We need a critical strategic studies, or maybe a strategic peace studies. Critical security studies, of course, is a venerable research tradition that I sometimes identify with. There are also scattered references to the phrase...
We need a critical strategic studies, or maybe a strategic peace studies. Critical security studies, of course, is a venerable research tradition that I sometimes identify with. There are also scattered references to the phrase...
I'm working on a new project about the use of religion in power politics (part of which I'll be presenting "at" APSA this week). I'm finding good evidence, but the framing is tricky. Religion as a...
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Inanna Hamati-Ataya. It is the second  installment in our "End of IR Theory" companion symposium for the special issue of the European Journal of International...
Interview with Daniel Levine.
Recently, my graduate IR seminar addressed critical theory -- and we naturally contrasted critical theory to "problem-solving theory," as Robert Cox would have it.In a volume about Cox's contributions to IR, Timothy Sinclair draws the distinction (pp. 5-6): It is the action, not the limits of the system, that is the analytic focus of of problem solving. Critical theory steps outside the confines of the existing set of relationships to identify the origins and developmental potential of these phenomenon. While problem solving theory assumes the functional coherence of existing phenomenon,...
Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago is on "The Colbert Report" right now. Check out the video here. As you might expect, the scholar is promoting his latest book on the Israeli lobby. Perhaps you remember the earlier article.Why Colbert?Maybe Mearsheimer, in his critical theory mode, buys into the comedy of great power politics?