Last winter, the ISA executive committee proposed new rules for editors of ISA journals that would restrict their blogging. This led to a pretty hostile reaction. At the ISA meeting, the proposal was sent to committee. The committee has circulated its report and...
Last month, Dani Rodrik wrote a piece for Project Syndicate that went all kinds of viral. Â In it, he explains why he no longer views himself as a political economist. Â The upshot: because if he...
PM's latest post, "Nobody cares about foreign policy" (note to self: we need a style manual to resolve whether, for example, post titles should be capitalized), was prompted by a proseminar we both...
Here is part one, where I noted Walt, the Duck, and Walter Russell Mead as the IR blogs I read almost always despite the avalanche of international affairs blogs now. Here are a few more: Martin...
I don't know what you think, but in my mind, outing a psuedononymous blogger because you don't like what he writes about you (or what someone else writes about you that he then agrees with) is pretty disturbing.Ed Whelan of the National Review would argue that "anonymous blogging" (he doesn't seem to grasp the difference between 'anonymous' and 'psuedononymous') is irresponsible because it enables the author to avoid any personal consequences of the arguments s/he makes (he ignores reputational effects accruing to the blogger's online persona):"One bane of the Internet is the anonymous...
Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber alerted me to the fact that 3 Quarks Daily has instituted a quarterly award for the best blog post in the areas of science, politics, arts and literature, and philosophy. Starting next month, the prizes will be awarded every year on the two solstices and the two equinoxes. So, we will announce the winner of the science prize on June 21, the arts and literature prize on September 22, the politics prize on December 21, and the philosophy prize on March 20, 2010.About a month before the prize is to be announced we will solicit nominations of blog entries from our...
Yesterday, Michael Calderone ignited a media brouhaha with his Politico piece, "JournoList: Inside the echo chamber."For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList. Lou Dobbs and Keith Olbermann talked about the email listserv on their TV programs yesterday. On the right, bloggers had a field day talking about conspiracy theories and speculating about high profile members of JournoList. Red State's Erick Erickson:...
Its been somewhat quiet around here for the past few days, as many of us are attending the annual meeting of the International Studies Association in New York. Internet access at the convention hotel is spotty--there is wireless available in the rooms and expansive main lobby but it costs something like $10-$15 / day, which is far more than any of us on limited travel budgets can afford, hence no live updates.I think, though, that blogging and its complex relationship to the academy in our field may be turning a corner with this ISA. I was in a panel on "Waltz's World" which was one of those...
If recent posts are any indication, Laura Rozen has finally stopped referring to virtually every rumored or confirmed Obama foreign-policy appointee as a "hand," as in "a a think tank hand" and "Clinton-era NSC Africa hand"and "former CIA Latin America analyst and NSC hand" and "top foreign-policy hands" and "several Washington South Asia hands" and "veteran negotiator of the Dayton accords and sharp-elbowed foreign policy hand" and "a long time Africa hand and foreign service officer"and "Hill foreign policy hand", etc.She's doing wonderful work, especially for people like me who have some...
Today is the official launch of the Progressive Realist blog, which, among other things, aggregates excellent posts from a blog network that includes this very website. Despite the obvious bad judgment that shows, you should mosey on over.
Many Duck readers probably already noticed the announcement, but perhaps not everyone given the holiday period: two prominent international relations scholar-bloggers are teaming with various scholars, journalists, and former policymakers at Foreign Policy magazine to create a new venture in journalism, blogging and policy analysis. Effective Monday, neither Marc Lynch, aka Abu Aardvark, nor Dan Drezner will be blogging at their former websites. They will be part of the new Foreign Policy team.Congratulations -- and best wishes -- to both of them!Here's how journalist Laura Rozen explains...
In my failed attempt to implement a different haloscan configuration, I inadvertently added "ratings" to the blog. My general inclination is to remove them, as I don't understand what purpose they serve and the stars look really ugly. But I see people are already using them. So, should they stay or should they go?