2005–2006
658 posts
2006 363
December 2006
- GWOC: dispatches from the Nigerian front
- The moonbat in moi?
- Gerald Ford, 1913 – 2006
- War
- Hell in a Hand Basket
- Bush “We’re not winning”
- South Asia’s gender gap
- Why the Pentagon Can’t win the Long War
- Picking nits
- Pakistan on the hot seat, again
- The Importance of HST
- Conservative dead pool
- Hello Kitty, Globalization, and Localization
- Friday maxim
- Iraq Study Group: Iraq needs a group hug
- Iraq Study Group: more of the same, but now with extra-special political cover sauce [updated]
- Islam needs a velvet revolution
- New Bookstore
- Film class — week 15
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want
November 2006
- More from the Blame-America-Last crowd
- 2007 Grawemeyer winner
- Iraq by any other name
- Film class — week 14
- As my wife and I prepare for our annual tour of the NJ Turnpike…
- My week in a nutshoe
- Go Big, Go Long, or Go Home: Moonwalking out of Iraq
- Film class — week 13
- Blame America Last
- Can Baker channel Scowcroft?
- Don’t make the Japanese MAD
- Film class — week 12
- Election Roundup, part I of probably many
- Been missing you
- Qed
- Victor Davis Hanson proves once and for all that he is completely insane
- Film class — week 11
- Charting Iraq’s Descent into Chaos
- How cool was that?
October 2006
- Some Assembly Required
- Afghanistan war reconsidered
- Film class — week 10
- When you ASSUME, you make an….
- Actually, the bad news is very good news
- Failure–more than just an option
- Kevin Tillman’s Letter
- Film class — week 9
- Ya Gotta Believe
- More non-IR blogging
- Didn’t Huntington say this in 1968?
- Film class — week 8
- Iraq and North Korea Updates
- Weekend homework
- One down, three to go
- Random pop-culture notes
- The ho-hum catastrophe?
- North Korea tests a Nuke
- Test or no test?
- Film class — week 7
- Threatdown!
- Revolt of the Generals
- State of Denial (or, the only way to salvage Iraq is to vote D in November)
- Putting the “rien” in historian.
September 2006
- Film class — week 6
- Sorrow
- New Department at Reed
- Beware of the Military-Industrial Complex
- Intelligence failures and the NIE
- “Outrages upon human dignity”
- Counter-hegemonic strategies
- Turning lead into gold
- Should progressives be happy about Iraq’s successes?
- Who are the British?
- Endorsement inflation
- Iraq and 9/11
- Film class — week 5
- More from the Cognitive Dissonance Files
- All Iraq, All the Time
- 9/20/01: The day that changed everything
- Supporting the Troops…
- Misdirected offense
- 18 Long Years…
- So this is how liberty dies…
- Negative externalities and the marketplace of ideas
- How not to run an empire
- Film class — week 4
- “This is like déjà vu all over again”
- Safer, but not Safe
- September 11 – a blogging personal history
- Five Years Later…
- We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogging
- Looming Cognitive Dissonance
- Film class — week 3
- Ugh
- Tony Blair’s Prisoner’s Dilemma
- Behind the curve
- Appeasement
- Grim truth
- What do you worry about?
August 2006
- Film class — week 2
- Lets be clear about one thing…
- Administration critics being ‘framed’
- Recommended Reading
- Secretary Rumsfeld is a funny guy
- Sounding good vs. Good policy
- Neocons discuss Hitler more than the History Channel
- Globalization and You
- Turkey: frontline state?
- Groundhog Day
- Conspiracy?
- The Reputation Frame
- The Social Construction of Knowledge
- Film class: week I
- For your reading pleasure
- Nuclear plant safety
- “Be sceptical. Be very, very sceptical.”
- The Lamont Paradox
- Terrorism as a social movement
- Heading back east
- Bush and “Islamic fascists”: a rhetorical shift or a blip?
- It’s 1972 all over again! Not.
- The Truthiness of my Wikiality
- Israel/Palestine/Lebanon: a proposal
- Historian snark
- Dershowitz
- Oh, yeah. I’ve got a blog…
- Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
- John Podhoretz: fearless intellectual
- Not likely to help on the diplomacy front
- Are you desperate for work?
