The Curious Engineer

The Duck of Minerva

2016–2026

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October 2026

  1. Israel’s Dead End
  2. Proxy Patrimonialism and the Path to Pre-modernity
  3. Huntington wasn’t wrong. He just wasn’t right
  4. Episode 2: Being and Insecurity
  5. The Tao of the One: Trust, Rapprochement, and the Turning Wheel
  6. Don’t Hold Your Breath on AI-Driven Wargaming

September 2026

  1. When Constitutional Functions Blur
  2. What If Iran Acquired the Nuclear Bomb? A Case for Uncomfortable Diplomacy Over Catastrophe
  3. Middle East Studies: Still beating that strawman?
  4. The hypothetical science

August 2026

  1. The Pedagogical Legacies of the Pandemic
  2. On religious dialogue and “stochastic terrorism”
  3. Today’s sanctions aren’t special. They’re just keeping up.
  4. Our Age of Bronze is Collapsing: Nolan’s Odyssey as Allegory for the Decline of American Hegemony

July 2026

  1. Divided Government and Multilateral Assistance
  2. Episode 1: Gates of the West
  3. Unmanageable ally? Ceasefire breakdown reveals deeper tensions in US-Israel relationship
  4. Before you say it: the World Cup probably won’t increase US soft power
  5. The Uncanny Effects of the UK Court of Appeal’s ruling on the Proscription of Palestine Action

June 2026

  1. What Politics and IR can teach AI pedagogy
  2. How Russian economic policy is gender
  3. How the Iran War harms U.S. deterrence
  4. 6+1 Questions about Resilient Statehood
  5. On Indigenous Political Thought in Video Games
  6. Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega
  7. Dugin, the Ultimate Tradwife

May 2026

  1. I choose to celebrate Eurovision
  2. Whither Scottish progressivism?
  3. Britain is experiencing wave of antisemitic terrorism: Whether organic or state-sponsored, it needs to be addressed

April 2026

  1. This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide
  2. What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate
  3. The Gulf is a vital lynchpin of global stability, and it goes far beyond energy
  4. The Scripts We Perform: Militarized Masculinity and the Gendered Order
  5. Religious nationalism makes the profane sacred: True faith uses the sacred to heal the world
  6. Watching Scientific Progress in Action

March 2026

  1. Was I wrong on the Gulf states and Iran? An exercise in academic humility
  2. The Best and Worst of U.S. Foreign Policy(?)
  3. 6+1 Questions about Exit from International Organizations
  4. Iran and the shadow of the Kosovo intervention

February 2026

  1. Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire

January 2026

  1. “Fair Trade” and the revenge against the “Foreigner”: From Chamberlain to Trump
  2. What’s with all the racism?
  3. An Accidental Academic: 20 Years Later
  4. How To Review Efficiently and Fairly
  5. Renee Goode and the limits of false terrorism charges
  6. Trump, US foreign policy and Venezuela: Aberration or Honesty?
  7. Is Peer Review Broken? Should Reviewers Be Paid?

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December 2025

  1. Do you want a religious war? Because this is how you get a religious war
  2. Remembering Our Lost Colleagues
  3. Farewell

November 2025

  1. Can the news ever be impartial?
  2. Here We Go Again: Why American Presidents Can’t Resist Regime Change
  3. Bullies, Follies, and Decadent Orders: Constructing Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern
  4. Exploring the Meaning of Responsibility
  5. Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “A House of Dynamite”

October 2025

  1. 6+1 Questions About “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy”
  2. Ceasefire NOW (but not *now*)
  3. Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution
  4. The Mirage of Great-Power Competition
  5. The State of the Union is Grim

September 2025

  1. 6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy
  2. Will the recognition of Palestine matter? What IR scholarship says
  3. Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Purpose of the MAGA State
  4. How do we think about 9/11 in 2025?
  5. Benjamin de Carvalho

August 2025

  1. Who wants AI in the classroom?
  2. 6+1 Questions about “The U.S.: A (Mostly) Hands-Off Superpower”

July 2025

  1. Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts?

June 2025

  1. After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity
  2. Why have so many Muslim communities embraced radicalism?
  3. What’s the Matter with Soft Power?

May 2025

  1. Trump’s Tariffs and the Profits (and Deficits) of Personality
  2. Resisting a narrative on Israel and antisemitism
  3. Joseph Nye’s other big idea
  4. Probiotic disinformation
  5. 6+1 Questions about Waging War with Gold: National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages
  6. The Vatican’s Quiet Intelligence Legacy and Why It Matters Now

April 2025

  1. The frustrating wisdom of Pope Francis’ international mediation
  2. Unreal climate ‘realism’

March 2025

  1. Big Man, Big Heart
  2. The Folly of Trying to Trade Russia for “Europe”
  3. So much for “Great Power Competition”

January 2025

  1. 6+1 Questions about “Race, Shaming, and International Human Rights”
  2. Decoding “America First:” Which international institutions Trump 2.0 will criticize, undermine, or leave
  3. Grabbing the world by the norms
  4. O Canada/Ô Canada: A defense of Canada in international affairs
  5. Jimmy Carter’s legacy: a challenge to recognize and act on religion’s significance

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December 2024

  1. My Best Classroom Reads of the Year
  2. Another terrorful Christmas, this time for complex reasons
  3. The Classroom and the Magic Circle
  4. Jason Ralph
  5. Does this mean Assad would have fallen ten years ago?
  6. Climate Pledges as Vehicles for Political Posturing
  7. “Peacecraft” and the Nuclear Policy Dilemma

October 2024

  1. Who is behind the terrorist attack in Ankara?
  2. The return of civil political discourse

September 2024

  1. 6+1 Questions about “The Fossil-Fueled Roots of Climate Inaction in Authoritarian Regimes”
  2. Migration as the Outcome of States’ War against Nations

August 2024

  1. What to Do About Clausewitz: Saving Strategic Studies From Itself
  2. Jamie Frueh
  3. And All That Jezebel

July 2024

  1. Was the Trump shooting terrorism?
  2. Bloody Carnival
  3. The Munich Agreement, but Negotiated by Oswald Mosley
  4. The Frontier Politics of Horizon

June 2024

  1. 6 + 1 Questions about “Compliance in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights”

May 2024

  1. Eurovision suggests both sides on Israel-Palestine need to invest in some public diplomacy
  2. The Contradictions of “Progressive Realism,” and How to Overcome Them
  3. Israel protesters may be missing their best opportunity to help Gaza

April 2024

  1. 6+1 Questions about “The Diplomacy of Whataboutism”
  2. Susan Sell: The Power of Mentorship and Example
  3. Sebastian Kaempf
  4. On reckoning and repair in the international: revisiting imperialism and race in IR
  5. On the politics of decolonization theory and practice
  6. A reckoning with the traditional diplomatic community
  7. Landmarks and warning signs
  8. International Relations and the Problem of Literacy
  9. Is Latin America “International” enough for IR?
  10. On the Global Entanglements of Race, Empire, and Knowledge
  11. Now what?
  12. Introduction to the Symposium on “Race and Imperialism in International Relations”

March 2024

  1. Proxies, Pawns, and Spoilers: How Pro-Iranian Elements in Iraq use Christians and What that many Mean for Democracy
  2. Lene Hansen
  3. On Israel-Palestine, don’t ignore grassroots efforts at peace
  4. Staff Rides as Pedagogical Practice in International Relations
  5. Driving while looking in the rearview mirror
  6. Leaders’ preambles and world ordering in national security strategy documents: the (un)surprising global strategic ambitions of the US and UK

February 2024

  1. 6+1 Questions about Between Mao and Gandhi: The Social Roots of Civil Resistance
  2. Huss Banai
  3. To the Grand Peace Strategist
  4. Erica Resende

January 2024

  1. Susan Sell: Speaking Truth to Power
  2. Liberty’s in every blow!
  3. Susan Sell: A World Class Scholar and Human Being
  4. Remembering Susan Sell
  5. Live. What are you waiting for? A reflection on Susan Sell’s influence.
  6. Identity Politics and the Orthodoxies of the National Security Policy Community
  7. I can’t believe I need to explain why the Houthis aren’t heroes
  8. The Competition Metaphor in International Relations

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December 2023

  1. Germany: Climate Disappointment of the Year
  2. The misuse of the Christmas story, and why it matters for international relations
  3. WHY MADURO IS BLUFFING (AND ESEQUIBO IS NOT THE MALVINAS)
  4. When is it ok to express concern about persecuted Christians?
  5. The Blue Pacific’s Organically Progressive Strategic Culture
  6. I guess the UN Secretary General is suddenly concerned about human rights

November 2023

  1. Ordering Power: Hegemonic Architecture in a Multipolar World?
  2. Are forced migration crises moral or institutional?
  3. The Blue Pacific Has a Sphere-of-Influence Problem
  4. Book Nook – All Options on the Table: Leaders, Preventive War, and Nuclear Proliferation

October 2023

  1. 6+1 questions about Religious Appeals in Power Politics
  2. The Fascist Nuke Problem
  3. Episode 33: Status? You Just Met Us!
  4. What about the locals?: Taking stock of the ASEAN and IORA positions on the ‘Indo-Pacific’
  5. Biden’s Africa Policy Trilemma
  6. The beginning of the end for Netanyahu/the persistence of Israel-Saudi negotiations
  7. Some just want to watch the world burn
  8. What to expect at the upcoming climate negotiations?
  9. Judging a book by its cover II

September 2023

  1. Jarrod Hayes
  2. What If Trump was President When Russia Invaded Ukraine?
  3. So You’ve Seen Oppenheimer
  4. Bridging the Policy-Academic Gap: Lessons from Australia

