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Using a Data Analysis Project to Increase Knowledge of International Politics International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Petra Hendrickson
In international politics classes, it can be challenging to develop course materials that will both cover a wide breadth of thematic issues as well as substantially increase student knowledge of specific countries’ political systems and experiences. Using an International Politics Data Analysis Project where students select a slate of 16 countries and complete four unit check-ins where they aggregate
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Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on Campus: An Exercise in Problem-Based Learning for a Sustainable University International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Pamela S Chasek
Colleges and universities have a key role to play in teaching students about and implementing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs can be an essential tool in curriculum development while providing a structure for how universities can think about their mission and their place in society. One way to learn about the
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Getting Inside the Mind of Leaders and Advisers: A Data Collection Strategy for Historical Case Studies in IR International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Wendy He, Pascal Vennesson
In the last few decades, a new wave of behavioral research has become prominent in international relations (IR) and led to a welcome expansion of laboratory experiments as well as stimulating dialogues with neurosciences, biology, and genetics. Simultaneously, the study of leaders and their advisers has made a significant comeback. However, in the qualitative study of real-world foreign policy decisions
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Forum: Youth as Boundary Actors in International Studies International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Amandine Orsini, Yi hyun Kang, Emmanuel Ampomah, Adam Cooper, Laura Gómez-Mera, Brian Gran, Anna Holzscheiter, Roberto S Salva, Anaëlle Vergonjeanne
Youth represent a great part of humanity and have always been active and intriguing political actors, yet youth remain sidelined in international studies. Issues of social identity perception and its consequences have been embraced by post-positivist approaches in international studies. Yet, while race, gender, and class challenges are shaking the discipline, age is a key research gap. To fill this
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Forum: Dead-Ends, Disasters, Delays? Reflecting on Research Failure in International Studies and Ways to Avoid It International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Gustav Meibauer, Neil C Renic, Johanna Rodehau-Noack, Christian Nikolaus Braun, Amber Davis, Andrew Glencross, Milla Vaha, Vuslat Nur Şahin Temel, Liane Hartnett, Christine Andrä, Karen E Smith
This forum urges international relations (IR) practitioners to rethink the nature of both failure and success, and their own responsibility in building an academy that enables scholars of all backgrounds to thrive. Reflecting on their own experiences, the contributors detail factors that commonly stymie promising work in IR. These range from the quotidian—rejections during peer review and frustrations
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#GlobalJustice?: Social Media, Pedagogy, and Activism International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Madeleine Le Bourdon
This article addresses the evolvement of pedagogical content on global social injustices across social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. With increasing constraints on how we teach about injustices within formal educational settings, young people are increasingly turning to social media to obtain information on global challenges. Scholars have sought to evaluate particular political knowledge gained
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Democratic Ties That Bind? US–China Conflict and Foreign Policy Opinion in Japan and Korea International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Joonbum Bae, Sijeong Lim
While the Biden administration has framed US–China relations as part of a broader contest between democracy and autocracy, the potential international repercussions of this stance remain unclear. How will other democracies and, in particular, the citizens of key democratic US allies respond to a world characterized by increasing rivalry between dictatorships and democracies? We seek to answer this
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Introspective Journeys and Lessons Learned: Narratives of Self-Care in Academia International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Jennifer M Ramos, Gigi Gokcek, Melisa Deciancio, Ana Carolina Garriga, Eboni Nola Haynes, Jamie Scalera Elliott, Marcelo Valença, Amy Skonieczny, Christina Fattore
