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Storm from the Steppes: Warfare and Succession Institutions in Pre-Modern Eurasia, 1000–1799 CE

Storm from the Steppes: Warfare and Succession Institutions in Pre-Modern Eurasia, 1000–1799 CE By Daniel Steven Smith, Ohio State University [...]
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Meet 2026 RBSI Scholar, Yasmin Benitez, Tufts University

Yasmin Benitez, Tufts University Yasmin Benitez is a rising senior at Tufts University majoring in political science with a minor [...]
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Political Entrepreneurs or Bandits? The “Criminal” Origins of Peripheral Rebellions

Political Entrepreneurs or Bandits? The “Criminal” Origins of Peripheral Rebellions By Janet I. Lewis and Stephen Rangazas, George Washington University How [...]
American Political Science Review

A Precolonial Paradox? Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies

A Precolonial Paradox? Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies By Martha Wilfahrt, University of California, Berkeley A paradox has emerged [...]
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Meet 2026 RBSI Scholar, Camila Armas, Howard University

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Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for Journalists

Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for [...]
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Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa

Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa By Matthew K. Ribar, Stanford University [...]
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Meet 2026 RBSI Scholar, Mohamed Aljahmi, CUNY Queens College

Mohamed Aljahmi, CUNY Queens College Mohamed Aljahmi is a rising senior and dean’s list scholar at Queens College, CUNY, where [...]
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Structure, Agency, and Structural Reform: The Case of the European Central Bank

Structure, Agency, and Structural Reform: The Case of the European Central Bank By Benjamin Braun, London School of Economics and [...]

Storm from the Steppes: Warfare and Succession Institutions in Pre-Modern Eurasia, 1000–1799 CE

April 27, 2026 0

Storm from the Steppes: Warfare and Succession Institutions in Pre-Modern Eurasia, 1000–1799 CE By Daniel Steven Smith, Ohio State University A prominent literature on pre-modern warfare and institution-building holds that intense military competition in pre-modern […]

Political Entrepreneurs or Bandits? The “Criminal” Origins of Peripheral Rebellions

April 27, 2026 0

Political Entrepreneurs or Bandits? The “Criminal” Origins of Peripheral Rebellions By Janet I. Lewis and Stephen Rangazas, George Washington University How and why do armed groups that become known as “rebels” initially use violence? New datasets […]

A Precolonial Paradox? Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies

April 24, 2026 0

A Precolonial Paradox? Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies By Martha Wilfahrt, University of California, Berkeley A paradox has emerged in the growing literature on the legacies of the precolonial past: areas home to precolonial […]

Join Friday Faculty Hours: A Forum for Political Science Community College Instructors | Friday, February 13, 2026

February 3, 2026 0

Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession for the second Friday Faculty Hour of 2026 to check in on how the new term is going and to discuss strategies to build student resilience [...]
Join Friday Faculty Hours with the APSA Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession | January 23rd

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Update on Proposed Dissolution of SBE Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF)

April 10, 2026 0

On Friday, April 3, 2026, it was reported that interim leadership at the National Science Foundation announced during an internal all-staff meeting that they would preemptively start making moves to dissolve the SBE Directorate in […]

APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants Now Accepting Applications | Deadline: June 1, 2026

April 1, 2026 0

Now Open! Applications for the 2026 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Application Deadline: June 1, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. (ET) Apply Here The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant project provides support to enhance […]

Forcing War Criminals to Face Justice at Home

April 21, 2026 0

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Deborah Saki, covers the new article by Genevieve Bates, […]