13 Sep 2017
by Laura Sjoberg
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This is a guest post by Shine Choi, who teaches politics and IR at Massey University When I read media headlines strewn with North Korea, my stomach contracts, the shoulder muscles tense up and I squint in fear of what … Continue reading
23 Mar 2017
by Sara Mitchell
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Cross-posting with International Relations @ UIowa Given that yesterday was World Water Day, it is a good time to reflect on the importance of humans’ access to clean water and the security threats that unequal access to water resources can … Continue reading
15 Oct 2015
by R. William Ayres
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My friend and fellow blogger Brandon Valeriano is a much better security studies scholar than I am. He’s written a great piece today about Russia’s involvement in Syria, and in particular how unimpressive that involvement is so far relative to … 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
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
22 Aug 2014
by Barak Mendelsohn
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With APSA just around the corner and chilly wind makes Cambridge evenings so pleasant it is time for some reflection on the summer break and a great opportunity to raise the topic of media appearances by political scientists. Of course … Continue reading
14 Jul 2014
by R. William Ayres
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Like my good friend Steve Saideman, I don’t write much about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is academically odd, given that most of my stuff has been on ethnic conflict, secessionism, and irredentism, and the whole Israel/Palestine thing falls smack in … Continue reading
13 Jun 2014
by R. William Ayres
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When George W. Bush was pushing the Iraq war, the concern from some of the left was: is this another Vietnam? By “another Vietnam”, most Americans mean “a really long war with lots of US casualties that in the end we … Continue reading