In 2014, John Mearsheimer authored a Foreign Affairs article in which he blamed that year’s Ukrai…
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NATO, Putin, and Ukraine
The problem with saying that Russia had legitimate security fears and that NATO expansion is partly to blame for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is that it omits some parts of the picture while exaggerating others. It creates a lopsided view. It magnifies every remote and hypothetical security threat to Russia, while ignoring the very real security threats to Russia’s neighbors, and ignoring Western efforts to accommodate Russia’s security concerns. The framing reflects habitual blindspots that have distorted many left-wing perspectives on Vladimir Putin and Russian foreign policy.
Jamie Mayerfeld
Jamie Mayerfeld is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor in Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington, where he is also a faculty associate of the Center for Human Rights and an associate faculty member of the Program on Ethics. He has received fellowships from Columbia Law School, Princeton University, and the University of Washington Simpson Center for the Humanities. Mayerfeld specializes in political theory...
Idean Salehyan
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.
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...