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So, it’s all just too late, right? Studying climate politics in a time of despair
This is a guest post from Kate Neville, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of the Environment at the University of Toronto, and Matthew Hoffmann, a Professor in...
Progressives: here’s what happens when you steal GOP talking points
Progressives and liberals were quick to praise President George H.W. Bush when he passed away. Some of this was basic human decency. Some of this was honest admiration for a masterful foreign policy...
Radical IR: approaches or implications?
Dillon Tatum had an interesting post here last week, calling for a “radical” international relations. As Tatum notes, "radicalism intervenes in the political domain with the goal of...
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Should Romney Talk More About Foreign Policy?
In these summer months while we wait for the Olympics to start and for Romney to pick his VP candidate, the foreign policy cognoscenti has started in on Mitt Romney's campaign with conflicting advice about whether or not his announced foreign policy trip this later this summer is worthwhile and...
Friday Nerd Blogging By Proxy
Charli has volunteered me to sub for Friday Nerd Blogging duty for her for the next three weeks. It turns out that sending her links to fun stuff is a bad idea. That will teach me.The most important pop cultural event of the next week is clearly the return of Breaking Bad. Too bad it does not...
Peter Piot’s Memoir on Infectious Disease
I just finished reading Peter Piot's lively memoir No Time to Lose of his time as an epidemiologist helping identify the Ebola virus in the 1970s through to his service as the first director of UNAIDS. It is an engaging read not least because Piot conveys a profound empathy for those affected by...
Extreme Dissertation Writing
Wow. If you can write a dissertation on the politics of shark attacks as an IR specialist, I think you can do pretty much anything. From the Ted website:Chris Neff is a third year PhD candidate in Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He is conducting the world's...
Fear of Relativism part three: the task of translation
[The following essay, posted here in three parts over several days, was solicited by and is cross-posted at e-ir. Read part one here. Thanks to Aaron McKeil for editorial input and html formatting assistance.] III. The Task of Translation In the preceding discussion I have assumed, albeit tacitly,...
A Failure to Communicate?
Political science, alas, has been facing much hostility as of late. Selected out by a Republican for de-funding, attacked by one of our own in a highly publicized and reputed piece, it is time that we wielded our tools to figure out what is going on. Thankfully, Huber, Dowling and Hill have done...
Missed That! Korea-Japan Treaty Debacle Edition
Japan-Korea treaty killed by Seoul at last minute about a week ago.Jennifer Lind provides a quick explanation:East Asia, where states don't even need to practice wedge politics to bring about division.....
Friday Nerd Blogging
'Game of Thrones': The Board Game -- powered by Cracked.comH/T Rob Farley.
Fear of Relativism part two: the appearance of contradiction
[The following essay, to be posted here in three parts over several days, was solicited by and is cross-posted at e-ir. Part one appeared here. Thanks to Aaron McKeil for editorial input and html formatting assistance.] II. The Appearance of ContradictionFrom this brief example we can draw a few...
Fear of Relativism part one: from a certain point of view
[The following essay, to be posted here in three parts over the next several days, was solicited by and is cross-posted at e-ir. Thanks to Aaron McKeil for editorial input and html formatting assistance.]The dominant methodological position in the field of IR—neopositivism[1]—has almost certainly...
Area Political Scientist Armed Only with Words Thwarts Robbery
THE CANARD"All the fake news that's fit to print."--South BostonPhotograph by Matt GratiasArea political scientist Joseph Nye of Harvard University emerged Sunday as a hero, thwarting an attempted robbery at a local convenience store. Suspected robber Donnie McFlanagan was pointing a sawed-off...