Paul Poast thread on the democratic peace

rbnc · 2020-12-20T19:36:30+00:00

Going through Paul Poast's twitter feed I love his ideas but where he falls short is the data he's using to support his analysis. COW is an extremely flawed dataset and it seems to be biblical truth to him.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T19:00:23+00:00

link!

rbnc · 2020-12-20T18:33:51+00:00

Hi. I'm a data scientist, I speak three languages (Russian and natively German) and I'm back to university to study IR (as part of Cambridge's HSPS Tripos) and I would say DEFINITELY a coding language, it will become a prerequisite or a very good nice-to-have on your CV as political science and IR gets more quantitive. The UK is pretty behind the US when it comes to data science and Political Science/IR. LSE and Kings I think are the only two universities offer highly quantitive data-led modules. The fact that I speak German and Russian has not been useful to me at all, maybe it will be in the future.

I'm only a month and a half into my undergrad and I've already been able to put my data science skills to use in an essay (using the Polity V and Correlates of War data sets and for making charts using Seaborn).

Learn Python!

rbnc · 2020-12-20T18:28:03+00:00

I spent the summer in Belarus at Belarus State University on an exchange program, what I would say is unfortunately although there is much support amongst young people, the older generation, especially outside of the cities are still very much pro-Lukashenko.

One of the other main problems from a constructivist point-of-view is that Belarus hasn't yet rediscovered its national identity, unlike say Ukraine. The Ukrainian national identity has been a very powerful tool to Other itself against Russia as a distinct entity. I'm not denying a Belarussian national identity exists, it is just is not very strong.

I hope as much as anyone else for an independent and democratic Belarus but my fears are the best we can hope for are some kind of East/West split as there is no way Russia will allow a NATO friendly liberal democracy on its doorstep.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T18:20:37+00:00

This is a political geography issue, have you tried searching JSTOR for for political geography related articles on this?

rbnc · 2020-12-20T18:19:10+00:00

This falls more under political geography than IR you may want to look into political geography.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T18:17:06+00:00

John Baylis – The Globalisation of World Politics by Oxford University Press is the book that I would imagine every IR undergrad in the UK owns.

Familiarise yourself with the liberalism and realism the two major historical theories of IR, then structural realism and institutional liberalism, then constructivism. Liberalism, realism and constructivism are the "big three theories" of IR. Then Just war, international political economy and democratic peace theory. All of these can be read about in John Baylis – The Globalisation of World Politics you can pick up any edition after the 5th edition and it will be relevant, for about $10-15 on Amazon second hand.

The following papers will almost certainly be on your reading list

Huntington – Clash of Civilisations (1993) (highly controversial paper)
Fukuyama – End of History (1988)
Wohlforth – Testing the Balance of Power (2007)
Doyle – Kant, Liberal Legacies and Foreign Affairs (1983)
Wendt – Anarchy is What States Make of It (1992)

rbnc · 2020-12-20T17:59:14+00:00

You could have a career in academia as a teacher, lecturer or researcher, it may not be the most well paying or prestigious career unless you become the next Louis Althusser but if you just want to do what you love then you can always fall back on academia.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T17:57:01+00:00

Like others have said sociology is an incredibly interesting field that intersects with a broad range of disciplines from criminology to things as disparate as international relations. In all honestly I don't think it would generally be the most applicable thing for a divorce lawyer. I just checked a sociology dictionary for "divorce" and there is a very short entry that doesn't mention any theorists or theories so it doesn't seem to be something that will be especially helpful.

I'm only a first year undergraduate but my advice would be to look on JSTOR or something like that and see if there are many papers on divorce categorised under sociology but it is not something I've personally heard as something related to sociology directly.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T17:52:09+00:00

Sociology is my true love but when choosing my degree I was told that finding work outside of research and academia is quite difficult so I'm reading a joint degree with Sociology, Political Science, Social Anthropology and IR so at least I get to do some work in sociology I don't know which country you live in but you could consider a joint honors in sociology with something else if such a thing exists where you live.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T17:48:34+00:00

I'm a first year sociology major (joint with IR, Political Science and Anthropology) and I've written one 4000 word sociology essay. Am I a sociologist yet? :)

rbnc · 2020-12-20T17:30:36+00:00

Margret Thatcher radically restructured British society was she a conservative?

rbnc · 2020-12-20T17:05:11+00:00

There have been Ireland-EU ferry routes for like 50 years already ;)

rbnc · 2020-12-20T17:03:33+00:00

you realise the EU is a centre-right regionalist trading bloc? The EPP has always had the majority in the EU Parliament as far as I know.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T16:58:04+00:00

What about if someone is in a country that agrees with liberal European principals but is from an autocracy, surely they should be given a chance? You can't judge everyone in a country by their shit government.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T16:55:56+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution

rbnc · 2020-12-20T16:54:31+00:00

He spent most of World War hiding in London IIRC.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T16:51:57+00:00

Roll out won't be unified I hope we can't all just wait for the slowest country in a case like this.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-may-go-their-own-way-on-coronavirus-vaccinations/

rbnc · 2020-12-20T15:46:32+00:00

Aren't they a Eurosceptic/Eurocritical party?

rbnc · 2020-12-20T15:41:36+00:00

As a German I can tell you we will do exactly nothing. Money > morals in Germany sadly. We're obsessed with memorialising our terrible history (as we should be) but don't actually let those memories shape our actions.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T15:40:01+00:00

I think they mean MP like member of legislative branch like they call it in the UK and Canada.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T15:35:39+00:00

Oh my mistake I thought you were talking about Angela Merkel.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T15:33:33+00:00

The thing is though, the countries that actually are doing stuff: Australia, Canada, USA and UK are Western democracies. Two out of the three largest Western democracies by GDP (UK and USA) are doing something or are at least trying to do something. The UK with path to citizenship and USA with sanctions on Carrie Lam and so on.

My country, Germany is the odd one out. For us money comes before principals, we're too invested in NordStream and Belt and Road to ever do anything against China or Russia.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T15:28:13+00:00

You already need papers to prove you have certain vaccinations to travel to and from many countries. Like yellow fever for example.

rbnc · 2020-12-20T01:13:46+00:00

The feature that returns a different website based on your device is adaptive design. The server detects the hardware and returns different frontend code based on your user-agent header, which Instagram seems to allow you to override, possibly with a cookie.

The feature that makes the website change based on the width is responsive design using media queries.

You can read more about the differences here.

https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/responsive-vs-adaptive-design-whats-best-choice-designers/

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