February 2012
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Poland Leads Wave of Communist-Era Reckoning in... →
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Institutional Review Blog →
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The Way Greeks Live Now | NYT →
By many indicators, Greece is devolving into something unprecedented in modern Western experience. A quarter of all Greek companies have gone out of business since 2009, and half of all small businesses in the country say they are unable to meet payroll. The suicide rate increased by 40 percent in the first half of 2011. A barter economy has sprung up, as people try to work around a broken...
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Pentagon to Ease Restrictions on Women in Some... →
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Global Agenda Series Looks at Espionage in Digital... →
“Spies, Lies and Sneaky Guys: Espionage and Intelligence in the Digital Age” will be the theme of the University of Delaware’s spring Global Agenda speaker series as it explores new challenges and opportunities in the field of international intelligence.
The Global Agenda presentations are free and open to the public and will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday evenings, beginning...
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Egypt to Prosecute Americans in NGO Probe | WaPo →
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Amanda Krauss: When Oral History Argues Back |... →
January 2012
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Fighting the Last War | The Washington Monthly →
As president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe triumphed over a fierce narco-insurgency. Then the U.S. helped to export his strategy to Mexico and throughout Latin America. Here’s why it’s not working.
December 2011
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Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99% |... →
Occupy Facebook
“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a...”
– Václav Havel, Rest in Peace
November 2011
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The Conceit of Nicholas Kristof: Rescuing Sex... →
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Saideman's Semi-Spew: Political Science: The Store... →
What a “Political Science” store (a la Anthropologie) would sell.
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Sarkozy and Obama's Netanyahu gaffe broadcast via... →
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WIDOKI WŁADZY. KRAKÓW | Views of Power. Krakow. →
October 2011
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“Kill the Indian, Save the Man” | Global Politics... →
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David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall... →
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Ron Krebs: Israel's Occupational Burdens |... →
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The Less-Obvious Elements of an Effective Book... →
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Study of Philosophy Makes Gains Despite Economy |... →
Confirmation for my belief in the utility of the philosophy major.
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WatchThe Animaniacs perform “U.N. Me”
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The origins of Occupy Wall Street explained |... →
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POSC 408: Rwanda
American RadioWorks documentary | The Few Who Stayed
PBS Frontline | Ghosts of Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch | We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
Philip Gourevitch’s series in the New Yorker
Samantha Power | A problem from hell: America and the age of genocide
William Ferroggiaro (National Security Archives) | The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994
September 2011
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WatchPalestine, General Debate, 66th Session
23 September 2011
Address by His Excellency Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian Authority at the General debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 21-24 and 26-30 September 2011)
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WatchIsrael, General Debate, 66th Session
23 September 2011
Address by His Excellency Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel at the General debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 21-24 and 26-30 September 2011)
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The Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said at the U.N.... →
It would be more accurate to replace “craziest” with “memorable,” but this compilation of GA greatest hits is a good read nonetheless.
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Gender and U.S. Politics
White House Remains a Man’s World, Some Say | Washington Post
Micah Zenko: City of Men | Foreign Policy
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Marine Recruiters Visit Gay Center in Oklahoma |... →
The Marines were the service most opposed to ending the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but they were the only one of five invited branches of the military to turn up with their recruiting table and chin-up bar at the center Tuesday morning. Although Marines pride themselves on being the most testosterone-fueled of the services, they also ferociously promote their view of themselves as the...
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Previous game theory posts →
Footloose, The Princess Bride, Dilbert, and more!
POSC 408 syllabus and assignments posted on Sakai
If you are enrolled in the class and cannot access Sakai, the articles for this coming week can be downloaded through the UD library.
T 9/6: Power Barnett, Michael N., and Raymond Duvall. “Power in International Politics.” International Organization 59, no. 1 (2005): 39-75. Highly Recommended: Karns, Margaret P., and Karen A. Mingst. International Organizations: The Politics and...
August 2011
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With CIA help, NYPD built secret effort to monitor... →
It’s hard to see how this isn’t an enormous violation of the spirit of the law, if not the letter.
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“In a society such as our own we all know the rules of exclusion. The most...”
– Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language, Translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith, New York: Pantheon Books, 1972, 216.
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Tom Malinowski, Sarah Holewinski, and Tammy... →
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Register for ISA-NE 2011 →
Come one, come all!
July 2011
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How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the... →
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The Unquiet Life of Franz Gayl | The Washington... →
A tech-savvy Marine who made too much noise, helped save the lives of countless troops in Iraq, and paid with his career.
Essential reading. My only quibble is with the following:
Without security clearances, Gayl is all but unemployable in Washington, so he can make such weekday excursions.
There is a grain of truth to this, but overall the claim is overstated. At the very minimum, Gayl...
June 2011
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Stephen Metcalf: Why the philosophical father of... →
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RAND, Cold Warriors and the Failure of 'Rational... →
According to Hegel, history is idea-driven. According to almost everyone else, this is foolish. What can “idea driven” even mean when measured against the passion and anguish of a place like Libya?
But Hegel had his reasons. Ideas for him are public, rather than in our heads, and serve to coordinate behavior. They are, in short, pragmatically meaningful words. To say that history is “idea...
May 2011
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2011 Methodologies Workshop | ISA-NE →
“Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies” A One-Day Graduate Student Workshop Sponsored by the International Studies Association-Northeast 5 November, 2011 • Providence, RI
Applications must be received by 1 July 2011. See the link for additional details.
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Congratulations to my youngest sister!
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7 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Started... →
April 2011
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3 Cup Kerfluffle
60 Minutes Video
Three Cups of Deceit | Jon Krakauer
Mortenson Responds to Allegations | Outside Online
How the U.S. military fell in love with Three Cups of Tea | WaPo
3 Cups of BS | Alanna Shaikh @ FP
Critical Review of “3 Cups” | Islamic Insights
Aga Khan Development Network
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Why the dearth of statues honoring women in... →
Of the 5,193 public outdoor sculptures of individuals in the United States, only 394, or less than 8 percent, are of women, compared with 4,799 of men, according to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Art Inventories Catalog, considered the most up-to-date catalogue of such works. And none of the 44 national memorials managed by the National Park Service (such as the Lincoln Memorial)...
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Hegemony in the politics department | The Daily... →
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A Different Take on the "Obama Doctrine": Is Obama... →
If only I were teaching World Politics this semester…
March 2011
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Charli Carpenter: Flight of the Valkyries? |... →
These discussions reveal far more about gender misconceptions among foreign policy journalists than about the preferences or influence of Obama’s female foreign policy staff. Avlon, Dowd, Dreyfuss, and others apparently subscribe to the classic gender myth that women are generally more diplomatic and opposed to war than men. […]
But the wider scholarship on gender and international...
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Of Lords and Flies | The Duck of Minerva →
The release of the first three of a reported 4,000 photos and videos from an American “kill team” in Afghanistan threatens to become the next “Abu Ghraib.” The horrific images of civilian corpses being photographed with grinning American troops raises important questions about the American military’s ability to maintain professional standards and discipline;...
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State Department Spokesman Slams Conditions of... →
I certainly wouldn’t have expected State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley to say that Bradley Manning’s detention conditions are “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid” but I’m glad he did. I don’t really know if they’re “counterproductive” or not, but they’re certainly scandalously inhumane.