The ISA statement lacks not only comparative history but also local historical depth. It also distorts moral responsibility.
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Failed National Military Strategy Analogies
by Anonymous US National Security expert, as part of a new series of posts providing insights into the policy-making process Sir:Per your request at the 0500 stand-up, I have compiled the full set...
Does IR really have a “culture problem?”
Is it a mistake to push back on a senior scholar (whose work you admire) right before ISA? Maybe. Is it overkill to post twice in one week? Probably (sorry Duck superiors). But I had to say...
Citation Conversation Continued
My post on citation got far more engagement than nearly all of the things I have posted over the years, so I thought I would return to the scene of the crime/post. While many academics agreed whole...
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Silicon wafers: Why we need to move religion online
As one of the two great still-extant medieval institutions, the church confronts the digital age with a mixture of trepidation and hope. Hope, because congregations and ministers with online presence can build up new types of community and remain in contact through a variety of media; trepidation,...
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Most academics will admit to themselves and students that the majority of dissertations and books are written in a 6 month block of time (the remainder of the post focuses on a PhD process, but it can be easily applied to book writing). I'm talking here about the WRITING process- not the research,...
Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012)
If you haven't heard yet, Albert O. Hirschman passed away today. Some good discussion at Crooked Timber, including a link to a terrific piece by Rajiv Sethi. Hirschman's stature in the social sciences was of such magnitude that, while still alive, the Social Science Research Council named a...
Tuesday Morning Links
Let's make like a blacksmith and forge some linkage: A detailed examination of how China's military-industrial complex is making surprising advances. (The Diplomat) Chris Blattman reviews James C. Scott's new Two Cheers For Anarchism. With 30 pages left to go, I can say that it should have been on...
International Studies Blogging Awards Update
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Monday Morning Linkage
Morning Ducks! Here's your Monday morning round-up: South Asia: The US has informed the UN, in compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the US military detained more than 200 teens for about a year at a time on average in a military prison next to Bagram Airfield. Most...
Happy Hanukkah!
I am a very bad Jew: the kind who not only married a shiksa, but pretty much only does Hanukkah and Passover. Well, the wife's out of the country for the entire holiday this year, but Lyra and I managed to have a nice little first night before rushing off to her tumbling-and-trampoline clinic. I...
Black Pete’s Breakout Year
It's that time of year that Dutch people living outside of Dutchland are beginning to hate: the time of Zwarte Piet. To be fair, the feast of Sinterklaas, a holiday that displays none of America's advanced marketing techniques, was a couple of days ago, but that actually just means that Americans...
Saturday Linkage
Musical Politics and Political Science: I'm currently downloading the free EP by Hey Anna, a well-reviewed band involving Mike Tierney's nieces. Hume's Bastard discusses PSY's profanity-laden anti-Iraq War stylings. More from Juan Cole. Apparently this is a big deal, or something, given the mass...
Podcast No. 15 – Interview with Barry Buzan
2012 interview with Barry Buzan.
The All New, New Transatlantic Pivot – Trade
This is a guest post by Sean Kay. Professor Kay is chair of the International Studies program and professor of politics at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is also Mershon Associate at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University. He has written extensively on...
Friday Morning Linkage
Driving in Russia: And also: Justin Gengler on... well... just go read. In a move sure (not) to keep NATO defense planners up at night, China and Belarus hold a joint exercise. Long-term US unemployment as a loss of weak ties? National Geographic reports on the wave of politically-motivated...