It is shocking how little attention Iran’s recent efforts to satisfy the international community’s demands on nuclear question have received in the news media and academic discourse. As I write this, there are 1182 related news stories on news.google.com related to...
To help offset the departure of two permanent contributors, we would like to welcome a few extra additions to our guest blogging pool. Burcu Ayten Bayram is Assistant Professor at University of...
The intuition behind the maxim divide et impera is clear. Â If they're busy fighting each other, they not fighting you. Â And that's obviously in your interest (assuming, that is, you are some sort of...
In addition to phasing out of the Duck of Minerva, I've also been slowing down my activities at New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy. The channel has a new host, Michael Zummo, who has taken...
Todd Sechser and Matthew Fuhrmann argue that possessing nuclear weapons confers few benefits for coercive diplomacy.
Matt Kroenig argues that states should strive for nuclear superiority as it confers strategic advantages.
Catch my prescient NCAA prediction at the beginning.
Good morning, Duckaroos! Â Here's your Monday linkage from... "Dixie": The South will rise again - according to the UN. Â No, not that South, the Global South. Â For the first time in two centuries, Brazil, India, and China's combined GDP is nearly equivalent to the combined GDP of the leading powers of North America and Europe. Â What lessons can the US learn? Himadeep Muppidi's "Reflections on Narrative Voice" in IR is a smart, "must read" article over at the Disorder of Things blog. Â He writes, "After soaking oneself in the nuance and complexity of narratives, conventional accounts of IR...
It is time again for the International Studies Association Annual Conference. With thousands of attendees, a phone book full of panels, and a slough of receptions, dinners, meetings, and opportunities, the whole thing can be a bit overwhelming as a grad student (and for everyone else too!). You've likely received advice on how to present your work in 10 seconds or less- but what about the rest of the conference? Here are a couple of key tips for surviving the four days and getting the most out of the experience. Before we get to the real essentials (food, shelter, and clothing), let's start...
My post at e-ir on how folks understand IR and its manifestations in Game of Thrones is eclipsed by this series of videos. For the conclusion with heaps of paens to teen movies:
My first post on the Iraq War asked if academic IR had any responsibility to slow the march to war. The second tried to formulate what the neoconservative theory of the war was, because many of us, in retrospect of a conflict gone so badly, desperately want to un-remember that there really was a logic to the war, that it was at least somewhat intellectually defensible, and that a lot of us believed it. We may want to retroactively exculpate ourselves by suggesting it was just W the cowboy acting ridiculous, or a neocon hijacking of the policy process, or Halliburton oil...
Check out my new post at e-IR for a consideration of how Game of Thrones tends to reflect how non-IR scholars might be thinking about IR.That's all, folks.