What?? It was too good to resist...
Joss Whedon on Romney and Zombies
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What?? It was too good to resist...
The staff of the Duck of Minerva is very pleased to announce: (1) the first-ever blogging reception at the International Studies Association (ISA) annual convention; and (2) the Online Achievement...
I'm guessing we'll get more of the standard fare tonight: that the Benghazi attacks were bad; that Iran has to be deterred (will Romney bring Bibi's bomb sketch?), that Syria is...
Dan Drezner is very unhappy about the outline for tonight's foreign-policy debate. If he's got the list of sections right, I'll be pretty outraged as well. So I guess we'll just talk the drinking...
Mikheil Saakashvili's party loses in Georgian election (but wait, writes Liz Fuller, maybe not). Mark Adomanis discusses the implications, as does Simon Tisdall. Ankit Panda on Indo-Japanese relations. Dan Brumberg and Hesham Sallam have authored a new USIP paper on Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Egypt. Justin Gengler: "The Uprising is Over. But What is the Price of Bahrain's Victory?"Stuart D. Goldman argues that the Soviet-Japanese border war of 1939 determined the outcome of World War II.Kindred Winecoff on the politics of financial regulations.The Guardian obituary for Erich...
More slides from the talk after the fold.
Mark Adomanis looks at Moscow's decision to expel USAID. Taylor Fravel analyzes recent Chinese statements on the East China Sea dispute. Zachary Keck worries about the US-ROK alliance. Cyril Almeida on the drone debate in Pakistan (via 3QD).The most recent green-on-blue attack in Afghanistan dissected. David Smock at Registan trashes David Barno's advice on US Afghanistan policy. More from Gunpowder and Lead. Zenpundit riffs on Luttwak's discussion of Australian-American China policy. BLTN: Steve Walt previewed his upcoming talk at Brown -- and his Yale Journal of International...