Kayvan Farzaneh informs us that the Pentagon has been worrying about terrorists using World of Warcraft to plot attacks. Considering a Wisconsin appeals court recently upheld the right of prisons to ban inmates from playing Dungeons and Dragons, lest they "foster an inmate’s obsession with...
foreign policy
Dan Drezner is among those who today bemoaned the absence of foreign policy content in President Obama's State of the Union Speech. He's not the only one. Max Boot calls.
Wow. Perhaps the ghost of Howard Zinn was speaking through our President tonight. In a little over an hour, he called out the Supreme Court for its recent decision on.
Saw Avatar last week, and apparently I must weigh in. Lot's o' spoilers ahead...Is Avatar racist?Sure, but that's not a very interesting question. Back before I saw 300, I was prepared to be irritated by its racism, ethnocentrism, and violence to history, but after watching...
Over the break, Foreign Affairs posted my picks on which gender literature the foreign policy community should take seriously. Here's how the piece begins: Feminists have long argued that it.
American neoconservatives tend to get hostile when you make the point that every country has its neocons. The response typically runs something like this:How can you possibly compare me with.
David Frum compares the conventional and Team B views of Soviet military spending and arms control.The conventional view:The Soviets could increase their arms spending, therefore arms control was worthwhile.The Team B view:Because the Soviets were spending so much, they probably could not spend more. This...
By way of living up to Rob's kind introduction (and answering elbruce's question in comments) I figured I'd kick off my LGM blogging career by reposting my Happy New Decade.
All,I am pleased to announce that Dr. Charli Carpenter, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will join Lawyers, Guns and Money. Charli also blogs at Duck of.
Every spring, Patterson runs a policy simulation designed to illustrate the difficulty of operating an organization in the context of asymmetric and limited information. Every fall, I run a two hour mini-simulation designed to give students a sense of how the larger simulation will play...
One thing to add to the fact that foreign aid is one of the tiny number of specific areas in which cuts to government spending are actually popular is that.
Nauru has just become the first country to recognize Kosovo, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia. Unfortunately, Nauru switched its diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to the PRC in 2002, meaning that it.