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December 2012

  1. Fiscal Cliffs Notes
  2. NYE Links
  3. 2012 International Studies Blogging Awards: Final Call
  4. Liberalism all the way down? …. six hours on a plane with Judith Butler’s Frames of War
  5. Gang Rape and “Peaceful Death”
  6. Saturday Afternoon Linkage
  7. National Security and Civil Liberties meet Securitization and State Formation
  8. Friday Afternoon Linkage: Threat Edition
  9. Planning to be Shocked
  10. Scholar/Policy Gap – Filling Up The Glass
  11. Penultimate Call for Award Nominations
  12. Sean Kay: “The Scholar/Policy Gap in International Relations Revised”
  13. The Academic-Policy Nexus: a few more thoughts
  14. Oh, Shoot! I Forgot Morning Linkage!
  15. Happy Merry from the Duck of Minerva
  16. A Different Take on the URI Statement 2.0
  17. ‘I Find your Lack of Cheer Disturbing’ – Merry Christmas
  18. A Modest Victory in the Struggle Against Academic Fecklessness
  19. Monday Morning Linkage – Xmas Eve 2012 Edition
  20. Hydrogen Sonata Forum wrap-up
  21. The Hydrogen Sonata Forum: Iain M. Banks Replies
  22. The Academic-Policy Nexus (Or Lack Thereof)
  23. (Another) Ugly Underside of the Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
  24. Saturday Afternoon Linkage
  25. Dan Nexon on The Hydrogen Sonata: To Sim, Perchance to Dream
  26. PTJ on The Hydrogen Sonata: Actors on the Sci-Fi Stage
  27. Awards Update
  28. Iver B. Neumann on The Hydrogen Sonata: Religion and the Sublime
  29. Friday morning linkage
  30. Gerard van der Ree on The Hydrogen Sonata: “Learning From Utopia”
  31. Chris Brown on The Hydrogen Sonata: “A Triumphant Return to Form”
  32. Sex is Better Thursday Afternoon Linkages
  33. A Christmas present: a Forum on Iain M. Banks’ new novel
  34. Some Thoughts on the Korean Election: Left Blew a Good Chance to Win
  35. Crooked Timber Petition
  36. Podcast No. 16 – Interview with Robert Farley
  37. Why no Cuban Spring?
  38. Duck Takeover of Foreign Affairs on Schedule
  39. Academic Administrative Fecklessness
  40. New Podcast @ New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy
  41. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  42. Tuesday Late Afternoon Linkage
  43. Firearms-Related Research
  44. F*&k Freedom.
  45. Dispatch from Hong Kong: Asian Values?
  46. Another Brief Podcast Note
  47. Monday Morning Linkage
  48. Saturday Afternoon Linkage
  49. Note on Podcast No. 16
  50. Friday Afternoon Linkage
  51. Models, Maps, and Simplifying Assumptions
  52. Brian and Phil Hug it Out
  53. 5 Fox News Myths about the Fiscal Cliff – and no more ‘Cliff’ Metaphors either… please! stop!
  54. Another Awards Update
  55. The Role of Assumptions
  56. Why Sex is Best on Thursday Linkages
  57. Monti’s Exit: Predictable?
  58. Assume Nothing!
  59. Things that Made you Really, Really Stop and Think….
  60. Quick Note on ISSS Elections
  61. Ducks Everywhere
  62. Wednesday Morning Linkage Riffing
  63. Silicon wafers: Why we need to move religion online
  64. 10 Steps to Finishing a PhD Thesis (or book) in 6 Months
  65. Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012)
  66. Tuesday Morning Links
  67. International Studies Blogging Awards Update
  68. Monday Morning Linkage
  69. Happy Hanukkah!
  70. Black Pete’s Breakout Year
  71. Saturday Linkage
  72. Podcast No. 15 – Interview with Barry Buzan
  73. The All New, New Transatlantic Pivot – Trade
  74. Friday Morning Linkage
  75. When the Asian Growth Model Starts to Stumble, or how Korea could go like Japan if it’s not careful
  76. Thursday Morning Linkage
  77. Status, Cliques, and the Political-Science Job Market
  78. What’s Wrong With This Picture?
  79. Wednesday Mid-day Linkage
  80. In the year 2000….
  81. Leader Comebacks
  82. Guest Blogger News
  83. Tuesday Morning Linkage
  84. What I Did Not Know About the Prof Business
  85. Human rights NGOs: Just Hot Air?
  86. Monday Morning Linkage
  87. Follow Up on Academic-Policy Divide
  88. World AIDS Day 2012: A Moment for Optimism?
  89. Saturday Morning Linkage

November 2012

  1. Africa for Norway
  2. Podcast No. 14 – Interview with Michael J. Tierney
  3. Friday Morning Linkage
  4. The Susan Rice Fiasco
  5. The International Relations Discipline and the Rise of Asia
  6. Of Sultans and Soap Operas
  7. Wednesday Night Linkage
  8. A Semi-Canadian Perspective on the Academic-Policy Divide Debate
  9. “Dangerous Neighborhood:” Operation ‘Defensive Pillar’ and its Interpreters
  10. Parsing the DOD’s Directive on Autonomous Weapons
  11. 2013 Grawemeyer Award Winner
  12. Tuesday Morning Linkage
  13. Economist 2012 Conference on Korea: Foreign Ownership in Korea
  14. Climate Policy After Sandy – What Should be Done? Part III
  15. Winding Down in Afghanistan?
  16. International Studies Blogging Awards Update[d]
  17. Late Monday Morning Linkage
  18. Thinking the Unthinkable?
  19. James Bond, Ambiguously Gay Villains and Masculinity
  20. Happy Thanksgiving!
  21. Why Does John McCain Hate Susan Rice? Republicans and Benghazi
  22. Men with Guns (Goma)
  23. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  24. Tuesday Morning Linkage
  25. Global Civil Society Targets Killer Robots
  26. Monday Morning Gaza-Related Linkage
  27. Duck of Minerva Target of Hostile Takeover from Cat Fancy Magazine
  28. Friday Nerd Blogging
  29. Friday Morning Linkage
  30. More doubt about human security improvement
  31. Global Trends in Conflict-Related Sexual Violence. A Response to Green, Cohen, and Wood
  32. Tuesday Morning Link-up
  33. Institutions, Norms, and Cooperation
  34. What do we talk about when we talk about world wars?
  35. Monday Morning Linkage
  36. Duck-Proofing Help
  37. Skyfall and Cyberwar: James Bond Enters the Digital Era
  38. Podcast No. 13 – A Conversation with Nick Onuf (m4a)
  39. Friday Morning Linkage
  40. Nate Silver and a Dart Throwing Chimp Walk Into a Bar. . .
  41. Selectivity in the ICTR
  42. Textbooks, Ethics, and Choice
  43. Thursday Morning Linkage – US Election-Free Edition
  44. Negotiating with Terrorists
  45. Podcast No. 12 – SF and Pedagogy Panel at ISA-NE 2012
  46. Mandates!
  47. Podcast No. 12 – ISA-NE2012 SF and Pedagogy Panel (mp3)
  48. Podcast No. 12 – ISA-NE2012 SF and Pedagogy Panel (m4a)
  49. Wednesday Morning Election Reaction
  50. Hey! Poll Adjusters: Unskew This!
  51. Why I Voted for Barack Obama Today
  52. A Test of the New Podcast Feed
  53. Tuesday Morning Linkage
  54. Some US 2012 Election Predictions (Updated)
  55. THE ACTIVISTS: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets
  56. Monday Morning Linkage
  57. Whither constructivism?
  58. Five Election-Explaining Clichés I really don’t want to hear this Tuesday
  59. Prewritten November 7 Openings
  60. Politics in Everything: Michelle Obama’s Face Makes Kids Choose Healthy Treats
  61. Steve Shapin Reviews Michael Gordin’s The Pseudoscience Wars
  62. Wombs and Periods: the real threat to national security
  63. Sandy and Climate Change: Part II
  64. Thursday Morning Linkage
  65. Alastair Reynolds, Blue Remembered Earth
  66. Guest Post: What’s Wrong with the Human Security Report and the “Global Decline Claim”
  67. Halloween 2012, Nexon Style

