Links: European floods, Middle East, NSA, Game of Thrones
Flood disaster in Central Europe Central Europe has to bear with a lot of water as the rivers Danube, Elbe, Saale, Inn, Mulde, and several more tributaries are swollen up to the upper limit. The...
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FAQ: The PRISM leak & Edward Snowden
OK, now that some of the dust has settled: What exactly is this PRISM program? Apparently, the idea is to collect information on patterns of communication (who talked to whom), and then look at...
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Links: Voting reform, Forecasting, PRISM, Germany
Detail from “A Simple Proposal to Stop Gerrymandering”, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Summer break has begun in Germany. Wherever you are, enjoy your time in the sun! In case you’re stuck inside...
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Links: NSA, Brazil, Tenure, MOOCs
Plötzensee, Berlin (Public Domain, Wikipedia) Over at Bretterblog, a colleague has noted (in German) that many IR blogs seem to take a summer break. Might that have been directed at us? Well, here are...
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Links: Coase; End of IR Theory; Spying and Leaks; Twerking and Colonialism
Transaction Costs Ronald Coase passed away on September 2. Here is a brief discussion of his most famous contributions, of which “transaction costs” matter most for political scientists. The End of IR...
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Espionage, Surveillance, and Transatlantic Relations
OK, the NSA was bugging German chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone for ten years, and a well-known German member of parliament has just met with whistleblower Edward Snowden in Russia. Snowden has...
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Links: Cyber Attacks, Trade Negotiations, Combat Drones
A Siemens device used to control centrifuges (by “Ulli1105″ via Wikimedia commons) Small anniversary: Link post #25. By the way, do you find these useful? — On cyber attacks, I would like to recommend...
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Happy New Year everyone! We’re back from our winter break. (Actually, some members of the IR Blog editorial board are still enjoying their time off, but I guess they will return to their desks...
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Links: New Blogs, New Crises, NSA Reform, Ethics in Academia
Our colleagues from the Center for Global Politics (CGP) at Freie Universität Berlin have set up a blog called “Global Matters”. The idea is promising: every two weeks the CGP posts a question related...
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Why the German Intelligence Community Infuriates Me
One and a half years ago, I wrote the following about the German (BND) and the U.S. (CIA, NSA…) intelligence services in comparison: (…) I think there is a marked difference in self-perception between...
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Links: European floods, Middle East, NSA, Game of Thrones
Flood disaster in Central Europe Central Europe has to bear with a lot of water as the rivers Danube, Elbe, Saale, Inn, Mulde, and several more tributaries are swollen up to the upper limit. The...
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FAQ: The PRISM leak & Edward Snowden
OK, now that some of the dust has settled: What exactly is this PRISM program? Apparently, the idea is to collect information on patterns of communication (who talked to whom), and then look at...
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Links: Voting reform, Forecasting, PRISM, Germany
Detail from “A Simple Proposal to Stop Gerrymandering”, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Summer break has begun in Germany. Wherever you are, enjoy your time in the sun! In case you’re stuck inside...
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Links: NSA, Brazil, Tenure, MOOCs
Plötzensee, Berlin (Public Domain, Wikipedia) Over at Bretterblog, a colleague has noted (in German) that many IR blogs seem to take a summer break. Might that have been directed at us? Well, here are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Links: Coase; End of IR Theory; Spying and Leaks; Twerking and Colonialism
Transaction Costs Ronald Coase passed away on September 2. Here is a brief discussion of his most famous contributions, of which “transaction costs” matter most for political scientists. The End of IR...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Espionage, Surveillance, and Transatlantic Relations
OK, the NSA was bugging German chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone for ten years, and a well-known German member of parliament has just met with whistleblower Edward Snowden in Russia. Snowden has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Links: Cyber Attacks, Trade Negotiations, Combat Drones
A Siemens device used to control centrifuges (by “Ulli1105” via Wikimedia commons) Small anniversary: Link post #25. By the way, do you find these useful? — On cyber attacks, I would like to recommend...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Tailored Access Operations” are exactly what I want the NSA to do
Happy New Year everyone! We’re back from our winter break. (Actually, some members of the IR Blog editorial board are still enjoying their time off, but I guess they will return to their desks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Links: New Blogs, New Crises, NSA Reform, Ethics in Academia
Our colleagues from the Center for Global Politics (CGP) at Freie Universität Berlin have set up a blog called “Global Matters”. The idea is promising: every two weeks the CGP posts a question related...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why the German Intelligence Community Infuriates Me
One and a half years ago, I wrote the following about the German (BND) and the U.S. (CIA, NSA…) intelligence services in comparison: (…) I think there is a marked difference in self-perception between...
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