In the spirit of last night’s post, two blogs worth reading: Empirical Legal Studies and The Cultural Cognition Project at Yale. Here’s Carolyn Shapiro at the former talking about two posts by Dan Kahan at the latter.
- Every once in a while I attempt to goad PTJ by sending him links to pieces that are sure to raise his hackles. I tried that with Gary King’s “all your case studies are belong to us” paper (PDF). Now I’m trying it with Phil Schrodt’s response to Walt and Mearsheimer at his new blog, A Second Mouse.
- Joshua Goodman on the rise of the Israeli right.
- Also at The Smoked-Filled Room, Chris Clary discusses Indo-Pakistani border clashes through the prism of the spiral model.
- Yes, Americans, Iraq still exists. And political violence there continues.
- And in case you’ve forgotten about Syria.
- Mohammed Ayoob: “the new cold war in the Middle East.”
- I disagree with Mark’s claim that promoting cities is “authoritarian” — if it is, then the myriad ways that we’ve promoted suburban growth for decades are equally authoritarian — but his comments about grand strategy are extremely interesting.
- Vietnam cracks down on bloggers.
- A ten-year retrospective on SARS in China.
And also:
- What to do with our glut of PhDs? Storm the bloated towers of university administration!
- At some point I should (in the sense of “I would like to” not in the sense of “it would be a good idea to subject our readers to it”) a post about cultural conservatism, lefty college humanities, STEM promotion as a zero-sum tradeoff with the humanities, and how this stew undermines the Burkean project. But as that’s not in the offing, how about this?
- Petition to remove Carmen Ortiz over Aaron Swartz crosses 25K signatures.
- A review of The Googlization of Everything at The Global Sociology Blog.
- Predictable reaction to all-female X-Men comic.
- The perils of focusing too much on gene sequencing in cancer research.
Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.
He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.
He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.
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“At some point I should (in the sense of “I would like to” not in the sense of “it would be a good idea to subject our readers to it”) a post about cultural conservatism, lefty college humanities, STEM promotion as a zero-sum tradeoff with the humanities, and how this stew undermines the Burkean project. But as that’s not in the offing, how about this?”
I, for one, demand you do this.
Re the comment you left on Schrodt’s post: where does Chernoff talk about Social Science Realism? In his Theory and Metatheory of IR or somewhere else?
[It seemed to me (as I said in a comment there) that Schrodt was, at the beginning of his post, blurring the distinction between IR Realism(s) and scientific (or social scientific) realism(s), but maybe I was wrong about that.]
Perhaps your “attempt to goad PTJ” by sending him that link will work and we will get a long post from him here about all of this. OTOH, perhaps not.
Lots of places, including the book you refer to: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=fred+chernoff&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C9&as_sdtp=