The Iraq War didn’t kill liberal internationalism, just our ability to debate it
Twenty year recollections of the 2003 invasion of Iraq are popping up. Some are debating whether...
Odesa and World Heritage Politics
The Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural...
Episode 28: Are We Living in a Simulation… of Sovereignty?
PTJ and Dan discuss Cynthia Weber’s 1994 book, Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State an…
Why Blog Now? An Introduction
The blogosphere peaked somewhere in the mid-2000s, so why would anyone start blogging in 2023?
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The Iraq War didn’t kill liberal internationalism, just our ability to debate it
Twenty year...
Odesa and World Heritage Politics
The Convention...
Episode 28: Are We Living in a Simulation… of Sovereignty?
PTJ and Dan discuss Cynthia Weber’s 1994 book, Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State an…
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Debbie Lisle
Professor Debbie Lisle of Queens University, Belfast, grew up in North Vancouver, in an...
6+1 Questions about U.S. Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion
What is the name of the book and what are its coordinates? Michael A. Allen, Michael E. Flynn,...
What does Andor Believe?
According to conventional wisdom, Disney’s Andor is the best Star...
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6+1 questions about “The Politics of Pseudoscience: Power and Knowledge in Contemporary Russia.”
The Russian government has developed a symbiotic relationship with the country’s pseudoscientific community.
The transnational coalition that wasn’t: Russia, the West and Ukraine
One year ago, Russia launched an illegal war on Ukraine, committing horrific war crimes against...
Climate, Justice, and IR
Adam, Daniela and Jarrod discuss the challenge of thinking about climate justice in the...
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How should IR scholars respond to tragedy?
Like many, I woke up in shock at the massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria. The...
Get off my lawn! Are journal demands for “novelty” creating a culture of low-level academic dishonesty?
A distinctly unoriginal take on the pathologies of overvaluing academic “novelty.”
6+1 Questions about Medieval Sovereignty
What’s the title? Latham, Andrew., 2022. Medieval Sovereignty, ARC Humanities Press. It...
Is Reactionary Populism a Form of Fascism? Does it Matter?
My most recent Foreign Affairs article, co-authored with Justin Casey, landed...
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On Washington’s China Fetish
What follows is my general philosophy on China issues, by way of answering the hardest of hard...
America is the Preeminent Revisionist Power
The Biden administration’s jarring revisionism on economic policy toward China (and by...
Making Sense of “Rules-Based” Anti-Liberalism
Dozens of regimes around the world are anti-liberal—autocratic to varying degrees—but also big...
Election Observation as an Exercise in African Agency
Election observation is at a turning point. Roughly 80-85% of elections around the world are...
Is the World Cup a soft power win for Qatar? It’s too early to tell
Millions of people around the world are watching breathlessly as teams compete in the World Cup,...
Episode 27: Everything is Relational
It’s a nostalgia episode for our two hosts, Patrick and Dan. They tackle Mustafa...
Geopolitical Rivalry: Great for Princes, Bad for Paupers
If you’ve spent any amount of time in Washington, there’s a good chance you’ve internalized a...
Partnered Engagement: A New Form of Ethical Policy Engagement
What happens when a research subject becomes a research and briefing partner? In 2017, I was...
Why Land Acknowledgements?
The ISA statement lacks not only comparative history but also local historical depth. It also distorts moral responsibility.
Indoctrinate Me Softly
“Some came to kill and the others came to protect” says the main male character with a charisma of...
6+1 Questions about A research agenda for political demography
Name Of The Book… And Its Coordinates? Jennifer D. Sciubba, ed. 2021. A Research Agenda for...
Failing Upwards and Global Elitism
Matt Hancock, a Conservative MP and the UK’s Health Secretary during most of the Covid lockdowns, has failed upwards.