This is a guest post by Kevin Young, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as part of the Duck of Minerva's Symposium on Structural Power and the Study of Business. This post draws on ideas developed at greater length in Young's article found here. Links to other posts in the symposium can be found here. We live in a civilization populated by an organizational form that has replicated itself...
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No Escape from Uncle Sam
This is a guest post by Patrick Emmenegger, Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy at the University of St. Gallen, as part of the Duck of Minerva's Symposium on Structural Power and the Study of Business. This post draws on ideas developed at greater length in Emmenegger's article found here. Links to other posts in the symposium can be found here. The United States of America is the most powerful country in the world but...
Structural Power and Contemporary Politics
This is a guest post by Pepper D. Culpepper, Professor of Political Science at the European University Institute, as part of the Duck of Minerva's Symposium on Structural Power and the Study of Business. This post draws on ideas developed at greater length in Culpepper's article found here. Links to other posts in the symposium can be found here. Crises shake up the real world. Sometimes, they even shake up the world of political science. The...
Programming Note: Symposium on Structural Power and the Study of Business
This week the Duck will host a symposium on a recent special issue of Business and Politics on Structural Power and the Study of Business, which was guest-edited by Pepper Culpepper and published in October. De Gruyter has generously agreed to temporarily ungate the issue to correspond with this symposium; the articles may be found here. Each day of the week will contain a post in the morning and the afternoon, written by the authors of the...
Speaking Truth to Power: A Response to Walt’s Lamentations
This is a guest post from Eric Van Rythoven and Ty Solomon. Eric Van Rythoven is a PhD candidate at Carleton University studying emotion, world politics, and securitization. His work is published in Security Dialogue and European Journal of International Relations. Ty Solomon is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Politics of Subjectivity in...
India, Air Pollution, and Climate Change
Over the winter break, I spent ten days in India, in the capital New Delhi and Mumbai. I was immediately struck by the awful air quality as I walked out of the airport in New Delhi. Delhi's air quality is as bad or worse than Beijing's, though perhaps that fact isn't as widely known. The air was visible and thick. I thought my glasses were dirty but then I realized that it was the haze which crept in to the interior halls of the hotel. I...
Interested in critical international politics?
The Gregynog Ideas Lab, a thinking space for scholars interested in studying global politics from a range of critical, postcolonial, feminist, post-structural and psychoanalytic traditions, takes place every summer at Gregynog Hall in mid-Wales (UK). This unusual summer school offers a set of seminars & workshops, an artist-in-residence, methods training and one-on-one consultations to allow graduate students and established scholars to...
Climate Change and Rethinking Success
Last week, at the invitation of colleagues in the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies and the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy I participated on a panel discussing the 21st Conference of Parties (CoP21) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the resulting Paris Agreement. My comments focused on thinking about the nature of success in international negotiations over climate change. In a...
Bringing Iran in From the Cold
Even as western sanctions are lifted in response to Iran’s dismantling crucial, large-scale elements of its nuclear facilities, critics continue to believe that Iran is preparing to cheat on the nuclear deal, is increasing its support of proxies such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, and is bent on achieving regional hegemony. But instead of taking Khamenei at his word, observers should focus on concrete actions rather than...
Duckies 2016: Vote To Select the Finalists
The Duckies have moved from Duck of Minerva to the ISA's Online Media Caucus, but the process is mostly the same. Vote for your favorite examples of outstanding Online Achievement in International Studies here.
What Role for Non-State Actors in the New Climate Governance?
This is a guest post from Jennifer Hadden, an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland's Department of Government and Politics. I had the pleasure of editing a reviews exchange on her new book, Networks in Contention. The exchange just came out in the latest issue of International Politics Reviews and features reviews from me (Josh), Thomas Hale, and Johannes Urpelainen, as well as a response from Hadden herself. Ungated access...
The Agency of Multilateral Organizations
This is a guest post from Tana Johnson, an Assistant Professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. I had the pleasure of editing a reviews exchange on her important new book, Organizational Progeny. The exchange just came out in the latest issue of International Politics Reviews and features reviews from me (Josh), Tanisha Fazal, and Alexandru Grigorescu, as well as a response from Johnson herself. Ungated access here. I’ve...