Juliet Kaarbo is Professor of International Relations with a Chair in Foreign Policy at the University of Edinburgh. She founded and is co-director of the Scottish Council of Global Affairs. Julie previously held posts at the University of Kansas and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and was founding co-director of Edinburgh’s Centre for Security Research. Her research focuses on leader personality and decision making,...
Oppenheimer is the first blockbuster about nuclear weapons in a generation. Framing his film’s namesake with kinetic edits, fractured timelines, quantum imagery, and a pulsing score, director Christopher Nolan has crafted a stylistic triumph. But does Oppenheimer accurately depict its subject? And what is an “accurate” representation of the atomic bomb? Reactions from specialists have filtered in over the month...
Christopher David LaRoche is an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Central European University in Vienna, Austria and a visiting faculty member in Bard College's Globalization and International Affairs program in New York City. He is also a non-resident fellow at the European Centre for North Korean Studies at the University of Vienna. Chris studies nuclear security, international institutions, and political...
The benefits of bridging the gap between academics and policymakers are well-known, but much of the research and practice is based on experiences in the United States. How well does it translate to other countries? A recent collaboration between Bridging the Gap (BtG) and Monash University in Australia highlighted significant differences between the countries’ policy-academic ecosystem – and underscored the need for further BtG-type training...
Maria Rost Rublee is Professor of International Relations at the University of Melbourne, with expertise in international relations, including nuclear politics, maritime security, and gender and diversity in national security. She is President of Women in International Security-Australia, an Executive Committee member of Women in Nuclear-Australia, and was recently named to the U.S. National Security & Foreign Affairs Leadership List (Top...
Typical energy transitions unfold over 50 to 100 years. The urgency of the climate challenge means that humanity doesn’t have that kind of time. While market developments in renewables and electric vehicles are favorable, even those developments will not transform the energy landscape without concerted government policy. The Biden Administration is trying to re-shape the American economy to support this transformation through incentives that...
Alongside research and teaching, most tenure-track jobs come with some expectation of service.
Sibel Oktay is associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois—Springfield and a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Her research investigates the domestic politics of foreign and security policy in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East with a focus on institutions, public opinion, and leaders. Her publications appear in the Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of...
Current trends in the academic job market paint a bleak picture. Data from U.S. universities reveal a drop in job postings in the Politics field over the past three years and a decline in tenure-track positions over the last decade. For 2021-22, APSA reported that 53.12% of job listings were non-tenure track. Meanwhile, in the UK, 54% of academic job advertisements across disciplines were for fixed-term positions. With an excess of PhD...
Consuelo Thiers is a Fellow in International Security at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals – IBEI. She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and a Master's in International Studies from Universidad de Chile. She is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of psychology, international relations, and security studies. Her research interests include enduring rivalries, political psychology, foreign policy...
Carol Cohn is the G.O.A.T. Back in 1987, she wrote what is still the best gendered take on the pathologies of deterrence in a piece called, “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals.” It absolutely demolishes the cult of the missile bro. And every deterrence scholar I know who’s not a caveman kneels before this article with overt praise. Many swear they even teach it. Yet, modern deterrence theory is basically all...