Guest post by Sandor Fabian is a PhD candidate at the University of Central Florida and instructor of record at the NATO Special Operations School. His research is in security studies with a focus on new concepts of conflict, U.S. foreign military aid, and counter hybrid warfare. Follow him at @SandorFabian2 and Doreen Horschig is a PhD candidate and teaching associate at the University of Central Florida. Her research is in nuclear security...
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Episode 12 – Priya Dixit
Professor Priya Dixit talks about being born in Thailand, growing up in Nepal, college and her master’s in Australia, working for the United Nations, and life as an academic.
Hagia Sophia and the Multi-Level Politics of Heritage
This is a guest post from Elif Kalaycioglu, who is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama. Her research is on international relations, world order and global governance with a focus on UNESCO’s world heritage regime, global cultural politics and the impact of cultural diversity on the international order and its institutions.On Friday, June 10th 2020, the highest administrative court in Turkey annulled the 1934 cabinet decree that...
Forced Marriage: Three Facts to Help Explain This Global Conflict Dynamic
This is a guest post from Phoebe Donnelly (@PhoebsG86), a Visiting Fellow at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University and a Women and Public Policy Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. The UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) passed without much recognition on June 19. However, CRSV has not disappeared during the global pandemic and victims of different forms of CRSV face...
The networks and hidden procedures that keep discrimination alive in academia
This is the third post in our series on Race&IR.This is a guest post from Carla Norrlöf and Cheng Xu. Carla Norrlöf is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. Her research is in international relations and international political economy with a focus on US hegemony, great power politics and liberal international order. Follow here at @CarlaNorrlof Cheng Xu is a PhD student at the University of Toronto. His research is in...
Racism in Social Science: Copy, Paste, Repeat (An Urgent Call to Action)
This is the second installment in our series on Race&IR.This is a guest post from Ebby L. Abramson who is a Doctoral student in the political science program at the University of Ottawa and a research associate and editor for Endangered Scholars Worldwide. His current research systematically investigates counterterrorism policies in Europe and the United States, examining how these policies account for and impact their respective society....
The Virus in the Digital Domain: How Governments Can Respond To Coronavirus-Themed Cyberattacks
Courtesy of US Navy, used under Creative Commons license. This is a guest post by William Akoto, a postdoctoral researcher jointly appointed at the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security & Diplomacy at the Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, and the One Earth Future Foundation. In the fall, he will begin a tenure-track appointment at Fordham University. As people have become consumed...
Modi’s ‘Aggressive’ India has Already Started Making Compromises to China
This is a guest post from Aniruddha Saha, a PhD student at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. His research examines India’s nuclear policy using a constructivist approach and is currently being funded by a King’s International Postgraduate Research Scholarship. He has also recently published with Strategic Analysis, OpenDemocracy, Eurasia Review and The Quint. With the killing of 20 Indian soldiers by the Chinese army along...
Episode 11: Embedded Liberalism
John Ruggie’s 1982 article, which appeared in a special issue of International Organization on ‘i…
Episode 11 – Maria Mälksoo
Professor Mälksoo talks growing up in a small town in Estonia during and at the end of the Cold War, the decision to go to the University of Tartu, her exchange year in Montana taking the GRE in Helsinki, and getting her picture taken following a rainstorm.
COVID-19 Policy Response in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico: Three Different National-Subnational Approaches
This is a guest post from Julie VanDusky-Allen, Olga Shvestova, and Andrei Zhirnov. Julie VanDusky-Allen is an assistant professor at Boise State University. Her research focuses on both formal and informal institutions, legislative organization, political parties, political participation, and support for and satisfaction with democracy. Olga Shvestova is Professor of Political Science and Economics at Binghamton University (SUNY)....
Mentoring Yourself as a Woman in Academia
This post, part of the Bridging the Gap channel, is written by Rosella Cappella Zielinski, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University and non-resident fellow at the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Creativity at Marine Corps University. She is an alumna of BTG’s International Policy Summer Institute. For those of us figuring out how to navigate our...