Foreign Policy as a Tool of State-Building in the Post-Yugoslav States
Foreign policy as a tool of state-building promises new evidence and may force us to re-think key concepts in international relations.
The Umbrella: Bodies, Deportment and Geopolitics
The role of objects in world politics continues to deserve our attention, including the ways in which human and non-human agency combine to re-engineer the umbrella.
State Department U. ?
Steven Mintz’s piece provides a great summary of where higher education is currently innovating and what the higher education model of the future might look like.
IR and the Future Wars of First-Person Military Shooters
In the third generation of military shooters, IR concerns manifest as future war and the insecurity charted by IR collapses into open confrontation.
Policing in France: Some Tips for a Would-be President?
Any would-be president needing better ratings could improve the state’s relationship with large sections of its citizenry by addressing the institution of policing.
China’s Counterproductive Counterterrorism Policies
The crackdown on Uyghur separatist violence is unlikely to be successful in the long term and may paradoxically be creating the very problem China always feared.
The Chickenhawk Argument
Concern with the chickenhawk syndrome aims to reclaim a cluster of concerns. Although its moral impulse is clear, its institutional implications are less clear.
A Liberal Defense of Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy
Obama is a foreign policy Liberal, in the best sense of the term. He has delivered a balanced foreign policy that protects U.S. interests while promoting U.S. values.
Maher vs. Aslan: Islam Is Not Violent, People Are…
The big foreign policy issues facing us often revolve around deeply divisive religious issues. So, we should educate ourselves rather than settle behind one talking head.
MOOC Revolutions?
Educational methods are never static. MOOCs do at least make those of us active in education reflect on what we do, how we do it, and why we do it. And that is not bad.
