New evidence suggests that for legislators, dovishness or hawkishness has little to do with gender.
Past research has uncovered distinct differences in how male and female legislators vote. But do these differences apply to foreign policy and military matters as well? In new research which analyses several decades of US House and Senate votes, William Bendix and Gyung-Ho Jeong find no difference in how men and women vote on military matters. Legislators, they write, […]
Long Read: The unknown unknowns of Afghanistan’s new wave of methamphetamine production
Long Read: The unknown unknowns of Afghanistan’s new wave of methamphetamine production
Recent years have seen a massive upswing in the production of ephedra and methamphetamine from the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan. David Mansfield, the Organisation for Sustainable Development and Research and Alex Soderholm give a detailed account of how methamphetamine is produced from its precursor plant, oman, and distributed across Afghanistan and beyond into Iran and Pakistan. What we […]