Why and how do authoritarian regimes manage their image abroad?
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Welcome New Ducks and an Invitation
The Duck has a new look and a new lineup of our core group, what we used to call "permanent contributors." We haven't yet settled on a new term. Blog Jedi Masters came to mind. In this post, I wanted to thank long-time contributors who are stepping away from the core group but who may blog intermittently and welcome some new folks to the core. I also want to invite a new cohort of folks to write for us regularly as Contributing Bloggers. Dan's...
Alexander Dukalskis
Alex Dukalskis is an associate professor at University College Dublin in the School of Politics and International Relations. He researches and teaches on authoritarian states, Asian politics, and international human rights. His work has been published in several leading journals, including the Journal of Peace Research, Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, Review of International Studies, Government & Opposition, and...
6+1 Questions about AMERICAN DOVE
American Dove makes pragmatic case for a dovish foreign policy. The use of force is a terrible foreign-policy instrument: it’s expensive and hardly ever works.
Zachary C. Shirkey
Zachary C. Shirkey (PhD, Columbia 2006) is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research focuses on war and intervention, US foreign policy, and state-building. He is the author or co-author of four books and his research has appeared in several outlets including the Journal of Peace Research, Polity, and International Studies Review.
Light Summer Reading
Ah, those days when you did not feel guilty for reading something that does not contain the term “poststructuralism” and/or footnotes. Back in my teenage years, I used to devour all the books I could get during the summer. I had some favorites: Alexandre Duma’s The Count of Monte-Christo (1844-1846) and The Valley of the Moon (1913) by Jack London. If the Monte Christo long-drawn out revenge plot is a great motivational read for staying in...
Is it time to abandon in-person academic conferences? or “Who’s kind of meh on going to APSA?”
I get the sense that lots of scholars are viewing the return (sooner or later) of in-person conference with a good deal of ambivalence. Is it time to take all conference online?
Episode 18: Name Your Discord Server “and Collaboration”
Arnold Wolfers is one of the most important figures of “mainstream” mid-20th century internationa…
Getting Counterinsurgency Wrong
I just published a piece in Foreign Affairs, which draws on my new book, Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare. After two decades, the United States is finally leaving Afghanistan, and only 2,500 U.S. troops remain in Iraq. In both countries, the insurgencies continue. It wasn’t supposed to end this way. In both wars, Washington hoped that imposing democratic reforms could protect the population, win hearts and minds, and...
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Charles J. Sullivan
Charles J. Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science & International Relations in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nazarbayev University. Dr. Sullivan earned his PhD in Political Science from The George Washington University (2014) in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Nazarbayev University, he worked as an instructor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Sullivan is a comparativist and specializes...
Spencer Willardson
Spencer Willardson is an Assistant Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University in the Department of Government. He teaches in the National Intelligence and Securities Studies program. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, where he served as the first Department Chair of Political Science and International Relations from 2015-2017. His primary research focus is on the ways that arms transfers are...