Monthly Archives: March 2015
FWPs of Conflict Researchers
I rather like this quote of Tilly’s from his From Mobilization to Revolution (p. 5): The analysis of collective action is a risky adventure. For one thing, there are too many experts around. It is a bit like food, or sex, … Continue reading
Massasoit’s Decision: First Contact and Teaching IR
Many of us who teach international relations turn to fictional accounts of “first contact” to illustrate processes such as the security dilemma, alliances, balancing power, and so on. Indeed, Dan Drezner has rather famously shown us the many ways we … Continue reading
An Apology to Paget, Pity for Deneice & Sydney, and an Explanation for Nadia
Yesterday I confessed to reading a thread at PoliSciRumors. ‘Tis about my accepting a post at Arizona State. Paget[1] observed that I once gave a lousy talk, but was otherwise very kind: D’oh! Sorry about that. I have definitely given … Continue reading
FSU Reloads in IR
This morning I noticed an unexpected spike on my blog. Curiously, a post I had written on 1 March was getting traffic 9 days later. I got to wondering whether someone had mentioned it on PoliSciRumors, a site a ignore. … Continue reading
Pegida Protests Podcast Illustrates Concepts & Processes
In a recent podcast, Germany, Islam & The New Right, BBC Radio 4 explores the remarkable rise of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (Pegida) in Dresden, Germany (see here and here). A local political scientist interviewed in the … Continue reading
Post Modern Scientists who Study Politics
The other day I invited the PhD students in my seminar to have a gander at a couple of prints in my office. I had no idea #TheDress would become a thing later in the week, much less that Dan … Continue reading
Will Opines 