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2015 244

December 2015

  1. The Rule of Three
  2. How stories matter: Thoughts on contextuality, temporality, reflexivity & certainty
  3. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of High Tech War
  4. Friday Nerd Blogging: Early But Sans Spoilers
  5. Duck, Duck, Nominate!
  6. Men’s Unexpected Erections are a Liability on the Battlefield (and other ways men’s bodies put female soldiers at risk)
  7. The Practice Turn in International Relations Theory
  8. An Anti-Trump Call to Arms
  9. Thoughts on DA-RT
  10. Donald Trump Is a Racist (Part 100)
  11. Climate Change and Rhetorical Entrapment
  12. Beyond “Rejection”
  13. Duckies Keep Quacking But In A Different Nest: Nominate

November 2015

  1. Rejection Is The Name of the Game
  2. Playing Politics with Compassion after the Paris Attacks (and why humanitarianism is in trouble)
  3. ISIS and the Future of Counter-Terrorism
  4. Get a Grip America: Stop the Anti-Refugee Hysteria
  5. Terrorism and the 2016 Campaign
  6. Terror in Paris
  7. Foreign Policy in the 4th GOP Presidential Nominee Debate
  8. What Happened at Subi Reef?
  9. The Importance of Evidence-Based Human Rights Advocacy
  10. The problem of authority
  11. What’s Going On in the Sinai?
  12. Defending Obama’s Foreign Policy Part 3
  13. Defending the Obama Administration’s Foreign Policy – Part 2
  14. Put a DA-RT in it
  15. Defending the Obama Administration’s Foreign Policy Pt. 1
  16. The Destruction of Alderaan Was Not Justified
  17. Killing the Occupation Analogy

October 2015

  1. Recap of the Foreign Policy Content in 3rd GOP Debate
  2. Does Grand Strategy Matter?
  3. Compensation for Kunduz and the Commodification of Civilian Casualties
  4. What Canada’s New ‘Pretty Boy’ Prime Minister Can Teach Us About Hegemonic Masculinity
  5. The Mindful Academic
  6. Zen of teaching
  7. Gearing Up for the Academic Job Market: Getting THE CALL
  8. Turkey’s Nuclear Move: Deciphering the Developments
  9. “There was something missing from scholars’ models of political and economic life: ideas”
  10. The Duck Civil War over Russia…
  11. Drones, targeted killings and the limitations of international law
  12. APSA Statement on Campus Carry
  13. Food is a Human Right
  14. Academic Freedom Has a (mostly) Good Day
  15. What Are U.S. Interests in Syria?
  16. Foreign Policy in the First Democratic Presidential Nominee Debate
  17. The First Democratic Debate: Clinton and Foreign Policy
  18. Prediction: For whom the bell tolls?
  19. Torture as Evidence-Based Policy Making? Race, War and Science
  20. What Does it Mean to Promote Human Rights?
  21. US, Canada, and Humanitarian Flights for Syria’s Refugees
  22. Is Russia a Paper Tiger?
  23. Where is our collective action on campus gun violence?
  24. Rhetorical Entrapment and Syria: Let’s Not Do Dumb Stuff
  25. Russia, Russia Burning Bright? (Spoiler: Not So Much)
  26. Habebamus papam!
  27. Putin Falls Into Obama’s Syria Trap. (Or Is It The Other Way Around?)
  28. Securitization Forum: End, or Beginning?

September 2015

  1. Securitization Forum: Back on Tour With the Copenhagen School – Better to Travel Than Arrive
  2. Securitization Forum: Follow the Money and the Mentality
  3. Will 2016 Be a Foreign Policy Election?
  4. Securitization Forum: Geopolitics of Securitization Theory
  5. Securitization Forum: Scholars’ agency in securitisation: a leap forward
  6. Russia, Syria, and the Costs of Inaction in Ukraine
  7. Securitization Forum: The theory gap and securitization as a form of identity politics
  8. Securitization Forum: Do we need a theory of securitization?
  9. Making Sense of Afghanistan
  10. Securitization Forum: On the poor reception securitization theory has gotten in the U.S.
  11. Securitization Forum: Securitization Theory is All Very Well, But Will it Sell?
  12. Migration as Protest
  13. Securitization Forum: Three challenges to securitization theory in the U.S.
  14. Securitization Forum: Why Does American IR Ignore Securitization Theory?
  15. Securitization Forum: Are they just not that into it?
  16. Securitization Forum: The Transatlantic Divide: Why Securitization Has Not Secured a Place in American IR, Why It Should, and How It Can
  17. Stanley Hoffmann’s approach to studying politics: in memoriam 1928-2015 .
  18. Foreign Policy in the Second GOP Presidential Candidate Debate
  19. Market Values: Why Local Human Rights Work Needs Global Funding?
  20. Bottom’s Up: Exploring the Resource Mobilization of Local Human Rights Organizations
  21. Securitization Forum: Introduction and Setting the Scene
  22. Civilian? Not an Insult
  23. Continuing the “all-male” theme at EISA
  24. Excluding Women from the Band of Brothers: the False Flag of Small Unit Cohesion
  25. Guts, God and Mystery: how the women and combat debate is all about emotion
  26. Foreign Affairs Iran Deal Poll – Congrats You Have Nearly an All Male Panel
  27. Play it Cool
  28. Want to Help the Refugees? Teach Migration as Part of IR
  29. Against Policy Relevance: A Polemic
  30. Some Thoughts on the Great APSA Baby Ban of 2015
  31. Image Voyeurism, Trauma Porn, and ‘Doing Something’…for Yourself
  32. On doing ‘something’ … as academics
  33. The Politics of Resettlement: Migrants vs. Refugees
  34. Getting Your APSA Preconference On: The Politics of Markets

August 2015

  1. Gearing Up for the Academic Job Market: Getting Your Packet Together
  2. Friday Nerd Blogging: The End of Summer Movie Season
  3. New Evidence on Gender Bias in IR Syllabi
  4. APSA Tweet Up: Ducks Like Beer
  5. #BringBackOurGirls, Feminist Solidarity & Intervention – Part Two
  6. So You Would Like a Job at a Policy School
  7. The Future of Deterrence?
  8. Challenges to Academic Freedom Above the Wall
  9. Opting for Trials Post-Conflict? Why the Structure of Losers Matters
  10. Living IR: Lessons from Manuela Picq’s arrest and detention
  11. Convincing Waverers to Support the Iran Deal
  12. One Size Fits Few
  13. Affective or Effective? War Child’s Gamefication of Conflict Experience
  14. The collateral damage of performance metrics
  15. Academia isn’t Baseball
  16. Debating Covert Intervention and the Democratic Peace
  17. Policymaking Gone Global: Learning to Work with NGOs
  18. Foreign Policy and the First GOP Debate
  19. Google Scholar Metrics and Scholarly Productivity in International Relations
  20. Open Foreign Policy Thread Tonight on GOP Debate
  21. The Duck-Cat of Minerva
  22. Gearing Yourself Up For the Academic Job Market: Before You Go on the Market
  23. What’s an expert?
  24. Confidence and Gender in International Relations
  25. Understanding the Emotional Impacts of Ebola: moving beyond crisis and stats to stories

July 2015

  1. PETA’s Shock Tactics: Irresponsible Advocacy or Strategy and Positioning?-Part 2
  2. PETA’s Shock Tactics: Irresponsible Advocacy or Strategy and Positioning?
  3. A Storify post on Cecil the Lion
  4. Viva La In-Text Tables and Figures Revolution!
  5. #BringBackOurGirls, Feminist Solidarity and Intervention – Part One
  6. 7 Further Thoughts on Being A Better Job Market Candidate
  7. LGBT Rights: The Perils of Becoming Mainstream
  8. 4 Things the US Can Do to Reinforce China’s Actions on Climate Change
  9. Gearing Yourself Up For the Academic Job Market: Waiting
  10. Human Rights aren’t Revolutionary? Good!
  11. Europe, Greece, and the problem of identity: Doing it wrong, social psych edition
  12. Thoughts on Subjectivity in Writing about Israel
  13. Money Talks: Giving Women a Voice on U.S. Currency
  14. New Facebook App for the Duck
  15. Three Ways to Think about the IMF’s Insistence on Debt Relief for Greece
  16. Institutional Aspects of the Iran Deal
  17. Civilian Casualties and Operation Protective Edge
  18. Sexism in Political Science, part II: The Very Least One Can Do
  19. You Are Doing It Wrong
  20. Civil(ian) Military Integration & The Coming Problem for International Law
  21. Sexism in Political Science
  22. Why Piketty Is Wrong about Debt Forgiveness
  23. An American in Canada – Thoughts on Going Abroad for a Job
  24. Greece: a Shakespearean Tragedy
  25. Organizing Collaborative Research Projects: Where Do I Begin?

