JAMES H. JOYNER, JR.

Honors, Publications, Presentations, and Media Appearances

Honors

• Winner, 2006 Golden Dot Award for “Best Blog,” awarded by The George Washington University's Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet.

Magazine Articles

• “Teddy Kennedy, Congress, and the Surge,” Human Events, January 10, 2007.

• “Crimson with Envy: Why Nick Saban Makes More Than Your Kid's Teacher,” TCS Daily, January 9, 2007.

• “How About a Commission to End Commissions?” TCS Daily, December 4, 2006.

• “How Republicans Can Get Back on Track,” Human Events, November 10, 2006.

• “The Most Important Culture War,” TCS Daily, October 17, 2006.

• “An Intelligent Reading of the National Intelligence Estimate, TCS Daily, September 29, 2006.

• “I Know You Are But What Am I,” (Mudslinging and the Allen-Webb Senate Race) TCS Daily, September 19, 2006.

• “Combating Wal-Mart Asymmetrically,” Human Events, September 12, 2006.

• “Risk-Terrorism Analysis,” TCS Daily, August 21, 2006.

• “Bombing to Lose: Why Israel Failed in Lebanon,” Reason, August 16, 2006.

• “YouTube Politics” (Political Misperception and Mass Media) TCS Daily, August 16, 2006.

• “Why Israel Lost,” TCS Daily, August 14, 2006.

• “Killing Us Softly: Terrorists Win Even When they Lose,” TCS Daily, August 11, 2006.

• “Two Parties, Like it or Not,”(U.S. two party system) TCS Daily, August 10, 2006.

• “Closing the Book on NovakGate,” Human Events, July 13, 2006.

• “Panoptic War,” TCS Daily, June 8, 2006.

• “U.S. Offer to Iran Has Eerie Similarity to Failed 1994 Deal With North Korea,” Human Events Online, June 7, 2006.

• “Organic Matter” (Organic Food Economics) TCS Daily, June 6, 2006.

• “Death Tax: Not Simply the Paris Hilton Tax,” Human Events, June 6, 2006.

• “A Joker in the Deck?” (Internet gambling) TCS Daily, April 11, 2006.

• “Give Civil War a Chance,” TCS Daily, February 27, 2006.

• “Libertarian Paradise,” TCS Daily, February 22, 2006.

• “The State of the Enemy,” TCS Daily, January 30, 2006.

• “How Wal-Mart is Like Academia,” TCS Daily, January 27, 2006.

• “Twin Anniversaries,” (25^th Anniversary of Reagan inaugural and Iran hostage release) TCS Daily, January 20, 2006.

• “Suicide Girls,” (Female Suicide Bombers) TCS Daily, January 18, 2006.

• “Real Power is Something You Take,” TCS Daily, January 11, 2006.

• “The Triumph of ‘Angry and Stupid,’” TCS Daily, January 4, 2006.

• “Who’s Watching the Watchers,” TCS Daily, December 21, 2005.

• “Does Criticism of the War Undermine Troop Morale?” Tech Central Station, December 9, 2005.

• "Counterinsurgency and the American Way of War," Tech Central Station, December 5, 2005.

• “Please Appease Me,” (London Al Qaeda bombings) Tech Central Station, July 8, 2005.

• “Debate Club: Should the Draft be Brought Back?” Legal Affairs, April 18, 2005 (with Phil Carter).

• “The Gray Zone Between War and Peace,” (Iraq checkpoint security) Tech Central Station, March 7, 2005.

• “Shut the Window, It's Getting Drafty,” (military conscription) Tech Central Station, March 3, 2005.

• “Backdoor Draft?”(Military reservists) Tech Central Station, January 11, 2005.

• “Applying Free Market Logic to an Unfree Market?” (Sports stadium financing) Tech Central Station, December 22, 2004.

• “What Are They Volunteering For?” (Army stop-loss policy) Tech Central Station, December 14, 2004.

• “Civil War Enthusiasts” (Is Iraqi Civil War Inevitable?) Tech Central Station, December 1, 2004.

