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Remembering Andrew Price-Smith
This is a guest post from Jeremy Youde, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Follow him on Twitter @jeremyyoude. Anyone who studies global health security has a...
We Are a Bad Guild: Tenure Letter Writing Edition
A key part of the tenure process is for outside experts to evaluate the candidate's research (hard to evaluate their teaching and service from outside). These letters can be quite handy for...
Embargo My Eggo!
Today, I learned that I am out of touch. Ok, that is old news. I got into a twitter conversation about embargoed dissertations. A friend was trying to access and then cite a dissertation that has...
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Blog Archeology: No Decision Letter, No Peer Reviewing
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. Peer reviewing: a call to arms (updated) From: 22 April 2009 I...
“Final List” of Award Nominees and Additional ISA Reception Details
This constitutes our promised post containing the "final list" of OAIS Award Nominees. This is also your last chance to let us know if we've left off an eligible nomination. We will send out a ballot soon. The current plan is to use a Borda-count process to create a list of finalists and to...
Wednesday Morning Linkage
Saudia Arabia seeks water in Ethiopia with violent consequences. Via Laleh Khalili. "Morsi and the Deep State." The case for the US continuing a hard line against Cuba. First-image explanations for US strategic failure. Walt's "Top 5 parties in World History" should include instead the celebration...
The Reading (Half)Year
I read. Really, I do. In fact, I read alot. But most of the reading I do, I've figured out, is for one of two particular purposes. First, I read to review. The International Feminist Journal of Politics gets about 100 manuscripts a year, and I read about 30 books between the Oxford Series on...
Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
Happy New Year, if you're into that whole Gregorian calendar thing. (And this photo is, inshallah, our last Gangnam Style reference.) Sorry to those of you who thinks this blog inclines too much toward America-centric linkage; there's a lot of that in today's edition. Look below for more...
Fiscal Cliffs Notes
Judging by the rumors coming out of the media, it appears that we have a deal to avert the fiscal cliff. This is troubling on a number of levels. First, the deal will be agreed to by the outgoing Congress--what we at the Duck are ashamed to call the lame-duck session--instead of the Congress just...
NYE Links
Happy New Year to all. While you’re sticking the bubbly in the fridge and mapping out 2013 resolutions, consider nominating your favorite blogs for the 2013 OAIS awards sponsored by the Duck. Tomorrow is the deadline for nominations. See Dan’s last update on current nominees for more...
2012 International Studies Blogging Awards: Final Call
The deadline for nominations and voter registration is 1 January 2013. The list of nominees has slightly expanded since my last update. You should feel free to add nominations in the comments section below. Please do check the eligibility criteria. You can register to vote by emailing us with your...
Liberalism all the way down? …. six hours on a plane with Judith Butler’s Frames of War
On a plane ride a couple of days ago, I picked up Judith Butler's Frames of War, perhaps a couple of years after I should have. Though there is a lot of the book that I disagreed with, reading it was a transformative experience. It is perhaps particularly relevant to the subject and content of...
Gang Rape and “Peaceful Death”
The world has payed attention to the gang-rape of a young woman (her name has not been made widely public) in Delhi and her struggle to survive over the last few weeks. The reports of the brutal incident on December 16th broke through the national news of India and set waves of reports through the...
Saturday Afternoon Linkage
James Scott Linville passes along Anuradha Roy's comments on the protests engulfing India and the death of the 23-year old victim whose brutal rape galvanized them (via 3QD). Reactions to the Japanese election as covered by the Rising Powers Initiative blog. You know, GWU is much better at...
National Security and Civil Liberties meet Securitization and State Formation
Corey Robin's Jacobin essay is getting a lot of attention, including from Jon Western at the Duck and Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns & Money. I don't think that it detracts from Robin's essay to note that the argument he's making is long-standing in international-relations scholarship. It...