Praeger has published a new two-volume compendium on arms control edited by Robert Williams Jr. and Paul R.Viotti. If you're writing anything on the subject of arms, weapons advocacy or national security governance Volume 1, at least, is a pretty helpful resource - especially if you have research money to cover the hefty price tag.The book begins with some theory, history and definitions; some philosophical views and a section on "Arms Control...
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That Exceptional Feeling
A crass, gaudy, all-American display.Someone named Steven Walt has published an article, wildly posted on the Internet, entitled “The Myth of American Exceptionalism”. I don’t know who Mr. Walt is, but the bio says he is a professor at Harvard University. Unfortunately we are seeing too much of this type of thinking coming out of America’s college professors. I should take the time to offer a point by point rebuttal to Mr. Walt’s article....
Reflections on the Ryan Pick
Another victory for Team Wonderbread. Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.) means that he has scored a PR coup and won the all-important mid-August weekend news cycle. What can you say about the pick but the obvious? Ryan is the most inspiring vice-presidential candidate since Jack Kemp helped Bob Dole win in 1996, the most ideologically pure candidate since George Wallace chose Curtis LeMay in 1968, and the most boyish sidekick...
Saturday Afternoon Video
Podcast No. 4 – the End of IR Theory?
Dan and PTJ discuss “the End of IR Theory.”
Plagiarism 2.0
The internet has exploded this afternoon with the revelation that Fareed Zakaria (a Harvard Government PhD 1993) apparently plagiarized significant elements of his Time magazine op-ed this week. As many in the media have noted, including Politico, several paragraphs in his piece about gun control are "remarkably similar" to paragraphs originally published by Jill Lepore in The New Yorker on April 22, 2012. Zakaria almost immediately owned up to...
Friday Nerd Blogging Challenge Met!
I am pretty sure this answers the mail, Charli: Shakespeare, Zombies, John Amos, Shelley Long, June Lockhart, and the dude from Clerks. Yeah, the the skinny one. Plus a Weekend at Bernie's reference. What more could you want on a Friday?Oh, and Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Talk about nerd-overload.
Friday Punctual Nerd Blogging/Blegging
Last week, I embedded with smart people thinking hard about ethics, armed conflict and emerging technologies. I learned that it's an open questions whether governments can or should move toward fully autonomous systems; I learned philosophers, technicians and lawyers approach these questions so differently that it's probably wrong to think of a expert network like CETMONS-AWTG as an epistemic community. I also learned that being a world-famous...
Friday Morning Linkage
From Her Majesty's Explorer.The Battle of Aleppo continues, but things are looking worse for the rebels. Matt Fay at Hegemonic Obsessions ruminates on what we debaters used to call the "Japan Prolif" scenario. Jay says that the CCP is right to be worried about protests. I agree. But he's got a model and stuff. Robert Farley and Taylor Fravel discuss China on Rob's bloggingheads subchannel, Foreign Entanglements. Yeah, well, has Rob ever crushed...
Lands of the Rising Sun
Hawai'i isn't the only colonial possessionto get the inset treatment. Although the authors of the Duck of Minerva do not condone, endorse, or even take seriously this proposal, we do want to bring to our readers' attention a petition urging President Obama to return Taiwan to the Emperor of Japan.This is not entirely crazy, just 99.98 percent insane. Taiwan, of course, was a part of the Japanese Empire after the cession of Formosa in the Treaty...
Thursday Morning Linakge
Daniel Drezner unloads on Jennifer Rubin. Bottom line: better hacks, please!Thomas Rid argues against much of our current discourse on cyberwar. Lincoln Mitchell writes that: "Georgia's government has lost its identity as one led by bright-eyed democrats seeking to build a European style democracy deep in the heart of what used to be the Soviet Union. Instead, the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili has become another semi-authoritarian...
The Olympics Make You Care Less About Milwaukee
When Usain competes, U.S. aid plummets. At Andrew Sullivan's Daily Beast, Patrick Appel offers a few hypotheses about why Americans seem to care less about the killing of Sikhs than the killing of moviegoers, including the observation that the timing of the Milwaukee shootings so soon after the Batman massacre have left many pundits unwilling to talk further about gun control for fear of sounding redundant. Appel also hypothesizes that low...