October 13, 2009 • 3:27 pm
Apologies— comprehensive exams are right around the corner, so normal transmission will return on Saturday.
Jonathan Cohn and others at TNR’s The Treatment have been very productive as we come down to the wire for health care in the Senate, including the news today that Snowe expects to vote yes to move Baucus’ bill out of finance.
Work has also picked up at the Federation of American Scientists’ Strategic Security Blog, which is always welcome.
Drew Conway also has new posts on networks and insurgency.
Thankfully, their output means that readers will come out far ahead in TII’s absence. Hope all are well.
a.j.m.
Filed under: Housekeeping
August 10, 2009 • 12:03 pm
TII apologizes for the gap in service while its generators were being geographically concentrated in a dedicated location. We regret any inconvenience.
a.j.m.
Filed under: Housekeeping
After three months that included completing my graduate coursework and a month off in California, I intend to return to blogging on this page. You’ll see that Brian Radzinsky has been removed from the masthead. Brian has accepted a fellowship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for the coming year, where of course he’ll do great things. So for the time being, The International Interest is mine alone. I expect not much will change—it will still serve as a space to work out my ideas about current events and international theory, rather than a being written for the entertainment or information of my audience.
As part of gathering what I missed, I want to point to some critical, but very thoughtful responses to my piece with Charlie Kupchan in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas this past winter. First, you can find a video and mp3 of an event at the New America Foundation with both of us, Steven Clemons, Eli Roth, and Rachel Kleinfeld. Next, is a quick write-up that appeared in The Washington Post, next to a Hillary Clinton bobblehead. Amitai Etzioni took up the idea at Talking Points Memo. And last, but perhaps most significantly, James Traub has published a lengthy response in the most recent issue of Democracy. We’ve benefitted a great deal from the dialogue that each of these pieces produced, and from events at Georgetown and the Council on Foreign Relations. Thanks to everybody who read the piece!
Filed under: Housekeeping , Autonomy rule, Democracy, Etzioni, Kupchan, Traub
Charles Kupchan and I have a piece in this quarter’s Democracy, which comes out this week, called The Autonomy Rule. Readers of this page also familiar with Kupchan’s immense corpus will know that he and I come at the piece from very different angles. For Charlie, it was another tack on his skepticism about the utility of democracy promotion for achieving America’s interests abroad; for me, the piece is a very cautious step toward grounding a new international order predicated on minimal and shared moral principles. For both of us, it is an attempt to demonstrate that the more internationalist, more just path that must be taken forward is not inimical to American political tradition, or indeed to American interests. We have received some excellent feedback so far (thanks if any of you are reading this)—and we have much more on the subject coming soon, thoughts from which I hope to have the time to post here.
Those here for the first time should not that this page is not updated regularly, due to the exigencies of our academic lives and will likely not be before the end of the academic year. This is more of a scratchpad for incomplete ideas than public commentary on current events. Still: welcome.
—a.j. mount
Filed under: Housekeeping, the next order , Autonomy rule, Kupchan, TII
August 16, 2008 • 10:36 pm
My internship with the Arms Control Association has ended. We each decided it would be best if we saw other think tanks, but we had a good run. I’ll still blog here at TII, and, if anything, more free time means more blogging time, so stay tuned for some wonktastic fun.
Filed under: Housekeeping
“I’m highly skeptical” —Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
Filed under: Housekeeping
I think the question of a title for the blog was resolved reasonably well; I, at least, am happy with it. But as I expect we will soon become advocates of transparency where possible it is only fair to note that the title Structurbation was proposed for this page. And not by me.
—a.j.mount
Filed under: Housekeeping , Giddens, Meta-theory, Peeing on the shoes of giants