August 2023

  1. Go Green Fast: Are the Industrial Policies of the Biden Administration Working?
  2. Strategic Service on the Tenure Track
  3. Selection Processes in Academia: Time for a Revamp
  4. Patriarchy and the Cult of Coercion: Pale, Male, and Stale Will Make Deterrence Fail
  5. Episode 32: Social Forces, States, and Clydeside Whisky
  6. Predictions of a “second civil war” and the narrative landscape
  7. Judging a book by its cover
  8. An Israeli Civil War: From Public Secret to Shared Illusion
  9. How do we get people to care about migrants?
  10. Israel’s Democratic Deficit as a One-State “Solution” Emerges

July 2023

  1. “Here Be Dragons”: Navigating the uncharted waters of AI, with lessons from the ocean
  2. Be wary of those calling for bans on blasphemy
  3. Episode 31: Great Balls of Power
  4. The WHO Recommends Avoiding Border Closures During Pandemics. Why Did People Want Them Closed During COVID-19 Outbreaks?
  5. Sid Meier’s Clash of Civilizations
  6. Why would Scots be ambivalent about the monarchy? /s

June 2023

  1. In Memory of Bear Braumoeller
  2. World Refugee Day
  3. People were hoping for Tchaikovsky, but got Wagner instead
  4. Security theater, path dependence, and snow globes
  5. The Legend of Soft Power
  6. Bridging the Gap between Research and Policy: Lessons from Co-Creation in the Aid Sector
  7. Oumar Ba
  8. Half-Baked Thoughts on ChatGPT and the College Essay

May 2023

  1. All hail International Relations’ lack of discipline!
  2. Episode 30: A Long, Strange Trek
  3. Bridging the Gap to Nowhere?
  4. Pope Francis’ peacebuilding on Ukraine may work…that’s not a good thing
  5. How to Disrupt Feedback Loops of War in Beijing and Washington
  6. LIVE recording of Whiskey & IR Theory at BISA 2023
  7. Rita Abrahamsen
  8. Oye Como Va: Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America

April 2023

  1. Episode 29: Introducing: Whiskey & IR Theory… in Space!
  2. Brent J Steele
  3. Deterrence can never fail, it can only be failed
  4. On Continuity in U.S. Military Basing Practices

March 2023

  1. A Pragmatic Foreign Policy Would Have Black American Support
  2. The Iraq War didn’t kill liberal internationalism, just our ability to debate it
  3. Odesa and World Heritage Politics
  4. Episode 28: Are We Living in a Simulation… of Sovereignty?
  5. Why Blog Now? An Introduction

February 2023

  1. 6+1 questions about “The Politics of Pseudoscience: Power and Knowledge in Contemporary Russia.”
  2. The transnational coalition that wasn’t: Russia, the West and Ukraine
  3. Debbie Lisle
  4. The Best Propaganda is True
  5. 6+1 Questions about U.S. Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion
  6. What does Andor Believe?
  7. Climate, Justice, and IR
  8. How should IR scholars respond to tragedy?
  9. Episode 27: Everything is Relational

January 2023

  1. On Washington’s China Fetish
  2. Election Observation as an Exercise in African Agency
  3. 6+1 Questions about Medieval Sovereignty
  4. Interwar Fascism and the Contemporary Far Right
  5. Is Reactionary Populism a Form of Fascism? Does it Matter?
  6. Worf as the Kantian Klingon
  7. Ann Towns
  8. America is the Preeminent Revisionist Power

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December 2022

  1. Rewriting U.S. Nuclear Deterrence Strategy?
  2. Explanatory Theory as Definition
  3. Get off my lawn! Are journal demands for “novelty” creating a culture of low-level academic dishonesty?
  4. Twitter Status
  5. Ok, students think race and climate change matter. Now what?
  6. Whiskey and IR Theory Stuff
  7. Critical Strategic Studies, or Where Are the Peace Strategists?
  8. Are you not entertained?
  9. (Social) Network Patrimonialism
  10. Pos(t)essive Individualism
  11. Welcome to the Microblog
  12. Indeterminacy, Uncertain Contexts and the Dual Nature of Norms
  13. Is the World Cup a soft power win for Qatar? It’s too early to tell
  14. A Message from the Executive Editor of International Security
  15. Say “cheese”!
  16. Autonomous Weapons Systems: Uncertainty and Anticipatory Norm-building
  17. Indoctrinate Me Softly

November 2022

  1. Making norms for uncertain times to come
  2. Whither norms research in times of uncertainty? A Symposium
  3. Does IR ask big questions?
  4. Does IR Do Big Questions? Should It?
  5. Was the Colorado nightclub attack terrorism? Does it matter?
  6. Podcast Recommendations
  7. Some Thoughts on Turkey and the Cuban Missile Crisis
  8. A Postcolonial Approach to the Cuban Missile Crisis
  9. No, social science didn’t kill international relations, part 58
  10. Reframing the Cuban Missile Crisis in (Postcolonial) Time and Space

October 2022

  1. The Quincy Institute is not a progressive foreign-policy think tank
  2. On the Legitimating Effects of Brinksmanship
  3. Grand Strategy is Worldmaking
  4. Helen Kinsella
  5. Episode 26: Anarchy vs. The Anarchy
  6. Peace, Just Peace, and Ukraine
  7. Nuclear Precarity and the Russia Crisis

September 2022

  1. Why Would Putin Sabotage Nord Stream?
  2. Making Sense of “Rules-Based” Anti-Liberalism
  3. What makes for a successful conference?
  4. Antagonistic Trust, Asian Insecurity, and “Strategic” Competition
  5. The More Things Change…
  6. Our syllabi should be full of surprises
  7. 6+1 Questions about Social Positioning and International Order Contestation in Early Modern Southeast Asia
  8. 6+1 Questions about The Difficult Policies of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia
  9. Five Lessons for responsible engagement when the world is on fire
  10. The Qatar crisis ends…in the most boring way possible

August 2022

  1. What Walt and Mearsheimer Get Wrong About the Security Dilemma
  2. The Boeing 737 Max Settlement: An American “Solution” to an International Disaster?
  3. Alexander Barder
  4. To Fear or Love Multipolarity?
  5. Episode 25: The New Hierarchy Studies

July 2022

  1. Patricia Owens
  2. Textbook Reactionary Populism
  3. Geopolitical Rivalry: Great for Princes, Bad for Paupers
  4. Talking Great-Power Competition in the Heart of Empires Past

June 2022

  1. Was anarchy always what states made of it?
  2. 6+1 Questions about From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics
  3. Book Nook: Region-Building in West Africa
  4. 6+1 Questions about States and Nature
  5. Episode 24: International Relations in China
  6. The Real Conservative Foreign Policy Debate
  7. Carla Martinez Machain

May 2022

  1. Duck of Minerva Roundup*
  2. Stop the party: Turkey as an obstacle to Finnish and Swedish accession to NATO
  3. Will there be a bin Laden of right-wing extremism?
  4. Patriots Eat Nuclear War for Breakfast
  5. Duncan Bell
  6. Book Nook: A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics
  7. Zeitenwende: Scholz Turns Back Time to Make Room for Action on Ukraine
  8. Ukraine, Progressive Internationalism, and the Restraint Coalition
  9. Duck Events Podcast: Zeitenwende? German foreign policy after Ukraine
  10. Duckcalls podcast: Zeitenwende? German foreign policy after Ukraine
  11. Strategies of Unusual Size
  12. The Duck of Minerva Newsletter is Live

April 2022

  1. Best Practices in Quantitative Conflict Studies
  2. Japan’s Strange Golf-Buddy Theory of Deterrence
  3. Was NATO expansion a mistake?
  4. Episode 23: Being Academic and Pandemic Time
  5. Partnered Engagement: A New Form of Ethical Policy Engagement
  6. 6+1 Questions about ANATOMY OF TORTURE
  7. Nationalism, Weak States, and Unrealistic Realism
  8. Why Land Acknowledgements?
  9. How I Found a Job Outside of Academia

March 2022

  1. Do Realists and Leftists Want the Same Thing?
  2. Which will matter more, MESA’s BDS vote or the Negev Summit?
  3. 6+1 Questions about Subversive Pedagogies
  4. A Tale of Two Interviews: IR Theory and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
  5. Leveling Cybersecurity Challenges with Graduate U.S. Public Policy Programs
  6. Escaping the Keynes Versus Neoliberalism Trap
  7. The Korea Analogy
  8. Russian Irredentism: Killing Kin To Save the Kin?
  9. Interpretivism and Hiring: The Problems of COVID-19 and Its Implications for Academic Research
  10. What is in a Name? Additional Sources of Bias in Citation Counts
  11. Episode 22: So a Deputy Foreign Minister and an Academic Realist Walk into a Bar…
  12. NATO, Putin, and Ukraine
  13. The Invasion of Ukraine is Russia’s Fault
  14. A tale of two realisms

February 2022

  1. Sunflower seeds and Molotov cocktails
  2. How do we get IR to notice something?
  3. On Academic Grudges: A Quack-and-Forth
  4. Nominations are open for the 2022 Online Achievement in International Studies (OAIS) Awards!
  5. The Threat to Economic Hegemony is Economic Hegemony: Part II
  6. Conscious States in a World of Make Believe
  7. State Consciousness and Ontological Security
  8. Someone needs to stop these violent psychopaths!
  9. Awkward States
  10. States of Mind, Minds of States
  11. Are States Conscious? A Symposium
  12. How international organizations can resist political shocks
  13. Joseph Nye 85: From Integration Theory to Complex Interdependence to Soft Power

