Christopher Clary on his new book, which looks at why international rivalry is a hard habit to break.
6+1 Questions about The Difficult Policies of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia
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Non-Academic Career Paths: The Dirty Secret of Academia?
(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) It is a truth universally acknowledged that the academic job market is tough. Faculty openly warn political science PhD students that there are very few...
Oh Say Can You Say
You never know when IR is going to bite you in the ass. One minute you are reading a children’s nursery rhyme and the other you realize that the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry Ms....
Episode 1: Jelena Subotic
Professor Jelena Subotic talks about her new book, Yellow Star, Read Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism.
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Washington “Cancels” Fourth Stage of European Phased Adaptive Approach
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel de facto announced on Friday that the US will scrap deployment of ground-based ballistic-missile interceptors in Poland and Romania. At a Pentagon press conference today, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced that the planned deployment of the high-speed SM-3...
Cold War: Old or New?
In the aftermath of a long war, a new degree of suspicion ensues between two powerful countries that were nominally on the same side…one rattles its sabre, threatening small countries on its borders…the other shores up relations with the very same countries… a tit-for-tat arms race begins, waged...
Agriculture and Husbandry: The Slow-Motion Singularity
I often listen to the radio when following laundry, and today was no exception. Our local NPR affiliate was playing the TED Radio Hour. Remember when TED was kind of neat and exciting... before it revealed itself for what it is: a cliché-ridden academic variant of "business book summaries for...
The International Studies Blogging Reception at ISA
Blogging is light this week because almost all of the crew are at the ISA Annual Convention. But... We will be announcing the winners of the 2013 Outstanding Achievement in International Studies (OAIS) Blogging Awards at the reception. Come one, come all. If you are registered to attend ISA, that...
Saturday Linkage
I am teh sick, so this will be short. Dan Trombly on the future of power in world politics. Bhartendu Kumar Singh on Sino-Indian defense talks. Somalia's achievements and challenges. Robert Farley looks at the future (or lack thereof) for aircraft carriers. Ned Lebow does Theory Talks. Check out...
Friday Nerd Blogging: More Mashup
Here is a second helping of mashup (spoiler of GoT season 1), so good: Too good.
Friday Nerd Blogging: Triple Mashup
Homeland is the series for national security folks. Walking Dead is the series for those belonging to the Drezner cult. Combined? Oh my.
Friday Morning Linkage
It's the Ides of March. Be careful out there. Here's a random selection of this week's reads: How Fear made America. Scott Lemieux reviews Ira Katznelson's new book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. Anatol Levien questions the "endgame" in Afghanistan. Ken Roth asks what...
In Defense of Homo Economicus
In this post, I seek not to defend the actions or priorities of a non-existent misanthropic being, but to defend the practice of analyzing models that assume human behavior mirrors that of Homo Economicus. (I hope you'll forgive me for choosing a slightly misleading title in order to preserve...
Thursday Morning Linkage
Here is your Thursday morning linkage: - Breakthrough in the ongoing CITES meeting on the trade in endangered species, five shark species are listed, providing greater protection as shark finning for wedding soups in Asia threatens many species of shark with extinction - Vietnam and Mozambique are...
USNWR Political Science Rankings
I performed a similar operation to Scatterplot, e.g., estimated the results of the current poll by assuming equal weighting for both the 2013 and 2009 poll results (explanation). For the Departments that moved from ranked to unranked in the 2013 rankings I assumed a 1.9--as it looks like 2.0 might...
Midweek Linkage
Casy Hogle reports on a World Peace Foundation panel on public-advocacy campaigns, which featured the Laura Sey and Amanda Taub. Edward Hugh on the decline of Portugal. The costs of the "eating local" movement: agriculture in the "global south." Daniel Martin Varisco: "life without honor." Adam...