February 2012
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Getting to Zero (FP) →
smcnayr:
“…would it really be so crazy to reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal to 300 deployed weapons?
…There are an estimated 20,500 nuclear weapons in the world. The United States and Russia hold over 95 percent of them, or about 19,500 weapons. (The United States has about 5,000 weapons in its active stockpile, with 1,790 counted under the New START treaty as deployed strategic weapons, plus...
Anonymous asked: I just wanted to say that I posted the What People Think I Do meme on facebook and in 2 days it's gotten 14,068 Shares. My world politics professor asked me if I posted it and I said yes but I got it from tumblr. So many people have seen it that it was mentioned in the Washington Post. Just thought the people who made this should feel proud that it was in the news :)
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January 2012
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December 2011
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Oh, WaPo, I see what you did there
Look who’s both out and in on the Washington Post’s 2011 to 2012 List:
(second to last if you missed it)
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NY TIMES: In moving across the International Date... →
The politics of time zones.
inothernews:
The Pacific island nation of Samoa and its even tinier neighbor Tokelau are skipping Friday this week, jumping westward in time across the international date line and into the shifting economic balance of the 21st century.
The time change, officially decided in June, is meant to align Samoa with its Asian trading partners; it moves the islands’...
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Sick of Finals? International Development Ryan...
http://developmentryangosling.tumblr.com/
Thanks to Jon for sharing this!
Anonymous asked: on your list of other student memes, the film link goes to foreign languages instead D:
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The 2012 Election and the Republicans' Foreign...
foreignaffairsmagazine:
The man who gave us “Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan” has dropped out of the Republican primary. But the remaining GOP candidates will still struggle to sound out a clear message on foreign policy that is different from Barack Obama’s. Read James Lindsay’s take.
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“We wouldn’t have an embassy in Iran. I wouldn’t allow that to be there.”
– Rep. Michele Bachmann, on how she wouldn’t allow a U.S. embassy in Iran if elected president. The U.S. hasn’t had an embassy in Iran in more than three decades. (via officialssay)
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These presidential hopefuls… Someone sign them up for Intro to International Relations.
Drezner, thank God, tears down Herman Cain's... →
…and then adds his own analysis:
Chile: “Strategic, mountainous ally”
Turkey: “Sultry Minx”
Saudi Arabia: “Ask John Bolton”
Lebanon: “Good kebabs”
Hawaii: “This one’s ours, right?”
Uzbekistan: “Wait, that’s a real country?”
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November 2011
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What Your Favorite Map Projection Says About You →
submitted by iknowshayna
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I *love* xkcd. Also, this goes along with the comic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM
(It’s a West Wing link, people. You know you want to watch it.)
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Al-Assad →
Inspired at the William & Mary Model UN conference, this is a recreation of a hand-made note made by the delegate of Syria on the Arab League committee.
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Anonymous asked: Just stumbled across your video of Constantine as US(...). Had an awful week and fell completely in love really brightened my night. Very clever! Love from Switzerland.
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“Diplomacy is not like chess. It’s more like jazz—a constant improvisation...”
– Richard Holbrooke (via minutesfalllikeleaves)
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Helping my roommate study for her IR exam...
“So compared to Realists and Liberal Institutionalists, Constructivists are hipsters in the international system?”
HIPSTER MARTHA FINNEMORE APPROVES
“I was a Constructivist before it was mainstream.”
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October 2011
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