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PhD Student Publications
Fletcher doctoral students contribute to current dialog by publishing widely, from journal articles to op-eds to books. The following list includes a sample of their published work in recent years. Note that some articles have co-authors who are not listed here.
2024 Publications
- Oh, Soyoung, "Decarbonizing industrial hubs and clusters: Towards an integrated framework of green industrial policies," Energy Research and Social Science, December 2024.
- Sarkar, Aditya and Alex de Waal, guest editors of "Decarbonization and Peace," Environment and Security special issue, September 2024.
- Sarkar, Aditya and Alex de Waal, "Going ‘cold turkey’: Oil addiction and ‘traumatic’ decarbonization in fragile fossil fuel producers," Environment and Security, September 12, 2024.
- Lee, Lilly, "Beijing’s Play for Taiwan’s Young Voices Intensifies," Real Clear World, Summer 2024.
- Gopalakrishnan, Tarun and Jared Miller, "New Climate Dis-Economies: The Political Economy of Energy Transitions in Fragile Fossil Fuel Producers," Environment & Security, August 31, 2024.
- Chi, Kate and Melissa McCracken, "Water usage in cooling systems for electricity production: An event study of retrofitted coal-fired power plants in the United States," Environmental Research Letters, August 30, 2024.
- Miller, Jared, “The price of politics: What the 2020 oil shocks in Nigeria teach us about transactional political systems,” Environment and Security, August 28, 2024.
- Bohman, Viking, “Final Blow to Chinese ‘Neutrality’ on Ukraine War,” Politico, June 19, 2024.
- Sarkar, Aditya, Benjamin Spatz, Alex de Waal, Jared Miller, and Tarun Gopalakrishnan. 2024. "Traumatic Decarbonization in Fragile States." Peaceworks No. 196. Washington D.C.: US Institute of Peace.
- Sarkar, Aditya, and Alex de Waal, "Fragile Petrostates and the Green Transition," The India Forum, May 15, 2024.
- Lee, Lilly Min-Chen, "Truth and Reality with Chinese Characteristics: The Building Blocks of the Propaganda System Enabling CCP Information Campaigns, The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, May 2024.
- Tietjen, Bethany, “Preparing for Novel Extreme Weather Events in the United States: Lessons from Disasters.” Climate Policy Lab policy brief, April 2024.
- Sarkar, Aditya and Alex de Waal, "How ‘Traumatic Decarbonization’ Can Impact Political Stability and Peace," United States Institute of Peace, April 10, 2024.
- Miller, Jared, "Understanding Systemic Corruption: The Political Role of Corruption in Weakly Institutionalized Political Systems," Peace Rep, April 2, 2024
- Miller, Jared, Shahla Al Kli, and Alex de Waal, "The Coming Twilight of a Petro-State? Traumatic Decarbonization as a Driver of Political Transformation in Iraq," Environment and Security, March 18, 2024.
- McAuliff, Alexandra, “Considering Bargaining Power—Women at the Table but with what Leverage?," Talk4Peace, March2024.
- Gopalakrishnan, Tarun, “Sunlight-Dimming Climate Schemes Need Worldwide Oversight,” Scientific American, March 11, 2024.
- Adzinbaia, Zviad, “EU Aspirations and Russian Realities: Georgia at the Geopolitical Crossroads." Atlantic Council, January 11, 2024.
2023 Publications
- Oh, Soyoung, “Job Creation and Deep Decarbonization,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, November 22, 2023.
- Sampson, Gary, "Pursuing Geopolitical Advantage? China’s Search for Military Allies," National Intelligence University, November 14, 2023.
- Chi, Kate, "UN’s ‘Global Stocktake’ on Climate is Offering a Sober Emissions Reckoning − But There are also Signs of Progress," The Conversation, November 20, 2023.
- Bohman, Viking, “Decoupling From China: The Only Question is How Far the West Will Go,” South China Morning Post, September 25, 2023.
- Sarkar, Aditya, “Two-Level Game or the Primacy of Domestic Politics? Ethiopia’s Regional Foreign Policy after 2018," working paper on PeaceRep: The Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform, University of Edinburgh, September 2023.
- Tietjen, Bethany, “Climate Change and Urban Migration in Sub-Saharan African Cities: Impacts and Governance Challenges,” Journal of Climate Resilience and Climate Justice, September 5, 2023.
