Patricia Owens
Professor Patricia Owens joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast.Professor Owens grew up in London, with...
Textbook Reactionary Populism
I recently posted a piece at Lawyers, Guns and Money about Jonathan Swan’s two-part...
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...
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Episode 25: The New Hierarchy Studies
Scholars of international relations don’t agree on much, but they at least agree that anarchy (th…
Patricia Owens
Professor Patricia Owens joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast.Professor Owens grew up in London, with...
Textbook Reactionary Populism
I recently posted a piece at Lawyers, Guns and Money about Jonathan Swan’s two-part...
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Talking Great-Power Competition in the Heart of Empires Past
It turns out that it’s hard to write a roundup of happenings at the Duck of Minerva when there...
Episode 24: International Relations in China
What is the topography of international-relations theory in the People’s Republic of China? What …
Carla Martinez Machain
Professor Carla Martinez Machain joins the Hayseed Scholar Podcast. Professor Machain talks about...
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Was anarchy always what states made of it?
Like a lot of academics, I love Google n-grams, but not as much as the digitized archive Google...
6+1 Questions about From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics
What’s the Title? Lerner, Adam B., 2022. From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma...
Book Nook: Region-Building in West Africa
Our next Bridging the Gap Book Nook features Emmanuel Balogun, an assistant professor of political...
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Strategies of Unusual Size
I wrapped the 2022 edition of my undergraduate “Grand Strategy” seminar this past Tuesday. This...
Best Practices in Quantitative Conflict Studies
When it comes to quantitative data in conflict studies, standards for collection, reliability, ethics, and usage remain behind the curve. We discuss five things that scholars can do to address these gaps.
6+1 Questions about States and Nature
Name Of The Book… And Its Coordinates? Joshua W. Busby. 2022. States and Nature: The Effects of...
Book Nook: A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics
Our next Bridging the Gap Book Nook features Tom Long of the University of Warwick. He discusses...
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Introducing Bridging the Gap’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellow: Fabiana Perera
Bridging the Gap team is thrilled to announce the addition of a new member of our leadership team:...
How international organizations can resist political shocks
As long as international organizations have existed their relationships with their member states...
The Real Conservative Foreign Policy Debate
There’s a battle going down inside the Republican party for what conservative foreign policy ought...
Patriots Eat Nuclear War for Breakfast
I am not supposed to be worried about nuclear war with Russia. With North Korea maybe. I am told...
Zeitenwende: Scholz Turns Back Time to Make Room for Action on Ukraine
On February 24, just hours after Russia launched its assault on Ukraine, German Foreign Minister...
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...
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We Urgently Need to Support Girls’ Education in Afghanistan
Since the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan in August 2021, there have been growing calls by...
Why Land Acknowledgements?
The ISA statement lacks not only comparative history but also local historical depth. It also distorts moral responsibility.
Sunflower seeds and Molotov cocktails
Exercising feminist curiosity: how Ukraine women are involved in the conflict and how Putin’s nationalist fever dream is a patriarchal one.
Conscious States in a World of Make Believe
I wrote the first draft of “What’s it Like to Be a State?” sometime in late 2017, during an unusual time in both my personal life and my research career. I was about halfway through my PhD at the University of Cambridge and was feeling both immensely homesick and quite bored—trapped in a small town that felt ripped from the Victorian era. I filled my free time watching large numbers of pre-recorded NBA games and, also, for some reason, reading philosophy of mind….
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.
Duck of Minerva Roundup*
What’s been quacking at the blog? The Duck of Minerva opened for business in 2005, so...
Duncan Bell
Professor Duncan Bell joins The Hayseed Scholar podcast. Duncan grew up in the Midlands in a rural...
Was NATO expansion a mistake?
Foreign Affairs ran a poll on the question. A few of us expressed skepticism about the debate itself.