Good mornin' Ducks! Here are your links: Oliver Steunkel discusses "The Death of IMF Reform?" at the Post-Western World Blog. Â The US Congress' rejection an IMF funding request by the Obama administration "... leaves the 188-nation group without additional resources...
Just a handful of things today.... Michael Krepon: "inferred vs. demonstrable deterrence." Election fraud, the 1862 election, and the outcome of the Civil War. Matt Fay likes the new Lieber and...
Good morning... Salman Adil Hussain reviews Deepa Kumar's Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire. Hussain writes, "Kumar shines a bright light on liberal Islamophobia, and shows how the Obama...
Is it 1953 or 2013?  2013 Aspen Security Forum is currently meeting in Aspen Meadows, CO.  Here's the list of speakers -- scroll through and see if anything strikes you.  HT: Tamara Cofman Wittes....
Let's make like a blacksmith and forge some linkage: A detailed examination of how China's military-industrial complex is making surprising advances. (The Diplomat) Chris Blattman reviews James C. Scott's new Two Cheers For Anarchism. With 30 pages left to go, I can say that it should have been on my "best books read in 2012" list. Why do academic job searches take so long? One would expect that given the surfeit of applicants it would take less time now to fill positions, but the reverse seems to be true. (Inside Higher Ed) Via many people: Your favorite econometrics textbook is wrong. I...
Morning Ducks! Here's your Monday morning round-up: South Asia: The US has informed the UN, in compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the US military detained more than 200 teens for about a year at a time on average in a military prison next to Bagram Airfield.  Most of the children were around age 16 but some were as young as 11.  The youth were kept in the general facility for "enemy combatants" population.  Under the Bush administration, 2,500 youth were detained by the US military in Iraq. In related troubling news, a US military official contended that "Some...
Musical Politics and Political Science: I'm currently downloading the free EP by Hey Anna, a well-reviewed band involving Mike Tierney's nieces.  Hume's Bastard discusses PSY's profanity-laden anti-Iraq War stylings. More from Juan Cole. Apparently this is a big deal, or something, given the mass emails appearing in my inbox. Prosaic Politics and Political Science: Daniel Drezner weighs in on the political-science-job-market controversy. People other than Kindred blog at IPE@UNC! Check out recent non-Kindred posts. I hope this means less pressure on Kindred -- and not less of him. The New...
Driving in Russia: And also: Justin Gengler on... well... just go read. In a move sure (not) to keep NATO defense planners up at night, China and Belarus hold a joint exercise. Long-term US unemployment as a loss of weak ties? National Geographic reports on the wave of politically-motivated self-immolations in Tibet (via 3QD). Arms Control Wonk holiday contest: nuclear lyrics. War-on-terrorism termination? Jonathan Hafetz ruminates. John Little interviews (former Mossad officer) Michael Ross. It seems that every line of work has interminable conference calls (via via). Oh, Canada! Just...
Last Monday President Obama reiterated that Syrian use of chemical weapons would cross a US red line. Today brings multiple reports of the Syrian military preparing for their use. The government claims to have retaken two of Damascus' suburbs, but the consensus certainly seems to be that the tide is turning against the Assad regime. Marc Lynch worries about how the international community is handling Syrian refugees. Jay Ulfelder on Star Wars, "used futures," and institutional design, the extension of that analogy to Egypt's constitution, and more on the "forecasting wars." That's a lot...
Ghana votes.  Egyptian protesters move from Tahrir to the presidential palace. Rio's Olympics clean-up uncovers policemen collaborating with drug cartels. Chronicle of Higher Education visualization of gender and publication records across disciplines and over time. Political science not doing so well. For those interested in civilian casualties and war, Chinamanda Adichie has written a moving and very informative review of Chinua Achebe's controversial new book on Biafra. Jim Scott has a farm.  Chris Blattman reads Scott's new book and says that the biggest problem with international...
Dan's still ill so you're stuck with me for Day Two. Here's some links: Via The Monkey Cage (I'm not stealing, I'm curating) comes this link to an Inside Higher Ed article about the five-year humanities Ph.D.. Identity, legacy, institutions, and Indiana basketball One of the things that grabs me about IR scholarship is that (to my knowledge) churches are not among the IOs or NGOs that we study on their own terms. But consider the Anglican communion. (Please correct me, don't flame me, in the comments--and remember that Dan isn't writing this.) Or, of course: habemus twitter. Despite what...
Dan's sick, so he's asked me to put together three to five links ... of doom! Unfortunately, I've been writing a lot recently and so I've missed out on great posts. So here's what I found in a burst of searching; please suggest additional links in the comments. At Foreign Policy, Jack Carlson argues China is building replica European cities to prove its cultural superiority. Also at Foreign Policy, this Boeing advertising Web site was linked. I'm posting it because, especially for folks who live in DC, the advertising aspect of the imperium/military-industrial-congressional...