Given the realities of external pressures on our daily lives, work-life balance is important now more than ever. Although we often advocate for work-life balance, are we equipped with the appropriate tools and an adequate support network to handle what life might throw at us? How do we continue to be productive when dealing with distressing matters that we seemingly have little control over? Contributors
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Increasing Inclusion in Classroom Discussion: The Raised Block as a Classroom Response System in International Studies International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Bryan Leese, Amanda M Rosen
Discussion is one of the most frequently used pedagogical techniques in international studies classrooms, but student participation in discussion is not always inclusive and equitable. This exploratory study aims to improve the quality of student participation in classroom discussion by replacing traditional hand raising with the Raised Block. We introduce the Block and assess instructor and student
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When Is Old Too Old? The Problem of Leaning on Outdated Historical Work and a Simple Distinction between Two Kinds of Evidence to Address This International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jørgen Møller
While international relations and comparative politics scholars are often hesitant to lean on old empirical findings in their own discipline, they have no similar qualms when it comes to the work of historians. This is sometimes problematic and sometimes not. To help political scientists who are going historical address this issue, I revisit prior methodological work by Cameron Thies, published in
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Leveraging Country Expertise: How Scholars in International Studies Can Support the Asylum Process International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Hannah S Chapman, Rachel A Schwartz
Bridging the divide between research and practice has become a growing concern within international studies. One under-explored avenue through which international studies scholars can enhance their “real world” impact is by serving as country conditions experts in asylum cases. This article provides an overview of the asylum process, the role of country conditions experts within it, and how scholars
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Pledge and Forget? Testing the Effects of NATO’s Wales Pledge on Defense Investment International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Jordan Becker
Do informal international agreements without coercive mechanisms affect states’ behavior? While scholars have long been interested in this question, answering it often poses empirical challenges, particularly in the arena of international security. By asking and answering a narrower question—Is NATO’s Wales Pledge on defense spending working?—I can empirically test the extent to which states have adhered
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Toward Pedagogies of Decoloniality: Evaluating Teaching Practice and Syllabus Design in IR Undergraduate Modules International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Helen Clarke
Undergraduate teaching in international relations (IR) primarily focuses on state-centric topics of sovereignty, anarchy, and power politics, its dominant theories governed by Western interests. However, the implementation of decolonial pedagogies requires more than simply “adding” non-Western theories to curricula. The myth of Europe must be ruptured, revealing its idealized and partisan foundations
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Learning Goals in Simulations International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Luba Levin-Banchik
Why do scholar–teachers use simulations? This study presents an analysis of simulation goals in peer-reviewed simulations published over the past 20 years. The scholarship of teaching and learning emphasizes that educational goals are an essential first step in designing simulations. The flexibility of simulation designs allows the formulation of a variety of content-based, skill-based, and emotion-based
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Student-Designed Simulation: Teaching Global Governance in Practice through a Student-Led Role-Play for Practitioners International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Lucile Maertens, Zoé Cheli
Building on the growing interest in role-play in international relations pedagogy, this article suggests student-designed simulation as an active learning exercise defined to help students get a nuanced understanding of the way global governance works in practice. Based on a teaching experience for graduate students at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), this article makes two contributions.
