In this “Whiskey Optional” episode, PTJ facilitates a conversation among four colleagues from dif…

by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson | 18 Apr 2022 | Academia, Featured, Whiskey & IR Theory
In this “Whiskey Optional” episode, PTJ facilitates a conversation among four colleagues from dif…
by Oliver Kaplan | 18 Apr 2022 | Academia, Bridging the Gap, Human Rights, Security, States & Regions
What happens when a research subject becomes a research and briefing partner? In 2017, I was contacted by the peacebuilding NGO Peace Direct to contribute to a policy report on community-based atrocities prevention. I invited a local peacebuilder I knew from Colombia to partner with me in the endeavor. We co-facilitated an online forum and drafted a chapter for the report. We then shared our findings – plus her experiences and my...
by Dan Nexon | 18 Apr 2022 |
Trey is a Data Scientist with the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies (The Ohio State University) and received his PhD in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include the dynamics and consequences of violence, mass atrocities, spatial analysis, and causal inference. His work...
by Dan Nexon | 18 Apr 2022 |
Sooyeon Kang is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies (The Ohio State University) and a non-resident Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights (Harvard Kennedy School). She received her doctorate from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (University of Denver) and was a 2020-2021 Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace as well as a 2020-2021 Doctoral Research...
by Ron Hassner | 13 Apr 2022 | 6+1 Questions
You’re not going to like this book.
by Peter Henne | 13 Apr 2022 |
Ron E. Hassner (PhD, Stanford University 2003) is Chancellors Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at U.C. Berkeley. His research focuses on religion and conflict, territorial and border disputes, intelligence analysis, and Israel Studies. He is the author of Religion on the Battlefield (Cornell 2016), Religion in the Military Worldwide (Cambridge, 2013), and War on Sacred Grounds (Cornell, 2009).
by Eteri Tsintsadze-Maass | 12 Apr 2022 | Security, States & Regions
At its core, the current war in Ukraine reflects an incompatibility of nationalist narratives. Many Ukrainians want to escape Russia’s imperial shadow. Putin wants to reextend that shadow – to erase Ukraine as an independent national identity.
by Dan Nexon | 11 Apr 2022 |
by Stuart J. Kaufman | 9 Apr 2022 | Academia, Race
The ISA statement lacks not only comparative history but also local historical depth. It also distorts moral responsibility.
by Dan Nexon | 8 Apr 2022 |
Stuart J. Kaufman is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. Dr. Kaufman taught at the University of Kentucky from 1990 to 2004. He spent 1999 working as Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs on the U.S. National Security Council staff. Dr. Kaufman specializes in ethnic conflict, international security affairs and international relations history, and he is the author of two...
by Lauren Haumesser | 8 Apr 2022 | Academia, Bridging the Gap
I hold a PhD in history from the University of Virginia. Like many graduate students, I began my doctoral program hoping to become a professor. When I decided to pursue a different career, my university didn’t know how to advise me. Here’s what I learned about finding a non-academic job.
by Dan Nexon | 8 Apr 2022 |
Lauren Haumesser earned her PhD in history from the University of Virginia and is the author of The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861, due out this fall with the University of North Carolina Press. She works as a researcher at the American Association of University Women.