Charli Carpenter

Charli Carpenter is a Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the author of ‘Lost’ Causes: Agenda-Vetting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security. She blogs at Duck of Minerva.

Charli Carpenter es profesora de ciencias políticas de la Universidad de Massachusetts-Amherst y autora de “Lost” Causes: Agenda-Vetting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security (Causas “perdidas”: La revisión de la agenda en las redes temáticas globales y la conformación de la seguridad humana). Escribe en el blog Duck of Minerva.

Why a progressive foreign policy is good for US national security

Even if the most Bernie Sanders succeeds at is pulling the national foreign policy conversation to the left, this will have been significant after a decade of living under the troublingly expansive national security complex ushered in by the events of 9/11.

By Charli Carpenter

/ 18 Apr 2016

How do we solve structural inequality in global networks?

It’s time to relocate power centres in the top-heavy human rights network. The savvy use of network tactics is the best approach: cultivating southern “hubs”, empowering global south activists to access northern centres, and thinking broadly about network power in global civil society. A contribut

By Charli Carpenter

/ 21 Jan 2015

¿Cómo podemos solucionar la desigualdad estructural en las redes globales?

Es el momento de reubicar los centros de poder que se concentran en los niveles superiores de la red de derechos humanos. El mejor enfoque es un uso inteligente de las tácticas de redes: cultivar los “núcleos” en el sur, empoderar a los activistas del sur global para que puedan acceder a los centr

By Charli Carpenter

/ 21 Jan 2015

How scared are people of “killer robots” and why does it matter?

There is one question in this controversy that social scientists will agree is amenable to empirical inquiry: how do people feel about the idea of outsourcing targeting decisions to machines?

By Charli Carpenter

/ 4 Jul 2013