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Five Myths About Publishing International Relations Articles at the American Journal of Political Science
The following is a guest post by Dr. Dan Reiter. Dr. Reiter is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Political Science at Emory University. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of Crucible of...
Episode 3: Bananas, Beaches and Bases, part 1
We discuss Cynthia Enloe’s classic work of feminist international-relations theory. Note that thi…
Decentralization and Pakistan’s response to COVID-19
This is a guest post from Hina Khalid and Ashley Fox. Hina Khalid, PhD, MPP is an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Information Technology University, Lahore,...
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Monday linkage
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...
Symposium — The Mother of All isms: The paradigm is dead. Long live the paradigm!
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Stacie E. Goddard. It is the sixth 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...
Symposium — The Mother of All Isms: Curmudgeon Edition
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Andrew Bennett. It is the fifth 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 Complexities of Intervening in Syria
Well into the Syrian civil war the Assad regime has made a costly miscalculation by staging a significant chemical weapons attack. The U.S. and its allies have been wary of a full-scale military operation in Syria, but spurred by this attack they are now preparing to intervene. To succeed western...
Hypotheses Tested
The Duck has a symposium which engages the European Journal of International Relation's special issue on "The End of IR Theory." One of the pieces is the final version of the draft that John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt circulated last winter. If y'all remember, I had a few words to say about...
Win Phil’s Money
My views on the role of assumptions are no secret. Nor are they without detractors. In hopes of advancing the debate, I invite anyone who disagrees with me to enrich themselves while proving me wrong. Pick any scholarly paper you have written, published or not. If I cannot identify three...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...