January 2022

  1. In Memoriam: Jon Western
  2. Ban the “Failed Search”?
  3. Economic Hegemony, Strategy, and Durable Peace: Part I of III
  4. Episode 21: Constructivists All the Way Down
  5. Whisk(e)y and Epistemic Pluralism: A Quack-and-Forth (Part III)
  6. 6+1 Questions about China’s Western Frontier and Eurasia: The Politics of State and Region-Building
  7. (De-)globalisation and International Order
  8. Whisk(e)y and Epistemic Pluralism: A Quack-and-Forth (Part II)
  9. Some Quick Notes
  10. Whisk(e)y and Epistemic Pluralism: A Quack-and-Forth (Part I)
  11. Xymena Kurowska
  12. Why we should call 1/6/21 a terrorist attack

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December 2021

  1. Where does the Academic Work End? or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Burnout
  2. Van’s Favorite Political, History, and IR Reads of 2021
  3. Phill Scott demonstrates what’s wrong with Biden’s Democracy Summit
  4. NOW The White House Wants To Fight Kleptocracy
  5. 6+1 Questions about Armed Guests: Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing
  6. Robert Jervis
  7. Tarak Barkawi
  8. What’s Left of Liberal Internationalism without military intervention? …A lot

November 2021

  1. Did Biden Really Abandon Nigerian Christians?
  2. Professing Abroad: European Academia 101
  3. Who’s Afraid of China’s Nukes?
  4. We Urgently Need to Support Girls’ Education in Afghanistan
  5. Are you writing an MA thesis at APSIA-type program? Here are some things to consider
  6. Do Liberals Believe in Diplomacy or Not?
  7. 6+1 Questions about How to Prevent Coups D’état: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival
  8. Playing the Waiting Game: The Harsh Truth of Academic Timelines
  9. No, Critical Race Theory was not a “thing” in the Soviet Union
  10. 6+1 Questions about “Why NATO survived Trump: the neglected role of Secretary-General Stoltenberg”
  11. Middle East Studies: More Intellectual Diversity, or Better Public Outreach?
  12. Business Meetings are part of the “hidden curriculum””

October 2021

  1. 6+1 Questions about The Origins of Overthrow: How Emotional Frustration Shapes US Regime Change Interventions
  2. The Preliminary Style Guide is Available
  3. 6+1 Questions about A research agenda for political demography
  4. Want to Start a National Security Think Tank?
  5. 6+1 Questions about From Malaise to Meltdown
  6. 6+1 Questions about Finding Faith in Foreign Policy
  7. We Are Not Capable of Learning the Lessons of Afghanistan
  8. James Bond Made Redundant
  9. Are we misinterpreting UAE foreign policy?
  10. Failing Upwards and Global Elitism
  11. Fighting Analogies in International Relations
  12. And Lo, the Heavens Parted to Reveal an Article on Bad Habits to Avoid in Academic Writing
  13. Should the American Political Science Association Take a Stand Against Actual Attacks on Liberal Democracy? Yes!
  14. Episode 20: International Order
  15. Decolonizing Corruption
  16. Sophie Harman
  17. The Power of Philanthropic Foundations
  18. Grand Strategists Need to Dump Kissinger

September 2021

  1. The American Political Science Association Should Condemn the Calremont Institute Connection
  2. The job market sucks for international students
  3. Is NATO Good for Asia, or Is Asia Good for NATO?
  4. Why isn’t IR funnier?
  5. The End of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Remembering the Silence
  6. National identity and nuclear submarines in Australia
  7. Rebecca Adler-Nissen on the Hayseed Scholar
  8. Did Security Studies learn from 9/11?
  9. Vulgar Balancing is Bad Statecraft
  10. Misreading the post-9/11 consensus: the dangerous allure of emergency politics
  11. 9/11 remembrance and the stories we tell
  12. The other California vote
  13. When 9/11 Got Hip-Hop, It Killed Dissent
  14. There is No Tariff Strategy for China
  15. 6+1 Questions about Surviving the war in syria: survival strategies in a time of conflict
  16. Does Academic Karma Exist?
  17. The week before 9/11: A Different anniversary
  18. Neoliberals, Anti-Imperialists, and the China Question
  19. Reparations in the Wake of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
  20. Fast fashion and the politics of disposability
  21. The Promise and Peril of Public-Facing Scholarship
  22. Why Western Conservatives are Freaking about U.S. Decline
  23. Liberal Order Beyond Neoliberalism
  24. They Blinded Them With Science
  25. Leaving the lab
  26. The Leakage Between Political Science and Policy Goes Both Ways

August 2021

  1. How Can We Vaccinate Against Viral Political Science?
  2. The Democratic Peace isn’t a Virus
  3. Political-Science Lab Leaks: a Symposium
  4. Will Afghanistan Hurt U.S. Credibility?
  5. 6+1 Questions about “Rethinking causal explanation in interpretive international studies”
  6. They do not don what they hoist
  7. How Tunisia Could still be the Arab Spring* Success** Story
  8. Why Addressing the Climate Crisis Can Help Build More Sustainable Peace
  9. The Politics of “Defeat”
  10. Disentangling the Disaster in Afghanistan
  11. Episode 8 : Marwa Daoudy discusses Syria and Climate Change
  12. 6+1 Questions about Following the Leader: International Order, Alliance Strategies, and Emulation
  13. On Their Own Terms? Sovereign Debt Choices in Developing Countries
  14. So you’re thinking about Professing Abroad…
  15. 6+1 Questions about Meddling in the Ballot Box
  16. Why you should care about Biden’s new Religious Freedom Picks
  17. Dealing with the Digital Mob

July 2021

  1. Counterfactual Thinking and NATO Expansion
  2. Episode 19: “W” Stands for “Canonical Realist”
  3. 6+1 QUESTIONS ABOUT Resowing the Seeds of War: Presidential Peace Rhetoric Since 1945
  4. Adam Sandler and the Rise of the Rest: Theoretical Myopia and the Liberal International Order
  5. Recentering the Catholic Church in European State Transformation
  6. How Quals can avoid becoming our own worst enemies
  7. 6+1 Questions About MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR Dictatorship
  8. Welcome New Ducks and an Invitation
  9. 6+1 Questions about AMERICAN DOVE
  10. Light Summer Reading
  11. Is it time to abandon in-person academic conferences? or “Who’s kind of meh on going to APSA?”
  12. Episode 18: Name Your Discord Server “and Collaboration”
  13. Getting Counterinsurgency Wrong
  14. Centering George W. Bush in the Etiology of the Iraq War
  15. The Vision Thing: More on the New Duck
  16. From “Wilsonian” to “Rooseveltian” Liberalism
  17. The New Duck of Minerva: Preliminary Details
  18. Toni Haastrup
  19. Five Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me in Graduate School: Summing Up
  20. Five Things I Wish Someone had Told me in Grad School: Building a nurturing community
  21. Five Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me in Graduate School: Navigating the Choppy Seas
  22. 5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me in Graduate School: Balancing Work and Family
  23. 5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me in Grad School: A Smorgasbord
  24. Putin-Biden summit, but make it an 18th century gossip column
  25. Elite-Public Gaps and Deadlock on the Iran Deal
  26. Give Peacekeeping a Chance in Afghanistan
  27. The Breakdown of Jewish Consensus – Ethnic Violence in Israel Explained
  28. A Piece of the Puzzle: The Relative Importance and Unimportance of Academic Contributions to the Policy Process
  29. Episode 17: The Institutionalists Strike Back

June 2021

  1. Francois Debrix
  2. Elite Experiments: Strengthening Scholarship while Bridging the Gap
  3. Episode 19 – Tim Longman

May 2021

  1. Episode 18 – Tony Lang
  2. Episode 7: Duckcalls Events Series 1, Solarwinds discussion with Nina Kollars and Mark Raymond
  3. Bridging the Other Gap: Approaches for Blending STEM and Social Science Education
  4. Is bullying baked into academia?
  5. What If Academia Had a ‘Scout Mindset’?
  6. How do you kill a zombie argument? Middle East studies edition

April 2021

  1. Introducing Bridging the Gap’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellow: Emmanuel Balogun
  2. Not everything outside the Pentagon is “soft power”
  3. Life in the Time of COVID: Planning for Non-Adherence
  4. Writing a Dissertation isn’t Running a Marathon… it’s Training for One

March 2021

  1. Teaching in the Age of Corona, One Year Later
  2. A Gilded Age of Social Science: Big Data Governance, Neopositivist Social Science and Covid-19
  3. Episode 16: Promises, Promises
  4. Elite Experiments: Strengthening Scholarship while Bridging the Gap
  5. Beyond the Electoral College: MMP in the USA?
  6. We want you to write for us!
  7. Confronting Biases in Policy-Engaged Research: The Case of NATO and Russia
  8. Is “Camp Qual” really our best option?
  9. The peace, women’s suffrage and reproductive rights activist you might not know: Aletta Jacobs.
  10. Episode 17 – Laura Shepherd

February 2021

  1. Actorless Threats
  2. Are Women Leaders Better at Fighting COVID?
  3. A Marx Allergy
  4. When Data Closes Doors: Lessons for Sharing Unpopular Findings
  5. Remembrances from Sean Kay’s Students
  6. Sean Kay Memorial
  7. Episode 15: Understanding Remains an Open Question
  8. Remembering Sean Kay
  9. Tribute to Sean Kay
  10. The Importance of Being (Pragmatically) Earnest
  11. Qualitative Research Does Not Exist
  12. Gone Missing from Grand Strategy: Climate Change

