Is this the end of the American century?
Adam Tooze
CU Global Thought
The Committee on Global Thought. 91 Claremont, Suite 513, New York, NY 10027. (212) 851-7293
Working papers feature new contributions from faculty, post-docs and other collaborators, as well as recently published journal articles from CGT faculty members.
Host country responses to non-communicable diseases amongst Syrian refugees: a review
Wafaa M. El-Sadr, Chaza Akik, Hala Ghattas, Sandra Mesmar, Miriam Rabkin, and Fouad M. Fouad
Authoritarian State Building through Political Decentralization and Local Government Law: Evidence from the Islamic Republic of Iran
Kian Tajbakhsh
Forensic mental health evaluations in the Guantánamo military commissions system: An analysis of all detainee cases from inception to 2018
Neil Krishan Aggarwal
Environmental and social dimensions of community gardens in East Harlem
Ben Orlove, Nada Petrovica, Troy Simpsona, Brian Dowd-Uribec
How to Measure Population Aging? The Answer Is Less than Obvious: A Review
Ursula M. Staudinger, Vegard F. Skirbekk, Joel E. Cohen
The DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview: Bridging Barriers Toward a Clinically Integrated Cultural Assessment in Psychiatry
Neil K. Aggarwal, Ravi DeSilva, Roberto Lewis-Fernández
Hind Swaraj: Reading Gandhi’s Critique of Modernity in Tehran
Kian Tajbakhsh
Conflicts and Crisis in the Faculties: The Humanities in an Age of Identity
Rosalind Morris
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: Gender-Role Attitudes and Late-Life Cognition
Ursula M. Staudinger, Eric Bonsang, Vegard Skirbekk
Where Modern Macroeconomics Went Wrong
Joseph E. Stiglitz
A climatic context for the out-of-Africa migration
Peter de Menocal
Africa in the World
Mamadou Diouf
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism: Some Observations from Modern Indian History
Partha Chatterjee
Debt and Money: Financial Constraints and Sovereign Finance
Patrick Bolton
Failures of Mind and Meaning
Akeel Bilgrami
Nation, Narration, and Health in Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s “Guantánamo Diary”
Neil Krishan Aggarwal
Ursprüngliche Akkumulation: The Secret of an Originary Mistranslation
Rosalind C. Morris
A Clash of Constitutionalisms: The United States in Cuba, 1898-1902
Christina Duffy Ponsa
On the “Latin American Decade”
José Antonio Ocampo, Marcos Reis, Eduardo F. Bastian
Distract or Reappraise? Age-Related Differences in Emotion-Regulation Choice
Susanne Scheibe, Gal Sheppes, and Ursula M. Staudinger
The Seventieth Anniversary of World War II’s End in Asia: Three Perspectives
Carol Gluck, Rana Mitter and Charles K. Armstrong
Is Diversity Detrimental? Ethnic Fractionalization, Public Goods Provision, and the Historical Legacies of Stateness
Andreas Wimmer
On the Subject of Spirit Mediumship in the Age of New Media
Rosalind C. Morris
European Exceptionalism and the EU’s Accession to the ECHR
N. Turkuler Isiksel
Wisdom and Psychosocial Functioning in Later Life
Paul Wink and Ursula M. Staudinger
Celebrity 2.0: The Case of Marina Abramović
Sharon Marcus
Celebrity, Past and Present
Sharon Marcus
Contra Boldizzoni: Bringing “Pseudohistory” Back In
Adam Tooze
Images of Aging: Outside and Inside Perspectives
Ursula M. Staudinger
The Rights of Man and the Rights of the Man-Made: Corporations and Human Rights
N. Turkuler Isiksel
Nation Building: A Long-Term Perspective and Global Analysis
Andreas Wimmer
The Common World: Histories of Science and Domestic Intimacy
Deborah Coen
War
Andreas Wimmer
Blocked Acculturation: Cultural Heterodoxy among Europe’s Immigrants
Andreas Wimmer and Thomas Soehl
Cream Skimming in Financial Markets
Patrick Bolton, Tano Santos and Jose Scheinkman
The World Economy and the Great War
