Welcome reader! This blog is an element of the course "Civil-Military Relations" that I am teaching to undergraduate students at Nazarbayev University during the Spring 2017 semester. It is meant to help students engage with current events and the theoretical literature about the relations between society and the military and state institutions and the military. Writing posts about current events that tie with this theoretical literature is one of many ways that students can earn points.
The beauty of the blogging format is that it breaks students of the bad habits that they develop when writing only for professors of trying to sound too smart. It is a problem that professors have when they write for each other as well. However, the need to make persuasive arguments, to use evidence, and to apply theoretical concepts to practical problems, are the skills that we wish to impart to our students.
Please feel free to engage with the content on this blog through comments and questions. Questions about the course can be addressed to me (spencer.willardson[at]nu.edu.kz). We hope that you find the content interesting, the analysis focused, and the concept as useful as we do.
The beauty of the blogging format is that it breaks students of the bad habits that they develop when writing only for professors of trying to sound too smart. It is a problem that professors have when they write for each other as well. However, the need to make persuasive arguments, to use evidence, and to apply theoretical concepts to practical problems, are the skills that we wish to impart to our students.
Please feel free to engage with the content on this blog through comments and questions. Questions about the course can be addressed to me (spencer.willardson[at]nu.edu.kz). We hope that you find the content interesting, the analysis focused, and the concept as useful as we do.
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