January 2021

  1. Episode 6: Philip Cunliffe
  2. Episode 16 – Aida Hozic
  3. Want to Improve Equity and Inclusion in Political Science? Address White Supremacy
  4. Uncomfortable Conversations at a Distance: Lessons from Teaching the Israel-Palestine Conflict
  5. Trump’s Budweiser Putsch
  6. The significance of Iran ramping up its uranium enrichment to 20%
  7. On Inconvenient Findings
  8. Why We Should Stop Picking on 2020
  9. My Yes and No Committees Approved the Writing of This Post

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December 2020

  1. The lazy Orientalism of Wonder Woman 1984
  2. The True Meaning of a Hot Christmas Prince
  3. Episode 14: Campbell Writes Security, part 2
  4. Voldemort, Trump, and the other usual suspects of Putin’s press conference
  5. Writing about Violence During the Pandemic
  6. Fare thee Well Sean Kay
  7. Episode 15 – Matt McDonald
  8. Restraint requires more than “ending endless wars”

November 2020

  1. Can IR Have Its Own “Big 3” Journals?
  2. Ignoble Lies? The Problem of Prosocial Lying in the Economics Profession
  3. The Right to Return…to What? Venezuelan Migrants Caught Between Conflicts
  4. The Noble Lie: Prosocial Lying in the Economics Profession
  5. America’s Democratic Shortcomings and the “Liberal International Order”
  6. Coffee and TV: Election Edition
  7. Episode 14 – Harry Gould
  8. Duck Podcast G&T series episode 1: Power, realism, and the politics of IR Academia
  9. Episode 13: Campbell Writes Security, part 1

October 2020

  1. The Leaky Pipeline
  2. Leader Personalities: Trump vs. Biden
  3. Ant-Man as a metaphor for the modern professor
  4. COVID: An Extraordinary Crisis, but Ordinary Political Patterns
  5. Why are we so quick to dismiss the UAE-Israel peace treaty?
  6. COVID and Fed Legitimacy

September 2020

  1. What game theory taught me about last night’s presidential debate
  2. On Publishing and Open Access
  3. Professor Julie Kaarbo on the Duck of Minerva
  4. Episode 4: Julie Kaarbo
  5. Visualizing the Gender Publication Gap: 1999-2019
  6. Will Eastern Mediterranean tensions matter to IR if there is no war?
  7. Meet Our Guest Ducks (Again)
  8. Race and the Russian IR
  9. Is there a middle ground in the study of ideas in international relations?
  10. Teaching Race and International Politics: Notes from a Canadian Classroom
  11. Renewable or Sustainable? Green Energy Is More Complicated Than You Think

August 2020

  1. A Tale of Two Protests
  2. We all suffer if the field is parochial
  3. Do Policy Recommendations = Policy Relevance?
  4. The “Dual-Use” Dilemma in Policy Engagement
  5. U.S. Political Scientists Must Work To Support Free and Fair Democratic Elections
  6. Episode 13 – Luke Ashworth
  7. Indonesia’s Half-hearted Response to COVID-19: The Role of Politics and Historical Legacies
  8. The Interviews for Teaching World Politics Project

July 2020

  1. Love, Loathing, and Loss: America’s COVID-19 Response and the View from Canada
  2. The Book Nook: Diversity, Violence, and Recognition
  3. Episode 12: The Strange Regime
  4. Beyond the Open Skies Treaty
  5. Episode 12 – Priya Dixit
  6. Hagia Sophia and the Multi-Level Politics of Heritage
  7. Forced Marriage: Three Facts to Help Explain This Global Conflict Dynamic
  8. The networks and hidden procedures that keep discrimination alive in academia
  9. Racism in Social Science: Copy, Paste, Repeat (An Urgent Call to Action)
  10. The Virus in the Digital Domain: How Governments Can Respond To Coronavirus-Themed Cyberattacks
  11. Modi’s ‘Aggressive’ India has Already Started Making Compromises to China
  12. Episode 11: Embedded Liberalism
  13. Episode 11 – Maria Mälksoo
  14. COVID-19 Policy Response in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico: Three Different National-Subnational Approaches
  15. Mentoring Yourself as a Woman in Academia

June 2020

  1. How Unpopular is Bolsonaro? Polling Amid Chaos in Brazil
  2. The United States: Not a Failed State, but a Failing Society
  3. Domination As a Vocation: Leadership and Covid-19 in India
  4. Race, Racism, and International Relations
  5. Five Myths About Publishing International Relations Articles at the American Journal of Political Science
  6. Episode 3: Bananas, Beaches and Bases, part 1
  7. Decentralization and Pakistan’s response to COVID-19
  8. Reflections from an “Accidental” Mentor
  9. From Political Science to Public Policy: Three Lessons
  10. Becoming and Living as a Happy Academic
  11. On Mentorship and Diversity: A Favorite Voice in the Room
  12. Mentoring Is What You Make Of It
  13. Beware the “Outside Agitator” Dog Whistle
  14. Episode 10 – Juliet Kaarbo
  15. Borders, Blinders, and Mental Maps: Assessing Scenario Analysis in Light of Covid-19
  16. Dear Civ-Mil Community: The (Retired) Generals Are Speaking & We Should Listen
  17. “We are not okay. And you shouldn’t be either.”

May 2020

  1. It isn’t just about Wæver and Buzan
  2. Revisiting the Fear-Apathy Cycle in Global Health in Light of COVID-19
  3. Democracy (still) on the Edge: An Analysis of Brazil’s Political Response to the Covid-19 Crisis
  4. WHO’s to Blame? Coronavirus and the Politics of Blame Shifting
  5. Episode 10: (Epilogue) Race and Securitization Theory
  6. Episode 9: Race and Securitization Theory
  7. COVID-19 is accelerating the power transition between the U.S. and China
  8. Coronavirus, Communal Violence, and the Politics of Rivalry in India and Pakistan
  9. The World Health Organization already has a review mechanism: here’s how it works and how it can be better
  10. Journal Submissions in Times of COVID-19: Is There A Gender Gap?
  11. Corona and Conspiracy: Post-Truth Politics Revisited
  12. Episode 8: A Relational Theory of World Politics, part 2
  13. Episode 9 – Halvard Leira
  14. Thoughts on Political Science in a Time of Plague
  15. Apart, Together: The separate worlds of Covid-19 beliefs
  16. What We Know About Political Leadership and Pandemics
  17. Too Soon for a Coronavirus Commission
  18. Episode 7: A Relational Theory of World Politics, part 1
  19. Will Covid-19 reshape government-NGO relations? Observations from India
  20. Why are Egypt&Turkey sending medical equipment to the US? International Status and lazy explanations in IR
  21. When norms collide: The COVID-19 pandemic and difficult choices on the hierarchy of norms and values
  22. Bridging the Gap in National Security Studies
  23. Responses to COVID-19 in South Africa: The centrality of food security

April 2020

  1. “Déjà vu All Over Again: The EU, Coronavirus, and the Eurozone Crisis”
  2. The Militarization of COVID-19 Enforcement: Observations from the Philippines
  3. The Oil Price Crash and International Petro-Politics
  4. We Already Know What To Do
  5. Episode 8 – Ayse Zarakol
  6. Episode 6: Wendt’s (Article) World, part 2
  7. Paradiplomacy & Pandemics
  8. Episode 5: Wendt’s (Article) World, Part 1
  9. Comparative Responses to COVID19 : Interview with Duck contributor Sofia Fenner
  10. What’s wrong with the war metaphor
  11. Doing PhD Research While Staying in Place
  12. Deploying targeted digital health conversations to fight the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and misinformation

March 2020

  1. Public Health Research in Mainstream International Relations Outlets
  2. Covid-19, remote learning and work-life balance
  3. Experts, Public Intellectuals, and the Coronavirus
  4. Why Have Mainstream IR Journals Largely Ignored Pandemics*
  5. Take a lesson from Hong Kong: don’t wait for your government, save yourselves from COVID-19
  6. Over 1000 U.S. Political Scientists are Worried about Democratic Elections in November: Here’s Why
  7. Trump’s Coronavirus Response Shows How Much Leaders Matter
  8. no, Realism cannot explain the international Covid-19 response
  9. Episode 4: Bananas, Beaches and Bases, Part 2
  10. COVID-19 Breathes Life into Hegemonic Stability Theory
  11. Catherine Sanger – Teaching Online in the Time of COVID 19 (with Luke Perez)
  12. Episode 3: Catherine Sanger
  13. Public Health and Religious Freedom in Korea’s COVID-19 Response: A Government Torn between Two Values
  14. Emerging Lessons from the South Korean Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
  15. COVID-19 and the Start of a Global Recession
  16. State, Regime, Government, and Society in COVID-19 Response: Establishing Baseline Expectations
  17. Flattening the curve
  18. Deconstructing the blob
  19. What matters most for teaching in the age of coronavirus?
  20. Thinking about Corona and Academia
  21. COVID-19 containment with style: A first-hand account of the virus containment efforts in Italy
  22. How the Coronavirus is Plaguing Autocracies and Democracies
  23. 2020 is cancelled
  24. Cooking up a Constitution

February 2020

  1. What coronavirus can tell us about Health Emergencies past, and its future
  2. What Money Can (and Can’t) Buy for the Global Coronavirus Response
  3. Wash Your Hands: It Has Not Been Contained
  4. Now What? Health Security after the 2020 Coronavirus
  5. China and the Coronavirus: Getting It Right or Very Wrong?
  6. Practicing Academic Kindness in the Classroom
  7. Shut it Down? The International Response to the Coronavirus
  8. Pull the Alarm? The Coronavirus as a Global Emergency
  9. The Coronavirus: Global Health is High Politics
  10. Are the liberal internationalists wrong? On “being nice” and US foreign policy
  11. Episode 2: Episode 2 – Theory of International Politics, part 2
  12. Episode 1: Theory of International Politics, part 1
  13. When 70% is good enough

