Everybody’s talking about nuclear war with Russia right now and it bugs me, not least because I’ve seen this nuclear frenzy before. Now, I think people have good reason to be worried about Russian nuclear use, as I wrote some five months ago. But...
As a reviewer and recipient of reviews, I've noted a recent trend among IR papers. A study uses cross-national data with regression analysis, and runs multiple models with different variables or...
Dan Nexon reflects on editing International Studies Quarterly.
I had a kind of unique path to my current tenure-track job, straddling the policy-academia divide. So I've followed current discussions on "alt-ac" careers with interest, but found something lacking...
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...
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...
Here is a second helping of mashup (spoiler of GoT season 1), so good: Too good.
Homeland is the series for national security folks. Walking Dead is the series for those belonging to the Drezner cult. Combined? Oh my.
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Naazneen Barma, one of the authors of the "Mythical Liberal Order," responded to my post of last week with a reply to my critique. With her permission, I'm posting her message here and my response. Readers, we'd love for you to weigh in with your views. Naazneen had this to say about my original...
The good people at SAGE just sent this image along. It's a mockup of one side of the reception postcards that will be handed out at ISA 2013. We will announce the winners of the awards at the reception. The reception will be from 7.30-8.30pm on 4 April in Yosemite A. Unfortunately, only...
Henry Farrell reflects on political economy, game theory, and methodology [Crooked Timber] ICYMI: Voeten links to Fukuyama on new measures of governance (ungated) [The Monkey Cage, Governance] Fukuyama seeks a measure of the actual quality of governance, regardless of regime type. For my part,...