• "Why Ohio Wasn't Florida All Over Again," (Presidential election) Tech Central Station, November 3, 2004.

• "Intel Reform 2.0," Tech Central Station, August 27, 2004.

• "Swift Justice: Why Vietnam May Cost Kerry the Election," Tech Central Station, August 10, 2004.

• "The Dragon Stirs," (US-China relations) Tech Central Station, August 2, 2004.

• “Saddam and al Qaeda,” Tech Central Station, June 18, 2004.

• "Bouncing the Security Check," Tech Central Station, June 1, 2004

Newspaper Columns

• “Saban’s Pay is Inconsequential,” Tuscaloosa News, January 14, 2007.

• “Time For the Commission to Ban Commissions,” Washington Examiner, December 6, 2006.

• Numerous print edition op-eds in local papers including the Birmingham News, Chattanooga Times, Chattanooga Free Press, and Tuscaloosa News from 1992 to 1998.

Academic Journal Articles

• “Iraq and Jihadist Terrorists: A Review Essay," Strategic Insights,” July 2004.

• "Are the American People 'Pretty Prudent?' Public Responses to U.S. Uses of Force, 1950-1988," International Studies Quarterly, June 1996, with John R. Oneal and Brad Lian.

• “Back to the Future: The Rumsfeld Defense Strategy Review in Historical Perspective," under consideration by Armed Forces and Society (revise and resubmit).

Book Reviews

• Anonymous (Michael Scheuer), Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (Washington: Brassey’s, Inc. 2004) in Strategic Insights, September 2004.

• Mary A. Rena, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001) in Military Review, July-August 2002.

• Michael Howard, The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and the International Order (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001) in Military Review, May-June 2002.

• James G. Ralph, Beyond the Security Dilemma: Ending America’s Cold War (Ashgate: Burlington, VT, 2001) in Political Science Quarterly, Winter 2001-2002.

• Douglas L. Bland, ed., Backbone of the Army: Non-Commissioned Officers in the Future Army (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000) in Canadian Journal of Political Science, May 2002.

Encyclopedia Articles

• “Command and Control,” in Jeff Larson, Eric Croddy and James Wirtz, eds., Weapons of Mass Destruction : An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History, ABC-CLIO, 2004.

• “Department of Defense,” in Jeff Larson, Eric Croddy and James Wirtz, eds., Weapons of Mass Destruction : An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History, ABC-CLIO, 2004.

• “Iran-Iraq War,” in Jeff Larson, Eric Croddy and James Wirtz, eds., Weapons of Mass Destruction : An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History, ABC-CLIO, 2004.

• “Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties,” in Jeff Larson, Eric Croddy and James Wirtz, eds., Weapons of Mass Destruction : An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History, ABC-CLIO, 2004.

• “Vietnam War,” in Jeff Larson, Eric Croddy and James Wirtz, eds., Weapons of Mass Destruction : An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History, ABC-CLIO, 2004.

• “Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986,” in David A. Schultz, ed., The Encyclopedia of Public Administration, New York: Facts on File, 2003.

• “Joint Chiefs of Staff,” in David A. Schultz, ed., The Encyclopedia of Public Administration, New York: Facts on File, 2003.

• “National Security Act of 1947,” in David A. Schultz, ed., The Encyclopedia of Public Administration, New York: Facts on File, 2003.

• “Secretary of Defense,” in David A. Schultz, ed., The Encyclopedia of Public Administration, New York: Facts on File, 2003

• “Federal Trade Commission,” in David A. Schultz, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Law, New York: Facts on File, 2002.

• “Freedom of Information Act,” in David A. Schultz, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Law, New York: Facts on File, 2002.

• “Interstate Commerce Commission,” in David A. Schultz, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Law, New York: Facts on File, 2002.

• “U.S. vs. Dennis,” in David A. Schultz, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Law, New York: Facts on File, 2002.

• “War Crimes,” in David A. Schultz, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Law, New York: Facts on File, 2002.

Research Presentations

• “Blogging, Politics, and the Academy,” Alabama Political Science Association, 2005.

