Dozens of regimes around the world are anti-liberal—autocratic to varying degrees—but also big fans of a "rules-based" international order, which for the past 50 years or so has been a neoliberal economic order. Not a coincidence. The reason an...
Public Domain — From Pixabay For caveats and background, see my introductory post. Editors write a lot of decision letters. At high-volume journals, editors write so many decision letters that it...
This is a guest post from James Guild who is a PhD candidate in political economy at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. His research interest is economic growth and...
The following is a guest post by Dr. Daniel Nicholls. Daniel Nicholls is an adjunct professor of IR at ESADE and the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His research looks at the interplay between...
That Europe is caught up in a major financial crisis isn't news to anyone. Standing right at the crossroads, the Eurozone will either muddle through and risk another crisis onset in the near term or having scraped through its worst crisis in decades take strong steps on the necessary...
The Mali campaign continues. As does the Syrian civil war. And the UN is seeking an expanded mandate in the Congo. Anonymous hacks the United States Sentencing Commission's website in retaliation for aggressive prosecution of Swartz. Jennifer Lind argues that Japanese politicians must confront...
Here are part one and part two of this post. I spoke last Tuesday at a USC-CSIS conference on Korean unification. I learned a lot, and it was very good. If you’re interested in unification, start here with the primary report on which the conference was based. The principal investigators said a...
The nineteenth Duck of Minerva podcast features Daniel Drezner of Tufts University.
Thomas Ricks continues his rant on the dismissal of CENTCOM Commander General James Mattis. Ricks' earlier takes here. Some Teaparty folks think Mattis' dismissal is part of Obama's longer-term intent to kill Americans. Maybe, but at least we know the moon landing wasn't faked. But, really, while...
Over. Finished. Kaput. We will not send out any more award ballots. The last day to submit your ballot is 31 January. That should clarify things.
Yesterday I noted that, with the deadline for casting them fast approaching, we are no longer likely to honor requests for ballots. Since then I've received a deluge of requests for ballots. Not a single one has acknowledged that the deadline has passed -- not even a simple "I know you said,...
What you need to know about the recent policy change and the reactions. Where to start: the excellent NYT and Washington Post articles on the removal of the exclusion. Here's a great breakdown on storify of the "some things to know" about the exclusion and the changes. Rachel Maddow weighs in on...
Today it was announced that the combat ban for women will be fully removed within the US military. This reverses a long-standing policy that restricts women from serving below the brigade level in positions specified as front-line, ground combat. Given that the policy had been recently reviewed,...
The film "Zero Dark Thirty" has touched quite a cord in this country, such as with Peter Henne's post below that responds to my own post further below. To his credit, he opens up another strand of the wider debate this film has touched off. My own reflection delves into the torture controversy...
This is a guest post by Peter S. Henne. Peter is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University. He formerly worked as a national security consultant. His research focuses on terrorism and religious conflict; he has also written on the role of faith in US foreign policy. During 2012-2013 he is a...
We're a bit over a week away from selecting the finalists for the awards. As of today we are no longer likely to honor new ballot requests. Those of you have already received a ballot should cast it. I have an interview up with Ramez Naam about his well-received technothriller, Nexus. If that's...