June 2015

  1. NGO Power Shift 2.0
  2. You Never Give Me Your Money/ You Only Give Me Your Funny Paper
  3. Free Data, Get Your Data Here
  4. Submit your proposal – ISA-Midwest 2015!
  5. Submit your proposals!!! 2015 ISSS-ISAC Conference: Global Trends on War, Conflict and Political Violence
  6. Deterrence in Cyberspace and the OPM Hack
  7. Fostering partnerships between academics and NGOs
  8. Why It Matters Whether the Charleston Attack Was Terrorism
  9. Much Ado About Nothing (Very Intellectually or Politically Important)?
  10. What’s at Stake in TPP?
  11. The Threat of the BDS Movement
  12. Surfing the Cesspool: Political Science Rumors and the LaCour Scandal
  13. Welcome New Guest Bloggers!!!
  14. Partly Missing the Point: Rethinking US and EU Sanctions on Russia
  15. Friday Nerd Blogging: Jumping the Shark
  16. Are Germans Against Upholding NATO’s Article V Commitments?
  17. Blogging the Gap
  18. Additional Arguments Against Legalizing the Trade in Rhino Horn Pt. 3
  19. Arguments Against Legalizing the Rhino Horn Trade Pt. 2
  20. Legalizing the Rhino Horn Trade: A Terrible Idea? Pt. 1
  21. NSA Reform or Foreign Policy Signaling? Maritime Provisions in Title VIII of the USA Freedom Act

May 2015

  1. How do we know?
  2. The Latest in the Data Fraud Scandal
  3. What We Really Need is a Slice of Humble Pie
  4. Female Service Members Need Easier Access to Abortion, Not a Wider Range of Birth Control
  5. After Tenure
  6. The Olympics of Returning to Work After a Baby
  7. Thinking about Responsibilities of Co-Authors and Mentors
  8. Museum of Science Fiction To Open in DC
  9. Online Media Caucus Call for Papers for ISA 2016 Reminder
  10. FRIDAY NERD BLOGGING: Call for ISA Proposals on “Star Wars and International Security”
  11. Iconic Wildlife Species Threatened With Extinction
  12. The “Future” of “Global” “Security” “Studies”
  13. Development and Security

April 2015

  1. It’s the Biggest National Threat and We Can’t Help You
  2. Not All Alarms are False
  3. The New Mineshaft Gap: Killer Robots and the UN
  4. The Freedom to Speak Up As Academics: The Right to Make An “Ass” of Myself Personally
  5. Comparing World Crises
  6. There is No Lone Wolf Terrorism: but there is anxiety about brown men, loneliness, and mental illness
  7. Friday Nerd Blogging: Game of Thrones Returns
  8. Gender in IR, Now at the Cutting Edge
  9. New directions in academic publishing
  10. Thinking about the intellectual future of higher education
  11. Memories of Rumsfeld’s Snowflakes
  12. Power and Negotiation: A Geopolitical Waltz
  13. Open Thread on Surveillance, Snowden, and John Oliver
  14. Open Thread – Iran Deal – Pros and cons

March 2015

  1. Stumbling Through Foreign Policy – Not History
  2. Friday Nerd Blogging
  3. Women’s Integration into Combat Stuck in a Physical Stalemate
  4. Road to nowhere?
  5. Belated ISA Recap: Norms in IR, Norm Violations in IR, Pop Culture in IR and Junior Scholar Panels
  6. Skype Academic Interviews – What (Not) to Do
  7. Comments Restored
  8. Reversing the Gun Sights, Revisited
  9. A Hip-Hop Artist in Burkina Faso Fights Female Genital Mutilation
  10. Friday Nerd Blogging: The Future Will Be 3-D Printed
  11. Online Media Caucus: News and Contact Info
  12. How to Work Effectively with a Research Assistant
  13. Call For Applications: Guest Ducks
  14. What Would Nature Say About Ecological Warfare?
  15. Which Costs Matter?
  16. World Wildlife Day is Today: A Poaching Crisis Threatens Iconic Wildlife with Extinction
  17. Not What We Bargained For: The Cyber Problem
  18. Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington

February 2015

  1. Tiny Ecuador – Two Videos to Make You Laugh And Cry
  2. The Duckies of 2015
  3. Drones, Decapitation, ISA and Impossible Strategies
  4. The Duckies: Tonight 7:30 Feb. 19
  5. ISA Linkage Edition
  6. ISA 2015 Update: Bloggers Win
  7. What is a terrorist group? Concepts and measurement
  8. ISA Non-Panels: Fun and Games In IR
  9. Working in 25 Minute Stretches
  10. Morning Linkage
  11. Welcome to the New Duck
  12. Global shift – the US, China, and the Hong Kong Protests
  13. Should the United States Arm Ukraine?
  14. Friday Nerd Blogging: Everything is Awesome Edition
  15. The “Right” to Be Forgotten & Digital Leviathans
  16. ISA’s Sapphire Series – Is Blue the New White?
  17. How to Lose a Conference in 4 Days: why we attend the ISA to miss the ISA
  18. OAIS Blogging Awards: And the Finalists Are….
  19. The merits of the concept of terrorism

January 2015

  1. ISA Preparations: Ultimate Edition
  2. Only Two Days Left to Vote
  3. An Ebola Marshall Plan?: How to Stop Ebola and Salvage the Health System in Sierra Leone
  4. Ethnic Security Dilemma Regrets
  5. Friday Nerd Blogging: Winter is Coming to #ISA2015
  6. Constructivism and the tension within
  7. WHO is responsible for the failure on Ebola?
  8. SOTU: Cyber What?
  9. Counting on the Media: A Reply to Mack and Pinker
  10. Vote Now for the 2015 (The Duckies) IR Blogging Awards
  11. Domestic Politics, Climate Change, and International Ambition
  12. Friday Nerd Blogging: Belated But Delightful Take on Harry Potter and Feminism
  13. Online Media Caucus Update for ISA 2015
  14. Last Call for Blogging Awards Nominations!
  15. Autonomous or "Semi" Autonomous Weapons? A Distinction without Difference
  16. Common Xenophobic Dynamic: Overestimating the Other
  17. ISA Blogging Update: Committee Reports Recommendations

2014 375

December 2014

  1. North Korea and Hollywood: the Perfect Holiday Storm
  2. Is There a Santa Claus?
  3. Best IR Blogging of 2014? Send us your nominations.
  4. Theatre and Cyber Security
  5. Science of Santa
  6. Citizens, Beasts or Gods?
  7. What's Happening with Climate Negotiations in Lima?
  8. What Does the Rise of AI have to do with Ferguson and Eric Garner?
  9. Torture as War Victory: 'Zero Dark Thirty' and the torture reports
  10. The Danger In "Leading From the Front"
  11. Theory as thought
  12. Friday Nerd Blogging: Star Wes Awakens
  13. Clans
  14. The Perils of a M/W/F Class
  15. Not Surprised is Not Good Enough: what soldier atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan can teach us about Ferguson
  16. 2015 OAIS Blogging Awards: Call for Nominations!
  17. World AIDS Day 2014: Five Data Points, Four News Items, and Three Films

November 2014

  1. Ebola is Not Over
  2. Meaningful or Meaningless Control
  3. Friday Nerd Blogging: Twitter Much?
  4. Privacy, Secrecy & War: Emperor Rogers and the Failure of NSA Reform
  5. Friday Nerd Blogging: Princess Bride FTW
  6. Some Book Publishing Tips
  7. Historic Bilateral Climate Agreement Between the US and China
  8. Death Counts and War Commemoration
  9. Carl Sagan and Reflections on the Significance of IR
  10. Fall of the Berlin Wall: Then and Now
  11. Christianity and the Sino-American Relationship
  12. The Costs of Irredentism
  13. Friday Nerd Blogging: Awakened Edition
  14. China Tries to Come to Grips with Pollution
  15. Locals Know Best: Community Action Is Game Changer for Containing Ebola In Sierra Leone
  16. Are We Finally Ousting the World’s Last Dictators? Sadly, No.
  17. Advice for a Junior Colleague
  18. Friday Nerd Blogging: Belated Halloween Edition

October 2014

  1. My 5 Secret 'Weapons' for Finishing a Book
  2. Disaster Politics and the American Red Cross
  3. The Responsibility to Protect & Fear of Foreign Policy Failure
  4. Groupthink and the Turkish Government
  5. The Future of Climate Governance: Lessons from Failure
  6. Normative dilemma of writing policy?
  7. Iraq's Chemical Arsenal: Justification for War?
  8. Conversation Hijacking: How Not To Insert Yourself into a Conversation by Pushing a Woman Out of It
  9. Under Review: Cite This!
  10. Climate and Security Revisited
  11. Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal: "Hacking Back"
  12. Networking "Toxic Remnants of War" on the Disarmament Agenda
  13. Experiencing the Ebola Crisis: a perspective from inside Sierra Leone
  14. U.S. Options Limited Due to Will and Not Lack of Drones
  15. Tweets of the week #4
  16. The Strange Death of Liberal Zionism
  17. Thursday Ebola Linkage
  18. A Strategy of Appeasement: Winning the Revise and Resubmit
  19. “and Elinor?”: when winning a Nobel Prize isn’t enough…

September 2014

  1. Tweets of the Week #3
  2. Ready for the Weekend Quasi-Linkage: Are Political Scientists Useless?
  3. Neoliberalizing the academy
  4. ISIS, Syria, the Rebels and the US-Led Coalition: What Governs Who?
  5. Bad Evals: Further Thoughts on Having it All
  6. What’s Next for the Global Climate Movement?
  7. The Short-Termist Cost of Security
  8. Tweets of the Week #2
  9. Second Thoughts About the West's (Weak) Opposition to the Putin Doctrine
  10. Thursday Linkage: #Climate2014 Edition
  11. Britain’s Role in the World and Scottish Independence
  12. What Do Americans Think About Foreign Policy in 2014?
  13. Bad Advice on Making Academic Babies: opting in and out of heteronormative panic
  14. Belated Friday Nerd Blogging: Scottish Secession Edition
  15. Tweets of the Week
  16. Military Officers on Women in the Infantry: Five For, One Against
  17. Obama’s ISIS Strategy: A Clausewitzian Perspective
  18. Thursday Linkage
  19. The First Year on the Tenure-Track: Wanting to Give the White Whale Back
  20. NATO Puts Credible Deterrence Back in Place
  21. Doubts on Doubts: Part Two
  22. Saturday Nerd Blogging: The Skynet Factor and the Killer Robot Campaign
  23. Friday Nerd Blogging: NATO Week!
  24. Human Rights Research and Researchers in IR: Are We REALLY that Odd?
  25. Once more unto the (climate) breach
  26. ISIS and Biological Weapons: Black Flag, But Not the Black Death
  27. The Academic Arrogant Self-Important Snooty Quiz
  28. Why John J. Mearsheimer is Wrong on Ukraine