- Tietjen, Bethany and Tarun Gopalakrishnan, “Loss and Damage Funding in the UN Climate Negotiations: From Dialogue to Reality," Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, April 7, 2023.
- Anumol, Dipali, “Illustrating Grief: Lumiere Tarot,” in When This is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic, Policy Press Imprint of Bristol University Press, March 2023.
- Anumol, Dipali, “Moving Beyond Rwanda’s ‘Children of Bad Memory’: A Conversation on Working with Mothers and Children Born of Wartime Rape,” Challenging Conceptions: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation, Oxford University Press, January 2023.
- Spears, Kinsey, “Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Ukraine: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Policy Options for Ukraine, the United States, and the International Community,” Newlinesinstitute.org, September 2023.
- Lee, Lilly Min-Chen, “Countering China’s Information Manipulation in the Indo-Pacific and Kazakhstan: A Framework for Understanding and Action,” International Republican Institute, June 27, 2023.
- Sarkar, Aditya, Contributor on conflict and social risk to "Somalia Climate Risk Review," World Bank, April 5, 2023.
- Spears, Kinsey, and Diana Park, "Women Peace and Cybersecurity," Newlines Institute.org, June 28, 2023.
- Sarkar, Aditya, "Situating the Contribution of the Political Marketplace Framework to Peace Processes" (PeaceRep Report). World Peace Foundation, 2023.
- McDonald, Scott, "Sunzi, 'Shi' and Strategy: How to Read 'Art of War' the Way its Author Intended," The Conversation, May 16, 2023.
- Anumol, Dipali, "Care Conversations," International Feminist Journal of Politics, February 15, 2023.
- Spears, Kinsey, "Sex, Age (and More) Still Matter: Data Collection, Analysis, and Use in Humanitarian Practice," Care.org, March 23, 2023.
- Sarkar, Aditya, “Thinking Politically About Money: The Changing Role of Political Finance in The Political (Un-)Settlements in Ethiopia and Sudan." Economic Research Forum, March 2023.
- Sarkar, Aditya, “Decarbonization and Conflict Resolution: New Patterns of Peacemaking in Political Marketplace Systems and its Implications for the Clean Energy Transition,” PeaceRep, February 2023.
- Miller, Jared, “Decarbonization and Conflict Resolution: New Patterns of Peacemaking in Political Marketplace Systems and its Implications for the Clean Energy Transition,” post on the World Peace Foundation blog, February 17, 2023.
- Sarkar, Aditya, “Traumatic Decarbonization in Carbon-Based Political (Un)settlements,” World Peace Foundation working paper, February 2023.
- Gopalakrishnan, Tarun and Jared Miller, “Energy Transition in Fragile States: A Critical Primer,” World Peace Foundation, January 2023.
- Jones, Laura, “Lesson from a Year at War: In Contrast to the Russians, Ukrainians Master a Mix of High- and Low-End Technology on the Battlefield,” The Conversation, February 22, 2023.
- Naimark-Rowse, Benjamin, ”Donors Leery of Supporting Grassroots Organizing Need to Rethink How They Approach Such Work,” Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 22, 2023.
- Adzinbaia, Zviad, “Ukraine and Georgia: Together Will Prevail,” The Fletcher Forum, February 2023.
- Anumol, Dipali, co-editor, Challenging Conceptions, Oxford University Press, January 2023.
2022 Publications
- Miller, Jared, “The Politics and Profit of a Crisis: A Political Marketplace Analysis of the Humanitarian Crisis in Northeast Nigeria,” World Peace Foundation, 2022.
- Sarkar, Aditya, co-author, “Social Cohesion and Forced Displacement : A Synthesis of New Research,” World Bank, 2022.
- Spears, Kinsey, “Harmful Masculinities and the Threat to Force Readiness in the U.S. Military,” Newlines Institute, December 8, 2022.
- Oh, Soyoung Oh, “COP27: How debt-for-climate swaps can help solve low-income countries’ crushing debt and environmental challenges at the same time,” The Conversation.com, October 31, 2022.
- Tietjen, Bethany, “Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms the world’s poorest countries?,” The Conversation.com, November 3, 2022.
- Sampson, Gary, “Make the MAGTF Ready for All-Domain Ops,” U.S. Naval Institute, November 2022.
