I'm presenting PTJ's and my "End of IR Theory" paper at Berkeley next week. Here's a sneak peak at some of the lecture slides.Unfortunately, my LOLspeak is rusty.Â
I'm presenting PTJ's and my "End of IR Theory" paper at Berkeley next week. Here's a sneak peak at some of the lecture slides.Unfortunately, my LOLspeak is rusty.Â
Fellow Duck Brian Rathbun has a new piece in International Studies Quarterly comparing international relations scholars' paradigmatic preferences to their political preferences, based on TRIP survey...
The meme of the summer meets the graphic du jour:
Should there be a blogging (or, perhaps, "New Media")Â caucus at the International Studies Association (ISA)?Despite being in the ISA-NE hierarchy and having served in various positions for the...
This is a guest post by Jeff Colgan, an assistant professor in the School of International Service at American University.Policy responses to the resource curse are diffusing in the international community. In August, the U.S. enacted rules that could reduce corruption, promote political accountability, and maybe even reduce the probability of war. The decision was encouraged transnationally by actors from developing countries. Now the European Union and other countries are taking up the torch. All of this points to an intriguing transnational pattern of policy diffusion of which scholars...
Do a google image  search for "nerd duck public domain";Charli's image comes up pretty quickly. Not sure what that means.Colin Kahl defends the Obama Administration's Middle-East foreign-policy record on CNN.Juan Cole does something similar at his blog. Han Xudong argues that trade ties will prevent current tensions in East Asia from escalating to war (via Taylor Fravel).Emmanuel at IPEZone: "Meet China's Real Challenger, Mexico (No Kidding)." Corey Wallace assesses developments in Australia-Japan cooperation. A short note on podcasts: Minerva Cast, the podcast blog, does not carry direct...
Shorter LGM response(s) to Connor Freidersdorf: "Weber."Of course, that doesn't resolve the debate. It merely puts it on the correct footing.Â