How to Stay Grounded in the Age of Information Overload
If you’re a beautiful and benevolent outsider, speak up! In the age of information overload, your services are desperately needed.
The Faith and Good Works Party – In My (Utopian) Dreams
Without a multi-party system, the range of viewpoints that citizens inhabit every day is simply unrepresented in U.S. politics at the local, state, and national levels.
Brexit: The View from Norway
Brexit is a symptom of the same kind of inward-looking spirit that has characterised Norway ever since it refused to join the EU almost half a century ago.
Why IR Religionists Should Watch Reza Aslan’s Believer
To imagine oneself as a believer may benefit IR approaches significantly in the attempt to understand the political imagination borne from religious practice and belief.
Has the U.S. Become a Single-Party Regime?
The U.S. today may increasingly resemble the single-party, single-coalition or dominant party regimes of yesteryear.
Five Up / Five Down – Syrian Missile Strike, Part 2
Tweets Matter. If Trump creates a perception of reality through informational sources that are not rigorous or complete, his positions will be deficient.
Five Up / Five Down – Syrian Missile Strike, Part 1
This strike, no matter the problems with it, does show that the American military machine is awake again in a non-covert way.
Field Research, Research Design, and Scientific Method (A Personal Account)
“Science” is a many splendored and varied thing. It even includes qualitative research.
Institutions Matter, Or, What I Learned Sleeping with Lions in Kenya
Several lessons can be learned from fieldwork. Experience in Kenya speaks to the variety found in the everyday functioning of societies, institutions and cultures.
Learning from History in Shaping Foreign Policy – A Theoretical Framework
Learning from history entails a reasoned analysis of the decision-making process as whole, and not only of the decision itself that was ultimately adopted.
