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December 2010

  1. What Would a Post-Masculinized Military Look Like?
  2. Dr. Strangelove’s Mineshafts
  3. Because we needed another illustration of the absurdity of thinking about academia in economic terms
  4. Imperial Anxieties
  5. Christmas Bonus Video
  6. Merry Christmas! Happy Yule!
  7. The Opposition to New START and the Short-Term Future of Arms Control
  8. The Ugly Underside of the Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
  9. Fun and Grisly Holiday Reading
  10. The Good Old Days….
  11. PoliSci-unrelated post of the day: Visualizing Major League Baseball, 2001-2010
  12. What is Mark Zuckerberg?
  13. Fun with Ngrams
  14. 2010 US Grand Strategery
  15. Striking Blows Against Secretive Conspiracies….
  16. Richard Holbrooke
  17. The Constitutionality of the Individual Mandate
  18. ‘Tis the season
  19. 7/7 five years on: Conflicting memories make an official record difficult
  20. Feminist IR 101, Post #4: Common Myths about Feminist IR (and the ‘truth’)
  21. To science or not to science — is that a question?
  22. Svalbard blogging
  23. Lego Antikythera Machine and musings prompted thereby
  24. Course: Interstellar Relations — The Politics of SF
  25. On the Wikileaks Manifesto
  26. Facelift.
  27. Wikileaks “Document Dumps” vs. Government Secrecy Dumps
  28. Feminist IR 101, Post #3: What is “feminist” about “feminist IR”?
  29. Overdue introduction
  30. In political economy, politics comes first
  31. Mega-Leaks: Right Idea, Wrong Strategy
  32. Will transparency take a hit?
  33. The Wikileaks Rap
  34. Let’s whack them
  35. Why Wikileaks Matters

November 2010

  1. 2011 Grawemeyer winner
  2. American Foreign Policy research and Wikileaks
  3. Riverdance your way through through the Irish Bailout in two minutes: Taiwan animation style!
  4. Feminist IR 101, Post #2….vocabularies for talking about sex/gender hierarchies
  5. Wikileaks and the global public interest
  6. “Diplomatic Shockers”
  7. Feminist IR 101, Post #1 … definitions of sex and gender
  8. DPRK’s attention-deficit disorder (updated)
  9. How George Mitchell relaxes on his days off
  10. A (not so) open letter to a journal editor (or five): Part II
  11. BMD and NATO not quite BFD, but a step in the right direction
  12. The Transition
  13. A (not so) open letter to a journal editor (or five): Part I
  14. Latest Data on Drone Casualties
  15. BBC spy miniseries upsets China, but how real is it? Let’s play Spooks bingo!
  16. MarkZism Redux: “Tyranny or Transcendence?”
  17. (Head of) State Secrets
  18. Bush: McConnell plays politics with national security
  19. Currency Rap, or “your IR youtube video du jour”
  20. Drip, drip, drip
  21. The NYT op-ed page remains a fact-free zone
  22. Undefended Buildings
  23. Priority check, eh?
  24. Any progress in the study of international security?
  25. An Interesting Pattern in the Wikileaks Data
  26. I’m not sure what to say….
  27. A MarkZist Manifesto. Or Not.
  28. Guy Fawkes Night: Fireworks, but does torture?
  29. Structural explanations are not always sexy or gratifying, but they typically explain a lot
  30. The Anglo-French Treaty and the BBC World Service: Hard Power irrelevance and a threat to the Soft Power of the UK and the West.
  31. After Wikileaks; or, the next phase of Diffused War
  32. There was Foreign Policy in the election
  33. Book Review: Codes of the Underworld
  34. Russia’s Return to Afghanistan
  35. U.S. Midterm Election Prediction Fest 2010
  36. Election 2010: the Foreign Policy Elephant in the Room (updated)
  37. Some Good News from Pakistan

October 2010

  1. Rally Signage
  2. Should I go vote for women because they’re women?
  3. Zombie NATO? Or, the Poverty of Realism
  4. Pork Barrel Nation: From Prisons to Pentagon
  5. The Strategic Impact of Wikileaks
  6. The decline of American math and sciences?
  7. UPDATED: So you want to get a PhD in the humanities/political science
  8. Social Science: Apparently Too ‘Sciencey’ for the Iranian Government…
  9. Three Cheers for Wikileaks
  10. IR makes it to TED
  11. In Praise of Falsification
  12. What you should know about ‘Right to Know’
  13. Is Academic Jargon Elitist?
  14. “War Diaries 2.0”: Is Wikileaks Moving Down the Learning Curve?
  15. A Quick and No-Doubt Premature Look at WikiLeaks (Iraq Edition)
  16. Friday Signaling Roundup
  17. Remembering Professor Fred Halliday
  18. Operation Dragon Strike and Kandahar
  19. Too many bodies? Communicating the population question
  20. The Individual Utility of Incompetence
  21. Happy 75th Anniversary to the Gallup Poll
  22. What do you call an aircraft carrier with no aircraft? HMS Queen Elizabeth.
  23. James Ron: IR Profs Should Teach Religious Fluency
  24. The Case Against the Case Against Blast Weapons II: Stigma and banning on intent vs effect (and a response to Charli Carpenter)
  25. Between Scylla and Charybdis
  26. Plagiarism and Frank Fischer
  27. The Drone and the Cyborg
  28. When Myths Meet Reality in Iraq and Afghanistan
  29. What’s Intriguingly Not Getting Discussed at ISSS/ISAC…
  30. The Political Economy of Journal Citations
  31. Credit and penalty
  32. The Blogs of War
  33. Denied-ada. Canada fails to get a UN Security Council Seat. (But how many EU Nations do we need on there anyway?)
  34. And the AL Cy Young Award Should Go To…
  35. Explosive Arguments
  36. Mobile Duck: Wireless for War?
  37. The Osirak Myth (again)
  38. Whither Human Security?
  39. Kandahar and My Lai; Drone Strikes and Carpet Bombing
  40. A gulf in understanding?
  41. Homeland Security Heads Roll in Pennsylvania—But the GWOT Keeps on Rolling
  42. Fun and Games in Delhi
  43. The Case Against the Case Against Blast Weapons
  44. Negotiating with the Taliban
  45. The Calculus of Counter-narcotics

September 2010

  1. Flashback: Afghanistan “Mission Accomplished”
  2. Austerity, unicorns, and political economy
  3. You can’t create national security policy in a vacuum
  4. Applied Signaling: Pajamas and 3-year olds
  5. Prisoners of America’s Wars (A shameless self-promotion kinda morning…)
  6. Metrics for Winning Hearts and Minds
  7. Another war on terror outrage: asylum denied
  8. Marty Peretz, Harvard, and the First Amendment
  9. Miliband of Brothers (Stolen from Channel 4, but too good not to reuse)
  10. Revolving Doors, Lobbyist Edition
  11. Bill Clinton and the Russian Israelis
  12. To explain the origin of exchange, you must explain the origin of trust
  13. Cyber warfare and legal responsibility: drifting further apart?
  14. Moral Movements and IR Theory
  15. “We should not see moving out of academia as a failure”
  16. Pennsylvania’s Perverted “War on Terror”
  17. Predicting flu outbreaks, fashion trends, and political unrest with social networks
  18. Creeping Reasonableness
  19. Irrelevance of the third kind
  20. Fresh (and Re-Freshed) Duck
  21. Book Blegging
  22. Toward a Post-Zombie IR
  23. Driving Parents Crazy: Why are some violent radicals fathers?
  24. The Latest in Mole Whacking
  25. The new Global Views survey is here! The new Global Views survey is here!
  26. Relevant? Who Me?
  27. Institutionalized Riot Systems and the Hyper-real Koran
  28. The Local is Global
  29. Much Ado in Mostar
  30. The APSA Drinking Game
  31. Debate Day
  32. The World’s Most Dangerous Crisis
  33. My Summer with Religious Rights
  34. Preemption News

