In my opinion, James Fearon misses an opportunity to link theories together  in a productive way. Of the global decline of military spen...

[E]ven in the lower grades I found evidence of a much stronger emphasis on science than we give in the US. It is quite probable that within...

A quick hit from me, as I'm swamped with dissertation work and am also in grading purgatory. But this , via Tyler Cowen, is interesting:...

Warning: This post is intentionally inflammatory, over the top, and abrasive. Also, some claims are over-stated. Nevertheless... So I was ...

Phil Arena says we shouldn't , because it's not very good: When folks like me joke that Huntington's CoC has detracted from th...

-- Phil Arena has written a new post on it. Every time he does it's a must-read. This is the must-readest yet. -- Dan Nexon and Patric...

Over at the Duck of Minerva, Patrick Porter takes issue with Kenneth Waltz's argument that it would be no horrible thing if Iran got ...

A few weeks ago Dan Drezner called me "curiously lazy" for writing that we shouldn't pay much attention to what presidential...

(Apologies for the light posting. Real work plus a family emergency has gotten in the way. Normal posting should continue for most of the re...

Dan Nexon linked to my response to his post on the horrors of the professionalization of international relations students and called it a...

Andrew Exum, today : Nonetheless, in case anyone is interested, these are the [academic] journals I dutifully scan for articles, listed in...

Dan Nexon has written a lengthy diatribe  opposing what he calls the "over-professionalization" of IR, particularly as it involves...

First off, apologies for the light posting. A confluence of events have prohibited more activity here. I hope to get going more regularly. ...

-- A long, excellent interview with Patrick Thaddeus Jackson at Theory Talks (a generally excellent site; it's easy to lose hours in th...

From an article on the multidisciplinary influence of Kahneman and Tversky: Political scientists use prospect theory to model foreign-pol...

John Quiggin has a post at Crooked Timber that asks us to think about opportunity costs when considering how allocate resources from the pu...

Bueno de Mesquita and Smith continue their guest-posting at the Monkey Cage with this , which basically describes how time inconsistency...

A bunch of smart people (Downes, Fearon, Nye, others) discuss in print whether/why regime change doesn't "work". Perhaps of i...

Mearsheimer, in August 1990 : Europe will revert to "untamed anarchy" and "Hobbes' war of all against all" in the po...

Henry Farrell characterizes the debate between Drezner and Slaughter as over "whether realism or networked internationalism best descr...