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War and Piece — ... theories abound: 'It's Hillary's fault,' ... has been succeeded by 'It's Biden's fault,' referring to fears that prized White House slots will go to Biden loyalists and others from their network of Senate staffers rather than early members of Obama's foreign advisory teams. ..." On the site today: Aaron David Miller is blogging Gaza . Veteran Washington Post Pentagon correspondent and "Fiasco" author Tom Ricks is blogging "the Best Defense" here . Marc Lynch of Abu Aardvark fame today blogs Maliki in Tehran. At Shadow Government, Philip Zelikow is ...
Blogosphere PSA
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Dan Drezner, Marc Lynch, Tom Ricks, David Rothkopf, and Stephen Walt have fancy new digs at Foreign Policy. ...
A New Power Rises in the East Blogosphere
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
So when I wasn't paying attention, Foreign Policy went and seized the greater portion of the international affairs related blogosphere. Congrats to Dan, Marc, and the rest on successfully selling out. I'll be following the blogging of Israel hating monster and mild mannered realist Stephen Walt with particular attention...
FP.com (Jan 5)
Abu Aardvark —
... to everyone for their kind words here, there, and about. I do seem to be having some trouble transferring the Feedburner e-mail subscriptions over to the new site, though. While I try to figure that out, I'll continue to post links here to the new posts so that readers who have come to depend on the email service at least know what and when I'm writing, and continue to get the daily roundup of tags. The first three posts over at FP.com are, in reverse order:
Bolton's Zombie Idea, in which I take on his "three-state solution" and the eternal ...
FP Jan 21
Abu Aardvark —
... Catching up on two days of posts over at Foreign Policy:
The Purple Tunnel of Doom, in which I recount my experience on inauguration day. This post prompted a Facebook group which registered 2000 members in one day, a slew of media coverage, even a wikipedia page... and helped get an apology from the Inaugural Committee. Doesn't make yesterday any better, but what a demonstration of the power of social networking.
"we seek a new way forward", in which I review Obama's inaugural address favorably ...
A Bleg: What Are the Political Science Blogs?
The Monkey Cage —
... Studies
Enik Rising (Seth Masket)
Frontloading HQ (Josh Putnam)
Fruits and Votes (Matthew Shugart)
Andrew Gelman
Art Goldhammer
Nils Gustaffson
Matthew Hindman
The Interdependence Complex (Lauren Phillips)
Simon Jackman
Jim Johnson
Kids Prefer Cheese (Mike Munger)
King Politics (Marvin King)
Lawyers, Guns and Money
Jacob Levy
Marc Lynch
Nolan McCarty
Laura McKenna
Brendan Nyhan ...
Silverman: "The Sons of Iraq and Iraqi Politics"
Informed Comment —
... The key issue is that the politics within the GOI will prevent this from becoming a true transition. As a number of analysts have pointed out, including Marc Lynch and Sam Parker, there are two basic groups in Iraq: those that have power and those that by and large do not. (Lynch and Parker refer to these two groups as the Powers that Are and the Powers that Aren’t.) Power in this case is a large enough stake in the government to feel represented and effect change. Those that have this power--the Islamic Mission Party (Dawa), the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and ...
No more post updates
Abu Aardvark —
... In case it hasn't been obvious, I'm not collecting the links to individual posts over at the new blog site here anymore. Please come over to ...
On Polling in the Arab World
The Monkey Cage —
Apropos of my earlier post on public opinion in Egypt comes this piece by my colleague Marc Lynch. He notes the increased importance of learning about Arab public opinion:
In the past few years, when American policy was devoted almost exclusively to “combating violent extremism”, it was possible to argue that such broad survey results had little use for policymakers. The salafi- jihadists of al Qa’eda and their passive supporters were never a mass movement: their numbers were microscopic and unlikely to be represented in opinion surveys – ...
Jay-Z: Less Declining Power, More Shrewd Politician
The Washington Note —
Marc Lynch, has a much discussed post over at Foreign Policy that refracts the beef between hip-hop legend Jay-Z and hip-hop artist The Game through the lens of International Relations theory.
The blogosphere has been abuzz with responses (Spencer Ackerman, Abu Muqawama, and Ezra Klein) and they have been some of the most interesting blog bites in the normally dreary summer months here in DC.
The conventional wisdom in these posts is to compare Jay-Z to a declining hegemonic power ...