October 2012

  1. Are Sandy and Climate Change Related? Part I
  2. All Hallows’ Eve Linkage
  3. Regional Variation in the Explanatory Power of War and Reason
  4. I find your lack of faith…disturbing
  5. ISA-NE Proceeding as Normal
  6. ISA-NE Status Report and Other Tuesday Morning Stuff
  7. Australia Embraces the “Asian Century”
  8. A New Era
  9. Joss Whedon on Romney and Zombies
  10. Should College Costs Reflect Benefits to Society?
  11. A Note on Newspaper Endorsements
  12. Monday Morning Linkage
  13. Trans-Partisan Challenge
  14. Nativism FTW
  15. 3rd Presidential Debate, Foreigner Version: If you’re not an American, you’re Mentally Ill or something
  16. Saturday Afternoon Video
  17. Note for ISA-NE Participants
  18. Saturday Morning Linkage
  19. Friday Morning Linkage
  20. Friday Nerd Blogging: “Autonomous Robots Launch Campaign to Ban Killer Humans”
  21. Thursday Morning Linkage
  22. Rejection
  23. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  24. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  25. Tuesday Morning Debate Reaction
  26. Right to leisure?
  27. Guest Post: Dave Kang – “Is America Listening to its East Asian Allies?”
  28. Announcing the 2013 Blogging Reception and Awards at ISA
  29. Three Things I’d Like to Hear During Tonight’s Debate
  30. Monday Morning Stuff: Foreign-Policy Debate Edition
  31. The Difference Parties Don’t Make?
  32. The Academic Job Market and The Draft
  33. Afternoon Video
  34. Saturday Morning Stuff
  35. Guest Post: A Rejoinder to Megan MacKenzie
  36. Friday Nerd Blogging
  37. Friday Morning Linkage
  38. International Law and Armed Conflict (Syria version)
  39. Thursday Morning Linkage
  40. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  41. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  42. When is it rational to leave graduate school?
  43. War Rape is Not Declining
  44. Explaining Butter for Bombs Agreements
  45. Snap Reaction: Foreign Policy and the 2nd Presidential Debate
  46. VP Debate once again tells the World that all We care about is the Middle East
  47. Should Progressives Vote Green?
  48. The Stupidest Article in Foreign Policy?
  49. If Flip-Flopping is a GOP Cardinal Sin, How can you Vote for Romney after that first Debate?
  50. Tuesday Morning Linkage
  51. EU and the Peace Prize (Round 3): M Tsvangirai should have Won
  52. Syria and Presidential Debate Bingo
  53. Notes on Hegemony and Symbolic Capital
  54. Ducklings!
  55. Monday Morning Linkage
  56. EU and the Peace Prize (Round 2)
  57. The Politics of the Hunger Games
  58. The EU Peace Prize
  59. Friday Morning Debate Reaction
  60. Announcement: The Duck of Minerva is Moving (UPDATED)
  61. Podcast No. 11 – Interview with Janice Bially Mattern
  62. Friday Morning Linkage
  63. Stuff Political Scientists Like #17: Outside Offers, or Stuff Other Political Scientists Like
  64. Does naval success invalidate the need for navies?
  65. Gender, Violence, War, Political Memory
  66. Technical Difficulties with Podcasts? (UPDATED)
  67. New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Meagan Spooner’s Skylark
  68. Turkey, Syria and the Geopolitics of Identity
  69. Bad Metaphors: Journals, Articles, and Pages
  70. Thursday Morning Debate Reactions
  71. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  72. Pop Music Brings a Lot More Readers than Social Science: Follow-up on ‘Kangnam Style’
  73. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  74. Human Rights Activism on the Cutting Edge
  75. Unionizing Adjuncts at Georgetown (Updated, and Again)
  76. Tuesday Morning Linkage
  77. I CAN HAS IR THEORY? 2
  78. Monday Morning Linkage

September 2012

  1. Pastiche Fantasy in Song of Ice and Fire
  2. Saturday Afternoon Video
  3. A Pre-Post-Mortem on Romney’s Defeat
  4. Concert of Asia in Crisis
  5. Syria and the magic wand
  6. How to Survive a Plague
  7. Podcast No. 10 – Interview with Vincent Pouliot
  8. Friday Morning Linkage
  9. I CAN HAS IR THEORY?
  10. (Political) Scientists
  11. A Return to Summer?
  12. A New Media Caucus at the ISA?
  13. The Diffusion of Oil Income Transparency
  14. Thursday Morning Linkage
  15. Slow boring…
  16. God and Man at Kale
  17. Urban Violence Web Seminar
  18. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  19. ‘Kangnam Style’s Irony is Missed b/c of the Publicity Wave
  20. Workshop + Monday Morning Linkage = Not Many Links
  21. Gangnam Style and IR
  22. Saturday Morning Linkage
  23. Podcast No. 9 – Interview with Kathryn Sikkink
  24. Brief Friday Morning Linkage
  25. Friday Nerd Blogging Actual
  26. RNC: Don’t Speak in a Publicly-Built Facility when you Attack Government – D’oh!
  27. Data is not the problem. Data is not the solution.
  28. Thursday Morning Linkage
  29. Friday Nerd Blogging: A Day Early
  30. New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy: D.B. Jackson’s Thieftaker
  31. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  32. Morning Link, with Commentary, on the Shrinking Place of Theory in Sociology and IR
  33. Can Kofi Annan Build Democratic Time?
  34. Duck of Minerva Podcasts
  35. Tuesday Morning Linkage: Things Fall Apart
  36. What’s Most Distressing about the Leaked Romney Video
  37. Monday Morning Linkage
  38. Saturday Musical Interlude
  39. Saturday Morning Linkage
  40. Podcast No. 8 – Interview with Daniel Levine
  41. A Short (and Hasty) Note on the Current Wave of Attacks
  42. Pyongyang isn’t ‘Laid-Back & Leafy,’ or What Parag Khanna didn’t Learn in NK
  43. Friday Morning Linkage
  44. “Reversing the Burden of Proof”: Tactic or Norm
  45. Friday Nerd Blogging
  46. Inside the Bubble, Round II
  47. On the “Reality of Nations”
  48. How did he screw this up so badly?
  49. All Mitt Romney Really Needed To Know He Never Learned In Kindergarten
  50. Inside the Bubble
  51. Thursday Morning Linkage
  52. In Weapons Advocacy as in Health, Prevention is Better Than Cure
  53. Foreign Policy to the Fore: Is Romney Below the Bar?
  54. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  55. Anti-American Violence in the Middle East: Agency, Morality, Politics, and (a) Flim
  56. Observations from Day One of 3MSP-CMC
  57. Repost: a Personal History of 9/11
  58. Tuesday Morning Counterfactual: No 9/11 Attacks
  59. The State of Human Security
  60. “Get the Big Idea Right”
  61. Can’t stop thinking about tomorrow…
  62. Monday Morning Linkage
  63. ASEAN+6 In the Lead
  64. “Kim Il Sung will always be with Us,” or what I learned in NK (4)
  65. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Methodological Tools: Social-Network Analysis Alert
  66. The Triumph of Liberal Internationalism?
  67. Saturday Afternoon Video
  68. Saturday Morning Linkage
  69. Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Don’t Achieve Truth or Reconciliation: Discuss
  70. Landmine Advocacy From The Digital Archive
  71. Romney’s Poland Obsession
  72. Podcast No. 7 – Interview with Alex Cooley
  73. Minimalist Friday Nerd Blogging
  74. A Short Note on Editorial Policies at the Duck of Minerva
  75. Friday Morning Linkage
  76. Lessons from Syria…thus far…
  77. “Kim Jong Il was Born on Mt. Paekdu,” or what I learned in NK (3)
  78. Thursday Morning Linkage
  79. Quick Questions (More SF&F Podcast Blogging)
  80. Scottish Secessionism
  81. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  82. Perspectives Ungated
  83. My Interview with Ken MacLeod
  84. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  85. Tuesday Morning Linkage
  86. “Of course the Americans Started the War,” or what I learned in NK (2)
  87. Monday Morning Linkage
  88. Terrorism and Terrorists: Political, Analytical, and Methodological Issues
  89. Saturday Afternoon Video(s)
  90. Belated Friday Nerd Blogging
  91. Saturday Morning Linkage

