May 2013
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Is “Star Trek Into Darkness” a Drone Allegory?
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“The anti-drone argument that ‘Star Trek’ goes for most is not one having to do with due process or civilian or collateral casualties…but an essentially emotional one: they feel strange. It doesn’t seem right, or like a fair, forthright fight.”
— Amy Davidson on “Star Trek” as a drone allegory: http://nyr.kr/13G1xxg
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FP's 5 Best Tumblrs for Foreign Policy Nerds...
Now that Tumblr is all over the news, Foreign Policy shared their five favorite IR blogs. Sadly, Dan Drezner hasn’t noticed my fangirling.
1. Kim Jong Un looking at things 2. International Relations as Depicted by Cats
3. Cosmarxpolitan
4. International Relations Ryan Gosling and International Development Ryan Gosling
5. It’s Always Sunny in Kabul
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GeoGuessr: Let's explore the world! →
I’m going to commit blasphemy: Could this be more addicting than Sporcle??
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Liberia Journalists Protest With Black Front...
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Newspapers in Liberia have printed black front pages after a government official was accused of threatening journalists.
The director of the presidential security service reportedly told a journalist: “Be careful, because you have your pens and we have our guns.”
Read the rest here.
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Invisible Armies Insurgency Tracker →
The interactive Invisible Armies Insurgency Tracker presents a database of insurgencies from 1775 to 2012. It supplements the comprehensive historical narrative in Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, by CFR Senior Fellow Max Boot.
Best finals procrastinating tool, or best finals procrastinating tool?
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April 2013
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Vladimir Putin Meets Femen →
While visiting Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin was confronted by a topless protester from the organization Femen. This is the face he made in response:
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NYT: White House Seeks to Change International...
This is a huge deal.
An Obama administration plan to change the way the United States distributes its international food aid has touched off an intense lobbying campaign by a coalition of shipping companies, agribusiness and charitable groups who say the change will harm the nation’s economy and hamper efforts to fight global hunger.
Proponents of the plan, however, say it would enable the...
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March 2013
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Drones: Out of Sight, Out of Mind →
A chilling visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004.
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foreignaffairsmagazine:
The Twisted Economics of Twenty-First-Century Socialism
Chávez may have wanted to “pulverize” capitalism, but the president’s stewardship of the Venezuelan economy seems to have helped private firms more than workers. An interactive graphic explains how, during his tenure, the country’s stock market skyrocketed while real wages collapsed.
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“Dennis Rodman was a great basketball player. And as a diplomat, he is a great...”
– U.S. Secretary of State JOHN KERRY, dissing our new North Korean envoy. (via the New York Post)
“Call it yet another chapter in the history of clueless foreigners getting lost...”
– ‘Rodman-gate’: Can ‘Useful Idiots’ please Stop Shilling for North Korea?
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Diplomatic Dystopia →
newyorker:
The response to Rodman’s trip also seems connected to a larger, more troubling phenomenon, which is the persistent strain in the popular imagination that there is something simply funny about North Korea itself. The country’s secrecy, its technological backwardness, its ham-fisted and anachronistic public pageantry, and the Kim regime’s well-documented eccentricity all add up to a...
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February 2013
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YOU KNOW, JUST A NORMAL THURSDAY NIGHT BY MYSELF...
attemptsatwisdom:
#IRmajorProblems
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Catching "If I Catch You"
Looking at Brazil’s growth through the rise of “Ai, Se Eu Te Pego,” by Bryan McCann, fabulous Georgetown professor. (h/t to Sam!)
This is the Brazilian cultural industry at its most potent: its pop wizards have several decades of practice in capturing a hint of the deepest flavors in Brazilian music and swirling them in the cauldron of sweet confection, emerging with pop that...
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