Past Grants

Karen Young will research and write a book that examines the foreign-assistance programs of authoritarian regimes and consider how their state-led approach might challenge U.S. interests. She will undertake field work in the Gulf States, Egypt, Jordan, Djibouti, and Ethiopia and develop a pair of databases on authoritarian development-assistance activities.

Joshua Kurlantzick will research and write a book analyzing China’s activities to increase its influence in broadcast industries worldwide. He will undertake case studies of Chinese activities in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Stephen Flynn, Philip Anderson, and Matthew Kling will lead an effort to estimate the vulnerability of electronic components of critical infrastructure to non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse or electromagnetic interference. The project’s findings will appear in a report and a series of briefings.

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann will direct the research and publications program of the International Comparative Education Policy Lab. Using educational assessments collected by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, they will undertake a cross-national analysis of the factors and policies that drive differences in educational performance and economic outcomes for students. The project’s findings will appear in a series of papers and policy briefs.

Hans de Wit and Patrick Chougule will research and write a monograph assessing the degree to which American universities in the Middle East serve as effective instruments to advance U.S. interests in the region. They will undertake archival research and conduct interviews in Qatar, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and Washington.

Jamil Jaffer will lead an effort to train federal judges on how to better protect sensitive U.S. technology from acquisition by foreign adversaries during bankruptcy proceedings. He will convene a judicial training seminar on how judges may better identify the risk of technological leakage in court proceedings and use new legal and policy tools to protect sensitive technology.

Samantha Hoffman will research and write a book exploring the ideology and techniques behind China’s pursuit of “technology-enhanced authoritarianism.” She will collect and analyze materials on China’s deployment of new technology-assisted mechanisms of social management, including its “social credit system” and “smart cities initiative.”

David Marcotte will examine whether public school students are becoming more segregated by socioeconomic background at the school and classroom levels. Using data on more than 1 million students attending traditional public and charter schools in North Carolina between 2006 and 2017, he will assess whether there was an increase in the percentage of children from low-income families who were educated in schools and classrooms that largely serve children from a similar socioeconomic background. He will also explore whether the state’s policies toward charter schools affected levels of socioeconomic segregation. The project’s findings will appear in a series of papers.