Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
#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.
“Is international relations still ‘an American social science’?”
Stephen M. Walt asks in a Foreign Policy blog-post whether the field of international relations is still dominated by scholars from North […]
