represent a tremendous opportunity for publication, discussion, cross-fertilization, and critique of a kind never seen before. In principle, at least, the Internet offers an opportun…
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"The New Networks of Knowledge: Think Tanks and the Transnationalization of Governance"
More often than not, studies of thinks tanks have addressed their role in society and politics at the nation-state level. This neglects an increasingly important component of think tank activity. These organizations are fast building regional and international networks. While thi…
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The North Caucasus: Histories, Diasporas and Current Challenges
The papers and abstracts in this volume were originally presented at a two-day conference, "Towards a New Generation of Scholarship on the Caucasus," held in Sukhum, Abkhazia, on October 30–31, 2007. The conference was coorganized by the SSRC, Circassianacademia (a scholarly li…
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660. Publications & Writing
The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Regional Perspectives (online essays)
In the United States, news coverage of North Korea's nuclear program, as well as U.S. policy toward the North and reactions of U.S. allies and others in Northeast Asia, tend to reflect the Bush administration's interpretation of events. With six-party talks on the nuclear crisis…
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