Adam Tooze and Ted Fertik
Global Economic and Social Governance and the United Nations System
José Antonio Ocampo
A Paradigm Shift: Focus on the HIV Prevention Continuum
Margaret L. McNairy and Wafaa M. El-Sadr
Non-Democratic Constitutionalism in the European Union
N. Turkuler Isiksel
Who Is Afraid of Inflation? The Long Shadow of the 1970s
Adam Tooze
Learning and Industrial Policy: Implications for Africa
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald
The Indian Microfinance Crisis: The Role of Social Capital, the Shift to For-Profit Lending and Implications for Microfinance Theory and Practice
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Antara Haldar
Investment, Liquidity, and Financing under Uncertainty
Patrick Bolton, Neng Wang, and Jinqiang Yang
Underground Markets as Fields in Transition: Sex Work in New York City
Sudhir Venkatesh
The Good Banker
Patrick Bolton
Machine Tools and Mass Production in the Armaments Boom: Germany and the United States, 1929-44
Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia and Adam Tooze
Capital Account Regulations, Foreign Exchange Pressure, and Crisis Resilience
Bilge Erten and José Antonio Ocampo
Before Method: Analytic Tactics to Decipher the Global- An Argument and Its Responses, Part II
Saskia Sassen
Before Method: Analytic Tactics to Decipher the Global- An Argument and Its Responses, Part I
Saskia Sassen
International Lending, Sovereign Debt and Joint Liability
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Kaushik Basu
Global Legal Pluralism as Fact and Norm
N. Turkuler Isiksel
Between Text and Context: Turkey’s Tradition of Authoritarian Constitutionalism
N. Turkuler Isiksel
The Flynn Effect and Population Aging
Vegard Skirbekk , Marcin Stonawski, Eric Bonsang, and Ursula M. Staudinger
Global Macroeconomic and Financial Governance
José Antonio Ocampo
Emerging Economies and the Reform of the Global Monetary System
José Antonio Ocampo
The Great Reckoning
Mark Mazower
The Theatrical Scrapbook
Sharon Marcus
Theses on the New Öffentlichkeit
Rosalind C. Morris
Should Derivatives be Privileged in Bankruptcy?
Patrick Bolton and Martin Oehmke
Zooming in on Life Events: Is Hedonic Adaptation Sensitive to the Temporal Distance from the Event?
Ekaterina A. Uglanova and Ursula M. Staudinger
The Marginal Value of Cash and Corporate Savings
Patrick Bolton, Huntley Schaller, and Neng Wang
The Reflexive Turn: The Rise of First-Person Ethnography
Sudhir Venkatesh
Land Grabs Today: Feeding the Disassembling of National Territory
Saskia Sassen
Optimization of Women’s Health Before Conception When Pregnancy has Been Postponed
Joachim W. Dudenhausen, Amos Grunebaum, and Ursula M. Staudinger
Personality Plasticity in Later Adulthood: Contextual and Personal Resources Are Needed to Increase Openness to New Experiences
Andrea Mühlig-Versen, Catherine E. Bowen, and Ursula M. Staudinger
L-Shares: Rewarding Long-term Investors
Patrick Bolton and Frédéric Samama
Health Systems and Health Equity: The Challenge of the Decade
Miriam Rabkina, Margaret E. Krukb, and Wafaa M. El-Sadr
Crises: Principles and Policies, with an Application to the Eurozone Crisis
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Relationship Between Age and Promotion Orientation Depends on Perceived Older Worker Stereotypes
Catherine E. Bowen and Ursula M. Staudinger
Struggling over the Boundaries of Belonging: A Formal Model of Nation Building, Ethnic Closure, and Populism
Clemens Kroneberg and Andreas Wimmer
Industrial Policies, the Creation of a Learning Society, and Economic Development
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald
Novel Spatial Formats For Urban Inclusion: Megaregions and Global Cities
Saskia Sassen
