- ISA News: Congratulations to Dan and Patrick! They will be involved with ISQ — ISA’s flagship publication for the next five years. Dan has been selected as the lead editor, Patrick as the web editor. Congrats!
- I’m not a fan of the new grading software technologies, but maybe I can be persuaded — grading while at ISA does suck.
- Already? Minerva (note: not Duck of) a threat to MOOCs.
- We have an answer to the universe? It’s all code? Cool.
- The decline in critical thinking in the US is becoming a national security concern. Can we securitize the liberal arts?
- Barbara Walter, Daniel Maliniak, and Ryan Powers find that articles written by women in IR are cited significantly less than articles written by men.
Plus:
- Why leaving Afghanistan isn’t so easy — retrograde logistics.
- Kony
20122013, it’s now a $5m bounty.
and…
- ISA public service announcement: Seriously? This is the third day of the conference — does this really need to be spelled out? For all of you standing in line for 30 minutes for your Starbucks coffee in the Hilton lobby — there are three Starbucks within two blocks of the hotel — closest is a half a block on Powell and O’Farrell. #getacluealready
Jon Western has spent the last fifteen years teaching IR in liberal arts colleges at Mount Holyoke College and the Five Colleges in western Massachusetts. He has an eclectic range of intellectual interests but often writes on international security, U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, and human rights. He occasionally shares his thoughts about professional life in liberal arts colleges. In his spare time he coaches middle school soccer, mentors the local high school robotics team, skis, and sails.
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