Entries by Joe Luk

Prof. Edmond Keller authors new book on Africa

Reflecting on the processes of nation-building and citizenship formation in Africa, Edmond J. Keller believes that although some deep parochial identities have eroded, they have not disappeared and may be […]

Remembering Mandela with Prof. Keller

Edmond Keller, a research professor in political science, director of UCLA’s Globalization Research Center–Africa and former director of UCLA’s James S. Coleman African Studies Center, was interviewed Friday by KQED-88.5 […]

Prof. O’Neill talks treaties in the L.A. Times

Prof. Barry O’Neill contrasted today’s government perspective on international peace agreements with the views of Franklin and Jefferson – in Sunday’s L.A. Times op-ed section. Read the piece here.

Prof. Vavreck helps reframe 2012 election.

Lynn Vavreck and co-author Johns Sides publish “The Gamble” with an alternate theory of President Obama’s re-election, questioning conventional wisdom. Read the Newsroom article here.

Treisman cited in Foreign Affairs

Prof. Daniel Treisman offered insight into how punishing Russia’s government for recent actions might actually benefit the popularity of its president, Vladimir Putin, at home — in Foreign Affairs online: […]