In the wide world:
- Taylor Fravel lets us know about China’s surveillance fleet’s op tempo (learn more about the China Marine Surveillance) and the role of cell phone service in territorial disputes
- Thane Gustafson talks about Russia’s oil infrastructure
- Handy capsule history of the international oil market
 Closer to home:
- From A Quantitative Peace, an examination of bipartisan appointments to the cabinet and sub cabinet (Would the idea of a “bipartisan” appointment to a cabinet ministry ever occur to someone in a Westminster government, aside from “national unity” movements?)
- Congress more popular than Communism, less popular than cockroaches
In the discipline:
- Richard Ben Cramer: obituary and links
- An argument against quant hegemony in economics, worth it for the term “super-duper regression”
- Presumably Mark Mazower is learning that dismissing IR theory entirely does not endear you to IR reviewers: Ikenberry at Foreign Affairs, Voeten at The Monkey Cage, Amazon link to Governing the World
- BLTN: ZIP code + date of birth + gender = impossible anonymization
And also:
- Helvetica and the New York subway system: the definitive history
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Australia PM Gillard visits fire-hit Tasmania
Many buildings in Dunalley on Tasmania’s south coast have been destroyed
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is visiting wildfire-hit regions in Tasmania, amid warnings of more searing weather across the country.
No deaths have been reported in the fires, which broke out on Thursday on the island’s south coast. But more than 100 buildings have been…….