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Rejection Is The Name of the Game
Much discussion lately about how much rejection is in this academic game. I had a conversation yesterday with a pal who was finding it much harder, it seemed, to get work published after tenure...
What Happened at Subi Reef?
Following on my last point which tried to understand the logic of ISIS's role (if indeed it is responsible) in the bombing of a Russian charter plane int he Sinai, let's turn our attention to the...
The problem of authority
Josh’s excellent tripartite (1, 2, 3) discussion of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy record in conjunction with with the narratives of Putin’s strategic leadership accompanying Russian...
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Symposium — In Defense of Simplistic Hypothesis Testing
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by  Dan Reiter. It is the fourth installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that issue. This post responds to John J. Mearsheimer's and Stephen M. Walt's article (PDF). Their post appeared earlier today.  Other entries in the symposium--when available--may be reached via the "EJIR Special Issue Symposium" tag. Thanks to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt for writing such an important and provocative article. I agree...
Symposium — Leaving Theory Behind: Why Simplistic Hypothesis Testing is Bad for IR
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. It is the third installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that issue. This post refers to the article of the same name (PDF). A response, authored by Dan Reiter, will appear at 10am Eastern. Other entries in the symposium--when available--may be reached via the "EJIR Special Issue Symposium" tag. Theory is the lodestone in the field of International Relations (IR). Its...
Clarifying Punitive Intervention
[Editor's Note:  This is a guest post from Professor Anthony F. Lang, chair in International Political Theory and  Director of the Centre for Global Constitutionalism at the University of St. Andrews.] Since I wrote my short defence of punitive air strikes against Syria last week in a post at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs , a number of commentators have given their own, more critical, accounts of this use of military force (see, for instance lots on Duck itself, such as Charli Carpenter; Stephanie Carvin on Opinio Juris ; , and Dan Kenealy and Sean Molloy in The...
Symposium — Defining Theory Down
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Inanna Hamati-Ataya. It is the second  installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that issue. This post responds to the introduction (PDF), written by Tim Dunne, Lene Hansen and Colin Wight. Their own post is available here. Other entries in the symposium--when available--may be reached via the "EJIR Special Issue Symposium" tag. The EJIR Special Issue is not only a new opportunity to collectively reflect on the...
Friday Morning Linkage
Syria: Richard Betts cuts to the core of Obama's challenge on Syria:  "To the extent that any policy is strategically sensible, it is unlikely to be politically palatable; to the extent that a policy can be accepted as politically legitimate, it is unlikely to be of much strategic merit." I can't see how Obama is going to secure Congressional support -- here are the latest numbers. Here are some numbers on public opinion from around the world. Samantha Powers' comments yesterday at the UN. Richard Price thinks the chemical weapons taboo will hold without a strike. Memories of Kosovo:...
Symposium — The End of International Relations Theory?
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Tim Dunne, Lene Hansen and Colin Wight. It is the first installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that issue. This post refers to the issue's introduction of the same name (PDF). A response, authored by Inanna Hamati-Ataya, will appear at 10am Eastern. Other entries in the symposium--when available--may be reached via the "EJIR Special Issue Symposium" tag. In an academic discipline as wide-ranging as...
Friday Nerd Blogging: APSA Needs More Medleys
I am scheduling this for Friday, as I think that mid-APSA is the best time for some Star Wars medley mash. I could be wrong, of course.
Make Love and War? Sex and Syria …
Among the more famous anti-war slogans in the US is the 1960s' declaration of "make love, not war." I found myself thinking about that phrase when a student sent me a link to the Daily Show on Monday - where Jon Stewart made some insightful comments about sex, gender, and the presumably impending military action in Syria. And yes, I used the words "insightful comments" to describe something Jon Stewart said. Those of you who know me know how hard that was to say. But his description works for me .... and suggests that "make love not war" is actually a false dichotomy. After playing a group...