Political Science isn’t sterile laboratory. The discipline is riddled with politics and deeply influenced by policy concerns.
Political Science isn’t sterile laboratory. The discipline is riddled with politics and deeply influenced by policy concerns.
This activity comes after students are to have listened to a lecture (slides) about domestic politics helps us understand variation in the likelihood of international conflict. I focused...
Stop me if you've heard this one: it appears that wars between pairs of democracies are relatively rare compared to wars between other pairs of states. Â Some people even think this relationship...
2012 interview with Phil Arena.
I was listening to the International Hour of the Diane Rehm Show Weekly News Round-Up on podcast while jogging yesterday, and I heard David Ignatius (as noted previously, a friend of Bhutto's from their Harvard days...) make an interesting point.He said that we in the US tended to see Bhutto as the future of democracy in Pakistan in large part because she seemed like one of us. Educated at Harvard, fully conversant in Western culture, history, and politics, darling of the media and political establishment, she charmed nearly everyone in Washington she met. But, in practice, she was not all...
Ivo Daalder's and Robert Kagan's "Concert of Democracies" opinion-editorial has been generating waves of derision from the left coast of blogland.I've already argued that Kagan's 'Cold War II' outlook on the liberal-authoritarian divide amounts to a self-fulfilling prophecy--although the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's activities suggest that we're already heading in that general direction. So I'm certainly not going to defend every aspect of the proposal. But I have been a bit frustrated with some of the criticisms coming from the left. In brief, while Kagan's case for a Concert of...
Peter Howard has some interesting comments on my post on bribing North Korea. Peter plugs his International Studies Quarterly article, "Why Not Invade North Korea? Threats, Language Games, and U.S. Foreign Policy". As Peter knows, I believe he downplays the importance of military constraints. Attacking North Korea is a far more dangerous undertaking than attacking Iraq was. The US may have become "discursive entangled" into negotiating with North Korea, but the differing military capabilities of the two states explains a lot about why the Bush administration made the calculation that...