Britain is experiencing wave of antisemitic terrorism: Whether organic or state-sponsored, it needs to be addressed
I’ve been meaning to write this for awhile, and unfortunately it hasn’t gone out of date. On April...
This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide
As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian....
What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate
I have a new open-access article out in Global Studies Quarterly, “What’s at Stake in the...
The Gulf is a vital lynchpin of global stability, and it goes far beyond energy
The US and Israel’s war on Iran and regional instability threatens to disrupt critical global...
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Give Peacekeeping a Chance in Afghanistan
The best way to secure a more peaceful future for Afghanistan is through a United Nation peacekeeping operation.
The Breakdown of Jewish Consensus – Ethnic Violence in Israel Explained
For Jewish Israeli politicians the temptation to draw back into what is left of the old ethnic consensus will be great. But including the Palestinian citizens in politics and society is the only way to defend Israeli democracy.
A Piece of the Puzzle: The Relative Importance and Unimportance of Academic Contributions to the Policy Process
Academic research can go a long way to shape the debate or can have no effect at all. The problem is that scholars don’t know – and may never know – how their work has been received by policymakers and whether it steered a policy decision in a good or bad direction.
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The Best and Worst of U.S. Foreign Policy(?)
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) recently published results of a survey of historians on the...
Farewell
The Hayseed Scholar podcast has come to a close. In this farewell episode, Brent's brother...
Benjamin de Carvalho
Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Ben was born in Switzerland to a...
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The Scripts We Perform: Militarized Masculinity and the Gendered Order
Over the past month, U.S. President Donald Trump has shifted from misogynistic...
Religious nationalism makes the profane sacred: True faith uses the sacred to heal the world
For Western Christians, Holy Week—the most important time of the church calendar—just finished....
Watching Scientific Progress in Action
Reacting to a recent event on the study of religion, conflict and peace
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Was I wrong on the Gulf states and Iran? An exercise in academic humility
When I was in graduate school, my training included the methods and theories of international...
An Accidental Academic: 20 Years Later
This is my 20th year at the University of Texas. Although my dad was a university professor,...
6+1 Questions about Exit from International Organizations
What is the name of the book and what are its coordinates? The book is Exit from International...
6+1 Questions About “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy”
What is the name of the journal article (or book) and what are its coordinates? Miray Philips....