The Tobin Project awards fellowships annually to graduate students across disciplines and institutions whose research relates to security studies. In monthly forums throughout the academic year, the students present and discuss their work with one another for uniquely interdisciplinary feedback. Below are the 2014 fellows in the National Security program.
Noel Anderson MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE PROJECT TITLE: The Hot Frontlines of a Cold War: Geopolitics, International Interventions, and Conflict in Southern Africa, 1975-1990 |
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Erin Baggott HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT PROJECT TITLE: Small Events and High Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in US-China Relations, 1949-2012 |
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Mark Bell MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE PROJECT TITLE: Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy: the Case of South Africa |
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Michael Broache COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, POLITICAL SCIENCE PROJECT TITLE: Evaluating the Impact of International Criminal Court Prosecutions on Transitions from Conflict |
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Jean-Baptiste Gallopin YALE UNIVERSITY, SOCIOLOGY PROJECT TITLE: Regime Change and Elite Structures: The Cases of Libya and Tunisia |
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Amanda Rothschild MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE PROJECT TITLE: To Liberate Mankind: US Responsiveness to Genocide and Mass Atrocity |
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Kai Thaler HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT PROJECT TITLE: When the Rebels Win: The Impact of Rebel Organization and Ideology on Conflict, Governance, and Development in Revolutionary Cuba and Nicaragua |
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Ches Thurber TUFTS UNIVERSITY, FLETCHER SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PROJECT TITLE: Shaping (Non) Violence from Abroad: The Impact of External Actors on Revolutionary Strategy |
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Stephen Wittels MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE PROJECT TITLE: To Protest or Rebel? Understanding the Origins of Nonviolent Resistance |
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George Yin HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT PROJECT TITLE: The Logic of Fear: Balance of Power, Nationalism, and Foreign Threat Perception |