The Duck of Minerva
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’