- Academic articles make strange bedfellows
July 2006
- Why terror won’t work in the war on terror
- State Capacity Blogging
- Missing the point on democratization
- I’m definitely not a lawyer
- Wanting to be wrong
- Testing the Walt / Mearsheimer Thesis
- Nero’s empire
- Failed state and the global war on terror
- Inclusive Friday Pet Blogging
- Amen
- A Huntingtonian Nightmare
- Sunday Morning Reads
- Going Girl
- I agree with Condi
- The Clash over Iraq
- It is the gods who weep…
- American primacy: cutting through the noise, part I
- Bush is going on vacation
- I think I am going to be sick
- So what are you working on anyway?
- BSG Escapism
- Kaplan-fest
- Should-reads at the Duck and beyond
- You lose some, you win some
- Quotation of the day
- Someone please remove Bill Kristol from his personal echo chamber
- Shooting yourself in the foot
- Of patrons and clients? Turkey, Israel, Iran…
- Just war debate!
- George Will: Appeaser
- Developments great and small
- The ladder of escalation
- Meanwhile in Iraq and Afghanistan
- The important of structural thinking
- More thoughts on Israel and Lebanon
- Congitive dissonance and the stabbed in the back narrative
- Faith-Based Adventurism
- VDH strikes again
- Some developments that, I hope, will prove me wrong
- New banner!
- Many articles great and small
- A war by any other name…
- Excuse me Sir, but your lack of ability to project power is showing
- Mumbai
- Video blogging: should the US facilitate the cantonization of Iraq?
- Morning Israel round up
- Video blogging: middle east crisis
- Movie Review (or the problem with Liberalism)
- Train bombings in India?
- Why isn’t China doing more?
- Missile Diplomacy
- Deterrence isn’t a panacea for the North Korea problem
- I did what?
- Thank you, Steve
- Launching a New Game with the DPRK
- And you wonder why defense spending is sometimes wasteful
- Time to put up or shut up
- Look, up there in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… four North Korean missiles?!
- When in the course of human events…
- One nation under (someone’s) God
- Insurance
- Hdtv
- My favorite futurist on an Iranian-US conflict
- Hummin, comin’ at ya…
June 2006
- Do you feel safer?
- Another example of Ted Rall’s hackery
- Thoughts and prayers with Gammons
- Seek and Destroy
- Water, water everywhere
- Speaking of Idiotic Cartoons…
- Richard Perle: In his world it all makes sense
- Missed Opportunity
- Deterrence is no secret
- Battening down the hatches?
- Feed problems
- Signaling and Grand Strategy: Or, Why Iraq Made Sense
- Clowns Indeed
- Friday’s maxim
- Tortured ethics
- Does this indicate Santorum’s Senate Career is in its “Last Throes”?
- Germany speaks truth to power
- Taepo-Dong this Valiant Shield
- A normal nation
- Three things can happen; two are bad and the good one is far from certain
- Indian grand strategy
- I do not think it means what you think it means
- Sick of Being Treated Like I’m an Idiot
- The re-compositing of states
- “This is a huge disaster”
- The unbearable selectiveness of hackery
- The Return of Pragmatism?
- More on the Hirshman debate
- (SBU) Snapshot of Iraq
- Friday’s maxim
- Auxiliaries and Legionaires
- Bush in Baghdad
- Sport spaces
- Fight back against outsourcing: plagiarism edition
- More of the same
- Midterm political convention
- al-Zarqawi Fest
- A cautionary note on Zarqawi’s death
- “He has ceased to be!”
- Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel
- Hot or not?
- Geek Blogging
- Negotiating with Iran
- Happy Osirak Day
- More Flypaper…
- My bad
- Democracy and terrorism
- Book pimping time
- Two sides to every story
- Mueller on terrorism: little to fear but fear itself
- Temporary new digs
May 2006
- Dogulas Feith’s syllabus
- Homework assignment
- The advance of devolution
- If you don’t order troops into combat, they don’t fight… and other lessons from Victor Davis Hanson
- What’s in a foreign-policy label?
- Back in the USA
- Know your enemies, 2006 edition
- Quotation of the day
- Field and Fantasy
- US carrots for Iran
- Democratic enlargement… meet the PRC
- What does this mean?
- Lemony Smarket
- A new rentier state is born?
- The Decider
April 2006
- Colbert and Kristol: Scrumtralescent
- Iran is like a full moon…
- Deterrence
- A new sign of the apocalypse
- Not such a MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD, world?
- Doing the people’s work
- Now that’s just great…
- Give ’em the damn money
- Ikenberry takes stock of America’s ‘Security Trap’
- External Enrichment Part Deux?
- The Paradox of Humanitarian Action
- Lack of Vision
- Do as I say, and, apparently, as I do
- “What Hu Talking About Mr. President?”
