In 1932, John Chamberlain lamented “the unwillingness of the liberal to continue with analysis once the process of analysis had become uncomfortable.” He was critiquing the way Wilsonian liberals drifted into World War One. Socialists...
This a guest post from Robert M. Eisinger, a political science professor at Roger Williams University. He is the author of The Evolution of Presidential Polling (Cambridge University Press). Many of...
With the news that the Trump Administration has signaled its intent to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, I reached out to a number of leading experts on global climate governance...
This is a guest post from Anjali K. Dayal (Assistant Professor, Fordham University), Madison V. Schramm (PhD Candidate, Georgetown University), Alexandra M. Stark (PhD Candidate, Georgetown...
Thanks to Dan, I read the interesting AU piece about Patrick. This is what caught my eye:“We wouldn’t have a car culture if it weren’t for superhighways,” he says. “The whole idea of being able to drive a car depends on the existence of a certain set of infrastructures. Material infrastructures,...
Back in 1976, the eminent political scientist Robert Dahl pointed out a common error in the analysis of power among social theorists: the tendency to assume that power was a unit-level attribute, something that a unit or actor possessed in isolation. This was hardly a new observation, but Dahl did...
Check it out as American University promotes our very own Patrick Jackson. For example:It was Jackson’s dedication toward students that brought him to AU. Attracted by the school’s emphasis on instruction and the opportunity to teach a course on his beloved science fiction (as it relates to world...
The Chronicle reports on a rather old problem in the electronic peer-review process: editors, authors, and reviewers forwarding Word documents without scrubbing the properties, tracked changes, and other sources of embedded data likely to reveal a writer's or reviewer's identity. Henry Farrell...
During the late 1980s and the 1990s academic international relations was dominated by the so-called "paradigm wars." Scholars argued over -- and oriented their writings towards -- the major three "isms": realism, liberalism, and constructivism.[1]The degree to which arguments about the "isms"...
The role of insults -- and the corrolary role of honor -- in world politics represents an odd topic in international-relations scholarship. Everyone knows insults and honor matter a great deal. Some scholars write about them -- or, at least, related topics like "prestige" -- but no one seems to be...
I've been catching up on the Daily Show recently. One recent episode featured Michael Mandelbaum plugging his new book, The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century. Best line of the interview? John Stewart's statement that American hegemony involves...
One of my former graduate students, Igor Danchenko, is in the news for uncovering Vladimir Putin's plagiarized dissertation. This is from the Chronicle of Higher Education, March 26: Two scholars at a research institution in Washington have accused Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, of...
Nidal al-Mughrabi of Reuters writes:Hamas called on Monday for talks with Western powers to seek a "just peace" in the Middle East but showed no sign of softening its stance on Israel as it presented its government to the Palestinian parliament.Hamas's prime minister-designate, Ismail Haniyeh,...
Georgetown overcomes my temporary defection to Ohio State University and emerges triumphant in a lopsided victory. Clearly, the basketball team did not, much to my dismay, miss my tremendous personal contribution to their efforts.Filed as: Georgetown, Hoyas, and march madness
Marc Schulman wants his regular readers to publicize one of his recent posts, in which he reflects on French philosopher André Glucksmann's recent article in Democratiya, "Separating Truth and Belief." It is an interesting read. Marc emphasizes a particular passage:Civilised discourse analyses and...
Two polls on the motion to censure Bush show very different results. Yesterday an ARG poll found Americans favor censure for the President by a 46-44% margin, i.e., a statistical tie. Today, Rasmussen found Americans oppose censure by 38-45%. Seems like a big swing for a single day, eh? Perhaps...