Andrew A Szarejko
Biographic Data
| ID | 4122737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew A Szarejko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew A |
| FAMILY NAME | Szarejko |
| SIGNATURE | SZAREJKO A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wartburg College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7403-2385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Interconnectedness and interdependence”
Among popular cultural artifacts, video games represent an increasingly prevalent source of political thought, and Indigenous game designers have become a more visible presence in the industry over the past decade. While the games created by Indigenous teams vary widely in their content, I argue that they offer an important medium through which to convey Indigenous political thought and that they have offered a site for the articulation of an Ind…
What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate
Did the Comanche and the Lakota constitute empires? The historian Pekka Hämäläinen has argued that they did during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and his work has been met with much praise. Some, however, have critiqued the use of the term “empire” to describe these Indigenous polities. I examine Hämäläinen’s argument and critiques thereof, and I argue that this debate has remained unresolved because it has been detached from any clear …
Making Global Society
Staff Rides as Pedagogical Practice
Political science instructors have started to make use of the “staff ride”—that is, the combined study of a military campaign, structured visits to related sites, and after-action analysis. Our study is the first examination of the potential utility of this pedagogical tool in civilian political science programs. Although the specific knowledge and skills that any given staff ride promotes depend on its content and structure, the potential benefi…
Forum
This forum takes up the question of how to do work in Historical International Relations (IR). Especially in the past decade, scholars have debated what modes of analysis are best suited to this sort of work and how Historical IR relates to the disciplines of History and International Relations. The contributors to this forum intervene in these debates and converge on three issues facing Historical IR—questions of methods, ontology, and disciplin…
Foreign or Domestic? The Desecuritisation of Indian Affairs and Normativity in Securitisation Theory
Is securitisation normatively undesirable? Many scholars who have studied this process by which issues come to be treated as pertaining to ‘security’ have argued that it is indeed preferable to keep as many issues as possible from being securitised. Rather, most issues ought to remain politicised such that they are seen as the legitimate subject of public debate. By contrast, I argue that we ought not to ascribe any inherent moral valence to secu…
Bringing (inter)national history into ‘Introduction to International Relations’
Many introductory courses in International Relations (IR) dedicate some portion of the class to international history. Such class segments often focus on great-power politics of the twentieth century and related academic debates. In this essay, I argue that these international history segments can better engage students by broadening the histories instructors present and by drawing on especially salient histories such as those of the country in w…
Do Accidental Wars Happen? Evidence from America's Indian Wars
The question of whether war can ever truly be accidental has been the subject of much academic debate. To provide my own answer to this question, I use an oft-ignored part of US history—the so-called Indian Wars between Native nations and an expanding United States. Specifically, this research innovation makes use of three militarized conflicts of the nineteenth century—the Black Hawk War (1832), the Cayuse War (1847–1855), and the Hualapai War (…
Assessing an Undergraduate Curriculum
To determine whether our undergraduate curriculum fulfills the pedagogical goals of our department, the authors conducted a semester-long curriculum assessment. This article discusses five main lessons and three lingering questions to demonstrate potential benefits of curriculum assessment and to prompt further disciplinary conversation about how undergraduate teaching should be structured. The overarching lesson, however, is that although studen…
Assessing an Undergraduate Curriculum
To determine whether our undergraduate curriculum fulfills the pedagogical goals of our department, the authors conducted a semester-long curriculum assessment. This article discusses five main lessons and three lingering questions to demonstrate potential benefits of curriculum assessment and to prompt further disciplinary conversation about how undergraduate teaching should be structured. The overarching lesson, however, is that although studen…
Forum
This forum takes up the question of how to do work in Historical International Relations (IR). Especially in the past decade, scholars have debated what modes of analysis are best suited to this sort of work and how Historical IR relates to the disciplines of History and International Relations. The contributors to this forum intervene in these debates and converge on three issues facing Historical IR—questions of methods, ontology, and disciplin…