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Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Professional Associations: Experiences from Security Studies International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Maria Rost Rublee, Constance Duncombe, George Karavas, Naazneen H Barma, Cecilia Idika-Kalu, Arturo C Sotomayor, Mariana Kalil, Hye Yun Kang
The International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association aims to promote the study of global, international, regional, and national security—broadly conceived. Over the past decade, ISSS has also sought to improve diversity and inclusion for its membership, culminating in its Taskforce on Diversity in Security Studies. In this forum, taskforce organizers, researchers
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Ready to Manage a Global Pandemic? Explaining the Involvement of the EU in the 2013–2016 Ebola Outbreak International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Carlos Bravo-Laguna
A virulent outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease killed thousands of individuals between December 2013 and June 2016. The risk of contagion among European Union (EU) citizens increased its salience to unprecedented levels for an outbreak that primarily affected sub-Saharan Africa. Considering the need for analyzing recent external transboundary outbreak responses in the post-COVID-19 era, this paper explains
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Digital Norm Contestation and Feminist Foreign Policy International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond, Elsa Hedling
This article examines the role of digital norm contestation in feminist foreign policy (FFP). It analyzes how states that participate in digital diplomacy are involved in challenging and resisting norms, values and expectations related to feminist positionings in the digital environment. The article presents an analytical framework for the study of digital norm contestation and conducts an empirical
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Let the People Speak! What Kind of Civil Society Inclusion Leads to Durable Peace? International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Esra Cuhadar, Daniel Druckman
In this article, building on the earlier research on procedural justice (PJ) and civil society inclusion, we assess the effectiveness of various civil society inclusion modalities based on their impact on durable peace (DP). A set of hypotheses concerning civil society inclusion is evaluated using the fifty-case peace agreement dataset assembled by Druckman and Wagner (2019). Their study showed that
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Inquiry-based learning as an adaptive signature pedagogy in international relations International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Jessica Carniel, Mark Emmerson, Richard Gehrmann
Several scholars have described our current political milieu as a time of crisis, disruption, and rapid change that presents various practical and theoretical challenges to the discipline of international relations (IR) and its pedagogical practice. The concept of signature pedagogies is one response that has emerged to respond to the changing needs of the discipline and the increasingly vocational
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Unethical Issues in Twenty-First Century International Development and Global Health Policy International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Jessi Hanson-DeFusco, Sakil Malik, Rosine Assamoi, Antony Chiromba, Decontee Davis, Fidèle Marc Hounnouvi, Furqan B Irfan, Patrick Faley, Djo Dieudonne Matangwa, Tambu Muzenda, Hanifa Nakiryowa, Andiwo Obondoh, S Parveen, Ana Julia Pinales, Rugare Zimunya
Billions in development aid is provided annually by international donors in the Majority World, much of which funds health equity. Yet, common neocolonial practices persist in development that compromise what is done in the name of well-intentioned policymaking and programming. Based on a qualitative analysis of fifteen case studies presented at a 2022 conference, this research examines trends involving
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Talking to the State: Interviewing the Elites about What’s Not to Be Said International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Tadek Markiewicz
How can researchers conduct interviews about sensitive topics the interlocutors are unwilling to discuss? This article contributes to the ongoing debates on interviewing. While we are observing a growing interest in this research method among international relations scholars, we lack formalized advanced practices for overcoming interview-related challenges. Drawing on elite interviews conducted in
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Instruction over Incentives: Assessing Reading Strategies for International Security Studies International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Danielle Gilbert, Paul Bezerra, Karin L Becker
Discussion-based courses in international relations rely on students’ careful reading of complex texts in advance of class. However, instructors face a perennial problem: many students do not read effectively, or at all. We argue that students often want to, but do not always know how to, read such material effectively. With instruction and guidance on effective reading strategies, students can improve
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The Legitimation of International Organizations: Introducing a New Dataset International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Henning Schmidtke, Swantje Schirmer, Niklas Krösche, Tobias Lenz
This article introduces a new dataset on how international organizations (IOs) justify their authority. For a long time, IOs were believed to derive legitimacy from member-state consent and technocratic problem-solving capacities. Over recent decades, the growing politicization of IOs, political polarization within Western democracies, and power shifts in the international system have spurred IOs’
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Training for the United Nations in the Twenty-First Century; Professionalism Training on Leadership, Negotiation, and Gender for Model United Nations Simulations International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Roni Kay M O'Dell, Ariana B Scott, Mark J Nealon, Brianna N Franzino
The world needs people who understand the crucial importance of global governance. Training students to participate in a Model United Nations (MUN) simulation provides them with the critical thinking, negotiation, and diplomacy skills that prepare them to work in international relations positions and address negotiation and diplomacy challenges. This article provides a fresh look at why MUN is important
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Forum: Navigating the Global South Landscape: Insights and Implications for Representation and Inclusion in ISA Journals International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Fabrício H Chagas-Bastos, Erica Resende, Faten Ghosn, Debbie Lisle
The International Studies Association (ISA) is widely recognized as an American-European-centric professional organization, with Global South scholars traditionally representing a minority of its membership. This pattern largely reflects the development of the International Relations (IR) discipline and its publication trends. In this Forum, we examine the progress made in the representation of Global
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States as Role Models: Why Some Countries’ Policies Matter More than Others International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Brian Greenhill, Charmaine N Willis
We often look to the examples set by other countries when thinking about how to deal with problems at home. But what explains why some countries are more likely to serve as role models than others? Are people influenced mainly by the examples set by countries that are considered to be particularly successful in a given policy area? Or are they influenced to a greater extent by countries that are more
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Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: What Did We Miss? International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Anastassiya Mahon, James C Pearce, Andrei Korobkov, Rashid Gabdulhakov, Nino Gozalishvili, Revaz Topuria, Natalia Stercul, Marius Vacarelu
This forum focuses on the overlooked areas of the moment surrounding the nature and progression of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It brings together scholars of different disciplines, backgrounds, and locations to provide analyses of the Russian aggression from varying perspectives such as history, law, military studies, politics, and media and communications, to name a few, encouraging the
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Gender and Violence in International Relations: Evidence from the Statecraft Simulation International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Katie Nissen, Eric Cox
To what extent does gender impact the level of conflict in an online international relations simulation environment? This article uses a survey of participants in the Statecraft simulation to determine the degree to which gender affects simulation outcomes. The authors worked with the Statecraft company to include a limited number of questions in Statecraft's end-of-simulation survey regarding participants’
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The Use of Popular Songs and Cartoons in Teaching Introduction to International Relations and Comparative Politics International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Victor Asal, Inga Miller, Andrew Vitek
The use of popular culture as a teaching tool is often overlooked in teaching introductory-level political science courses. In recent years, advocacy for the inclusion of popular culture in the classroom has increased due to studies that highlight the benefits of such application in combination with other teaching methods. This paper argues that the incorporation of popular music and cartoons as a
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Can Increasing Awareness of Gender Gaps in International Relations Help Close Them? Evidence from a Scholar Ranking Experiment International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Emily B Jackson, Daniel Maliniak, Eric Parajon, Susan Peterson, Ryan Powers, Michael J Tierney
We report the results of a survey of international relations (IR) scholars on the use of an increasingly common policy designed to close recognition gaps in IR: gender balance in citation (GBC) statements. GBC statements remind and encourage authors submitting work to peer-reviewed outlets to consider the gender balance among the works they cite. We find that these policies enjoyed wide support among
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Forum: Making Peace with Un-Certainty: Reflections on the Role of Digital Technology in Peace Processes beyond the Data Hype International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Andreas T Hirblinger, Martin Wählisch, Kate Keator, Chris McNaboe, Allard Duursma, John Karlsrud, Valerie Sticher, Aly Verjee, Tetiana Kyselova, Chris M A Kwaja, Suda Perera
Recent years have seen the acceleration of data- and evidence-based approaches in support of peace processes, creating a renewed confidence that conflicts can be predicted, known, and resolved, based on objective information about the world. However, new technologies employed by conflict parties, stakeholders, and those who aim to make or build peace have also made peace processes less ascertainable
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Bridging the Gap in a Changing World: New Opportunities and Challenges for Engaging Practitioners and the Public International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Jordan Tama, Naazneen H Barma, Brent Durbin, James Goldgeier, Bruce W Jentleson
In recent years, an array of initiatives has sought to bridge widely recognized gaps separating international studies scholars from policymakers and the public. While such gaps persist, changes in society, the media, and academia have altered the context for scholars seeking to make their research known to public and policy communities. On the one hand, the emergence on the public agenda of new policy
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Bridging the Digital Gap: Teaching Cyber Strategy and Policy through a Crisis Simulation International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Gregory Winger, Stephanie Ellis, Daniel Glover
This article details an attempt to bridge the gulf between information technology (IT) and social science approaches to cybersecurity using a simulation. Digital affairs are increasingly central to public policy, and yet the subject's incorporation within political science education has been hamstrung by an underlying disciplinary divide and lack of familiarity. Despite their differences, both IT and
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Pod Save IR: Podcasts as Effective Assignments in the International Relations Classroom International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Matthew Krain
This paper discusses the development of a podcast assignment as an alternative to a literature review paper in the international studies classroom. A podcast assignment still enables students to read, evaluate, and synthesize research in a given field, but also allows them to meet other important educational objectives such as application of research to a real-world problem or setting, teamwork, problem-solving
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Teaching/Learning through “Black Earth Rising”: Poststructural, Decolonial, and Feminist Readings International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Mariela Cuadro
The paper aims at reflecting on ways of teaching/learning international relations (IR) critical theories. It does so by analyzing the results of a teaching/learning exercise based on Netflix's series “Black Earth Rising” and put into practice with undergraduate students of a course on IR theory taught at the Argentinian Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Assuming that series of mass consumption work
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Promoting Learning about Precarity and Resilience in War: Virtual Encounters between Afghan and American Students in International Studies Courses International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Alexander Cromwell, Saaya Miyashiro
International studies students are often interested in understanding contexts of conflict and war and working with affected populations. Although various research has assessed different pedagogical tools for increasing students’ understanding of war experiences and reducing the perceived distance between such populations, virtual encounters are an understudied means for achieving these aims. This article
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Digital Peacebuilding: A Framework for Critical–Reflexive Engagement International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Andreas Timo Hirblinger, Julie Marie Hansen, Kristian Hoelscher, Åshild Kolås, Kristoffer Lidén, Bruno Oliveira Martins
Existing research on digital technologies in peacebuilding exhibits both tech-solutionist and tech-problematizing traits that tend to understate their embeddedness in society and politics. We argue that the study of digital peacebuilding should instead reflexively engage with the coproduction of the technical and the social in both academia and practice. This requires asking how assumptions about technology
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Behavior Change in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: A 100-Year Perspective International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Robbie A Venis
The current methodological paradigm for addressing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) inaccessibility in rural sub-Saharan Africa is achieving insufficient progress. This essay evaluates WaSH-related policy, programming, and discourse from 1918 to 2021 to identify how this paradigm evolved and how it may reform. I argue that political–economic environments have strongly influenced existing sectoral
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Dear Editor: Critically Engaging with Global Issues and Developing Arguments in a Letter to the Editor Assignment International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Justin Robertson
This study presents a teaching experiment in which students composed a letter to the editor that drew on political economy analysis with an impressive 40 percent publication rate in a major Asian newspaper. In contrast to a purely mock exercise, or the submission of op-ed pieces with a much lower chance of being published, this activity offered students the opportunity to communicate their positions
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Teaching Trade during COVID: Conducting a WTO Simulation through Remote Delivery International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Duane Bratt, Greg Anderson, Chris Kukucha, David Sabiston
In Fall 2020, all universities in Alberta went with remote delivery of classes due to COVID-19 restrictions. This provided not only teaching challenges, but also opportunities. Professors at three Canadian universities teaching similar undergraduate courses in international political economy decided to use the challenges/opportunities of COVID-19 restrictions to experiment with a World Trade Organization
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Security, Terrorism, and Territorial Withdrawal: Critically Reassessing the Lessons of Israel's “Unilateral Disengagement” from the Gaza Strip International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Rob Geist Pinfold
In contemporary Israel, the apparently negative consequences of the 2005 “unilateral disengagement” from the Gaza Strip have fueled a perception that leaving territory harms national security. Three claims underlie this framing: (1) domestic Israeli political considerations—not national security concerns—caused the disengagement; (2) Israel abandoned territory without receiving any compensation; and
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Remembering the “Human” in Human Trafficking: An Analysis of Female Leadership and Anti-Trafficking Policy Choices International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Kate Perry, Courtney Burns
Could gender expectations play a role in executive leadership policy choices on human trafficking? To help explain why executive leaders of different genders may prioritize starkly different policies on the same issue, we situate our argument within the political double bind. We posit that human trafficking, a crime that exists at the nexus between foreign and domestic and masculine and feminine policy
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The Myth of the Eclectic IR Scholar? International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Helen V Milner, Ryan Powers, Erik Voeten
What does the decline in paradigmatic self-identification mean for how international relations (IR) scholars think about the world? We answer this question with a 2020 survey among nearly two thousand IR scholars. We uncover a two-dimensional latent theoretical belief space based on scholarly agreement with conjectures about the state, ideas, international institutions, domestic politics, globalization
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The Unintended Consequences of Information Provision: The World Health Organization and Border Restrictions during COVID-19 International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Catherine Z Worsnop, Karen A Grépin, Kelley Lee, Summer Marion
Why do some international agreements fail to achieve their goals? Rather than states’ engaging in cheap talk, evasion, or shallow commitments, the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR)—the agreement governing states’ and WHO's response to global health emergencies—point to the unintended consequences of information provision. The IHR have a dual goal of providing
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Localizing the International Relations Classroom: Evaluation of Academic Partnerships with City Government International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Madeline Baer, Heidi Nichols Haddad
As the world becomes increasingly “smaller,” global governance too shifts beyond states and formal agreements to include norms and actors at all levels of government and society. Cities, in particular, are emergent actors in global affairs. This paper examines a new type of experiential learning model for this burgeoning local–global governance: academic partnerships with city governments for undergraduate
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Forum: Gendered Dynamics of Academic Networks International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Jamie Scalera Elliott, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Michelle L Dion, Thomas R Vargas, Yanna Krupnikov, Kerri Milita, John Barry Ryan, Victoria Smith, Hillary Style, Kerry F Crawford, Leah C Windsor, Christina Fattore, Marijke Breuning, Jennifer Ramos
This forum examines whether scholars’ access to networks in the international studies profession is gendered and if so, the consequences of those networks for personal and professional success. Academic networks that encompass both professional and personal connections have been proposed as one solution to chilly climate issues because they provide a dual function of enhancing scholarly productivity
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Forum: Searching for a Global Solidarity: A Collective Auto-Ethnography of Early-Career Women Researchers in the Asia-Pacific International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Amya Agarwal, Ching-Chang Chen, Shine Choi, Frances Antoinette Cruz, Chiew-Ping Hoo, Atsuko Watanabe
This forum critically reflects on discrimination faced by early-career women international relations (IR) scholars in the Asia-Pacific region in their workplaces and beyond. By taking a self-ethnographic perspective, six contributors from five countries provide an engaging overview of difficulties they face in their everyday lives. Against the backdrop of this diverse and globalizing region, the contributors
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Why International Organizations Differ in Their Output Productivity: A Comparative Study International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Diana Panke, Franziska Hohlstein, Gurur Polat
Analyzing the performance of international organizations (IOs) in a comparative manner is of high importance. Yet IOs differ remarkably, which renders comparisons difficult. This article examines IO output productivity as an important precondition for IOs to have effects on their members (outcome) and on the ground (impact). We distinguish between the number and volume of IO policy outputs and measure
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Do People Want Democracy Aid? Survey Experimental Evidence from Africa International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 John A Doces, Mark J Meyer
In Africa, international donors have increasingly promoted democracy and election monitoring. Do Africans want them to do this or would they prefer some other purpose? We argue respondents will least prefer democracy compared to other purposes because (i) there are other possible uses, like healthcare, that are more in need; (ii) aid has a political salience of control that other purposes do not have;
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Reimagining Conflict Management Pedagogy through Fantastical Role-Play Simulations International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Cody W Wehlan, Amanda J Reinke
Research demonstrates that simulations encourage students to apply their understanding of theories and content, navigate problem-solving processes with peers, support student motivation for learning, and reflect afterward to enrich their comprehension of course materials. Peacebuilding and international relations scholars have implemented simulations to improve student learning and understanding about
