Given that Rob has been ruminating lately about the US government's defense strategy for twenty-first century wars, consider this set of interesting data on war casualties. A new report, out about a week ago from the Human Security Report Project argues that contrary to popular...
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Danny Kaplan at Foreign Policy is pointing out how the US lags behind other top-notch militaries like the IDF in its nascent, grudging willingness to allow gays and lesbians to.
Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch explains yesterday's decision of the International Criminal Court's Appeals Chamber to require the Pre-Trial Chamber to reconsider including the crime of genocide in the.
Why do repressive regimes sign the Torture Convention when they don't plan to comply with it? At the Monkey Cage, Erik Voeten has a round-up of some conventional answers and calls attention to a novel explanation just out as a working paper from NYU.[cross-posted at...
To think about globalization, the information revolution and sovereignty, my World Politics students watched this popular video in class yesterday, a compilation of facts and statistics about our ever-changing world..
The comments thread on this NPR story about aid distribution in Haiti is interesting. Relief organizations have begun distributing food through women on the assumption that it is likelier to.
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...
Few things are more entertaining to an academic than to watch two fellow academics go head to head over the meaning of "fellow academic." Will one of those few things.
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 foreign policy "AWOL" from the speech. Eric Ostermeir at Smart Politics has quantified the foreign...
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.
You will not believe this 1934 New Yorker cartoon my friend Adam Jones dug up. What a difference a few decades makes. Jones writes about mass killing and has one.