What is the relationship between localization, or the shifting of power from international to local actors by addressing local priorities, and the proliferation of national and international efforts to measure, wrangle data and benchmark? academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Take a look at this opinion piece I just published with @apaczynska.bsky.social on the complexities of accountability for international cooperation and US foreign aid thehill.com/opinion/inte...

We're on the Hill! @pfirchow.bsky.social @apaczynska.bsky.social @democracyprofdc.bsky.social and Louis Berg are delivering the Open Letter to Congress as we speak. Over 217 scholars of foreign assistance have signed to demand Congress take action. @ Sen Lindsey Graham

We're on the Hill! @pfirchow.bsky.social @apaczynska.bsky.social @democracyprofdc.bsky.social and Louis Berg are delivering the Open Letter to Congress as we speak. Over 217 scholars of foreign assistance have signed to demand Congress take action. @schumer.senate.gov Senator Collins

Today we distributed the Open Letter signed by over 200 US foreign policy scholars expressing their disagreement with the dismantling of US foreign aid. Next, we will distribute to media outlets, so please send us your media contacts at [email protected]

If you are a US-based scholar of foreign policy, please join over 130 of your colleagues in signing this Letter to Congress re: the foreign assistance freeze and dismantling of USAID. Read here: docs.google.com/.../1waW9li4.... Sign here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS... Please Share Widely!

Open letter from scholars to Congress regarding the freeze of U.S. foreign assistance and the subsequent dismantling of USAID. You may read the letter (1st comment) and sign via this Google form: forms.gle/JFAQGsuLyGa4... The form will close on Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 5:00 pm (EST).

How do post-conflict preferences align with the priorities of donors? I address this question in World Development with my colleagues @rogermacginty.bsky.social and Julianne Funk using empirical @epi-ngo.bsky.social data from Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Working with @epi-ngo.bsky.social on the use of knowledge creation & M&E practices in the #triplenexus, @rogermacginty.bsky.social and I have learned a few lessons. For more, read our article in Data & Policy, which will be expanded upon in our forthcoming book. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great news! Our 2024 symposium Measures of Justice: A Symposium in Honor of Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020) is now either open access or accessible to read without a paywall at Law & Social Inquiry. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...