Articles

The Umbrella: Bodies, Deportment and Geopolitics

Klaus Dodds • Oct 10 2014 • Articles

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. ?

Dylan Kissane • Oct 9 2014 • Articles

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

Johan Höglund • Oct 9 2014 • Articles

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?

Mark Jordan • Oct 8 2014 • Articles

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

Justin Hastings • Oct 8 2014 • Articles

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

Cheyney Ryan • Oct 7 2014 • Articles

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

Benjamin E. Goldsmith • Oct 6 2014 • Articles

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…

Stephen McGlinchey • Oct 3 2014 • Articles

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?

Giles Scott-Smith • Oct 1 2014 • Articles

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.

What Counts for Important?

Dylan Kissane • Sep 30 2014 • Articles

Part of the job of an IR professor is to challenge the student to see that what happens in a distant land can have real implications for local politics too.

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