Academia

Robert Bates’s When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa released as a classic During the turmoil in Uganda after the fall of repressive leader Idi Amin Dada, political scientist Robert Bates was in the field. At the time, he was widely...

Researchers Say International Criminal Court is Flawed, But Essential The International Criminal Court is saving civilian lives in multiple countries, according to research that provides the first quantitative evidence. The study by professors at Harvard...

Harvard professor Jennifer Hochschild remembers the first time a scholarly article about blogging came across her desk. She laughs now describing how she and fellow editors at Perspectives on Politics did not know what to make of it in 2003. “We spent a...

Condensed from interviews with Noah Feldman, Jennifer Hochschild, and Dani Rodrik. —with Noah Feldman Q. How was writing for a popular audience viewed within the academic world earlier in your career and has that attitude changed? A. When I started...

These tips are condensed from an interview. Here’s the unspoken secret of the contemporary media world: in the age of the Internet and social media, every single media outlet is hungry for good content. That ranges from the more popular aspects of...