Do Accidental Wars Happen? Evidence from America's Indian Wars
The question of whether war can ever truly be accidental has been the subject of much academic debate. To provide my own answer to this question, I use an oft-ignored part of US history—the so-called Indian Wars between Native nations and an expanding United States. Specifically, this research innovation makes use of three militarized conflicts of the nineteenth century—the Black Hawk War (1832), the Cayuse War (1847–1855), and the Hualapai War (…
Foreign or Domestic? The Desecuritisation of Indian Affairs and Normativity in Securitisation Theory
Is securitisation normatively undesirable? Many scholars who have studied this process by which issues come to be treated as pertaining to ‘security’ have argued that it is indeed preferable to keep as many issues as possible from being securitised. Rather, most issues ought to remain politicised such that they are seen as the legitimate subject of public debate. By contrast, I argue that we ought not to ascribe any inherent moral valence to secu…
Assessing an Undergraduate Curriculum
To determine whether our undergraduate curriculum fulfills the pedagogical goals of our department, the authors conducted a semester-long curriculum assessment. This article discusses five main lessons and three lingering questions to demonstrate potential benefits of curriculum assessment and to prompt further disciplinary conversation about how undergraduate teaching should be structured. The overarching lesson, however, is that although studen…
Do Accidental Wars Happen? Evidence from America's Indian Wars
The question of whether war can ever truly be accidental has been the subject of much academic debate. To provide my own answer to this question, I use an oft-ignored part of US history—the so-called Indian Wars between Native nations and an expanding United States. Specifically, this research innovation makes use of three militarized conflicts of the nineteenth century—the Black Hawk War (1832), the Cayuse War (1847–1855), and the Hualapai War (…
Bringing (inter)national history into ‘Introduction to International Relations’
Many introductory courses in International Relations (IR) dedicate some portion of the class to international history. Such class segments often focus on great-power politics of the twentieth century and related academic debates. In this essay, I argue that these international history segments can better engage students by broadening the histories instructors present and by drawing on especially salient histories such as those of the country in w…
Forum
This forum takes up the question of how to do work in Historical International Relations (IR). Especially in the past decade, scholars have debated what modes of analysis are best suited to this sort of work and how Historical IR relates to the disciplines of History and International Relations. The contributors to this forum intervene in these debates and converge on three issues facing Historical IR—questions of methods, ontology, and disciplin…
Foreign or Domestic? The Desecuritisation of Indian Affairs and Normativity in Securitisation Theory
Is securitisation normatively undesirable? Many scholars who have studied this process by which issues come to be treated as pertaining to ‘security’ have argued that it is indeed preferable to keep as many issues as possible from being securitised. Rather, most issues ought to remain politicised such that they are seen as the legitimate subject of public debate. By contrast, I argue that we ought not to ascribe any inherent moral valence to secu…
Staff Rides as Pedagogical Practice
Political science instructors have started to make use of the “staff ride”—that is, the combined study of a military campaign, structured visits to related sites, and after-action analysis. Our study is the first examination of the potential utility of this pedagogical tool in civilian political science programs. Although the specific knowledge and skills that any given staff ride promotes depend on its content and structure, the potential benefi…
Making Global Society
“Interconnectedness and interdependence”
Among popular cultural artifacts, video games represent an increasingly prevalent source of political thought, and Indigenous game designers have become a more visible presence in the industry over the past decade. While the games created by Indigenous teams vary widely in their content, I argue that they offer an important medium through which to convey Indigenous political thought and that they have offered a site for the articulation of an Ind…
What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate
Did the Comanche and the Lakota constitute empires? The historian Pekka Hämäläinen has argued that they did during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and his work has been met with much praise. Some, however, have critiqued the use of the term “empire” to describe these Indigenous polities. I examine Hämäläinen’s argument and critiques thereof, and I argue that this debate has remained unresolved because it has been detached from any clear …
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