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Academic international relations/political science blog.
Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie âHouse of Dynamiteâ I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelowâs House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. Thereâs so much potential for cinema to unpack the dilemmas and tragedies of living under a nuclearâŚ
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Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie âHouse of Dynamiteâ
I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelowâs House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. Thereâs so much potential for cinema to unpack the dilemmas and tragedies of living under a nuclear sword of Damocles, and my initial reaction was disappointment at the ways this fails to be that movie. But for all its shortcomings, the film also serves as a sobering reminder of the profound peril nuclear weapons entail.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/11/nuclear-apocalypse-now-reflections-on-the-movie-house-of-dynamite.html
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6+1 Questions About âThe Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacyâ What is the name of the journal article (or book) and what are its coordinates? Miray Philips. 2025. âThe Social Construction of Christian Persecution throughâŚ
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6+1 Questions About âThe Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacyâ
What is the name of the journal article (or book) and what are its coordinates? Miray Philips. 2025. âThe Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy.â Sociology of Religion. 2. Whatâs the argument? In Washington, DC, International Religious Freedom advocates mostly rely on data by the Pew Research Center on religious restrictions and Open Doors on Christian persecution.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/10/61-questions-about-the-social-construction-of-christian-persecution-through-quantification-in-international-religious-freedom-advocacy.html
13 days ago
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Ceasefire NOW (but not *now*) After years of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, a ceasefire was recently announced andâŚthose calling for the ceasefire are upset about it. There are some valid reasons to hold off on celebrating, but I worry this represents a deeper issue with how we conceive of peaceâŚ
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Ceasefire NOW (but not *now*)
After years of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, a ceasefire was recently announced andâŚthose calling for the ceasefire are upset about it. There are some valid reasons to hold off on celebrating, but I worry this represents a deeper issue with how we conceive of peace and how we study the Middle East. And this will only hurt the Palestinians these voices claim to champion.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/10/ceasefire-now-but-not-now.html
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Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the âthird railâ in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attack in Manchester makes clear that UK academics must engage in a public, thoughtful,âŚ
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Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution
Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the âthird railâ in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attack in Manchester makes clear that UK academics must engage in a public, thoughtful, and careful discussion about Jews, Israel and Palestine. On October 2nd, 2025 â on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur â a Synagogue in Manchester was attacked in what has been officially labelled a…
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/10/antisemitism-israel-and-the-problem-with-no-easy-solution.html
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The Mirage of Great-Power Competition Photo by Dave Photoz on Unsplash Back in March, I wrote a post at Lawyers, Guns and Money called âRemember âGreat Power Competition?â Lol.â As the âGrand Strategyâ of Trump 2.0 comes into focus, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit and update it. InâŚ
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The Mirage of Great-Power Competition
Photo by Dave Photoz on Unsplash Back in March, I wrote a post at Lawyers, Guns and Money called âRemember âGreat Power Competition?â Lol.â As the âGrand Strategyâ of Trump 2.0 comes into focus, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit and update it. In brief, the normie national-security advisors who dominated the first Trump administration needed a way to make Trumpâs semi-coherent ramblings legible to the global foreign-policy community.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/10/the-mirage-of-great-power-competition.html
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The State of the Union is Grim The Republic as we knew it is over. The fight now is whether the new one will be a fascistic, competitive authoritarian regime or a pluralist democracy that, one hopes, is better than what came before.
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The State of the Union is Grim
The Republic as we knew it is over. The fight now is whether the new one will be a fascistic, competitive authoritarian regime or a pluralist democracy that, one hopes, is better than what came before.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/10/the-state-of-the-union-is-grim.html
about 1 month ago
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6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy Whatâs the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025). Whatâs the argument?âŚ
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6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy
Whatâs the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025). Whatâs the argument? Relations with Native American groups were constitutive of early U.S. foreign policy, and this should make us reconsider the notion that the United States was isolationist in this period.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/09/61-questions-about-american-conquest-the-northwest-indian-war-and-the-making-of-us-foreign-policy.html
about 1 month ago
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Will the recognition of Palestine matter? What IR scholarship says The UN General Assembly meeting has seen a growing number of states recognizing a state of Palestine, including Western powers like France, the United Kingdom and Canada. Debate has swirled over why they are doing this: is it aâŚ
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Will the recognition of Palestine matter? What IR scholarship says
The UN General Assembly meeting has seen a growing number of states recognizing a state of Palestine, including Western powers like France, the United Kingdom and Canada. Debate has swirled over why they are doing this: is it a principled stand, an attempt to gain international or domestic clout, etc.? But there's a bigger question over whether this matters and when it may matter: that is, at what point does the informal recognition of an entity as a state lead to actual changes in international relations?
