I started this post sort of confessionally. It’s been a while since I wrote on the blog. I...
The Hayseed Scholar podcast has come to a close. In this farewell episode, Brent's brother...
Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On...
The U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean is confusing the MAGA faithful. With rumors swirling of...
Most versions of the left gain little and sacrifice much in accepting a realist epistemology. Theories of international relations are just tools for making sense of patterns and puzzles in the world; they don’t need groupies.
This has been either a bad week for Israel, or a great week for Israel, depending on whom you ask or what your Twitter feed looks like. In the end, this may matter more for the relevance and impact of Middle East studies than anything else.
The volume calls on international-relations instructors to make use of “subversive pedagogies” — ones that embrace a more holistic understanding of teaching. It invites academics to interrogate what we teach, how we teach, where we teach, and whom we teach.
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...
On November 1, 2025, President Donald Trump threatened to end all U.S. assistance to Nigeria and —...
I’ve been thinking a lot about the meaning of “responsibility,” specifically in the context of...
I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S....