August 2012

  1. #virtualAPSA2012 – Issues of and Responses to Internet Governance
  2. “Against Dogmatic Bourgeois Flunkeyism,” or what I learned in NK (1)
  3. An Analysis of the Foreign-Policy Content of Romney’s Convention Speech
  4. Friday Morning Linkage
  5. #virtualAPSA2012 – Rob Farley, “Abolish the Airforce”
  6. The dull, adventureless journey of post-college life
  7. Thursday Morning Linkage
  8. #virtualAPSA2012 – Phil Arena, “Crisis Bargaining and Domestic Opposition”
  9. Irony’s Bucket List: Academic Journal Section
  10. Any good academic movies?
  11. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  12. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  13. #virtualapsa2012 Continued
  14. Virtual APSA? (updated)
  15. Tuesday Morning Linkage
  16. God of Tolerance Seeks Vengeance as APSA Short Courses Cancelled
  17. Monday Morning Linkage
  18. The New Political Science Game
  19. Reply on “physics envy”
  20. Yes, I do envy physicists
  21. Occupy APSA? The Queer Rights Version
  22. Where are the Women? Julian Assange Meets Todd Akin
  23. Perspectives on Politics: Special New Orleans Issue
  24. Saturday Morning Linkage
  25. Saturday Aftern… er, Morning Video
  26. Walt sings the praises of a liberal education
  27. Friday Morning Linkage
  28. Podcast No. 6 – The Brain-Melt Episode
  29. Friday Nerd Blogging Mash Up
  30. The Sino-Japanese Laser Cat War of 2012
  31. Thursday Morning Linkage
  32. The Tenure Two-Step
  33. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  34. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  35. Why Ferguson’s Newsweek Blather was Even Dumber than you Realized
  36. The Peculiar Stability of Instability
  37. Did the NRA Kill the Arms Trade Treaty?
  38. A Modest Defense of Terrorism Studies
  39. Legitimate Rape: A Weberian Analysis
  40. Is Anybody Out There?
  41. Tuesday Morning Linkage
  42. A warning to parents
  43. Call for Papers: Popular Culture and World Politics
  44. Against Journal Impact Factors
  45. Monday Morning Linkage
  46. Saturday Afternoon Video
  47. Friday Nerd(ish) Blegging: Is Soledad Obrien Taking Cues From HBO?
  48. Wight’s “Incommensurability” – An “End of IR Theory” Related Link
  49. Podcast No. 5 – Interview with Ted Hopf
  50. Friday Morning Linkage
  51. Thursday Morning Linkage
  52. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  53. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  54. Is Victory Bad for Business?
  55. Least Experienced Foreign Policy Ticket — Ever?
  56. Tuesday Morning Linkage
  57. The Long Peace
  58. Monday Morning Linkage
  59. Book Review: Arms Control – History, Theory and Policy
  60. That Exceptional Feeling
  61. Reflections on the Ryan Pick
  62. Saturday Afternoon Video
  63. Podcast No. 4 – the End of IR Theory?
  64. Plagiarism 2.0
  65. Friday Nerd Blogging Challenge Met!
  66. Friday Punctual Nerd Blogging/Blegging
  67. Friday Morning Linkage
  68. Lands of the Rising Sun
  69. Thursday Morning Linakge
  70. The Olympics Make You Care Less About Milwaukee
  71. Emerging Technologies, Material and Social
  72. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  73. Do Battle Droids Dream of Electric Medals?
  74. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  75. Field Reports
  76. Premature Friday Nerd Blogging
  77. New Page: Academia and Graduate School
  78. Crowdsource Request: New Books in SF and Fantasy
  79. Tuesday Morning Linkage
  80. The Great Journal Impact Factor Race, Web 2.x, and the Evolution of the Academy
  81. Military Capabilities: A Revionist Metric
  82. Monday Morning Linkage
  83. Why worry about an Iranian bomb?
  84. Saturday Afternoon Video
  85. Saturday Noontime Linkage
  86. Outrage Blogging Continues: Aliya Mustafina
  87. Grtfhthamak! Westphalia??! Pzht! Malx-kra.
  88. Can We Take Politico Out Back and Shoot it Yet?
  89. Podcast No. 3: Elkus and Atherton on “Grand Blog Tarkin”
  90. Friday Morning Linkage
  91. Friday Nerd Blogging, Redshirts Continued
  92. Is Feminism Back in Vogue?
  93. Post-Vacation Blogging
  94. Another Nail in the Battered Coffin of Irony
  95. Countdown Fail!
  96. Applying for a PhD in Political Science
  97. Morning Linkage
  98. Kant vs. Peer Review
  99. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  100. No More Cups of Tea: Terrorism Research and the Law
  101. Impressions from Taiwan (2): The Security Environment
  102. Morning Linkage

July 2012

  1. Romney is Alone in His Fear of Russia
  2. Romney’s Russia Card
  3. Guest Post: Dave Kang – “Confucian North Korea”
  4. Morning Linkage
  5. Podcast No. 2: Phil Arena on Formal Models, Civil Wars, and the Democratic Peace
  6. Noontime Linkage
  7. Noontime Linkage
  8. Saturday Afternoon Video
  9. Early Afternoon Linkage
  10. Friday Nerd Blogging: More Traditional Form
  11. Bear cam
  12. The Return of Morning Linkage
  13. Friday Nerd Blogging: Now for Something Completely Different
  14. “Invisible” Wars?
  15. Summer Reading Recommendation, Mithras Edition
  16. The Problems With China
  17. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  18. Guest Posts, Guest Blogging, and Link Trolling
  19. Lite Morning Linkage
  20. An AIDS-Free Generation? HIV Is Not A Fad
  21. R2P and the “Double-Standard Problem”
  22. “Have foresight and it’s real”: Carly Rae Jepsen And The Problem of Asymmetric Information
  23. Call Me, Maybe: Cooperation and Coercion in the Music of Carly Rae Jepsen
  24. Morning Linkage
  25. The Order of Ostriches
  26. Morning Linkage
  27. Podcasts and Space Hamsters and Shoulder Dragons, oh my!
  28. The Chart That Explains Your World
  29. Morning Linkage
  30. Saturday Afternoon Video
  31. Morning Linkage
  32. Special Extra Retro Friday Nerd Blogging
  33. Morning Linkage
  34. Friday Nerd Blogging, Charli-Less Since 2012
  35. Collective action and the end of the world
  36. Morning Linkage
  37. Scenes from the National Museum of Scotland, Part the Second
  38. Wednesday Afternoon Video
  39. UN as Daddy Day Care
  40. Working Papers
  41. Chicago CFR Survey Says….
  42. Scenes from the National Museum of Scotland, Part the First
  43. NATO intervention in Syria Wouldn’t be Easy
  44. The Sexual Scandal Factor in Military Policy Making
  45. Crime and Punishment in Syria
  46. Saturday Afternoon Video
  47. Should Romney Talk More About Foreign Policy?
  48. Friday Nerd Blogging By Proxy
  49. Peter Piot’s Memoir on Infectious Disease
  50. Extreme Dissertation Writing
  51. Fear of Relativism part three: the task of translation
  52. A Failure to Communicate?
  53. Missed That! Korea-Japan Treaty Debacle Edition
  54. Friday Nerd Blogging
  55. Fear of Relativism part two: the appearance of contradiction
  56. Fear of Relativism part one: from a certain point of view
  57. Area Political Scientist Armed Only with Words Thwarts Robbery
  58. More Evidence for the Underlying Theory of the “Reset”
  59. A Derecho Note

June 2012

  1. Speaking of Retrenchment
  2. Friday Nerd Blogging
  3. Russia and Syria
  4. Retrenchment and the US Alliance System
  5. Academic IR and the Information Age: Journals
  6. Constructivism, Social Psychology, and Interlocking Theory (III)
  7. Impressions from Taiwan (1): Background
  8. Multicultural Panic Comes to Korea
  9. Constructivism, Social Psychology, and Interlocking Theory (II)
  10. Historical International Relations: A Proposed Section for ISA
  11. Constructivism, Social Psychology, and Interlocking Theory (I)
  12. Who needs experts to forecast international politics?
  13. IR Course Uncovers the Romantic Comedy Foruma
  14. When Political Scientists Do Not Understand Political Science
  15. Open Access and IR Journals
  16. Being realistic about (academic) realism
  17. “Having it all” and a (non-essentialist) feminist politics
  18. Friday Nerd Blogging
  19. Stuff Political Scientists Like #16 — Summer Break
  20. IR, Policymakers, and the Gender Balance
  21. Ranking US Allies: A Response to Stephen Walt, Andrew Sullivan & all those Canadians…
  22. Is International Relations Useful?
  23. Prometheus and Lawrence of Arabia
  24. Is Rio + 20 Going to be a Waste of Time?
  25. Let’s (Keep) Talking About Sex
  26. Gender, Violence and Digital Emergence
  27. More on Abusing America’s ‘Exorbitant Privilege’: Will the Bond Market Turn on the US at a 100% Debt-to-GDP ratio?
  28. Baseball and American Foreign Policy
  29. The collective production of individual genius
  30. Kahl et al. on Iran and US Options
  31. Head of State
  32. Bombs into Knives
  33. The Fallacy of Own-Termism
  34. Elinor Ostrom
  35. More on US Allies (2): A Response to My Critics
  36. The State of the Art in the Social Science of Pop Culture
  37. The Trouble with Combining, or Why I’m Not Touting the Global Peace Index
  38. Five Lessons from “The Hunger Games”
  39. Sino-Russian Tensions and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
  40. A program here, a program there, pretty soon you’re talking a whole government
  41. New Political Violence Blog Launched
  42. America’s ‘Exorbitant Privilege’ means it can Borrow to Sustain Hegemony Longer than Anyone Ever Expected
  43. Targeting the Source: Why Supporters of Abuse Should Be Held to Account
  44. Mall Culture in a Global City
  45. Communities and otherness: a typology
  46. Politics on the Water’s Edge: U.S. Elites and Multilateralism
  47. Say Ron Paul Won…Which US Allies would get Retrenched? (2)
  48. How the US is Slowly Cultivating the Conditions for a Renewed International Order

