Michael S. Chase reports on the internal Chinese debate over Beijing's role in international affairs. A new China Security Report from Japan's National Institute of Defense Studies (via Taylor Fravel). Daniel Larison sees Chuck Hagel's potential SecDef appointment as...
A strong correlation between cooperation and membership in international institutions is not enough to establish that international institutions cause cooperation. If we're to claim that...
My Facebook feed filled up this weekend with salutes to veterans. My friends were mostly Americans, and so most of these (indeed, I'd bet all of them) were tributes to U.S. soldiers. For Americans,...
Good morning, Happy Veteran's Day. In this 100% Petraeus-free edition of morning linkage, we note: Paul Atwood, author of War and Empire: The American Way of Life, meditates critically on the...
Luke Perez's #virtualAPSA2012 page now has more presentations. Check it out.In a backlash of sorts, people are having fun taking about #oldtimeAPSA on twitter. The China declinisms debate: Minxin Pei writes that the US needs to adjust to a declining PRC, while Daniel Larsen argues that Washington would run roughshod over Beijing in such a scenario.Chinese reporter "embarrasses" Victoria Nuland over the legal status of disputed islands in the East China Sea (via Taylor Fravel). Andrew Exum writes his final piece at Abu Muqawama before taking up his International Affairs Fellowship -- a very...
A partial panel, via Luke M. Perez, who has set up a page for the #virtualAPSA2012 project.
My North Korean VisaIn August, I visited North Korea for the first time. It was the most unique travelling experience I’ve ever had. I’d certainly recommend it to political scientists and Asia experts, but it wasn’t anything close to a ‘vacation’ or break or anything like that. (Yes, some of the sites marketing tours of NK actually call it that.)At a bookstore devoted to the works of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, I stumbled across an essay, from the latter if I remember correctly, about social scientists’ commitment to the revolution and juche. It included the title line – that we must avoid...
Here is a word cloud of the speech's foreign-policy content:In this case, the cloud adds virtually nothing to our understanding, as the entire section is only 202 words long.Below is the section itself. It appears that the speechwriters pulled random posts off of PJ Media, stuck them in a blender, and were satisfied with the results. I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators. Every American was relieved the day President Obama gave...
Bruce Jenltleson and Charlie Kupchan critique Romney foreign policy. Bill French piles on.James Lindsay complains about the lack of foreign-policy content in Romney's speech. "Wave" of cyberattacks hit energy companies. Lionel Beehner: "the realist case" for intervening in Syria. Hayes Brown on the UN arms-trade treaty.The history of the @, via 3QD.An evenhanded assessment of my disagreement with Fioretos [ed. for typo] over historical institutionalism.#virtualAPSA2012 expands to live events. Note that there are a variety of ways to do this. Contact me if you want suggestions, help, or to...
Rob's panel was "Abolish the Air Force," scheduled for 10:15am on Sunday.
Dear Leader Kim Jong Un addresses the ruling partyI didn't watch the Republican Convention last night, because I'm not getting paid to do so. I understand that conservatives think it was a hit and liberals a travesty, although the Romney-Ryan campaign's invocation of AC/DC to prove their cool guy credentials strongly suggests the latter.So it wasn't until I read Kevin Drum's blog post this morning that I saw this section of Congressman Ryan's speech:College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they...
It's a beautiful day in Washington; not so beautiful in New Orleans. Some of this text comes from PM.At political science's other prominent animal-themed blog, Erik Voeten wonders how stupid diffuses.Kate Almquist wonders if the DoD is doing the right thing by sponsoring development in Africa.Via Marc L., an update on Hamas and the Arab Uprisings.David Brooks's infamous Romney column.Americans to Cloud Computing: Y U NO IN THE CLOUD?Jonathan Ladd answers a question I frequently ask myself: Who watches political conventions, anyway?Cambridge UP announces a new journal from the European...