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Understanding Israel
This is a guest post from Brent Sasley, Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He tweets at @besasley. Israel holds a prominent place in the American popular imagination. It’s...
Game of Thrones and Alliance Politics
I saw this tweet and could not help but respond: I enjoyed @mchorowitz on GoT Dragon airpower, but it’s time for @RyanGrauer to give the people what they want- an analysis of how Westerosi alliance...
Clarifying Classic Confusions for IR students
An amazing series of tweets must be re-posted here so that IR profs everywhere can use them for syllabi and for the first day of class. A grateful nation owes Herb Carmen, former naval...
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Academic Administrative Fecklessness
I wasn't going to post anything about the cyber-intimidation campaign being directed at Erik Loomis, as that seemed like a job for Big Important Liberal Blogs and not for the Duck of Minerva. But now the issue has strayed directly into our territory. In brief, Erik Loomis is a history professor at...
New Podcast @ New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy
I already mentioned that this podcast was coming, but now it is out. From my summary at New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy: When I agreed to host New Books and Science Fiction and Fantasy there were a number of authors I hoped to interview, including Michael Gordin. This might come as a...
Wednesday Morning Linkage
Michael S. Chase reports on the internal Chinese debate over Beijing's role in international affairs. A new China Security Report from Japan's National Institute of Defense Studies (via Taylor Fravel). Daniel Larison sees Chuck Hagel's potential SecDef appointment as a wakeup call to the GOP about...
Tuesday Late Afternoon Linkage
I'm now in a different time zone, although one rather less glamorous than the one I left yesterday. On the other hand, with temperatures in the mid-50s, it appears that my childhood home has decided to cease being part of the mid-South and instead become part of the tropics. One consequence of my...
Firearms-Related Research
If you haven't been over there yet, the folks at The Monkey Cage are providing a slew of stuff on gun-control, gun-violence, and cognate topics.* And, yes, this was mostly an excuse to re-post my armed bear photo from Sun Moon Lake. *I've been critical in the past of The Monkey Cage for...
F*&k Freedom.
In the wake of the Connecticut shootings and in light of the hints dropped by Obama at the vigil for the victims, it seems we should be prepared for a debate in the coming weeks and months between those who advocate greater gun control to protect innocent lives and those who make a competing moral...
Dispatch from Hong Kong: Asian Values?
This is a guest post by Jarrod Hayes. Jarrod is Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He received his PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Southern California in 2009. From 2009 to 2010, he was the ConocoPhillips Assistant Professor of...
Another Brief Podcast Note
Podcast No. 16 will be available by midweek. I left the power cable for the external hard drive on which all of my podcasting files are stored in my office.... Doh!
Monday Morning Linkage
Good morning... here's your Monday roundup... US & Europe The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that Macedonian officials handed an (innocent) German citizen over to American officials who sodomized and tortured him in the presence of Macedonian officials and on Macedonian soil....
Saturday Afternoon Linkage
Via Twitter, Elke Larsen explains that France is "The Other Pacific Power." CSIS report on the Sino-Vietnamese maritime dispute: "Trouble Outside the Gulf of Tonkin" (via Taylor Fravel). Phil Davis provides a guide for gaming google scholar. Perhaps one day the counting citations game will...
Note on Podcast No. 16
I recorded an interview with Rob Farley yesterday on academic blogging and the academic blogsphere. I had planned to put it up this evening but, like, I suspect, a lot of Americans, I've been a bit distracted for the last few hours. The upshot is that I haven't completed post-production and the...
Friday Afternoon Linkage
Friday is here. SEMESTER IS OVER. Fresh snow on the Vermont slopes. Three very good things. I'm surprising my wife with this news -- I've already lined up the kids for summer camp. More fodder on Nixon and Kissinger's support for a corrupt Shah. Kind of where we are in Syria. Not good. I guess...