August 2010

  1. And now for something completely different–fantasy football geekery!
  2. Methodology411: the jury of one’s peer reviewers
  3. I wonder if he’s got facebook?
  4. What I Learned At Nerd Camp
  5. A Rock in the River
  6. Coalition of the Unwilling: Final Edition?
  7. Indian Pro-Americanism
  8. The Danger of Data without Theory
  9. Smart Bombing War Criminals While Avoiding Civilians
  10. How About Some Collateral Damage Control?
  11. Could Simple Automated Tools Help Wikileaks Protect Its Afghan Sources?
  12. Web 2.0 and the IR Profession
  13. That’s President Timberlake to You!: Which Rock Stars Should Rule the World?
  14. Lessons in Globalism from Patong
  15. Another Iran data point
  16. Good Norms, Bad Norms
  17. Perspective
  18. Duch-ing the issue: International Justice in Cambodia?
  19. It’s hot out there…
  20. Wikileaks and “War Crimes”

July 2010

  1. The ticking clock(s) on Iran…
  2. “An AQ/Taliban Executioner’s Dream.”
  3. UN Passes “Right to Water”: Diplomacy everywhere but not a drop to drink.
  4. Children shouldn’t have Strontium 90
  5. Identifying Groupthink
  6. From QIZ to ROZ
  7. Why states shouldn’t count on Facebook for foreign policy
  8. Kosovo: Countrified!
  9. The Transit Trade Agreement
  10. Top Secret America: The Garrison State has arrived
  11. What I Ended Up Reading in Between World Cup Matches Abroad
  12. Hypocrisy watch
  13. International Justice Day
  14. The IDF’s blog campaign
  15. Congratulations Spain!
  16. Fatwas and Football…erm… Soccer (or Bend It Like Osama)
  17. The Oceanic Conference on International Studies (and Finally, Some Thoughts on Feminist Method)
  18. It’s radical, man.
  19. Turning up the heat on Iran
  20. Hybrid car bleg
  21. The Poppy Cultivation Blame Game
  22. Happy Canada Day!

June 2010

  1. What I’ll Be Reading on the Plane to Thailand
  2. In the blogosphere…
  3. What Exactly is a “Human Security Perspective” Anyway?
  4. Beach Book Blegging
  5. Some NPT Reading… if you’re out of summer novels.
  6. Free at Last
  7. oh boy….
  8. De-ComposingConstructing the Zombie Menace
  9. Would A Few Trillion Dollars Really Help Afghanistan?
  10. Meanwhile, in the West Bank
  11. Methodology411: feminist methodology?
  12. The ICC Review Conference : The Belgium Amendment
  13. So long for now, New England
  14. Taking it Personally
  15. Nuclear Myanmar
  16. Social Media, Politics and the Academy
  17. Relieved? Why HEU should still worry.
  18. Sanctioning Iran
  19. The Revolution will be televised
  20. Developments in the Longest War
  21. Does Democracy hinder economic growth?
  22. What If Political Scientists Wrote the News?
  23. RIP, Home
  24. Tapping into the Tea Party sentiment to close Guantanamo
  25. Peace Jirga
  26. War and the Economy
  27. Belligerence 101: North Korea options
  28. On the Israeli Convoy Raid – briefly
  29. Visualizing National Security Rhetoric

May 2010

  1. Happy Memorial Day
  2. The downsizing of WMD
  3. “Disappearing” Intersex, Trans, and Genderqueer Persons
  4. Open Thinking-Outside-The-Box-on-How-To-Out-Crazy-North-Korea Thread
  5. What ISA Can Learn from Small Niche Conferences
  6. UK Torture Inquiry: Our BFD?
  7. What “New Rules of War?”
  8. Worst. Treaty. Name. Ever.
  9. Shameless Self-Promotion
  10. “Courageous Restraint” Medal
  11. Iran’s setbacks: Buying time?
  12. The War at Home
  13. Nuclear transparency
  14. DVD review; “Capitalism: A Love Story”
  15. I’m For Europe
  16. And Justice for All?
  17. The (Final!) Johnny Foreigner’s Guide to the UK Election: (Insert ‘well hung-parliament’ joke here.)
  18. Young men who don’t have anyone to screw blow themselves up?
  19. Is It Time to Ban Explosive Weapons in War?
  20. How Wars End: V.E. Day 65 Years On
  21. British diplomacy…a classic tutorial
  22. Peace Settlements May Do More Harm Than Good.
  23. America’s resource curse
  24. Watching Hunger
  25. Threat inflation: intergalactic edition

April 2010

  1. Headlines
  2. The Johnny Foreigner’s Guide to the UK Election Part III – Cursing old ladies edition
  3. Anyone have any old drachmas?
  4. Professor Fred Halliday
  5. “Step One to a messy divorce”
  6. “If You Want to Change the World, Change the Armies.”
  7. Brutality and Counter-insurgency
  8. Information
  9. Monitoring the NGO Sector
  10. The Johnny Foreigner’s Guide to the UK Election Part II – The Second Great Debate
  11. “Statistics is the New Grammar”
  12. What Are the Hardest Problems in the Social Sciences?
  13. Reading Andrea Dworkin to Write Feminist IR?
  14. Social Construction and Deceit
  15. My plans for the weekend
  16. Making the World Better through Online Gaming?
  17. Making Factories Disappear during War
  18. Garzon’s Reign in Spain Falls with Mainly Who to Blame?
  19. Would you like to map a pandemic?
  20. The Robin Hood Tax
  21. Geopolitics and Empire
  22. Is Putin the Right Man to Head Smolensk Crash Investigation?
  23. The Johnny Foreigner’s Guide to the UK Election (in where I demonstrate a very poor knowledge of UK politics.)
  24. Nuclear Arms Control
  25. New Nuclear Posture
  26. Methodology Lessons: DOE’s Natural-gas Overstatement
  27. Disorder
  28. Smashing as Feminist Practice?
  29. The Ethics of State Involvement in Women’s Health
  30. The Flimsy Case for Drone Warfare
  31. After the Surge
  32. Nuclear Protected Terrorism

March 2010

  1. Debates in Canadian Foreign Pol… Wait! Don’t leave!
  2. Speaking of (half-hearted) apologies…
  3. What’s in an apology?
  4. The Problem With Online Petitions
  5. Epistemethodology (and Feeling?) in IR
  6. Operation Omaid in Kandahar
  7. Cyber-War: Emerging Threat or Phantom Menace?
  8. “Girls Don’t Do Math Past Algebra”
  9. Seeing the whole board on financial reform
  10. What is the status of CIA drone operatives in international law? (Short answer: I don’t know, but that shouldn’t matter.)
  11. Digital Burqa
  12. Margaret Moth
  13. Methodology411: Nemesis
  14. Things I Learned Doing My First Bloggingheads Diavlog
  15. The Latest on U.S. Militarism
  16. Are you #^&@%! kidding me?
  17. Pondering Social Media and Global Civil Society
  18. The “Sea Witch,” Ann Hopkins, and Why We Never Seem to Learn about Sex and Gender
  19. Unlawful Combatants at the CIA
  20. Rock ‘n Roll ‘n IPE
  21. Battling a Straw Man and Still Losing
  22. What, me Worry? The Financial Crisis
  23. Delaram
  24. Afghan Perceptions of Operation Moshtarak
  25. Current “Current Intelligence”
  26. Methodology411: science and truth
  27. Dissing Biden
  28. My £0.02 on the “Keep America Safe” Crowd/”al-Qaida Seven”
  29. Foreign Funders Should Donate More Wisely
  30. The Hurt Locker, again
  31. For Only $3,000 You Too Can Read My Latest Piece
  32. Foreign Policy Charade
  33. Agathe Habyarimana, France, and the Rwandan “Genocidaires” fifteen years on
  34. Think like a methodologist
  35. Methodology411: defining “methodology”
  36. Announcing “Methodology411”
  37. When promises are credible signals
  38. Paintings, Pictures, and Power
  39. Is there a legal obligation to report war casualties?
  40. Got the post-Olympic blues?

