🚀 Must-read: "Rethinking survival in IR: Ontological security and narrated statehood" by @ProfEtuna.
📖👉 Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🚀 Must-read: "Rethinking survival in IR: Ontological security and narrated statehood" by @ProfEtuna.
📖👉 Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Surprised+pleased to discover that "The 51st State That Never Was" was the 6th most-read @warontherocks.bsky.social article of 2025!
Check it out here:
warontherocks.com/2025/02/the-...
See the full list here:
warontherocks.com/2025/12/most...
And Happy New Year! 🎉
We're excited to welcome Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of US forces in the Indo-Pacific and a GPIS alum, to ODU for the Waldo Family Lecture on September 29.
If you're in the area, RSVP by scanning the QR code in the flyer below, and join us for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion!
The wait is over! The Crowd Counting Consortium (with @djpressman.bsky.social & @chenoweth.bsky.social) has just released its June report. They find that No Kings Day was one of the largest days of protest in US history (comparable to Women's March 2017). wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...
The recent collision between Chinese vessels in the South China Sea has brought renewed focus to the gray zone tactics being used in that region. Our latest podcast episode with @richardmaass.bsky.social looks at international legal mechanisms to deter this kind of activity. youtu.be/KlQ0dzuX-Xg
This article by @unlawfulentries.bsky.social in yesterday's TIME magazine offers a short and readable history of birthright citizenship in the United States - including what problems it was meant to solve. Definitely worth checking out!
What is the "gray zone?" Richard Maass (@richardmaass.bsky.social) presents different conceptualizations of these aggressive actions and offers international legal mechanisms as a method to reduce their likelihood of success in his latest article. Read more tnsr.org/2025/06/lega...
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal... endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."
HBD to an extraordinary document, worth re-reading annually:
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
Int'l security competition in the twenty-first century is likely to remain largely within the “gray zone,” a category of aggressive activities that threaten core aspects of statehood while avoiding the threshold of armed force that has traditionally legitimized military retaliation in self-defense.
How can international law deter "gray zone" aggression? Richard Maass (@richardmaass.bsky.social) argues for a new strategy of "legal deterrence by denial."
What happens when you mix
🔹 3 cups international law
🔹 2 cups deterrence
🔹 2 cups gray zone conflict
🔹 1 cup aggression
🔹 1 cup strategic initiative?
You get this new article, out today in @tnsr.org!
tnsr.org/2025/06/lega...
My students upon entering class this afternoon: “So we’re at war and we still gotta turn in homework?”
Me, a millennial:
This is evidently where we are now...
The Picky Eagle for $14.50?
For those interested in US foreign policy history, race&IR, etc... no better time to grab a copy than during the huge 50% off sale at @cornellupress.bsky.social this week!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
A reminder of how the number of centrifuges in Iran soared after Trump’s 2018 JCPOA withdrawal.
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
This 👇
Brings to mind Bacevich's book (covering a lot more than post-2023):
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241154...
Figures showing Iranian enrichment before and after the JCPOA.
I think about this figure a lot.
You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure"
It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
This was my read of things too. Trump likely wants a clean 1-off, but achieving that is more complicated given the ongoing war between Israel and Iran
Article 2 Section LEEROY JENKINS might have to make it onto the International Law syllabus next fall
Good early context from @anjalikdayal.bsky.social
Trump's post sounds like he views these strikes as a clean 1-off rather than start of a larger war... unfortunately, international politics is about interactions where others also have a say in whether it is indeed now "time for peace"
A good start would be, e.g. (1) solidifying presidents' inability to defund Congressionally-mandated programs/agencies, and (2) requiring funding for new major initiatives into standalone legislation (not giant budgets) that Congresspeople need to individually endorse (and face voters over).
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Another must-read @profsaunders.bsky.social @foreignaffairs.com essay on presidential power and USFP.
Color me skeptical re: reporting requirements as a fix, though. Historically, Congress has best been able to rein in presidents on foreign policy via its power of the purse.
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A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.
My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
Ok, I’m no @profpaulpoast.bsky.social but I shall try to do a thread on militaries and protests. Apologies up front to all the brilliant scholars I accidentally leave out - am doing this from memory.
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Copycatting sounds more fun than copyediting 😂
Congratulations! 🎉