Just like any other medium, video games can serve pedagogical purposes.
Sid Meier’s Clash of Civilizations
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Andrew Szarejko
Andrew A. Szarejko is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wartburg College. He is the author of American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025) and the editor of Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching International Relations amid COVID-19 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). His work has also been published in journals such as PS: Political Science and Politics, Millennium, The Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and The Journal of Global Security Studies.
Andrew A. Szarejko is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wartburg College. He is the author of American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025).
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The Legend of Soft Power
Like millions of other people around the world, I have spent much of the past few weeks playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK), the nineteenth installment in Nintendo’s widely acclaimed series.
On Continuity in U.S. Military Basing Practices
There is more continuity in the history of U.S. military basing policy than is typically assumed.
Why Blog Now? An Introduction
The blogosphere peaked somewhere in the mid-2000s, so why would anyone start blogging in 2023?
What does Andor Believe?
According to conventional wisdom, Disney’s Andor is the best Star Wars narrative in years. Political scientists seem to agree. Dan Drezner speaks for many when he writes that the show's "writing is stellar," its "locations are great," and its "visuals" are "arresting." "But," he argues, "there’s a deeper, simpler reason" why Andor succeeds so well: it is "the first Star Wars property... intended for grown-ups.” Andor takes place after Revenge of the Sith and before Rogue One, when the Galactic Empire...