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School of Diplomacy and International Relations
Center for UN and Global Governance Studies 

Research

The Center has been engaged in a pair of research projects in the past year:

US Public Opinion and UN Favorability

Center students have been analyzing data from a recently conducted survey of registered voters conducted by the Better World Campaign to understand how individuals think about the UN. Full findings from the project appear in the blogposts and reports below.

How International Organizations use Twitter

Center students have developed a statistical analysis building on a study developed by Burson-Marsteller to learn why some international organizations use Twitter differently than others. Full findings from the project appear in the blogposts and reports below.

Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals

The 16th proposed Sustainable Development Goal on governance and peace marks a watershed for the UN, as it couples domestic politics to development outcomes. We've evaluated the potential impact of SDG16, as well as tracked the development of indicators to measure progress in governance, in a series of articles and blogposts: