Class Notes -- Chapter 13 (IPE)

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Class Notes -- Military Interventions and Refugee Disasters

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Graduate Student Seminar on Publication

Here are the notes from today's seminar to graduate students on publication in political science.

Revised Class Schedule

Here is the revised class schedule for the few remaining weeks of class:

Tuesday, November 18th-- Chapter 14
Thursday, November 20th-- Chapter 13
Tuesday, November 25th-- Chapter 13 (continued)
Tuesday. December 2nd-- Chapter 15
Thursday, December 4th-- Chapter 16

Class Notes -- Chapter 14 (Intl Law and Organizations)

Here are the notes for today's class.

Two Posts on Writing (and some funnies...)

Most irritating phrases in the English language, thanks to Oxford (and the Monkey Cage), here.

What are the possible benefits of writing well? Do you know who Watson and Crick are? How about Avery, MacLeod and McCarty? Take a look at the discussion on writing here.

Other funnies-- Obama must give up his Blackberry, and Sarkozy stops Putin in his tracks.

Class Notes -- Air Power and the (First) Persian Gulf War

Here are the notes for today's class.

PSC413 Revised Schedule

Here is the revised schedule for the last few weeks of the semester. Note well-- you can only access the articles through the provided links while on a campus computer.

Tuesday, November 18th--

Press, Daryl G., "The Myth of Air Power in the Persian Gulf War and the Future of Warfare," International Security. 26:2 (Fall 2001), 5–44

Thursday, November 20th--

Posen, Barry R. “Military responses to refugee disasters,” International Security.
Summer 1996 v21 n1

Tuesday, November 25th--

Discussion of US Interventionism

Tuesday, December 2nd--

Pape, Robert, “The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism”, American Political
Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 3 August 2003: 1-19.

Tuesday, December 4th--

Gholz, Eugene et al., “Come Home, America: The Strategy of Restraint in the
Face of Temptation.” International Security, Spring 1997, 21(4)

Politics and the Media

Since today is election day, I thought it'd be nice to take a look at who would be covering the election all day. There are actually quite a few interesting recent analyses about how the US media covers politics, but below are two that caught my eye:

First, here is a link to an analysis of country coverage by the New York Times (thanks to Marginal Revolution). And here is an analysis of the major network polls. Does this ordering make sense? Why might there be bias, even in polling?

Class Notes -- Chapter 12 (Domestic Institutions and National Performance)

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Class Notes -- Polarity and AFP part deux

Here are the notes for today's class.