Victorian Theatrics: Response
Sharon Marcus
The Movement against Politics
Partha Chatterjee
Rise, Grubenhund: On Provincializing Kuhn
Deborah Coen
Race to Reflexivity
Sudhir Venkatesh
Urban Capabilities: An Essay on Our Challenges and Differences
Saskia Sassen
Self-Evaluation Processes in Life Satisfaction: Uncovering Measurement Non-Equivalenceand Age-Related Differences
Heike Heidemeier and Ursula M. Staudinger
Understanding Persuasion and Activation in Presidential Campaigns: The Random Walk and Mean-Reversion Models
Noah Kaplan, David K. Park, and Andrew Gelman
HIV, Aging and Continuity Care: Strengthening Health Systems to Support Services for Noncommunicable Diseases in Low-Income Countries
Miriam Rabkina, Margaret E. Krukb, and Wafaa M. El-Sadr
On Europe’s Functional Constitutionalism: Towards a Constitutional Theory of Specialized International Regimes
N. Turkuler Isiksel
Financing Renewable Energy in Developing Countries: Mechanisms and Responsibilities
Stephany Griffith-Jones, José Antonio Ocampo, and Stephen Pratt
Populist Politics in Asian Networks: Positions for Rethinking the Question of Political Subjectivity
Rosalind C. Morris
Monetary Policy in a Multi-Polar World
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Why Meaning Intentions are Degenerate
Akeel Bilgrami
When the Center No Longer Holds: Cities as Frontier Zones
Saskia Sassen
Cities and the Biosphere
Saskia Sassen
Occupying is Not the Same as Demonstrating
Saskia Sassen
Expanding the Terrain for Global Capital: When Local Housing Becomes an Electronic Instrument
Saskia Sassen
The Global Street Comes to Wall Street
Saskia Sassen
Executive Compensation and Risk Taking
Patrick Bolton, Hamid Mehran, and Joel Shapiro
Secularism: Its Content and Context
Akeel Bilgrami
The Global Street: Making the Political
Saskia Sassen
A Swiss Anomaly? A Relational Account of National Boundary-Making
Andreas Wimmer
Salomé!! Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, and the Drama of Celebrity
Sharon Marcus
The State’s Oversight: From Sexual Bodies to Erotic Selves
Sharon Marcus
Subsidiary Divestiture and Acquisition in a Financial Crisis: Operational Focus, Financial Constraints, and Ownership
Yue Maggie Zhou, Xiaoyang Li, and Jan Svejnar
Psychological Wisdom Research: Commonalities and Differences in a Growing Field
Ursula M. Staudinger and Judith Gluck
A Systemic Approach to Aging in the Work Context
Catherine E. Bowen and Ursula M. Staudinger
Philosophie Africaine et Charte Africaine des Droits de l’Homme et des Peuples
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
From the Tower of Babel to the Ladder of Jacob: Claude Imbert Reading Merleau-Ponty
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Imperial Climatographies from Tyrol to Turkestan
Deborah Coen
Outside and Inside Liquidity
Patrick Bolton, Tano Santos and Jose A. Scheinkman
Reassessing the Moral Economy of Post-war Reconstruction: The Terms of the West German Settlement in 1952
Adam Tooze
Global Governance for Financial Stability and Development
Stephany Griffith-Jones and José Antonio Ocampo
Crowds and Powerlessness: Reading //kabbo and Canetti with Derrida in (South) Africa
Rosalind C. Morris
In the Name of Trauma: Notes on Testimony, Truth Telling and the Secret of Literature in South Africa
Rosalind C. Morris
The End of Elsewhere: Writing Modernity Now
Carol Gluck
Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time: Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset
Julian Wucherpfennig, Nils B. Weidmann, Luc Girardin, Lars-Erik Cederman and Andreas Wimmer
Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance
Simon Commander and Jan Svejnar
Climate and Circulation in Imperial Austria
Deborah Coen
