Comments on: Terrorism and IR Theory

By: Anonymous

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By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 03:38:58 +0000

Dave: Likely true as a partial answer, at any rate. Still, it speaks to the increasing isolation of political science, with a cadre of experts studying complex issues, from the world of public policy. If, four years after 9/11, they're still not producing work on the most important issue in IR, then their research is, in both senses of the word, academic.

By: The Glittering Eye

The Glittering Eye — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:47:13 +0000

Where are the academic articles on terrorism and IR theory?

Abu Aardvark has a great post documenting the lack of articles in the scholarly international relations journals that relate to terrorism or al-Qaeda. Only about 3% of the total volume. James Joyner of Outside the Beltway notes:
Part of the problem...

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:28:29 +0000

I don't think there's anything particularly sinister about this: people tend to do what they were trained to do and very few of the who are in IR now were trained in the disciplines necessary to claim even rudimentary expertise in the areas necessary to comment intelligently on Islamism or al-Qaeda.

Was it Max Planck who said that the only way to change prevailing ideas in physics was for physicists to die? I.e. a generational shift?