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The Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester)

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Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Rajiv Chandrasekaran) 

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1776 (David McCullough)

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 ONGOING thru 2009

The Non-Western Reading Project

 

2009

No Love in a Time of Cholera and the Response - Foreign Policy in Focus - 3.23.09

The Conscientious Objectors in Iraq: Placing them in an Historical Context - Nebula 6.1 (March 2009)

Interview with President of International Peace Operations Association - International Affairs Forum - 3.01.09

And the Ox it Rode in On: China's Charter 08 - World Policy Journal blog - 2.13.09

Africa: The Next Boon for Private Military Firms? - International Affairs Forum - 2.04.09

Censor See, Censor Do - World Policy Journal blog - 1.17.09

Lawless Fighting the Lawless - International Affairs Forum - 1.02.09 

 

2008

Thoughts on the Recent New School Occupation - December 2008

Guerrillero Heroica: A Review of Che - Foreign Policy in Focus - 12.22.08

The Rise of China's Human Flesh Search Engine - World Policy Journal blog - 12.15.08

A Specter Stirs in Illinois... and Elsewhere - 12.10.08

Whither the Left Now? - 12.01.08

Fashionably Late - October 2008 

Dear Leftists: Don't Throw Your Vote Away on Obama - 10.30.08

The Dearth of Imagination in American Foreign Policy - Contexts - October 2008.

Frugal Treasure Hunters Furnish Apartment - Queens Tribune and New American Dream -  10.17-23.08

Nukes in the Himalayas - World Policy Journal blog - 10.15.08

Learning from Quagmire - book review - 10.15.08

China's Chechnya? (Part 1) (Part 2 ) - World Policy Journal blog - 9.16.08

China Cracks the Door - from World Policy Journal blog - 8.04.08

52 Weeks, 52 People of Admiration and Inspiration - 7.23.08

A Visit to the Doctor - Now that's Real Change (Here's Looking at You, Obama) - 7.09.08 

Blood for Oil - 6.27.08

Learning from History? The Iraq War and Three Historical Referents - 5.10.08

New War Order? On the Use of Private Military Firms as an Emergent Norm - 5.05.08

China's Tipping Point - March 2008 - with accompanying photo composite by Sarah. D. Schulman. Originally published in Boundaries and Crossings (here). 

On the Morality of Increasing Distance between the Killer and Victim in War - 3.02.08 

The Iraq War: What Artists and Capitalists Display - 1.27.08 

"How to Approach the Elephant: Chinese Perceptions toward India for the 21st Century," Asian Affairs (Winter 2008). Email me for a copy.

 

2007

 Estimating the Legitimacy of the Kyoto Protocol - 12.18.07 

Examining the Process of Democratization: Democracy or Security First? - 12.25.07

On How Third Party Contractors in Iraq Highlight Problems with Outsourcing Security - 12.25.07Shaun Randol in Blois, France, 2007

Country See, Country Do: Special Economic Zone Policy in India and China - 5.09.07 

Thoughts on Globalization, Speed and Democracy - 11.23.07

Getting my Point Across in 150 Words or Less, or Three Letters to the Editor The New York Times didn't Publish - 11.04.07

Why George Bush, CNN, and Amazon.com Make Me Anxious - 10.14.07 

A Brief Conversation with David Campbell - 9.17-27.07 

China: Before and After Impressions - 5.30.07 & 8.28.07

Goodbye, Gram - 7.25.07 

Comprehensive, Competitive, Constructive - 7.10.07 

A Female Response - 5.30.07 - guest editor Sarah D. Schulman

Democracy Chatter? - 4.28.07 

A Wandom Week on Wikipedia - 4.09-15.07 

Four Initiatives to Propel the US into the 21st Century - 3.03.07

Remembrance of Things Passed - 2.06.07

Snapshot - 1.20.07

 

2006

Soft Power and the Quasi-Scientific Institution: A Case Study of Invisible Manipulation by National Geographic Magazine. 

Sudan and Islamocracy: A Second Chance for Setting the First? 

Power (re)Imagined and (re)Applied: The Iraq Study Group Report and the Emergence of a New Mid-East Framework 

Shaun Randol on the Great Wall of ChinaThe Temporary(?) Frivolity of My Existence - 10.23.06

What Verdict Would a Buddhist Juror Render in the Zacarias Moussaoui Case? - Sept. here

The Lenses through which I View the World - 9.18.06

The Dilemma of Democratic Promotion - 8.19.06

Je Ne Comprends Pas - 6.18.06

You Learn Something New Everyday... right? - 6.01-30.06 

Deserty & Jonathan S. the Pirate - 5.15.06 - guest editor Eric Garrison

Thoughts on Masturbation and Female Sexual Satisfaction - 4.15.06

Pop Politics - 3.02.06

New Year Resolutions - 1.03.06

 

2005

Tunnel Vision - 11.30.05

Introduction to the Diary of William Pennington - undated

If I were President... - 10.22.05

By the Numbers - 10.03.05

Blissful Ignorance - 9.01.05

I'm a Hypocrite - 7.10.05

Is the the Insurgency or the Occupation? - 6.23.05

10 Things Bothering me about this Country Right Now - 6.08.05Shaun Randol - reading on the 3 train

Massacre at Fallujah - 4.21.05

Blood is Being Shed for Bling - 3.21.05

Haiti One Year Later - 3.02.05

Thoughts on Black History Month - 2.07.05

Catch-22 - 1.28.05

Thank You, Senator Boxer, Congresswoman Tubbs Jones, et al - 1.09.05

 

2004

What to Read? - 12.09.04

Passing the Buck - 11.18.04

A Union of the Wealthy - 11.08.04

A Letter to Cobb/LaMarche - 10.31.04

The Next Vietnam - Colombia - 10.26.04

Failing to Connect Genocide to National Security - 10.04.04

Crying Wolf - 9.26.04 

 

2002-03

articles published in the McKendree College newspaper, The Review

"Who You Gonna Call? Third Parties, Conflict Resolution, and the End of the Cold War," with Brian Frederking and Andrea Pyatt Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution (June 2000).

 

 





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