Jonathan Rue discusses the continuing wave of "green-on-blue" attacks in Afghanistan.Sertaç Sehlikoglu-Karakas on the Olympics, "sporting bodies," and Islam. Dan Trombly argues that the Colombian counter-insurgency effort contradicts COIN conventional wisdom. Jamestown China Brief: "Taiwan Rebalances in the Near Seas."Jay doesn't think much of the role of "legitimacy" in causal explanations: "In statistical terms, legitimacy is the label we...
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Saturday Afternoon Video
Note: I'm on the road, so no Morning Linkage (at least from me) today -- and likely tomorrow.
Friday Nerd(ish) Blegging: Is Soledad Obrien Taking Cues From HBO?
The Internets have exploded around Soledad O'Brien's witty yet friendly push-back against numerous interviewees who refuse to be fazed by facts.I don't know about your interpretation of this. But watching her politely yet firmly refuse to look her viewers in the eye and lie about the facts reminds me of nothing less than the fictional newsroom of Aaron Sworkin's new HBO series "Newsroom."Indeed, one might interpret this scene from early in the...
Wight’s “Incommensurability” – An “End of IR Theory” Related Link
SAGE has temporarily un-gated Colin Wight's "Incommensurability and Cross-Paradigm Communication in International Relations Theory: 'What's the Frequency Kenneth?'" Millennium - Journal of International Studies 1996, 25: 291 (PDF). Get it while its hot! Thanks to, and via, David Mainwaring.
Podcast No. 5 – Interview with Ted Hopf
2012 interview with Ted Hopf.
Friday Morning Linkage
The Chinese debate over the collapse of the Soviet Union (via Rob Farley)The new labour movement in Jordan (via Laleh Khalili)Syrian rebels parade captured "Iranian drones" on YouTube. Ian Hall argues that the US enjoys preponderance, but not primacy, in Asia, and that this matters a great deal for US-Sino relations. Taylor Favrel links to his working paper on "The United States in the South China Sea Dispute" (PDF).David Schorr...
Thursday Morning Linkage
Militant Islamists attack a major airbase in Pakistan.Jeffrey Lewis on recent leaks concerning US intelligence reassessing Iran's nuclear program: "One thing I learned living in Washington is that intelligence leaks are usually the losing side of an argument."Michael Cohen searches for the "Incredible Shrinking GOP Foreign-Policy Expert."Ezra Klein points out that the Presidential candidates talk issues... while the media focuses on...
Wednesday Afternoon Video
Wednesday Morning Linkage
North Korea: future REM exporter?Washington accuses Iran of training Syrian militia. It seems to me that the "meddling in Syrian affairs" ship has long sailed. Hayes Brown repots on"Somalia's Struggle for Normalcy." Thomas Oatley argues that breaking up the Eurozone won't solve anything. BLTN: Paul Staniland on "Victory in Afghanistan."What causes democracy? James Vreeland and his collaborators dispute numerous variants of conventional...
Is Victory Bad for Business?
All wars end. Or do they?Rather too often, we are being reminded that the 'war on terror' against the Al Qaeda terrorist network is far from over, in fact that it will never end and even, that it can never end. One military analyst, for example,a former employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency in the US, states OBL and his closest circle in Pakistan were hardly influential to AQ franchises and affiliates. In his last few years as AQ’s...
Least Experienced Foreign Policy Ticket — Ever?
One of the defining features of the current era of globalization is the rise in uncertainty and complexity in global politics. There are more actors, more transactions, and more challenges as a result. In the face of this, the United States continues to spend more on national security – the military, intelligence, and homeland security – than almost all other countries in the world combined. And, yet it’s clear that as the world is becoming...
Tuesday Morning Linkage
Irena L. Sargsyan warns of renewed conflict between Kurdish-Arab conflict.Matthew Kocher writes a post centered around Jeffrey A. Friedman's working paper on "breakthrough problems" (PDF).Daniel Little ruminates on "mobilizing the masses" and the Chinese Revolution.Paul Dibbs argues against a grand accommodation with China (via Andrew Phillips).Robin Banerji & Patrick Jackson (of the BBC) write about China's "Ghost Towns and Phantom Malls."Dean...