Jesus' General has the goods on Georgetown's latest hire.The Washington Post explains what this is all about:Douglas J. Feith, the former Pentagon policy chief who was an architect of the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies, is joining the faculty of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.In an announcement yesterday, the university said Feith will teach a course on the administration's anti-terrorism strategy and also will...

I'm not sure if my colleagues here at the Duck teach critical theory in their IR theory courses. I do, at least in my master's class.My classes ended last month, but I have a homework assignment just begging for a student population. Write an "immanent critique" of the following passage from President George W. Bush. Monday May 22, this question for President Bush came from a member of the audience at the Arie Crown Theater at Lakeside Center...

Montenegro votes for independence. Probably. By a hair. Rob Farley points to Doug Muir's excellent pre-vote post. It looks like EU politics may have made the difference in a vote that mapped largely onto ethnic and religious divisions. The BBC:Serb politicians, Orthodox church leaders and Montenegrins from the mountainous inland regions bordering Serbia broadly opposed secession.However, ethnic Montenegrins and Albanians from the coastal area...

Victor Davis Hanson takes on the "too few troops" criticism of the Bush administration's war plan. He approaches the topic with the same discursive style that his readers have grown to love. After lobbing some largely irrelevant attacks on the critics' motives, VDH advances five arguments. First, the claim that we’ve deployed too few troops can apply only since the fall of Baghdad in April 2003. Whatever the difficulties of the three-week war,...

Dan Drezner's at Princeton discussing liberal internationalism, so he posts this rather interesting placeholder on his blog:One question that came up at today's sessions was pretty basic but rather important: how, exactly, would one define liberal internationalism? It's one of those terms that foreign policy wonks like to throw around, but often means very different things to different people.[So what's your definition, smart guy?--ed. A...

I arrived back in Columbus yesterday after spending about five days in Bielefeld, Germany. I chose not to purchase the insanely expensive WLAN access offered by the conference hotel and instead relied on a nearby internet cafe--which was fine for checking my mail, but not so much for blogging. I have a couple of posts stored up, so expect to hear from me a great deal over the next week.A few impressions from my first trip to Germany.• Delta...

In the war on terror, the United States now officially considers Venezuela part of the problem. The BBC today: The US is to impose a ban on arms sales to Venezuela, US state department officials have said.A spokeswoman, Darla Jordan, said the decision was taken because of lack of support by Venezuela for counter-terrorism efforts. Condi Rice expressed disappointment in October 2003 at Venezuela's failure to live up to its "responsibilities in...

From https://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/west/awfact.htm.From a Columbus Dispatch article (6/7/2006) on the role of religion in Ohio's upcoming gubernatorial race:"I want to know how they feel about it -- if they have a strong belief in God," said Republican poll participant..... "This country was set up to lead the rest of the world. God picked this country."I hope he isn't disappointed if God throws his support behind China. After all,...

So here it is, the beginning of May, the end of the Spring semester, when grading piles up and other closing-out-the-academic-year chores loom and threaten. So I, like a fair number of other academics, have been spending a fair amount of time thinking about baseball. Seriously. It's not that I'm avoiding doing my other work (okay, not really . . . maybe just a bit . . .) , or that I find baseball infinitely more enjoyable than grading (grading...

Dan Kervick, whose fine blog seems to be dormant, often leaves comments on many of the same blogs I read. This comment about US carrots to offer Iran, posted at Democracy Arsenal, is worth preserving: We've heard a lot about the sticks recently, but the carrots available to the US are impressive indeed. One of Iran's top concerns is the $10 B - $12 B in assets that were frozen in 1979 following the hostage crisis. The US also maintains...

Peter Howard writes an interesting composite post on the nexus of energy politics, China's rise, and US policy objectives.The core of the issue: when we move out, China moves in. Scratch the negative diplomatic externalities for regimes intent on brutalizing their populations.Solutions? Liberal hegemony types would argue China needs to be better socialized into the international system. Realists say "Good luck" and "I told you so." Such...

All but one of my published journal articles have question marks in their titles. How'd that happen? And what do I do with my current "revise and resubmit"?Should I change the title to something without a question mark to stop the trend? Or would that be just begging for some sort of cosmic retribution in the form of a rejection? Or would elimating the question mark in the title increase its chances of eventual publication by balancing out my...