Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Tufts University.
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The Review | Essay
Soon enough, the capable few won’t want the job either.
The Review
The supply of intellectuals has increased far beyond the academy, so that promoting ideas in the public sphere has become big business.
Research
By disproving an existing theory—even by acknowledging problems with our own—we refine our understanding of what our models can and cannot explain.
The Chronicle Review
An international-relations scholar’s satire yields some serious lessons.
The Review
The cumulative effect of governments’ likely responses will make it harder for political scientists and historians to piece together how foreign-policy decisions were made.
The Review
Does the blogosphere break down the barriers erected by a professionalized academy?
The Review
How indictments of The Israel Lobby expose political science’s flaws Does the public understand how political science works? Or are political scientists the ones who need re-educating? Those questions have been running through my mind in light of the drubbing that John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M.…
The Review
When I began working on my latest book, I also began regularly reading a news source greatly undervalued in international relations: The Onion. The timing was serendipitous because I soon stumbled across a mock headline that crystallized one of my central themes: “Correct Theory Discarded in Favor…
The Review
CAN BLOGGING DERAIL YOUR CAREER? When I was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, a senior colleague once told me his secret to academic success: One bad article equals five great ones. His point was that the worst thing a scholar can do is to publish too much, as opposed to too…