May 2012

  1. Slow-Motion Srebrenica
  2. The Mischiefs of Faction
  3. Duck on a TRIP
  4. Does the ICC Need to Reconcile with Africa? Bensouda Comes Out Swinging
  5. Hanging Out on the Theory-Practice-Policy Divide
  6. Happy quacking anniversary
  7. “A Little Too Softhearted”: Cheney on Mearsheimer
  8. Sunday Nerd Blogging
  9. Say Ron Paul Won…Which US Allies would get Retrenched? (1)
  10. There Are Two Kinds of Countries in the World: ____ and _____
  11. Bark like a dog!
  12. Right to the razor’s edge…or not
  13. How the Sausage is Made
  14. What Exactly is the Social Science Citation Index Anyway?
  15. Repealing the First Law of Petropolitics
  16. Networks in Arms
  17. Some Things are Best Expressed in an Eldritch Tongue
  18. Are IR Titles Getting Increasingly Boring? Evidence from a Data Set
  19. Friday Anti-Nerd Blogging: For Those About to Teach!
  20. HBO Has Solved Its Spoiler Problem.
  21. If Gays Can Fight, Shouldn’t Women?
  22. Peace vs. Justice: Is the ICC Doing It Wrong?
  23. Cheap talk and credentials
  24. Autonomous Arms Control?
  25. The Unbearable Liberalness of The Practice Turn
  26. Why political science matters
  27. Faculty Responsibility and Educational Debt
  28. President Bashar Al-Assad Needs Our Help!
  29. Friday Nerd Blogging
  30. NSF Blogging
  31. 7 things I don’t like @ being an Academic
  32. Exam Time at Georgetown
  33. HP Lovecraft and Theosophy
  34. The World Does its Duty & Conforms to Social Science: More on Korea & Japan
  35. Mirror, Mirror upon the Wall — Who is the Realist of them All?
  36. Doctoral Pedagogy on the Theory / Policy Divide
  37. SHIELD and the US: How Realistic Is the Avengers Movie?
  38. The Trafficker-Terrorist Myth
  39. Climate Change and Godwin’s Law
  40. The Global Right Wing
  41. *SEX*! *VIOLENCE!* and *NUDITY!* in Game of Thrones
  42. The Quiet Assassin of European Democracy
  43. Political Scientist Provides Heaps of Perspective Sauce
  44. Explaining Russian Opposition to European BMD
  45. Johan Galtung’s Bizarre Rant
  46. Oliver North threat-inflates for the next ‘Modern Warfare’: a new Low for the Military-Industrial-Entertainment Complex
  47. Are our courses easier than sleeping?

April 2012

  1. What Foreign Policy Did Right. (And Other Stuff.)
  2. Why don’t Korea and Japan Align, even though IR says they should?
  3. Academic Rigor in the Classroom: Time to Get Serious?
  4. Ambiguity of “Decision”
  5. Newly Disclosed Memo Proves Ben Shapiro’s a Partisan Hack
  6. FP Issue is More Teenage Pop Mag than ‘Sex’ Issue
  7. A Dothraki Complaint
  8. “Seriously, Guys!”: How (Not) to Write About Gender and Foreign Affairs
  9. What’s So ‘Institutional’ @ Historical Institutionalism?
  10. “Truth to Power”: Louise Arbour on Human Rights and International Justice
  11. The Civil-Military Relations of Footwear
  12. Support the Establishment of a New ISA Section: Religion and IR
  13. Constructing the Democratic Peace
  14. Institutionalizing Atrocity Prevention
  15. Can game participants change the payoff structure?
  16. President Obama on Genocide Prevention
  17. ‘Bleg’: How Long are your ‘Revise & Resubmit’ Letters to the Editor?
  18. Religion in Westeros
  19. Crossing borders in the sciences
  20. Social Media and International Law
  21. Two certification systems
  22. Is the “Women and Children First” Norm a Myth?
  23. Interstellar Relations: A New Old Course At Georgetown
  24. A New Twist on the “Copenhagen School”
  25. Why N Korea Gets Away with its Stunts: a Response to Jennifer Lind
  26. Book Review: “The Justice Cascade”
  27. Historical Institutionalism and International Relations
  28. Popular Culture and Civil-Military Relations
  29. Winecoff vs. Nexon Cage Match!
  30. Google Scholar Dystopia
  31. All Politics is Local, Korean style
  32. Pop Cuture Meets Social Science: Beautiful Marriage
  33. What Good is Network Theory in IR?
  34. Friday Anti-Nerd Blogging Early: When Sports and International Relations Meet, the Dumbest Things Happen
  35. SF, IR, and Pedagogy
  36. “Castro is Our Hitler”
  37. The Future of Teaching?
  38. UnChristian Content
  39. The constructivism that wasn’t
  40. Kim Jong Un’s Ascent (2): Rocket Launch as a Sign of a Power Struggle?
  41. Belated Friday Nerd Blogging.
  42. Was Charli a Victim of ISA Ultimate?
  43. Stuff Political Scientists Like #15 — The Thrill of the Hunt
  44. Kim Jong Un’s Ascent (1): A Unique Negotiating Opportunity
  45. Has US political communication risen from the dead?
  46. Pop Culture Narratives in World Politics: A Bleg
  47. China’s Counter to the Asian ‘Pivot’ (2): ‘Swarms’ in the Pacific
  48. Transnational Politics, i(I)r(R) and the Information Age

March 2012

  1. China’s Counter to the Asian ‘Pivot’ (1): Korea, India
  2. Friday Nerd Blogging
  3. Just a Physician? Jim Kim’s Candidacy for the World Bank
  4. Ultimate IR
  5. Professionalization and the Poverty of IR Theory
  6. 2012 ISA-NE Call for Papers
  7. Russia’s Dubious Place in the BRICS: A Response to My Critics
  8. The Neocons Made Me Do It: Iraq and the Alibi of Liberal Hawks
  9. Kim can rap, but can he run the World Bank?
  10. Etch-a-Sketching the Egyptian Arms Deal
  11. The tradeoffs of getting to graduate school in political science
  12. What to Do? The Climate Security Policy Conundrum
  13. Yes, Matt Yglesias, Panem is an extractive, totalitarian empire
  14. Seoul 2012 Nuclear Security Summit
  15. The ethics of buying an iPad
  16. (Some of) The Politics of the Hunger Games
  17. Geeking Out on the Theory-Policy Divide
  18. Academia 101: Writing a CV
  19. Roseanne vs Kim: TV icons and the Republican ‘war on women’
  20. It’s Time to De-Russianize the BRICS
  21. Sunday Nerd Blogging
  22. Friday Nerd Blogging: Baseball Edition
  23. The Kony2012 Experiment
  24. The US will not ‘Pivot’ much to Asia (3): We can’t afford it
  25. The ISA Drinking Game
  26. The Selling of the Iraq War: Case Study of Presidential Persuasion?
  27. Impunity Slayer! ICC Convicts Lubanga of War Crimes
  28. Stuff Political Scientists Like #14 — Fantasy Role-Playing, or Game Theory
  29. Targeting in Armed Conflict: DPH, CCF, WTF?
  30. The US will not ‘Pivot’ much to Asia (2): We don’t really care @ Asia
  31. If At First You Do Not Succeed
  32. KONY 2012: Bandwagon Empowerment
  33. Friday Nerd Blogging
  34. Should I get a Ph.D.?
  35. Anger in America
  36. International Women’s Day: Cupcakes and Hateraid
  37. How Dare the Federal Government Set Minimal Standards for a Consumer Product!
  38. The US will not ‘Pivot’ much to Asia (1): We don’t really Want to
  39. Invisible Children – Pretty Dang Visible
  40. Primary Politics and Foreign Policy: Super Tuesday Edition
  41. Here is something you can’t understand….
  42. The unconquerable village
  43. Cat in the Tub
  44. Reading Schelling in Iran
  45. Some IR Thoughts on the GOP Debate Marathon
  46. The Monopoly
  47. Friday Nerd Blogging
  48. Mediocre International Relations Scholar and Prominent Anti-Nerd Hits Rock Bottom, Admits to Abuse of Science Fiction
  49. Some Political Science Thoughts on the GOP Debate Marathon
  50. Syria: The Exile or Justice Ultimatum