February 2010

  1. Biological Weapons
  2. More ISA Redux: Diversity Issues in the International Studies Association
  3. Peace Talks and Terror Tactics
  4. Explaining, broadly understood
  5. Sudan’s Truce: A turning point or a simple pause?
  6. Wilson’s legacy
  7. More late post-ISA thoughts
  8. ISA — Katrina’s Legacy
  9. Gender and Security: Theory and Practice
  10. More ISA highlights
  11. The Transmogrification of Scholarly Discourse: More Insights from ISA
  12. Thinking About Gender and Security Studies at ISA
  13. Let the Post-ISA Blogging Begin…
  14. Mullah Baradar and Stringer Bell
  15. ISA: Renewing my call for comedy
  16. Is Sovereignty the Worst Organizing Principle — Except for All the Others?
  17. Does Social Science Training make us Selfish and Immoral?
  18. How ISA is Different from the Olympics
  19. Dictators, Torture Conventions, and Signaling
  20. Google On The Defense
  21. Who Dat? Old Chap!
  22. The Hurt Locker
  23. The Oatmeal Olympics
  24. Olympic (Pipe) Dreams
  25. Who Wants to Bomb Iran?
  26. Gates Grilled at Pakistan’s National Defense University
  27. Queer Politics/the International Studies Association
  28. Financial Lobbies and State Capture (or why IPE is now so much fun)
  29. Reputational Rhetoric: When does it work?
  30. The World According to Realists or, “Never Go In Against a Sicilian When Death is On the Line”
  31. Overcoming Fears of Unicorns and Rainbows
  32. Operation Moshtarak
  33. Canadian Banks do it Better
  34. Rethinking War Deaths in the Congo
  35. US Contemplated Giving India Nuclear Technology in 1961
  36. The UK Iraq Inquiry: The Agony and the Ecstasy or International Law and Deja Vu
  37. Two philosophers shoveling snow
  38. The Short Career of Hakimullah Mehsud
  39. Hello Ducks
  40. Israel’s Integrated Military
  41. Why Sign the Torture Convention If You Plan to Torture?
  42. Re-schooling IR Theorists
  43. Randomized Controlled Trials: Just Abstain
  44. Obama’s Lesson on Audience Costs
  45. Applying Social Science Concepts to Business: E-Book Edition

January 2010

  1. Open Thread on “Caprica”
  2. Isn’t All Politics Global?
  3. Thinking about gender and foreign policy
  4. My IR Theory Syllabus, FWIW
  5. Macro rap — who knew?
  6. The Afghan Detainee Abuse Scandal in Canada
  7. Defining Corruption
  8. Hamiltonian Failure?
  9. Sam Eagle: The Original Neo-Con
  10. Congratulations to “Kinshasa Symphony”
  11. Scott Brown and the end of the Transatlantic Security Community?
  12. Online Security Jam
  13. “What to Read on Gender and Foreign Policy”
  14. Politics and Infographics
  15. Breaking News: ISA Enters 21st Century With New Powerpoint Policy
  16. Academics Probably Make Bad Spies
  17. Unfolding Lessons of Haiti
  18. Haiti
  19. Juggling Blog-spots
  20. How to Win the War on Terror
  21. The Real Climate Negotiations
  22. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: “We Decided That These Would Be the Social Norms Now”
  23. Fueling the fire in Yemen.
  24. Good news on Iran?
  25. Sailing up stream….
  26. Gitmo
  27. Paul Campos: “Stop Playing Terrorball”
  28. James Fowler: Formidable Opponent
  29. Is the jury out on universal jurisdiction?*
  30. The sources of Uganda’s anti-gay bias
  31. The Top 12 Emerging Human Security Issues of the Next Decade

2009 398

December 2009

  1. Which New Year’s Eve would you rather celebrate?
  2. Facebook Back in the Hot Seat
  3. Susan Strange was (mostly) Right
  4. Kidnapping
  5. Pakistan’s Supreme Court Recognizes Third Gender
  6. Donuts and Diplomacy
  7. Pandora’s Balks
  8. Happy Festivus
  9. Is there a Santa Claus?
  10. Melowdrama, thy name is Schweller
  11. Coming Soon…..Ataque de Panico
  12. Open-ended vs. Scale Questions: A note on survey methodology
  13. Aasif Mandvi, Our Future Overlord
  14. A Seat at the Table
  15. On The Ecology of Human Insurgency
  16. New Year’s Ducks
  17. Speaking of Fatality Data…
  18. “OMG”: War Death Statisics Reconsidered
  19. Name That Planet: Open Thread on “GJ1214b”
  20. Waterworld
  21. Grading IR 101 Through Film: Another Bleg
  22. Territoriality and Beyond
  23. Even More Thoughts on Obama’s Oslo Speech
  24. Join a Live Web Seminar on Drones and International Law
  25. The Other Swiss Referendum
  26. Further Thoughts on Obama’s Oslo Speech
  27. Obama’s Oslo Speech and Climate Change
  28. Peer Review
  29. Selling the Afghan Surge
  30. Droning On
  31. Wal-mart Isn’t Green
  32. A Nitpicky Critique of The Fat Tail’s Application of IR Theory
  33. Flash the message…ten red balloons
  34. Crowdsourcing Syllabus Design: A Bleg
  35. The Next Big Human Security Campaign?
  36. Obama’s Afghan Plan
  37. 2010 Grawemeyer winner
  38. Going to court

November 2009

  1. Scott Pelley to Wal-Mart: Stop Using Congo Gold in Your Jewelry
  2. Sovereign Debt: The Next Financial Contagion?
  3. Happy Thanksgiving
  4. Obama Administration Won’t Join Landmine Treaty.
  5. Should Video Game Companies Be Penalized for Not Teaching War Law?
  6. Baroness Ashton of Upholland?
  7. Blow Up the Death Star on Iphone
  8. An LGBTQA Caucus for ISA
  9. Women’s Bodies on the National and International Agenda
  10. Praying for the end of time
  11. Seeking Grawemeyer Nominations: 2011 Prize
  12. Simulations in IR Pedagogy
  13. Visualizing War
  14. Tallying Collateral Damage
  15. Not getting enough of real war?
  16. Syria updates
  17. How Many of War’s Civilian Casualties are “Collateral Damage”?
  18. Pakistan’s Bigger Picture
  19. “Freedom Fries” A Threat to National Security
  20. Step Aside Blackwater/XE Services…
  21. I Am Shocked, Shocked To Learn That Human Rights Reporting is Political
  22. It’s a minus-sum game
  23. The External Validity of Terrorism Studies on Israel/Palestine

October 2009

  1. Representing Children of Genocide
  2. Nuclear news
  3. …didn’t see this coming….
  4. Karadzic trial
  5. Bosnia Faltering
  6. Drone Wars Kill on Average 33% Civilians
  7. (S)Light Reading
  8. Radical definitions of gender
  9. Human Rights Watch: Between Two Worlds
  10. Uh oh…
  11. Youth Violence in Rio and Elsewhere
  12. Would be Live-Blogging the ISSS/ISAC Conference
  13. Obama’s Decisionmaking Style
  14. Russia and the Responsibility to Protect
  15. More Momentum for the Social Sciences–Nobel Edition
  16. The Logic of Violence in Counterinsurgency
  17. EU Russia-Georgia Report Redux
  18. Sunday Zombie Blogging
  19. Rugby Now An Olympic Sport
  20. Peace Prize
  21. “Oslo Beats Copenhagen”: President Obama Awarded Peace Prize
  22. Mad Scientists? Try Bemused.
  23. “Women as Prey” in Guinea
  24. URGENT: Stop Coburn Amendment to End NSF Program for Political Science
  25. Read any good books on Afghanistan?
  26. Basterds All
  27. USA, USA, USA….
  28. Whodunnit: The Five-Day War
  29. Evaluating Galbraith’s dissent

