PhD Student Research
Fletcher doctoral students contribute to current dialogue 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.
- Owusu-Mante, Seth, Kate H.-K. Chi, & Tarun Gopalakrishnan, “Sovereign green bonds in practice: Effectiveness as a climate finance instrument in emerging economies,” Climate Policy, December 12, 2025.
- Oh, Soyoung, “Can digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (dMRV) unlock industrial CO2 capture and removal in carbon markets?,” Environmental Research Letters, December 2, 2025.
- Oh, Soyoung, “Ambitious Green Growth for Indonesia: Insights and Policy Implications,” Climate Policy Lab Policy Brief, December 2025.
- Oh, Soyoung, “Effective and fair policy to mobilize industrial carbon dioxide removal,” Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, July 23, 2025.
- Oh, Soyoung, “Exploring key dimensions of policy instruments for carbon dioxide removal,” Climate Policy, June 6, 2025.
- Tietjen, Bethany, “Storylines of Unprecedented Extremes in the Southeast United States,” American Meteorological Society Journal, March 11, 2025.
- Oh, Soyoung, “Review of Economics and Policies of Carbon Dioxide Removal,” Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports, March 2025.
- Oh, Soyoung, “From Ambition to Action: Policy Pathways for Indonesia’s Enhanced NDC and Net Zero Target,” Policy Brief, Climate Policy Lab, January 2025,” Policy Brief, Climate Policy Lab, January 2025.
- Jain, Siddharth and Kate Chi, “Industrial Strategies for Decarbonization and Green Growth in the Brazilian Steel and Cement Industries,” Discussion Paper, Climate Policy Lab, January 2025,” Discussion Paper, Climate Policy Lab, January 2025.
- 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, 2024.
- 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, "Going ‘cold turkey’: Oil addiction and ‘traumatic’ decarbonization in fragile fossil fuel producers," Environment and Security, September 12, 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.
- Tietjen, Bethany, “Progress and gaps in U.S. Adaptation policy at the local level,” Global Environmental Change, July 2024.
- Sarkar, Aditya, and Alex de Waal, "Fragile Petrostates and the Green Transition," The India Forum, May 15, 2024.
- Tietjen, Bethany, “Preparing for Novel Extreme Weather Events in the United States: Lessons from Disasters.” Climate Policy Lab policy brief, April 2024.
- 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.
- Rosani, Courtney and Dyan Mazurana, “Conflict-related sexual violence against children: Legal frameworks, patterns of harm, and pathways to prevention and recovery,” The Missing Peace Series: Understanding Conflict-Related Sexual Violence through Research, Policy and Practice, 2026. 6. Oslo: PRIO.
- Anumol, Dipali, “Gender, violence, and social movements,” chapter in the edited volume, Handbook on Gender and Violence, 2026.
- Demers, Danielle, “Marital Politics in Post-Assad Syria: The Emerging Role of Syria’s New First Lady,”Al-Jumhuriya, October 13, 2025.
- Anumol, Dipali, “Politics of Care: Emancipatory Futures in/beyond Institutions ,” chapter in The Contemporary Reader of Feminist International Relations, Routledge, 2025.
- Anumol, Dipali, “Writing Our Stories with Care and Hope,” International Politics, January 9, 2025.
- 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.
- Anumol, Dipali, co-editor, "Care Conversations," International Feminist Journal of Politics, February 15, 2023.
- Anumol, Dipali, co-editor, Challenging Conceptions, Oxford University Press, January 2023.
- Rosani, Courtney, “Legal Commitments, Systemic Violations: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Taliban and CEDAW Obligations in Afghanistan (2021–2025),” Feinstein International Center, March 2026.
- Lažetić, Marina, co-editor, Mexico-US, Serbia-EU Border Lives and Works, Anthem Press, November 2025.
- Tietjen, Bethany, “The State of Planning, Policy, and Justice for Human Mobility in National Adaptation Plans,” Earth System Governance, August 2025.
- 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.
- Sarkar, Aditya, Benjamin Spatz, Alex de Waal, Jared Miller, and Tarun Gopalakrishnan, "Traumatic Decarbonization in Fragile States." United States Institute of Peace, May 15, 2024.
- Sarkar, Aditya and Alex de Waal, "How ‘Traumatic Decarbonization’ Can Impact Political Stability and Peace," United States Institute of Peace, April 10, 2024.
- Gopalakrishnan, Tarun, “Sunlight-Dimming Climate Schemes Need Worldwide Oversight,” Scientific American, March 11, 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.
- Sarkar, Aditya, "Situating the Contribution of the Political Marketplace Framework to Peace Processes,” PeaceRep, 2023.
- Oh, Soyoung, “Job Creation and Deep Decarbonization,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, November 22, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Loureiro, Alba, “Decreasing Domestic Drudgery: Why It Matters and What We Know About What Works in Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” Center for Global Development, December 18, 2025.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, October 31, 2022.
