Biopolitics: Power, Pandemics and War

Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship

Uncertainty about Relative Power and War

The traditional and formal literatures in international relations have placed uncertainty at the center of their explanations for war. The formal literature has largely focused on uncertainty regarding the costs of war while the traditional literature focuses on uncertainty about relative power. In this paper we analyze a class of formal models of conflict where players choose between fighting ...

Unipolarity, StatUS Competition, and Great power war

Journals, Academics, and Pandemics

Two articles published recently in PLoS Medicine highlight the problem of how to effectively share information in the wake of a rapidly spreading disease, and prompted us to ask the question ''How well are journals doing?'' with regard to this important goal. The answer, sadly, seems to be ''not well enough.'' Although the potential of the Internet for improving the dissemination of information...

Pandemics and National Security

Traditionally, national security has been narrowly defined as the preservation of the state from physical threats. Still, emerging diseases and their pandemic potential pose perhaps an even greater national security threat, particularly in this era of globalization when disease can spread more rapidly than in previous eras. Thirty four percent of all deaths worldwide are now attributable to inf...