September 2009

  1. “In Chess, Why is the Queen More Powerful Than the King?”
  2. Tsunami Kills Dozens on Small Pacific Island
  3. Yugoslavia is now gone….
  4. Buena de Mesquita: “Iran Is Moving in a Healthy Direction.”
  5. Threat Detection
  6. The limits of our diplomatic capabilities
  7. Security Forces Deployed Acoustic Cannon Against US Civilians
  8. How Multilateral Can Obama Be?
  9. Certain G20 Protesters Senselessly Ravage Beautiful American City Clash With Police in Pittsburgh, Giving the Rest a Bad Name. And For What?
  10. The legitimacy of America’s wars
  11. “Not in Anyone’s Backyard”: Andrew Yeo on the “No Bases” Network
  12. “Success is Still Achievable”
  13. Obama: “I Was Actually Black Before the Election.”
  14. Taking Drezner’s Challenge (Kind of)
  15. Afghan Statebuilding
  16. Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day
  17. More Weekend Geek Blogging
  18. This Movie is Every Kind of Sick.
  19. Fresh Duck Meat
  20. On Afghanistan
  21. Crowdsourcing Data Coding
  22. China: democracy and warlords
  23. Reading Fareed
  24. The Security Council Goes Nuclear
  25. Dan Drezner on Gender ….
  26. “How Can we Make Civility Interesting?”
  27. Goodbye….
  28. The Joys of Reading a “Real” Newspaper
  29. “Men” at “War”: Reflections on “The Hurt Locker”
  30. The ‘Soft Sciences’ to get their Day?
  31. Research and Data on September 11 Terrorist Attacks
  32. The Importance of Saying Sorry
  33. What Stormtroopers Do In Their Free Time
  34. Truth or Travesty? A Fallen Marine’s Last Moments
  35. Web 2.0 and “Politics”
  36. APSA AutoTune Blogging

August 2009

  1. Bosnia On the Brink?
  2. President Uribe Has Swine Flu.
  3. Post hoc ergo propter hoc
  4. Apologies Matter
  5. The Complexities of Signaling
  6. Sting Operations
  7. The “Neda” Effect in Sri Lanka
  8. Ted Kennedy
  9. Better Political Forecasts through Crowdsourcing
  10. The Zombie Plague Has Gone Viral
  11. A Giant Moves On.
  12. If You Haven’t Seen This Movie, You Probably Should.
  13. Election Results from Afghanistan
  14. Web Architecture and Children’s and the Media in Cross-National Perspective
  15. Extraordinary Rendition and Detainee Abuse are Two Separate Policy Problems. Let’s Treat Them As Such.
  16. The Political Geography of “Risk”
  17. Westphalian Illusions
  18. Piracy as a Signal of Value?
  19. The Practice of Diplomacy
  20. Breakdown of Troop-Contractor Distribution in Iraq and Afghanistan
  21. Do I Need (Yet Another) Conference Tote Bag? Um… No.
  22. Summer Vacation Discriminates Against Poor Kids
  23. America’s Spy-Roads
  24. Rememberification
  25. A Nuremberg for Guantanamo?
  26. How is the Afghanistan Election Model Different?
  27. Troubling Questions About the Afghan Election
  28. Two More Ideas About Prison Reform
  29. Three Ideas for Fixing Our Prison System
  30. Back in the Saddle
  31. “Obama Optimistic About Mideast Peace”
  32. Speaking of Coding
  33. Your Cynical Cartoon of the Day
  34. What is Coding, Anyway?
  35. If A Computer Model Says It, It Must Be True
  36. The IR Analogy
  37. Climate Politics: IR and the Environment
  38. ABM in the Social Sciences
  39. Bolton needs to re-read Arms and Influence
  40. Infographic of the day: Global Developmental Aid Flows
  41. Web Architecture Strikes Back
  42. “The Week in Facebook”
  43. Better When French
  44. Shipwrecked
  45. Ipod Touch Bleg
  46. The International Studies Compendium Project
  47. Branching Out

July 2009

  1. There’s Treasure Everywhere
  2. Desertification between the rivers
  3. Interpreting Terrorists’ Strategies
  4. The Problem of State Capacity
  5. Is America cool again?
  6. Use it or lose it
  7. What I’ve Been Reading This Month
  8. Why I don’t expect I’ll ever be Secretary of State
  9. SIgning off
  10. Losing my religion (or Jimmy Carter follows me)
  11. This vote really matters!
  12. Modern conservativism and all that…
  13. Bernanke op-ed in the Wall Street Journal
  14. We chose to go to the moon–not because it was easy but because it was hard
  15. David Nexon on healthcare reform
  16. Wanker of the day
  17. Identification and clientelism
  18. Blah
  19. A “war on slavery?”
  20. Beyond the lessons of empire
  21. Voting with their feet
  22. 40 years after One small step
  23. Rethinking liberal arts
  24. The Mathematics of War, Revisited
  25. Modeling Torture, and the Ethical Dilemma of the Results
  26. ISA Book of the Decade
  27. Sonia Sotomayor, Gender, and Knowledge in Politics
  28. Hello, my name is ….
  29. A McNamara Syndrome?
  30. Lions and tigers and new ducks, oh my!
  31. RIP: Robert McNamara
  32. Palinology
  33. Oops
  34. Changes afoot

June 2009

  1. Cheney: The Most Dangerous Veep Ever?
  2. Bonus video
  3. Friday Putin fix
  4. Revisiting Skocpol on Iran’s Revolution
  5. Is Obama channeling Bush?
  6. Health Care Reform
  7. My Final Two Cents for the Summer
  8. The US keeps coming back for more…
  9. Do you hear the people sing?
  10. Joking cousins
  11. Tripe for sale!
  12. Why not just burn money instead?
  13. The North Korean nuclear test: something doesn’t smell right
  14. What to watch for
  15. The not-so-twittered revolution
  16. How do you say ‘hanging chad’ in Persian?
  17. What if…?
  18. Tha’ts not a window on the world, that’s a bloody mirror you’re staring into!
  19. Academics say the darndest things….
  20. Apropos my last post
  21. Elite cohesion faltering in Iran.. or just kubuki theater?
  22. Regime adaptation and anti-regime collective action
  23. Nate Silver on Iranian Elections
  24. Iran, competitive authoritarian regimes, and fraud
  25. Estimating the Degree of Election Fraud in Iran: Nate Silver, are you out there?
  26. Query: IPE and Blogging
  27. Balancing: A Reply to Tobias Harris
  28. Some thoughts on the American politics topic du jour
  29. Balancing, Uncertainty, and Domestic Politics
  30. Domestic terror
  31. Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando
  32. Science Fiction, Popular Culture and the Concept of Genocide
  33. Balancing Behaviors?
  34. Pseudononymity and Rulesets for the Blogosphere
  35. Oh Deer, what can the matter be?
  36. Obama Addresses Islamic World in Cairo, Egypt
  37. Jobs and Vocations
  38. Your life’s work
  39. Some Rambling Thoughts on the Qual/Quant Pseudo-Divide
  40. The Academic Vocation
  41. Is IR Really a Science? Let’s Find Out

May 2009

  1. Petraeus Doesn’t Take the Bait
  2. A New UN Super-Agency for Women
  3. North Korea explodes nuclear device
  4. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
  5. Sometimes a little IR theory goes a long way
  6. Ire of Newt
  7. KSM: NIMBY?
  8. The War that Matters
  9. Seizing the Middle Ground?
  10. Boldly go [contains spoilers below the fold]
  11. The Accused
  12. The dangers of alliterating without a license
  13. Torture and Truth
  14. Realism, anarchy, and domestic politics: an impolitic response to Peter H.
  15. When I was a child….
  16. Un-Realist-ic Walt
  17. No (tt) Job for You
  18. Spoiler Alert: My Take on the New Sar Trek
  19. Everyone’s a Critic
  20. Guest Blogging the Afghan Civilian Casualty Count
  21. Everybody’s Talking IR These Days
  22. Pakistan To Enforce “Sharia” in Swat
  23. The Georgia “Mutiny”
  24. Walt, Walt, don’t tell me….
  25. Strike a blow for political freedom and get rich!

