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Academic international relations/political science blog.
Remembering Our Lost Colleagues I started this post sort of confessionally. It's been a while since I wrote on the blog. I had started one earlier this year on the destruction of USAID and PEPFAR but redirected my energy into advocacy (such as it was). One reason for my relative absence on the…
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Remembering Our Lost Colleagues
I started this post sort of confessionally. It's been a while since I wrote on the blog. I had started one earlier this year on the destruction of USAID and PEPFAR but redirected my energy into advocacy (such as it was). One reason for my relative absence on the blog is government service. From 2021 to 2023, I was in the Biden Administration serving as a Senior Climate Advisor in the Department of Defense.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/12/remembering-our-lost-colleagues.html
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Farewell The Hayseed Scholar podcast has come to a close. In this farewell episode, Brent's brother Kyle hosts it and they chat about the podcast and why Brent is closing it down. Two friends of the pod, Matt McDonald and Jelena Subotic, also join to mention what they liked and what they…
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Farewell
The Hayseed Scholar podcast has come to a close. In this farewell episode, Brent's brother Kyle hosts it and they chat about the podcast and why Brent is closing it down. Two friends of the pod, Matt McDonald and Jelena Subotic, also join to mention what they liked and what they (Jelena) did not like about the podcast. Brent closes by asking Kyle, who is a LinkedIn rockstar, about the changing landscape of social media and reaching beyond an academic audience, before the two of them sign-off for good.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/12/farewell.html
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Can the news ever be impartial? Probably not, but the problem isn't impartiality it's the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with the head of news, Deborah Turness, resigned. Their resignation was in response to a report published in the…
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Can the news ever be impartial?
Probably not, but the problem isn't impartiality it's the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with the head of news, Deborah Turness, resigned. Their resignation was in response to a report published in the British newspaper, The Telegraph, that claimed a BBC News programme, Panorama, edited a speech by President Donald Trump to make it appear as though he encouraged the Capital Riot.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/11/can-the-news-ever-be-impartial.html
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Here We Go Again: Why American Presidents Can’t Resist Regime Change The U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean is confusing the MAGA faithful. With rumors swirling of an imminent operation to topple Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, the president’s supporters are asking what happened to “America…
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Here We Go Again: Why American Presidents Can’t Resist Regime Change
The U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean is confusing the MAGA faithful. With rumors swirling of an imminent operation to topple Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, the president’s supporters are asking what happened to “America First”? Tucker Carlson recently remarked it was a “little strange” that the U.S. was telling another country, “we don’t like your leadership — leave or we’ll kill you.” Trump’s former chief strategist, …
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/11/here-we-go-again-why-american-presidents-cant-resist-regime-change.html
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Bullies, Follies, and Decadent Orders: Constructing Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern On November 1, 2025, President Donald Trump threatened to end all U.S. assistance to Nigeria and — if he deemed it necessary — launch a military attack against insurgents in the country. As National…
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Bullies, Follies, and Decadent Orders: Constructing Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern
On November 1, 2025, President Donald Trump threatened to end all U.S. assistance to Nigeria and — if he deemed it necessary — launch a military attack against insurgents in the country. As National Public Radio reported: “If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump posted on social media.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/11/bullies-follies-and-decadent-orders-constructing-nigeria-as-a-country-of-particular-concern.html
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Exploring the Meaning of Responsibility I’ve been thinking a lot about the meaning of “responsibility,” specifically in the context of politics and governance. We live in an age of populism, rising authoritarianism, disinformation, climate change, and the slaughter of civilians in places like Gaza…
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Exploring the Meaning of Responsibility
I’ve been thinking a lot about the meaning of “responsibility,” specifically in the context of politics and governance. We live in an age of populism, rising authoritarianism, disinformation, climate change, and the slaughter of civilians in places like Gaza and Sudan. The notions of responsibility associated with the so-called “liberal international order” are all under strain. Most of us, I think, rely on a kind of “
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/11/exploring-the-meaning-of-responsibility.html
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Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “House of Dynamite” I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. There’s so much potential for cinema to unpack the dilemmas and tragedies of living under a nuclear…
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Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “House of Dynamite”
I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. There’s 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
about 2 months ago
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6+1 Questions About “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy” What is the name of the journal article (or book) and what are its coordinates? Miray Philips. 2025. “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through…
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6+1 Questions About “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy”
What is the name of the journal article (or book) and what are its coordinates? Miray Philips. 2025. “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy.” Sociology of Religion. 2. What’s 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
2 months ago
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Ceasefire NOW (but not *now*) After years of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, a ceasefire was recently announced and…those 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…
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Ceasefire NOW (but not *now*)
After years of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, a ceasefire was recently announced and…those 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 “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attack in Manchester makes clear that UK academics must engage in a public, thoughtful,…
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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 “third rail” 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 — on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur — 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 “Remember ‘Great Power Competition?’ Lol.” As the “Grand Strategy” of Trump 2.0 comes into focus, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit and update it. In…
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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 “Remember ‘Great Power Competition?’ Lol.” As the “Grand Strategy” 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 Trump’s semi-coherent ramblings legible to the global foreign-policy community.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/10/the-mirage-of-great-power-competition.html
3 months ago
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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
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6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy What’s 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). What’s the argument?…
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6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy
What’s 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). What’s 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
3 months 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 a…
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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
3 months ago
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Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Purpose of the MAGA 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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Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Purpose of the MAGA 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
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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…
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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
4 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. Ben…
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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.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/09/benjamin-de-carvalho.html
4 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 (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is going to revolutionize higher education!” “Prepare your students for the AI-driven job market!” "Resistance is…
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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 (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is going to revolutionize higher education!” “Prepare your students for the AI-driven job market!” "Resistance is futile!" “Sign up for our workshop!” Despite being bombarded with such messages hyping “AI” (around which I will keep using scare quotes), it remains unclear to me that there is much to gain from bringing “AI” into my Political Science classrooms.