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Climate Change in the UN Security Council: An Analysis of Discourses and Organizational Trends International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Cesare M Scartozzi
The UN Security Council has published about eighty-three thousand documents between 2001 and 2021. This study analyzes this large corpus of text to identify, map, and trace the evolution of discourses on climate change and their impact on the organization. The article analyzes diplomatic speeches and other primary sources to identify instances of climatization of security and securitization, riskification
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The Persistent Poverty of Diversity in International Relations and the Emergence of a Critical Canon International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Nathan Andrews
Discussions about diversifying the discipline of international relations (IR) are often met with limited evidence in practice. Employing the concepts of epistemic oppression and academic dependency, this article contributes to filling the existing knowledge gap by examining what the pedagogical practices of IR professors, particularly in terms of syllabi design and content, tell us about the state
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Political and International Affairs Simulations and College Students’ Civic Development International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Kelly Siegel-Stechler, Gretchen Gee
Political science professors frequently use simulations to try to enhance student learning. Beyond their use in experiential learning, prior research suggests that simulations may also improve student civic outcomes and promote political interest and engagement outside of the classroom. This study estimates the impact of political science simulations by examining students’ attitudes and behaviors before
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Targaryen Thought Experiments: Do Science Fiction and Fantasy Examples Aid or Obfuscate Student Learning? International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Adam Irish,Nicole Sherman,Levi Watts
Abstract Several recently published international relations and criminal justice writings, textbooks, and supplements focus on using science fiction and fantasy texts to teach social science theories. This article investigates how science fiction and fantasy examples affect student learning compared to documentary films. We use mixed methods to conduct two studies on the use of science fiction and
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DiploSim: A Flexible Framework for Diplomatic Simulations in International Relations International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Richard W Maass
Although educators increasingly appreciate the pedagogical benefits of active learning techniques including simulations, many still see implementing them in their own classroom as a daunting task. The formidable time investment required often deters instructors from designing new simulations, and many find published simulations to be an imperfect fit. This article seeks to reduce the barriers to entry
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The Production of North American and German Democracy Promotion Expertise: A Practice Theoretical Analysis International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Leonie Holthaus, Michael Christensen
In international relations, there is regular reflection about the complex relations between academic and various kinds of practical knowledge. In this article, we add to these reflections using the example of democracy promotion expertise. We develop a practice–theoretical methodology based on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and extensions of it in the communities of practice literature. We also include
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Developing Global Citizens through International Studies: Enhancing Student Voices and Active Learning in Short-Term Study Abroad Courses International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Tina Kempin Reuter, Stacy Moak
Educating global citizens has become part of higher education in international studies. Scholars argue that education includes having a global worldview that critically evaluates complex challenges in an ever-changing environment. Most agree that something more than classroom lecture is required to transform students’ perspectives, but debates exist about exactly what “more” means. Short-term study
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Anxiety and the Onset of COVID-19: Examining Concerns of Historically Excluded Scholars International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-10-31 Jennifer M Ramos, Jamie Scalera Elliott, Christina Fattore, Marijke Breuning
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic increased uncertainty, leading to questions about how it spread, how long it would last, and its long-term effects. In academia, many scholars worried about their positions and career advancement. Our research focuses on how different groups within academia coped during the initial period of the pandemic, with particular attention paid to the role of anxiety. We argue
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The Limited Scope of the Democratic Peace: What We Are Missing International Studies Perspectives (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-26 Andrew P Owsiak, John A Vasquez
The democratic peace program arguably constitutes one of the most successful empirical research programs in the discipline. Its main empirical finding motivated extensive theorizing (e.g., challengers, as well as distinct theoretical enterprises), sparked further debate about how to conceptualize and operationalize democracy, and shifted the foreign policy discourse, particularly in the United States