Daryl Morini, an IR PhD candidate at the University of Queensland whom I know, has put together an interesting global survey for undergraduate and graduate students of international relations. It looks pretty thorough and might make a pretty interesting student...
In between making organic cupcakes for my daughters’ school, completing a grant application, tending my organic vegetables, and finishing an R&R for a journal, I came across this little gem of a...
Via a Facebook friend, an analysis of the sound and fury surrounding MOOCs by Aaron Bady: Where this urgency comes from, however, might be less important than what it does to our sense of...
The International Ethics section of the International Studies Association announces its annual book award competition for 2014. The award is given every year at the International Ethics section...
Oh Noes!!! Image credit: Tyrone Siu/Reuters Tracking vaccine scares in Africa. Edward Hugh on Abenomics. Paul Krugman's New York Review of Books essay on austerity features Mark Blyth's Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (via). Some additional reflections on Kenneth Waltz and his ideas from Rajesh Rajagopalan, Robert Farley, and Michael Desch. Mark Kersten slams the ICC's website. Kelly Strøm: "How Syria Ruined Marc Lynch's Spring." Tom Pepinsky considers the possibility of an "authoritarian data advantage." Jay Ulfelder does TEDx. Footnoting Florida Polytechnic University's...
One of the traditional responsibilities of sane conservative parties is to write-out of respectability and legitimacy the scary, nut-job right-wing fringe. There can’t be a ‘no-enemies-on-the-right’ strategy, or you wind up with anti-Semites, racists, and black-helicopter guys grabbing all the media attention and delegitimizing wider conservative goals. In the US, Bill Buckley explicitly intended the National Review to screen out the John Birch Society and the American Mercury. In Germany, the CDU/CSU keeps the nationalist/neo-Nazi fringe at bay. (I worked for both GOP and CSU legislators in...