Comprehending Gingrich
Born Newton Leroy McPherson, the man now simply known as “Newt Gingrich” has been surging in the latest opinion polls asking Republican voters to identify their preferred presidential candidate. He...
View ArticlePrimary Politics and Foreign Policy: Super Tuesday Edition
This is cross-posted from the University of Texas website. As the March 6 Super Tuesday Republican primary looms, foreign policy issues understandably are likely to play a marginal role in the...
View ArticleHow the Sausage is Made
Two years ago, Der Spiegel published an audio recording of secret negotiations involving many of the world’s most important leaders meeting together on Friday, December 18, 2009, during the Copenhagen...
View ArticleSlow-Motion Srebrenica
The NY Times’ recent article on Obama’s “kill list” of American citizens and others suspected–not convicted–of terrorism includes much disturbing information on what our government is doing in our...
View ArticleSlow boring…
Shorter LGM response(s) to Connor Freidersdorf: “Weber.” Of course, that doesn’t resolve the debate. It merely puts it on the correct footing.
View ArticleThe Difference Parties Don’t Make?
To the best of my knowledge, no prominent peer-reviewed article in political science has reported a difference in the frequency with which the United States enters into conflict under Democratic...
View ArticleFriday Nerd Blogging: Presidential Edition
Twitter went nuts when President Obama said he could not get the Republicans to do what is right because of his finite powers, that he could not do some sort of Jedi mind-meld! He mixed his space...
View ArticleHard to Say I’m Sorry
The reports about the bilateral agreement between the US and Afghanistan that would allow American troops (and other western countries essentially) have suggested that President Hamid Karzai would...
View ArticleObama Addresses Islamic World in Cairo, Egypt
Wordle version of President Barack Obama’s Cairo speech, June 4, 2009. Share
View Article“Oslo Beats Copenhagen”: President Obama Awarded Peace Prize
President Obama couldn’t convince the Inernational Olympic Committee to let Chicago hold the next summer Olympics, but Nobel Committee decided he’s a skilled enough diplomat to receive a Nobel Peace...
View ArticlePeace Prize
According to the Nobel website, the Peace Prize is supposed to be awarded annually to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or...
View ArticleObama’s Afghan Plan
Foreign Policy covers “the world’s reaction” to Obama’s West Point speech last night on his troop increase in Afghanistan, but their sole representation of the Afghani reaction is a menacing quote from...
View ArticleObama’s Oslo Speech and Climate Change
Dan Drezner encourages us to analyze what he said for references to policy prescriptions from IR theories. Steve Walt tells us let’s focus not on what he said but on what he does. I’m with those who...
View ArticleFurther Thoughts on Obama’s Oslo Speech
My previous remarks about the relative lack of attention to climate change in Obama’s speech were written after having read the text of Obama’s speech. I stand by those comments – he spent 160 words...
View ArticleAfter the Surge
Washington and its “partner” in Kabul are simultaneously pursuing different strategies to try to bring the war in Afghanistan to a conclusion. While the US has opted to pursue a “whack-a-mole” military...
View ArticleTop Secret America: The Garrison State has arrived
A couple of thoughts on Dana Priest and William Arkin’s series that began in the Washington Post yesterday. First, this is the type of story that is all but non-existent in our non-stop 24-hour news...
View Article“Manning Up” and Making (the Libyan) War
Women are supposed to be those innocent of war, protected by chivalric warriors. The Trojan War was made over Helen. G. W. Bush justified the invasion of Iraq with the platitude that “violence against...
View ArticleMorality, R2P, the nature of conflict and the emerging “Obama Doctrine”
There’s been some really interesting posts here on R2P in the last few days. At the risk of kicking a dead horse – although I hardly think this horse is dead – I’d like to raise a few points. (I’ve...
View ArticleDoes the Arab Spring show how strategic narratives work?
Nobody has come close to explaining how strategic narratives work in international relations, despite the term being banded about. Monroe Price wrote a great article in the Huffington Post yesterday...
View ArticleA puzzle in promotion: Petraeus at the CIA
This is a guest blog by Jarrod Hayes, who is is an assistant professor of International Relations at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research broadly focuses on the social construction of...
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