- McDonald, Scott, “Why China Feels Threatened by the Moral Authority of a 90-year-old Catholic Bishop,” The Conversation, September 19, 2022.
- McAuliff, Alexandra, “Peace Negotiations as Sites of Gendered Power Hierarchies,” Brill.com, September 12, 2022.
- Naimark-Rowse, Benjamin, “Dollars and Dissent,” International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, September 2022.
- Spears, Kinsey, "The Global Consequences of America’s Anti-Abortion Agenda," New Lines Institute, August 9, 2022.
- Ahmad, Lima, "'Afghan Women' Aren't Who You Think They Are," FP, August 14, 2022.
- Spears, Kinsey, "Why U.S.-China Relations Need a Gender Analysis," New Lines Institute, March 3, 2022.
- Anumol, Dipali, "Caring as Research, Researching with Care," Comparative Political Theory, February 23, 2022.
- Feher, Zoltan, "Joseph Nye 85: From Integration Theory to Complex Interdependence to Soft Power," The Duck of Minerva, January 31, 2022.
2021 Publications
- Spears, Kinsey, "Gender, Famine, and Mortality," World Peace Foundation, December 15, 2021.
- Sobchak, Frank, “Israel’s Shift to CENTCOM: Big Things Come in Little Packages,” Miryam Institute, February 9, 2021.
- Sobchak, Frank, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan,” Newsweek, June 11, 2021.
- Anumol, Dipali and Roxani Krystalli, "Caring About Feminism, Caring as Feminists," for The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Ginn Library. March, 2021.
- Anumol, Dipali, "Building an Ethics of Care in Research During COVID-19,"For King’s College London’s Feminist Perspectives series, January, 2021.
- Lazetic, Marina, "Migration, Extremism, & Dangerous Blame Games: Developments & Dynamics in Serbia," United States Institute of Peace, RESOLVE Network, November 1, 2021.
- Spears, Kinsey, "Culture, Gender, and Women in the Military," Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, October 2021.
- Ahmad, Lima,"Running Through the Valley of Death to Give Life a Chance," TRT World, September 8, 2021.
- Ahmad, Lima, "The US Can’t ‘Celebrate Democracy’ at Home as it Destroys it in Afghanistan," TRT World, August 16, 2021.
- Sobchak, Frank, "The Afghans that Fought," Small Wars Journal, September 23, 2021.
- Sobchak, Frank, "The Army Needs to Understand the Afghanistan Disaster," Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2021.
- Sobchak, Frank, "Afghanistan is Our Generation's MS St. Louis Moment," Time, September 10, 2021.
- Walther-Puri, Andrea, "Afghanistan: A Tragic Lesson of the US Military’s Flawed Approach to Capacity Building,"Just Security, September 6, 2021.
- Beliakova, Polina, "Erosion by Deference: Civilian Control and the Military in Policymaking," Texas National Security Review, Summer 2021.
- Tilney Burke, Frances, "Do We Really Want to Draft Our Daughters," Institute for Family Studies Blog, July 26, 2021.
- Feher, Zoltan and Sobchak, Frank, “Games and Simulations in Teaching International Relations,” invited contribution to H-Diplo teaching roundtable on games and simulations, February 19, 2021.
- Tilney Burke, Frances, “Let’s hope the Pentagon’s new military community and family policy appointee discards the ‘Army goggles,’” Military Times, February 12, 2021.
- Tilney Burke, Frances and Shultz, Richard, "The Department of Homeland Security’s Epic ‘Intelligence Enterprise’ Failure," The National Interest, January 24, 2021.
- Sobchak, Frank, "The Revolution Behind the Attempted Revolution," Small Wars Journal, January 11, 2021.
- McDonald, Scott D. "Autonomous Robots: China." In Examining Internet and Technology Around the World, edited by Laura M. Steckman, 263-268. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2021.
2020 Publications
- Sobchak, Frank, “Iran’s Real Lesson from the Killing of Qassem Soleimani,” Jewish News Syndicate, January 23, 2020.
- Sobchak, Frank, “Hidden Opportunities in Coalition Negotiations,” Miryam Institute, March 2, 2020.
- Mohan Sukumar, Arun, Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India, Penguin. 2020.
- McDonald, Scott, "戰略競爭?—Strategic Competition?," Routledge, December 15, 2020.
- McDonald, Scott, "The Future of the United States-Australia Alliance," The Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, November 23, 2020.
