Recent research on secret police in autocracies indicates this pattern as well.

Or Malaysia!

I re-read the Clash of Civilizations article again recently (read the book years ago). It's still really not good in multiple respects and, although not completely wrong in terms of the role of identity, makes some wildly bad predictions like 'Russia and Ukraine are too similar to ever go to war'.

It's even worse for Ikenberry and Deudney's arguments about mutually restraining, co-binding relationships making US hegemony 'safe'.

If they stopped quoting the classics without context they might have to do some social science.

Smartphone natives, computer foreigners.

Strongly correlated with the presence of the Deftones in popular culture. Everything will change if there's a White Stripes/The Strokes revival.

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The bureaucratic/intragovernmental level of analysis is one of the least developed in the study of foreign policy & conflict studies, despite Allison's famous book Essence of Decision. Jost's work makes a new case that the way national security institutions operate has a big impact on war and peace.

Very important point that doesn't seem to stick despite being made by Schweller and Glaser, as well as Wagner in the best book that few IR scholars seem to have read - War and the State.

It's a very funny article, confirming that Wendt wasn't really going to make a big academic contribution to IR again, and saying the quiet part out loud that there's an affinity between critical theory and really fringe counterculture Fortean ideas.