January 2020

  1. Restraint for what purpose?
  2. It’s Duckies time!
  3. Opening the Envelope of Oman’s Succession
  4. An American died in an Egyptian jail. Why didn’t this well-connected human rights community speak out?
  5. Twilight of Hope
  6. Audit Culture in UK Higher Education
  7. The sneaky rise of “common wisdom” in Middle East studies
  8. The biggest losers from the Suleimani strike may be America’s Gulf allies

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December 2019

  1. The Russian Enigma
  2. Russians Love Their Children Too
  3. Episode 6 – Cameron Thies
  4. The Same but Different: US vs UK Higher Education
  5. Chain-ganging in reverse? Gulf states and US hostility towards Iran
  6. This op-ed shows what’s wrong with US foreign policy
  7. Lessons from Radicalization Narratives on Social Media

November 2019

  1. Is Domestic Violence a Security Issue?
  2. Exploring Obstacles to Social Cohesion in the Aftermath of Violent Conflict: A Scholar-Practitioner Symposium
  3. Episode 5 – Jennifer Mitzen
  4. Agent. Foreign Agent
  5. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Policy Engagement* (*But Were Too Afraid to Ask)
  6. IR, it’s time to talk about what the “multiple comparisons issue” really is
  7. Episode 2: Dan Nexon
  8. A bigger question in the alt-ac debate
  9. All Journals Can, and Should, Provide Decision Letters and Reviewer Reports to Referees

October 2019

  1. Has regression analysis shrunk our imaginations?
  2. Mission Impossible? Creating a Dialogue between Research, Policy and Practice Communities
  3. Non-Academic Career Paths: The Dirty Secret of Academia?
  4. Oh Say Can You Say
  5. Episode 1: Jelena Subotic
  6. Fieldwork and Your Health
  7. Shaming without naming: Why is the international community not calling out human rights violators?
  8. What do new Turkish university campuses have to do with Trump’s Syria decision?
  9. Episode 4 – Jelena Subotic
  10. Bringing Ontology Back In
  11. On Being a Scholar-Activist
  12. Climate change and the mission of higher education
  13. Want to fix peer review? Standardize appeals

September 2019

  1. A rabbit hole of links on Impeachment
  2. Even More Assholery: Is Seeking Payment for Protection New?
  3. Can researchers be both scholars and activists?
  4. The Decision Letter, Part II
  5. Changing the discipline through political economy, bodies, and Open Educational Resources
  6. The Decision Letter, Part I
  7. What’s in a Wink? The Case for Thick Description
  8. Scary Dragon or Cuddly Panda? Why Role Change Matters for Hegemony in Asia
  9. Reflections on Journal Editing: Caveats
  10. Further Reflections on Assholery: How Important is Denmark to NATO?
  11. What Is . . . and Isn’t . . . a Norm?
  12. Episode 3 – Cian O’Driscoll (part 2)
  13. If you mention the evangelical delegation to Saudi Arabia, I’d have to ask which one
  14. Announcing Our New Guest Ducks
  15. Bringing Indigenous Experiences into International Relations
  16. Changing the Atmosphere in Political Science: Ten Key Political Questions about Climate Change
  17. Early lessons from a survey on bias in family formation in academia
  18. Ranking Tenure Candidates? No Thanks
  19. Why Audiences (Mostly) Don’t Care about Reputation in Foreign Policy
  20. Call for Guest Posts: How Should the Discipline Change?
  21. Wait…what about Iran?
  22. Moscow in the Meddle
  23. Pompeo’s New Commission on Unalienable Rights Falls Short, But Represents a Real Opportunity

August 2019

  1. Reanimating the Minerva Cast
  2. Episode 2 – Cian O’Driscoll (part 1)
  3. Choosing a Cover For Your New Book
  4. Thoughts on making the most of APSA for the alt-ac attendee
  5. The Enemy’s Gate is Down
  6. Israel’s Un-Machiavellian Prince
  7. A Call for New Guest Ducks
  8. Episode 1 – Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
  9. Using Pop Culture in the Classroom: Footloose FTW!
  10. Resistance in an Age of Concentration Camps
  11. Academic (S)mothering Part III: Conferencing

July 2019

  1. Remembering Andrew Price-Smith
  2. We Are a Bad Guild: Tenure Letter Writing Edition
  3. Embargo My Eggo!
  4. Forget the 800-pound gorilla: the United States is the 300,000-pound blue whale of IR scholarship
  5. A War On … Something?
  6. Protecting Civilians Through Responsible Scholarly Engagement (Vacation Planning Edition)
  7. Seeing Israel and Palestine Up Close
  8. Will Republican voters punish Trump for a trade war with China? It depends.
  9. On Responsible Scholarly Engagement
  10. Why Do Opinion Leaders Misjudge Public Attitudes?
  11. So Call Me Maybe
  12. The ULTIMATE Academic Job Market Guide
  13. Are Generic Drugs Safe? Big Claims in a New Book
  14. US should support environmental peacebuilding and humanitarian efforts for Palestinians
  15. Americans Oppose Killing Civilians. Reports Saying Otherwise Are Wrong.

June 2019

  1. A Case for Nationalism
  2. White saviors abroad – social doctors at home? Blunt and subtle colonialism in US Global Health education

May 2019

  1. What Daenerys’ Error Teaches Us About American Tolerance for War Crimes
  2. Will the Dominos Fall in Westeros: When Secession Spreads (or Not)
  3. What Game of Thrones Got Wrong About Firebombing
  4. Appetite for Self Destruction, or three suicides and a funeral*
  5. Plato and teaching Foreign Policy
  6. A Holiday “With Tears in Your Eyes”

April 2019

  1. Need some evidence of America’s waning influence?
  2. Ukraine’s New PreZE!dent
  3. Understanding Israel
  4. Game of Thrones and Alliance Politics
  5. Clarifying Classic Confusions for IR students
  6. Editors, we need to talk about robustness checks
  7. Winners of the 2019 Duckies!
  8. Climate Change as Anarchy: The Need for A New Structural Theory of IR
  9. Failed National Military Strategy Analogies

March 2019

  1. Does IR really have a “culture problem?”
  2. Citation Conversation Continued
  3. The slow death of realism in IR
  4. Is religious freedom just for the faithful?
  5. How Not to Get Cited
  6. It’s not anti-vax, it’s pro death
  7. Asshole Theory of US Foreign Policy: A Primer
  8. Social Media/Engagement: Why Do It?
  9. Pakistan’s Proxies: Rising Costs, Uncertain Benefits
  10. Flying Blind in Crisis Time: The US Strategic and Human Foreign Policy Deficit

February 2019

  1. The Politics of Reform in the Middle East: A Conversation with Erin Snider
  2. What Shapes Public Attitudes Toward Hosting Syrian Refugees – And How They Can Change
  3. The Politics of Embarrassment: Brand Failure in Canadian Foreign Policy
  4. What’s a War Crime Gotta Do To Get Some Attention?
  5. What should we think of the Pope’s UAE visit?
  6. The Implications of 5,000 troops to Colombia
  7. Hey, NYT, we need to talk.
  8. The Importance of Recognition in Venezuela

January 2019

  1. Your Publons Profile and Extra Credit in the After Life
  2. Duckies Reminder
  3. IR Theory After Trump: A First Image Renaissance? Part II
  4. IR Theory After Trump: A First Image Renaissance? Part I
  5. The International Religious Freedom Campaign: A Cautionary Tale
  6. Enes Kanter was right to be cautious
  7. Where Is Intro to IR When You Need It?
  8. New Year. New Intentions.
  9. 2019 Duckies

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December 2018

  1. I’m So Bored With the USA
  2. Under Pressure
  3. Dear Political Science, it is time for a SELF-REFLEXIVE turn!
  4. So, it’s all just too late, right? Studying climate politics in a time of despair
  5. Progressives: here’s what happens when you steal GOP talking points
  6. Radical IR: approaches or implications?
  7. Big Goals and Small Adversaries: Why Grand Strategy Matters

November 2018

  1. Toward a Radical IR
  2. Aid and Diplomacy, Not Tear Gas: How to Address the Central American Migrant Crisis
  3. What was behind the UAE’s detention of a UK graduate student
  4. How praising Trump as a religious freedom champion will undermine Uighur advocacy
  5. What would Benedict Anderson say about Trump?
  6. Writing Wednesday: a tense dilemma
  7. Academic Smothering. Part II.
  8. Inertia is the strongest force in international relations
  9. Blogger’s Block: The History of the End?

