The highly competitive Berlin Prize is awarded annually to U.S.-based scholars, writers, composers and artists from the United States who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields. 

Karim will join the Berlin Class of Spring 2026. Her project, “Pockets of Restraint in Violent Security Forces, will look globally for pockets of restraint that emerge among different security forces around the world based on research from her NSF CAREER award (that was recently terminated). 

David Cortright, PACS Visiting Scholar, has published a new book titled Protest and Policy in the Iraq, Nuclear Freeze and Vietnam Peace Movements (Cambridge University Press, 2025). 

“Corruption is deeper than whether someone is making backroom deals. Instead, it’s a sense that the game itself is rigged in favor of a select few,” says Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute.

Barry Strauss, professor of history, says “The rules they followed in Rome were not necessarily applied in godforsaken Eboracum. So, although the man was probably not a gladiator, he may indeed have been one. Burial in the gladiator cemetery is certainly an argument in favor of that theory.”

Karim-Aly S. Kassam writes about the role of Canada after remarks from President Trump about taking it over.

A DoD stop-work order put on hold a team’s plans to map and stress-test semiconductor supply chains. The research is led by Sarah Kreps (PACS).

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Sarah Kreps (PACS) writes that loss of government support for academic research will cause the U.S. to “sacrifice its advantage in innovation.”

Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history, discusses the history of Trump's imposition of tariffs on China.