![🧑🍼🐬: Note on “motherly dolphin” project name
Because project titles change all the time with revisions, rewriting, and peer review, we used {codename} to generate a NICKA-style internal-to-us project name that won’t change.
library(codename)
codename_message()
#> code name generated by {codename} v.0.5.0. R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14).
codename(seed = "990 rdd trust", type = "nicka")
#> [1] "motherly dolphin"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2zcfjzyocp6kapg6jc4eacok/bafkreifgk6b6uqghxu6tj4t43nqrhwdmzsnogunni2t4ydjtywcmcsumsa@jpeg)
If not for, you know, all that, PEPFAR is a feather in the cap of the Bush presidency. Bush endeavored to make U.S. foreign aid something other than the “neglected stepchild in D.C.” (a la Richard Lugar) and PEPFAR was the vehicle for it. And yet here we are.
Always awkward to have to ask out loud if I know anyone at some place, but the nature of the pandemic and cross-Atlantic move left me in the dark about a lot of my academic network.
The project in mind might be of interest to anyone with research interests in diffuse support for democracy, public opinion, and the politics of the region (more broadly). It has an IR frame, though.
Give a guy a hammer and he will search for a nail. Give a guy a comically large, no-questions-asked, just-take-it pile of military assistance dollars and he will start looking for targets to obliterate.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I should put a sign on my office door that says "no sushi, on vacation for two weeks in Spain" to see if I can get away with it.