August 2014

  1. Doubts on Doubts: Part One
  2. Obama's "Lack" of Strategy Towards ISIS
  3. APSA Fire Update
  4. In Exile at Home: Impressions from Europe
  5. Why I'm Not At APSA This Labor Day
  6. Thursday APSA Linkage
  7. NATO: Silly Proposals and Enduring Realities
  8. Meaningful Punishment
  9. Thursday Linkage
  10. Ferguson and American Foreign Policy
  11. Thursday Linkage
  12. Thinking About Governments and Violence
  13. Monstermind or the Doomsday Machine? Autonomous Cyberwarfare
  14. Friday Nerd Blogging: Stata and Death
  15. The Politics of Artificial Intelligence and Automation
  16. Thursday Morning Linkage: Ebola Edition
  17. Civic Action at a Federal Detention Center
  18. Jus Ex Bello in Gaza
  19. The Cost of Spying

July 2014

  1. Thursday Linkage: The Future of Israel edition
  2. “Zen” and U.S. Foreign Policy in A Time of Disquiet
  3. It’s Not Just Big Data: Data Granularity and Aid Targeting
  4. If Gaza Isn’t a Genocide, What Is?: discourse as resistance
  5. In Search of a New Warrior Ethos
  6. Genital Mutilation: Facts, Fictions, Faux-Feminism and Fortitude
  7. Confronting the Putin Doctrine in Full Force
  8. Anti-Semitism in Germany: A Comment
  9. Thursday Linkage: Gaza, Russia, Rhinos
  10. Why Do Peacebuilding Interventions Often Fail?
  11. The Responsibility to Protect: Israel & Gaza
  12. What I’ll Be Reading While Off The Grid
  13. Germany: Beyond Its History, Again
  14. Generations of Presidential Voting
  15. Israel in Gaza: What’s the Plan?
  16. Friday Nerd Blogging: Force for Change
  17. Thursday Linkage: Hey! A Non-World Cup/Brazil post
  18. Meanwhile in Cambodia: The Detention of Mu Sochua
  19. Rape-Stoves, Techno-Rationality and Global Humanitarian Policy
  20. Gaza Thinkage, Outside-The-Box
  21. Germany Didn’t Win the World Cup.
  22. Non-Academic Job Searches in DC – What to Know
  23. Cylons and Dragons and Norms, Oh My
  24. Friday Nerd Blogging: Laugh It Up Fuzzball Edition
  25. Justice, Peace and Finger-Pointing
  26. The New Blitzkrieg, Part II
  27. Nearing the End of the World Cup Linkage
  28. Obama’s New Landmine Policy: Change I Can Believe In, Tentatively
  29. The Collapse of the Status Quo in Israel.
  30. Attempt to Depose University of Texas President
  31. The Politics of the Human Security Agenda
  32. Welcome Ducklings!
  33. Mental health of detained immigrant children
  34. Friday Nerd Blogging: Independence Day Edition
  35. The New Blitzkrieg
  36. An Open Letter from the New DGS
  37. Call For Proposals on "The Future of Global Security (Studies)"
  38. Call For Proposals on “The Future of Global Security (Studies)”
  39. Putin is Losing the Current Round of the Ukraine Crisis

June 2014

  1. ISA – Midwest: Please consider submitting to this conference!
  2. Belabored Belated Thursday Football Linkage
  3. Intervention and the Prospects for Power-Sharing in Iraq
  4. Friday Nerd Blogging
  5. Sex, Bugs and Violence on Game of Thrones’ Epic Fourth Season
  6. Is All of This Focus on Transitional Justice Really Worth It?
  7. Obama and ISIL
  8. What the Public Heard/Saw in the Headlines for the ‘Global Summit on Ending Sexual Violence’
  9. Announcement: Interpretive Methods Workshop for Grad Students
  10. What do we want? Labor Day! When do we want it? Soon!
  11. The Waste Pickers of Brasilia
  12. Why Mass Shootings Make Gun Control Less Likely to Pass Congress
  13. New Report from Brazil on Global Civil Society and Small Arms Control
  14. Blogging from Brazil: Problems of Connectivity
  15. Friday Nerd Blogging Extra: GoT Games
  16. An Academic Woman’s Rant of the Week: Negotiation
  17. Friday Nerd Blogging: GoT Music
  18. Path Dependence, Iraq Edition
  19. Don’t Confuse Me With the Facts: Costs of Lethal Autonomous Weapons
  20. The Unwritten Rules of AMERICAN IR? (or, things American IR scholars don’t always know about ‘doing’ IR ‘in the rest of the world’)
  21. Happy Belated Birthday To Lawyers, Guns and Money
  22. The Public “Conscience” and Killer Robots
  23. Bergdahl and the Band of Brothers Dilemma: understanding the ‘patriot’/’traitor’ debate
  24. Discourse Analysis of Internet Trolls?: the whys and hows of analyzing online content*
  25. Brazil Linkage

May 2014

  1. Notes from Brazil
  2. Friday Nerd Blogging: “Game of Thrones” is Coming! #ISA2015
  3. And The Winner Is?
  4. 5 Degrees of Internet Procrastination (or, from Al-Jazeera to Perez Hilton in 5 clicks)
  5. Friday Nerd Blogging: Preparing for the Future or the Past
  6. What is to be Done in Nigeria?
  7. Can Democracies Be Trusted with Autonomous Weapons?
  8. Men in Disarmament Push for Inclusion of Women’s Voices as CCW Process on Autonomous Weapons Moves Forward
  9. Ducking Out…
  10. Note to Controversial Commencement Speakers — Don’t Quit!
  11. Friday Nerd Blogging: Godzilla Edition
  12. Why Foreign Intervention in Nigeria is a Bad Idea
  13. Dynamics of Debate at the Experts Meeting on Autonomous Weapons
  14. Dear Kansas Board of Regents, Part Deux
  15. A Tale of Three Cyber Security Articles
  16. Guest Post – Dave Kang: ‘Military Spending in East Asia is Lower than You Think’
  17. Thursday Linkage – Heading to Brazil Edition
  18. Polio and the International Politics of Eradication: CIA Vaccination Ruse, Vaccine Trust, and DNA as a Tool of War
  19. “Robot Soldiers Would Never Rape”: Un-packing the Myth of the Humanitarian War-Bot
  20. The “Evitability” Of Killer Robots
  21. #BringBackOurGirls- Doing Nothing as ‘Activism’
  22. Killer Robot Linkage
  23. I’d like some lemonade with my advice, please
  24. Friday Nerd Blogging: Call for ISA Paper Proposals on “Game of Thrones”
  25. Pitching Your Article?
  26. Thursday Linkage
  27. The War against Neologisms: Calling Out “New” Types of War
  28. Thursday Heading into Summer Linkage – Climate Change Edition
  29. An Academic Woman’s Rant of the Week: Personal Information and Office Hours
  30. Friday Nerd Blogging Part Two: Who Says There is a Gap?
  31. Friday Nerd Blogging: Make Mine Marvel
  32. Things to do after finishing a book

April 2014

  1. Classroom Activity: Shared Threat and Delayed Elections
  2. New Research on Issue Selection in Global Policy Networks
  3. National Day of Prayer, Political Science Edition 2014
  4. Wednesday Linkage
  5. Bilateral Climate Cooperation between China and the United States: What Should We Expect?
  6. “Norm Anti-preneurship” and Russia’s [Reported] Use of Autonomous Weapons
  7. Yale Ferguson Award
  8. The Bloody Secession of Eastern Ukraine
  9. Academic Parenting 101: parental leave erosion
  10. Doing the Stability-Instability Dance
  11. Sadly for Ukraine, The West Does Not Have Important Interests There
  12. Thursday Linkage: Earth Day edition
  13. Classroom Activity: When Silence Says a Lot
  14. Zucotti Park Redux: An Earth Day Field Report
  15. Tuesday Linkage
  16. Can Research Inform Climate Policy? A Columbia University Workshop
  17. Sanction Threats, Imposition, and Protest
  18. Friday Nerd Blogging: Exceptional That Proves the Rule
  19. Classroom Activity: Gambling Over War
  20. Thursday Linkage: Get the Duck out of this Semester
  21. Call for Proposals: ISA Midwest 2014
  22. Joining The Club?
  23. John Vasquez, Territoriality, and Staying Ahead of the Game
  24. Preventing Further Russian Aggression
  25. The IPCC Working Group III Report on Climate Mitigation in 11 Tweets
  26. ForeignPolicy.Com Fail
  27. An Academic Woman’s Rant of the Week: Self-Promotion
  28. Why I Don’t Participate at Political Science Rumors
  29. Classroom Activity: Commitment Problems
  30. So You Want to be a Liberal Arts College Professor: Is there a Future for the Liberal Arts?
  31. Crimea is not a Realist story
  32. Report: US Drone Casualty Estimates Are Likely Too Low
  33. Why I Participate At Political Science Rumors
  34. Thursday Linkage
  35. Number Crunching the ISA Twittersphere
  36. An Academic Woman’s Rant of the Week: Professor vs. Teacher and Dr. vs. Mrs.
  37. You Make My Work (Im)Possible: Reflections on Professional Conduct in the Discipline of International Relations
  38. Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement: Some Analytical Questions*
  39. Political Science without a Net
  40. Sunday Linkage: Rwanda at 20 Years
  41. Accountability in Public Service Provision: Lessons from a Film Festival
  42. Post-ISA Blogging: Does “Star Wars” Count as Science Fiction?
  43. Friday Nerd Blogging
  44. Thursday Linkage: Slouching towards Semester’s End
  45. Mid-Week Linkage
  46. Social Media and Protests
  47. An East-West Bridge for Ukraine
  48. Translating Conference-Speak
  49. Data Street Cred
  50. Patricia Weitsman Scholarship

