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Episode 25: The New Hierarchy Studies
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The biggest losers from the Suleimani strike may be America’s Gulf allies
Depending on your Twitter addiction, you either went to sleep or woke up with the news that America had assassinated Qassim Suleimani, the commander of Iran's Quds force. Suleimani was one of the...
The Russian Enigma
On an ice-cold winter evening I arrived in Moscow to untangle the riddle that is Russia. After reading two op-eds by Anne Applebaum and Bill Browder I knew what this country was about but I just...
Russians Love Their Children Too
Sting said it best What kind of questions do you usually expect from a Town Hall meeting in the US? Healthcare? Climate change? Pensions? Schools? Roads? You would be surprised, but these are also...
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Why the Dakotas?
Slate's new history vault published a gem from the Cold War last week. This map from January 1955 shows the areas in the United States that Soviet citizens could not travel. This map shows where Soviet citizens, who were required to have a detailed itinerary approved before obtaining a visa, could...
In Honor of Jay Carney
I can't be the only one disturbed by the triumph of (aging) hipsters and nerds that is the Obama Administration.
Friday Morning Linkage
More of the same with the Syrian opposition. Will H. Moore really takes issue with Jonathan Panikoff on how to think about what comes next in Syria. Visualizing the Syrian conflict with the new GDELT event data set. GDELT is about to go live (in the next couple of days or week) with daily...
Call for Papers: 2013 International Studies Association-Northeast Annual Conference
When: 8-9 November 2013 Where: at the Providence Biltmore, Providence, RI, USA Submissions accepted 5 - 28 June 2013 The annual conference of the International Studies Association-Northeast (ISA-NE) will be held 8-9 November 2013 at the Providence Biltmore in Providence, Rhode Island. ISA-NE...
Do US Alliances Re-Assure in Asia, or Create Moral Hazard?
The conventional wisdom on the US presence in Asia is that we re-assure all players. Specifically, US allies don’t need to arms race local opponents, because the US has extended deterrence to cover them. Hence Japan and South Korea don’t need to go nuclear, for example. Among academics, this logic...
Thursday Morning Linkage
Here is your Thursday Morning Linkage. I'm going to start off with my usual conservation theme before turning to some other topics like a kerfuffle over mapping racial tolerance and the World Health Assembly (going on this week). Amphibians are in trouble all across the U.S. and world (disease,...
Wednesday Addams Linkage
It's so disorienting to be posting on a Wednesday! I'd like to begin with a bleg: I'm in the market for a platform that allows for easy screencasting. In other words, if you wanted to have 6 to 10 users simultaneously viewing a series of slides, but you thought that Google Hangout was just a...
Mapping IR Theory
Thanks to the patience of the former EJIR editorial team, PTJ and I will have an article in the forthcoming special issue on the "End of IR Theory?" Only the first 35-40% resembles the working paper (PDF) we posted at the Duck. Even the name has changed. We still argue in favor of thinking about...
Friday Nerd Blogging: Early but On Time
I am posting this now for two reasons: 1) I am going to be at a conference for the next few days and the hotel apparently lacks wifi! 2) it is the anniversary of Youtube, which has made much of Friday Nerd Blogging possible. So here is a tribute to the Youtube anniversary:
Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
Greetings all. PM and I are switching linkage duty. Omar Ali looks at the 2013 Pakistani election at 3QD. Tom Nichols argues against US ambiguity on Iran and North Korea. Via Alana Tiemessen: international justice infographics from the Leitner Center (pdf). North Korean piracy and maritime...
The State of Political Science
It may, however, be appropriate to point out that the persisting bipolar conflict in the field between humanists and behavioralists conceals a lively polemic within both camps and perhaps particularly among the so-called behavioralists. Among the modernists neologisms burst like roman candles...
Monday Morning Linkage
Good mornin'. Here's your linkage... Paolo Sorbello critiques the elegantly fixed steps and rhythms of the last Waltz. Roger Mac Ginty at Plato's Cave discusses the construction of "greatness" in IR and the cult of followership. Thomas Meaney tries to explain why a passionate history of global...