Professor Wayne A. Selcher with Elizabethtown College students,  faculty, and staff on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, March 2006

Dr. Wayne A. Selcher Professor of International Studies Emeritus   Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Legal Studies Elizabethtown College One Alpha Drive Elizabethtown, PA, USA  17022 "Quem mal lê, mal ouve, mal fala, mal vê." ("One who barely reads, barely hears, barely speaks, barely sees.") -- Brazilian author Monteiro Lobato "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."-- Walter Lippman, mid-20th Century US journalist If you believe that "talking truth to power" is a noble challenge, try talking truth to ideology, emotionalism, or partisanship. "Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world." -- Bryan Caplan, in The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

Available for free download:
1. E. Fletcher McClellan, Wayne A. Selcher & Oya Dursun-Ozkanca (2012): "Internationalizing General Education: The First-Year Seminar on Political Self-Determination and Internet-Based Political Research," Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 9:2, 150-166. (Link to PDF)
2. My article in PDF, “Use of Internet Sources in International Studies Teaching and Research” from International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 6 (May 2005), 174-189.
3. Occasional contributor to the Brazilian academic website on American politics and foreign policy, Observatório Político dos Estados Unidos, April 2021 to date:
    A. "Suggested Cost-Free Online Sources for U.S. Politics and Foreign Policy"  June 2021
    B. "Is the United States 'Exceptional'?" (Link to PDF)  July 2021. Also published in Spanish in January 2022 as "¿Es Estados Unidos exceptional?" in the open-source academic journal of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, Contextualizaciones Latinoamericanas. (Link to PDF)
    C. "American Political Culture in Transition: The Erosion of Consensus and Democratic Norms"  February 2024 (Link to PDF)