Lets see how much I can type before I need to abandon blogging for the night and feed, change and put my new child back to sleep.So, yes, I've been out of touch for a while because I'm now a dad. First child, boy, born March 12. Very cute. Sleeps all day, does not yet...
Read Patrick's post below, and then check out the 2004 Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy letter, which I've reposted after the fold.We, a nonpartisan group of foreign affairs...
A piece that I wrote with Stuart J. Kaufman of the University of Delaware has just been published in Perspectives on Politics, an American Political Science Association (APSA) journal that isn't...
Writer J.D. Salinger has not published any work since 1965 ("at least under his own name," writes someone at Wikipedia). Many theorize that the author of the classic book Catcher in the Rye just...
I missed Alex Harrowell's important February 24 post at a Fistful of Euros. The essence? First, Americans and Europeans need to protect those, such as translators, who've helped us in Iraq. Second, a basic implication of the "Pottery Barn Rule" is that the US--and the other members of the "Coalition of the Willing"--should be taking in a great many more refugees.So it’s time to talk seriously about the people who have worked for us in Iraq. The Americans are only accepting risible numbers of refugees. 50 per cent of Iraqi refugees in Europe are in Sweden. It won’t do to claim that the...
[UPDATED 3/6/07]So wrote the daily Moskovsky Komsomolets yesterday after news of the death of Ivan Safronov. The Associated Press reports:Safronov, who had served as a colonel in the Russian Space Forces before joining Kommersant in 1997, frequently angered authorities with his critical reporting and was repeatedly questioned by the Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor agency, which suspected him of divulging state secrets. No charges were ever filed because Safronov was able to prove his reports were based on open sources, Kommersant said.With prosecutors investigating the...
We've all been at the International Studies Association conference. Posting to resume soon.