April 2009

  1. Armageddon and discount rates
  2. You never miss it until it’s gone
  3. Neorealists as Critical Theorists: Film Edition
  4. The flu: context
  5. It’s gone global
  6. Guest Post: Peter Henne on Turkey-Armenia
  7. Perpetual Hiring Difficulties II: Academageddon
  8. Edward James Olmos at the United Nations
  9. The Allah-father
  10. Troubling Advances in Pakistan: Signs of Failure? (updated)
  11. Peer reviewing: a call to arms (updated)
  12. Routes and Bases: Developments in Central Asia
  13. Can recession cause regime change?
  14. Cyber Developments: National Security Edition
  15. I’m shocked, shocked to find insurgents in this region
  16. Iraq: The Undead and the Dead
  17. Revenge of the Geeks
  18. Piracy and International Law
  19. YouTube and Politics Part 3
  20. YouTube Politics Part 2
  21. Numbers
  22. Significant developments on the WMD front
  23. YouTube and Politics
  24. Theory and Policy
  25. Déjà vu all over again
  26. There Be Game-Changes Afoot
  27. Who will buy the movie rights?
  28. Cambodia’s Curse
  29. Symposium Report
  30. Scribbles in My Notebook…
  31. Well, well, well.
  32. No such thing as a little bit nuked?
  33. Wanted: Catchy Book Title
  34. All conventional wisom is not created equal
  35. The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe
  36. G 20
  37. The new neighbors

March 2009

  1. Compellence
  2. Killer Robot Blogging at Complex Terrain Lab
  3. Expedient at What?
  4. Shadow War comes to light
  5. Overseas contingency operations
  6. Tim Burke responds to Jake DeSantis
  7. Corporate realpolitik
  8. Replace the Dollar?
  9. W(h)ither balance-of-power theory?
  10. Academia and “JournoList”
  11. Those were the days
  12. End the monstrous and grotesque hybrid
  13. Robin “Just Another Hood”? Really?
  14. But I was still waiting for my turn to participate in world domination….
  15. “Overheard” on Political Science Job Rumors
  16. YouTube and Politics Part 4: Digital Methods
  17. The Colonial Fleet Colonizes UN Headquarters
  18. Israeli threat inflation?
  19. Not At All Shiny
  20. One less department
  21. Random thought
  22. Perpetual Hiring Difficulties
  23. Haven’t they filled the protocol positions yet?
  24. Middle Cyclone
  25. IPE in the USA
  26. The end of the era of central bankers?
  27. ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Bashir, But Not For Genocide
  28. Iran’s bomb
  29. Nspd 1
  30. Laws of War and First Person Shooters
  31. Human Rights and Foreign Policy

February 2009

  1. Iraq: the light at the end of the tunnel
  2. Political theory vs. political science
  3. More on cats
  4. Following the theme of Animal Posting…
  5. Monkeys do not make good pets (or you’re no man in a yellow hat)
  6. Tortured Rhetoric
  7. Zombie scale?
  8. Realism and the Great Balance of Power Debate
  9. The foolishness of crowds
  10. Philosophy of science in a nutshell
  11. More ISA reflections: Technology, IR, and the study of IR
  12. Meteoric causation
  13. Some of What I Picked Up at ISA This Year
  14. ISA not live blogging
  15. Stephen Walt on Valentines Day and IR
  16. Alison Des Forges Dead in Buffalo Plane Crash
  17. Another year, another TRIP
  18. Obama’s NSC
  19. Depleted Uranium Munitions: Emerging Norm, or Propagandist Overreach?
  20. News flash: defections give dems filibuster-proof majority
  21. Alex Cooly on Manas
  22. Rally from war to election?
  23. Scientifically the “middle course” is not truer even by a hair’s breadth, than the most extreme party ideals of the right or left
  24. Iran’s Sputnik
  25. How do you say “Great Game” in Russian?
  26. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
  27. It’s About Time. (For Regime Change.)
  28. Manas: the hands of fate? (Updated)
  29. Hot deal for our UK readers
  30. Manas no more?
  31. Metaphors of War: Superbowl Edition
  32. Why the Kremlin worries (but not too much…yet)

January 2009

  1. Calling all hands
  2. Researchers identify “historic” Plutonium
  3. Condoleezation
  4. Grand-strategic vision name generator
  5. The Progressive Realist
  6. Obama at war: Pakistan
  7. Justify your existence
  8. Frackin’ Toasters
  9. XX
  10. Volleys in the war on terror
  11. My Two Cents on Obama’s Speech
  12. Theory: between experience and vision
  13. Our President
  14. A Fresh Start
  15. Content-free weekend
  16. The “war on terror” is over
  17. Teaching Evaluations
  18. Bush Confesses (Without Being Tortured). Now What?
  19. How much for an entire world?
  20. NGOs as the “New Colonialists”
  21. Silent coup?
  22. Tuesday Geek Blogging
  23. Leon comes in from the cold (updated)
  24. The Russia-Ukraine Gas Row
  25. Foreign Policy and the Blogosphere

2008 444

December 2008

  1. I’ve never met a man…
  2. Post-Holiday Bleg
  3. Happy Boxing Day!
  4. How to win friends and influence people
  5. Merry Christmas!
  6. The State of State
  7. Happy Solstice!
  8. Happy Chanukah!
  9. Foundations, Foreign Policy and NGOs
  10. Rice Gives Political Scientists a Bad Name
  11. On Norm-Building as a Vocation
  12. Storming DC
  13. Have pitchfork — will storm castle
  14. Who Throws a Shoe? Honestly!
  15. The Duck of Bush
  16. A Belated Birthday Present for the UDHR
  17. Hegemony, the Economy, and Baseball’s Winter Meetings
  18. The next attack today
  19. Obama and coal
  20. 2009 Grawemeyer winner
  21. Analyzing Obama’s National Security Team: change you can believe in?
  22. Next Nostradamus
  23. The Best Chicken EVER!

November 2008

  1. Krugman goes constructionist
  2. An Alternative to Gibbeting
  3. Will Afghanistan be Obama’s Iraq?
  4. Instead of Heading to the Mall Today, What Say We Nudge the EU to Protect Congolese Civilians?
  5. Thanksgiving
  6. Happy Thanksgiving!
  7. Why It May Be Good To Think Twice Before Opening Fire On Pirates
  8. Erosi Kitsmarishvili points the finger at Tbilisi
  9. Teaching IR Theory Through LOTR
  10. The Problems we face facing the Pirate Problem
  11. Pirates and Sovereigns
  12. Obama’s exit strategy?
  13. The CCP in a bind
  14. Pirates get ambitious
  15. Are we doomed?
  16. Hell hath no fury
  17. Celebrities: Blowback or Blow-off?
  18. The Undiscovered Country
  19. From Liar’s Poker to A House of Cards
  20. Can we collect benefits now?
  21. Political Economy
  22. The incredibly shrinking margin of victory
  23. Mother In Chief? Not Exactly Your Typical Feminism, But…
  24. Wordling Away The Time
  25. Explain this to me, and use small words because I’m pretty stupid
  26. I never thought that such a day would come, part II
  27. James Poulos on the future of conservatism
  28. The Election is Far from Over
  29. Donald Douglas goes completely insane
  30. Interpreting Obama’s victory
  31. The New Senate
  32. I never believed that such a day would come
  33. Nicely Done, Senator.
  34. President Barack Obama
  35. Election Results Open Thread 1
  36. Snap poll
  37. Breaking: evidence of MASSIVE VOTE FRAUD
  38. Opinion polls and the polling place
  39. My Electoral Predictions
  40. Early Indications of a big day
  41. Rethinking the Long “War”?
  42. Barack Hussein Obama and the promise of America
  43. Congo
  44. Best. Endorsement. Ever.
  45. When Mavericks Go Rogue
  46. The day after tomorrow
  47. Slow response for minuteman
  48. Oh noes!!!!!

