Publications
In her published dissertation, Toward a Theory of Peace, Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg—a former military analyst, peace activist, and founder of the Nuclear Freeze Campaign and Institute for Defense and Disarmament…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
The chapters in this ground-breaking volume examine the complex practices of biographical writing in Ming and Qing China. The authors draw on a rich variety of sources to answer some basic questions: Who were the…
East Asia Program
One of the awards from the Cornell Library's Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences (DCAPS) helped digitize a portion of the archive of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies and the…
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with escalating…
Southeast Asia Program
How does law change society? In the rational actor model, law affects behavior only by changing incentives and information—the command and coordination function of law. Under the view that humans are social animals, law…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
This paper discusses the “global economy of anger” and the “great discordance” that has been the collateral offshoot of technological progress and globalization. It shows that what is often overlooked is that these “…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Hoaxes! Jokes! Farces and fun! China’s Chaplin introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880–1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous decades of the pre-Mao era.
East Asia Program
Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125). Dated to 1120, the Catalogue is divided into ten…
East Asia Program
