Tomorrow, my great friend and coauthor Dursun Peksen and I will collect our $200 for winning the best paper award at the annual meeting of ISA-Midwest in St. Louis. The paper, which I’ve talked about a little bit before at the Duck, is actually forthcoming now at the...
I had every intention this evening of writing a cynical commentary on all the hoopla surrounding Open Government, Open Data and the Great Transparency Revolution. But truth be told, I am brain-dead...
Last week's vote for gay marriage in New York state was a signal win for U.S. advocates. Two weeks earlier, in a move hailed by gay groups and the Obama administration, the UN Human Rights Council ...
Alex Cooley and I have just published an article at Foreign Affairs Online on Bahrain and the politics of the US overseas basing network. An excerpt:U.S. policymakers have long struggled to...
The most recent issue of International Affairs (January 2007) includes a review of Harry Potter and International Relations.Harry Potter and international relations. Edited by Daniel H. Nexon and Iver B. Neumann. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefi eld. 2006. 245pp. Index. Pb.: £15.99. isbn 0 7425 3959 8. My first advice for readers of this book would be: do not let the title fool you, this is a serious book. I must admit I requested to review this book with a certain amount of faith that I could while away hours reading about why Voldemort is the epitome of realism and how Dumbledore is a...
I have mixed feelings about the Amazon "affiliate program," mostly because I have mixed feelings about Amazon. Nevertheless, I've just changed the Duck of Minerva Bookstore to an Amazon aStore.I'm actually more interested in using their aStore feature as a way of easily creating lists of recommended books on specific topics.I hope that I, and my co-bloggers, will be able to construct some lists for specific topics in international-relations theory, baseball, science fiction, and other areas using this feature.But if you do intend to purchase one of our books in the near future, this is a...
The University of Pittsburgh's Ridgway Center for International Security Studies has just published a Working Paper that purports to answer the question that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence did not: Was the pre-war intelligence about Iraq WMD willfully distorted by the Bush administration? "Yes," says the author of the new report, which focuses on the pre-war claims about Iraq's nuclear program.Obviously, I agree with this conclusion, as anyone who has read my blog for the past two years knows. And in fact, I am the author of the Working paper: "Deliberating Preventative War: The...