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/08/who-wants-ai-in-the-classroom.html
4 months ago
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6+1 Questions about “The U.S.: A (Mostly) Hands-Off Superpower” 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 “The U.S.: A (Mostly) Hands-Off Superpower”
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
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Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s 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…
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Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s 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
5 months ago
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After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Relations (IR) scholarship since then has aimed to debunk the claim that anarchy defines…
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After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity
Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is 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 “
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2025/06/after-anarchy-on-hierarchy-heterarchy-and-multiplicity.html
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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…
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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
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What’s the Matter with Soft Power? I dislike the term “soft power.” We owe the term to the late, great Joseph Nye. He popularized it in his 1990 book, Bound to Lead. Nye’s book was, first and foremost, an intervention in the “declinism” debates of the later 1980s. Japan was at the peak of its…
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What’s the Matter with Soft Power?
I dislike the term “soft power.” We owe the term to the late, great Joseph Nye. He popularized it in his 1990 book, Bound to Lead. Nye’s book was, first and foremost, an intervention in the “declinism” 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
7 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 of…
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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
7 months ago
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Probiotic disinformation “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” 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…
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Probiotic disinformation
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” 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
8 months ago
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The Vatican’s 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…
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The Vatican’s 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
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The frustrating wisdom of Pope Francis’s 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…
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The frustrating wisdom of Pope Francis’s 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
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Unreal climate ‘realism’ It’s 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 been…underwhelming, see-sawing between ‘Build Back Better’…
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Unreal climate ‘realism’
It’s 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 been…underwhelming, see-sawing between ‘Build Back Better’ 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
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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,…
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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
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So much for “Great Power Competition” The buzzword of the first Trump administration was "Great Power Competition." That was also a lie.
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So much for “Great Power Competition”
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
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Ben Francis
about 1 year 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
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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 poli…
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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"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-Assad’s regime even more suddenly fell. Will the victims …
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 Workers’ Party (PKK)–a Kurdish insurgent group&#…
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/10/who-is-behind-the-terrorist-attack-in-ankara.html
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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 Susan’s wit, her contribut…
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/04/susan-sell-the-power-of-mentorship-and-example.html
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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, and…
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/susan-sell-speaking-truth-to-power.html
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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 …
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 Susan’s untimely passing on Christmas Eve, I’ve been trying to articulate exactly how important ...
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/remembering-susan-sell.html
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Kerry F. Crawford's remembrance of the late Susan Sell is up. The first in a series.
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Live. What are you waiting for? A reflection on Susan Sell’s 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 t…
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/live-what-are-you-waiting-for-a-reflection-on-susan-sells-influence.html
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New post from Davis Ellison.
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Identity Politics and the Orthodoxies of the National Security Policy Community
In 2015, Linus Hagström, a professor of political science at the Swedish Defence University, questioned the wisdom of Sweden joining NATO in a coauthored opinion piece. After its publicat…
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2024/01/identity-politics-and-the-orthodoxies-of-the-national-security-policy-community.html
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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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In Memoriam: 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/
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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 …
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/12/why-maduro-is-bluffing-and-esequibo-is-not-the-malvinas.html
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Climate Solutions Lab
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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
@duckofminerva.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 …
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/12/germany-climate-disappointment-of-the-year.html
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Peter Henne
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I wrote at
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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 annual…
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 ‘Indo-Pacific’
The Indo-Pacific is an increasingly contested space. Literature on the region revolves around the notion that China’s deepening regional footprint has exacerbated apprehensions in Washington, Canbe�...
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/10/what-about-the-locals-taking-stock-of-the-asean-and-iora-positions-on-the-indo-pacific.html
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Biden's Africa Policy Trilemma.
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Biden’s Africa Policy Trilemma
Ongoing instability in the Sahel – involving worsening insurgent violence, deepening great power competition, and frequent coups – is exposing weaknesses in U.S. Africa policy. In fact, three year...
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/10/bidens-africa-policy-trilemma.html
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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.
www.duckofminerva.com/2023/08/an-i...
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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 “ugly stalemate” in Israel, a ‘public secret’ that pervaded its electoral politics and foreign r…
https://www.duckofminerva.com/2023/08/an-israeli-civil-war-from-public-secret-to-shared-illusion.html
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