- The foreign policy establishment
- Nowhere roads
- The Lump-of-Power Fallacy
- PTJ gets a glossy write up
- I once was blind… but now I see
- International-relations “isms”
March 2006
- Insulting international politics
- Academics, pundits, and popularizers
- Igor and Vlad: The Horror
- Legitimacy and rhetorical cover in international politics
- Go Hoyas!
- Fact vs. Faith
- Opinion on censure – all in the wording?
- Bonds, Junior, and the Hall of Fame
- NSS 2006
- Less-than-ideal typifications
- Sopranos
- Turning the corner on the World Baseball Classic
- What VP Cheney did not say about Iran
- Academic interruption
- Vote Duck!
- Clash of cvilizations
February 2006
- Yet another way of avoiding substantive content
- Democracy’s empire
- Wow… I’m just as quantitatively astute as Kieran Healy…
- The President’s strategy in Iraq is apparently not falsifiable
- How to make an unconvincing argument on ‘containing’ Iran
- The Worst Professor in America
- Anarchy in the UK?
- Has the buck ever stopped with Bush when things go wrong?
- Moms rule
- Global Terrorism is tough work, but man the benefits are sweet
- A question from inside the bubble
- Alternity
- Dangerous IR scholars?
- No surprises here…
- Speculation fun thread: Civil War II
- The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
- The Voice of God?
- The Politics of Eulogies
- Either Laura just swallowed a lemon or she wasn’t very happy with the Reverend’s remarks
- Alberto Gonzales: A gifted debater he ain’t
- What’s Next, ATMs on the House Floor?
- An observation
- Mmm…memes
- If I were a betting man…
- Cartoon Row
- The Long View: QDR 2006
- Iran’s motives and the IAEA
- On Madmen and Credibility
- The Lenin Museum
- NSA, TIA, TMI?
- Land for no peace
- Constructing ‘the solar system’
- Who’s the isolationist?
- Actual retail price…
January 2006
- The significance of Bush’s silence
- Place your bets, folks! Place your bets!
- Growing Consensus
- Coercing Insurgents
- Mansfield and Snyder on NPR
- Careful what you wish for
- Problems, Puzzles, and Questions
- Is it getting warmer in Washington?
- Isolating isolationalism
- When States Doth Protest Too Much
- But in Darfur…
- Vote Duck!
- No Words
- The Peaceniks at State
- The Pakistan missile attack
- Iran in a nutshell
- Interested in the war and the 2006 elections?
- You don’t have to be a pacifist to think the Iraq War was a mistake
- Reputation and Economic Interests: Why Getting a Resolution on Iran will be Difficult
- Europe and Iran’s nuclear program
- Blogging for the BBC
- From the “communicative turn” to the “dialogical turn”
- Sometimes a tie is just a tie
- Library tour… of horrors
- Isn’t this what friends are for?
- IR and the communicative turn
- States of exception (part vi)
- Great moments in film reviews
- Developing Stories to Watch
- Oil big shot
- Imperialism and American westward expansion
- States of exception (part v)
2005 295
December 2005
- Empire, schmempire
- Relevance
- Most influential IR scholars
- Activism and academia
- Darwin (and Science) Triumphant
- States of exception (part IV)
- States of exceptions (part III)
- Defeatism
- States of exception (part II)
- States of exception
- Recommendations for Friday
- Confusing headline of the day
- My head has just exploded
- Because grading sucks, that’s why…
- Fantasy vs. Reality
- Love your enemies?
- H-Albion goodness
- Ignoring the Signaling Dilemma: Round 2 for Ahmadinejad
- Posen’s plan for Iraq
- Westfallacies
- Counterproliferation strategy
- Get that Xbox360 for Christmas!
- Put Mithras back in Christmas
- Iraq: candidate for state failure?
- Summing Up My Feelings on the ‘Victory Strategy’
November 2005
- Iraq timetables and exit strategies
- Exit Strategery for Iraq is Finally Here
- First, do no harm
- ‘Political’ Science
- US, Taiwan, and the Myth of an Obligation to Defend
- Know thine enemy
- Antidotes for the monotony of reading to toddlers
- Happy Thanksgiving
- More on the lies that lead to war
- Schmidt’s Backpedaling
- “Normalization” for Japan’s SDF?
- The Irrelevance of IR Theory?
