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“and Elinor?”: when winning a Nobel Prize isn’t enough…
This is a guest post from Leslie Johns, an Assistant Professor of political science at UCLA. The Public Choice Society—an academic organization of scholars who study the interaction of politics and...
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Why Write About Gender if You are Going to Get Blasted for it: diplomacy...
This week Dan Drezner hosted a guest post on the politics of Miss Universe and I responded by pointing out the lack of/and the need for a gender analysis in his post. In his response, Drezner asks an...
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How Do You Change a Policy That Doesn’t Exist?: the combat exclusion one year...
Despite numerous calls to ‘Let Women Fight’, internal reviews of the policy, and growing evidence of women’s contributions to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the January 2013 announcement that the...
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8 Unanswered Political Questions from the Oscars
I know it has already been a week, but I’m still thinking about the Oscars. Not the fashion (boring!! predictable!!), or the hostess (boring!! predictable!!) or the winners (boring!! predictable!!), or...
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Bergdahl and the Band of Brothers Dilemma: understanding the...
Let’s be honest, the circumstances surrounding the ‘prisoner swap’ between Bowe Bergdahl and five high-ranking Taliban prisoners in Guantanamo Bay just don’t add up. The initial narrative President...
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The Politics of Artificial Intelligence and Automation
The Pew Research Internet Project released a report yesterday, “AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs” where it describes a bit of a contradictory vision: the future is bright and the future is bleak....
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Women’s Integration into Combat Stuck in a Physical Stalemate
Last week 60 Minutes ran a feature called Women in Combat: Cracking the Last All-Male Bastion of the US Military. The segment, led by David Martin, focused on Marine Infantry Officer training. He...
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There is No Lone Wolf Terrorism: but there is anxiety about brown men,...
There’s something about ‘lone wolf terrorism’ debates that stinks. I can’t quite find a singular source of the smell, but after further investigation, it seems the relatively recent surge in the use...
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Female Service Members Need Easier Access to Abortion, Not a Wider Range of...
Pregnancy has consistently been treated by the US military as a costly inconvenience, and proof of women’s weak, unreliable and unpredictable bodies. In particular, there are concerns about the...
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Confidence and Gender in International Relations
The following is a guest post by Rachel Merriman-Goldring, Susan Nelson, Hannah S. Petrie at William and Mary’s Institute for the Theory & Practice of International Relations. For decades, survey...
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New Evidence on Gender Bias in IR Syllabi
The following is a guest post by Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Assistant Professor at Brown University, and is @JeffDColgan on Twitter. It’s that time of year again, when professors are designing...
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Men’s Unexpected Erections are a Liability on the Battlefield (and other ways...
In the follow up to Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s recent announcement that all combat jobs will be open to women, there have been several articles highlighting men’s fears about working with women...
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Words Mean Things: The Beginnings of De-Gendering Democratic Citizenship
This is a guest post by Kyleanne Hunter, PhD Student and Research Fellow at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver Yesterday it was discovered that Secretary of the Navy...
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Jolie-Pitt, Trump and Bono Walk Into a LSE Classroom: why dedication and...
Oh man, I really didn’t want to write about Angelina Jolie Pitt (AJP) and her damn LSE appointment. When I heard the news it just made me feel tired. But there has been an interesting/frustrating...
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I Broke Up With Michel Foucault*
I broke up with Michel Foucault. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. I sort of ghosted him. Let me explain. When I was in grad school I fell in love with Foucault. He was just exactly what I was...
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Ethical Robots on the Battlefield?
Every day it seems we hear more about the advancements of artificial intelligence (AI), the amazing progress in robotics, and the need for greater technological improvements in defense to “offset”...
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Emotions, Unconscious Bias, and Publishing
This is a guest post by Jana von Stein, Senior Lecturer, Political Science and International Relations Programme, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) The recent scandal surrounding Harvey...
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What’s in a Syllabus? A New Dataset of Graduate School Readings in Political...
This is a guest post by Heidi Hardt (University of California, Irvine) and Amy Erica Smith (Iowa State University) Syllabi and comprehensive exam reading lists are often graduate students’ first major...
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The True Meaning of a Hot Christmas Prince
In the spirit of holiday cheer and Paul Musgrave’s great Foreign Policy piece “The True Meaning of Christmas Movies Is a Cozy American Worldview” as well as our common poli sci curse of “being unable...
View ArticleThe other California vote
Eyes are on California this week with the vote to recall Governor Gavin Newsom scheduled for September 14. But I’ve been watching a different vote: a consequential piece of legislation for garment...
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