March 2014

  1. Dear Friends of Patty
  2. Imposters at the ISA?
  3. And the Winners Are…..
  4. How Should We Study Energy and Climate Policy? Critical Insights from an ISA Roundtable
  5. Thursday ISA edition
  6. “The UN v. Skynet?” An ISA Teaser
  7. Classroom Activity: Issuing Ultimata
  8. Russia, Ukraine, and a New Era of International Relations
  9. Friday Nerd Blogging: Delayed Yet Anticipating Edition
  10. The ISA Survival Guide: Everyone needs some Crack Pie
  11. 2014 OAIS Blogging Awards and Reception, Thursday, March 27!
  12. Are We Russophobes?
  13. What’s the Status of the Decline of War?
  14. Thursday Linkage
  15. Not Just Another Word (for nothing left to lose)
  16. Pop Quiz, Hotshot, Elections edition
  17. How ISA is Like a Kansas Family Reunion
  18. Countdown to ISA: heal the world, make the ISA a better place
  19. Economic interdependence as a facilitator of war?
  20. Thursday Linkage
  21. Failing at Football Diplomacy
  22. Classroom Activity: Globalization and Inequality Within and Between Countries
  23. Monday Linkage
  24. 8 Unanswered Political Questions from the Oscars
  25. Of Polls and Public Engagement in International Relations
  26. Pakistan’s Democratic Progression and the Impending Changes in Afghanistan
  27. Classroom Activity: Institutions as Epiphenomena and Screening Mechanisms
  28. “A Social Science of Human Rights” – Some New Social Science
  29. Friday Nerd Blogging: Textual Analysis Edition
  30. Ukraine – Cyber Speculation Run Rampant (Updated)
  31. Thursday Linkage
  32. Do Not Despair: Russian Intervention and International Law
  33. Depression and Academia – Let’s Talk
  34. Electoral Politics of Boundary Changing: Crimea is Complex!
  35. Ukraine: A Tale of Dueling Humanitarianisms?
  36. Will the markets tame Russia?
  37. Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy against Ukraine: The Power Politics Story
  38. America’s Strategic Dilemma in Ukraine
  39. Nuclear weapons wouldn’t have fixed what was wrong with Ukraine
  40. Analogies Aplenty: Ukraine is ….
  41. Conquest by other means, Ukraine edition
  42. Former Duck Gets Riled Up by Ukraine Coverage
  43. Reporters and Foreign Affairs Analysis: Ukraine Edition
  44. Reacting to Ukraine/Crimea
  45. Why the Crimea is the Third Rail of International Politics

February 2014

  1. Friday Nerd Blogging: Walter White’s Next Big Adventure
  2. Classroom Activity: Trust and Exploitation
  3. The “Baptist-Burqa” Network and LGBT Advocacy
  4. Belated Thursday Quick Links
  5. Political Homophobia in Uganda and a (Very) Belated Apology
  6. Cyber Spillover: The Transition from Cyber Incident to Conventional Foreign Policy Dispute
  7. Cutting arms and tying hands?
  8. You Think You Have a Facebook Problem? The IDF and Social Media
  9. Tuesday Morning Links
  10. Classroom Activity: Coordination and Collaboration Problems
  11. Post-Kristof Monday Links
  12. Friday Nerd Blogging: Super-belated version
  13. Classroom Activity: Comparative Advantage
  14. Thursday Linkage – Ukraine Crisis Edition
  15. Ungated Reviews Exchange on Michael Levi’s The Power Surge
  16. Tuesday Linkage
  17. A Fan Letter to Nicholas Kristof.
  18. Monday Morning Links
  19. Denying Tenure and Moving On
  20. Academic Family Tree
  21. The Great Poli Sci Portfolio
  22. Some Personal Reflections on Social Media and Tenure
  23. NYT and Poli Sci Public Engagement
  24. The Pivot to Asia: Some Tough Questions
  25. Classroom Activity: Thinking Strategically
  26. Friday Nerd Blogging: Winter Olympic Edition
  27. Thursday Linkage – China’s Environmental Impact Edition
  28. Guest Post: Considering the BDS Movement from a Human Rights Perspective
  29. Tuesday Noon-ish Linkage
  30. OAIS Blogging Awards: And the Finalists Are….
  31. Monday Linkage
  32. Nuland: Comic misunderstanding?
  33. Classroom Activity: Interpreting Regression Results
  34. Friday Nerd Blogging
  35. Thursday Linkage: Sochi Winter Olympics Edition
  36. OAIS Blogging Awards: Last Call to Vote
  37. Book Review: “Making Human Rights a Reality”
  38. Tenure Letters: To Sling or to Shoot Arrows?
  39. Classroom Activity: Simplification is not a Sin
  40. What is Cyber Hygiene?
  41. Monday Morning Linkage

January 2014

  1. How the Blogosphere Helps Junior Scholars?
  2. Online Media Caucus at the ISA: The Time Is Now-ish
  3. Friday Nerd Blogging
  4. How Do You Change a Policy That Doesn’t Exist?: the combat exclusion one year later
  5. Thursday Linkage (I’m not even going to pretend it’s morning…)
  6. Vote Now! Demonstrate the Blogging Contributions to IR Scholarship
  7. “Shame” on you, ISA
  8. “Mind the Gap!” Bureaucracy, and the Regulation/Constitution of i(I)nternational r(R)elations
  9. Blogging and Teaching — and the Wrongheaded ISA Proposal
  10. Tuesday Morning Linkage: ISA and Blogging Edition
  11. Can You Pass the Cricket (errr.. Soccer) Test?
  12. More on Moral Hazard in US Alliances: Explaining Japan-Korea Tension (and Greece-Turkey?)
  13. Five Ways IR Editorial Boards Can Combat Gender Bias in Citations
  14. Monday Linkage
  15. A Small Farewell
  16. Friday Nerd Blogging: Mocking the New and the Old
  17. thursday linkage
  18. Mid-Week Linkage
  19. Are CIA Drone Pilots Likelier to Comply With International Law?
  20. Public Opinion in the Midst of the Syrian Civil War
  21. Monday Linkage – MLK Day Edition
  22. France’s Re-Emergence as a Major Power
  23. Belated Thursday Links – It’s Still Thursday Somewhere Right?
  24. OAIS Blogging Awards Voting Begins
  25. Friday Nerd Blogging
  26. I wish I could quote Marry Poppins
  27. Tuesday Linkage
  28. The Ethics of Casual Teaching Contracts: how we are all implicated in selling out academia and exploiting our students
  29. Book Review: “North Korea in Transition” – Oh Wait, it’s Not in Transition…
  30. Monday Morning Linkage
  31. Polar Vortex Nerd Blogging
  32. Digital Video Games and International Interactions
  33. Belated Thursday Linkage
  34. The Politics of Some One?
  35. Ranking IR Journals
  36. Shouldn’t we call it the “having-a-husband” penalty?
  37. Tuesday Pre-Dusk Linkage
  38. Harry Potter and the Questionable Metaphors: Sino-Chinese Addition
  39. Monday Morning Linkage
  40. Friday Nerd Blogging: IR Meets the Cold
  41. Thursday Morning Linkage – Happy New Year Edition
  42. Happy New Year Linkage

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December 2013

  1. In Cyber Security, it is the little things that matter…
  2. Penultimate Call for Blogging Awards Nominations
  3. [More] Academic New Year’s Resolutions You Won’t Keep
  4. Friday Nerd Blogging: Winterfest Depression Edition
  5. Thursday Morning Post X-Mas Linkage
  6. Happy, Merry, and Peace
  7. The Scottish Threat Environment: Insecurity, Fears and Independence
  8. The Importance of Screening
  9. Friday Nerd Blogging: Seasonal Silliness
  10. Why Does South Korea View Japan as a National Security Threat Worse than China? My Hypothesis: Competition with North Korea
  11. Thursday Morning Linkage
  12. Dear Kansas Board of Regents
  13. Quacking is Dangerous to Your Health?
  14. In Defense of Teaching (and Grading) the Long Research Paper
  15. Tuesday Afternoon Linkage: A Dish Best Served Cold
  16. Blogging Awards Nomination Update
  17. Having it All? A Male Academic’s Perspective
  18. Friday Nerd Blogging: The Tasty Sequel
  19. Human Rights Week Roundup: New Work by (Somewhat) New Scholars
  20. The Importance of Angry Letters
  21. The Good Old Days
  22. Will There Be Other Transformational Figures Like Mandela?
  23. Cyber Shrinkage: Loss and Cyber Security
  24. Will China meet its energy-related targets under its 12th five year plan?
  25. Monday Evening Linkage: have yourself a gender-neutral Christmas?
  26. 2014 OAIS Blogging Awards: Call for Nominations
  27. Friday Nerd Blogging: Solving 21st Century Defense Procurement Challenges
  28. Cyber Arms Proliferation and Arms Races
  29. Remembering Mandela and the Movement Against Apartheid
  30. Data Dilemmas & Converging Logics
  31. Thursday Morning Linkage – Grumpy End of Semester Edition
  32. 2014 Grawemeyer Award Winner
  33. Tuesday Post-Dusk Linkage
  34. Monday Evening Linkage: moustaches and Michelle Obama
  35. World AIDS Day and the Global Fund Replenishment

