Transforming IR Education in Japan
In recent years scholars have started to consider alternative approaches to the study of IR, while at the same time scholars in Japan are adapting how they approach the subject.
The Challenges of Teaching Popular Culture and World Politics
A common mistake when teaching popular culture and world politics is to overestimate the skill set that students will bring with them into the course.
Imperial Imaginaries: Employing Science Fiction to Talk about Geopolitics
Pop Culture stages debates on complex topics associated with the history of imperialism, geopolitical thinking and the relationship between territory, space and power.
Beyond Babylon? Teaching International Politics in the 21st Century
IR students are rarely taught to apply reflexive perspectives to world politics – nor are they sensitized to non-American, non-Western, and female scholars’ perspectives.
Four Steps to Support English Language Learners in an IR Classroom
In an IR classroom, is there anything beyond empathy and courtesy from an educator that can help students who are struggling?
Game-based Learning and Intelligence Analysis: Current Trends and Future Prospects
Games have always taught many skills required of an intelligence analyst. What has changed is the advent of video games and their ability to command the attention of the people playing them.
A Global Survey of the IR Curriculum
Today marks the opening of a global survey of the IR curriculum. We are calling on all IR students to tell us exactly what they think of the theory-practice balance in their studies, and of their IR education in general
How Civilization Became a Course
At the start of the course, I warn students that I am not responsible if they end up addicted to the game Civilization. One more turn is always necessary before shutting down for the day.
