Idean Salehyan is a Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas, Executive Director of the Peace Science Society (International), and the co-Director of the Social Conflict Analysis Database project.
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The Invasion of Ukraine is Russia’s Fault
For Mearsheimer “freedom” and “prosperity” are simply weapons of great power politics rather than aspirations sought by the Ukrainian people.
J. Patrick Rhamey Jr.
J. Patrick Rhamey Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department of International Studies and Political Science at the Virginia Military Institute. He also serves on the board of the TransResearch Consortium, an international group of scholars focusing on global transitions driven by power relations and demographic shifts. His academic work focuses on global hierarchy, comparative regionalism, and the international politics of sport. With Tadeusz...
A tale of two realisms
It's been a rough week for John Mearsheimer. He has come under a barrage of criticism for his claim that Russia's aggression towards Ukraine is the West's fault. His theoretical tradition, realism, has also come under fire, for producing not only (arguably) bad policy takes but policy takes that don't seem to flow from the theory itself. Does this mean that all of realism is flawed? I would argue no, by pointing to another target of such...
Sunflower seeds and Molotov cocktails
Exercising feminist curiosity: how Ukraine women are involved in the conflict and how Putin’s nationalist fever dream is a patriarchal one.
How do we get IR to notice something?
I excitedly read this recent tweet by Evan Perkoski of UConn, about a new article he co-authored that has been accepted in International Organization. Beyond being glad for a colleague's success, I was excited by the substance of the publication. They produced a new dataset on violent non-state actors and analyzed the conditions under which they cooperated, finding a major role for both group ideology and religious identity. That is huge!...
On Academic Grudges: A Quack-and-Forth
The academy is traditionally a place students and scholars go to hone their critical faculties. But perhaps, in some cases, we take this critical approach too far. In this Quack-and-Forth, Adam B. Lerner and Jarrod Hayes discuss academic grudges and whether the academy would be a kinder or gentler place if we all acted a bit more like Larry Bird (and a bit less like Larry David).
Nominations are open for the 2022 Online Achievement in International Studies (OAIS) Awards!
After a two-year COVID-induced hiatus, the International Studies Association Online Media Caucus (OMC) is pleased to announce the return of the Duckies! Please send you nominations to onlinemediacaucus@gmail.com by February 25, 2022. We encourage self-nominations. Note that the OMC has updated the awards to reflect the current topography of the online media environment. We now award Duckies in the following categories: Best Blog...
Peter Trumbore
Peter F. Trumbore is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, and currently serves as Chair of the International Studies Association Online Media Caucus (OMC). He received his Ph.D in 1999 from the University of Connecticut after spending nearly a decade as a newspaper editor. His research falls into the broad categories of international conflict and conflict management, and foreign...
The Threat to Economic Hegemony is Economic Hegemony: Part II
This piece is the second in a three-part series grappling with the role of political economy in making a just, sustainable international order. Writing about America’s economic strategy deficit got me pondering why the United States had such a stunted economic imagination. How could the government that many consider to be the global economic hegemon be inept at economic statecraft? For one thing, I think the popular impression of America as...
Conscious States in a World of Make Believe
I wrote the first draft of “What’s it Like to Be a State?” sometime in late 2017, during an unusual time in both my personal life and my research career. I was about halfway through my PhD at the University of Cambridge and was feeling both immensely homesick and quite bored—trapped in a small town that felt ripped from the Victorian era. I filled my free time watching large numbers of pre-recorded NBA games and, also, for some reason, reading philosophy of mind….
State Consciousness and Ontological Security
I appreciate this opportunity to remark on Adam Lerner’s (hereafter, just ‘Adam’), excellent 2020 International Theory article on state consciousness. I recall first chatting with Adam about this paper when it was still in development, over a coffee in Prague at the 2018 European International Studies Association (EISA) annual meeting. Some of what I’ll mention here will be a rehashing – but also rethinking – of what I told him then. To...