Matthew Evangelista Although estimates vary, since November 2001 the United States has used armed drones—known more formally as unmanned or remotely piloted aerial vehicles—to kill several thousand people, among whom hundreds were noncombatants and perhaps […]
Marc Lynch A decade ago, very few political scientists had either the opportunity or the incentive to engage with the political public in a direct, unmediated way. Today, there is a dense and eclectic ecosystem […]
Loubna El Amine While critiquing the dominance of the Western tradition in the discipline of political theory, recent methodological discussions in Comparative Political Theory (CPT) fail to move beyond the East-West dichotomy. More specifically, CPT […]
Robert Falkner Gridlock in the multilateral climate negotiations has created growing scholarly and practical interest in the use of minilateral forums. A large variety of climate club proposals have been developed in recent years, which […]
Mara Pillinger, Ian Hurd, Michael N. Barnett The legalization of world politics is often celebrated for reducing impunity for those who contribute to humanitarian crises. This may sometimes be true but the opposite is also […]
Charli Carpenter A burgeoning literature in IR asserts there is a relationship between pop cultural artifacts and global policy processes, but this relationship is rarely explored using observational data. To fill this gap, I provide […]
Roselyn Hsueh, Temple University Francesca Refsum Jensenius, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Akasemi Newsome, University of California, Berkeley Whether the aim is to build theory or test hypotheses, junior and senior political scientists alike face […]
Holger Albrecht, Dorothy Ohl A few years into the most recent wave of popular uprisings—the Arab Spring—studying regime trajectories in countries such as Syria, Egypt, and Yemen still seems like shooting at a moving target. […]
Copyright © I American Political Science Association
