Some more excerpts from G. Loews Dickinson’s writings on international affairs.
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Bringing Indigenous Experiences into International Relations
This is a guest post from Andrew A. Szarejko who is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University, where his research focuses on the origins of U.S. wars with Native...
Changing the Atmosphere in Political Science: Ten Key Political Questions about Climate Change
We're re-upping this guest post as part of our series on changing the field. #IRChange. This is the second post (the first is here). This is a guest post from several authors including: Jessica F....
Early lessons from a survey on bias in family formation in academia
The following is a guest post by Leah C. Windsor and Kerry F. Crawford. Windsor is a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute for Intelligent Systems at The University of Memphis. Crawford is...
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Thomas Oatley on Peer Reviewing
Tom responds to Peter Henne's questions. 1. Is there an objective standard for “so what?” No, there is not. Yet, this doesn't make it fully subjective. Any good paper will explain why what it reports matters, and few papers under-sell their findings. A reviewer's job is to evaluate the degree to...
Saturday Morning Linkage
French troops took on an active combat role in Mali yesterday. Mark Leon Goldberg provides a short overview. After long delays, western African troops are reported to be headed for the country as well. There are interesting resonances here with Barak Mendelsohn's Combating Jihadism. In Syria, a...
An Unexpected Error
Reader Anjali Dayal sends along this image from Foreign Policy (since corrected): Presumably Mr. Putin has not yet overturned Roe v. Wade. (On the other hand, I am reminded of this Onion classic.)
Blog Archeology: Guns Won’t Stop Genocide
Brad Delong calls this "hoisted from the archives," which is clearly a better term for what I'm doing. But, as that's taken and I'm not as smart as the great economics professor, I guess I'll just have to stick with this alternative. Guns and Genocide, version 96.12b From 11 June 2005 After...
Flexibility and Constraint in Hegemonic Orders
About a year ago I introduced an ocasional series called "Quarter-Baked Ideas." The idea was to blog about semi-formed thoughts related to international affairs. The whole notion turned about to be quarter-baked: I haven't done another one until now. Do rising powers have an intrinsic advantage in...
Coauthorship – Like Bad Marriages and Struggling Nonprofits
It’s that time of year again: the time when professors team up with their best buddies/colleagues/random-people-who-publish-in-the-same-area and endeavor to write a brilliant ISA/Midwest/APSA paper. At least, that’s what the spring semester always means for me. I like working by myself, don’t...
Get the Lead Out?
Yesterday, Dan Drezner's "one post about American gun violence" explicitly linked the post-Newtown debate about gun violence to Kevin Drum's interesting and provocative Mother Jones article on the disturbing relationship between lead (Pb) in the environment and criminal violence. "If the White...
Standard Stories for Hiring Decisions in Political Science
Update: so the very first commentator revealed how much this was the product of a bad cold. Indeed, I've completely misnamed the post. It shouldn't be "standard stories" but "contextual assumptions." The most important rhetorical commonplace, in my experience, is exactly what the commentator said:...
Starlicious
Via Ari Kohen, a visualization of the nearest 100,000 stars in Sol's neighborhood. Sometimes blogs should just share cool stuff, no? Can't leave all that stuff to other social-media platforms.
International Relations Fetish on the Rise
The Canard "All the fake news that fit to print" --Washington A new report issued Tuesday by the American Political Science Association reveals that compared to their counterparts in American politics, comparative politics and political theory, international relations scholars are twenty times...
Wednesday Afternoon Linkage
I'm home sick. With my daughter. Who is also sick. So this will be brief. Sean Kay makes the "case for Chuck Hagel" at the Huffington Post. Daniel Larison slams Jonah Goldberg and other "petty, spiteful critics of Hagel." The Onion reports that Israel "plan to use veto power" against Hagel....
2nd Annual International Feminist Journal of Politics Conference
The International Feminist Journal of Politics announces its 2nd Annual IFjP Conference, May 17-19, 2013, University of Sussex, Brighton, England: (Im)possibly Queer International Feminisms General Keynote: Lisa Duggan, American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, NYU Queer Film...