Precis of Self-Knowledge and Resentment
Akeel Bilgrami
The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001
Andreas Wimmer and Yuval Feinstein
Maximizing Autonomy in the Shadow of Great Powers: The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Katharina Pistor and Kyle Hatton
Towards an International Green Fund
Patrick Bolton, Roger Guesnerie, and Frederic Samama
Beyond and Below Racial Homophily: ERG Models of a Friendship Network Documented on Facebook
Andreas Wimmer and Kevin Lewis
Fundamental Rights in the EU after Kadi and Al Barakaat
N. Turkuler Isiksel
The Dynamics of Optimal Risk Sharing
Patrick Bolton and Christopher Harris
Saviors & Sovereigns: The Rise and Fall of Humanitarianism
Mark Mazower
Physical and Motor Fitness are Both Related to Cognition in Old Age
Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, Ben Godde and Ursula M. Staudinger
In Praise of the Post‐racial: Negritude Beyond Negritude
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
When the City Itself Becomes a Technology of War
Saskia Sassen
The Global Inside the National
Saskia Sassen
Cities are at the Center of our Environmental Future
Saskia Sassen
International Financial Architecture: Seen Through the Lense of Economic Crisis
Stephany Griffith Jones and José Antonio Ocampo
Style, Tsotsi-style, and Tsotsitaal: The Histories, Aesthetics, and Politics of a South African Figure
Rosalind C. Morris
Accidental Histories, Post-Historical Practice? Re-reading Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance in the Actuarial Age
Rosalind C. Morris
The Wider Significance of Naturalism: A Genealogical Essay
Akeel Bilgrami
Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel?: New Data and Analysis
Lars-Erik Cederman, Andreas Wimmer, and Brian Min
Global Inter-city Networks and Commodity Chains: Any Intersections?
Saskia Sassen
Rethinking Global Economic and Social Governance
José Antonio Ocampo
At Home with the Other Victorians
Sharon Marcus
The Location and Purpose of Wars Around the World: A New Global Dataset, 1816–2001
Andreas Wimmer and Brian Min
Lessons From Harlem: Relevance to a Global Epidemic
Elaine J Abrams and Wafaa El-Sadr
Herder’s Heritage and the Boundary-Making Approach: Studying Ethnicity in Immigrant Societies
Andreas Wimmer
The Effects of Privatization and Ownership in Transition Economies
Saul Estrin, Jan Hanousek, Evzen Kocenda, and Jan Svejnar
The Global Trade Architecture and the Developing World
Martin Khor and José Antonio Ocampo
Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational Analysis of a New Global Data Set
Andreas Wimmer, Lars-Erik Cederman, and Brian Min
Impactos de la Financiera Mundial (The Impact of the World Financial Crisis on Latin America)
José Antonio Ocampo
Reforming the Global Reserve System
José Antonio Ocampo
Affective Experience in Adulthood and Old Age: The Role of Affective Arousal and Perceived Affect Regulation
Eva-Marie Kessler and Ursula M. Staudinger
A Convenient Constitution? Extraterritoriality After Boumediene
Christina Duffy Ponsa
Los Casos Insulares: Doctrina Desanexionista
Christina Duffy Ponsa and Adriel I. Cepeda Derieux
Individual, Community, and Human Rights: a Lesson from Kwasi Wiredu’s Philosophy of Personhood
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Senghor et la Revolution de 1889
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Religion and the Public Sphere in Senegal: The Evolution of a Project of Modernity
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
The Storm Lab: Meteorology in the Austrian Alps
Deborah Coen
Thinking Ahead: The Decision Problem
Patrick Bolton and Antoine Faure-Grimaud
Incompleteness and the Possibility of Making: Towards Denationalized Citizenship?
