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"Developing nuclear weapons to counter North Korea is not 'off the table' for South Korea, foreign minister Cho Tae-yul stated on Wednesday"

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I'm very happy that my book 'The Politics of International Norms: A Rhetorical Approach' is out now! Thanks to everyone @cambridgeup.bsky.social, and to all those who have supported me in this journey. You can find more info in the link and this thread (1/6): cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Striking chart here in Martin Wolf's latest column on Washington abandoning both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world www.ft.com/content/b46e...

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“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” -- William Gibson, Count Zero

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"Someone needs to ask the awkward question. And in formulating an answer they should start with geography. European and British security are indivisible. They always have been." Fantastic piece by @philipstephens.bsky.social:

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Now up on @lawfare.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/elon... "Musk is seemingly doing to the U.S. government what the U.S. government once did to the rest of the world: refashioning the plumbing ... into a political weapon against his adversaries. "

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If anybody needed confirmation that theories of social construction do not have to be analyzed qualitatively...

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Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity Trump: Trade war! Colombia: OK Trump: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights Colombia: Good. Was that so hard? Trump: They gave in!

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Elder Race is super fun. And you can read it all in one go.

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Great reporting. The Israeli army said that most people killed in bombing a Beirut apartment block were Hezbollah. The BBC found that nearly all were in fact civilians, and a third were children. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 34 days ago • 55 comments

News filtering through of yet another round of (300) redundancies at Newcastle University, and talk of an end to most research time that isn't externally funded. The jobs massacre just rolls on and on and on. Will get worse and worse at most universities.

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

Please help me spread the word: fully funded (incl. stipend!) PhD position on the prestigious UKRI FLF scheme, with industry internships too! Deadline - Feb 14!

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Am writing a review piece and re-reading @aklin.bsky.social @mattomildenberger.bsky.social on the distributive politics of climate change and how free-riding as the or the most potent driver of climate politics is wrong. It's elegant analysis. 1/ direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

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🌐NATO, Liberal Order, and Trump🌐 In the new issue of @foreignaffairs.com, Alex Cooley and I make a few key points about Trump, U.S. power, and "The Liberal International Order" 🧵 www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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“Jean-Noël Barrot told France Inter radio: "If you're asking me whether I think the United States will invade Greenland, my answer is no.” "Have we entered into an era that sees the return of the survival of the fittest? Then the answer is yes.”

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Interesting @economist.com piece by Oriana Skylar Mastro: "US should consider asymmetric arms control. This could involve reducing number of US warheads and alert levels in exchange for demobilisation of certain Chinese conventional missiles, threatening to US aircraft carriers." is.gd/YmhAyF

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This by @cherylrofer.bsky.social is really good. A useful counterfactual needs imagination ditected by plausibility.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

New! Brexit has reduced goods exports by £27bn – with smaller firms most affected Rebecca Freeman, @marcogarofalo.bsky.social Enrico Longoni , Kalina Manova, Rebecca Mari, Thomas Prayer, @thomsampson.bsky.social Read: cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/d...

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

On the eve of the Revolution ~ Sergei Vinogradov pictures life on an idyllic Summer Day in Crimea ■ In a House ■ Under the Summer Sun (1910-1917)

submitted 72 days ago • 7 comments

Aside from the useful info in this piece, the graphics are really top notch - effective and lean.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Please consider applying if you’re an early career researcher working on international relations theory, broadly understood. If you know of others who fit that description (students or peers!), we would be grateful if you could share the opportunity with them.

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Essential reading by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the prospect of Musk bankrolling the Reform Party. As Peter has been arguing for years, Britain's electoral laws are decades out of date. That has left our democracy wide open to plutocratic capture. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...

submitted 87 days ago • 8 comments

IR Book of the Week! "Causal Inquiry in International Relations" by Adam Humphreys & Hidemi Suganami. Identifying empirical causation in international relations (and the social sciences generally) is not the unique domain of quantitative methods Open access Link: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

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OK- here we go. Sorry for the delay, I was not prepared for the exertion required in the thrill-a-minute adventure that is… CACAO FERMENTATION. Yes, this will actually take 5 days. After that two days of drying. I’m not making this up. Nothing happens. Really. You’ll see. Anyway, off we go!

submitted 109 days ago • 129 comments

This is a remarkable paper. Substantively, it convincingly argues that what looks like weak state capacity is often captured capacity. Methodologically, it’s a triumph of mixed qualitative and quantitative approaches. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

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Checking in on the Kiel tracker. Europe has provided around 40% more in allocated aid to Ukraine than the US. If I were the EU I'd use a chunk of the peace facility to print this on mobile billboards driving in loops around the White House on Jan 20th. www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-a...

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'“Why do we call it hybrid? Because basically when you call it hybrid you don’t need to do anything about it,” [Lithuania's FM] Landsbergis told a security conference in Riga last month. “If you call it terrorism, then it implies reaction.”' www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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30 years ago, the U.S. airlifted highly-enriched uranium out of Kazakhstan—one of the great nonproliferation success stories. Longest C5 flight ever. For an excerpt from The Dead Hand: wapo.st/4eIE7yI And for key documents, see posting at Natl Security Archive: nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...

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Among a range of others, I spoke at length with the Times Higher journalist about student number controls for this piece, and I'd say it gives a balanced account. It comes on the same day news breaks that we anticipate as many as 10,000 jobs going in HE this year alone.

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Today the U.S. voted against a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. The U.S. was the only nation in the 15-member Security Council to vote against the resolution. Even the U.K. voted in favour! www.gov.uk/government/s...

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🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14

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Two new pieces about nuclear weapons (about Russia-Ukraine but also more broadly about how much we can expect to know about how nuclear weapons affect international politics). First, an open access piece about the nuclear dimensions of the Russia-Ukraine war www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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