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All hail International Relations’ lack of discipline!
UPDATE: As a...
Episode 30: A Long, Strange Trek
It’s our first “actual” installment of Whiskey & IR Theory in Space! We discuss Star Trek: Th…
Bridging the Gap to Nowhere?
Maybe the problem isn’t that scholars don’t know how to speak to U.S. foreign-policy makers, but rather that U.S foreign-policy makers don’t know how to engage with scholarship?
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