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/09/will-the-recognition-of-palestine-matter-what-ir-scholarship-says.html
about 1 month ago
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Trumpâs Foreign Policy and the Purpose of the MAGAÂ State How can we understand Tump 2.0 foreign policy? It's the product of the fusion of two different forces: Christian Nationalism and Personalist Rent-Extraction.
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Trumpâs Foreign Policy and the Purpose of the MAGAÂ State
How can we understand Tump 2.0 foreign policy? It's the product of the fusion of two different forces: Christian Nationalism and Personalist Rent-Extraction.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/09/trumps-foreign-policy-and-the-purpose-of-the-maga-state.html
about 2 months ago
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How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would mean moving on and forgetting. In 2009--back when I provided free labor for The Huffington Post--I wrote thisâŚ
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How do we think about 9/11 in 2025?
I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would mean moving on and forgetting. In 2009--back when I provided free labor for The Huffington Post--I wrote this on the shadowy but still serious threat posed by al-Qaeda. More recently, I wrote this on the failure of security studies to…
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/09/how-do-we-think-about-9-11-in-2025.html
about 2 months ago
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Benjamin de Carvalho Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Ben was born in Switzerland to a mother from Norway and a father from Brazil. Ben talks about how that transpired, growing up in Norway, and how a Fulbright brought him to the United States in the late 90's. BenâŚ
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Benjamin de Carvalho
Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Ben was born in Switzerland to a mother from Norway and a father from Brazil. Ben talks about how that transpired, growing up in Norway, and how a Fulbright brought him to the United States in the late 90's. Ben recounts his time at the New School for his first Master's, moving to Cambridge for his M.Phil and PhD, and ending back in Norway at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, or NUPI, where he remains gainfully and happily employed, and thriving, to this day.Â
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/09/benjamin-de-carvalho.html
2 months ago
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Who wants AI in the classroom? I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (âAIâ) into the classroom. âAI is going to revolutionize higher education!â âPrepare your students for the AI-driven job market!â "Resistance isâŚ
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Who wants AI in the classroom?
I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (âAIâ) into the classroom. âAI is going to revolutionize higher education!â âPrepare your students for the AI-driven job market!â "Resistance is futile!" âSign up for our workshop!â Despite being bombarded with such messages hyping âAIâ (around which I will keep using scare quotes), it remains unclear to me that there is much to gain from bringing âAIâ into my Political Science classrooms.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/08/who-wants-ai-in-the-classroom.html
3 months ago
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6+1 Questions about âThe U.S.: A (Mostly) Hands-Off Superpowerâ Drew Hogan answers 6+1 questions about how the United States does, and does not, support its overseas citizens.
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6+1 Questions about âThe U.S.: A (Mostly) Hands-Off Superpowerâ
Drew Hogan answers 6+1 questions about how the United States does, and does not, support its overseas citizens.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/08/61-questions-about-the-u-s-a-mostly-hands-off-superpower.html
3 months ago
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Is there a strategy behind Rubioâs State Department cuts? The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration's massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, nearly 1500 employees--most of them civil servants--lose their jobs. InâŚ
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Is there a strategy behind Rubioâs State Department cuts?
