We have a pretty good literature on how presidents use and manipulate their information and propaganda advantages to move public opinion toward their positions on the use of force. Both bottom –up, rational public arguments and top-down elite cueing models look at the institutional advantages of the presidency such as the bully pulpit, privileged access to information transmitted though classified intelligence and diplomatic channels,...
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Symposium — Maps are Theories, Cartographic Errors Make Flawed Debates
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Janice Bially Mattern. It is the 15th installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that issue. This post refers to Patrick Thaddeus Jackson's and Daniel Nexon's article (PDF). Their post appeared earlier today. Other entries in the symposium--when available--may be...
PhD or Not a PhD
It was perhaps appropriate that yesterday's tale of a young pundit's career unraveling due to falsely claimed PhD coincided with the first meeting of the Doctoral Research Seminar I am teaching. Elizabeth O'Bagy had given the impression that she had finished her dissertation, but apparently not so much. After tweeting about it, I got some push back--how big of a sin is this? Do academics have a role in gate-keeping/outing those who lie about...
Symposium — The Most Important Emerging Theoretical Clusters in IR? Not What You Think
Editor's Note: This is a post (mostly) by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson. It is the 14th installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that issue. This post refers to PTJ's and Daniel Nexon's article (PDF). A response, authored by Janice Bially Mattern, will appear at 10am Eastern. Other entries in the...
Syrius Morning Linkage
If you are like me, you have been transfixed by the unfolding story on Syria, the diplomatic gambit that has forestalled an imminent military strike. Alongside this important news has been the more picayune question of a Syria intervention advocate falsely claiming her academic credentials from my alma mater. Lost in the midst of all this Syria drama is the fact that the United States Men's National Team qualified for the World Cup. In my one...
So, you want a job in policy?
I haven't worked a "real job" since being an undergrad. However, I often get asked by undergrads for advice about preparations for real world policy jobs. I recently asked my former PhD student, Kate Kidder, a research associate at the Center for a New American Security, to provide some advice for an undergrad wanting to get into the policy world. Kate's response was awesome. So awesome, in fact, that I asked her to share it with the Duck...
Symposium — Reflections on Reflexivity and Theorizing in IR
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Cameron Thies. It is the 13th installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that issue. This post responds to Stefano Guzzini's article (PDF). Guzzini's post appeared earlier today. Other entries in the symposium--when available--may be reached via the "EJIR Special...
Symposium — The Ends of IR Theory: Stages of Reflexivity and Modes of Theorizing
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Stefano Guzzini. It is the 12th installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that issue. This post refers to Guzzini's article (PDF). A response, authored by Cameron Thies, will appear at 10am Eastern. Other entries in the symposium--when available--may be reached via...
How Much Would the World Pay for Biodiversity? Nothing, Really
Just a week ago, NPR's Planet Money reported: "The government of Ecuador has abandoned a plan that would have kept part of the Amazonian rainforest off limits to oil drilling. The initiative was an unusual one: Ecuador was promising to keep the oil in the ground, but it wanted to be paid for doing so." The deal was offered to the world by President Rafael Correa in 2007. Ecuador would leave oil under the Yasuni National Park, a biodiversity...
Symposium — A Response to Charlotte Epstein: Are ‘Universals’ Allowed in Poststructural IR?
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Vivienne Jabri. It is the eleventh installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that issue. This post responds to Charlotte Epstein article (PDF). Epstein's post appeared earlier today. Other entries in the symposium--when available--may be reached via the "EJIR Special...
Symposium — Une Invitation au Lecteur
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Charlotte Epstein. It is the ninth installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that issue. This post refers to Epstein's article (PDF). A response, authored by Vivienne Jabri, will appear at 10am Eastern. Other entries in the symposium--when available--may be reached...
Blogging against the Odds
I am very pleased to join the Duck on a more formal basis. I have been posting for a bit through our dear departed leader - Dan Nexon - for some time with a focus on my cyber security work. I am particularly proud of my post making fun of James Bond’s ineptitude as a cyber warrior. I always enjoy posting and receiving feedback on my work. Many things in my life have changed recently, possibly many of the good developments have come from my...