I am very pleased to join the Duck on a more formal basis. I have been posting for a bit through our dear departed leader - Dan Nexon - for some time with a focus on my cyber security work. I am particularly proud of my post making fun of James Bond’s ineptitude as...
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by  David Edelstein. It is the eighth installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International...
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Chris Brown. It is the seventh installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International...
The European Journal of International Relations-Duck of Minerva symposium on "The End of International Relations Theory?" has concluded. This is an informational post that will remain at the top of...
Syria continues to dominate the news. President Obama will appear on television both tonight and tomorrow to make the case for intervention in Syria. Both Senate and House votes are leaning against authorization. Assad will appear tonight on Charlie Rose (!) to deny responsibility for last month’s chemical weapons attack.  More Syria linkage after the jump. The most important non-Syria international news story of the past ten days is the United Nations deployment in the Democratic Republic of Congo of its first peacekeeping force with an offensive combat mandate. After nearly two decades of...