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🚨Attention American Political Development Scholars🚨 We are excited to announce a new APD Workshop Series where scholars--especially grad students, post-docs, junior faculty, and folks at institutions with limited research budgets--can present works-in progress. sites.google.com/maine.edu/ap...

Currently in South #Korea on a quick fieldwork trip for the book project- I will be posting throughout my trip on my Currents in Foreign Policy Substack with Keith Preble, with observations and musings from my trip. My first post can be found here: open.substack.com/pub/cusfp/p/...

Notes from the Field No. 1: Back, Back, Back Again

The Spatiality of Military Bases

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In the #CurrentsInUSForeignPolicy Substack @cnwillis.bsky.social and I manage, I published a short post on the "Freedom Fuel" stations: cusfp.substack.com/p/patriotism... It's a mystery why this video is posted on the White House web site yet the President/government has no involvement it.

Only a week left! NYS Political Science Association @nyspsa.bsky.social reminds everyone that our deadline for submission of proposals is coming up quickly - July 15, 2026! Submit proposals here: nyspsa.org/80th-annual-....

Keith A. Preble, Ph.D.@poliscikeith.bsky.social · last mo.

I took the day off yesterday, but I did find time to write a short post in "Currents in U.S. Foreign Policy" (a new Substack with @cnwillis.bsky.social) while grilling: cusfp.substack.com/p/a-lameriqu... TL;DR: We can't forget about France's role in the creation of our great nation.

A few months ago, I spoke with Stephen Paff on his Democracy Demythologized podcast about my research on the US military abroad. I wrote a little bit about the episode on my Currents in US Foreign Policy Substack with Keith Preble here: open.substack.com/pub/cusfp/p/...

Your Neighbor, the US Military

Earlier this year, I was invited to speak with Stephen Paff on his podcast, Democracy Demythologized about my research on public opinion of and protests against the US military abroad.

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In @cnwillis.bsky.social and mine's Substack, "Currents in US Foreign Policy," I updated a short commentary on liquefied natural gas (LNG) I worked on last year and never published: cusfp.substack.com/p/liquefied-... I discuss trade data and the tragedy of weaponized interdependence.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the tragedy of weaponized interdependence

Qatar, United States, LNG, and the uneven geography of energy interdependence

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In Currents in US Foreign Policy with @cnwillis.bsky.social, I published a short take on the sanctions waivers on Russian oil: cusfp.substack.com/p/sanctions-...

Sanctions waivers are not an energy strategy

Russian oil waivers are the illusion of relief.

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In "Current in U.S. Foreign Policy" with @cnwillis.bsky.social, we discuss our recently published piece in @fpajrnl.bsky.social: cusfp.substack.com/p/do-us-mili...

Do US Military Deployments Reduce Sanctions Busting?

Our recent publication in Foreign Policy Analysis examines this question

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Keith A. Preble, Ph.D.@poliscikeith.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy end of academic year 2025/2026! What a great way to start the summer "vacation" with an article publication. Fresh off the presses with @cnwillis.bsky.social, "With Friends Like These: The Impact of US Troop Deployments on Economic Sanctions Busting": doi.org/10.1093/fpa/... /1

I'm pleased to share that my second book, Smart Evasion: Global Resistance to US Economic Sanctions, will be published by Lynne Rienner Publishers this Fall. www.rienner.com/title/Smart_... The book is 50% off for a limited time!

Considering the bad record of previous weight loss drugs, I'd think they'd be more careful. But my experience with statins is similar, all my pcps in the last decade have said "your cholesterol isn't quite in the danger zone but I recomend a statin." Apparently they reduce mortality

Walk into an urgent care and you have to opt out of a GLP-1 conversation katemanne.substack.com/p/a-woman-wa...

A Woman Walks Into an Urgent Care

And the one screening question is: would you like a GLP-1 with that?

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With Friends Like These: The Impact of US Troop Deployments on Economic Sanctions Busting @fpa-isa.bsky.social @cnwillis.bsky.social @poliscikeith.bsky.social academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

With Friends Like These: The Impact of US Troop Deployments on Economic Sanctions Busting

Abstract. The deployment of US troops and the maintenance of US bases abroad is a manifestation of the commitments of both the United States and its partne

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In my Substack with @cnwillis.bsky.social, I briefly discuss the recent enforcement action against Adani Enterprises Limited for its Iran sanctions violation: cusfp.substack.com/p/when-to-sa... We have some new content coming the next few weeks!