November 2013

  1. 4 Quick Hypotheses on Why China Suddenly Declared this New Air Defense Zone
  2. Belated Thanksgiving Linkage – Iran Nuclear Deal Edition
  3. Academia, Drug Cartels, and Inappropriate Analogies
  4. The Holiday Boost: Why You Should Submit a Manuscript before Winter Break
  5. Tuesday Linkage
  6. Monday Linkages: ugly women are more competent?
  7. Are you for or against compliance?
  8. An ExPat Academic Thanksgiving
  9. Friday Nerd Blogging: Gun Control, Dragon Control, and Star(Buck) Power
  10. Equity in Global Climate Governance: An Update From Warsaw
  11. Thursday Morning Linkage – Special Climate Negotiations Edition
  12. Tactical Concessions or a Kiss Off? Understanding Recent Changes in Chinese Human Rights Policies
  13. Announcing the 2014 Blogging Awards and Reception at ISA
  14. Hard to Say I’m Sorry
  15. Tuesday Evening Linkage: Shorter and Later Than Ever!
  16. Campaigners Set International Agenda on Autonomous Weapons
  17. Mixing Scholarly with Blogging Identities
  18. My Japanese Hate-Mail Tells I am a ‘S— Kimchi Propagandist’ (Hah!) …Where’s Thunderdome When You Need it?
  19. Why Write About Gender if You are Going to Get Blasted for it: diplomacy lessons from Miss Universe?
  20. Avoiding the Joint Security Trap (and Countering Conventional Wisdom)
  21. Miss Universe is Like Other International Organizations…except the members are half naked
  22. Friday Nerd Blogging: Lost in Furniture
  23. Thursday Morning Linkage – Special Typhoon Haiyan Edition
  24. The inevitability of transnational racial profiling?
  25. The Pop 5: feminism at a pop culture glance
  26. Parsing the Anti-Drone Debate
  27. Tuesday Linkage
  28. The Endlessly Fatiguing Japanese-Korean Squabbling is the Worst it’s been in Decades
  29. Postscript on Typhoon Haiyan: Hazard Vulnerability, Disasters, and Security
  30. a bear in duck’s clothing: reflections on the end of my blogging career
  31. Monday Evening Linkage
  32. Typhoon Haiyan and Asia’s Special Vulnerability to Climate-Related Hazards
  33. Gender, Civilian Security and the Paradox of War Norms
  34. Friday Nerd Blogging
  35. Flipping the Classroom
  36. The Cash Prize: A Decision Experiment
  37. Thursday Morning Linkage
  38. Desecuritization and Iran
  39. No More Neocon Faux-Cassandra Posturing: American Defense is not “in Decline”
  40. Going Commando
  41. The Great War of…1990
  42. Slouching Toward Mordor
  43. Tuesday Morning Linkage: A Rookie Explains Himself
  44. Why I Left Academia
  45. Can China Get a Handle on Pollution? What Does that Mean for Climate Change?
  46. The Token Woman on Hiring Committees: time for a change
  47. Monday Linkage: gender x
  48. Get Ready to Rumble….. NSA vs. State
  49. Friday Nerd Blogging: When Life Imitates Art

October 2013

  1. Thursday Morning Linkage
  2. Tuesday Linkage
  3. Why I Didn’t Quit Academia
  4. Duck and Cover when Cyber Doomsday Comes
  5. Monday Linkage: Roma and race links
  6. Halloween in Turkey
  7. The United Nations and American Public Opinion
  8. Why the US Spies on Its Allies
  9. Friday Nerd Blogging Extra: Just Some Good Advice
  10. The power of mentorship: a reflection
  11. Engineering Peace
  12. Friday Nerd Blogging: Indiana Jones and the Plot Hole of Power
  13. Thursday Morning Linkage
  14. So you want to move to the United Kingdom…
  15. The Duck of Minerva is blocked in China
  16. Do Cyborgs Dream of Electric Femme-Bots?
  17. Advancing Global Environmental Governance
  18. Another Great Video – Why You Should NEVER Lecture from the Book’s Slides
  19. Tuesday Linkage
  20. The Greeks Had a Word For It
  21. Great Video on Getting a PhD in Political Science – Very Funny
  22. Monday Linkage: targeting mothers, uteruses, and the key to ending congressional deadlock
  23. “Breaking Bad”: Through a Literary Lens
  24. Duck Forum on Teaching US Foreign Policy #4
  25. Duck Forum on Teaching US Foreign Policy #3
  26. Friday Nerd Blogging
  27. What Makes a Great Scholar?
  28. The Politics of “Fitting” Feminist Theory in IR
  29. The Birth of a Sports Rivalry
  30. Duck Forum on Teaching US Foreign Policy #2
  31. Thursday Morning Linkage – Apocalypse Averted!
  32. What’s Wrong with FETs? Thoughts from Gendering Global Conflict
  33. Duck Forum on Teaching US Foreign Policy
  34. Duck Forum on Teaching US Foreign Policy #1
  35. Creative Rebranding? Human Rights vs. Human Security
  36. Review of Braumoeller’s The Great Powers and the International System
  37. Monday morning linkage
  38. Monday Morning Linkage- it’s all about balance
  39. Words of Mass Destruction in the Syria Debate
  40. Cameron’s Respect for the House of Commons’ No Vote on Syria was a Good Day for Democracy
  41. Friday Nerd Blogging: Something From the New TV Season
  42. Friday Morning Linkage
  43. Why Didn’t the US “Re-interpret” the UN Charter on Syria?
  44. Is Capture and Kill Bad Guys Good Counter-Terrorism?
  45. International Institutions Mobilize Opponents Too
  46. Citation Counts are Like Democracy
  47. Taboo or Not Taboo?
  48. Friday Nerd Blogging: Mashing The Best
  49. Chinese Hegemony in Asia is Unlikely, so AirSea Battle Unnecessarily Provokes the Security Dilemma
  50. A Tale of Two Poverties: Sachs versus the world
  51. The American Civil War as an Illustration of War to Forestall Adverse Shifts in Power
  52. Gender and Inclusion in the Profession
  53. ICC Victory over Immunity in Recent Clash with al-Bashir
  54. America Being Driven Into a Ditch: Thursday Morning Linkage
  55. What Terrorist Attacks Don’t Tell Us
  56. Flying While Academic
  57. Syria and US’ Commitments Under the Arms Trade Treaty
  58. Tuesday Nerd Blogging
  59. ISA Working Groups

September 2013

  1. Game of Chicken and the US Government Shutdown: What Game Theory Can Tell Us About Likely Outcomes
  2. Monday Linkage
  3. Big Brother meets Network Analysis?
  4. Why is the International Community Protecting the Wrong Norm in Syria?
  5. Friday Morning Linkage
  6. Friday Nerd Blogging
  7. Thursday Morning Linkage
  8. The Numbers Do Not Lie: People Don’t Like Numbers
  9. Research Primer for Religion and IR
  10. NGOs: Chemical Weapons are the Least of Syrian Civilians’ Concerns
  11. The Problem with Grand Strategy: Preemptive Cyber War with China
  12. Monday morning links
  13. Women and the residential fellowship: a few thoughts
  14. Friday Nerd Blogging: The End Is Nigh, Say It Ain’t So
  15. And on that note…
  16. Friday Morning Linkage
  17. What if Iran Did Get the Bomb?
  18. Podcasting Killed the Lecturing Star
  19. What Is Policy Relevance, and (How) Should We Reward International Relations Scholars for It?
  20. Thursday Morning Linkage
  21. Analytic Eclecticism, Phantom Confrontations, and Dialogue: On Reus-Smit´s “Beyond Metatheory?”
  22. Theories Never Die
  23. The Virtues of Quitting
  24. Wednesday Addams Linkage
  25. Rethinking Academic Rankings
  26. Not Aufklärers but Dilettantes: Reading Michael C. Williams’s “In the Beginning…”
  27. The International Relations Enlightenment and the Ends of International Relations Theory
  28. Monday Linkage
  29. Memory Loss as Imperial Effect
  30. Core, periphery and (neo) imperalist IR
  31. The Scarcity of Politics in Cosmopolitan Theory: Part I
  32. Symposium — Response to Christine Sylvester, “Experiencing the End of IR Theory/End of War”
  33. Symposium — War is Human
  34. How Could US Signals of Weakness bring Russia and Syria to the Table?
  35. Meta-theory and Practical Knowledge: Reflections on Reus-Smit’s ‘Beyond Meta-theory’
  36. Beyond Metatheory?
  37. Friday Afternoon Linkage
  38. Climate change and conflict revisited: fixed effects or no?
  39. Russia: Peacemaker
  40. Symposium — Of Paradigms and Assumptions
  41. Theory is Dead, Long Live Theory: The End of the Great Debates and the Rise of Eclecticism in International Relations
  42. Schrödinger’s Cat and the Tenure Vote
  43. Friday Nerd Blogging: Two for the Price of One
  44. Obama’s Dienbienphu Moment?
  45. Symposium — Maps are Theories, Cartographic Errors Make Flawed Debates
  46. PhD or Not a PhD
  47. Symposium — The Most Important Emerging Theoretical Clusters in IR? Not What You Think
  48. Syrius Morning Linkage
  49. So, you want a job in policy?
  50. Symposium — Reflections on Reflexivity and Theorizing in IR
  51. Symposium — The Ends of IR Theory: Stages of Reflexivity and Modes of Theorizing
  52. How Much Would the World Pay for Biodiversity? Nothing, Really
  53. Symposium — A Response to Charlotte Epstein: Are ‘Universals’ Allowed in Poststructural IR?
  54. Symposium — Une Invitation au Lecteur
  55. Blogging against the Odds
  56. Symposium — A Comment on Chris Brown’s “The Poverty of Grand Theory”
  57. Symposium — The Poverty of Grand Theory, Duck Taster Edition
  58. The “End of IR Theory?” Symposium
  59. Monday linkage
  60. Symposium — The Mother of All isms: The paradigm is dead. Long live the paradigm!
  61. The Complexities of Intervening in Syria
  62. Symposium — The Mother of All Isms: Curmudgeon Edition
  63. Hypotheses Tested
  64. Win Phil’s Money
  65. Symposium — In Defense of Simplistic Hypothesis Testing
  66. Symposium — Leaving Theory Behind: Why Simplistic Hypothesis Testing is Bad for IR
  67. Clarifying Punitive Intervention
  68. Symposium — Defining Theory Down
  69. Friday Morning Linkage
  70. Symposium — The End of International Relations Theory?
  71. Friday Nerd Blogging: APSA Needs More Medleys
  72. Make Love and War? Sex and Syria …
  73. Thursday Morning Linkage
  74. Special Event: “The End of IR Theory” Symposium
  75. Ducks Ducks Everywhere
  76. Does it Pay to Divide and Conquer?
  77. New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy Interview with Ben Hatke
  78. Wednesday Addams Linkage
  79. Belated Tuesday Linkage
  80. The Strategic Signaling Dynamics of Assistant Professor Office Decorating Decisions
  81. Monday Linkage
  82. Syria: in Defense of a Broad Military Authorization

