The Duck of Minerva

Welcome to the New Duck

Academia • Featured

by Josh Busby

8 February 2015, 1443 EST

2618868434_814b020326In advance of this year’s ISA convention and the OAIS awards, we’re happy to launch a new and improved Duck of Minerva with a revamped look and feel. You will notice automatically a direct link to duckofminerva.com which should make access more straightforward. The new site is also responsive so will resize automatically on your phone or tablet. We’ve also added a new set of topics to classify posts by subject so you can find them easily. The Twitter feed and blogroll have been updated. 

We wanted to thank permanent contributors Robert Kelly and Vikash Yadav who have decided to step down. In addition, we wanted to thank a number of guest contributors, Edward Carpenter, Adrienne Le Bas, Burcu Bayram, PM, and Cynthia Weber who are cycling off. We will be bringing some new guest contributors on so be on the lookout for more news on that front. Special thanks to Lori Lacy from mod.girl.designs for carrying out the web redesign.

Thanks again for your readership and contributions to the blog, which we hope continues to provide an eclectic source of analysis on all things international and political and beyond in 2015.

Joshua Busby is a Professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Advisor for Climate at the U.S. Department of Defense. His most recent book is States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge, 2023). He is also the author of Moral Movements and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2010) and the co-author, with Ethan Kapstein, of AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations (Cambridge, 2013). His main research interests include transnational advocacy and social movements, international security and climate change, global public health and HIV/ AIDS, energy and environmental policy, and U.S. foreign policy.

5 Comments

  1. W. K. Winecoff
    W. K. Winecoff on 11 February 2015 at 04.33 EST

    I welcome the new Duck! Looks great and I’m excited about the future. A possible technical issue is that old comments aren’t showing up for me. (OSX 10.10.2, Macbook, Chrome, if it helps.) Not sure if this is just part of the migration of if it’s an intentional break from the past, but I went looking for a source in an old comment and couldn’t access. Anyway, thought I’d bring it to your attention.

    • Josh
      Josh on 11 February 2015 at 08.28 EST

      Will look into it thanks!

    • josh busby
      josh busby on 11 February 2015 at 09.01 EST

      Can you flag the post for me? I see comments on old posts so wonder if it’s a particular post.

      • Jeppe
        Jeppe on 13 February 2015 at 01.19 EST

        FWIW I’m having the same issue (also on OSX and Chrome). I can see the number of comments at the top of the post, but not any of the actual comments.

        Beyond that, the new layout looks excellent!