February 2012

  1. Feminist Rick Santorum
  2. Cyber Nerd Blogging: Neuroscience, Conflict and Security
  3. A Farewell to Norms
  4. In Social Science, You’re always Under-read, so How do you Choose ? (2)
  5. Global Implications of the Contraception Kerfuffle
  6. In Social Science, You’re always Under-read, so How do You Choose ? (1)
  7. Friday Nerd Blogging
  8. Learning to Fish Through Human Rights Data
  9. War Crimes and the Arab Spring. Again.
  10. Abusers’ Peace?
  11. All Male Soldiers are Rapists and all Female Soldiers are Weak Homewreckers: Fox News on Female Soldiers
  12. Vietnam PS Impressions (2): GDR in the Jungle
  13. More on Gotovina
  14. Tackling the challenges of Big Data
  15. The Constructivist Peace: Shared Norms and Pacific Relations Among Human Rights Abusers
  16. In Defense of Particularism in American Foreign policy
  17. Labels and tribes
  18. Experiments, Social Science, and Politics
  19. Even Uncle Ho’s Hand-Weights Contributed to the Revolution (1)
  20. How to Be a Good Realist
  21. Friday Nerd Blogging
  22. Challenges to Qualitative Research in the Age Of Big Data
  23. The Cultural is Political
  24. China & Snyder’s “Myths of Empire” (2): Does China fit the Model?
  25. Targeting…targeting: What are reasonable expectations?
  26. Whitney Houston, Chris Brown, and Grammy Irony
  27. Blind Men, Elephants and Drones
  28. Begging to differ on Libya and R2P
  29. Quarter-Baked Idea: The Post-Cold War Concert System
  30. Friday Anti-Nerd Blogging: Downton Abbey Jumps the Shark
  31. China & Snyder’s “Myths of Empire” (1): Theory
  32. Friday Nerd Blogging
  33. Walmart still isn’t green
  34. “Do not try to out-geek the professor”
  35. The Security Council and Norm Creation
  36. Climate Change and the Axis of Fear
  37. Travel Notes From The Human Rights Frontier
  38. American Relative Decline? No Dansk!
  39. Retrenchment & Liberal Internationalism don’t really Fit Together (2): R2P
  40. When Life Imitates Sports
  41. Drone ‘Wars’?
  42. BREAKING NEWS: Brian Ratbun Exposed As Secret Mastermind Behind Recent Rockumentary; USC Concerned About Contract Violation, Mental Health
  43. Retrenchment & Liberal Internationalism don’t really Fit Together (1)
  44. Egghead
  45. Friday Anti-Nerd Blogging: Headbanger Edition
  46. Friday Nerd Blogging
  47. On Security Dilemmas and The Absurdity of Newt Gingrich
  48. What I Learned Teaching IR in Asia (2): Show me the Policy Relevance!

January 2012

  1. Superpowers Are What We Make of Them
  2. Toward Pracademia
  3. GOP SotU Response Better than SotU (2) – Didn’t Expect that
  4. Friday “I Really Am Just a Nerd” Blogging
  5. GOP Response Better than SotU (1) – Wow, How’d that Happen?
  6. Friday Nerd Blogging
  7. BREAKING NEWS — Charli Carpenter is a Machine!
  8. Robotic Planes: Harbinger of Robotic Weapons?
  9. Obama’s Offshore Dominance
  10. Robots and Prejudice
  11. Bad Predator?
  12. The ICC and Kenya: In the Thick of Deterrence
  13. Power Shift in Global Economic Governance
  14. Urination Distraction
  15. Happy Year of the Dragon
  16. House MD Epistemologist
  17. What I Learned Teaching IR in Asia (1): Learning to Love US Hegemony
  18. Duck Stuff: In with the Old, in with the New
  19. Damn Yankees!
  20. $h•! PTJ Says #3: protest banners vs. precise terms
  21. Friday Anti-Nerd Blogging: The Appeal of Downton Abbey
  22. Friday Nerd Blogging
  23. Part II on the AIDS Crisis and Learning from History: Lessons from South Africa
  24. New Georgetown Blog
  25. Creeping Illiberal Democracy
  26. Iran Attack: National Journal #Fail
  27. Romney: A Charmed Life
  28. Colin Kahl responds to Matt Kroenig
  29. Strategic narratives: An uncertain science
  30. Learning from Histories of the AIDS Crisis
  31. Visas and scholarship
  32. “I am not a Chicken!”: Social Mobilization at Its Best
  33. Information wants to be free. Congress wants it to be held for ransom.
  34. Politics, Intelligence, and Academic Analysis
  35. Blondie
  36. Pentagon as Economic Dynamo: Not
  37. The DC Government’s Priorities
  38. Grand Strategy or Glossing Over Budget Cuts: Q&A
  39. The Peacenik Profession
  40. Addendum: The Use of History in IR and the Causes of World War II
  41. Hu’s Culture War
  42. Really Real: Take II on the Chicago IR Guys
  43. What does Mitt Romney’s victory in Iowa tell us about who the Republican nominee will be?
  44. Cultural weapons and international relations
  45. Get Real! Chicago IR guys out in force
  46. Happy New Year!

2011 553

December 2011

  1. Happy Mithras’ Day
  2. Transnational Battle over Gay Rights
  3. Scholarship and Advocacy: Bomb Iran Edition (UPDATED)
  4. The Iraq surge: vindicated then exposed?
  5. Stuff Political Scientists (Don’t) Like #13, Holiday Edition — Explaining Themselves to Loved Ones
  6. Kim Jung Il is Dead
  7. Gingrinch
  8. Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
  9. RIP: Habeas Corpus . . . and Normative Power
  10. Friday Nerd Blogging
  11. The Euro Of Magical Thinking
  12. We Now “Know”: Diary of a Search Committee Member
  13. Pop Culture and World Politics v5.0
  14. A Reminder
  15. A View to Kill: Should states engage in assassination?
  16. How to Blow a Perfectly Good Scam
  17. Crowdsource Syllabus: Advanced IR Theory (Updated)
  18. Kajaki and Power Politics
  19. Russia’s Elections
  20. Popular Culture and Politics: Russian Perceptions of the Near Abroad
  21. Peer Review Bites (and Quacks)
  22. Identity Under Threat
  23. Dear Reviewers, a Word?
  24. Intervention and Prudence
  25. Pearl Harbor, 70 Years On
  26. #Insurgency: Warring Over Somalia….On Twitter
  27. My Payroll Tax Rant of the Day
  28. Keeping Up With The International Criminal Court: The Realization of Judicial Intervention
  29. Transitioning Toward Anarchy
  30. Editing an Incident
  31. South Ossetia
  32. Mugabe Last Dictator Standing
  33. Words are Wind?
  34. An AIDS-Free Generation?

November 2011

  1. Isn’t there a global climate conference in Durban?
  2. The Politics of Ressentiment, Round XXIV (Updated)
  3. Cutting Through the Chaff on US Declne
  4. Comprehending Gingrich
  5. The Indo-Pacific
  6. 3rd Annual 3QD Blog Post Prize
  7. Humanitarian Intervention
  8. Yugoslavia’s last premier
  9. The Political Science Store
  10. Dear Admissions Committee
  11. Friday Nerd Blogging
  12. Linkedin
  13. Recommendation Letter Rant (piling on)
  14. International Security and the Twitterati
  15. India: The “Dispensable Nation” in Southeast Asia?
  16. Nein! The EU is not the Fourth Reich!
  17. PTJ Talks (Theory)!
  18. Jirgamandering
  19. Is Occupy Wall Street a Flash in the Pan?
  20. Ugh, there’s still a year to go….
  21. Still Not Funny
  22. Cringing in Texas
  23. Friday Nerd Blogging (Veterans Day Edition)
  24. You Lost Me in the Second Paragraph
  25. Not Funny.
  26. Europe can stay irrational longer than the EU can stay solvent
  27. Hans Beinholtz: Europe For Sale
  28. Tricky Dicks
  29. Arming Syria’s rebels
  30. Being Wrong
  31. Stuff Political Scientists Like #12 — Artistic Pretensions
  32. Libya’s Chicken-and-Egg Problem
  33. Is Herman Cain Angling to Defeat LBJ?

