Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Contemporary Politics Focus of March Webinar Series
This March, the Sage Politics team launches its first Politics Webinar Week. These webinars are free to access and will be delivered by contemporary politics experts —drawn from Sage’s team of authors and editors— who range from practitioners to instructors.
Advice for Trump: Best International Relations Blog Post of 2016
Elizabeth N. Saunders, an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, wrote the following post which appeared The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog on November 9, 2016. In this year’s Duckies awards, officially known as the International Studies Association’s Online Media Caucus awards, Saunders’ post was named best individual blog post of 2016.
Sydney’s ‘Progress in Political Economy’ Named Best IR Blog
One of the highlights of the International Studies Association’s annual conference – assuming you weren’t boycotting the whole affair – was the annual Duckies Awards, which recognize public-facing work in the field.
#WomenAlsoKnowStuff (Even About Politics)
Our goal, say the supporters of the #WomenAlsoKnowStuff database of female political scientists, is to amplify the voices of women in the discipline and in the public eye.
Diplomacy or Destroyers: Uncle Sam’s Freedom of Navigation Choice
Amitai Etzioni argues that the U.S. shouldn’t automatically resort to the big stick when engaging in its self-imposed job as the world’s enforcer of freedom of navigation.
Tracking the Gender Gap in Assigned Readings
New research looking at international relations courses finds that male professors assign more readings by males — and much of it their own work — than do female professors. And this does a disservice to students, argues Jeff Colgan.
Locating International Relations on the Social Science Map
A just-published lecture on international relations as a social science suggests that no discipline is an island.
How Close Were We to Armageddon? The Cuban Missile Crisis.
50 years on, the Cuban Missile Crisis may still prove to be one of the most important events in understanding modern International diplomacy.
