Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in...
Back in March, I wrote a post at Lawyers, Guns and Money called “Remember...
The Republic as we knew it is over. The fight now is whether the new one will be a fascistic, competitive authoritarian regime or a pluralist democracy that, one hopes, is better than what came before.
What’s the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War...
Articles by authors with foreign-sounding names are cited far less than those written by people with “typically-American” names.
In 2014, John Mearsheimer authored a Foreign Affairs article in which he blamed that year’s Ukrai…
The problem with saying that Russia had legitimate security fears and that NATO expansion is partly to blame for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is that it omits some parts of the picture while exaggerating others. It creates a lopsided view. It magnifies every remote and hypothetical security threat to Russia, while ignoring the very real security threats to Russia’s neighbors, and ignoring Western efforts to accommodate Russia’s security concerns. The framing reflects habitual blindspots that have distorted many left-wing perspectives on Vladimir Putin and Russian foreign policy.
Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Ben was born in Switzerland to a...
I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring...
Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the...
The UN General Assembly meeting has seen a growing number of states recognizing a state of...
How can we understand Tump 2.0 foreign policy? It’s the product of the fusion of two different forces: Christian Nationalism and Personalist Rent-Extraction.
I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the...