October 2008

  1. Today’s intemperate remark
  2. Justice in Niger
  3. SAC-ked
  4. I wanna fly into your airspace
  5. McCain’s fundamental problem
  6. Still Going Nucular
  7. The resurrection
  8. Unreal America
  9. Do you live in the “real America”?
  10. “Is there something wrong with some seven year-old Muslim-American kid believing he or she could be President?”
  11. Multipolarity versus Hegemony: Is this really the right question?
  12. Bretton Woods 2.0
  13. When do we hit bottom?
  14. The really important things in life
  15. Quick Debate Thoughs
  16. That’s some pretty patchy fabric
  17. Down With Negativity!
  18. Oh, wait. There’s a debate on!
  19. Debate preview
  20. Motives, Action, and Ordinary People
  21. Foucault 101
  22. Vox populi?
  23. Asking the Wrong Questions
  24. Hello, hoist. Meet petard. Oh, you already know each other?
  25. Stick a fork in it?
  26. Before they disappear into the ether
  27. Just because
  28. A question to our readers
  29. Svalbard update
  30. Guilt by association: the other side of the coin
  31. The anatomy of a mimetic smear
  32. Alternate realities
  33. It could be worse…
  34. Statistical noise alert
  35. The key to success
  36. Who is Randy Waterhouse?
  37. McCain’s “American Homeowner Resurgence Plan”
  38. Intervening to stop the Holocaust
  39. Initial thoughts
  40. D-blogging
  41. Ducking the Issues: The Candidates “Debate”
  42. Now might be a good time to consider panic
  43. Barak Obama and the Renewal of American Hegemony
  44. Measuring Linguistic Norms
  45. Robot Soldiers v. Autonomous Weapons: Why It Matters
  46. Meanwhile, Off the Coast of Somalia…
  47. Nuk-ya-lar Two-Step
  48. A cliché….
  49. “America is a nation of exceptionalism”
  50. Biden my time, Im-Palin myself
  51. The bailout, or, maybe McCain had a point
  52. al Qaeda’s electioneering
  53. Palinology
  54. A better job at telling the story…
  55. This Just In: Somali Pirates Are Definitely Human
  56. Neo-Bolivarianism in Lain America

September 2008

  1. Bailing out the bailout
  2. Russia wants a return to the post-9/11 status quo?
  3. Debate reaction – a few more thoughts
  4. Is McCain about to lose the post-debate?
  5. Debate reaction – Nexon
  6. Lets Debate the Debate
  7. Mid-Debate thoughts
  8. Ducking the Debate
  9. Be very, very, very, very afraid
  10. For What It’s Worth
  11. Those must have been some ugly internal polls
  12. Metaphor for an Endgame
  13. Defending Hamdan
  14. Monday’s piece of shallow analysis…
  15. Real money
  16. Bestir Yourselves, Ye Councils of Nations, and Smartly
  17. You’re no Harry Truman!
  18. Scribbles in My Notebook on AIG
  19. Courting Influence
  20. Make that “be very, very, very afraid.”
  21. Kabuki theatre, part something-or-other
  22. In other news
  23. Be very, very afraid
  24. Election perspective
  25. Hurricaine Ike
  26. September 11, 2001
  27. “Kill the invaders”
  28. Henry Paulson as “The Stabilizer”
  29. More smoke than fire
  30. Georgia, Framing, and the Aftermath of the Conflict
  31. I’ll say…
  32. Pakistan and Afghanistan: misguided strategic priorities
  33. The 2008 Presidential campaign trainwreck
  34. Pyongyang-ology
  35. The Wrong Palin
  36. The market punished Russia
  37. Supersharks: a new threat from Svalbard… or an opportunity?
  38. Breaking news from Russia – updated
  39. No Clone of Star Wars
  40. Practical problems
  41. Our talking heads! They are broken!
  42. War on Pakistan?
  43. Palin’s blacklisted books
  44. Done and done
  45. Until she spoke for herself…
  46. The question of the hour….
  47. The punditry game
  48. Russia mounts a counteroffiensive in the propaganda war
  49. APSA Redux: Georgia, Russia and the Future of Global Order
  50. The strong do what they will…
  51. Medvedev’s five principles

August 2008

  1. Yeah, right
  2. Introduction to constructivist IR theory: a video lecture
  3. Virtual APSA presentation: the “relational turn” in IR theory
  4. United Ossetia?
  5. Sarah Plain and Tall II
  6. Now I’m that idiot….
  7. Sarah Plain and Tall
  8. Obama’s speech
  9. The US to the left, China to the right….
  10. So much for proper procedure
  11. Liberal internationalism in a nutshell
  12. I know, I know…
  13. Totten and Georgia
  14. Un-Conventional Wisdom about the DNC
  15. Midway through the Democratic Convention
  16. Mapping the Human Security Agenda
  17. If I were an Obama media consultant….
  18. Russia recognizes Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence
  19. Threat inflation!
  20. Putin’s revenge
  21. Pakistan: the PML-N and PPP split as a case of more general dynamics
  22. Closing Olympic Observations
  23. Russia-US relations: Russia as spoiler?
  24. Hillary’s problem
  25. Lieberman and the Democratic Caucus
  26. Real life does not imitate the joke
  27. Maybe we’ve got it all wrong… (updated)
  28. Georgia: The Reuters “Bullet Points” and some of my own (updated)
  29. When Worlds Collide
  30. Kahl et al. on US Strategy in Iraq
  31. Why I have extreme dislike for Virginia
  32. A Conflict of position and maneuver (updated … and updated again … with photoshop-esque graphic)
  33. Recent analytic content on the Duck: a guide
  34. Cold War III? The state of Russian-US relations
  35. Caucasians behaving badly: Saturday news aggregation
  36. At last!
  37. Speaking of Genocide
  38. I leave my office and come home to a signed ceasefire….
  39. A typical conversation in my house
  40. Looting and ethnic cleansing in comparative perspective
  41. The “lessons” of Kosovo?
  42. Human Rights Watch Takes Aim at Russia and Pot-Shots at the U.S. Over Cluster Munitions
  43. Speaking of signals, mixed and otherwise – updated (yet again)
  44. Georgia stll on my mind – updated
  45. International Justice: Miscarriages and Misconstruals
  46. Russia-Georgia conflict: what the current evidence suggests
  47. Memo to Ross Douthat
  48. Georgia: retaliatory violence confirmed, US sends military forces as part of relief effort (and as a signal of US commitment) – updated
  49. Georgia epiologue: premature – updated
  50. The US and Georgia
  51. Georgia: Thoughts on what it might mean
  52. Global Strike Task Force
  53. Lines in the sand – updated
  54. Meanwhile, Outside of the Caucasus…
  55. Update: Caucasus Humanitarian Sit-Rep
  56. A plea for sanity and perspective
  57. A major lapse in judgment?
  58. Quick note on Georgia-Russia
  59. New phase in the propaganda war?
  60. Olympic Observations
  61. James Poulos on Georgia
  62. Dark Knights
  63. Charles King on Russo-Georgian conflict
  64. The US takes a hard line at the UNSC
  65. Casualty Counting
  66. The Black Sea Fleet
  67. Russia-Georgia: Saturday night news aggregation
  68. The Russian press
  69. Russian “Peacekeepers”?
  70. Goliath smacks David; slingshot missing
  71. Rob Farley works his way through the Georgia-Russia quagmire
  72. Olympic Dreams
  73. Guest Stint at Complex Terrain Lab
  74. Developments on the Georgia front
  75. Georgia-Russia: an alternative perspective
  76. Saakashvili: Georgia and Russia at war
  77. War in the Caucasus: not whether, but how long and among whom
  78. Geek Humor
  79. Back to the Future IV
  80. Cleveland’s Global Icon
  81. Truthy or Dare
  82. Blog math: tire-pressure edition
  83. No-nothing politics
  84. Ufos
  85. Some of the people, some of the time
  86. Eggheads Requested
  87. The Central Front Front and Center

