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Scholarly Publications
How body-worn cameras affect the use of gunshots, stop-and searches and other forms of police behavior: A Randomized Control Trial in Rio de Janeiro
January 2020
In this paper we examine the effects of police body-worn cameras through a randomized control trial implemented in Rio de Janeiro.
Killing in the Slums: An Impact Evaluation of Police Reform in Rio de Janeiro
December 2015
Abstract:This paper evaluates the causal impact of Rio de Janeiro’s Pacifying Police Units (UPPs), probably the largest–scale police reform initiative taking place in the developing world.
Killing in the Slums: An Impact Evaluation of Police Reform in Rio de Janeiro
December 2015
This paper evaluates the causal impact of Rio de Janeiro’s Pacifying Police Units (UPPs), probably the largest–scale police reform initiative taking place in the developing world.
News
Stanford Experts Weigh In on What to Expect at the Biden-Putin Summit
June 2021
Scholars at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies hope that President Joe Biden’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will lay the groundwork for negotiations in the near...
Book Review: The Gunslinger
July 2008
FSI senior fellow Stephen Stedman reviews John Bolton's book, Surrender Is not an Option, in the July/August issue of the Boston Review.
Op-ed: Shultz's engagement with Soviets offers lessons today for Iran, says McFaul
July 2008
When George Shultz became Secretary of State in 1982, writes Michael McFaul in DemocracyArsenal.org, he began to challenge the Reagan administration's policy of disengagement, arguing that the...
Old Events
Of Paradigms, Politics and Principles: The 2016 Taiwan Elections and Implications for China’s Security Strategy and Cross-Strait Relations
December 1, 2015
Sponsored by the Taiwan Democracy Project and the U.S.
Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East
November 7, 2013
Abstract: Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East is a new, ground-breaking textbook on the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.