by Cliff Bob | 4 May 2012 | Featured
My new book, The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics, has recently been published by Cambridge University Press. It is available on Kindle for $12.10, Nook for $14.74, and as a paperback for $21.59. For a free chapter, chapter excerpts, contents, and more please visit my website. The Global Right Wing explores the vibrant world of conservative activism. It examines how America's National Rifle Association (NRA), its...
by Charli Carpenter | 4 May 2012 |
I was shocked, shocked to learn that Bloggingheads.tv advertised my discussion with Rob Farley over gender and race in Foreign Policy / Game of Thrones by promoting only the clip where I discussed "nudity":Since that clip was not much more than a throwaway comment in a wide-ranging discussion, yet in fact touched on one of the most, er, much-trumpeted aspects of the show so far, I thought I'd take the time to expound a little bit since after...
Herman Von Rompuy is going to steal your sovereignty.Also, Christmas.There is something refreshing in British newspapers. Empires come and empires go, but tabloids are one of life's constants. So with the Express, which has discovered "EU Plot To Scrap Britain": The new bureaucrat, who would not be directly elected by voters, is set to get sweeping control over the entire EU and force member countries into ever-greater political and economic...
by Steve Saideman | 3 May 2012 |
An academic friend of mine and of other Duck folks, Patricia Weitsman, has gone through hell over the past two years. Today is the the anniversary of her "re-birth" as last year on May 3rd she had a bone marrow transplant. This was to fight Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a precursor to Leukemia. Just in the past year, she has gone through:treatment, transplant, broken ankle, multiple pulmonary embolisms in both lungs, residual host cells in the...
by Dan Nexon | 3 May 2012 |
Moscow is once again expressing displeasure with US and NATO missile defense plans.Russia says it is prepared to use "destructive force pre-emptively" if the US goes ahead with controversial plans for a missile defence system based in Central Europe. The warning came after the Russian defence minister said talks on missile defence were nearing a dead end. Moscow fears that missile interceptors would be a threat to Russia's security.But the US...
by Dan Nexon | 3 May 2012 |
Galtung is a pivotal figure in the development of Peace Studies. My only real interface with his work is in the form of his influential "Structural Theory of Imperialism" (PDF), which specified key features of empire as a logic of organization. According to Haaretz, Galtung has been accused of multiple anti-semitic statements over the past two years. Pretty unpleasant stuff, e.g.,Galtung’s repeated anti-Semitic remarks were exposed by the...
by Robert Kelly | 3 May 2012 | Featured
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by PM | 1 May 2012 |
Yes. Your students have less observable brain activity duringlecture than when they're asleep.Updated for the humorless. See postscript below.A new paper in IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering suggests so:Long-term assessment of EDA [a measure of nervous system activity] revealed interesting trends in the participant’s sympathetic modulation over a week-long period. Intervals of elevated EDA frequently corresponded to times when the...
by Charli Carpenter | 29 Apr 2012 | Featured
In lieu of friday nerd blogging last week (which I saw Vikash had covered) Rob Farley and I blogged heads about gender in Foreign Policy, gender and race in Game of Thrones, and popular culture in foreign affairs. [Warning: There are some mild and at least one not-so-mild TV and book spoilers in our GoT discussion. However we do let you know when these are coming.]On the subject of FP's Swimsuit Issue, Rob asked me a great question: "What did...
by Robert Kelly | 29 Apr 2012 | Featured
For awhile I was collecting links and such to make an argument about Korea and Japan working together on big issues like China and NK, or finally clinching the much-discussed but little worked-on FTA. Both the realist and the liberal in me wanted to see two liberal democracies working together in a tough environment with similar structural threats. Initially I had written: “This may be the biggest news of the year if it actualizes: Japan is...
by Rodger Payne | 28 Apr 2012 |
Charli, Dan and Patrick at ISA 2013? The academics/educators who write this blog often locate their research and teaching interests in texts from popular culture. Dan has co-edited a book on Harry Potter and IR. Patrick teaches a course on science fiction and social science. Dan offers a course on science fiction and politics. Charli blogs frequently about science fiction and has a working paper on "Security or Human Security? Civil-Military...
by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson | 28 Apr 2012 | Featured
This post started off as a reply to a comment under Robert Kelly's post on historical institutionalism, but it got so long I thought it deserved its own post.There is a great deal of ambiguity in how we use the term "decision" in contemporary IR, an ambiguity that also infects the closely related concept of "choice." Briefly, we use these terms to refer both to objects of explanation and to means of explanation -- and the ambiguity of our usage...