Associate Professor Kevin Young and Professor Charli Carpenter published an article in International Studies Quarterly this month that has appeared on the journal's "most read" list! The very popular article is entitled, "Does Science Fiction Affect Political Fact? Yes and No: A Survey Experiment on 'Killer Robots".
 

Congratulations to Regine Spector, whose book, Order at the Bazaar (Cornell University Press, 2017) has been awarded honorable mention for the Ed A. Hewett Prize for best book on the topic of political economy in Russia, Eurasia  and Eastern Europe (given by the Advancement for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies)

Paul Musgrave, political science, comments in a news story about the possible implications of reports published by Bloomberg that Chinese hackers have planted malicious computer chips in electronic equipment used by top U.S. technology companies. 

Paul M. Collins, political science and director of legal studies, is co-author of an essay in The Conversation on how during confirmation hearings for Supreme Court justices, interruptions by senators and the nominees have increased since the 1980s.