August 2013

  1. An Announcement
  2. Syria and the problems of compellence
  3. Friday Nerd Blogging: Galactica (Not) Actual and the Sci-Fi / Sci-Fact / Globalization Intertext
  4. Friday Afternoon Linkage
  5. FYI: Washington Post and No Paywall for .mil/.gov/.edu
  6. What Do International Law and Norms Say About Burning People Alive?
  7. Intervention to Punish? Or to Protect?
  8. APSA 2013 Morning Linkage
  9. A Networking Post Inspired by Networking
  10. APSA Special: Social Movements and the Politics of Markets
  11. If Syria Used WMD, It Violated International Law. But So Would a US Intervention.
  12. Wednesday Addams Linkage
  13. On Syria And Politician’s Logic
  14. Not All Interventions are the Same.
  15. Part II: The Glass Half Full: Gendered Progress in Academic Networking
  16. Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
  17. Questions about Syria
  18. Popular Culture Can Crowd Out International Relations
  19. Netw…. Um, maybe not.
  20. Pedagogical query
  21. Studying Non-Governmental Organizations: What International Relations and Public Management Bring to the Table
  22. Are US Interests At Stake in Egypt and Syria?
  23. Krugman’s (Probably) Wrong about Apple and Network Externalities
  24. Monday early morning linkage
  25. The Glass Half Empty: Gendered Problems in Academic Networking
  26. Sunnanæfen Commentary and Linkage
  27. Don’t Stress About Networking
  28. Friday Morning Linkage
  29. Friday Nerd Blogging: Into Darkness
  30. Ham Omelettes and Taiwan’s Defence
  31. Thursday Late Afternoon “Morning” Linkage
  32. Blogging the syllabus, international security edition: what is security?
  33. Networking at Conferences: Not Just for Graduate Students and Junior Faculty
  34. The Syrian Chemical Attack: Things Fall Apart, the Centre Cannot Hold
  35. Social Media Before Conference Networking
  36. Will this be the Straw that Break the Back of Non-Intervention in Syria?
  37. Wednesday Linkage
  38. Brian’s Departure and the Duck
  39. Learning the Wrong Lessons? Who Should Blog?
  40. I Wear My Egg In Solidarity: Thoughts on the Perils of Academic Blogging
  41. Dear Readers
  42. Are you ready for some football?
  43. Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
  44. Are Weapons Inspections about Information or Inconvenience?
  45. Monday Linkage
  46. Marketing in Everything: Economics Edition
  47. In Defense of Networking
  48. Risk
  49. Jean Bethke Elshtain, 1941-2013
  50. Academic Conferences: From “Networking” to Forming and Nurturing Social Ties
  51. The Other Dimensions of Inclusion (and Exclusion) in Political Science
  52. The Citation Gap: Results of a Self-Experiment
  53. Recent Reading List
  54. Why I Pulled the Post
  55. Networking is Hard-Working
  56. More Papers, Please: Video Games and International Studies
  57. Thursday Morning Linkage
  58. Sexual Harassment in Political Science and International Studies
  59. Where Are All the Republican Realists?
  60. The (American) Job Market and Interpretive Methods in Political Science
  61. Resistance is Not Futile.
  62. Wednesday Addams Linkage: Special Andragogy Edition
  63. Favela Ninjas and Apartheid Samurai
  64. Belated Friday Nerd Blogging: Meta Heroes
  65. Monday Morning Linkage
  66. Levee en Masse–but it’s only an operational concept!
  67. Really delayed Thursday Morning Linkage
  68. APSA Aerobics
  69. Beyond Robopocalypticism
  70. Does a Global Climate Agreement Require National Action?
  71. What Helps End Minority Discrimination? Recent Cool Research
  72. Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
  73. My Enduring Rivalry Endures: What is a Credible Signal Anyhow?
  74. What Caused the Iraq War? Debs and Monteiro reply to Lake (Part III)
  75. Walter Russell Mead Defends, Badly, the NSF cuts to Political Science
  76. Pragmatism and Game Theory, Part 1
  77. Monday Morning Linkage
  78. Ultimate APSA 2013
  79. Syria: Intervening Not Now But Later
  80. Friday Nerd Blogging: The Chosen One
  81. Put Middle East Peace Process to a Vote
  82. Friday Morning Linkage
  83. Thursday Midmorning Linkage
  84. What Should You Read on Cyber Security?

July 2013

  1. What Caused the Iraq War? David Lake Replies to Debs and Monteiro (Part II)
  2. Time to Put “Dying to Win” out to Pasture?
  3. Déjà Vu in Zimbabwe
  4. Guantanamo in the Rearview Mirror
  5. What Caused the Iraq War? A Debate (Part I)
  6. Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
  7. Ducklings!
  8. Monday Morning Linkage
  9. Fun with Abortion Polls
  10. Friday Morning Linkage
  11. Friday Nerd Blogging: Poly-Superman
  12. Bayes, Stereotyping, and Rare Events
  13. Thursday Morning Linkage
  14. Cyber Events Data and Foreign Policy Reactions
  15. New Subnational African Education and Infrastructure Dataset
  16. What are the “Big Issues” of International Politics, and How Should Journals Address Them?
  17. Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
  18. About Those Israel Academic Study Trips…
  19. Mechanical Turk and Experiments in the Social Sciences
  20. Thinking About the Seven Year Post-Doc
  21. The Interdisciplinarity Shibboleth: Christakis Edition
  22. Tobias Gibson Reviews The Thistle and the Drone
  23. How Would Al Gore Have Fought the Iraq War?
  24. Monday Morning Linkage
  25. First-World Nerd Problems: A Nintendo 3DS Bleg
  26. Posthumous Justice
  27. Storm-Delayed Friday Nerd Blogging
  28. Friday Morning Linkage
  29. Guest Post – Dave Kang: "International Relations Theory and East Asian History"
  30. Summer Teaching – Why Teach and What Makes It Different
  31. How the Media is Mis-Reporting the DOD’s Drone Casualty Study
  32. Thursday Afternoon Linkage
  33. Talking Academic Journals: Online Fora
  34. The Global Diffusion of Bikeshares (I)
  35. Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
  36. Francesco Guicciardini Prize (ISA HIST Section Book Prize)
  37. What We Know, Don’t Know, Can’t Know and Need to Know About the DOD’s Classified Study on Drone Deaths
  38. Race, Gender and Civic Justice in America
  39. Monday Morning Linkage
  40. 13 Cuetzpalin Linkage
  41. Friday Morning Linkage
  42. Friday Nerd Blegging: Science Fiction and Foreign Policy Discourse
  43. Friday Nerd Blogging Karaoke
  44. Brief Observations on Kansas City
  45. Dear LaTeX: It’s not you, it’s me
  46. Thursday Morning Linkage
  47. The State of the Killer Robot Debate
  48. Mocking the Reviewers
  49. The “Israel Lobby” and the Nixon Administration
  50. Monday Morning Linkage
  51. Friday Nerd Linkage
  52. Should We Keep Hidden the Way People Behave When their Actions are Hidden?
  53. Global Governance, Big Surveillance, and Intelligence Cooperation
  54. Democracy: de facto vs. de jure
  55. July 4 Linkage
  56. Wednesday Linkage
  57. From Kingdonian to Weberian Activism: A Shifting Stance
  58. Common Errors in Essay Writing, as Demonstrated by Film Critics, Part 1
  59. Obama’s ‘Strategic Patience’ on North Korea is more Responsible than yet another Impossible ‘Vision’ to Solve NK
  60. Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
  61. The Snowden Affair and International Hierarchy
  62. From Snowden Crash to Anathem
  63. A Network Explanation for the Rise of Global Social Issues
  64. Monday Morning Linkage

June 2013

  1. The Society of Individuals
  2. Sunnanæfen Linkage
  3. Graduate School After Peace Corps
  4. Friday Nerd Linkage
  5. Friday Morning Linkage
  6. Thursday Climate Change Special Linkage
  7. Wednesday Linkage
  8. Tiwesdæg: the Left-arm of Non-linkage
  9. Become the Survey Participant! New Survey on Teacher Evaluations
  10. Civil-Military Relations– Why A Little Conflict is OK
  11. Welcome Changes in America’s Funemployment Rate
  12. Call for Participants: Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies
  13. Agree with Heinlein’s ‘Citizens vs. Civilians’? then this US Military History is for you
  14. Monday Morning Linkage
  15. Sunday Reading
  16. Could the Youth Protests of the EU, Middle East, Turkey, and Brazil Spread to Asia’s Corrupt Democracies?
  17. The Whole of Government Needs a Game Changer
  18. Friday Nerd Blogging: The Long Con
  19. The Relational Sociology of Rational-Choice Theory
  20. Moving Beyond Tilly
  21. The “Fear” Factor in “Killer Robot” Campaigning
  22. War Law, the “Public Conscience” and Autonomous Weapons
  23. Thursday Morning Linkage
  24. The Three Commandments for Editing a Journal
  25. Rational Choice and Selfishness
  26. Measuring Journal (and Scholarly) Outcomes
  27. How Do Americans Feel About Fully Autonomous Weapons?
  28. So Should Policy Schools Have PhD Programs?
  29. Globalizing Human Rights
  30. Ken Macleod on Iain Banks
  31. A Certain Kind of Selfishness
  32. Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
  33. Academic Freedom, Financial Allure, and Overseas Research, Programs, and Campuses: Do We Self-Censor?
  34. The Baby Penalty
  35. Monday Morning Linkage
  36. Is There a Right Way to Do Development?
  37. Weekend Link-a-Rama
  38. Tenure Denial, Public Relations, and Asymmetric Voice
  39. The Aussie Military Redefinig Masculinity Amidst Another Scandal?
  40. Belated Friday Nerd Blogging: Classics Mashup
  41. Svalbard Blogging
  42. APSA & African Politics
  43. Actor Autonomy in Choice-Theoretic Accounts
  44. Sorry General, War is a Choice
  45. Friday Morning Linkage
  46. The Challenges of Dissent: A Dissenter’s View
  47. Does Snowden Pass the Test?
  48. Abenomics is Not more Dangerous than the North Korean Missile Program
  49. New Journal: Political Science Research and Methods
  50. Jarrod Hayes on “Bridging the Gap”
  51. Thursday Morning Linkage
  52. What Exactly is Rational Choice?
  53. Marriage Debate in France Strikes at the Heart of the Republican Consensus
  54. Post-Hiatus Killer Robot Blogging and Other Related Questions
  55. Syria and the Politics of Prudence
  56. Wednesday Addams Linkage
  57. Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
  58. Outside of Context: Iain M. Banks, 1954-2013
  59. Monday Morning Linkage
  60. Random Saturday
  61. New Podcast: Interview with Patrick James
  62. Having your Cake and Eating it Too: US Defense Cuts without Capability Cuts
  63. Time to Wind Up a Long-Standing Debate?
  64. Friday Morning Linkage
  65. Friday Nerd Blogging: Predictable But Enjoyable Mashup
  66. Who’s on Duck?
  67. SAGE and the Duck of Minerva
  68. Is Syria Infecting the Middle East?
  69. IR Theory Syllabi
  70. Thursday Morning Linkage
  71. Wednesday Addams Linkage
  72. Contentious Politics and Ducks: China Edition
  73. ISA Theory Section Page at the Duck
  74. “War Made the State and the State Made War”
  75. Monday Linkage

