Dear Spencer,
I have not been keeping up with this blog at all in the last few months. I am involved in many projects and am still in the process of settling into my job at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. I would like to make this blog more of a part of my process of writing and thinking through issues that I am working on, but I am still thinking of ways that I can do that meaningfully.
My job is to write and to produce content. That content needs to be peer reviewed and validated by gatekeepers. The kind of writing that I am doing here - or not doing here- is unfiltered and unfettered. I think that there is value in the interaction of both types of writing. If there are any regular readers of this blog (not even my wife or mother read this, so I don't have a lot of hope), which is unlikely since there is no regular writer on this blog, please be patient as I get back into the swing of things.
Topics that I will be posting on in the future:
I have not been keeping up with this blog at all in the last few months. I am involved in many projects and am still in the process of settling into my job at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. I would like to make this blog more of a part of my process of writing and thinking through issues that I am working on, but I am still thinking of ways that I can do that meaningfully.
My job is to write and to produce content. That content needs to be peer reviewed and validated by gatekeepers. The kind of writing that I am doing here - or not doing here- is unfiltered and unfettered. I think that there is value in the interaction of both types of writing. If there are any regular readers of this blog (not even my wife or mother read this, so I don't have a lot of hope), which is unlikely since there is no regular writer on this blog, please be patient as I get back into the swing of things.
Topics that I will be posting on in the future:
- Pedagogy - I am especially interested in incorporating undergraduates into the research process.
- Technology - My personal computer is now running UBUNTU. My academic writing is done in a text editor and LaTeX. I am moving from Stata to R for my statistical analysis work. There are a lot of changes for me on the technology front.
- A new research area I am interested in: Covert Action by states.
- More on military issues and arms sales.
- Some work on role theory and network analysis - a new book project (from an ongoing paper project with my dissertation adviser and mentor, Cameron Thies).
- Russia-Ukraine stuff. Because I lived in Donetsk for two years, and this is a pretty big deal.
That's the plan for the future. I am aiming to have one or two short posts a week with maybe a longer piece up once a month or so. I may be ambitious and work to get my longer pieces linked to, or re-posted on some of the blogs of the cool kids. Wouldn't that be something!
Best,
Spencer
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