Some random findings for the day.... Putin's idea of transparency. Look for more private security firms profiting in the post-Benghazi world... Also, the IDF's use of Twitter during its recent operation in Gaza was just the beginning. The Naval Postgraduate School is...
Dan's sick, so he's asked me to put together three to five links ... of doom! Unfortunately, I've been writing a lot recently and so I've missed out on great posts. So here's what I found in a burst...
As it turns out, there are a group of scholars working to bridge this divide. Check out the Bridging the Gap Project. The project has programs for new and not-so-new scholars in the US and abroad. ...
Today is World AIDS Day, an annual opportunity to take stock of the state of the epidemic. Despite a decade of incredible mobilization of finance for and visibility of the AIDS pandemic, UNAIDS...
Dan Nexon is not responsible fortoday's links.Dan is traveling today, so it's the Duck of Minerva's version of Assistant Editor's Month (or, perhaps, assistant to the editor's month):Dani Rodrik becomes the Clippy of forensic investigators, as he relates how the Turkish government may have faked evidence against 300 officers on coup-plotting charges: "It looks like you're trying to frame someone for treason. Would you like help with that?" (Dani Rodrik's Weblog)Jay Ulfelder shows off a political science version of the Netflix Prize, in which a bunch of quantoids tried to systematically...
The German Justice Ministry has outlined a new draft law regulating the circumcision of children in that country, on the heels of a Cologne court’s decision that circumcision of non-consenting minors constituted a human rights violation.The decision, after a four-year-old Muslim boy experienced uncontrollable bleeding following his ritual circumcision, sparked a firestorm, with some child rights activists hailing the decisionand while Muslim and Jewish communities within Germany and abroad argued that the ruling constituted a violation of religious rights. The new law must pass by at least a...
UPDATE: the author of the Chronicle article, Peter Schmidt, discussed the issue on the Kojo Namdi show yesterday.The SEIU wants to unionize adjunct professors at Georgetown University. As their card makes clear, this is part of a broader effort to unionize contingent labor at colleges and universities. George Washington's adjuncts unionized in 2006, and won a significant pay raise this August. American University's and Montgomery County's adjuncts are also unionized.From today's Chronicle of Higher Education article: SEIU Local 500 began a campaign to organize an adjunct union at Georgetown...
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...
There's much to like about what George R.R. Martin does in his juggernaut of a fantasy franchise: his juggling of a ginormous cast of compelling characters, his willingness to kill and maim those characters in horrible ways, and his relentless critique of the way that high fantasy handles class and gender.I appreciate that there's something barking mad about demanding 'realism' in fricking high fantasy, but medieval Europe was not populated by well-fed and endearing freeholders, chivalrous knights, and free-thinking warrior-maidens. And let's not even get started on whether the political...
Apologies about the lack of morning linkage today. Things were hectic and I simply forgot. Because it's Doctor Who season....