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Recentering the Catholic Church in European State Transformation
Did the study of state formation ever lose its religion? There’s a new wave of interest in the Catholic Church as an institutional formation.
How Quals can avoid becoming our own worst enemies
Simple steps to promote qualitative research in journals It happened again. After months of...
6+1 Questions About MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR Dictatorship
Why and how do authoritarian regimes manage their image abroad?
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Welcome New Ducks and an Invitation
The Duck has a new look and a new lineup of our core group, what we used to call “permanent...
6+1 Questions about AMERICAN DOVE
American Dove makes pragmatic case for a dovish foreign policy. The use of force is a terrible foreign-policy instrument: it’s expensive and hardly ever works.
Light Summer Reading
Ah, those days when you did not feel guilty for reading something that does not contain the term...
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Scholarship
Is bullying baked into academia?
Recently, David Edelstein and Jim Goldgeier circulated an open letter for signature to...
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
Getting Counterinsurgency Wrong
I just published a piece in Foreign Affairs, which draws on my new book, Bullets Not Ballots:...
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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
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...
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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
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.
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?
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...
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Recentering the Catholic Church in European State Transformation
Did the study of state formation ever lose its religion? There’s a new wave of interest in the Catholic Church as an institutional formation.
How Quals can avoid becoming our own worst enemies
Simple steps to promote qualitative research in journals It happened again. After months of waiting, you finally got that "Decision" email: Rejection. That's not so bad, it happens to everyone. But it's the nature of the rejection that gets to you. The reviewers (you assume fellow quals) didn't engage with your careful use of process tracing,...
6+1 Questions About MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR Dictatorship
Why and how do authoritarian regimes manage their image abroad?
Welcome New Ducks and an Invitation
The Duck has a new look and a new lineup of our core group, what we used to call "permanent contributors." We haven't yet settled on a new term. Blog Jedi Masters came to mind. In this post, I wanted to thank long-time contributors who are stepping away from the core group but who may blog intermittently and welcome some new folks to the core. I...
6+1 Questions about AMERICAN DOVE
American Dove makes pragmatic case for a dovish foreign policy. The use of force is a terrible foreign-policy instrument: it’s expensive and hardly ever works.
Light Summer Reading
Ah, those days when you did not feel guilty for reading something that does not contain the term “poststructuralism” and/or footnotes. Back in my teenage years, I used to devour all the books I could get during the summer. I had some favorites: Alexandre Duma’s The Count of Monte-Christo (1844-1846) and The Valley of the Moon (1913) by Jack...
Is it time to abandon in-person academic conferences? or “Who’s kind of meh on going to APSA?”
I get the sense that lots of scholars are viewing the return (sooner or later) of in-person conference with a good deal of ambivalence. Is it time to take all conference online?
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