This is the grave of Samuel Beer. Born in Bucyrus, Ohio in 1911, Beer went to a military academy where he was classmates and football teammates with Barry Goldwater, and then was on to Michigan for college. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, then...
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This is the grave of Charles Merriam. Born in 1874 in Hopkinton, Iowa, Merriam grew up in the relative elite of small-town Iowa, with his father a successful dry goods.
I decided to talk to Paul Musgrave about his recent piece in Foreign Policy, "Political Science Has Its Own Lab Leaks." Here's the gist of the metaphor, as he articulates.
In the United States, Political Science is conventionally divided into four major subfields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Theory. These divisions lack strong intellectual justification. They are largely a matter of convention, historical accident, and training. Indeed, members of the latter three subfields sometimes like...
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, I talked with Clayton Thyne of the University of Kentucky about the political science of the Egyptian coup: Unfortunately, we lost the much-more-political-sciencey.
At the Diplomat I post my thoughts on the legacy of Kenneth Waltz: On Sunday evening, Dr. Kenneth Waltz passed away at the age of 88. Waltz is best known for.
It is with great sadness that I note that Kenneth Waltz, author of Man, the State, and War and Theory of International Politics, has passed away. Waltz' importance to the discipline of international relations is immeasurable; MSW and TIP helped establish the frameworks under which...
For this week's Diplomat column I delve into (gasp!) actual political science: But what if even the leaders of states don’t know how they’ll react to certain events? A recent International.
Blogging at you today from the 2013 International Studies Association Conference in San Francisco, California. If you're currently enjoying ISA, please consider stopping by the International Studies Blogging Reception, which.
My article at Political Science and Politics is now available, gated here (Complicating the Political Scientist as Blogger. PS: Political Science and Politics, 46:2 (April 2013), pp. 383-386), ungated here. Key graph: If you are reading this article in PS, the article has gone through a...
The following is a guest post by Jonathan Powell. Dr. Powell is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. His research focuses on conflict processes,.
On behalf of Lawyers, Guns and Money, let me wish a very happy fifth birthday to the Monkey Cage. John Sides and company have done a wonderful job of bringing.