The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration's massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, nearly 1500 employees--most of them civil servants--lose their jobs. In some ways, this isn't surprising, as Trump began his second term with a massive, Elon Musk-led, gutting of the federal workforce. But it's still catching some by surprise, given Rubio's reported…
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/07/is-there-a-strategy-behind-rubios-state-department-cuts.html
4 months ago
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After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchyâi.e., the absence of a global sovereignâis the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Relations (IR) scholarship since then has aimed to debunk the claim that anarchy definesâŚ
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After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity
Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchyâi.e., the absence of a global sovereignâis the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Relations (IR) scholarship since then has aimed to debunk the claim that anarchy defines IR as a subject. Today, some aim to do so by offering new conceptual foundations for IR. This post is not a relitigation of the â
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/06/after-anarchy-on-hierarchy-heterarchy-and-multiplicity.html
5 months ago
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Why have so many Muslim communities embraced radicalism? Over two decades have passed since the horrifying 9/11 attacks. Do we have a consensus understanding of the radicalization process in communities that supported or filled the ranks of jihadist groups, including the likes of al-Qaeda, theâŚ
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Why have so many Muslim communities embraced radicalism?
Over two decades have passed since the horrifying 9/11 attacks. Do we have a consensus understanding of the radicalization process in communities that supported or filled the ranks of jihadist groups, including the likes of al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, Hamas, and the Taliban? The answer (see also here) is a resounding no! As more political science scholars conduct terrorism research than scholars from any other discipline, they have a vested interest in getting this phenomenon right and helping to frame policies that effectively address the threats.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/06/why-have-so-many-muslim-communities-embraced-radicalism.html
5 months ago
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Whatâs the Matter with Soft Power? I dislike the term âsoft power.â We owe the term to the late, great Joseph Nye. He popularized it in his 1990 book, Bound to Lead. Nyeâs book was, first and foremost, an intervention in the âdeclinismâ debates of the later 1980s. Japan was at the peak of itsâŚ
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Whatâs the Matter with Soft Power?
I dislike the term âsoft power.â We owe the term to the late, great Joseph Nye. He popularized it in his 1990 book, Bound to Lead. Nyeâs book was, first and foremost, an intervention in the âdeclinismâ debates of the later 1980s. Japan was at the peak of its influence; some projected that its economy would overtake that of the United States by the early 2000s.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/06/whats-the-matter-with-soft-power.html
5 months ago
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Resisting a narrative on Israel and antisemitism I've had four potential posts on Israel, anti-Israel actions and antisemitism this week. As new events occur, the old post falls to the wayside. I was stuck on whether I should pick one, or try to weave the events together into some kind ofâŚ
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Resisting a narrative on Israel and antisemitism
I've had four potential posts on Israel, anti-Israel actions and antisemitism this week. As new events occur, the old post falls to the wayside. I was stuck on whether I should pick one, or try to weave the events together into some kind of narrative and draw conclusions. I've decided I can't, or don't want to, do either. And I wonder how much of the morass Israel-Palestine discourse feels stuck in is due to our compulsion to create such a narrative.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/05/resisting-a-narrative-on-israel-and-antisemitism.html
6 months ago
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Probiotic disinformation âJust when I thought I was out, they pull me back inâ is something I would say at the risk of alienating the younger readership of this blog, but given that most of us are old here, it should be fine. I have been busy working on Russian Neo-Nazis, so I almost forgot thatâŚ
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Probiotic disinformation
âJust when I thought I was out, they pull me back inâ is something I would say at the risk of alienating the younger readership of this blog, but given that most of us are old here, it should be fine. I have been busy working on Russian Neo-Nazis, so I almost forgot that back in the simpler times I was also interested in how…
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/05/probiotic-disinformation.html
6 months ago
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The Vaticanâs Quiet Intelligence Legacy and Why It Matters Now On Easter Monday, Pope Francis died at the age of 88. His passing marked the end of a 12-year papacy characterized by a commitment to the poor, an insistence on peace over posturing, and an often-controversial emphasis on mercy overâŚ
