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Agreed. JPR and Conflict Management and Peace Science have really come on lately.

The best places to find good methodologically sophisticated IR stuff is either in the top three poli sci journals (American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, or Journal of Politics), in some of the more methods-leaning IR journals (International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution) or even a methods journal like Political Analysis. I might also suggest that you think of security in terms of its literatures and then find examples of work in a particular literature that is an example of each of the three major methodological classifications. For example, there is a lot of qualitative deterrence work, good formal deterrence work from people like Bob Powell, and good quantitative deterrence work from guys like Paul Huth. The same could be said for, say, the democratic peace literature, the civil and ethnic conflict literatures, or the insurgency literature. That way, you're simultaneously working on your methodological and substantive development.

NYU is excellent in both. Their methodology department is high-end and their presence in IR is also strong with big names like Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith leading the charge. I would be careful, however, in labeling them as a "quantitative" school. While the quantitative training you would receive at NYU would be strong, no doubt, their label tends to be more "formal" than "statistical," for whatever that's worth. If you're talking about formal/quantitative approaches to IR, then you might want to look at the following schools. Forgive me if I miss any...I will be speaking primarily from a conflict/security perspective. These are not in any particular order. Michigan UCSD Rochester Penn State WashU Illinois Emory NYU Wisconsin Stanford Bear in mind, too, that you can't go wrong with a top-notch IR department mixed with a top-notch methods department -- think Ohio State here, where there is a good methods department, a good IR department, but not a really super-quanty approach to IR. There's no rule that says that your research must be in the image and likeness of your primary advisor's research. I would recommend that you pay attention to the top three poli sci journals as well as a handful of the top statistical/formal-leaning IR journals this year to see what's springing up.

Same here dude. High five us.

You don't pick the place. The place picks you. Oh man, I got existential. Woot woot.

Here's hoping you other Emory visitors had fun -- and got home in one piece.

I will not be attending Michigan, either. Bear in mind that this is because I failed to earn admission. I also will not be attending the Austrialian National University, Sinclair Community College, or Agnes Scott.

This is actually something of a selling point at Big 10 schools, where, through the CIC (Big Ten schools plus UChicago), you can take classes at any partner school for credit as a traveling scholar. Last fall I was lucky enough to be a traveling scholar for a security class that I found to be dynamite and completely helpful for the dissertation. Given the amount of surface area touched upon, it isn't even that much red tape.

Peepz, I thank you for your laudable contributions to the Papa Beard Rocks Out February 25 playlist. I assure you, each and every one of your suggestions found its way to my playlist, if only for 15 brutal seconds (you know who you are!). I was so super productive and so super happy yesterday that I have little choice but to play it all again today. Woot woot, hells yeah, etc. Best, Steve the Pirate

NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!!!

Peepz, you just need to save the drama for your mama, the Dalai Lama (Oxford comma), or President Obama.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurn!

Still waiting on UNC -- presumably for the issues discussed earlier in the thread. I vote somebody emails. I also vote that that person not be me.

Papa Bear needs your help! I will be in the office for most of the day today working on this and that, and I am in need of a super badass playlist to get me through. Thus far, I've rocked some Clifford Brown, some Ben Folds, some Stravinsky, some Decemberists, and some Ornette Coleman. Reply with a band and an album or two. Make Papa Bear's workday as A W E S O M E as possible! Best, coach

Not everybody *weeps in the corner*. You owe me two beers now.

Kindness, Billy1. Random acts of kindness. It goes without saying that the clouds are darkening, swirling with the fervor of uncertainty and gloom. Those depraved souls lacking in the particular brand of chutzpah required to weather the storm, those craven ingenues, those quivering neophytes that question the existence of the light -- it is they that would do best to listen to the sage advice of a salty old dog whose yelp is equal parts scar and saave. That voice, diminutive yet full of sound and fury, is the only source of the light. And it is whispering: Kindness.

And then one of the security people, inspired by the muted twinkle of the glistening late winter snow outside his window or perhaps by his fabulous morning BM, informed them that the answer to this question is kindness. It was kindness all along.

Just had to get your digs in, didn't ya? Can't help yourself, hm? :wink:

Still nothing from them on me. Now I see why those Yale people were such nervous wrecks over their weekend of nothingness. Yowza! Congrats to all the admits today!

Princeton appears to be sending out a wave of rejects via email. Here's hoping you didn't get one!

Yup, there was a View Decision link next to the other two. Sounds like you've still got hope -- good luck!

Also out at Michigan. Top choice, so a little on the bummed side. Many hearty congratulations to those that have been admitted.

This is an interesting point. Though it is unlikely that any program will turn everybody away, the possibility does raise questions of false advertising. Of course, I'm sure that if the Messiah of Political Science applied to a department low on money, then they'd find a way to fund Him/Her/It. That's likely the departments' reaction: we didn't find anybody that we thought was worth taking on the costs in this economy. Frustrating? Yes. Evil? No.

I am! Cold to colder.

Yowza! Super duper congrats! EDIT: Anybody else notice that we've now seen email, snailmail, and telephone acceptances? Talk about methodological pluralism...