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Responding to Patrick T. Jackson's 'Must International Studies Be a Science?' I argue that his proposed division of incommensurable logics of inquiry (aesthetic, normative, empirical and technical) cannot be separated in a meaningful way in the exercise of judgement, and that corporeal and practical skill must be also included.

The reality television program Survivor is used as a teaching tool for presenting the prisoners' dilemma. Structural similarities between the format of reality television and game theory, rule-bound competitions with clear payoff, enable students to critically examine the strategies that contestants use, providing a clear pedagogical utility. Adapted from the source document.

Essay in a symposium on the "everyday" in international studies. Adapted from the source document.

Aviation security is a vital but under-studied component of contemporary security. This article uses the Foucauldian notion of a ` dispositif of security' to understand how policies, practices, and institutions of aviation security are arranged to surveil, police, and control mobile populations. Moving beyond sovereign accounts of law or disciplinary descriptions of incarceration, the analysis of the dispositif demonstrates the ever-expanding areas of life that are colonized by `security' and `risk'. I argue that the general strategy of quantification and the specific tactic of the expert panel both illustrate how the invocation of risk allows for new and expanding security practices, and also masks the depoliticization of the airport and civil aviation.