About AbroadReview

AbroadReview is a living literature review on topics in foreign policy and international relations. It is also available on Beehiiv and Substack. Please send any feedback and topic suggestions to contact[at]abroadreview[dot]com.

My goal is to provide a clear perspective on world events based on theories and evidence from international relations academic research. Posts will be snappy explainers built on a foundation of research and free of hot takes. Topics will be based on reader requests and current events.

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About the Author

My name is Thomas Scherer. I have worked in government at the US Institute of Peace, academia at the University of California, San Diego, non-profits at the think tank fp21, and media at Bloomberg Economics. I am a volunteer firefighter, gamer, and husky dad. I earned a PhD in international relations from Princeton University.

About the website

No AI is used in the research or writing of these posts, just Grammarly. I have used Gemini to assist with coding in Quarto and R for creating the website and making figures. Later, I will explore AI’s capabilities in assessing research quality and importance by asking it to create posts that I have already created; I look forward to sharing the results.

This website is built on Quarto and hosted on Github. It was widely adapted from a template by Dr. Gang He. The comment system is from Cusdis.