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Kwangjin Choi of the Republic of Korea joins CPD as its latest Visiting Fellow.
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Scholars from Auckland to Zhejiang shared their work at CPD's inaugural doctoral conference on PD.
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CPD is pleased to co-sponsor a pre-conference session as part of the 65th Annual International Communication Association Conference in Puerto Rico.
An increasing number of unsupported, but plausible, claims assert a widening gap between the policy and academic communities in international relations. Certainly both IR scholars and IR practitioners perceive a growing gap between the academic and policy communities. But how would we know if there were an actual gap and whether it was growing or shrinking?