- Smooth Operator
- Iraq by the Numbers
- Disgusting
- State of Our Field
- Quick history lesson, Iraq 1998
- Once more, with feeling
- Our resolve in action
- When social scientists go bad
- Balancing and the balance of power, part 2
- Alex Cooley on Basing
- Deep thoughts around the web
- Off-year elections as bellwethers
- Reflections on the International Relations job market
- Jocks for Justice
- Intelligence ‘failures’
- Humanitarian interventions bad
- Why every college should have a genuine core curriculum
- I thought we lived in a republic…
- Liberal internationalists: evil imperialists or mushy multilateralists?
October 2005
- The lies that lead to war
- Typolgoies of collective violence against civilians
- We can’t seem to get this reputation thing down
- Practitioner testimonies
- Patrick Jackson in the headlines
- Apparently, he doesn’t just do political cabals
- Well, as long as it’s official policy then I guess it’s okay…
- More on Democratization: the National Intelligence Strategy of the US
- Democracy promotion and transitional wars
- Alliance of Eurasian Autocracies?
- IR on iTunes
- Think tank for progressive students
- I don’t think we’re speaking the same language
- British left waffles on Falklands
- This really shouldn’t be funny…
- When WMD isn’t WMD
- Hobgoblin attack!
- Six Degrees of Adolf Hitler
- Not a good day in international politics
- Right-wing political correctness watch
- Neocons, liberals, realists, and all that
- Still here….
- Happy Anniversary!
- Constructing Germany’s Future
- Anime, Conspiracies, and IR Theory
- America’s priorities
- New York Sun story on Dan Drezner and blogging
- Brooks watch
- Bush’s multivocality eroding?
- The news about Dan Drezner
- Statistics, Baseball, and Essentialism, or why A-Rod should win the AL MVP
- A national transportation infrastructure commission?
- I suppose one man’s boondoggle…
- It’s the end of the world as we know it
- Norm’s my uncle
- Unsolved mysteries
- Response to Rodger
- Relative deprivation and perceptions of American decline
- Critical IR Theory
- The owl may spread its wings, but the Duck merely quacks and paddles around
- Terrorists Now Rational, According to VP
- The strongest version of inevitability
September 2005
- The Bush Doctrine as an example of Coercive Diplomacy (yes, I’m back)
- Academic job “market” season
- Was the policy fixed around Iraq?
- Yankee Go Home!
- Realism and constructivism
- Latest meme
- Crisis of Global Governance?
- Knowledge politics
- Mortara Center Blog
- The superiority of the middle course
- Biology of conflict
- Balancing and the balance of power, part 1
- Can you tell the players with a scorecard?
- Current Reading
- Borders and Chaos
- Hip and Oh-So-Clever
- Was effective opposition to the Iraq War impossible?
- Buffy versus Xena
- New Publications
- Machiavelli, Bush, and Kartina
- Terrorism: State-sponsor update
- Nomadic Empires
- The Virtues of Ambiguity
- Double-entrendre Balancing
- Commercial Peace Update – 9/10/05
- Okay, maybe it is time to start calling it fascism
- NOLA diaspora and International Norms
- Your request will be delivered to MY OFFICE when it is available
- “You keep using that word — I do not think it means what you think it means.”
- Traditions
- Radiation and Risk
- The British Analogy – Again
- Taking the “Liberty” out of Libertarian
- Comparing the Obvious
- Baseistan
- Differences in Perspective
- Rebuilding in Historical Perspective
- What’s a government for, anyway?
- I’m a Progressive Now
- Dr. Henderson update
- APSA Blogging
- Dispatch from New Orleans
August 2005
- The Hobbesian State of Nature
- More scary stuff on creationism
- Natural Disasters and Political Outcomes
- Unintelligent designs
- America doesn’t need any Cialis
- Bolton on Legitimacy of US Foreign Policy
- Sunk costs
- Historical note: costs of unilateralism
- Course readings
- Framing Iraq: a Lesson from the Vietnam Experience
- New Report: Iraq WMD intell was willfully distorted
- “Outfoxed”
- Virtual College of Liberal Arts
- The soft bigotry of low expectations: Iraq edition
- Commercial peace update
- Gas Price Mediocy
- On War: August 2005
- Going Silent
- The End of the Nightly News
- Bush struggling with the war on terror
- Yeah, but that’s also what they used to say about the Tsar…
- Firefly
- Iran: A decade to defy proliferation norms?
- Imperial Generations: Some Preliminary Throughts
- Just What I Always Wanted
July 2005
- Empires!!!
