Some more excerpts from G. Loews Dickinson’s writings on international affairs.
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I CAN HAS IR THEORY? 2
More slides from the talk after the fold.
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Podcast No. 10 – Interview with Vincent Pouliot
2012 interview with Vincent Pouliot.
Friday Morning Linkage
AJ Hartley: "why books are better than movies." I'm not sure that's always true -- surely some films surpass their source material, but I'm hard pressed to think of an example off the top of my head.Erik Voeten asks an incisive question: "Is the Marginal Cost of Drone Strikes Too Low?"Brad DeLong...