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Book Nook: Region-Building in West Africa
Our next Bridging the Gap Book Nook features Emmanuel Balogun, an assistant professor of political science at Skidmore College and Bridging the Gap's inaugural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellow. He discusses his new book Region-Building in West Africa: Convergence and Agency in ECOWAS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLVZp56pL4Q
Emmanuel Balogun
Emmanuel Balogun, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Skidmore College. He is a scholar-practitioner who researches multilateralism in Africa. His new book, Region-Building in West Africa: Convergence and Agency in ECOWAS, shows how bureaucrats in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) responds to security, health, and financial crises. Emmanuel is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and...
6+1 Questions about States and Nature
Climate change will exacerbate many of the political, social, and economic forces that generate conflict and insecurity – with enormous consequences for humanity.
Episode 24: International Relations in China
What is the topography of international-relations theory in the People’s Republic of China? What …
Introducing Bridging the Gap’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellow: Fabiana Perera
Bridging the Gap team is thrilled to announce the addition of a new member of our leadership team: Fabiana Perera, our new BtG Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellow. We recently sat down with her to ask about her work, hobbies, and plans for the fellowship. Welcome to the team, Fabiana! Tell us a bit about yourself. What drives your scholarship? I'm a 14th Amendment American who grew...
Fabiana Sofia Perera
Fabiana Sofia Perera is an Assistant Professor at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies. Prior to joining the Perry Center, Fabiana was a Rosenthal Fellow at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Under Secretary for Policy, Western Hemisphere Affairs. Fabiana has experience working in the public and private sectors. She worked as a research associate at Mitsubishi International Corporation focusing on Latin America and...
The Real Conservative Foreign Policy Debate
There’s a battle going down inside the Republican party for what conservative foreign policy ought to be. The problem is that stakeholders in the debate are misrepresenting its terms, and journalistic onlookers are misapprehending what’s really going on. A senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the neoconservative think tank, officially put it on wax that, yes, there’s a debate over conservative foreign policy,...
Carla Martinez Machain
Professor Carla Martinez Machain joins the Hayseed Scholar Podcast. Professor Machain talks about growing up in Mexico, specifically outside of and then also in Mexico City, the schools she went to, her interests, doing Model UN and visiting The Hague during an overseas trip when Milosevic was on trial, and then deciding to go to Rice University in Houston for undergrad. She talks about that transition, the decision to go to grad school at Rice...
Duck of Minerva Roundup*
What's been quacking at the blog? The Duck of Minerva opened for business in 2005, so it’s had a lot of time to accumulate duck-puns and stupid duck references. Over the years, contributors embraced the Duckness of the Duck to different degrees. I can’t say for sure, but my impression is that Steve Saideman was one of the worst (or best, I suppose) offenders. For my part, I’ve always been ambivalent about the matter. So I spent...
Stop the party: Turkey as an obstacle to Finnish and Swedish accession to NATO
Jarrod talks with Lisel Hintz of Johns Hopkins University and Sibel Oktay of the University of Illinois, Springfield and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs about the complex history of Turkey in NATO as well as the domestic and intralliance sources of Turkey's current resistance to Finnish and Swedish accession to NATO. https://duckofminerva.podbean.com/e/stop-the-partyturkey-as-an-obstacle-to-finnish-and-swedish-accession-to-nato/
Will there be a bin Laden of right-wing extremism?
By now it’s clear that the attack on a Buffalo, NY supermarket was a case of right-wing terrorism. An individual targeted the store because many of its customers were black, and hoped to use the attack to make a broader political statement. Unfortunately, such attacks are growing in intensity, and these right-wing terrorists seem to be learning from each other. The next stage for this movement will depend on which historical model it follows:...