In a recent article in Slate, Matthew Yglesias, cites research done by UNC political scientists-- Stephen Gent, Reed Wood, Jason Kathman. T...

Adam Elkus was kind enough to interview me for the Abu Muquwama blog at CNAS. He asks about my use of network methods in my research, my tho...

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

Sorry for the quiet around here. We've been busy with real projects. But to keep the lights on I thought I'd re-post something I wro...

Tyler Cowen is thinking out loud : This parable assumes that [monetary] injection effects are important, namely where the new money goes f...

Dan Drezner is kicking Britain -- and the American foreign policy commentariat -- while they're down. The essay is mostly good, althou...

A friend of mine -- a student at the Kenan-Flagler Business School -- is profiled in the Financial Times .

Here's David Beckworth explaining a "foolproof" mix of monetary and fiscal policy (bold added): In other words, if the publ...

LFC points to an article by Ward Wilson suggesting that the Japanese did not surrender in WWII because of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima a...

World War II left industrialized societies with two main features: a lot of industrial capacity, and a lot of dead men. These combined to dr...