Reasonable Testing Accommodations for English Language Learners in IR Classrooms
As the number of ELLs increase in university classrooms, it will be important for instructors to develop supporting approaches that are both fair and effective.
The Next Front in a Very Long War
War memorials are ways in which nations define the conflict for posterity and thus are intensely political in presence and purpose.
Buying our Way Out of Afghanistan?
A privatization of the Afghanistan war risks signaling that the U.S. is no longer obliged to remain nationally engaged, and can choose whether or not to meet obligations.
Substituting U.S. Troops for Private Military Contractors in Afghanistan
If U.S troops are substituted for private contractors, then there must be a change to U.S. laws controlling the use of private security contractors in a combat role.
Implications of Brexit for the European Convention on Human Rights
Brexit has no formal or immediate implications for the UK’s obligations under the ECHR, nevertheless, there may be some subtly negative consequences.
International Relations of ‘A Tribe Called Red’
Turtle Island–based electric-pow-wow superstars, A Tribe Called Red, allows students and scholars of IR to experience what a decolonial IR might look and sound like.
The (Near) Impossibility of a Coherent National Strategy, and Why That Is Okay
Instead of worrying about developing a Grand Strategy, leaders and pundits should worry about tackling problems on a day-to-day basis.
Is Trump the New Multicultural Internationalist?
It is time for the Democrats to look at themselves in the mirror. Vanity, thy name is corruption.
Reassessing the European Convention on Human Rights in the Context of Brexit
The decisions of the ECHR have enhanced Britain’s democratic institutions and improved the quality of everyday life for those within the jurisdiction.
The US, China and the Real Thucydides Trap
War is avoidable. The real ‘Thucydides Trap’ is not that of competition and fear. The answer lies in Thucydides’ multi-causal thinking.