- Feher, Zoltan, “From Integration Theory to Soft Power: Engaging Practitioners with Harvard Professor Joseph Nye,” Elephants in the War Room Blog – Center for Strategic Studies, November 13, 2020.
- Sobchak, Frank, "Who is responsible for the Abraham Accords?" The Jerusalem Post, November 2, 2020.
- Feher, Zoltan, “The Transformation of World Order, U.S. Grand Strategy, and China’s Challenge in the 21st Century” in Csaba Káncz (ed.), Changing World Order: The Age of Uncertainty in World Politics (book chapter). Kossuth Publishing, Budapest, November 2020,
- McDonald, Scott, "Philosophy and Policy: Why Ideas Will Drive the Indo-Pacific," Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, October, 2020.
- Feher, Zoltan, “The Rise and Fall of U.S. Engagement toward China,” Elephants in the War Room Blog – Center for Strategic Studies, 17 August 2020.
- Sobchak, Frank, "Six Days and the Forever War," Newsweek, June 2, 2020.
- Tilney Burke, Frances, "Hong Kong Sanctions With Teeth," The New York Times, June 2, 2020.
- Tilney Burke, Frances, "China’s Funding of U.S. University Scientists Requires a Watchdog," The National Interest, May 31, 2020.
- Feher, Zoltan, “Realpolitik & Cooperation in the Age of COVID-19,” Global Security Review, May 26, 2020.
- Tilney Burke, Frances, "What does an extended “Stop Movement” order mean for military families?," American Enterprise Institute, April 10, 2020.
- Tilney Burke, Frances, "The ongoing tragedy at the Massachusetts soldiers’ home is a wake-up call," American Enterprise Institute, April 3, 2020
- Ahmad, Lima. "Yet Another Lost Generation in Afghanistan." Medium, March 17, 2020.
- Tilney Burke, Frances, "Can the Military Fix Base Housing?," The New York Times, February 21, 2020.
- Tilney Burke, Frances, "Military Kids Change School Up to 9 Times. So Let’s Make It Easier," The New York Times, January 8, 2020.
- Zollman, Julie, "Living on Little," Practical Action Publishing, 2020.
2019 Publications
- Tilney Burke, Frances and Wolfowitz, Paul, "Switching Schools Shouldn't Be the Hard Part for Military Families," Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2019.
- Krystalli, Roxani and Enloe, Cynthia, “Doing Feminism.” International Feminist Journal of Politics, November 7, 2019
- Krystalli, Roxani, "Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains," International Feminist Journal of Politics, September 10, 2019.
- Herbert, Matthew, “Terrorism in Tunisia: more than just foreign connections,” ISS-Today, Institute for Security Studies, July 2019.
- Herbert, Matthew, "‘La Mal Vie’: The Routes, Drivers, and Politics of North African Irregular Migration,” Institute for Security Studies, May 2019.
- Herbert, Matthew, "Less Than the Sum of its parts: European Fixation With Libyan Border Security," Policy Brief, Institute for Security Studies, May 2019
- Sobchak, Frank, "What the Iraq War Tells us about Iran," The Hill, May 5, 2019.
- Krystalli, Roxani, "Stories of Conflict and Love Blog," ISA Professional Resource Center, May 2, 2019.
- Herbert, Matt, “The Maghreb’s Changing Politics of Migration,” ISS Today, Institute for Security Studies, February 4, 2019.
- Chaturvedi, Ravi Shankar, "Which Countries are Leading the Data Economy?" Harvard Business Review, January 24, 2019.
- Herbert, Matt, “States and Smugglers: The Ties that Bind and How they Fray,” in Transnational Organized Crime and Political Actors in the Maghreb and Sahel, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Mediterranean Dialogue Series no. 17, January 2019.
- Rayburn, Joel and Sobchak, Frank, Eds. "The U.S. Army in the Iraq War." The United States Army War College, January 2019
- Humphrey, Alex., Krishnan, Vaidehi., Krystalli, Roxani. (2019). The Currency of Connections: Why local support systems are integral to helping people recover in South Sudan. Washington, DC: Mercy Corps
- McDonald, Scott D. and Michael C. Burgoyne. "China's Global Influence: Perspectives and Recommendations." (Honolulu, HI: Asia-PacificCenter for Security Studies, 2019)