I dislike the term "soft power." We owe the term to the late, great Joseph Nye. He popularized it in his 1990 book, Bound to Lead. Nye's book was, first and foremost, an intervention in the "declinism" debates of the later 1980s. Japan was at...
international relations theory
The University of Copenhagen Library (the founders of Securitization Theory are sometimes referred to as "The Copenhagen School") by kimyeti / CC BY-SA 4.0, from wikimedia commons This will be.
Philip II, King of Spain, Reproaches William I, Prince of Orange, in Vlissingen upon his Departure from the Netherlands in 1559; Cornelis Kruseman [Public domain], via.
Once upon a time in 2013, an IR grad student finally lost it. Or at least, that's how I choose to view these. Don't correct me. The International Relations As Depicted By Cats tumblr has since been updated very sparsely. Hopefully our grad student auteur...
At the Diplomat I post my thoughts on the legacy of Kenneth Waltz: On Sunday evening, Dr. Kenneth Waltz passed away at the age of 88. Waltz is best known for.
It is with great sadness that I note that Kenneth Waltz, author of Man, the State, and War and Theory of International Politics, has passed away. Waltz' importance to the.
Daniel Drezner has expounded on his seminal "Zombies and IR" blog post with a full spread on the topic in the July/August Foreign Policy: The specter of an uprising of reanimated corpses... poses a significant challenge to interpreters of international relations and the theories they...
The best event I attended at ISA this year wasn’t the panel on pirates, nor the panel on war law, nor the panel on blogging, nor the gender and security.
Among events I attended last week at the International Studies Association Annual Conference: an informal discussion on the relationship between IR feminist theory and security studies, organized by my Duck.