Publication

Money Makes the World Go Frowned - Analyzing the Impact of Chinese Foreign Aid on States' Sentiment Using Natural Language Processing

We use natural language processing to automatically extract sentiments from political speeches of African states at the United Nations General Debate to analyze the extent that their sentiment towards the US has shifted once China became a foreign aid donor in the region

Explaining Regional Patterns of Violence in Times of Political Struggle - The Case of the 2005 Parliamentary Election in Afghanistan

We use spatial analysis to visualize the geographic distribution of pre-electoral violence of the 2005 election in Afghanistan.

Book Review - Daniel McDowell, Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? The United States, the IMF, and the International Lender of Last Resort

Book Review *Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? The United States, the IMF, and the International Lender of Last Resort* (Daniel McDowell)