╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ Peter Vartanian ║ ║ Weng, Tyrol, Austria → New York, New York, U.S. → _Peripatetic_ ║ ║ ║ ║ Looking at: ║ ║ (i) power without flattery; ║ ║ (ii) fragility without romance. ║ ║ ║ ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ 

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Currently

Divers(e) work in technē¹, statecraft, and jurisprudence.

Coercion, coordination, territorial information, and institutional form.

Working set

1. Reading
   • Pistor, The Code of Capital — ISBN 9780691178974
   • Tomz, “Domestic Audience Costs in International Relations” — DOI 10.1017/S0020818307070282
   • Chaudoin, “Promises or Policies?” — DOI 10.1017/S0020818313000386; replication doi:10.7910/DVN/RBZDQ4
   • Kertzer & Brutger, “Decomposing Audience Costs” — DOI 10.1111/ajps.12201
   • Blair, Imai, Lyall, “Comparing and Combining List and Endorsement Experiments” — DOI 10.1111/ajps.12086
   • Hyde, “Catch Us If You Can” — DOI 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00508.x
   • Nomikos, “Peacekeeping and the Enforcement of Intergroup Cooperation” — DOI 10.1086/715246; replication doi:10.7910/DVN/ZEDEAD
   • Musgrave & Ward, “The Tripwire Effect” — DOI 10.1093/fpa/orad017
   • Hafner-Burton, Haggard, Lake, Victor, “The Behavioral Revolution and International Relations” — DOI 10.1017/S0020818316000400
   • Hafner-Burton, LeVeck, Victor, Fowler, “Decision Maker Preferences for International Legal Cooperation” — DOI 10.1017/S002081831400023X
   • LeVeck, Hughes, Fowler, Hafner-Burton, Victor, “The Role of Self-Interest in Elite Bargaining” — DOI 10.1073/pnas.1409885111
   • Bassan-Nygate & Weiss, “The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States” — DOI 10.1017/S0003055424001199
   • Berejikian & Justwan, “Defense treaties increase domestic support for military action and casualty tolerance” — DOI 10.1080/13523260.2021.2023290
2. Listening
   • Arvo Pärt — Tabula Rasa (ECM New Series: ECM 1275)
   • Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5 (Deutsche Grammophon: 4539882)
   • Alfred Schnittke — Concerto Grosso No. 1 (Boosey & Hawkes work id 5162)
3. Objects and ephemera
   Open _{(updated ad libitum)}

   1. Watch
      • Timex Weekender 38mm (fabric strap)
   2. Scent
      • Lalique — Encre Noire (50 ml)
   3. Instrument
      • rOtring 600 mechanical pencil (0.5 mm, black)
4. Methods
   • Survey and conjoint experiments
   • Causal inference under strategic interaction
   • Event-data construction and fusion
   • Geospatial entity resolution
   • Archival coding, document forensics, and replication discipline
   • Preregistration and disclosure infrastructure:
     • OSF Registries — osf.io/registries
     • EGAP Registry — egap.org/registration
     • Harvard Dataverse (persistentId / DOI namespace) — dataverse.harvard.edu
5. Places
   • Conflict events
     • UCDP GED (Global v25.1) — ucdp.uu.se/downloads
     • UCDP GED article — DOI 10.1177/0022343313484347
     • ICEWS Coded Event Data — doi:10.7910/DVN/28075
     • GDELT 2.1 Events — data.gdeltproject.org/events
   • Gazetteers and names
     • GeoNames dump — download.geonames.org/export
   • Basemaps and earth
     • OpenStreetMap planet file — planet.osm.org
     • Natural Earth (v5) — naturalearthdata.com

_{¹ By technē I mean both craft, technique, and practical making in the older sense, and, in the broader Technik sense, the standards, skills, processes, and infrastructures surrounding technology itself: AI, networked systems, sensors, and IoT among them.}

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If fragmentary → question alive
If complete → becoming idol

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_{Files, cables, contracts, rumors, maps, datasets, half-remembered conversations on trains, etc.}