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PhD students – we'd love to get an application from you!

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Applications for the 2025 New Era Workshop (NEW) are now open! NEW is an annual three-day training program for PhD students in international affairs and related disciplines, held September 25-27, 2025 at the University of Denver! Applications and more info can be found on our website. Please share!

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GAO wants you to know: This watchdog stands guard

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Calling all ISA members! We hope you'll join the new Research and Policy Section (RAPS). @naazneenbarma.bsky.social @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social @jordantama.bsky.social @bwj77.bsky.social @danigilbert.bsky.social @sch-ir.bsky.social

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🚨 Calling all alumni of Bridging the Gap programming… Check your email! We’ve just sent you a survey, and we’d love your input. Let @bridgingthegap.bsky.social know if you didn’t receive it, and feel free to ask @miweintraub83.bsky.social & me any questions. Thanks so much in advance!!

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Visit us during the BTG reception tonight at 8:00pm in the Hilton Waldorf room to learn more about RAPS! #ISA2025

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We looking forward to connecting with many of you at ISA in Chicago in a few days! Please join us at the BTG reception Monday 8:00-9:00pm in the Hilton's Waldorf Room. Safe travels to those attending!

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There's a lot going on at the moment in American politics... Which makes it all the more important to join us next Wednesday, February 19, from 3:30-4:30 PM ET for the next session on Congress and Foreign Policy featuring @fgawehns.bsky.social! Register here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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BTG team member Jordan Tama recently published this piece with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on how Congress can check the president in foreign policy. Check it out at the link below! carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

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Although Trump looks like an unstoppable force, Congress is still capable of constraining aspects of his foreign policy. I explain how in this new @carnegieendowment.org commentary carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

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𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 2025 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞! Know anyone who could use tools and networks to disseminate policy-relevant academic research? Now's the time! Applications close Sunday 1/26@11:59pm MT www.bridgingthegapproject.org/ipsi

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Hey everyone, new book alert!🚨 @profjessblankshain.bsky.social and I have a chapter in here (Modern Day Minutemen? Public Opinion and Reserve Component Mobilization), as do @jordantama.bsky.social @benfordham.bsky.social @robertralston.bsky.social and many more press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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With new Congress in place and Trump about to return to presidency, sharing here recent @global-affairs.bsky.social reports I published with Dina Smeltz @ckafura.bsky.social Lama El Baz @busbyj2.bsky.social on views of US opinion leaders on international alliances and aid to Ukraine 1/

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The 2010s were and outstanding time for public facing scholarship. But that probably depended on legacy social media platforms that, by default, served the public function of amplifying scholarship. What is the future for public-facing scholarship when those platforms don't do that? 1/

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Trump's election could mean less U.S. involvement in #Syria. A foreign policy scholar explains America's role and what #Assad's fall might mean for it. https://buff.ly/4grMC28 (@jordantama.bsky.social, American University) #polisky #middleeast

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Sharing here my interview with @us.theconversation.com about how US policy toward Syria evolved in recent years, what role US and other countries are playing in Syria now, and how US might approach Syria under Trump. cc: @ausis.bsky.social @bridgingthegap.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2e9rsjdc

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ICYMI - sharing new @global-affairs.bsky.social report by Lama El Baz, @ckafura.bsky.social, Dina Smeltz, @busbyj2.bsky.social, me on views of US foreign policy elites on war in Gaza. Key takeaway: US elites are even more polarized on war along partisan lines than the public. tinyurl.com/5n6p64rk

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A bunch of really brilliant people who think about sanctions and their effects are now active on this site. Here’s a Starter Pack so you can find them! go.bsky.app/BHkeqVS

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After all the hyperbolic talk of recess appointments and the like, the president-elect has already lost one nomination because the Senate is still the Senate. If you've joined recently, follow this starter pack of Congressional scholars because Congress is still gonna Congress. go.bsky.app/PLySM9q

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A Bridging the Gap starter pack featuring international affairs scholars, policy practitioners, and partners who engage across the academic, policy, and public spheres on contemporary global challenges. Please let us know if you'd like to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/8vgHi9L

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Scholars interested in public engagement and policy outreach on international issues – please consider applying for our International Policy Summer Institute!