July 2008

  1. Obama and the end of Hegemonic Declinism
  2. Cluster@*#! to the Boston Marriott
  3. Confessions of a Scrabulous Addict Afficionado
  4. Moving On
  5. Oil
  6. David Brooks, dont’cha think?
  7. (Soft) Power Politics
  8. Con–Sonar: Crazy Ivan!
  9. They clearly don’t think much of the Germans
  10. The Czech Republic: when a gaffe isn’t a gaffe
  11. Is drumming good for your health?
  12. Steinmeier’s Georgian march
  13. More on the Svalbard Zombie menace
  14. Mimetic textualism
  15. Tuesday Nonsense Blogging
  16. The Eight Year Itch
  17. Fish out of water?
  18. War and punishment
  19. Still not buying it
  20. Words on the SOFA
  21. Nationalism is not Neoconservatism
  22. Why Not Assassinate Mugabe? Why Not To.
  23. That’s just sick, or “we haven’t had a good Israel-Palestine flamewar here yet… let’s hope I don’t start one”
  24. Suspicious developments in and around Svalbard
  25. If Hitchens Says It, It Must be True
  26. No wonder they want world domination
  27. Doctrinal confusion
  28. Cognitive dissonance
  29. Russia and BMD: The BFD
  30. An “act of war”
  31. Online package manuscript tracking
  32. Base bargaining in the shadow of the 2008 election
  33. Punctuation
  34. Peer review: a quick query
  35. The hazards of burning oil
  36. Geneva 1.5 (Or, So You Want to Bridge the Theory/Policy Divide)

June 2008

  1. Must be the “new math”
  2. Blog note: new military offensive in Pakistan
  3. Blog note: North Korean sanctions
  4. Rap(e)in(g) International Law
  5. Iraq update
  6. Bad Week for the USAF
  7. Hillary supporters for McCain
  8. Child: Labor
  9. Thought of the day
  10. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before
  11. Djibouti and Eritrea
  12. Still Soveriegn After All These Years
  13. Done at Last, Done at Last, Thank God Almighty…
  14. Georgian dreams
  15. Global Norm Decline? Maybe Not.
  16. B-2 Crash
  17. That went fast.
  18. (Air) Forced Out
  19. In other news
  20. Being there

May 2008

  1. Human Rights and Responsibilities
  2. Is a war with Svalbard finally coming?
  3. Why we do Social Science the way we do
  4. No Torture, No Excuses.
  5. Election Fun
  6. Who said it?
  7. The stupidity, it burns
  8. Foreign Policy and Presidential Elections: Appeasement Part Deux
  9. You Can’t Appease Chris Matthews
  10. Appeasement Anecdotes
  11. Human Wrongs
  12. The Golf War
  13. SecDef to Military: Buy weapons you can use
  14. New “crimes against humanity”?
  15. A reasonable commute
  16. A Protection Paradox
  17. Why not invade Burma?
  18. Narrating the Democratic Primary
  19. Serenity Now
  20. The taboo
  21. A bleg
  22. Ruminations from Yasukuni
  23. If a caucus is held in the Pacific but nobody hears it, does the vote really matter?
  24. Skills Revolution
  25. Power outage
  26. Charles Tilly, 1929-2008

April 2008

  1. Globalization and the new world food crisis
  2. If only it was on You-Tube….
  3. Winning the other War of Ideas
  4. History Lesson: PA 2008
  5. History lesson: PA 1980
  6. From the Mouths of Junior Citizens
  7. Nuclear umbrella
  8. Which Dictator Are You?
  9. More Random Thoughts about Celebrity Activism
  10. Charles Tilly wins Albert O. Hirschman Prize
  11. Twitterpated by Bittergate
  12. Political Metaphors Not Firing on All Thrusters?
  13. Teaching from the blogosphere
  14. Charles Tilly video interview
  15. Reformed Trotskyites confront the “new great game”
  16. Feelings in Foreign Affairs
  17. John Stewart provides a constructivist analysis of Bush Administration policies
  18. Robert Keohane the Situated Scholar
  19. Deconstructing the Linguistic turn in Epistemology
  20. Fuzzy Logic
  21. Announcing a departure from the Duck
  22. Oh, my
  23. After Bush: plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose
  24. NATO enlargement: who’s fooling whom?
  25. April is the cruelest month
  26. Why I’ve decided to leave the academy

March 2008

  1. Kingdonian Activism?
  2. Beyond “Beyond the Bio Note”
  3. International Studies Association Convention, 2008!
  4. The Svalbard Threat: 60 Minutes edition
  5. Another Harry Potter and International Relations review
  6. Beyond the Bio Note
  7. The Politics of Personal Integrity
  8. An Interesting New Case of Global Norm Entrepreneurship
  9. A less technical version
  10. Answers for Brad DeLong
  11. Serbian government dissolves
  12. Not deep enough? Let me hand you a shovel…
  13. Set Phaser to Torment
  14. Meet the new boss…
  15. The role of al Qaeda of Iraq

February 2008

  1. Done! … for now (and with a jot of guilt, just as a bonus)
  2. Sage advice from the Prez
  3. Kitty Hawk to India?
  4. Svalbard: countdown to doomsday
  5. Think Harder, Professor Ratner
  6. Where is the Global Attention to Children Born of War?
  7. Cuba: El Tiante’s pitch
  8. “Kosovo is no better than us….”
  9. Domestic Politics vs. the National Interest
  10. Texas Two-step
  11. Kosovo declares independence
  12. Nerd beat
  13. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
  14. Exploiting the unipolar moment, part II
  15. How is this a good idea?
  16. Exploiting the unipolar moment, part I
  17. PTL returns
  18. The Glitterati Strikes Again
  19. Vote Donna Edwards in MD-04
  20. Strike in the Dark
  21. The joys of imperial management
  22. 2008 Election: New favorite Among Dems?
  23. Jack Bauer to the Rescue!!!
  24. Unipolarity in “perspective”
  25. Mind/body dualism
  26. Note to Jacob Weisberg
  27. Superbowl ads
  28. Svalbard update

January 2008

  1. No More Civilian Body Counts?
  2. Interpreting the surge in Iraq
  3. Obama on campus
  4. The emerging multipolar order
  5. What if a Caliphate had a Seat at the UN?
  6. Government’s Little Helper
  7. Realism and the balance of power: Deborah Boucoyannis weighs in
  8. Mr. Olmert, tear down this wall!
  9. The Russians have NUKES! and they’re willing to use them!
  10. Just Warrior or Just Misinformed?
  11. Why So Little Citizen Input In Security Policy?
  12. Conservative Fascism
  13. Patriot games
  14. Social Construction of Popular Wisdom
  15. Syria covers up
  16. Surge impedance
  17. Post-surge offensive
  18. Was it worth it?
  19. Syllabus: Advanced IR Theory
  20. Reader Challenge: Chuck Norris facts– Huckabee version
  21. Huckabee: conservativism and liberalism
  22. Bhutto–one more thing….
  23. Quality of life
  24. The more things change
  25. Primary notes
  26. The Bhutto Connection
  27. Not Such a Happy New Year…
  28. Happy New Year!

2007 239

December 2007

  1. A Mild Plea for Assistance
  2. Is Kenneth Waltz an IR Liberal?
  3. Ducking the Issues: What counts for Foreign Policy experience?
  4. Taken for a Ride
  5. Is there a Santa Claus?
  6. Spy-hard
  7. Why the United States shouldn’t withdraw from Iraq: abridged version
  8. The Year’s Under-reported Stories
  9. Help Wanted
  10. The evolution of punditry (updated again)
  11. The Middle Class rises again…
  12. The debate climate of the climate debate
  13. NATO Troops Should Redeploy to Protect Kosovar Serbs
  14. The Mitchell Report and Global Governance
  15. Putin’s plan
  16. Glitterati Power
  17. Oh Dana…
  18. The candidate
  19. Political judgment: Iraq edition
  20. More than 2 Americas
  21. Ducking the Issues: $97,000 isn’t as much as it used to be
  22. Debating at the first level of analysis
  23. Rights or Wrong? On Falsification in the Human Rights Issue Area
  24. Potentialities and possibilities
  25. Terrorism, the shopping mall, and global gun norms
  26. 2008 Grawemeyer winner
  27. Elections, Democracy, and USFP
  28. Maybe they’re more like us than we thought–UPDATED
  29. Happy Chanukah
  30. NIE open thread
  31. The well of lost academic papers

