Past Grants

Jeffrey Mankoff will lead an effort to assess the imperial traditions of major powers in Eurasia, including Russia, China, Iran, and Turkey, in order to understand better how these patterns might shape their future behavior. The project’s findings will appear in a monograph.

Michael Ryan will research and write a monograph that develops a framework for a global strategy to defeat the Islamic State on the level of ideology. He will collect and analyze the Islamic State’s ideological propaganda materials, identify and analyze the Koranic references and hadiths in these sources, and convene experts to explore approaches to fielding a phased ideological campaign against the Islamic State.

William Inboden and Paul Miller will direct an annual summer seminar series to support the development of a cadre of aspiring young scholars and policy thinkers skilled in the use of history to understand contemporary issues of statecraft. The program will also support graduate student research and field work.

Edmund Phelps will lead an effort to better understand what factors affect the dynamism of major developed economies. The project will measure the rate of indigenous innovation in more than thirty-five countries over the past sixty years and then estimate the extent to which cultural values drive such innovation. The project’s findings will appear in a series of papers and a monograph.

Jason Delisle and Matthew Chingos will examine how federal programs for the repayment of student loans can best protect borrowers from excessive risk while reducing the potential costs to taxpayers. They will analyze data from credit reports to examine patterns of default and delinquency among student borrowers. They will also explore how borrowers perceive the risk of default, how collection agencies seek to recoup payments from delinquent borrowers, and how borrowers view the possibility of entering into alternative repayment programs. The project’s findings will appear in a report, a series of papers, and briefings for policymakers.