SURF Research and Publications
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SURF provides students with a unique opportunity to engage in research training in international relations and simultaneously conduct their own research.
Students will participate in several workshops to learn how to formulate a research question, collect data, and identify the appropriate method to analyze that data. The workshops are designed so students can immediately apply this knowledge to their own research projects. While we expect that students already have some research experience, our program is tailored specifically to address the questions of international collaboration. Each SURF participant is an expert in their area of interest, and the SURF program is a way to leverage that expertise and apply it in a new context.
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Conference Report: Comparative Budget Policy: Lessons for Reform in the United States [May 2014]
October 8, 2014
Keynote Address: Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal
July 7, 2014
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The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey
April 16, 2014
The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearly a century later, the claims of minority communities and the politics of pluralism continue to ignite explosive debate. The Reckoning of Pluralism centers on the case of Turkey's Alevi community, a sizeable Muslim minority in a Sunni majority state. Alevis have seen their loyalty to the state questioned and experienced sectarian hostility, and yet their community is also championed by state ideologues as bearers of the nation's folkloric heritage.
Kabir Tambar offers a critical appraisal of the tensions of democratic pluralism. Rather than portraying pluralism as a governing ideal that loosens restrictions on minorities, he focuses on the forms of social inequality that it perpetuates and on the political vulnerabilities to which minority communities are thereby exposed. Alevis today are often summoned by political officials to publicly display their religious traditions, but pluralist tolerance extends only so far as these performances will validate rather than disturb historical ideologies of national governance and identity. Focused on the inherent ambivalence of this form of political incorporation, Tambar ultimately explores the intimate coupling of modern political belonging and violence, of political inclusion and domination, contained within the practices of pluralism.
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India’s latest and largest workfare program: evaluation and recommendations
Working Paper,
April 5, 2014
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Reforming the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Post-Revolutionary Egypt and Tunisia
Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and the Center for International Private Enterprise,
April 1, 2014
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Personnel Change or Personal Change? Rethinking Libya’s Political Isolation Law
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BDC-Stanford Project on Arab Transitions,
March 1, 2014
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New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan
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Stanford University Press,
January 1, 2014
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The Economic Costs of Drug-Trafficking Violence in Mexico [2013 edition]
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December 31, 2013
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Traditional Governance, Citizen Engagement and Local Public Goods: Evidence from Mexico
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World Development,
December 31, 2013
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Understanding the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Tunisia and Egypt
Center for International Private Enterprise,
December 16, 2013
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The Tortuous Trajectories of Democracy and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in Africa
CDDRL Working Papers,
November 1, 2013
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A Hole at the Center of the State: Prison Gangs and the Limits to Punitive Power
CDDRL Working Papers,
October 1, 2013
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The Art of Counting the Governed: Census Accuracy, Civil War, and State Presence
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CDDRL Working Papers,
October 1, 2013
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The Mexican War on Drugs: Crime and the Limits of Government Persuasion
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CDDRL Working Papers,
October 1, 2013
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How do Crime and Violence Impact Presidential Approval? Examining the Dynamics of the Mexican Case
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CDDRL Working Papers,
October 1, 2013
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The Logic of Violence in Drug Wars: Cartel-State Conflict in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia
CDDRL Working Papers,
October 1, 2013
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Myopic Solutions to Chronic Problems: The Need for Aid Effectiveness in Yemen
CDDRL Working Papers,
August 1, 2013