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...
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....
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Do Realists and Leftists Want the Same Thing?
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.
Which will matter more, MESA’s BDS vote or the Negev Summit?
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.
6+1 Questions about Subversive Pedagogies
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.
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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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Watching Scientific Progress in Action
Reacting to a recent event on the study of religion, conflict and peace
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...
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...
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An Accidental Academic: 20 Years Later
This is my 20th year at the University of Texas. Although my dad was a university professor,...
How To Review Efficiently and Fairly
Instead of Dry January, I’m going review free for January after having nearly 80 review...
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....
6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy
What’s the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War...