Will Killer Robots Be Banned? An Update After Geneva
By Julia M. Macdonald for Denver Dialogues Over the past year, a growing chorus of voices has raised…
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Students, School Selection, and Social Science.
By Christian Davenport As readers of this blog know, the study of political conflict/violence and peace is important.…
Charismatic Megafauna in Conflict Studies, or Why WWII is the Giant Panda of the Conflict/Security Field
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Charismatic megafauna are large animal species with widespread popular appeal. They excite the…
Did Banning Assault Weapons Affect Mass Shootings?
Guest Post by Brian Phillips for Denver Dialogues The Texas church mass shooting that killed 26 people and wounded…
Who Counts as Radical? Conceptions of Terrorism/Extremism as a Racial Contract
Guest Post By Emily Kalah Gade for Denver Dialogues I thank Anna Zelenz, Paige Sechrest and Vanessa Quince for…
The Ethics of Fieldwork Preparedness
Guest post by Milli Lake and Sarah E. Parkinson. Many political scientists conduct research in fragile states or…
Do Realists Need to Check Their Idealism?
By Deborah Avant for Denver Dialogues. In this series we often focus on what academic studies can tell…
To Dissent or Not to Dissent? Principles of Ethical Resistance for US Federal Servants
Guest post by Maciej Bartkowski. “I thought I was the president, but when it comes to these bureaucrats,…
Research Transparency and Political Violence: Joining the Conversation
By Wendy Pearlman. Political scientists are currently engaged in a serious conversation about the expectation that they be transparent…
Getting the Military and Social Scientists Back Together: The Need for “Expeditionary Social Science”
Guest post by Jonathan Bate. The military and the academy need each other, at least when it comes…