Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts?
The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to...
After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity
Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the...
Why have so many Muslim communities embraced radicalism?
Over two decades have passed since the horrifying 9/11 attacks. Do we have a consensus...
What’s the Matter with Soft Power?
I dislike the term “soft power.” We owe the term to the late, great Joseph Nye. He popularized it...
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Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts?
The foreign policy...
After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity
Kenneth Waltz...
Why have so many Muslim communities embraced radicalism?
Over two decades...
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My Best Classroom Reads of the Year
Amid the annual deluge of end-of-year lists, I started to think about what readings generated the...
The Classroom and the Magic Circle
I wrote a chapter for a newly published edited volume, Teaching Political Science and...
Jason Ralph
Professor Jason Ralph joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Brent has known Jason’s work for...
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Trump’s Tariffs and the Profits (and Deficits) of Personality
Dominant theories of international political economy leave little room for the influence of individuals. They also never anticipated that the United States might seek to completely upend the global economic order.
Resisting a narrative on Israel and antisemitism
I’ve had four potential posts on Israel, anti-Israel actions and antisemitism this week. As...
Joseph Nye’s other big idea
Renowned international relations scholar and practitioner Joseph S. Nye passed away last week....
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Big Man, Big Heart
This a crosspost from Saideman’s Semi-Spew. This week, we found out that Brandon...
Bloody Carnival
A lot of ink has been spilled and bytes spent on the reflections over Trump’s failed...
6+1 Questions about Waging War with Gold: National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages
Charles A. Dainoff, Robert M. Farley, and Geoffrey F. Williams answer questions about their new book
6+1 Questions about “Race, Shaming, and International Human Rights”
Can human-rights organizations avoid accusations of racism when they criticize certain governments? Can they avoid fueling racism? Zoltán I. Búzás and Lotem Bassan-Nygate test the effectiveness of tactics to counter racism when trying to shame perpetrators.