October 2011

  1. OWS v OOWS? OMG. WTF?
  2. War and the Eurozone
  3. Friday Nerd Blogging
  4. Productivity Tip of the Day
  5. Graduation Rates
  6. Sudden disappearance of ducks worries readers of international relations blog
  7. Hobgoblins of a Little Mind
  8. Testing “Go Right” Messaging on Global Warming
  9. Qaddafi, Intervention and R2P
  10. Rumors of His Death Have Not Been Exaggerated
  11. The Tea Party vs. OWS
  12. Stuff Political Scientists Like #11 — Faculty Meetings?
  13. The Occupation
  14. DoD’S ‘Bloodless’ Ray-Guns
  15. What ‘Hot’ Guys Can Tell us About Masculinities and Social Norms
  16. Knowing and the Known
  17. Get Angry or Go Right: What’s the Best Strategy on Global Warming?
  18. Friday Nerd Blogging
  19. Obama as Hitler: He Wishes!
  20. New Zealand’s Oil Spill and the myth of its ‘100% Pure’ image
  21. Doom and Gloom 101: Making Weak and Failed States Teachable
  22. Crunching Corpse Counts: A Rejoinder by Michael Spagat Et Al.
  23. Feminist Ryan Gosling
  24. Pondering Failure in Afghanistan
  25. Meanwhile, back in Bosnia….
  26. Fair trade computers
  27. Friday Nerd Blogging
  28. Ten Years in Afghanistan
  29. A lighthearted post
  30. I don’t get it (Steve Jobs, cont’d)
  31. A genuine revolutionary, part II
  32. A genuine revolutionary
  33. And I was supposed to be on sabbatical….(click on image for better view)
  34. Obama ‘how’s that hopey changey stuff working for ya?”
  35. Hu’s on First?
  36. Crowdsourcing for Analogies
  37. Breakout Star Patrick T. Jackson Takes APSA by Storm
  38. Piled Higher and Deeper: The Movie
  39. Spoiler Alert! Latest Episode of ‘Dictator Survivor: Africa’

September 2011

  1. Anwar al-Awlaki and Targeted Killing: A quick, first, and uneasy reaction
  2. Our new Fall line-up
  3. Friday Nerd Blogging
  4. “Magic Democracy Words” Don’t Tie Their Speaker’s Hands
  5. Terrorism in Democracies
  6. Stuff Political Scientists Like #10 — a Degree from an Elite School
  7. The Aussie Military Accepts GI Janes into the Ranks
  8. The World Is Waiting: U.S. Public Opinion and Climate Change
  9. Lest we forget about Somalia
  10. Obama Reveals his Superhero Powers at the UN
  11. End of DADT
  12. Be Concerned but not Informed: Radical Islamic Terrorism and Mainstream Media since 9/11
  13. Stuff Political Scientists Like #9 — Being Liked, or Citations
  14. Mortenson declines Education Grawemeyer
  15. Luck and a Fair “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” To You!
  16. R2Paternalism
  17. Learn to Love Lawfare
  18. On Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Construction of a Liberal International Order
  19. Conflict prevention and early warnings: closing the gap through communications?
  20. Friday Nerd Blogging
  21. Post-revolution Walk of Shame in Libya: women asked to ‘go home’ in the afterglow of the revolution
  22. New Statistics on Civilian Targeting
  23. Life Imitiating Political Science and Vice Versa
  24. Giving Peace a Chance
  25. Palestinian Unilateralism
  26. On Rick Perry and Superman
  27. Ten Theses (Mostly Concerning Foreign Policy) About 9/11
  28. Another Sad Event around 11 September
  29. Repost: September 11 – a blogging personal history
  30. Commemorating
  31. Friday Nerd Blogging
  32. $h•! PTJ Says #2: on the difference between assumptions and conclusions
  33. Interstellar Relations Syllabus
  34. Zombie Theory of Foreign Policy
  35. The Remote War
  36. Liar, hypocrite or partisan hack?
  37. Assessing the Arguments Against GI Jane II: Unpacking the Cohesion Hypothesis
  38. Peddling Fear: Frank Gaffney’s world.
  39. Friday Nerd Blogging
  40. International Moxy Fund?
  41. Data, data on the wall
  42. Open Data, Open Sesame?

August 2011

  1. Priorities, priorities, priorities….
  2. Armadillo
  3. Assessing the Arguments Against GI Jane: The Combat Exclusion for Women Part I
  4. Late Summer Tour of NATO
  5. Stuff Political Scientists Like #8 — feeling terrible about themselves, or APSA
  6. I canna think of a good title, captain!
  7. Semantic polling: the next foreign policy tool
  8. Quote of the Day
  9. Precision Guided Words? Libya and International Law
  10. What Exactly is the Point of Foreign Policy Analysts?: Lessons from Libya (and any other crisis in history)
  11. What Not to Do in Libya
  12. Resilience and the Future of Pastoralism in the Horn – part V (of the series on the 2011 East African drought)
  13. Epistemic Communities and their Discontents
  14. Entire Earth Asphyxiating, Zombie Book Blamed
  15. Sunday Productivity Blogging: Sciral
  16. The US Department of Defense Law of War Manual: An Update
  17. Do words matter?
  18. Clashing Networks and Foreign Policy
  19. Zombie Objections
  20. Understanding Zombie Comedy
  21. Friday Nerd Blogging
  22. Best exam question EVER!
  23. Syllabus Bleg: Science Fiction (Updated)
  24. Crunching Drone Death Numbers
  25. $h•! PTJ Says #1: justifying your theory and methodology
  26. Taking David Cameron to School……(Literally. This guy is stupid.)
  27. Famine and Conflict Resolution in Somalia – part IV (on the 2011 East African drought)
  28. Crimes in and of Famine
  29. Paintball and Pedagogy: A Bleg
  30. Are You Ready for Some Football…..Analogies?
  31. Pornography and National Security: The ever expanding threat
  32. Friday Nerd Blogging
  33. Impunity Gap: Syria
  34. Film review: Godard’s “Made in U.S.A.”
  35. Stability Ops Among Muggles
  36. Safeguarding medical workers in hostilities
  37. State of the Field, Redux: What’s Wrong with IPE?
  38. Scenes from Security Theater at Dulles Airport
  39. The soundtrack of barbarism…
  40. The Similarity between ‘Feminist’ Politicians and Female Sideline Sports Reporters — They’re Hot
  41. And the winner of Televangelist or Presidential Candidate Is….
  42. Famine, Climate Change, and the Horn of Africa – part III
  43. The Difference Between Feminist Politicians and Politicians with Breasts: a response to Naomi Wolf
  44. It’s Time to Play: Presidential Candidate or Televangelist??!!
  45. Friday Anti-Nerd Blogging
  46. Friday Nerd Blogging
  47. State of the Field
  48. Quick Question for History Buffs
  49. How bad is the Euro crisis?
  50. Famine, Climate Change, and the Horn of Africa – part II
  51. The Conduct of Inquiry: part the third of my contribution to a symposium
  52. It’s All My Fault
  53. The Last Mughal
  54. It’s All Our Fault
  55. Famine, Climate Change, and the Horn of Africa – part I

