I am so burned out on this issue, I’m ready to say we should just nuke the Liancourt Rocks (left) to end this whole thing. But it’s everywhere now in the regional media. Park pointedly won’t meet Abe, which the Japanese media is reading as a huge snub. She even said...
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Janice Bially Mattern. It is the 15th installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International...
It was perhaps appropriate that yesterday's tale of a young pundit's career unraveling due to falsely claimed PhD coincided with the first meeting of the Doctoral Research Seminar I am teaching....
Editor's Note: This is a post (mostly) by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson. It is the 14th installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of...
The International Studies Association Theory Section Book Award The International Studies Association Theory Section Book Award recognizes the best book or edited volume published over the past two years that contributes to the theorization of world politics. The award is open to all forms and styles of theorization. Criteria include such considerations as innovativeness, quality of argumentation, and significance for the broad discipline of international studies. Nominations should be emailed to the committee chair accompanied by a brief letter explaining why a work deserves consideration...
A little over a month ago, I wrote about the growing academic literature concerning human rights treaties and their lack of influence on human rights practices. Based on my own experiences growing up in parts of the U.S. where it’s assumed we can "[Rebuild] Our Culture One Purity Ball at a Time,” I likened human rights treaties to virginity pledges, saying that “in most circumstances, these human rights “pledges” don’t work to improve human rights practices. In some circumstances, they can actually lead to a worsening of governmental human rights practices.” There is a brand-spankin-new...
Well, the American Community Survey's "number of times married" question. I'm reprinting the following (mass) email from the Minnesota Population Center about pending changes to the ACS that will dramatically affect our ability to know how many times Americans have been divorced or married. Social science solidarity! Dear IPUMS User, I am writing to alert you that the Census Bureau is planning to drop the question on "number of times married" from the American Community Survey. For those of us who study family demography, this change would be a major loss. The times married question is not...
Many, many people have emailed or tweeted this image to me. But the best version, by far, is the one above. It has been making the rounds on Facebook and comes from "OP."
Good morning ducks! Here's your update from District 12... Kalpona Aktar just wants you to know who is making your clothes. Myra MacDonald argues that the TTP has a plan to influence the elections and the people do not. The "bewildering bloodbath" will go on and the only way to keep track is to count the dead children. These photos make the exercise of biopower seem so clean and clinical. Jean Valjean is living below the poverty line again ... for a week. Is this classified as democracy promotion in the budget? Niraja Jayal unpacks concepts of citizenship. A new translation of Manik...
The North Korea flap seems to be calming down, so here I reprint my original essay from the Diplomat a few weeks ago on the crisis, plus a follow-up ‘response to my critics’ essay from the China Policy Institute Blog of the University of Nottingham and e-IR. Together, I think they make a nice whole, although it's a little long for a blog-post. I would like to thank Harry Kazianas of the Diplomat, John Sullivan of Nottingham, and Max Nurnus of e-IR for soliciting me. “North Korea is the ‘Boy who Cried Wolf’: There will be No War” (first essay, from April 10) North Korea is a constant enigma,...
The Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College has just published my latest effort, a study of America’s strategic choices and the prospects for a grand strategy based on the two principles of Concert and Balance. The PDF is free to download. Bottom Line: the US does not have to choose between unipolar hegemony and 'coming home', as the reductionist debate often characterises it. Somewhere in that middle ground, it can retrench while retaining a forward presence. It can both accommodate rising states, while hedging against the adventurism of any would-be aggressor. This will be...
With tomorrow being May 4th, it is only good and proper that we mark the eve of that most awesome of nerd holidays with this video. I have a serious case of envy. It would be a heap of fun to do what it takes to join the 501st Legion. I would definitely choose to wear a Rebel outfit. But I don't have the dedication or the skills to do what it takes. All I can say is: May the Fourth Be With You. And it will be with all of us soon enough as Disney starts kicking out new Star Wars movies on a regular basis in just two years.