The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) originated in provincial-level efforts that sought to simultaneously integrate interior and frontier provinces to the rest of China as well as neighboring countries during the 1990s.
This is a guest post from Matthew Hoffmann, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Should I stay or should I go now? If I go, there will be trouble And if I stay it will be...
This is a guest post from Brendan Szendro, a PhD Student in Political Science, Binghamton University and follows a previous post on the topic of autism On April 19, William H. Moore, a Political...
This is a guest post by Betcy Jose, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Colorado-Denver and Lucy McGuffey, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at...
The current issue of Foreign Policy includes an interesting study titled Inside the Ivory Tower. The story discusses the composition and nature of International Relations education in the United States. I would link to it directly but unfortunately it is behind a subscription wall so you will have...
Clinton did it too, right?Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)--H.R.4655-- SEC. 8. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize or otherwise speak to the use of United States Armed Forces (except as provided in section...
How bloody difficult is it for people to distinguish the widespread belief that Iraq had possession of biological and chemical agents from the Bush administration's arguments that Hussein's possession of, or eventual acquisition of, weapons of mass destruction posed an imminent threat to America's...
The success of a free Afghanistan is our fight. The war on terror is our fight. All of us are called to share the blessings of liberty, and to be strong and steady in freedom's defense. It will surely be said of our times that we lived with great challenges. Let it also be said of our times that...
A lot of people think that "crazy postmodernists" are the biggest threat to the integrity of social science. Certainly, in my field, it isn't hard to find disciplinary statements that exclude "postmodernism" from the acceptable range of opinion about how to conduct social-scientific inquiry. I...
In September I started series on the balance of power. Since then, I've been distracted by breaking news and other obligations. I am returning to the topic today.The first part of the series discussed, in very stylized terms, the history and core concepts of the balance of power. Since then, I've...
The latest issue of Foreign Affairs has a fascinating piece by Alex Cooley called "Base Politics." Cooley writes about the dilemmas posed by American basing policy in the context of the kinds of political regimes that play host to US military bases. Cooley echoes some of the claims I made way back...
Stuff worth looking at:Zenpundit's roundtable on "Globalization and War" kicked off today. Mark put together a good, and very diverse, group of people to contribute. I'm already annoyed by some of the pieces, which is a good sign (I hope) that the roundtable will provoke some more general...
John Whitesides, of Reuters, writes:Voters across the United States went to the polls on Tuesday in elections that could gauge the depth of President George W. Bush's political woes and affect next year's critical congressional elections....With control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress and 36...
There's an interesting discussion (see also here) of the issues raised by the existence of an "information aggregator" for the International Relations job market over on IR Rumor Mill.The experience of looking for a job in the academy - or, at least, in the field of International Relations - can...
Who, in the wild world of sports, speaks out for peace and social justice in the way that Muhammad Ali once did? After all, this is the age of Nike endorsements and globalization, not protest. Well, did you hear about the former Argentine soccer star who is speaking out against the Free Trade Area...
I've been meaning to write a new post on the question of threat inflation and intelligence failures in the run-up to the Iraq War that reacts, in part, to some questionable arguments put forth by one of my favorite center-left bloggers. However, as should be clear from my sparse posting lately, I...