July 2011

  1. Abdullah Khadr, Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism: Or what I was really trying to say
  2. In Defence of Flawed Giants
  3. Anders Breivik: Isolated Mad Man or Tip of the Far-Right Racist Iceburg?
  4. SSRN Bound Editions
  5. On Paradigms, Policy Revelance and Other IR Myths
  6. “Sure I’m against war and exploitation- but don’t make me feel guilty about my diamond ring”
  7. Tears of Appreciation (and McDonald’s) in North Korea
  8. Stuff Political Scientists Like #7, International Relations edition: Isms
  9. Key Constraint on Policy Relevance
  10. Pirates, Hackers, and Terrorists
  11. Explosion in Norway (Updated/Updated Again)
  12. Friday Nerd Blogging: Robopo-collapse
  13. Terror, Counter-Terror, and Insurgency in Harry Potter, or Why Harry Won
  14. Harry Potter and Foreign Policy, or Voldemort is not Osama Bin Laden
  15. Observations on Traffic Safety From Indonesia
  16. Six Years of Gay Marriage in Canada and the World Did Not End
  17. Did it take you (or your assistant) five minutes to Google that?
  18. Raising the Debt Ceiling and Avoiding Economic Catastrophe
  19. Punishment Over Peace?: Gaddafi in a Post-Amnesty World
  20. Friday Nugget Blogging
  21. Harry Potter, Social Misfits, and the Popular Crowd
  22. Friday Nerd Blogging: Late to the Party (Part the Second)
  23. Impunity Gap: Sri Lanka
  24. Friday Nerd Blogging: Continuing the Tradition (Part the First)
  25. Pan-Social-Media Bleg
  26. Mind the Impunity Gaps
  27. Demanufacturing
  28. Narrative Horror and the Downfall of Leaders #1: Rupert Murdoch
  29. Stuff Political Scientists Like #6 — Soaking and Poking
  30. Wine, War and Alexander
  31. Will Transparency Save the World Bank?
  32. Laws of the Jungle
  33. Is there a time and place for (humanitarian) shock and awe?
  34. War Powers, My Ass…
  35. Hugh Grant the Unlikely Victor in the News of the World Battle
  36. Friday Nerd Blogging
  37. Stereotypes and suspicion: Nicer words won’t change anything
  38. Israel in Washington
  39. What Should I Read While I’m in Indonesia?
  40. Dan-Nexon-Gets-Taken-to-the-Woodshed Alert
  41. Battlefield Normatica
  42. Yes, Steve, Kyrgyzstan is Important
  43. R2P, Louise Arbour and the Responsibility to Reality
  44. Dear Professor Rathbun….
  45. Climate Change: The Elephant in the Room

June 2011

  1. Stuff Political Scientists Like to Obsess About
  2. Who Will Arrest Gaddafi? Not It!
  3. Partisanship vs. Policy: the Housing Bubble Debate
  4. The Balkans after Mladic
  5. Stuff political scientists like #5 — a Large N
  6. En Garde, Lagarde
  7. New Deal for BBC World Service Weakens Britain’s Soft Power?
  8. Realist Dreams
  9. Does Menstruation Explain the Gender Wage Gap?: A Kiwi theory
  10. Carlos
  11. Friday Nerd Blogging: GoT IR?
  12. Sleepwalking Towards Strategy
  13. Friday Nerdism, A Day Early
  14. Visualizing the “Misery” of Failed States
  15. Groupthink at the IMF?
  16. Niall Fergurson, International Many of History
  17. Book Review: “The Possibilities of Transnational Activism”
  18. Friday Nerd Blogging
  19. What We Talk About When We Talk About Neoconservatism
  20. Papa Don’t Preach: Rationalism is an Ism
  21. Visualizing the Human Rights Issue Agenda
  22. Hegemony and Influence
  23. Against Esoteric Readings of Neoconservatvism, or Always Check the Footnotes
  24. The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission: an outlier in the international transitional justice industry
  25. Ned is dead, baby. Ned is dead.
  26. Beware the Blog?
  27. Criminalizing Medical Aid
  28. International Studies Association-Northeast Conference: One Week Left
  29. Friday Nerd Blogging
  30. Write less. Read more.
  31. Visualizing the Correlates of Global Issue Creation
  32. Targeting Targeted Killing
  33. Feminist IR 101, Post #10, Feminist Scholarly Community
  34. The Rhino in the Room
  35. Unpacking the Anti-Drone Debate
  36. Crisis and Change in International Organizations
  37. Goldstein: The World Has Never Been More Peaceful
  38. Whither the Praetorian State?
  39. International Justice Scholars and Advocates: One Big Happy Principled Family?
  40. China’s Challenges
  41. Feminist IR 101, Post #9, Transforming IR
  42. Lawrence Eagleburger
  43. Friday Nerd Blogging
  44. Which Sexual Scandals Matter?: sorting gossip from substance with the Sexual Scandal Scale
  45. The Khal’s Speech
  46. Making me Mlad: Why you can’t compare the Mladic and Osama bin Laden raids
  47. Stuff political scientists like #4, political psychology edition — calling you stupid, but not to your face
  48. The Conduct of Inquiry: part the second of my contribution to a symposium

May 2011

  1. New Research on Global Agenda-Setting
  2. Feminist IR 101, Post #8, Human Rights
  3. Notorious BIG Fish: Mladic and Munyagishari
  4. IMF: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose?
  5. Five Myths About International Criminal Trials
  6. Ew.
  7. Reporting in the Middle East: Are Female Journalists a Liability?
  8. Feminist IR 101, Post #7, Political Economy and Globalization
  9. Fresh Meat
  10. EU Wins One, Right?
  11. It’s Coburn Clobberin’ Time
  12. Mladic, OBL and International Justice
  13. Standing Up against the “Patriot Act”
  14. Must Men Be Pigs? The C*jones Conundrum
  15. Cutting Edge Research on Popular Views of War Law
  16. The IMF Horse Race
  17. Do the ‘Securitweebs’ matter?: Between Facts and Snark
  18. Best 22 May 2011 Headline?
  19. Kicking the Can Down the Ring Road
  20. Obama’s “1967” Play
  21. Harold Koh at Opinio Juris: “Killing OBL was Legal.”
  22. The Door is Over There
  23. Beyond Qual and Quant
  24. We Get Results! (Bahrain Edition)
  25. Why Isn’t Access to Pain Medicine a Global Public Health Priority?
  26. Cana-dammerung: A belated final post on the Canadian Election
  27. The Pernicious Myth of America as Global “Manager”
  28. Wikipedia #Fail
  29. Worst. Argument. Ever.
  30. ISA-NE Call for Papers Reminder
  31. Congo Rape Study: Systematic or Simplistic?
  32. The Lighter Side of Public Opinion Work
  33. Graduate school and the culture of conformity
  34. Yes, yes! A thousand billion million times yes!
  35. Revolution, Revolution until Victory
  36. Reciprocity and International Law: A reply to International Jurist
  37. A Good Storyline Won’t Win a War – Did the Taliban out-communicate our Generals?
  38. Random Friday stuff
  39. Congratulations!
  40. The 1950s are calling — they want their theoretical debates back
  41. The Tea Party and the Future Face of American Power
  42. Of Quals and Quants
  43. IR Theory and Policy Processes
  44. Office Hours…..
  45. The bin Laden Killing and Assassination Explained in 4 Paragraphs Not By Me
  46. ICC Sheriff Too Quick on the Draw
  47. Why the Geneva Conventions Need a Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism
  48. Bin Laden and the Paradoxical Logical of War
  49. Breaking News: International Relations Expert Nexon Responds to Leak of Dirty Pictures
  50. Structural Realism and the British Liberal Democrats
  51. The 2003 Iraq War will not be forgotten
  52. Blegging: Did no one complain about the Soviet Use of landmines in Afghanistan from 1979-1989?
  53. In Praise of Straw Men
  54. We were Winning the War on Terror!
  55. Mindless Empiricism
  56. MIcro-Finance: Crisis and Response
  57. Thoughts on Bin Laden, #47
  58. Was “Justice” Served?
  59. Tere bin Laden
  60. Canadian Spring
  61. Local Game Theorist Afraid of Credible Commitment, Girlfriend Says
  62. Politics of Potter
  63. Osama Dead: Are We There Yet?
  64. First Reactions to the Big News, Steve’s turn
  65. White House: Osama Bin Laden Is Dead.
  66. The 2011 Canadian Election: Lessons Learned and Mindless Amateur Speculation

