Perspectives on Politics

Reflections on Political Theory and the Humanities in the Global Age by Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University Has the uneasy marriage between political theory and political science reached the point where a divorce is now necessary? I […]

On Political Theory, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences by Joshua Foa Dienstag, University of California—Los Angeles Sometimes political theorists like to imagine that they are lonely humanists misplaced in social science departments. In fact, political […]

Can the Biomedical Research Cycle be a Model for Political Science? by Evan S. Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology In sciences such as biomedicine, researchers and journal editors are well aware that progress in answering difficult […]

Why Does Political Science Hate American Indians? by Kennan Ferguson, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Native Americans have been structurally excluded from the discipline of political science in the continental United States, as has Native epistemology and political […]

The ‘Tribal Politics’ of Field Research: A Reflection on Power and Partiality in 21st-Century Warzones by Romain Malejacq, Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Management Research (@afghanopoly) and Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Columbia University Can fieldwork still be done in […]

Visualizing War? Towards a Visual Analysis of Videogames and Social Media by Nick Robinson, University of Leeds, UK and Marcus Schulzke, University of York, UK Political scientists are increasingly engaged with the importance of the “visual turn,” […]

Money Talks: Discourse, Networks, and Structure in Militant Organizations by Sarah E. Parkinson, Johns Hopkins University Scholarship on militant organizations and rebel movements emphasizes the effects of fragmentation and disunity on military and political outcomes. Yet this […]