This video from Africa for Norway provides a humorous way to think about foreign aid: I suppose there is a good chance readers have already seen the video -- more than 1.5 million people have viewed it on youtube.
This video from Africa for Norway provides a humorous way to think about foreign aid: I suppose there is a good chance readers have already seen the video -- more than 1.5 million people have viewed it on youtube.
The fourteenth Duck of Minerva podcast features Michael J. Tierney.
Jeffrey Lewis analyzes evidence that Burma seeks nuclear weapons. Juan Cole discusses shifting positions on the status of Palestine at the UN. And some good pre-vote analysis from Erik Voeten. ...
I'm not sure the Obama administration could have handled this any worse. Â We live in a highly politicized world and somehow the Obama administration is "shocked, shocked" that this issue is being...
A few months ago, I was commissioned by the International Relations and Security Network of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology to provide a brief write-up on how Asia’s rise will impact the formal discipline of international relations (IR) within political science. I didn’t get a chance to put it up earlier, and inevitably, the brief means sweeping judgments in just a few pages, but I think it’s a reasonable effort. Here is the version on their website; below it is reprinted: “It is widely understood that international relations (IR) relies on modern (post-Columbus) and North Atlantic...