Abandoned Footnotes

(I normally don’t write on current events, since I’m not a specialist in the politics of any country, but I had just finished  Michael Herb...

(A graph-heavy post on the post-WWII history of political instability.) (Update 1/24/2014: Thanks to Profs. Gleditsch, Goemans, and Chio...

A revolution may not be a dinner party , but they sometimes involve a great deal of partying. From Stephen Kotkin’s recent biography of Stal...

Another year is coming to an end, another  Ragnarok deferred ; a time to take stock and give thanks. It’s been a very busy year. I spent six...

I've been recently re-reading Juan Linz 's Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes , a book I didn't appreciate enough when I fi...