• “The Last Vestige of Feudalism: The Obsolete Rank Structure of the US Armed Forces,” Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, 2003.

• “Defense Reorganization and the War on Terror: A One-Year Progress Report,” Joint Annual Meeting of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association and the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association, 2002.

• "Beyond Huntington: Revisiting Professionalism in the Modern Armed Forces," Alabama Political Science Association, 2002.

• “Back to the Future: The Rumsfeld Defense Strategy Review in Historical Perspective," United States Air Force Academy, 2002.

• “Back to the Future: The Rumsfeld Defense Strategy Review,” Joint Annual Meeting of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association and the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association, 2001.

• “Reflections on American Foreign Policy at the Clinton-Bush Transition,” Alabama Political Science Association, 2001.

• “Citizen Soldiers in the New World Order: US Military Readiness and Reserve Component Reliance,” Joint Annual Meeting of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association and the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association, 2000.

• “Bombing the Bridge to the 21st Century: American Foreign Policy at the End of the Clinton Era,” Alabama Political Science Association, 2000.

• "A Decade after the Cold War: A Better State of the Peace?" International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association, 1999.

• “International Conflict Roundtable” participant, Alabama Political Science Association, 1998.

• “Peacekeepers vs. Warriors: The New Face of Battle," Alabama Political Science Association, 1997.

• "The End of Heroism?" Air Command and Staff College, 1996.

• "Allison Revisited: Organizational Culture and Defense Reorganization, 1943-1996," Alabama Political Science Association, 1996.

• "Bifurcation of Interests: Interservice Competition and the United States Armed Services,” Southern Political Science Association, 1995.

• “Fighting the Last War: The U.S. Military and the 21st Century,” Alabama Political Science Association, 1995.

• "Revisiting Cybernetics: Defense Reorganization for the New World Order," Southern Political Science Association, 1994.

• "Organization Matters: Defense Reorganization for the Post-Cold War Era," International Studies Association--South, 1994.

• "Restoring Hope: The Future of the American Military?" International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association, 1993.

• "The Gulf War: Selective Engagement or New World Order?" Southwestern Social Science Association, 1993.

• "New World, Same Order: Realpolitik in the Post-Cold War Era,” International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association, 1992.

National Media Appearances

• “Open Source with Christopher Lydon,” Public Radio International, January 23, 2007 (Radio)

• “American Morning,” CNN, taped January 12, 2007, aired January 16 (TV)

• “The Tammy Bruce Show,” nationally syndicated, May 18, 2006 (Radio)

• “World Have Your Say,” BBC, May 4, 2006 (Radio)

• “On the Story, “ CNN, taped November 3, 2005, aired November 4 and 5 (TV)

• “The Brian Lehrer Show,” WNYC NPR, November 1, 2005 (Radio)

• “MSNBC Live,” MSNBC, April 28, 2005 (TV)

• “Cam (Edwards) and Company,” NRA News, February 18, 2005 (Radio)

• “Kevin McCullough Live,” WMCA (New York), February 17, 2005 (Radio)

• "Majority Report,” Air America, August 18, 2004 (Radio)

• “Cam (Edwards) and Company,” NRA News, May 12, 2004 (Radio)

National Media Interviews and Citations

• David Ho, “Bloggers Ponder Rules as They Chase Recognition and Access,” Cox News Service, January 21, 2007.

• Alan Sipress, “Too Casual To Sit on Press Row? Bloggers' Credentials Boosted With Seats at the Libby Trial,” Washington Post, January 11, 2007, D01.

• John Milburn, “Army: 1.5 million copies of doctrine downloaded,” Associated Press, January 6, 2007.

• Barbara Ferguson, “Uproar Over Ellison Wanting to Be Sworn-In With a Qur’an,” Arab News, December 8, 2006.

• Tom Regan, “Iran rejects Russian uranium enrichment offer,” Christian Science Monitor, January 2, 2006.

• Ellen McCarthy, “Beltway Bloggers,” Washington Post, February 7, 2004, E01.

• Dozens of mentions in blog roundup segments at Slate, National Journal’s Hotline, USA Today, CNN, and MSNBC.