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A North Korean Corleone Sheena Chestnut Greitens, a PhD candidate within the Government Department, has written the article "A North Korean Corleone,"which appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review on March 3, 2012.  
The 2010-11 dissertation prizes were announced at the Department of Government Doctoral Cocktail Party on May 25 The Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace is awarded to Heidi Brockmann for her dissertation, "The Budget Paradox: Simultaneous Stability and Volatility in the Army's Budget."
Government TF's awarded teaching awards for the Fall 2010 I am very pleased to announce the following Government TFs have been awarded teaching awards for Fall 2010.
The Howard T. Fisher Prize
Dissertation Prizes The Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace is awarded to Vipin Narang for his dissertation “Posturing for Peace?
2009-2010 PhD Recipients Congratulations to our 2009-10 PhD recipients:  Sam Abrams, Matthew Chingos, Carlos Diaz, Brian Feinstein, Ben Goodrich, Miquel Glatzer, Sam Goldman, David Grewal, Justin Grimmer, Mike Kellermann, Vipin Narang, Becky Nelson, Nick O'Donovan, Nathan Paxton, Mikhail Pryadilnikov, Bettina Scholz,...
Tyson Belanger awarded the 2010 Morris Abrams Award in International Relations. Tyson Belanger is the recipient of the 2010 Morris Abrams Award in International Relations.The Award was established in 1968, in memory of Morris Abrams who devoted much of his time and energies to civic and communal affairs in Cleveland.Previous winners from this department include Beth Simm
Alison Post won the 2009 APSA William Anderson Award Allison Post is the 2009 recipient of the American Political Science Association’s William Anderson Award for her dissertation, “Liquid Assets and Fluid Contracts: Explaining the Uneven Effects of Water and Sanitation Privatization”, submitted by Nancy Rosenblum of Harvard...
Sheena Chestnut & Sabeel Rahman awarded APSA Wilson Carey McWilliams Prize Sheena Chestnut, Sabeel Rahman, "The Literary Public Sphere in Post- Authoritarian Transitions," presented at APSA 2008, awarded the annual  Politics, Literature, and Film section Wilson Carey McWilliams prize  for the best paper presented to the section.
Congratulations to our 2008-09 PhD Recipients! Congratulations to our 2008-09 PhD Recipients: Marcus Alexander, Lanhee Chen, Asif Efrat, Daniel Epstein, Jens Hainmueller, Philip Jones, Michael Kang, Yevgeniy Kirpichevsky, Joseph Kochanek, Alexander Liebman, Odette Lienau, Phillip Lipscy, Stanislav Markus, Joseph Mazor, Sean McGraw, Colin Moore...