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Doh! Laf. What happened is I created it once, then my browser crashed before I saved it, so I had to go back and re-create it. Somehow in my haste I forgot to include all the references. Grr. So I'm going back to it now. IRIPE (talk) 08:51, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hey there no problem at all, you can go ahead and delete the template after you add a source. I like the article by the way! NoformationTalk 08:52, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I think I got most of the RS references, although I lost a few that I can't seem to put my hands on. (Grr to browser crashes.) I was really surprised to see there wasn't already a Wikipedia article on Biersteker. His 1984 article with Hayward Alker was really a seminal piece in the field, shaping the thought of a generation of IR scholars. And as Director of the Watson Institute at Brown he enabled and facilitated a lot of great research, as well as his own. I hadn't realized he'd moved on to GIIS (and studies of terrorist financing) until I wrote the article. IRIPE (talk) 09:22, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