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The Vaticanâs Quiet Intelligence Legacy and Why It Matters Now
On Easter Monday, Pope Francis died at the age of 88. His passing marked the end of a 12-year papacy characterized by a commitment to the poor, an insistence on peace over posturing, and an often-controversial emphasis on mercy over rules. As white smoke issues from the Vatican--indicating a new pope has been chosen--most commentary has focused on familiar terrain: his views on women, LGBTQ+ rights, his political moderation, his Latin American identity, or his climate advocacy.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/05/the-vaticans-quiet-intelligence-legacy-and-why-it-matters-now.html
6 months ago
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The frustrating wisdom of Pope Francisâs international mediation I was born a proud Protestant. A Lutheran in a town still marked by Catholic-Protestant tensions, with Catholic friends who told me I don't worship right, neighbors who claimed Catholics were polytheists, and a grandmother who woreâŚ
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The frustrating wisdom of Pope Francisâs international mediation
I was born a proud Protestant. A Lutheran in a town still marked by Catholic-Protestant tensions, with Catholic friends who told me I don't worship right, neighbors who claimed Catholics were polytheists, and a grandmother who wore orange on St. Patrick's Day (I never quite got that, as we had no connection to Ireland). But I also felt drawn to the Roman Catholic church.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/04/the-frustrating-wisdom-of-pope-franciss-international-mediation.html
7 months ago
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Unreal climate ârealismâ Itâs hard to keep track of the problems confronting Americans these days. But, just in case a reminder is needed, climate change is still a thing. Casual observers may have noted that US climate policy has beenâŚunderwhelming, see-sawing between âBuild Back BetterââŚ
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Unreal climate ârealismâ
Itâs hard to keep track of the problems confronting Americans these days. But, just in case a reminder is needed, climate change is still a thing. Casual observers may have noted that US climate policy has beenâŚunderwhelming, see-sawing between âBuild Back Betterâ aspirations and climate denialism. Now climate policy wunderkind Varun Sivaram has called for a rethink on US climate (foreign) policy.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/04/unreal-climate-realism.html
7 months ago
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Big Man, Big Heart This a crosspost from Saideman's Semi-Spew. This week, we found out that Brandon Valeriano died. It is quite gutting as he had such a terrific spirit, and he was too damned young. Brandon stood out from the crowd at all the conferences as he was literally bigger than most of us,âŚ
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Big Man, Big Heart
This a crosspost from Saideman's Semi-Spew. This week, we found out that Brandon Valeriano died. It is quite gutting as he had such a terrific spirit, and he was too damned young. Brandon stood out from the crowd at all the conferences as he was literally bigger than most of us, and he was also one of the very few Latinos in the field of IR.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/03/big-man-big-heart.html
7 months ago
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So much for âGreat Power Competitionâ The buzzword of the first Trump administration was "Great Power Competition." That was also a lie.
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So much for âGreat Power Competitionâ
The buzzword of the first Trump administration was "Great Power Competition." That was also a lie.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/03/so-much-for-great-power-competition.html
8 months ago
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Ben Francis
11 months ago
Check it out: States sometimes unhelpfully instrumentalise their climate pledges as foreign policy documents. A piece I wrote on this phenomenon with my colleague Bill Kakenmaster has just been published on
@duckofminerva.bsky.social
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Climate Pledges as Vehicles for Political Posturing
Under the Paris Agreement, states submit Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) outlining their commitments to reducing emissions. These documents are important window in the international poliâŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/12/climate-pledges-as-vehicles-for-political-posturing.html
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Dan Nexon
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Thoughtful post by
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@duckofminerva.bsky.social
"If Assad fell so quickly now, after having 10 years to recover from the initial shock of the protests, would he have fallen equally quickly back then? And if so, were skeptics of intervention wrong?"
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Does this mean Assad would have fallen ten years ago?
Like many who follow the Middle East, a lot has been going through my head since the civil war there suddenly reignited and Bashar al-Assadâs regime even more suddenly fell. Will the victims âŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/12/does-this-mean-assad-would-have-fallen-ten-years-ago.html
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In our most recent post
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www.duckofminerva.com/2024/10/who-...
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Who is behind the terrorist attack in Ankara?