- Sinha, Riya, “Quad in Port Development in the Bay of Bengal,” Centre for Social and Economic Progress, October 13, 2025.
- Galinda Villareal, Juliana, “From Environmental War Crimes to Ecocide: Lessons from Colombia’s Transitional Justice,” The International Journal of Human Rights, September 24, 2025.
- Jones, Laura, “Making Surgical Top Guns: Maximizing Time at the Controls by Integrating Military Aviation Techniques Into Surgical Instruction,” Science Direct, September 2025.
- Current, Amanda, “Does Academic Theory Sway US Cyber Strategy Implementation?," National Intelligence Press, September 17, 2024.
- Lee, Lilly Min-Chen, “Welcome to the Arena: Who’s Ahead, Who’s Behind, and What’s Next in the U.S.-China Technology Competition,” Special Competitive Studies Project, January 8, 2025.
- Spears, Kinsey, and Diana Park, "Women Peace and Cybersecurity," Newlines Institute.org, June 28, 2023.
- Gopalakrishnan, Tarun, “South Africa’s Framework Climate Law: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Risks,” Policy Brief, Climate Policy Lab, May 2025.
- Adomako, Maggie, “State and Violence in the Aftermath of Berlin,” African Arguments, February 6, 2025.
- Owusu-Mante, Seth, “Securing Ghana’s Energy Future Policy Actions for Sustainability and Efficiency,” IPPGAfrica.org, February 2025.
- Owusu-Mante, Seth, “From Policy to Progress: Overcoming Barriers to South Africa’s Current and Future NDC Targets,” Policy Brief, Climate Policy Lab, December 2024.
- 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, Karen Jacobsen, Justin Hollander, “Climate Change and Urban Migration in Sub-Saharan African Cities: Impacts and Governance Challenges,” Journal of Climate Resilience and Climate Justice, September 5, 2023.
- Sarkar, Aditya, Contributor on conflict and social risk to "Somalia Climate Risk Review," World Bank, April 5, 2023.
- Yeo, Mathew, “London and Paris Could Hold the Keys to U.S.–China Nuclear Dialogue,” Modern Diplomacy, January 10, 2026.
- Bohman, Viking, “The Old Logic Behind China’s New Economic Weapons,” The Washington Quarterly, September 29, 2025.
- Bohman, Viking, “China’s Elastic Export Controls: Beijing’s economic coercion is getting smarter, The Wire, China, July 13, 2025.
- Bohman, Viking, “China’s Sanctions Gambit: Formal and Informal Economic Coercion in the Second Trade War,” Swedish National China Centre, June 18, 2025.
- Cui, Zheng, "Path to Carbon Peaking and Neutrality: China’s Progress and Upcoming NDCs,” Policy Brief, Climate Policy Lab, December 2024.
- Lee, Lilly Min-Chen, “Decoding China's Digital Offensive: An Analysis of Information Warfare Tactics in Taiwan's 2024 Presidential Election,” Yale Journal of International Affairs, December 11, 2024.
- Bohman, Viking, “Biden’s Economic Security Blueprint Hands Trump a Loaded Gun,” The Wire China, November 24, 2024.
- Yeo, Mathew Jie Sheng, “A Non-Weaponized Deterrence Approach to China-US Strategic Relations,” The Diplomat, October 29, 2024.
- Lee, Lilly, "Beijing’s Play for Taiwan’s Young Voices Intensifies," Real Clear World, Summer 2024.
- Bohman, Viking, “Final Blow to Chinese ‘Neutrality’ on Ukraine War,” Politico, June 19, 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.
- Bohman, Viking, “Decoupling From China: The Only Question is How Far the West Will Go,” South China Morning Post, September 25, 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.
- Adzinbaia, Zviad, “Abandoning Georgia to the Kremlin would be a big geopolitical blunder,” Atlantic Council, November 26, 2024.
- Adzinbaia, Zviad, “EU Aspirations and Russian Realities: Georgia at the Geopolitical Crossroads." Atlantic Council, January 11, 2024.
- 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.
- Adzinbaia, Zviad, “Ukraine and Georgia: Together Will Prevail,” The Fletcher Forum, February 2023.
- Sinha, Riya, “Navigating Politico-Security Hurdles to Regional Connectivity: Pathways for New Delhi,” Stimson Center, December 3, 2025.
- Sinha, Riya, “India–Nepal Railway Connectivity: Key Trends, Challenges and Strategic Implications,” chapter in the edited volume, Shared Bonds, Strategic Interests: India–Nepal Relations in a Turbulent World (ed. Ranjit Rae), December 2025).
- Gopalakrishnan, Tarun, “A Phased Policy Mix to Achieve India’s Economic and Climate Goals,” Policy Brief, Climate Policy Lab, November 2024.
- Gopalakrishnan, Tarun, “Is net zero net positive? – Opportunities and challenges for pursuing a socio-economically sensitive net-zero transition for India,” Climate Policy, November 2024.