Saskia Sassen
Sovereign Wealth Funds : a Developing Country Perspective
Stephany Griffith Jones and José Antonio Ocampo
Subregional Financial Cooperation: the South American Experience
José Antonio Ocampo and Daniel Titelman
Satisficing Contracts
Patrick Bolton and Antoine Faure-Grimaud
Divestitures, Privatization and Corporate Performance in Emerging Markets
Jan Hanousek, Evzen Kocenda, and Jan Svejnar
Splitting a Predictor at the Upper Quarter or Third and the Lower Quarter or Third
David K. Park, and Andrew Gelman
Economists’ Perspectives on Leadership
Patrick Bolton, Markus K. Brunnermeier and Laura Veldkamp
Structuring and Restructuring Sovereign Debt: The Role of Seniority
Patrick Bolton and Olivier Jeanne
Two Stops in Today’s New Global Geographies: Shaping Novel Labor Supplies and Employment Regimes
Saskia Sassen
Bergson in the Colony: Intuition and Duration in the Thought of Senghor and Iqbal
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Mortgage Capital and its Particularities
Saskia Sassen
Elementary Strategies of Ethnic Boundary Making
Andreas Wimmer
Ahmed Deedat and the Form of Islamic Evangelism
Brian Larkin
Legal Innovation and the Control of Gang Behavior
Eva Rosen and Sudhir Venkatesh
The Case for a New International Reform Effort
Barry Herman, José Antonio Ocampo and Shari Spiegel
Inequality, Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America
John Coatsworth
A “Perversion” of Choice: Sex Work Offers Just Enough in Chicago’s Urban Ghetto
Eva Rosen and Sudhir Venkatesh
Tastes, Ties, and Time: A New Social Network Dataset using Facebook.com
Kevin Lewis, Jason Kaufman, Marco Gonzalez, Andreas Wimmer, and Nicholas Christakis
Restructuring of Firms in Transition: Ownership, Institutions and Openness to Trade
Jan Hanousek, Evzen Kocenda, and Jan Svejnar
Trouble with Numbers: Statistics, Politics, and History in the Construction of Weimar’s Trade Balance, 1918-1924
Adam Tooze
Democracy and Economic Transformation in India
Partha Chatterjee
Priorities and Sequencing in Privatization: Evidence from Czech Firm Panel Data
Nandini Gupta, Jhon C. Ham, and Jan Svejnar
Ethnische Grenzziehungen in der Immigrationsgesellschaft: Jenseits des Herderschen Commonsense
Andreas Wimmer
A Psychology of Wisdom: History and Recent Developments
Ursula M. Staudinger
“They say I am not an American…”: The Noncitizen National and the Law of American Empire
Christina Duffy Ponsa
Re-Assembling the Urban
Saskia Sassen
Neither Global nor National: Novel Assemblages of Territory, Authority and Rights
Saskia Sassen
Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in South Africa’s Age of Epidemic
Rosalind C. Morris
How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar, and Jan Svejnar
The Making and Unmaking of Ethnic Boundaries: A Multilevel Process Theory
Andreas Wimmer
Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, and Katherine Terrell
Time to Rethink Sovereign Bankruptcy: A New Role for the IMF?
Patrick Bolton and David A. Skeel, Jr.
Lost Decades: Postindependence Performance in Latin America and Africa
Robert Bates, John Coatsworth, and Jeffrey Williamson
Liberal Reason and the Culture of the Sommerfrische
Deborah Coen
Financial Architecture in Emerging Market Economies
Patrick Bolton and Xavier Freixas
Ancient Battles, New Prejudices, and Future Perspectives: Turkey and the EU
Seyla Benhabib and N. Turkuler Isiksel
An International Civilization? Empire, Internationalism and the Crisis of the Mid-Twentieth Century
Mark Mazower
Making War and Building Peace: The United Nations since the 1990’s
Michael W. Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis
Mind, Language, and the Limits of Inquiry
Akeel Bilgrami
The Strange Triumph of Human Rights
Mark Mazower
Reference and Naturalism
Akeel Bilgrami