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The Curse of Elon

Israel’s Dead End

Proxy Patrimonialism and the Path to Pre-modernity

Huntington wasn’t wrong. He just wasn’t right

Episode 2: Being and Insecurity

The Tao of the One: Trust, Rapprochement, and the Turning Wheel

Don’t Hold Your Breath on AI-Driven Wargaming

When Constitutional Functions Blur

What If Iran Acquired the Nuclear Bomb? A Case for Uncomfortable Diplomacy Over Catastrophe

Middle East Studies: Still beating that strawman?

The hypothetical science

The Pedagogical Legacies of the Pandemic

On religious dialogue and “stochastic terrorism”

Today’s sanctions aren’t special. They’re just keeping up.

Our Age of Bronze is Collapsing: Nolan’s Odyssey as Allegory for the Decline of American Hegemony

Divided Government and Multilateral Assistance

Episode 1: Gates of the West

Unmanageable ally? Ceasefire breakdown reveals deeper tensions in US-Israel relationship

Before you say it: the World Cup probably won’t increase US soft power

The Uncanny Effects of the UK Court of Appeal’s ruling on the Proscription of Palestine Action

What Politics and IR can teach AI pedagogy

How Russian economic policy is gender

How the Iran War harms U.S. deterrence

6+1 Questions about Resilient Statehood

On Indigenous Political Thought in Video Games

Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega

Dugin, the Ultimate Tradwife

I choose to celebrate Eurovision

Whither Scottish progressivism?

Britain is experiencing wave of antisemitic terrorism: Whether organic or state-sponsored, it needs to be addressed

This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide

What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate

The Gulf is a vital lynchpin of global stability, and it goes far beyond energy

The Scripts We Perform: Militarized Masculinity and the Gendered Order

Religious nationalism makes the profane sacred: True faith uses the sacred to heal the world

Watching Scientific Progress in Action

Was I wrong on the Gulf states and Iran? An exercise in academic humility

The Best and Worst of U.S. Foreign Policy(?)

6+1 Questions about Exit from International Organizations

Iran and the shadow of the Kosovo intervention

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire

“Fair Trade” and the revenge against the “Foreigner”: From Chamberlain to Trump

What’s with all the racism?

An Accidental Academic: 20 Years Later

How To Review Efficiently and Fairly

Renee Goode and the limits of false terrorism charges

Trump, US foreign policy and Venezuela: Aberration or Honesty?

Is Peer Review Broken? Should Reviewers Be Paid?

Do you want a religious war? Because this is how you get a religious war

Remembering Our Lost Colleagues

Farewell

Can the news ever be impartial?

Here We Go Again: Why American Presidents Can’t Resist Regime Change

Bullies, Follies, and Decadent Orders: Constructing Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern

Exploring the Meaning of Responsibility

Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “House of Dynamite”

6+1 Questions About “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy”

Ceasefire NOW (but not *now*)

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution

The Mirage of Great-Power Competition

The State of the Union is Grim

6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy

Will the recognition of Palestine matter? What IR scholarship says

Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Purpose of the MAGA State

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025?

Benjamin de Carvalho

Who wants AI in the classroom?

6+1 Questions about “The U.S.: A (Mostly) Hands-Off Superpower”

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts?

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity

Why have so many Muslim communities embraced radicalism?

What’s the Matter with Soft Power?

Trump’s Tariffs and the Profits (and Deficits) of Personality

Resisting a narrative on Israel and antisemitism

Joseph Nye’s other big idea

Probiotic disinformation

6+1 Questions about Waging War with Gold: National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages

The Vatican’s Quiet Intelligence Legacy and Why It Matters Now

The frustrating wisdom of Pope Francis’ international mediation

Unreal climate ‘realism’