Research

Our work is motivated by deep concerns about conflicts that arise from the mobilization of difference — along ethnic, racial, and national lines; in the United States and around the globe. Our central mission is to conduct rigorous research to lay bare such patterns, and to evaluate the effects of solutions that might contribute to more just and prosperous outcomes.

GDL faculty members and graduate fellows have published widely on topics including climate change politics, ethnic diversity, prejudice reduction, democratic practice, and human dignity.

Books

Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe (Volha Charnysh). Cambridge University Press, Studies in Comparative Politics, 2024.

The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland (Noah Nathan). Cambridge University Press, Studies in Comparative Politics, 2023.

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa After Apartheid (Evan Lieberman). Princeton University Press, 2022.

Recent Publications