Professor Government and International Affairs
Virginia Tech, National Capital Region,
1021 Prince Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, USAPopular Categories
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- Aaron David Miller Reality Check
- Bosnia Remade A blog devoted to the book Bosnia Remade
- David Grondin Militainment and the National Security State
- Duck of Minerva US IR scholars on contemporary international affairs
- Florian Bieber South East Europe dispatches
- Geographical Imaginations Derek Gregory on war, space and security
- Geopolitics & Security @ Royal Holloway
- Joshua Landis Syria Comment
- Juan Cole Informed Comment
- Michael Tomasky
- Open Geography
- Political Geography Specialty Group Blog Political Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
- Political Violence at a Glance
- Pop Theory
- Progressive Geographies Thinking about place and power
- Rosa Brooks By Other Means
- Stephen Walt
- War, Law, Space
Professional Affiliation
- Government and International Affairs The Government and International Affairs program at Virginia Tech
- The School of Public and International Affairs School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech
Research Projects
- The De Facto States Project The De Facto States Project
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Category Archives: Russia
Introduction: Virtual Special Issue on Russian Geopolitics
Elsevier has placed a number of its political geography articles on Open Access, in a Virtual Special Issue on Russian Geopolitics. Most, but not all, are from Political Geography. Below is the text of my introduction to the Issue, which was … Continue reading
The Crimea Precedent & the Post-Soviet De Facto States
The well-known Political Science blog The Monkey Cage, now owned by the Washington Post (now owned by Jeff Bezos; we all work for Amazon now) posted earlier today a concise 3 graph summary of what our De Facto State Research Survey reveals … Continue reading
Internal Legitimacy in De Facto States
The question of legitimacy is, of course, a central one in the study of de facto states. Unrecognized states don’t have it from the international community (or from only a few as in the case of Abkhazia and South Ossetia), … Continue reading
Inconvenient Truths about the Syria Crisis
The time for more detached scholarly research on the interstate conflict over responding to the Syrian civil war, and war crimes therein, will come later. Clearly the 21 August chemical weapon attacks intensified this conflict greatly. The affective geopolitical complex … Continue reading
