Duck of Minerva

3 min read 2021-12-21 03:32:15

Where does the Academic Work End? or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Burnout

It’s the end of 2021 and, like most academics and sentient working professionals, I’m burnt out. In fact, I’m so burnt out that I actually

4 min read 2021-12-15 15:46:18

I read a lot of crap this year, but the good stuff was really good. The Causes of World War Three, by C. Wright Mills This book is from 1961, just

4 min read 2021-12-13 21:00:00

Joe Biden’s “Summit for Democracy” was held last week. This summit meant to bring together the world’s democracies, strengthening them and

4 min read 2021-12-11 01:17:25

The Biden administration just issued the government’s first ever anti-corruption strategy. The upshot: It’s needed. It’s analytically

2 min read 2021-12-10 21:00:00

What’s the book? Sebastian Schmidt. 2020. Armed Guests: Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing (New York, Oxford University

2 min read 2021-12-10 20:34:14

As many of our readers have likely already heard, Robert Jervis died yesterday. The field has lost a gentle intellectual giant. Unlike many of my

5 min read 2021-12-07 22:33:06

Canadian scholar and politician Michael Ignatieff had a piece in Persuasion recently on the “collapse of liberal internationalism.” For Ignatieff

1 min read 2021-11-24 21:00:00

The US State Department recently released the lists of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) on religious freedom, part of its responsibilities under

1 min read 2021-11-24 21:00:00

The US State Department recently released the lists of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) on religious freedom, part of its responsibilities under

1 min read 2021-11-23 01:08:11

Willardson and Sullivan’s recent article here provided numerous useful tips for Americans who want to “profess abroad.” They also asked

1 min read 2021-11-22 12:38:41

In 1932, John Chamberlain lamented “the unwillingness of the liberal to continue with analysis once the process of analysis had become

1 min read 2021-11-19 19:45:00

Since the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan in August 2021, there have been growing calls by many Afghans, along with the international community,

1 min read 2021-11-18 10:36:44

Many MA programs at so-called professional schools of international affairs require students to complete a thesis. The purpose of this is not always

1 min read 2021-11-11 02:08:22

When I first started teaching introduction to international relations, I included a lecture on the use of force in my foreign policy unit. We talked

1 min read 2021-11-08 21:00:00

Name of the book Erica De Bruin. 2020. How to Prevent Coups d’état: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival. (Ithaca: Cornell University