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Getting Counterinsurgency Wrong
I just published a piece in Foreign Affairs, which draws on my new book, Bullets Not Ballots:...
Toni Haastrup
In this episode, Dr. Toni Haastrup of the University of Stirling joins the Hayseed Scholar...
Five Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me in Graduate School: Summing Up
We need researchers with varying life experiences, and we need you because you are who you are.
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Episode 18: Name Your Discord Server “and Collaboration”
Arnold Wolfers is one of the most important figures of “mainstream” mid-20th century internationa…
Centering George W. Bush in the Etiology of the Iraq War
The second- and third-most downloaded articles at the journal Security Studies both tackle the...
The Vision Thing: More on the New Duck
Is there still room for a traditional academic international-relations blog? An overview of relevant history and the Duck’s approach to blogging.
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Scholarship
What If Academia Had a ‘Scout Mindset’?
Academia would benefit from “the motivation to see things as they are and not as” one wishes “they were.”
Do Policy Recommendations = Policy Relevance?
Whether scholars embed policy recommendations in their work is a flawed measure of whether work is...
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Political Economy
COVID and Fed Legitimacy
This is a guest post from Walter James, a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at...
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Security
Elite-Public Gaps and Deadlock on the Iran Deal
While campaigning for the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden promised Americans that...
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States & Regions
The Breakdown of Jewish Consensus – Ethnic Violence in Israel Explained
For Jewish Israeli politicians the temptation to draw back into what is left of the old ethnic consensus will be great. But including the Palestinian citizens in politics and society is the only way to defend Israeli democracy.
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International Organization
Give Peacekeeping a Chance in Afghanistan
The best way to secure a more peaceful future for Afghanistan is through a United Nation peacekeeping operation.
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US Foreign Policy
From “Wilsonian” to “Rooseveltian” Liberalism
Daniel Deudney and John Ikenberry recently published a 'big think' article in Foreign Policy. They note that the Biden administration's approach to foreign and domestic policy – including its particular understanding of the relationship between them – is best understood as "Rooseveltian" in character. What should we make of this?
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Race
Want to Improve Equity and Inclusion in Political Science? Address White Supremacy
Last week, the American Political Science Association released a milquetoast statement on the...
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Gender
The peace, women’s suffrage and reproductive rights activist you might not know: Aletta Jacobs.
Aletta Jacobs. Raise your hand if you have never heard her name! In our neck of the tulip fields,...
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Environment & Energy
Actorless Threats
This is a guest post from Morgan D. Bazilian, Director of the Payne Institute, Colorado School of...
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Human Rights
The Right to Return…to What? Venezuelan Migrants Caught Between Conflicts
This is a guest post by Shauna N. Gillooly is a PhD Candidate at the University of California,...
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Global Health
Life in the Time of COVID: Planning for Non-Adherence
If border closures are stopgaps that are costly and potentially illegal, then countries must explore additional options for dealing with infectious diseases.
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Various and Sundry, Nerdblogging, Linkage, Metablogging
Adam Sandler and the Rise of the Rest: Theoretical Myopia and the Liberal International Order
For decades now, IR scholars have been writing about the rise of non-Western powers (chief among them China and India) through film critic-esque glasses relating to the so-called Liberal International Order (LIO).
A Gilded Age of Social Science: Big Data Governance, Neopositivist Social Science and Covid-19
This is a guest post by Dr. Adam B. Lerner, Assistant Professor of International Relations at...
Elite Experiments: Strengthening Scholarship while Bridging the Gap
This post was written by Simone Dietrich, Heidi Hardt and Haley J. Swedlund. Simone Dietrich...
From the Archives
Episode 18: Name Your Discord Server “and Collaboration”
Arnold Wolfers is one of the most important figures of “mainstream” mid-20th century internationa…
Getting Counterinsurgency Wrong
I just published a piece in Foreign Affairs, which draws on my new book, Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare. After two decades, the United States is finally leaving Afghanistan, and only 2,500 U.S. troops remain in Iraq. In both countries, the insurgencies continue. It wasn’t supposed to end this way. In both wars,...
Centering George W. Bush in the Etiology of the Iraq War
The second- and third-most downloaded articles at the journal Security Studies both tackle the causes of the Iraq War. This might reflect an imbalance of supply and demand: there aren't that many articles in leading international-relations journals that focus on the question of why the United States invaded Iraq. We can find a number of partial...
The Vision Thing: More on the New Duck
Is there still room for a traditional academic international-relations blog? An overview of relevant history and the Duck’s approach to blogging.
From “Wilsonian” to “Rooseveltian” Liberalism
Daniel Deudney and John Ikenberry recently published a ‘big think’ article in Foreign Policy. They note that the Biden administration’s approach to foreign and domestic policy – including its particular understanding of the relationship between them – is best understood as “Rooseveltian” in character. What should we make of this?
The New Duck of Minerva: Preliminary Details
The Duck of Minerva is getting a reboot. What’s changing, and why? This posts begins the process of providing answers.
Toni Haastrup
n this episode, Dr. Toni Haastrup of the University of Stirling joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Dr. Haastrup was born in Aberdeen, but moved to Nigeria when she was very young. She talks about primary and then secondary school there, the decisions she had to make early on about language training in the schools, and then...
Podcasts
Episode 18: Name Your Discord Server “and Collaboration”
Arnold Wolfers is one of the most important figures of “mainstream” mid-20th century internationa…
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Toni Haastrup
In this episode, Dr. Toni Haastrup of the University of Stirling joins the Hayseed Scholar...
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Episode 17: The Institutionalists Strike Back
PTJ and Dan assess one of the biggest battles of the Paradigm Wars.
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