Professor Government and International Affairs
Virginia Tech, National Capital Region,
1021 Prince Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, USAPopular Categories
Abkhazia August War Bosnia Bosnian war Caucasus conflict Critical Geopolitics Current affairs De Facto States Democracy ethnic cleansing Five Day War forced displacement genocide Geography Geopolitics Georgia Nagorno-Karabakh Nagorny Karabakh nationalism Obama Political Borders Political Geography Putin Radovan Karadzic South Ossetia Syria Uncategorized war crimes Washington D.C. World political mapBlogroll
- 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
Critical Geopoltiics- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Follow me on Twitter
My Tweets
Category Archives: US Senate
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
Should the United States Save Syria?
Yesterday afternoon I attended a debate organized around this question. The event was the first organized by a new ‘decision tank’ in Washington DC, the McCain Institute. Named after Senator John McCain, organized in collaboration with Arizona State University, and … Continue reading
Posted in Current affairs, John McCain, Syria, US Senate, Washington D.C.
Tagged Robert Kagan
1 Comment
“We have to fix that”
Among the many pleasures on election night last month was seeing the fire in Obama’s eye as he went off script — “by the way, we have to fix that” — during a wonderful election night speech. He was referring … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Constitution, Current affairs, Democracy, Obama, US Senate, Washington D.C.
Leave a comment