- More on Neoconservativism and Liberal Internationalism
- Today’s Spam
- Is Hilary Clinton Electable?
- John Ikenberry’s Pissed
- War Posters and the Fascism Analogy
- The saviors in the Bush administration
- Discussing Terrorist Relations
- POWs: McCain vs. Cheney
- Holy Non-Sequitors, Batman!
- “BeLott”
- Peter Galbraith on Iraq
- London Bombings: Looking Coordinated?
- Naming names
- Thoughts on Terrorism and Collective Violence: A Preface to Future Posts
- Wednesday’s Maxim on Thursday
- Another round?
- She cannuh take nuh moor, Cap’n
- Teaching and Social Software
- Death by Transporter
- Eric Reeves at TNR’s &c.
- Groupthink
- Grading
- Patsies?
- That whole public intellectual thing
- The Sociology of Yankee-hating
- Speaking of Historical Illiteracy…
- Low Countries’ Hyperbole
- Debating the Democratic Peace
- American Exceptionalism and Neoconservativism
- Wednesday’s Maxim – Thursday Edition
- Under Construction
- Victory by Chest Thumping?
- Second Thoughts from Neoconservatives
- “Open University of Jihad”
- Coding al-Qaeda
- Saletan on Al-Queda’s Strategy
- The Joys of Tech Central Station, Part XXIV
- London: Some Preliminary Thoughts
- Post-Prefixed Meta-Blogging
- Schools of crime
- Uh, ok
- Great Moments in Translation
- Light Dawns on Marble Head
- The “W” Nationals
- Rising Powers, War and the Economists
June 2005
- Religion and Europe
- Wednesday’s Maxim
- Yuppie vices — and global terrorism
- The Dangers of Talking Points: RNC Defense of Rove Edition
- Would you rather have a Big Mac…or an F-16?
- Flypaper? Try Indiscriminate Fumigation
- Everything Old is New Again: Dog-Whistle Politics
- Change back from that regime?
- Personal Puzzles
- The Practical Consequences of Definitions
- Iran: what gives?
- Light Posting
- Wednesday’s Maxim
- Speaking Victorian in Uzbekistan
- The China Debate
- Patrick stole my title…
- Tag, I’m it
- Book thread
- David Adesnik vs. Realism
- The Dark Side of Interdependence
- Books That Still Speak to Me
- Draining the Sea
- My Most Appropriate City?
- First Principles and the Truman National Security Project
- Conflating Means and Ends?
- Continuing the debate on the UNHRC
- A Response to Patrick Jackson
- Beating around the Bush
- The Uses of Hypocrisy
- Must… Find… More… Links
- Expediency vs. Ideals or Intrinsic vs. Reputational Interests in Uzbekistan?
- Progressive Foreign Policy
- Wednesday’s Maxim
- Isn’t it Ironic?
- Security vs. morality?
- Chinese Nationalist Mythmaking: Kissinger Edition
- Oxblog oddness
- Guns and Genocide, version 96.12b
- Tony Arend’s Got a Blog!
- Unilateralism Does Have Costs, But…
- So how good is Pedro Martinez?
- “Fixed around the policy”
- The Remembrance of Wars
- NATO Takes Limited Steps on Darfur
- The Security Benefits of Hegemony
- Sometimes the Eiffel Tower is…
- Wednesday’s Maxim
- Framing: Foreign Repression Edition
- Farewell to a Family Friend
- Framing Iraq
- Solzhenitsyn and Orwell: Still Relevant
- Question of the Day
- (Baseball) Statistics Never Lie
- Yet another introduction
- The US, Democratization, and Grand Strategy
- Live 8
- Academics and Game Addictions
- Nineteenth-Century Soft Power
- (Insert Clever Play on “Dutch” Here)
- Bribery Redux
- Wednesday’s Maxim
May 2005
- The Virtues of Bribery
- Conceding vs. Standing Firm: A new trend in US proliferation policy?
- Identities, Interests, and the EU
- Welcome Timberers
- France votes no
- Misleading Headlines (Homophobia Edition)
- About me
- Nuclear Proliferation: Understanding Motivations and Assigning Blame
- The lowly graduate student of the group…
- Newer Isn’t Necessarily Better
- “Momentum” in Baseball
- The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
- Whither Hegemony?
- Rapid Evolution
- IR Rumor Mill
- Hegemony vs. Globalization
- Star Wars (again)
- Nerd Hermeneutics
- Entitling Help
- Intellectual Property
- Grade-school Rawlsianism
- Why
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