Rob's panel was "Abolish the Air Force," scheduled for 10:15am on Sunday.
#virtualAPSA2012 – Rob Farley, “Abolish the Airforce”
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Rob's panel was "Abolish the Air Force," scheduled for 10:15am on Sunday.
I skipped APSA this year in favor of BISA/ISA. In fact, I haven't renewed my membership this year.Still, I wonder if we can't make lemons out of lemonade.How about a virtual APSA? If you are an...
Paul Pillar at The National Interest on Leslie Gelb on the Obama Doctrine (an article that CFR flogged with multiple emails, I might add). An interesting set of readings that really do merit comment...
THE CANARD "All the fake news that's fit to print."Â --New Orleans The god of tolerance struck down with fury yesterday, unleashing a mighty hurricane headed for New Orleans that forced the American...
UN members last month failed to reach agreement on the Arms Trade Treaty after a month-long conference.  This is the latest setback in a decades old attempt to control the trade in small arms. A broad network of states, NGOs, and the UN bureaucracy had pushed for the treaty and earlier measures. In their view, proliferation of guns contributes to hundreds of thousands of casualties per year in conflict zones and to large numbers of shooting deaths in countries at peace. But the international campaign to control the illicit trade in small arms has long faced skepticism from certain states,...
APThis is a guest post by Peter S. Henne. Peter is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University. He formerly worked as a national security consultant. His research focuses on terrorism and religious conflict; he has also written on the role of faith in US foreign policy. During 2012-2013 he will be a fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. With Remi Brulin's piece on Foreign Policy today, the debate over the "terrorism industry" continues and I am compelled to respond. I guess I am one of these beneficiaries of the terrorism industry. I've published in Terrorism and...
On Facebook, someone familiar to readers of this blog wrote: "As readers of Weber know, there are three forms of legitimate rape: forcible, fraternity, and rational-legal." But enough of that neo-Weberian claptrap. As a good paleo-Weberian knows, the ideal types here remain traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational. And these help us to understand the political backlash over Rep. Aiken's Aken's "unfortunate" choice of words.Aken subscribes to a traditional view of rape. Indeed, his understanding harkens back to late medieval Europe. That's pretty traditional.His opponents, on the other...
One of the questions heard around the mid-tier blogsphere "why doesn't anybody comment anymore?" Answers usually invoke 'big think' claims about the changing ecology and norms of blogging, the topics addressed at particular blogs, and so on. Here at the Duck, I tend not to worry about this kind of thing. After all, I know we have a decent number of regulars. Certain posts generate good discussions. Disqus is kind of a pain. Some months, such as August, are slow.But occasionally one of our bloggers sends me an email noting that we have posts that generate significant numbers when it comes...
It is Difficult to Produce "Morning Linkage" While Occupied by a Large Cat Mona El-Ghobashy on the emerging relationship between President Mursi and SCAF in Egypt (via Laleh Khlelili) Covering the Syrian civil war (via Marc Lynch).Joshua Foust and Ashley S. Boyle have a report (PDF) on the "strategic context" of drone warfare (via Chris Fair).Phil Arena weighs in on the great "terrorism experts" debate.Ken MacLeod takes Neal Stephanson to task: "Stephenson, in my view, has got the problem exactly backwards. There's no shortage of grand visions of technically practicable and/or boldly...
Just say no to theory.Parents: Are you worried that your college students aren't interested in the real world anymore? Are they growing distant from conversations about foreign policy at the dinner table? Are your college students getting involved with international relations theory? Could it lead to a destructive path toward an M.A.--or even a Ph.D.?If you're worried that your child could become a graduate student, you need to know the warning signs:Abstracting too much. Real foreign policy professionals resist the urge to generalize, unless they're doing so as part of a doctrine named for...
Flyer below. Posting does not indicate endorsement. But it does look cool.
There's a fascinating post making the rounds. In it, Stephen Curry discusses the history and abuse of journal impact-factor data. Curry links alternatives to the rise of open-access publications and new-media discussion of research findings. Twenty years on from Seglen’s analysis a new paper by Jerome Vanclay from Southern Cross University in Australia has reiterated the statistical ineptitude of using arithmetic means to rank journals and highlighted other problems with the impact factor calculation. Vanclay points out that it fails to take proper account of data entry errors in the titles...