November 2007

  1. Guardian: poll fraud underway in Russia
  2. Reasoning with “Barbarians”
  3. Romeny on immigration: “don’t ask, don’t tell”
  4. CNN Suppresses Diversity, Polar Bears
  5. Iraqi International Initiative
  6. Resistance is futile
  7. MEPP take 2
  8. Darkness ahead
  9. OPEC and Iraq
  10. The decline in Iraqi violence
  11. Uses of theory
  12. Almost Completely Insanity
  13. Breathe easier, DC and NYC
  14. Condi hates on Al Gore and his Inter-Web
  15. Is neoconservatism still vibrant?
  16. Where’d you hide the body?
  17. Extended rant on Bush, Pakistan, and total hypocrisy
  18. Iran, the IAEA and the US
  19. Certifying idealism
  20. Between a Rock and a Hard Place
  21. Best blog post ever
  22. Forced assignments

October 2007

  1. Making it official
  2. Clear Images Produce a Cloudy Picture
  3. Link roundup
  4. O Captain! my Captain!
  5. Escalation: Turkey enters the war?
  6. Bush on WW 3
  7. UNAMI Report on Iraq: Dire, Grave Crises
  8. Sarah Sewall and COIN
  9. Like watching cats play with a mouse…
  10. Securing Our Survival
  11. An enigma wrapped in a riddle shrouded in mystery…
  12. Expert advice
  13. A downside of a shorter Ph.D. program
  14. Mearsheimer on Colbert
  15. Playoff time is here
  16. I just can’t seem to get enough of you

September 2007

  1. Social trajectories
  2. Bush: still alone on climate change
  3. Turmoil in Georgia
  4. Update on Burma
  5. Crackdown
  6. Meet the new cabinet, same as the old cabinet
  7. Photos from Myanmar
  8. A revolution in Myanmar?
  9. Extraterritoriality
  10. The Plot Thickens…
  11. The patron saint of nuclear weapons
  12. Super is as super does
  13. Realism vs. Idealism in US Foreign Policy
  14. Secret Strike (and the consequences of failure)
  15. Terrorism and your neighbor’s sex life
  16. And then there were…five?
  17. The deal with Zubkov
  18. Evidence that I am a cranky crank
  19. Shake up in Moscow
  20. Petraeus
  21. I’m sorry, but your computer has to come with us
  22. The Putin phenomenon
  23. Gut check
  24. Bush’s Attempt to find a Legacy
  25. Why does the Cheese Stand Alone?
  26. Neorealism and hypocrisy 101
  27. An empire of language

August 2007

  1. War with Iran?
  2. Jacksonian baseball
  3. Hayward Alker
  4. You can’t make this stuff up…
  5. Gonzales Resigns
  6. And some people wonder why I don’t assign anything by Thomas Friedman
  7. Be careful what you wish for
  8. Quick, fetch the smelling salts
  9. Steve Poe
  10. Missing the Invasion
  11. Just for the record…
  12. When do we get to call it “balancing”?
  13. Harry Potter: from hero to global commonplace
  14. No, they can’t walk and chew gum at the same time
  15. Concert of democracies: The liberal internationalist case
  16. Late-night musings
  17. Diversion dangers
  18. Mysterious missiles
  19. Depressing thought of the day
  20. Acting Chair
  21. Gas pains
  22. Ducking the Issues: Campaign 2008
  23. College Credit

July 2007

  1. The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my ideological match
  2. What Harry Potter inherits from Star Wars
  3. Why Harry Potter beats football as a topic of conversation
  4. The almost war with Iran
  5. Blame to go around
  6. Toward a neo-neo-Reaganite foreign policy
  7. Lukashenka shakes things up
  8. All media, good and bad….
  9. Going through the motions
  10. Expelliarmus!
  11. The State, Surveillance, and El Pollo Rico’s Pretty Good Chicken
  12. The Politics of the DH
  13. On 21 July 2007 I will return to total obscurity…
  14. Out
  15. Russia vs. Georgia
  16. Five Days in August
  17. Media appearance
  18. Run from Civilization
  19. Happy fourth: worried edition
  20. A Darkness of our own
  21. Speedboat diplomacy

June 2007

  1. Public diplomacy? We don’t need no stinking public diplomacy!
  2. Shell games
  3. Analogies of War
  4. Quick! Fetch the comfy chair!
  5. Everyone else is doing it…
  6. War of the words
  7. Sea of boxes
  8. Plenty of unwrapping to do
  9. UN poll
  10. Its About Time
  11. Bomb Iran?
  12. Reflection of the day
  13. Plan 9 from outta nowhere?
  14. The Convenant as Idrians? Cortana as a Mind?
  15. Iraq as Shakespearean Tragedy
  16. My face… it is very red
  17. Have fun storming the castle…
  18. Rome on the Potomac
  19. Iran negotiations
  20. Request for input: readings for a course on American Grand Strategy
  21. Federalism and Partition

May 2007

  1. How soft can power be?
  2. Uncomfortable facts
  3. Patrick Jackson on Memorial Day
  4. China Launches a Bid (for hegemony)?
  5. What’s at Stake in the American Empire Debate
  6. Condi’s dream and “the second surge”
  7. A new duckling…
  8. Weekend News Round-up
  9. MSF’s Foreign Policy
  10. The British gift for understatement
  11. Beisbol has been very very good to me
  12. Chavez’s Challenge (or the fatal flaw in his grand plan)
  13. A crisis in American generalship?
  14. Harry Potter analysis: Who will die? Who will survive? … in publishing
  15. Expensive War
  16. Three: Charm, Crowd, or Magic Number?
  17. The triumphant return of the resident expert
  18. This is rather embarassing

April 2007

  1. Whack-a-mole?
  2. Once again: please stop with the “Islamic Reformation” nonsense
  3. Credible Commitment problems with Iraq
  4. Globalization, ca. World War II
  5. “I think he is quite handsome”
  6. Perle vs. Perle: Perle loses
  7. Reacting to the tragedy at Virginia Tech
  8. Signs of Trouble
  9. Counter-Terrorism vs. Counter-Proliferation
  10. Enabling proliferation

March 2007

  1. Scholars and Politics
  2. Random thoughts between feedings
  3. Who’s feeling the heat?
  4. We apologize for the temporary slowdown…
  5. Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy: A Brief Addendum
  6. Weberian Activism
  7. J.D. Salinger and al Qaeda’s “Chinese Democracy”
  8. Reconstructing nationalism
  9. And Machiavelli hated republican forms of government, don’t you know?
  10. Why can’t it be both?
  11. “Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Betrays Impatience with President’s Toy Airplane Antics”
  12. China starts investing
  13. Doing the right (and left) thing on Iraq
  14. “For some reason, it is those journalists who are disliked by the authorities who die in this country”
  15. Regular scheduled programming to resume soon

February 2007

  1. International Studies Association blogging
  2. wiki virtues
  3. The Comedy of Great Power Politics
  4. Twenty IR terms
  5. The William and Mary Survey, 2006-2007
  6. Assume A Rational Actor….
  7. Frenemies
  8. The North Korean Deal
  9. Dictators on Parade
  10. The Crash that Launched a Million Deaths
  11. The Looming Threat
  12. Why its so difficult to debate the war in Iraq
  13. Review of Harry Potter and International Relations
  14. Iran
  15. The Svalbard Threat
  16. Obligatory Superbowl Post
  17. Speaking of glocalization
  18. The relentness march of outsourcing
  19. Flat-Footed Empiricists of the World, Unite!
  20. Robert Farley and Jacques Chirac, ils sont d’accord
  21. Okay…..

January 2007

  1. Aliens Inpersonate President Bush
  2. Publicity
  3. An odd state of union
  4. Iran update
  5. Complaints of the petit bourgeoisie
  6. The role of a panel discussant
  7. The Last Best Chance for Iraq
  8. The politics of Iraq’s violence
  9. Previously on 24…
  10. The 2007 Counterterrorism desk calendar
  11. The price of failure in Iraq: my 2 cents
  12. Finally fighting “The War Within”
  13. The Other Shoes Drop
  14. Demotion or Intelligent Move?

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