The IR Theory Game
Students usually find theory the part of courses they enjoy least. The challenge, then, is to make theory accessible, to give the students something to do, rather than just something to listen to.
Gavrilo Princip and a First Day Quiz
Grabbing students’ attention is crucial in international politics classes. This is why the CEFAM IR class begins with a story which speaks to the complexity of international politics: the story of Gavrilo Princip.
An International Relations Buffet
Though there is often a lot to cover, IR classes should get students excited about IR and allow them, by the end of the course, to understand just why a student needs to be aware of the political world around them.
Insuring Security
Sandy was a catastrophe that came with a great cost. The event showed that the political economy of risk is enormous, cementing the role of actors such as Lloyds not as anomalies of geopolitics and security but as agents.
Celebrating 5 years of e-IR
We’ve been racking our brains trying to think of a good way to celebrate e-IR’s fifth birthday with you. Half a decade online feels like a milestone that’s worth marking! So, here’s the idea we have come up with…
Countdown to Spring
e-IR’s new blog, Political Business, will record the ways through which business students are introduced to IR, how they are taught, how they learn, and the challenges that they encounter in and out of the classroom.
The Indian Woman’s Reality
India thronged to the streets recently in protest, after a young woman was brutally gang raped and subsequently died. But what the masses and policy-makers have failed to understand are the deeper cultural problems, allowing such crimes to happen.
Defending Canada in 2013
As a new year dawns, Canada should accept that the strategies and doctrines of the last 20 years do not apply to the current global context. Relying on outdated concerns makes little sense in 2013 and beyond.
Predictions for 2013
It’s that time of year when the illusion of insight is replaced by the illusion of foresight in bloggers everywhere. Attempts to make lists like this one longer or shorter than 10 fail, so in that spirit, let’s get on with it!
Wanted: A Coherent Canadian Foreign Policy
Between 2006 and 2011, Stephen Harper’s “Restrained Pragmatism” was a shift towards a realist foreign policy strategy, but now he appears lost and this poses risks for Canada in the international state system.