October 2018

  1. Writing Wednesday: Roadblock
  2. What makes international order, liberal?
  3. At what point do we call this a right-wing terrorist campaign?
  4. Writing Wednesday: embracing criticism for book revisions
  5. Congress, Trump, and Internationalism in U.S. Foreign Policy
  6. What the UAE’s detention of a UK graduate student means for Middle East studies
  7. Killings in Kandahar: Implications
  8. Writing Wednesdays: write to a deadline by any means necessary
  9. Peacekeeping’s Perverse Effects: Bolsonaro and Brazil’s Remilitarized Politics
  10. Do we need to teach the IR paradigms at all?
  11. Syllabus Musing—can we teach foreign policy without paradigms?
  12. With Arms Sales, “It’s Not Just the Economy, Stupid”
  13. This Blog Post is About Conference Program Selection
  14. Reflections on a Hoax
  15. MbS made USCIRF smile: Gatekeepers and Norm Erosion
  16. Is faith-specific aid the best way to help Iraq’s Christians?
  17. Welcome New Ducks

September 2018

  1. What’s in a Name? Developing Countries and Security Cooperation
  2. Take Me to Church
  3. Ignorance of the Ivory Tower: What Do the Profs Know About the Military
  4. Mentorship as Activism – Remembering Dr. Lee Ann Fujii
  5. Quack! Quack! Quack! A Call for New Guest Ducks
  6. Institutional transitions and the Paris Agreement’s rulebook

August 2018

  1. Political Science Association Draws Ire for Honoring Condoleeza Rice
  2. The most frequently used ranking of IR journals is heterogeneous
  3. Civilian Self-Protection: What Civilians Do in War When Help is Hard to Find
  4. The Academic’s Dilemma: Being a Good Citizen and Managing Time
  5. What Makes a Good Book Review: Some Editorial Advice
  6. (The ultimate) Trump Tweet Bingo
  7. No reading list is perfectly inclusive. Here’s one small step I’ve learned to address that.
  8. Backlash and Stigma: Rethinking Restraint in the Age of Trump
  9. Advice for the New Professor

July 2018

  1. Remembering Robert Gilpin and His Intellectual Legacy
  2. Explaining the Academic Job Market To Friends and Family
  3. The U.S. Versus China . . . Versus the Rest?
  4. Tackling Climate Change: A Conversation with Josh Busby
  5. Dark Days Ahead: Does Trump Have a Point About Europe?

June 2018

  1. Building Policy Networks
  2. The Trump-Kim Nuclear Summit By: Dr. Seuss
  3. #MeToo, Feminism, and Anti-Feminism: a reflection from Sweden
  4. The #Metoo Movement and Postcolonial Feminist Dilemmas: Reflections from India
  5. Yes, the UN Human Rights Council Helps Dictators . . . and the US Withdrawal Will Make It Worse
  6. #Metoo: The Realities of 25 Years and the Challenges Ahead
  7. Pressing politics: #metoo and UK Universities
  8. Pressing Politics Panel on the #Metoo Movement
  9. Pressing Politics: The #Metoo movement and the IR Discipline
  10. Babies R Us
  11. What We Learned at the Future Strategy Forum

May 2018

  1. Seven Reasons We Use Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI)
  2. We are Groot
  3. Climate and Security: Bridging the Policy-Academic Gap

April 2018

  1. Rumor, Social Media, and the Question of Knowledge
  2. No Supply Without Demand: A Response to Stephen Walt
  3. The Tyranny of the Big 3? Which Journals Count Most May Be Increasingly Problematic
  4. Foreign Policy and Mixed Signals
  5. What is Happening to the Non-Intervention Norm?
  6. Social Media is Bad For Your Career? Maybe Not, a 2018 Ignite Talk
  7. Cabinet Reshuffling and the Patrimonial Presidency: Lessons from Tunisia
  8. A Jacksonian Moment in U.S. Foreign Policy: Will it Last?
  9. A Global Response to Climate Change: In, through, and for Cities?
  10. Why Trump Won
  11. What’s in a Syllabus? A New Dataset of Graduate School Readings in Political Science

March 2018

  1. Are the Kids Alright? The March for Our Lives as a Social Movement
  2. Reactionary World Politics
  3. Does the U.S. Have a North Korea Strategy?
  4. Academic (S)mothering
  5. Fear-Mongering about U.S. Power
  6. The State of the Field in Climate and Security
  7. BPM (Beats Per Minute), AIDS Politics in France, and the Lessons for Resistance Today
  8. Pinker’s Enlightenment and Liberal World Order
  9. Remembering Lee Ann Fujii, a Friend and a Fighter
  10. International Organizations and the Trump Administration’s New Budget Proposal
  11. Do Populists Kill Democracy? A Sympathetic Extension of Levitsky and Ziblatt
  12. International Women’s Day: political crisis as windows of opportunity
  13. Heroes Aren’t Born, They’re Made.

February 2018

  1. A solid investment if you know what you’re getting: Why continued support for UN peacekeeping is good policy for the US
  2. Re-Branded and Expanded: Visual Politics and the Implications of Guantanamo’s Make-Over
  3. Broken IR? It is worse than Walt lets on
  4. Trauma in Common: US Gun Violence and Violence in Armed Conflict
  5. Crimea River
  6. Are IR Schools Broken? Nah.
  7. Women Also Know, International Relations Edition
  8. The Myth of the Sacred Truce
  9. NATO and the Classic Problem of Measuring Inputs vs. Outcomes
  10. What, Me Worry? The Trump Administration and Pandemic Preparedness
  11. Donald Trump is trying to refute my new book before it’s even come out.
  12. The legacy of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Why ‘great inspiration’ is not quite enough
  13. Has Sunshine Returned to the Korean Peninsula?

January 2018

  1. “Steel in America’s Spine”: The State of the Union, Security, Discourse
  2. You Can Leave Your Hat On
  3. On Writing the IR Dissertation
  4. Beware of Irrelevant Topic? Advising Phd Students to Surf the Wave
  5. The Return of Geopolitics
  6. Turning the Lights Out on American Leadership
  7. Size Doesn’t Matter
  8. The top 5 issues in International Politics for 2018

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December 2017

  1. Happy New Year
  2. UFOs and the Hyperreal
  3. Us Too
  4. President Trump, You’re No George Carlin
  5. Nothing Compares to You
  6. Challenges to the Contemporary World Order
  7. ICAN’s Road to the Nobel Peace Prize
  8. Look What You Made Me Do
  9. Mugabe: The Musical!
  10. Philosophy of Law and the Decline of War
  11. Trump and Nuclear Deterrence: Dancing on the Edge of a Cliff

November 2017

  1. The Politics of Research on Trauma – A Gendered Perspective
  2. 2018 Duckies
  3. Charli’s Village: A Call to Arms
  4. We Shall Overspread
  5. The emperor has no clothes moment for realism
  6. Pondering Planet Politics: A Response to Peltonen
  7. Are Potential Peer Reviewers Overwhelmed Altruists or Free-Riders? New data reveal great inequality in peer reviewing in the social sciences.
  8. Can the EU regain its international climate policy leadership lost in Copenhagen?
  9. Leadership in the Climate Regime without the US Federal Government
  10. Planet Politics and International Relations
  11. The ultimate guide to stop procrastination
  12. America’s Gun Crisis and the Politics of Securitization
  13. Democratic Weakness and the Secessionist Impulse
  14. The Water’s Edge is Muddier Than You Think

October 2017

  1. The hills are alive…with malaria?
  2. Free Access and the Future of Gated Publishing
  3. Contentious Politics on College Campuses: Where does Political Science fit in?
  4. Liberal World Order, Redux
  5. Iraqi Kurds vote for independence: What does this mean for Iraq’s neighbors, and especially for Turkey?
  6. Entering the Global Multilogue – A Replique to the German ZEIT Manifesto
  7. The Politics of Grief and the Forever War: Who Speaks for the Fallen?
  8. Health promotion & Mugabe. For real.
  9. New Girl
  10. The Book Nook: The Authority Trap: Strategic Choices of International NGOs
  11. Emotions, Unconscious Bias, and Publishing
  12. Metoo
  13. Writing in Exile: A Belated Birthday Card
  14. Americans Don’t Think Much of Trump’s “America First.” That’s Good, But …
  15. Where’s the Charlie’s Angels of global health?
  16. Mr. Trump, Choose Your Own Adventure
  17. National Security Generalists and Learning the Lessons From Lost Wars
  18. You Are Fake News!
  19. Want to build support for ‘America First’? Try the UN.
  20. Teaching about Death and Violence: Thoughts from a Professor Who Calls Nevada Home
  21. The Poverty of Style in IR

September 2017

  1. Puerto Rico: What did the delay in the response to Hurricane Maria mean?
  2. Darkness Falls in Cambodia
  3. The Rise of the Trauma State: Afghanistan and America’s Unwinnable War
  4. What Just Happened in the German Elections?
  5. Magic Lines and Escalate Ladders
  6. On Catalonia’s referendum: Groupthink and strategic essentialism as the enemies of democracy
  7. Coffee and TV
  8. Myanmar: The Responsibility to Protect is Working Exactly As It Was Supposed To
  9. The Book Nook: The CIA and the Politics of US Intelligence Reform
  10. The Case Against “The Case For Colonialism”
  11. Decolonizing IR: A Response to Gilley
  12. Responsibility to Protect the Rohingya?
  13. Bridging the Gap at the Duck
  14. Duck Forum on extreme weather events and climate change
  15. Why Americans Never Forget to Remember 9/11
  16. Resolve to Save Lives has a lot of money. Does it have the authority to lead?
  17. A Treaty to End All (Most?) Wars?
  18. Swan Song – For Now
  19. I can’t identify as a woman! Political discourse and Germany’s general elections campaign
  20. Five Things Everyone Should Know about Totalitarianism
  21. The Borg are bad. Antimicrobial resistance is worse.
  22. Monday Morning Linkage
  23. Law and the Post-Conflict Protection of Women from Violence

August 2017

  1. Fall of Giants
  2. Welcome to New Guest Ducks!
  3. Minding Climate Change: Presidential Power and the US National Interest
  4. Should APSA and ISA have a “No Manels” Rule?
  5. Basic Rules of US Civil-Military Relations and Trump’s Afghanistan Policy
  6. Preparing Files for Reappointment and Tenure: Some Sharp Guidance
  7. On Race, Nationalism and “White Pride” in America
  8. Calling New Ducks

July 2017

  1. The Transgender Ban and Politics of Exclusion
  2. Two legs or One. It has nothing to do with planets- just pants.
  3. A Drinking Person’s Guide, Day 186
  4. In Memorium: Peter Berger (1929-2017)
  5. The Trump Administration at 6 months
  6. Mh17
  7. Trump and the Russian Money Trail
  8. Climate Change is remaking American Foreign Policy

June 2017

  1. Motherland Calls
  2. Snipers and Democratic Control of the Military: More Oversight Please
  3. Gauging Public Opinion in the Age of Trump
  4. Duck Forum on Paris Withdrawal

May 2017

  1. Writing Women Back In
  2. Emancipation through Song: What Can We Learn from Rock Music?
  3. Trolling Me Softly
  4. Trump’s Unpopularity and What It Means for NATO
  5. This is not fine.
  6. Ebola 2.0?
  7. Is the Liberal World Order Finished?
  8. Should we try to convince Trump to stay in the Paris Agreement?
  9. Further Thoughts on Autism in Academia
  10. Uniting for Peace in Syria: Radical Move or Modest Proposal?