When to Sanction, When to Enforce

The US Department of Treasury imposed a whopping $275m fine on an Indian company for violating the U.S.' Iran sanctions.

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Happy end of academic year 2025/2026! What a great way to start the summer "vacation" with an article publication. Fresh off the presses with @cnwillis.bsky.social, "With Friends Like These: The Impact of US Troop Deployments on Economic Sanctions Busting": doi.org/10.1093/fpa/... /1

With Friends Like These: The Impact of US Troop Deployments on Economic Sanctions Busting

Abstract. The deployment of US troops and the maintenance of US bases abroad is a manifestation of the commitments of both the United States and its partne

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Published today on the Substack @cnwillis.bsky.social started last week, I wrote about the lagging peace negotiations between Russia & Ukraine: cusfp.substack.com/p/negotiatin... With the war going poorly for Russia and Ukraine still facing threats, when will a lasting peace emerge? /1

Negotiating Peace in the Fog of War

Ukraine’s Strikes on Russia and the Elusive Search for an Endgame

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In #CurrentsInUSForeignPolicy @cnwillis.bsky.social and I started, I published an overview of a project on tariffs I have been working on since April 2025: cusfp.substack.com/p/hands-off-... This project looks at support for Trump's tariffs (which have since taken a battering in the courts). /1

Hands off my smartphone! Tariff politics, state-level opinion, and US foreign policy

Assessing support for the Trump Administration Tariffs

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In our second post at #CurrentsInUSForeignPolicy, @cnwillis.bsky.social and I examine the missed opportunity of the now defunct JCPOA. cusfp.substack.com/p/the-intern... /1

The international agreement that wasn’t

The failure of the JCPOA and now all-out war

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Our first post is a preview of an upcoming paper recently accepted in the North Korean Review (due out soon), which we initially wrote in 2022 and updated late last year for NKR: cusfp.substack.com/p/taking-nuc...

Taking Nuclear North Korea Seriously Again

Summary of forthcoming article in North Korea Review

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Check out "Currents in U.S. Foreign Policy" (CUSFP) that I am working on with @cnwillis.bsky.social. We are publishing public-facing analyses on current issues together and solo. cusfp.substack.com

Currents in U.S. Foreign Policy | Substack

This Substack is devoted to analyses of trends in U.S. foreign policy and their implications for the rest of the world. Click to read Currents in U.S. Foreign Policy, a Substack publication. Launched ...

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I've had the privilege of participating in a series at @alpsblog.bsky.social. It's given me valuable space to reflect on this year as an Asst.Prof and to compare notes with @cnwillis.bsky.social and @drjostojski.bsky.social. Check out the latest post at: activelearningps.com/2026/04/17/o...

New piece out in The Conversation with @cnwillis.bsky.social: theconversation.com/the-us-has-l...

The US has long used economic coercion to achieve foreign policy goals — the war in Iran shows how that power has declined

US sanctions on foreign nations have lost some of their power to influence the behavior of other nations – with increasing costs for the US to boot.

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ngl this is probably the most useful thing I've made thus far, a comprehensive feed equivalent of paper-picnic.com

Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD@elizabethbitmeehan.com · 6mo ago

i created a polisci journals feed: blacksky.community/profile/did:...

chat i'm going to ask a somewhat prickly question: what do you (fellow political scientists) want out of your professional association right now (knowing that this is a sample of Very Online People and folks with wildly differing opinions)

1. In the most extreme bathroom ban moving in the nation, Idaho's House has passed a bathroom ban with a potential 5 year prison sentence for 2nd offense-using the bathroom. It even counts "offenses" of using the bathroom in other states. It now moves to the Senate.

Idaho House Passes Trans Bathroom Ban With 5 Year Prison Sentence

The bill is one of the harshest bills criminalizing trans people in the nation, and it will now move to the Senate.

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UVA Emergency Alert: Avoid the area of Shannon Library Bomb threat reported at Shannon Library 160 McCormick Rd. The building is being evacuated. Avoid the area.

JD Vance is a classic predator and he learned it in part at Ohio State University, as you can see from all the scandals engulfing that university right now that are based on the same mentality he's displaying here.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love!” Literally.