May 2013

  1. Belated Conference Proposal Advice
  2. Talking Journals: ISQ on the Web
  3. Friday Morning Linkage
  4. Friday Nerd Blogging: Silly Charity Stunts
  5. Obama, Drones, and the Matter of Definitions
  6. (Peer/Non) Review
  7. Call for Abstracts: Millennium Conference, 19-20 October, 2013
  8. Thursday Dinklage
  9. Wednesday Addams Linkage
  10. GIGA Comparative Area Studies Award
  11. The Science of Teacher Evaluation Manipulation
  12. Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
  13. Taking Liberalism on Intervention Seriously: a 12-Step Program
  14. A Good Day To Remember Civil-Military Relations
  15. Memorial Day Linkage
  16. Weekend Waterfowl
  17. Why the Dakotas?
  18. In Honor of Jay Carney
  19. Friday Morning Linkage
  20. Call for Papers: 2013 International Studies Association-Northeast Annual Conference
  21. Do US Alliances Re-Assure in Asia, or Create Moral Hazard?
  22. Thursday Morning Linkage
  23. Wednesday Addams Linkage
  24. Mapping IR Theory
  25. Friday Nerd Blogging: Early but On Time
  26. Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage
  27. The State of Political Science
  28. Monday Morning Linkage
  29. Friday Nerd Blogging: Ultimate Mashup
  30. Friday Morning Linkage
  31. Thursday Morning Linkage
  32. A Global Survey of IR Students – Might be Worth Pitching in your Classes
  33. Women’s Income, Household Chores, Divorce, and the Need for a Norm Cascade
  34. A Terrific Piece on “The MOOC Moment”
  35. ISA International Ethics Book Award
  36. Midweek Mélange
  37. Abenomics is a Not an Excuse for Comfort-Women Denialism
  38. Tuesday Evening Linkage Club
  39. “A university isn’t Disneyland and professors aren’t Mickey Mouse”
  40. ISA Theory Section Call for Conference Paper Awards
  41. Kenneth Waltz (1924-2013)
  42. Monday Morning Linkage
  43. The Post-1979 ‘Asian Peace’ & Economic Miracle are Probably Connected
  44. Friday Nerd Blogging: Better Late Than Never
  45. Friday Anti-Nerd Blogging: Matthew Kroenig Meme
  46. Friday Morning Linkage
  47. Thursday Morning Linkage
  48. Why Reading Scott Sagan Scares Me.
  49. Midweek Mélange
  50. Friday Nerd Blogging Way Early
  51. Game of Thrones Over-Thinking: Applications from Ethnic Conflict and Civil War
  52. What’s wrong with red lines?
  53. Call for Nominations: ISA Theory Section Book Award
  54. Human Rights Treaties are Like Virginity Pledges, Part Deux
  55. Save Marriage
  56. This Monster Duck is Coming to Eat You. And Your Family Too.
  57. Monday Morning Linkage
  58. North Korea is an ‘Upper Volta with Missiles’ who Cried Wolf Too Often
  59. Sharing Power: America’s Strategic Choices
  60. Friday Nerd Blogging: The Eve of the Fourth
  61. Talking Academic Journals: Publishing the “Best Work”
  62. National Day of Prayer, Political Science Edition
  63. Thursday Morning Linkage
  64. Policy-Relevant Research, Redux
  65. Was Kaesong a Hole in the Korean Iron Curtain, or a Subsidy to the Kim Monarchy?
  66. Arms transfers to Africa: Hold the phone!….China is the good guy?
  67. Replacing Nuclear Weapons

April 2013

  1. Monday Morning Linkage
  2. 15 Must-Read Books (And 2 Must-Watch Movies) For Political Science Students
  3. The End of Austerity…It’s Death is No Great Exaggeration
  4. Defying Gravity: Seeking Political Balance in ICC Prosecutions
  5. Friday morning linkage
  6. Friday Nerd Blogging: Mashing Up GoT
  7. Professing and the Policy World
  8. Thursday Morning Linkage
  9. Nerd-Inflected Wednesday Linkage
  10. Talking Academic Journals: Collecting Data
  11. Monday Morning Linkage
  12. Linkage Week in Review
  13. An Actual Expert on the Caucasus….
  14. Brief Notes on 4/15
  15. Thursday Morning Linkage
  16. 2013 Yale Ferguson Award: Call for Nominations
  17. The Syria Endgame: A Way Forward
  18. Why I’m not Blogging about 4/15
  19. Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
  20. What if US/Japan Try to Shoot Down a North Korean Missile & They Miss?
  21. Oh crap, I think I am in an enduring rivalry
  22. An Open Letter to Someone Contemplating a PhD and Parenting
  23. Tracking and Political-Science Journal Accountability
  24. Theory Section Redux
  25. Monday Morning Linkage
  26. What will the North Korean Military do if Japan Shoots Down the Missile Launch?
  27. Saturday Morning Linkage
  28. The Awful State of US Punditry on the North Korea Crisis: Bill Richardson called Kim Il Sung ‘Kim Yun Sum,’ or something like that, on CNN Yesterday
  29. The First Casualty of the National Science Foundation Funding Cut for Political Science
  30. How To Interact With Your Instructor: A Guide for Undergrads
  31. Renaming the Arab Spring
  32. Thursday Morning Linkage
  33. Midweek Linkage
  34. The Stupid Things People with a Ph.D. say on Airplanes
  35. Guest Post – David Kang: The Media Coverage of the Korean Crisis is Inflammatory
  36. ISA Theory Section Book Prize
  37. Is there a Downside to Open Access Publishing?
  38. Monday Morning Linkage
  39. While the Ducks Are Away — Can We Bridge the Gap When They Get Back?
  40. OAIS Awards: and the Winners are….
  41. Friday Morning Linkage
  42. Is It the Gate or the Stuff Inside?
  43. Roger Ebert’s Legacy
  44. Thursday Morning Linkage – ISA Special
  45. So, we’re at ISA
  46. The worst questions to be asked at a conference
  47. Monday Morning Linkage
  48. Nation’s international relations reference librarians despondent as Game of Thrones returns

March 2013

  1. Small Modular Reactors and US Military Bases
  2. Friday Nerd Blogging: Globalization Edition
  3. Jeffrey C. Isaac on the NSF and Political Science
  4. Debating the Benefits of Nuclear Superiority for Crisis Bargaining, Part IV
  5. Did You Know that WMD is DMW Spelled Backwards?
  6. Friday Morning Linkage
  7. Guest Post by Tom Nichols — Iraq War Debate too Driven by Bush Resentment: A Response to Bob Kelly’s Iraq Posts”
  8. Rule Number One For Graduate School Applicants
  9. Bargaining, Capabilities, and Crisis Outcomes
  10. Debating the Benefits of Nuclear Superiority, Part III
  11. Amooc Time
  12. Thursday Morning Linkage
  13. Midweek Linkage
  14. It’s Not About #PoliSci, It’s About the #NSF
  15. Tuesday Afternoon Linkage Club
  16. Shakespeare, Cyprus, and the End of the Euro Crisis
  17. The US-Iraq Conflict: A War of Rivalry?
  18. Debating the Benefits of Nuclear Superiority for Crisis Bargaining, Part II
  19. Debating the Benefits Nuclear Superiority for Crisis Bargaining, Part I
  20. Foreign Entanglements: Iraq Anniversary Edition
  21. Monday Morning Linkage
  22. ISA Survival Guide for Grad Students: the essential clothing, food, shelter, and networking dos and don’ts
  23. Pop Popular Understandings of Game of Thrones and Nerd Blogging Friday Two Days Late
  24. Iraq 10 Years Later (3): Why the Neocon Theory behind the War Failed
  25. Friday Nerd Blogging: Game of Thrones and Popular Understandings of IR
  26. Six Degrees of Securitization (F*@k you, Senator Coburn!)
  27. Iraq: It takes a President
  28. 10 Years On in Iraq: the Chance We Missed
  29. Blog Archeology: The Discursive Bundle that Justified the Iraq War
  30. Yes, Bush and Cheney sold the war, but why did Americans buy it?
  31. Thursday Morning Linkage
  32. Midweek Linkage
  33. Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
  34. Iraq 10 Years Later (2): What was the Neocon Theory behind the War?
  35. A (very reluctant) case for Airport Security
  36. Human Rights Treaties Are Like Virginity Pledges
  37. Monday Morning Linkage
  38. Washington “Cancels” Fourth Stage of European Phased Adaptive Approach
  39. Cold War: Old or New?
  40. Agriculture and Husbandry: The Slow-Motion Singularity
  41. The International Studies Blogging Reception at ISA
  42. Saturday Linkage
  43. Friday Nerd Blogging: More Mashup
  44. Friday Nerd Blogging: Triple Mashup
  45. Friday Morning Linkage
  46. In Defense of Homo Economicus
  47. Thursday Morning Linkage
  48. USNWR Political Science Rankings
  49. Midweek Linkage
  50. The Mythical Liberal Order: A Reply and Response
  51. ISA 2013 Blogging Reception
  52. Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
  53. Iraq 10 Years Later (1): How Culpable is Academic International Relations?
  54. The Good Ol’ Cold War
  55. Paying for Advice? Just Say No
  56. Monday Morning Linkage in Space
  57. Is the Weakness of the Liberal Order Overblown?
  58. Friday Nerd Blogging: International Woman’s Day Edition
  59. Friday Afternoon Linkage
  60. Thursday Morning Linkage
  61. Counter-What?
  62. Snowquestratian Linkage
  63. The Robama Doctrine
  64. Just When You Thought the Interwebs Were Safe
  65. Kenya: Can Technology Safeguard Elections?
  66. Rodrik’s Paradox is No Paradox
  67. ‘Rodman-gate’: Can ‘Useful Idiots’ please Stop Shilling for North Korea?
  68. Monday Morning Linkage
  69. Going on the Job Market? Pick up Fifty Shades of Grey or a Ukulele!
  70. Saturday Morning Linkage
  71. Friday Nerd Blogging: Presidential Edition
  72. Friday Afternoon Linkage