April 2017

  1. Bret Stephens and Climate Change
  2. It’s Not Easy Being Green
  3. Academia, Mental Health, and the Cult of Productivity
  4. The Real Problem with Diversity in Political Science
  5. A Friendly Amendment to a Useful Conversation: Lets Make the World a Better Place
  6. Building a Wall Against Populism’s Spread in Europe
  7. A Perspective on Engaging Scholars with Autism
  8. Building Safe Space for Depression in Academia
  9. For Will: Some Reflections on Sorrow
  10. Wait, what? Or, Trump through the looking glass
  11. Researcher Trauma and Our Discipline
  12. Will Moore: A Student’s Perspective
  13. Will Moore: A Fierce Friend
  14. Let’s talk about mental health
  15. Morality matters: What the United debacle, the Pepsi ad, and Bill O’Reilly have in common
  16. An Academic Woman’s Rant of the Week: Service Discrepancies
  17. What the EPA budget cuts mean for North American environmental politics
  18. Why IR needs the environment and the environment needs IR
  19. Why Trump Won’t Write the Next American National Security Narrative — But Why You Should Still Be Very Worried

March 2017

  1. Making the Real: The Interplay of Reasons, Rhetoric, Evidence, and Action
  2. If You Post It, They Will Come
  3. Legal Context and Government Defendants: Some Thoughts from Travel Bans, Patents, and Aircraft Subsidy Cases
  4. The Trump Syllabus: Duck Input Needed!
  5. Perhaps Our Incentives Are Not as Perverse as Believed: Are Citation Counts the Devil?
  6. Friday Nerd Blogging Tribute to An Old Duck-ster
  7. Fighting for Sustainability in a Post (national) Regulation Era
  8. First Thoughts on the Trump Budget and Global Health
  9. Donald Trump and the Narrative of US National Security
  10. Revisiting Trump’s Challenges to Doctoral Students: A Round of Trump Bingo
  11. Let’s Talk About Contingency (Part 2)
  12. Girl Power
  13. WPTPN: Defining the Trumpist Insurgency
  14. Wanted: A New Executive Director for the Global Fund
  15. For Accuracy, Consequences, and Truth. A Personal Manifesto.
  16. Ethical Robots on the Battlefield?
  17. Public Service: Part VI of VI in a Series
  18. Grants and Consulting: Part V in a Series

February 2017

  1. Sending Iran Back Out into the Cold
  2. Trump Reminded Me Why I Am An Academic
  3. Policy-Relevant Courses and Speakers’ Series: Part IV of a Series
  4. Black History Month
  5. Teaching Democratic Erosion
  6. Long-form Writing for Policy Audiences: Part III of a Series
  7. Short-Form Writing for the Public: Part II of a Series
  8. Don’t Boycott: Let’s use conferences as organizational platforms and improve social impact
  9. Principles and Strategies for Bridging the Gap: Part I
  10. We Have Studied the World. President Trump Should Too.
  11. International Affairs Scholars Talk Back to Trump at #Duckies2017
  12. You have plans tonight at ISA! The Duckies at 7:30pm
  13. Are You Ready for Some ISA?
  14. Fighting, Dancing and Thumb-Biting: Developing a typology of citations
  15. Perverse Incentives and Academia
  16. Academic Freedom
  17. The Downsides of Burden-Sharing
  18. Let’s Talk About Contingency
  19. Trump’s Randian Foreign Policy
  20. Trump and Truth: Or What Arendt Can Teach Us about Truth and Politics
  21. Defending Democracy from the Ivory Tower
  22. Questions for Senate Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings on Judge Gorsuch
  23. Too much empathy in Israel-Palestine?
  24. Trump Wants People to “Study the World!” IR Scholars Can Jump All over This.
  25. Congress is Trying to Remove Bannon from the National Security Council. Here’s Why It Matters.
  26. What’s worse, looking jealous or crazy?
  27. Does Bannon’s Appointment to the NSC/PC Require Senate Confirmation? Perhaps A Judge Should Decide.
  28. Trump and the move away from the sitcom approach to foreign policy
  29. Travel Ban Lifted in Early Victory for Non-Violent-Resistance to Trump
  30. Scientists Will March on Washington on April, 22. International Relations Scholars Should Join Them.
  31. Bannon’s Incoherent Vision of Disruption
  32. Announcement: Online Achievement in International Studies Reception and Winners of the Duckies
  33. A Drinking Person’s Guide to the Resistance

January 2017

  1. Talk Intel To Me
  2. Mind the Power Gap
  3. ISA Takes Strong Stand for Academic Freedom
  4. Tempo, Protest, and Emergency Ethnography in the Trump Moment
  5. Party Trumped Policy in 2016
  6. How Should the International Studies Association Protect Its International Members?
  7. WPTPN: The Rise of Embedded Nationalism
  8. Trump to Omran: Die, Kid
  9. WPTPN: What an “America First” Trade Strategy Gets Wrong
  10. Preliminary Notes on Progressive Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump
  11. Donald Trump is Nothing but a Bad Nixon Remake
  12. It Works on 24 but Not in Real Life: Peer-Reviewed Evidence That Torture Will Increase Terrorism
  13. Trump’s Treatment of the Press: A Harbinger of Bad Things to Come
  14. The Emperor Has No Crowds
  15. WPTPN: Different Paths to Regional Economic Hegemony: Russia and Turkey Compared
  16. WHO and PEPFAR Are Good. Leaving Them Is Bad. Any Questions?
  17. The Russian Threat and the Poverty of “Post-Truth”
  18. Amazing Grace-An Unprecedented President
  19. Bang for the Buck? Larry Summers and Global Health Funding
  20. Trump’s Russian Cyber-Hack Controversy: New era of post-Civil-Military Relations?
  21. The Many Faces of Trump Foreign Policy
  22. Understanding Trump’s Worldview
  23. WPTPN: From the Stove to the Frontlines? Gender and Populism in Latin American and Western Europe
  24. El Salvador’s Restless Peace at 25
  25. We Shall Overcome
  26. Trump and IR Theory: Did We Forget Great Men?
  27. Thoughts (for “both sides”) on the academic boycott
  28. The Value Alignment Problem’s Problem
  29. Twenty-Five (or so) Questions for Senate Hearings on Trump National Security Appointees
  30. Luis Videgaray, Mexican foreign policy and the open contempt for expertise
  31. Never Too Early for a Crisis in Civil-Military Relations
  32. ISA Conferences in Trump’s America
  33. A Plea for Cease Fire in the New American Civil War, Part II—The Case for Civility and a Changed Tone of Debate

2016 184

December 2016

  1. #RussiansDidit
  2. The Rashomon-ization of the World Health Organization
  3. Explaining the Obvious in the Age of Trump
  4. Public scholarship and the challenge of academics’ public engagement in a new global order
  5. WPTPN: The Collapse of Embedded Liberalism in a Time of Populist Nationalism?
  6. Before you leave for the holiday season: Nominate your friends for The Duckies!
  7. WPTPN: Outlier or Laggard? Canada’s missing Neo-Nationalists
  8. WPTPN: The Anti-Corruption Racket: How Demonetization Cements Modi’s Mantle
  9. The Passing of a Global Health Giant
  10. WPTPN: The Construction of a Chinese Hierarchic Order in the Global South
  11. Duck Retirement: what 7 years of blogging has given me
  12. WPTPN: The Loss of the American Narrative
  13. Learning to Live with Militias in America
  14. WPTPN: Trump and The End of Taken-For-Grantedness: When the Exception Becomes the Rule
  15. WPTPN: Civil Society Resistance in Liberal Democracies in a Time of Rising Non-Accountability
  16. When Hell Freezes Over—Will Generals (and Admirals) Stop Global Warming and Bring Peace and Human Rights to the Trump White House?
  17. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
  18. The Russians Are Coming (for your language too)
  19. WPTPN: How Vladimir Putin Became the Oracle of the East
  20. No More Vietnams? Reforming the Selective Service
  21. WPTPN: Global Cities in a Time of Populist Nationalism
  22. Why Do People Buy #Pizzagate?
  23. Being a Doctoral Student in the Time of Trump: Six Challenges
  24. WPTPN: Will Populist Nationalism Lead to Great-Power War?
  25. Poo Haikus (and Other Unconventional Ways to Raise Awareness about Global Health)
  26. WPTPN: An Inconvenient Post-Truth Post
  27. A Plea for Cease Fire in the New American Civil War, Part I—A Trump Unity Agenda
  28. WPTPN: Recommended Non-Duck Readings for the Weekend
  29. Ice Thin Memory
  30. WPTPN: The Legitimacy of American Hegemony in the Age of Trump
  31. How Are You? On Coping in the Time of Trump
  32. Algorithmic Bias: How the Clinton Campaign May Have Lost the Presidency or Why You Should Care
  33. World AIDS Day 2016
  34. Kiss 2016 Goodbye: Call for Nominations for the Duckies

