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...
You’re not going to like this book.
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).
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.
The ISA statement lacks not only comparative history but also local historical depth. It also distorts moral responsibility.
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...
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.
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.
Eteri (Etuna) Tsintsadze-Maass is Assistant Director of the Graduate Program in International Studies (GPIS) at Old Dominion University, where she also teaches in the Department of Political Science and Geography. She earned her PhD from the University of Kentucky (2020). Dr. Tsintsadze-Maass’ primary research focuses on the effects of national narratives and mobilization on states’ foreign policy and security choices, and the politics of the...
Most versions of the left gain little and sacrifice much in accepting a realist epistemology. Theories of international relations are just tools for making sense of patterns and puzzles in the world; they don’t need groupies.
This has been either a bad week for Israel, or a great week for Israel, depending on whom you ask or what your Twitter feed looks like. In the end, this may matter more for the relevance and impact of Middle East studies than anything else.