On October 23rd, militants attacked a Turkish aerospace facility near the capital of Ankara. The Turkish government blamed the Kurdistan Workersâ Party (PKK)âa Kurdish insurgent group&#âŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/10/who-is-behind-the-terrorist-attack-in-ankara.html
11 months ago
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We haven't posted much lately but will resume posting from our wider blog more frequently.
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The fifth in our series of remembrances on the late Susan Sell. This one from Maria Rost Rublee.
www.duckofminerva.com/2024/04/susa...
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Susan Sell: The Power of Mentorship and Example
This is the fifth in our series of remembrances on the late Susan Sell. There was a terrific gathering at ISA 2024 where friends and colleagues gathered to remember Susanâs wit, her contributâŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/04/susan-sell-the-power-of-mentorship-and-example.html
over 1 year ago
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Maryam Deloffre
almost 2 years ago
It was really difficult for me to write this. Putting it into words makes it feel more real. Susan Sell was a remarkable scholar and human being.
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The fourth in our series of remembrances of Susan Sell. This one from Maryam Deloffre.
www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/susa...
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Susan Sell: Speaking Truth to Power
This is the fourth post in our series of remembrances on the late Susan Sell. Susan and I were both conducting research in Geneva in the summer of 2022, she was at the World Trade Organization, andâŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/susan-sell-speaking-truth-to-power.html
almost 2 years ago
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The third in our series of remembrances of Susan Sell. This one from Joseph O'Mahoney.
www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/susa...
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Susan Sell: A World Class Scholar and Human Being
This is the third in our series of remembrances on the late scholar Susan Sell. Professor Susan Sell was a world class scholar. But even though one of the papers she wrote (about using ideas âŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/susan-sell-a-world-class-scholar-and-human-being.html
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The second in our series of remembrances on Susan Sell. This one from Blayne Haggart.
www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/reme...
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Remembering Susan Sell
This is the second in our series of remembrances on the late scholar Susan Sell. Since I learned of Susanâs untimely passing on Christmas Eve, Iâve been trying to articulate exactly how important ...
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/remembering-susan-sell.html
almost 2 years ago
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Kerry F. Crawford's remembrance of the late Susan Sell is up. The first in a series.
www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/live...
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Live. What are you waiting for? A reflection on Susan Sellâs influence.
This is the first in a series of remembrances on life and career of the late Susan Sell. When I think about Susan Sell, I think about a life lived unapologetically, beautifully, and gratefully. I tâŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/live-what-are-you-waiting-for-a-reflection-on-susan-sells-influence.html
almost 2 years ago
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New post from Davis Ellison.
www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/iden...
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Identity Politics and the Orthodoxies of the National Security Policy Community
In 2015, Linus HagstrĂśm, a professor of political science at the Swedish Defence University, questioned the wisdom of Sweden joining NATO in a coauthored opinion piece. After its publicatâŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/identity-politics-and-the-orthodoxies-of-the-national-security-policy-community.html
almost 2 years ago
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International relations scholars. If you have something to say, want to do an explainer, what have you, we are open for guest submissions.
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The political science community has lost a great mind and warm soul. We would welcome a remembrance post of Susan Sell. Please contact Josh Busby at
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blogs.gwu.edu/elliott360/2...
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In Memoriam:Â Susan K. Sell, Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs
Susan K. Sell, Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs Emeriti passed away on December 24, 2023. Susan was a faculty member in the political science department from 1991 to 20...
https://blogs.gwu.edu/elliott360/2024/01/04/in-memoriam-susan-k-sell-professor-emerita-of-political-science-and-international-affairs/
almost 2 years ago
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Why Maduro is Bluffing from Luis Schenoni.
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WHY MADURO IS BLUFFING (AND ESEQUIBO IS NOT THE MALVINAS)
As if there was not enough trouble around the world as it is, Nicolas Maduro, the autocratic president of Venezuela, has kept us at the edge of our seats for the last couple of weeks after calling âŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/12/why-maduro-is-bluffing-and-esequibo-is-not-the-malvinas.html
almost 2 years ago
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Climate Solutions Lab
almost 2 years ago
The team at Brown University's Climate Solutions Lab names Germany the "Climate Disappointment of the Year" for 2023, based on its litany of setbacks, reversals, poor decisions, and missed opportunities.
