30 May 2015
by Laura Sjoberg
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In a new article in the Millennium Special Issue on Quo Vadis IR: Method, Methodology, and Innovation, Sammy Barkin and I make the argument that IR’s “methods matching game” is fundamentally flawed – the scholarly equivalent of a dysfunctional relationship. On … Continue reading
11 May 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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I have been busy lately promoting my recently released book (with Ryan Maness), Cyber War versus Cyber Realities. In it, we dissect and empirically evaluation the emergent cyber era finding more bluff and bluster than realistic analysis of cyber conflict. … Continue reading
14 Apr 2015
by R. William Ayres
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When I was in graduate school, one thing we learned to do was critique. In fact, we spent so much time learning the art of criticism, particularly against whatever the “reigning paradigm” was, that we sometimes referred to it as … Continue reading
2 Apr 2015
by Laura Sjoberg
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I won’t tell you how old I was when Carol Cohn published “Sex and Death in the World of Rational Defense Intellectuals” – but I will tell you that I’ve read it dozens of times over my years as an IR scholar, … Continue reading
30 Mar 2015
by Brandon Valeriano
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It seems as if writing up a blog to support an article release is becoming necessary, so I will do my part to support a recent article Ryan Maness and I published at Armed Forces and Society (ungated here). This … Continue reading
24 Mar 2015
by R. William Ayres
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One of the great gifts of teaching is that occasionally, you learn something. The opportunity to discuss things with students sometimes takes you down a path you didn’t expect and hadn’t seen before. The following emerged from a discussion with … Continue reading
9 Dec 2014
by Brandon Valeriano
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In the cyber security discourse, critics of cyber revolution hypotheses and the dominant coming “cyberwar” narrative tend to be painted as cyber skeptics. I refuse to accept this terminology. It is a dangerous and dismissive technique that seeks to limit … Continue reading
8 Dec 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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Many of my Facebook friends have commented on Fabio Roja’s post on orgtheory called “Advice for Students in Lower Ranked Doctoral Programs.” More than usual, their reactions have been polarized. Some have found humor in the best line in the post … Continue reading
18 Oct 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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I have the privilege this week of being at the Millennium Conference in London, where the conference theme is method, methodology, and innovation in IR. I’m learning a lot, especially since these issues are core to the book project that … Continue reading
19 Sep 2014
by R. William Ayres
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There has been a lot of buzz lately about secession, owing to the Scottish vote yesterday on the question of whether to leave the United Kingdom. As a scholar of secessionism, it’s thrilling to see this stuff back in the … Continue reading