February 2013

  1. Thursday Morning Linkage
  2. Beyond Reading the Tea Leaves: Using Data to Understand Partisanship and Foreign Policy
  3. Wednesday Morning Link Dump
  4. Belated/Early Friday Nerd Blogging: Ultimate Mashup
  5. Tuesday Morning Linkage Club Lite
  6. The Syrian Conflict: to Internationalize or not to Internationalize
  7. Time to Redefine the Term “soft power”?
  8. Monday Linkage
  9. Can IR Theory Free this Student?
  10. On the Word ‘Global’
  11. Torture as War Victory: My Hugely Unpopular Thesis about the ‘Real’ Agenda of Zero Dark Thirty
  12. Academic Freedom and the Challenges of Going Global: LSE Cancels Conference in UAE.
  13. Note to Bahrain: Release Prisoners and Provide More Social Services
  14. Friday Morning Linkage
  15. “It is the Grating Habit of Partisans on the Winning Side to Tell the Losers How They Might Have Done Better”
  16. The New Grand-Strategic Divide? A Response to Thomas Wright
  17. Legal Prostitution: what can we learn from the empirical record?
  18. Update: UWE Response to My Letter
  19. 2013 Awards Update
  20. Wednesday Linkage
  21. Save IR and Politics at University of the West of England
  22. Arguments for a New STAR TREK Series
  23. Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
  24. Clever Pun on MOOCs
  25. Celebrate President’s Day with a West Wing Marathon
  26. Cat Fancy, Parent Company of Duck of Minerva, Subject of Takeover Bid by Nerd Pornography Site
  27. Monday Morning Linkage
  28. The Lost Jedi Art of Reading Closely
  29. Saturday Linkage
  30. Friday Nerd Blogging, Hiatus Ends Appropriately
  31. About that Gallup LGBT Survey
  32. Friday Morning Linkage
  33. Thursday evening linkage
  34. It’s a trap. No, really, IT’S A TRAP.
  35. Delegation Leads to Shirking, Shirking Leads to Failure …
  36. 5 Biggest Strategic Errors of the Emperor: a Contribution to the ‘Battle of Hoth’ Debate
  37. When does social change happen? Revisiting How to Survive a Plague
  38. The Force is strong with this one
  39. A Short History and Critique of Climate Negotiations: All Climate Politics is Local
  40. The Arab Spring and Securitization Theory
  41. Lunch-Time Linkage
  42. Current Political Scientist to Congress: Please Ignore Greg Ferenstein
  43. Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
  44. What Patterns of Trade Might Tell us About the Democratic Peace
  45. The Politics of “Political Science”: Mushroom Cloud Edition
  46. Podcast No. 20 – Interview with Phil Schrodt
  47. “Other scientists agree, at least when quoted selectively.”
  48. What Political Science Says About Papal Elections
  49. Monday Morning Linkage
  50. Weekend Omnibus
  51. Friday Morning Linkage
  52. The New Structuralism in International Relations and its Discontents: Prefatory Remarks
  53. How Reality-Based Is the Community?
  54. Thursday linkage
  55. Apples & Oranges & Women in the Infantry
  56. A Duck at Arms: Introducing Our First Military Correspondent
  57. A Brief Note on the Latest Jared Diamond Controversy
  58. Wednesday Morning Omnibus Post
  59. The Tragedy of Fragmented Rebellion
  60. More on Job Talks
  61. Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
  62. The 2013 OAIS Blogging Awards Finalists
  63. Monday Morning Linkage
  64. The Era of Austerity or the Era of Intervention?
  65. Saturday Morning Linkage
  66. Death to Job Talks!
  67. Poll Closing is Imminent

January 2013

  1. Thursday Afternoon Linkage: Zero Dark Thirty Catch up
  2. A Quarter-Baked Note on Grand Theory in IR
  3. The Societal Implications of Women in Combat
  4. The Minerva Project: Time for a Disciplinary Appraisal?
  5. OAIS Awards: Final Countdown for Finalists
  6. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  7. Tuesday Afternoon Linkage
  8. Call for papers: European Consortium on Political Research, Sept 4-7
  9. Perceptions and Opinions of the Cyber Threat
  10. Obama 2 and Foreign Policy Partisanship: Results of a New Survey of Congressional Staff
  11. Do You Need a Pro-Cancer Oncologist? Bias and Human Rights Scholarship
  12. What Western Analysts Got Wrong About the Israeli Election
  13. Monday Morning Linkage
  14. Special Relationship at the Crossroads
  15. Saturday Morning Linkage
  16. USC-CSIS Conference on Korean Unification (3): DPRK ‘Sovereignty’ is a Sino-Russian Fig-Leaf to Slow Unification and Check US power
  17. Podcast No. 19 – Interview with Daniel Drezner
  18. Friday Afternoon Linkage — Miscellaneous
  19. The Window on Late Ballot Requests is Closed
  20. Adventures in Reading Comprhension
  21. Thursday Morning Linkage: combat exclusion edition
  22. Lifting the Combat Ban for Women: why the policy change is the right choice
  23. “Zero Dark Thirty”: Touchstone Par Exemplar
  24. What We’re All Missing in the “Zero Dark Thirty” Debate
  25. Wednesday Short Takes
  26. “Zero Dark Thirty” Debate Needs an Interrogation
  27. Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
  28. USC-CSIS Conference on Korean Unification (2): ‘One Country, Two Systems’ will not happen
  29. Monday Morning Linkage – MLK Holiday Edition
  30. Saturday Snippets
  31. USC/CSIS Conference on Korean Unification (1): it will cost WAY more than people think
  32. Podcast No. 18 – Interview with Stefano Guzzini
  33. So You Want to be a Liberal Arts College Professor?
  34. Friday Morning Linkage….Mali Edition
  35. Sex is Better on Thursday Linkage: Everything you Need to Know about the Suzanne Moore “Trans Scandal”
  36. Citing academic literature, NRA calls for proliferation of weapons for children of all ages
  37. The MOOC Top Ten
  38. Magical Thinking in the Sahel
  39. Null Results
  40. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  41. Another Virtue of Blogsphere Engagement?
  42. Nobody cares about foreign policy
  43. Tuesday Morning Linkage Club
  44. An Interventionist Weekend
  45. Monday Morning Linkage
  46. Nexon: Right on Motivations… Outcome Pending
  47. NBinSFF Cross-Promotion: Interview with Felix Gilman
  48. In Defense of Melting the Platinum Coin Option
  49. Quick Notes on Awards
  50. Thomas Oatley on Peer Reviewing
  51. Saturday Morning Linkage
  52. An Unexpected Error
  53. Blog Archeology: Guns Won’t Stop Genocide
  54. Flexibility and Constraint in Hegemonic Orders
  55. Coauthorship – Like Bad Marriages and Struggling Nonprofits
  56. Get the Lead Out?
  57. Standard Stories for Hiring Decisions in Political Science
  58. Starlicious
  59. International Relations Fetish on the Rise
  60. Wednesday Afternoon Linkage
  61. 2nd Annual International Feminist Journal of Politics Conference
  62. New Duck of Minerva Working Paper: “I CAN HAS IR THEORY?”
  63. Tuesday Afternoon Linkage Club
  64. The Crass Argument for Teaching More Math In Poli Sci Courses
  65. Lamenting The Loss of the Light, The Ebbing of Grand Theory and The Decline of Old Boy Networks
  66. Saturday Afternoon Linkage
  67. What next for Venezuela?
  68. Podcast No. 17 – Interview with Iver Neumann
  69. Award Ballot
  70. Thoughts on Peer-Review Standards from a Junior Reviewer
  71. Friday Morning Linkage: Austerity Edition
  72. The Least Stressful Job of 2013: University Professor
  73. The Right to Mindlessly Look at You-Tube Videos
  74. Afternoon Miscellany: Latour, Podcasts, and Big Data
  75. Trotskyite Reactionaries
  76. Sex is Better on Thursday Linkage
  77. Academic New Year’s Resolutions You Won’t Keep
  78. ISO: American Grand Strategy
  79. Blog Archeology: No Decision Letter, No Peer Reviewing
  80. “Final List” of Award Nominees and Additional ISA Reception Details
  81. Wednesday Morning Linkage
  82. The Reading (Half)Year
  83. Tuesday Morning Linkage Club

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