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Applications are now open for IPSI 2025! June 8-12, 2025 Washington, DC. IPSI is a five-day professional development program for professors and post-docs in the field of international affairs who want to build the tools and networks to produce and disseminate policy-relevant academic research.

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1. Donald Trump has said that he is going to impose 100% tariffs on BRICS countries that move away from the U.S. dollar. Where does this idea come from and where will it go? I have answers, based on @abenewman.bsky.social and my book on U.S. economic coercion, Underground Empire amzn.to/3PbIyqX

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Our Officer-at-Large created this starter pack for people working on foreign policy in general. If you'd like to be added let us know :) 👇

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Looking forward to discussing the future of sanctions after the US election this Thursday at GIGA's Berlin office, with @mshagina.bsky.social @cvonsoest.bsky.social Julia Grauvogel and Adrian Seufert. Register to join in person or online: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/gi...

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Sharing here video of recent @isanet.bsky.social panel on implications of US presidential election, featuring analysis by @juliaazari.bsky.social @johnsides.bsky.social @brownphdgirl.bsky.social and me. youtu.be/-hqhobNQShw?...

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Here a starter pack for people working on foreign policy. Contact me to add you. go.bsky.app/GysdG6U

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Polisky early career scholars - We'd love to get an application from you!

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Sharing new H-Diplo Roundtable on my book Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy: Cooperation in a Polarized Age, with thoughtful essays by @kschultz.bsky.social Ralph Carter, Jeffrey Friedman, @phoman.bsky.social Sarah Maxey @jmscott.bsky.social @bridgingthegap.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2ws7ybmx

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Early-career scholars interested in policy engagement on international issues – we'd love to get an application from you!

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I've published a new book, Polarization and US Foreign Policy: When Politics Crosses the Water's Edge, co-edited by Gordon Friedrichs and me. Book features 14 articles by terrific scholars on key dimensions of polarization and how it affects conduct of US foreign policy. tinyurl.com/PolarizedUSFP

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So much polisky news, but don't forget SCOTUS immunity decision. New @foreignaffairs.bsky.social piece w/ @sarahbinder.bsky.social @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social on chilling effect it will have on already-weak political constraints. www.foreignaffairs.com/imperial-pre...

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Polisky - Sharing here my new LSE United States Centre piece on prospects for more foreign policy bipartisanship after congressional approval of $95 billion foreign aid package. cc: @ausis.bsky.social, @bridgingthegap.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

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Polisky Why the Speaker finally greenlit Ukraine aid? New @goodauth.bsky.social post on institutional & electoral forces shaping Speaker Johnson’s choices. With shout outs to Rufus Miles 🤓, John Kingdon and @jordantama.bsky.social … goodauthority.org/news/why-the...

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My new piece w/Wilfred Chow “The Diplomacy of Whataboutism and US Foreign Policy Attitudes” Now out @iojournal.bsky.social. We study effects of whataboutism in int. arena & find it weakens U.S. public support for critiquing & penalizing foreign countries. #polisky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Polisky - As Congress debates a critical foreign aid package, join the terrific @sarahbinder.bsky.social, Lester Munson, Daniel Silverberg, @lmcbell.bsky.social and me today (April 19) at 1 PM ET for a conversation about my book Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Polisky - It was such a treat to host @profsaunders.bsky.social @ausis.bsky.social last week for the launch of her exceptional book The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace. Thanks to Robbie Gramer, Josh Rovner, and Sarah Snyder for contributing great insights to the conversation.

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Polisky - Calling all ISA members – if you're interested in fostering connections between scholarship and policy, please consider signing this petition being circulated by @bridgingthegap.bsky.social to support the creation of an ISA Research and Policy Section: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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PhD students interested in policy-relevant research and public engagement – Please consider applying!

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Many thanks @patrickmello.bsky.social for your kind words about the book. I've learned a great deal from your own excellent work on the politics of foreign policy, and it was a real pleasure to have the chance to discuss the book with you and others at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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Thanks so much @wolfgangwagner.bsky.social for hosting me at VU Amsterdam for this event. I really enjoyed the opportunity to discuss my work with you and your colleagues!

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Polisky - Really looking forward to being part of this February 8 event at City, University of London on politics of US foreign policy, with @andypayne.bsky.social, @drmargottudor.bsky.social, and Georgios Giannakopoulos. Register here to attend in person or via Zoom. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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