24 Mar 2015
by Laura Sjoberg
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Guest Post from: Daniel Bertrand Monk, Colgate University and Daniel Levine, University of Alabama Claims that Tuesday’s elections in Israel resulted in a striking victory for the right are as untrue as last week’s predictions that a narrow center/left ‘win’ was in … Continue reading
16 Mar 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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Guest Post from: Daniel Bertrand Monk, Colgate University and Daniel Levine, University of Alabama With one day remaining before Israel’s Knesset elections, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party appears poised to fall at least four seats short of its principal rival, the Zionist … Continue reading
9 Mar 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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It seems as if a critical mass of the community of IR scholars have settled on the notion that diversity is important, both in substance and in representation. The problem is that this critical mass has very little conception of … Continue reading
25 Feb 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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Fletcher: “I was there to push people beyond what’s expected of them. I believe that’s an absolute necessity.” I sit here listening to the end scene of Whiplash again, for the fifth time today, on a plane. Not going out … Continue reading
16 Feb 2015
by Laura Sjoberg
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This is a guest post by Beth DeSombre, Camilla Chandler Cross Professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley College. When I was program chair for the ISA conference the last time it was in New Orleans, I decided to use my … Continue reading
22 Jan 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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I am tired, so very tired. This month I took a trip to Japan, would love if the entire goal of the trip was to eat Kobe beef and real sushi, but sadly, no. The goal was go to Akita … Continue reading
21 Jan 2015
by R. William Ayres
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I started a series of blog posts on moving from a faculty position to the administrative realm (you can find them by typing “Dark Side” into the search box on … Continue reading
14 Jan 2015
by Laura Sjoberg
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#JeSuisCharlie and #JeSuisAhmed have been trending this week in response to the tragic deaths from the attack on the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7. #JeSuisCharlie is being used to defend the freedom of expression and the press of … Continue reading
27 Dec 2014
by Brandon Valeriano
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We all survived, the great hacking scare of 2014 is almost over. On November 22, North Korea or its operatives attacked Sony’s networks over the movie The Interview. In what is normally a quite holiday period of writing and copy … Continue reading
24 Dec 2014
by Brandon Valeriano
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by Brandon Valeriano and Laura Sjoberg It is often said that borders are withering away, that we are in a new era of state sovereignty. Duvall and Wendt wrote the best treatment on this (in my eyes) suggesting that our … Continue reading