April 2011

  1. “Too Fat to Fight”
  2. Holy Degrees of Freedom Problem, Batman!
  3. The 2011 Canadian Election: I don’t even know
  4. North Waziristan: Drones and Compellence
  5. New Breed of Chicken Hawks?
  6. Most Entertaining IR Scholar? None of the Above?
  7. A Beast in the Heart of Certain Small Units
  8. Shabby Sheik: Gaddafi’s ‘fashion’ and cultural property
  9. A puzzle in promotion: Petraeus at the CIA
  10. My challenge to the Drezner challenge: who would bother with us?
  11. Presidential Reading List: (After you probably get through the ones with ‘Bacevich’ on the cover)
  12. Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice
  13. Terrorism: A Problem for Realists
  14. Quick Gitmo Post
  15. Early Questions About the Guantanamo Leak
  16. Stuff Political Scientists Like #3, the European edition: Post-Something-or-other
  17. Will the IRA blow up Will and Kate?
  18. Does the Arab Spring show how strategic narratives work?
  19. India: Choosing between America and Iran
  20. Russian political humor is back
  21. A teachable moment: “provoked by rebels”
  22. Boys’ Toys
  23. Stuff Political Scientists Like #2 — The Strategic Logic of…. well, Everything
  24. Libya and the Threshold for War
  25. Introducing myself
  26. Political Geography Lesson 101
  27. Un-Civil Military Relations
  28. Standing Up for Multiculturalism? or “Where I find myself agreeing with the Prime Minister of Canada and that the dirt won’t come off.”
  29. Whither NATO?
  30. Benghazi: What were the signs?
  31. Stuff Political Scientists Like #1 — Original Data
  32. What/When/Where is “War”?
  33. Can Elmo Save Pakistan?
  34. “I Don’t Care What You Believe In, Just Believe In It.”
  35. Is Peace Enforcement Cool Again?
  36. Horrorphilia (Or … I couldn’t resist weighing in on the zombie debate)
  37. More blogfare on lawfare
  38. Music with a conscience from Ivory Coast
  39. Buffy, Feminism, and the Importance of Paying Attention
  40. Bombs. Away.
  41. How fares “lawfare”?
  42. Why We Fight?
  43. What the hell is going on in Europe?
  44. Bahrain’s Base Politics
  45. Social Science and Bush Policy Towards Iraq
  46. A Reply to the Reply: Jean Elshtain, Gender, and IR (Part III)
  47. Dan Drezner Denies Being a Cylon, Professes Love for Mainstream IR
  48. Posner, Dunlap and Lawfare
  49. A Reply to the Reply: Jean Elshtain, Gender, and IR (Part II)
  50. A Different Take on the “Obama Doctrine”: Is Obama still a realist?
  51. Why it sucks to study political psychology in international relations
  52. The Obama Undoctrine: A Response to My… Critic?
  53. Kindle Fraud
  54. New Guest Bloggers!!!
  55. A Reply to the Reply: Jean Elshtain, Gender, and IR (Part I)
  56. Why we need to debate foreign policy in elections: Lessons from the UK 2010 General Election
  57. Safe Conducts, Immunities and International Crimes
  58. Civ-Mil Relations in the 21st Century–Back to the Past

March 2011

  1. My Final Word to Dan Drezner On Zombies
  2. The Limits and Future of R2P
  3. The Infected Zone
  4. Theses on Consistency and Intervention
  5. Grand Doctrine and Very Large Strategy
  6. Morality, R2P, the nature of conflict and the emerging “Obama Doctrine”
  7. More On the Gap Between Feminist IR and Gendered Foreign Policy Debates
  8. Truth Will Win
  9. Since there is nothing else going on in the world, let’s talk about Canada!
  10. Will R2P Survive?
  11. We’re Sorry
  12. Tenure for Teachers
  13. Global Governance and the Worst Case Scenario: Theorizing the International Relations of a Zombie Holocaust
  14. “Manning Up” and Making (the Libyan) War
  15. Quacking about an award
  16. Libya and the Responsibility to Protect
  17. Of Lords and Flies
  18. Libya and ‘the shadow of Iraq’
  19. Libya and Feminist Peace Theory
  20. Things I Learned at ISA
  21. Saudi and Emirati Intervention in Bahrain
  22. “There is no such thing as constructivism”
  23. Libya: R2P or Regime Change?
  24. The Rebels and Foreign Supporters
  25. Nuclear Disarmament: Looking Back at Reykjavik
  26. No Nukes: Arms Division
  27. Multiple meltdowns?
  28. The Conduct of Inquiry: part the first of my contribution to a symposium
  29. Exercises in Futility
  30. “Also, It Turns Out Mubarak is a Cylon.” #BSG #Egypt @RT “So Say We All!”
  31. Feminist IR 101, Post #6, War and Security (In Practice)
  32. Libya: West Running Out of Time?
  33. ISA blogging
  34. International Women’s Day Film Fest: The lady characters helping and hindering the cause.
  35. New Executive Order on Detainees: Guantana-No, but action on the 1977 Additional Protocols (kinda)
  36. Brief Questions Concerning Possible U.S. Responses to Libyan Civil War
  37. “As An Educator It is My Responsibility to Turn You In To Your Professor. Thank you For Your Cooperation. Good Luck With Your Studies.”
  38. Open Thread on Responding to Academic Dishonesty by Celebrity College Students Not At One’s Own Institution
  39. Cause and Effect in the “War on Terror?”
  40. UN Routinely Overlooks Male Rape Victims… And Female Perpetrators
  41. UNSC Resolution 1970: Wait, did the UN just kinda do what it was supposed to?
  42. Tinariwen, pt. 2
  43. Tinariwen

February 2011

  1. Guest Post: What way will the guns point in the Middle East?
  2. Worst. IHL. Treaty. Evar….
  3. Norms Are What Analysts Make of Them…? And Other Thoughts About Targeting Killings, Sieges, and War Law Development
  4. Not-so Random Thought of the Day
  5. A Rare Georgetown Post
  6. Desperation in Libya
  7. Who Needs Social Scientists When We Have the Onion?
  8. Bizarro U.S.
  9. Strengthening Civilian Protection
  10. Middle Eastern Dictator Speech Bingo: Threatened by Revolution Edition
  11. From LSE to the ICC?
  12. Notes on Libya, etc.
  13. Ducks in London
  14. India’s soft power is unclear
  15. Apocalyptic Thinking in IR
  16. Baron von Cut-and-Paste
  17. Human Rights: The Last Utopia?
  18. Zombie Hunt!
  19. A Truth Commission for Iraq
  20. Science Fiction and International Orders – Live Blog [UPDATED]
  21. Science Fiction and International Orders
  22. Getting Slizzerd with the Red Cross: Disasters and/in Social Networking
  23. Bush’s failed freedom agenda
  24. Norms and War
  25. On Why There is No International Law Against Using Very Large Rocks in Battle
  26. This ain’t gonna cut it….
  27. Random Thought of the Day
  28. Call for Nomination: the 2011 Yale H. Ferguson Book Award
  29. Fortune-Tellers of Foreign Policy
  30. Obama and Egypt: The Power of Inception?
  31. We are all Khaled Said, We are all Mohammed Bouazizi
  32. Political Models vs. Current Events
  33. Who’s Your Grand-Advisor? Crowdsourcing an IR lineage map
  34. Good N’ Red Plenty
  35. Mubarak’s Ceausescu Moment?
  36. Battlestar Blegging
  37. Wikileaks, the Daily Telegraph and the ‘Special Relationship’
  38. New book – Radicalisation and Media – out now
  39. More on Zombies and Drezner
  40. Dan Drezner, Postmodernist
  41. Random Thought
  42. Preview of an immanent online symposium
  43. “State” Multiculturalism
  44. ISA-NE Call for Papers
  45. F for the Professor?
  46. For the Good Folks at Registan.net
  47. The standard foreign office response in a time of crisis…
  48. The Shifting Civil-Military Balance in Egypt
  49. Space Cadets
  50. Comments
  51. Glen Beck updates Schmitt

January 2011

  1. Explosive Pakistan
  2. What is really “Anonymous”?
  3. Egyptian “People Power,” Civil Society, and the U.S.
  4. Willow Witching Pt. 2: What Washington should do….
  5. Organizing the Revolution
  6. Exit and loyalty
  7. Egypt Rises Up
  8. Tunisia… Egypt… Yemen…
  9. Lost in the Clouds
  10. Light Reading in Genocide Studies
  11. How Political Negotiations can be Un-Mediated but Mediatized
  12. The Promise and Perils of Book TitlesBecause I’m Way Too Busy With the Start of the Term to Blog About Anything Useful.
  13. Feminist IR 101, Post #5 War and Security (in Theory)
  14. The “drug war” is over?
  15. International Relations Reading Group
  16. Memories of willow witching
  17. Interstellar Relations: notes for Watchmen (book) and Akira (film)
  18. Saturday squirrel blogging
  19. Anti-Iran Protests in Afghanistan
  20. The mean world…or why we should all tone it down.
  21. Afghan Views on the India-Pakistan Proxy Fight
  22. Our Carceral State
  23. Not working out so well
  24. Historical perspective
  25. Violent Rhetoric, Rhetorical Violence, and all that
  26. Anonymous attacks Tunisian Government Websites
  27. Causation, Correlation, Aggression, and Political Rhetoric
  28. Against the Tide: A Defense of a J.D.
  29. #Opensocietyfail
  30. If it won’t put me in the middle of the Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East, then I say “Meh.”
  31. The Myth of Westphalia
  32. Actually, We Don’t Know How Many Civilians Are Dying in Drone Strikes.
  33. Last call: 2012 Grawemeyer Award Nominations
  34. Guns and Bombs!
  35. Candid views from the troops.
  36. Policymakers Just Don’t Understand
  37. Information Doesn’t Want to be Free, People Do.
  38. New Year, New Writing Gig
  39. Information, Freedom and “Tron: Legacy”

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