@jeffcolgan.bsky.social
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Germany: Climate Disappointment of the Year
With a symbolically successful COP28 and substantively significant investments in clean energy around the world, 2023 boasts some positive news on climate change. Not a moment too soon: global GHG âŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/12/germany-climate-disappointment-of-the-year.html
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Peter Henne
about 2 years ago
I wrote at
@duckofminerva.bsky.social
about sneaky "common wisdom" and zombie arguments in Middle East discussions, evidence-less claims that get spread&picked up as truisms
www.duckofminerva.com/2021/05/how-..
. we're seeing that w/ the logic behind Hamas' attack (1/)
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The second installment of live taping at the British International Studies Association, Whisky & IR Theory podcast.
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Episode 33: Status? You Just Met Us!
The second installment of our live taping at the British International Studies Association annualâŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/10/episode-33-status-you-just-met-us.html
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What about the locals?
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What about the locals?: Taking stock of the ASEAN and IORA positions on the âIndo-Pacificâ
The Indo-Pacific is an increasingly contested space. Literature on the region revolves around the notion that Chinaâs deepening regional footprint has exacerbated apprehensions in Washington, Canbeďż˝...
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/10/what-about-the-locals-taking-stock-of-the-asean-and-iora-positions-on-the-indo-pacific.html
about 2 years ago
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Biden's Africa Policy Trilemma.
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Bidenâs Africa Policy Trilemma
Ongoing instability in the Sahel â involving worsening insurgent violence, deepening great power competition, and frequent coups â is exposing weaknesses in U.S. Africa policy. In fact, three year...
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/10/bidens-africa-policy-trilemma.html
about 2 years ago
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In light of the horrible turn in Israel, some recent pieces on the Duck that may help put the events into context.
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An Israeli Civil War: From Public Secret to Shared Illusion
For nearly three decades, a pervasive, unspoken fear of civil war created an âugly stalemateâ in Israel, a âpublic secretâ that pervaded its electoral politics and foreign râŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/08/an-israeli-civil-war-from-public-secret-to-shared-illusion.html
about 2 years ago
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Lisa Gaufman on a new Russian history book.
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Judging a book by its cover II
Part I here if you are interested On the day of German reunification anniversary I bring you the sequel to the post on the new Russian history book. Only, if you read this history book, you will noâŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/10/judging-a-book-by-its-cover-part-ii.html
about 2 years ago
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reposted by
Duck of Minerva
Peter Henne
about 2 years ago
I also wrote on this at
@duckofminerva.bsky.social
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The transnational coalition that wasnât: Russia, the West and Ukraine
One year ago, Russia launched an illegal war on Ukraine, committing horrific war crimes against the people of Ukraine. Analyses and memorials abound, and Iâm probably not the only person writâŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/02/the-transnational-coalition-that-wasnt-russia-the-west-and-ukraine.html
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What will happen at the upcoming climate negotiations?
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 years ago
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Jarrod Hayes featured on Hayseed Scholar podcast.
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Jarrod Hayes
Professor Jarrod Hayes joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Jarrod was born in Colorado, but moved to Utah at a young age and grew up there for a bit before relocating with his mother to just outsideâŚ
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/09/jarrod-hayes.html
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So Youâve Seen Oppenheimer.
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So Youâve Seen Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer is the first blockbuster about nuclear weapons in a generation. Framing his filmâs namesake with kinetic edits, fractured timelines, quantum imagery, and a pulsing score, director Chr...
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What If Trump was President when Russia Invaded Ukraine?
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What If Trump was President When Russia Invaded Ukraine?
If Donald Trump was President of the United States when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, instead of Joe Biden, Trumpâs personality would have led to a very different U.S. response. Trump woďż˝...
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/09/what-if-trump-was-president-when-russia-invaded-ukraine.html
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