November 2016

  1. WPTPN: Lessons from Turkey: Populist Nationalism and the Threat to Democracy
  2. Climate and Security in the Trump Era
  3. Femme Fatale
  4. What Do You Do with a Problem Like Zika?
  5. On advocacy, activism and political science
  6. WPTPN: The All-Too-Plausible Path to the Next Major War
  7. Love Me Tender
  8. Taking Democracy for Granted
  9. Call for Guest Posts: World Politics in a Time of Populist Nationalism
  10. In Domestic and Foreign Affairs, ‘It’s the Institutions, Stupid’
  11. Is the International Criminal Court’s “Legitimacy” Problem Also a Gender Problem?
  12. Applying the Emerging Trump Doctrine to Syria
  13. What Does Trump’s Victory Mean for the Environment?
  14. Trump and the Fall of Númenor—a comment from a sad political scientist
  15. What does Trump mean for global health?
  16. The Death of Political Science is Greatly Exaggerated
  17. Should we empathize with Trump voters?
  18. Processing this Election
  19. What Cholera Tells Us About Global Health
  20. Analogies in War: Marine Mammal Systems and Autonomous Weapons
  21. Nicaragua: Less Interesting Than Netflix
  22. Gotv
  23. Why Would Legislators Want to Know Less Rather than More About Military Stuff?

October 2016

  1. Patient Zero and Global Health
  2. In Cheese We Trust
  3. “With Malice Towards None”—A Plea for Cease Fire in the New American Civil War
  4. Why does IR shun global water governance?
  5. Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Candidates for WHO Director-General
  6. Are we honest when we write?
  7. (Insert Research Method Here) Doesn’t Smell Like Roses
  8. Jokes Aside
  9. Women’s Lives Matter. So Do Elections.
  10. So You Want to Be the Next Director-General of the World Health Organization…
  11. Chirp from a Freshly Broken Egg
  12. The United Nations and Diplomacy’s Glass Ceiling
  13. Ideas, Norms and Nonmaterial Factors in International Relations: A response to Krasner
  14. National Security, Health, and Responding to Emergencies
  15. Another Escalation in Migrant-EU Contention
  16. Why don’t you like me?
  17. Some New and Old Guests and Permanent Ducks

September 2016

  1. Manufacturing Dissent: How The New York Times Covered the Brexit Vote
  2. Open Thread on International Development Syllabi
  3. Global Health Governance Syllabi Open Thread
  4. Syria: An Option Remains
  5. Empathy, Envy and Justice: The Real Trouble for Algorithm Bias
  6. It’s That Time Again: A Call for New Guest Bloggers
  7. Big Theory? The Past Is Not What You Think It Is
  8. Is there a connection between the Northwest Passage and the South China Sea?
  9. Remembering 9/11: Open Thread
  10. Unsolicited Job Talk Advice
  11. I Broke Up With Michel Foucault*
  12. Global Environmental Governance Syllabi – Open Thread
  13. Climate Change and #APSA2016

August 2016

  1. Twitter auto-post attempt #2
  2. APSA Tweetup
  3. Testing to Twitter
  4. What Am I Reading? Inaugural Feature on Global Health #1
  5. We Need More Metal! The Political Economy of Heavy Metal
  6. The Anglosphere, Dominance in Global Finance, and the Consequences of Brexit
  7. Gearing up for the Academic Job Market: Don’t Dabble
  8. Retired Generals are People Too!
  9. Could the Olympics Help Human Rights?
  10. A General Arms Race in US Conventions: Not Great But Unavoidable

July 2016

  1. Trump, Brexit, and nationalist authority
  2. A (Un)Dead Letter?: Zombies, Feminist Theory and the IR Classroom
  3. The Chilcot Inquiry on Civilian Casualties
  4. Improvised Explosive Robots
  5. NATO Summit Ahead!
  6. Persuading Republicans to Dump Trump
  7. Trump on Policy: Consistently Self-Serving
  8. Emotionally Trumped

June 2016

  1. The True Costs of Brexit
  2. Brexit Hottake
  3. The UK and the EU Referendum
  4. Kill Webs: The Wicked Problem of Future Warfighting
  5. Keep Your Political Interference to Yourself: A Case for Academic Freedom and Shared Governance
  6. Lame Counterfactuals and American Politics
  7. China’s Great Contradiction
  8. Should You Stay or Should You Go?
  9. NATO Ministerial FAQ
  10. Drones, Mansour and Policy Problems
  11. Brexit Epiphany
  12. Friday Nerd Blogging: Attack of the Ads

May 2016

  1. Jolie-Pitt, Trump and Bono Walk Into a LSE Classroom: why dedication and commitment isn’t expertise
  2. The Most Important Corpses: Eastern Front Edition
  3. Foreign Policy Salience and the 2016 Election: Evidence from the ANES Survey
  4. Selling Out to the Enemy of Open Access
  5. Whose Academy Is It Anyway?
  6. Friday Nerd Blogging: Superhero Oversight
  7. Friday Nerd Blogging: Return of An Old Theme
  8. Clash of the Doctrines
  9. Five “Don’ts” for Introducing a Female Speaker (And Why This Matters)
  10. Ben Rhodes, Part the Second: Or, Journalistic Interpolations are Not Evidence
  11. The White House Pushes for its Policies, and Other Surprises from Ben Rhodes
  12. So, You Want to be a Liberal Arts College Professor: Life inside the Liberal Arts edition, Part II
  13. Drones Kill More Civilians than Manned Aircraft Do. That’s Because of How We Use Them.

April 2016

  1. So, You Want to Be a Liberal Arts College Professor: Life in the Liberal Arts edition (Part I)
  2. Adaptability or Compliance? Modular Weapons and the Rules of International Law
  3. Bernie Sanders’ Foreign Policy is Neither Realist, Pacifist, nor Liberal. He’s a Foreign Policy Progressive.
  4. Restoring Conventional Deterrence in Europe: How to Climb Out of the Joint Security Trap
  5. Chasing our tail: The Zika ‘emergency’ and stalled U.S. Congressional appropriations
  6. 8 Strategies For Men To Combat Gender Bias
  7. The Paris Agreement: When is a treaty not a treaty?
  8. “Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Know ‘Enough’ About Foreign Policy”? Who Does, Really?
  9. Distance and Death: Lethal Autonomous Weapons and Force Protection
  10. Tweeted and Deleted by APSA: Gender and Race in the Academy
  11. Either DA-RT Works, or It Does Not
  12. Speed Kills: Why we Need to Hit the Brakes on “Killer Robots”
  13. Friday Nerd Blogging: Does Cosplay at Conference Panels Render Pop-Culture Research Less Serious?

March 2016

  1. Gender, Rank and IR: Missing Role Models
  2. The Question of Quantum
  3. On The Terror and Feeding of Trolls: Or, Why I Aim to be an Equal-Opportunity Non-Reporter of DAESH-Inspired Terrorist Incidents
  4. Hostile Intent: Civilian Casualties and the Politics of Killing
  5. Building social science knowledge on public attitudes and autonomous weapons
  6. Autonomous Weapons and Incentives for Oppression
  7. How (Not) to Measure the “Public Conscience”
  8. The Anthropocene and the End of Large Fauna? Will Political Scientists Show Up?
  9. Is it possible to be a realist?

February 2016

  1. Why is Paypal Blocking Aid to Syrian Refugees?
  2. Interventionism and Restraint in Democratic Foreign Policy
  3. Happy Anniversary, Canada!
  4. A New Plan B for Syria
  5. Transforming Markets and Social Movements
  6. Citation Count Data and Faculty Promotion
  7. The ISA Awakens
  8. Strategic Surprise? Or The Foreseeable Future
  9. The Kurdish Conundrum
  10. Why Isn’t There More Public Scrutiny of the U.S. Military?
  11. On The Dynamics of Global Power Politics
  12. Discussion: Structural Power and the Study of Business
  13. PhD-in-Hand? Why?
  14. The Structural Power of Business: Taking Structure, Agency and Ideas Seriously
  15. The Multinational Firm and Geopolitics: Europe, Russian Energy, and Power
  16. Why Is the U.S. Still So Important in the Post-Crisis Global Financial System?
  17. Behind Structural Power Lies Structuring Power
  18. Structural Power in Latin America
  19. The Structural Power of Business as a Causal Hypothesis
  20. No Escape from Uncle Sam
  21. Structural Power and Contemporary Politics

January 2016

  1. Programming Note: Symposium on Structural Power and the Study of Business
  2. Speaking Truth to Power: A Response to Walt’s Lamentations
  3. India, Air Pollution, and Climate Change
  4. Interested in critical international politics?
  5. Climate Change and Rethinking Success
  6. Bringing Iran in From the Cold
  7. Duckies 2016: Vote To Select the Finalists
  8. What Role for Non-State Actors in the New Climate Governance?
  9. The Agency of Multilateral Organizations
  10. Words Mean Things: The Beginnings of De-Gendering Democratic Citizenship
  11. Duckies, nomination period extended

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