WebNews
Please enter a web search for web results.
NewsWeb
The Gulf is a vital lynchpin of global stability, and it goes far beyond energy
2+ week, 13+ hour ago (846+ words) 14 April 2026, 1234 EDT The US and Israel's war on Iran and regional instability threatens to disrupt critical global migration patterns. These serve as vital pressure release valves for overcrowded and socio-economically stagnant mega cities in the global south. Their disruption may…...
What's at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate
1+ week, 1+ day ago (567+ words) 20 April 2026, 0937 EDT I have a new open-access article out in Global Studies Quarterly, "What's at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate," in which I argue against historian Pekka H'm'l'inen's claims that the Comanche and the Lakota constituted empires. Many others…...
This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (632+ words) 24 April 2026, 1124 EDT As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian. While there is some variation among Episcopalians and Anglicans over whether they see themselves as Protestant, both my birth and…...
Religious nationalism makes the profane sacred: True faith uses the sacred to heal the world
3+ week, 1+ day ago (630+ words) 6 April 2026, 1151 EDT Some will say this is inevitable when you mix religion with politics. Others may say it's uniquely American Christian, a product of its ties with white privilege and domination. But to me this is what happens when religious…...
The Scripts We Perform: Militarized Masculinity and the Gendered Order
2+ week, 6+ day ago (325+ words) 8 April 2026, 1012 EDT On 22nd'April 2025, 26 civilians were killed in'Pahalgam, a town in Indian-administered Kashmir. The perpetrators specifically targeted men, asking them to recite Islamic verses and executing those who failed. A woman who witnessed her husband's murder begged to be killed…...
Watching Scientific Progress in Action
3+ week, 5+ day ago (90+ words) 2 April 2026, 1540 EDT I recently attended a webinar presenting the preliminary findings of the "Social Consequences of Religion" (SCORE) project. The project, funded by the Templeton Foundation, is assessing research on religion's role in conflict and peace and is meant to…...
The Best and Worst of U. S. Foreign Policy(?)
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (280+ words) 27 March 2026, 1001 EDT The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) recently published results of a survey of historians on the best and worst foreign policy decisions in U. S. history. There are few surprises'wars in Vietnam and Iraq fared poorly, and the'post-WWII creation of…...
Was I wrong on the Gulf states and Iran? An exercise in academic humility
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (589+ words) 27 March 2026, 1423 EDT My fellow graduate students and I suffered through the application of this debate to a few different areas of international relations. There's the ongoing debate over the democratic peace, the debate over whether scientific rigor is ruining the…...
6+1 Questions About "The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy
6+ mon, 1+ day ago (173+ words) 27 October 2025, 1557 EDT 2. What's the argument? 3. Why should we care? 4. Why will we find the article (or book) persuasive? Qualitative analysis is able to illuminate and parse through the discourse and paranoia around Christian persecution. It is able to illustrate how,…...
6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (437+ words) 30 September 2025, 1905 EDT American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025). Relations with Native American groups were constitutive of early U. S. foreign policy, and this should make us reconsider the notion that the United…...