December 2009
16 posts
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Iran Protesters: The Harvard Professor Behind... →
Dec 29th
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Time for Wiser Voices to Pile On: Alan Kuperman's... →
Dec 27th
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Was Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Speech Really... →
Dec 18th
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“What Lagerfeld misses, though, is that yellowfacing (as with blackfacing) is not...”
– threadbared
Dec 16th
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“Kaplan is worse than a bad writer or thinker. He is a dangerous writer made ever...”
– Tom Bissell: Euphorias of Perrier: The Case Against Robert D. Kaplan | Virginia Quarterly Review
Dec 14th
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“Jamelle Bouie has a post up that he frames as a qualified defense of Emperor...”
– Palpatine and Perpetual Peace | Matthew Yglesias
Dec 13th
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Game Theory: What We Didn't Learn from a Simulated... →
Dec 13th
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World Politics & Movies
I didn’t have the time to show a movie to my students this semester as I had hoped to—we made do with Eddie Izzard clips—but my two favorites to show in intro IR classes are The Mouse That Roared and Dr. Strangelove. Payne | Global Politics Through Film Walt | Foreign Policy Film Festival Inderfurth | Teaching Foreign Policy With Film Drezner | Foreign Policy Film Festival...
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Simulations in IR Pedagogy | The Duck of Minerva →
I should add that Alex deserves most of the credit for suggesting the readings that I assigned in support of my Iran/Nuclear Weapons simulation (though I ended up going in a different direction in terms of structure).
Dec 12th
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Bored with Football Stats? Introducing Fantasy... →
Via Alex Montgomery. What’s particularly amusing is that I’ve been neglecting my two fantasy football teams to an unheard of amount this season, primarily because I’ve been paying attention to geopolitics.
Dec 10th
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Bill Petti: A Nitpicky Critique of The Fat Tail's... →
Dec 9th
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U.S. Moves To Settle American Indian Suit For... →
Finally. Further coverage at Indian Country Today.
Dec 8th
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Charli Carptenter: Obama's Afghan Plan | The Duck... →
Dec 2nd
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Outrage on Swiss minaret vote, but how do Muslim... →
All this said, two wrongs do not make a right.
Dec 1st
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Iran loses clout in Arab world | Christian Science... →
Dec 1st