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Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage 27 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Justice in Syria? The Maritime Labor Convention and the United States. This really isn’t a matter of the United States, per se, but the unrelenting hostility of the bulk of the Senate GOP caucus t...
Questions about Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 03:36 pm
The US and UK are apparently preparing for air strikes against the Syrian Assad regime, claiming there is little doubt that it is responsible for horrific chemical weapons attacks. Syria has allegedly...
Popular Culture Can Crowd Out International Relations 27 Aug 2013 | 09:04 am
Daniel Drezner writes that Meghan McCain’s proposition that attention paid to Miley Cyrus can crowd out attention paid to Syria is bunk. With all due regard to Drezner, let me debunk the bunk claim—o...
Netw…. Um, maybe not. 27 Aug 2013 | 08:58 am
Sent by a friend, who would rather we blog more on Syria. Or WMD. Or development. Or disease. Or, well, just about anything but…..
Pedagogical query 27 Aug 2013 | 06:10 am
Happy first day of Fall classes, at least at my university. A question for discussion: Is there any value whatsoever to a live lecture delivered in front of large numbers of students, given that podc...
Studying Non-Governmental Organizations: What International Relations and Public Management Bring to the Table 26 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
In my grad class every semester, I always ask the students if IR is really the best field for studying human security. Undoubtedly, I get some students who respond that political science is the best ...
Are US Interests At Stake in Egypt and Syria? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
Steve Walt asked a great question the other day: Are U.S. Interests Really at Stake in Egypt, Syria, etc…? In posing the question, he cited a recent comment from Brendan Green, a visiting professor ...
Krugman’s (Probably) Wrong about Apple and Network Externalities 26 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
Paul Krugman has an op-ed in today’s New York Times in which he likens the rise and decline of technology companies to Ibn Khaldun’s account of the rise and decline of dynasties: success breeds compla...
Monday early morning linkage 26 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
Syria agrees to allow a UN team of experts access to the site of last week’s alleged chemical weapons attacks. US government officials says it’s too little, too late. The Tunisian opposition is bac...
The Glass Half Empty: Gendered Problems in Academic Networking 24 Aug 2013 | 11:43 pm
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at the University of Iowa. It is Part 1 of a 2-part discussion. Many recent posts....
