Saideman's Semi-Spew

I had to do something this week that I would not have expected long ago.  I told the editors of Ethnopolitics that I could not serve on the...

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are developing a tv show for CBS focusing on the behind the scenes people at the United Nation s .  The folks i...

Today, I met a Princess, and I met Justice(s).  Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado of Japan is touring Canada to mark the 90th anniv...

This piece seeks to explain Trump's Philo-Semitism--that Trump claims to be a friend of Jews but is very much not.  It reminds me of my...

I am not a political theorist, and it has been decades since my last political theory class, but this is my blog, so I get to discuss whatev...

I have blogged here before about the insights of social identity theory , and I am returning to it because it is screaming right now.  Ho...

Jim Golby and Peter Feaver have a super-interesting piece at the Atlantic on what a deal with the Taliban might mean for US civil-military ...

Ok, this is not a quiz but a series of reactions to this pic : A few obvious patterns here.  Of course, the Walmart of it all.  What doe...

A few weeks ago, this thing became a topic on twitter and it just got new energy: I fear this means the end of my caviar and champagne br...

I have long argued that anytime Trump uses a number, it is wrong.  It is one of the basic rules for understanding Trump . So, I tweeted th...