Publications
The catch-all term “gender equality” can mask important discrepancies in women’s status that are correlated with more or less violent societies, Sabrina Karim, associate professor of government in the College of…
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
By Our Faculty
In Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s "pet boom." Blurring the binary between human and nonhuman, Grillo draws on…
East Asia Program
Denationalizing Identities explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan Lim's study of four important diasporic director-playwrights—Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai Sheng…
East Asia Program
This paper explores the competition between a designer who shapes interaction patterns and influences agents and an adversary who counters this influence. The influenced agents who are embedded in a network take into…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Complex social challenges such as narco trafficking can have unexpected consequences for biodiversity conservation.
Migrations Program
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Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry explores the evolution of fire dancing from informal community jam sessions into the iconic, tourist-oriented performances at beach parties and bars, through a…
Southeast Asia Program
This paper is an attempt to demystify Keynes and give concrete shape to some expressions that Keynes used when writing about investment and capital without adequate explanation. The paper brings together positive axioms…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
This paper studies the self-control problem of a morally committed bureaucrat in choosing the optimal level of discretion. They show a novel tradeoff in the official’s moral commitment: more discretion allows the…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
