We really appreciate this recognition from the @isanet.bsky.social Diplomatic Studies Section! The paper is available open access in the @globalhistjnl.bsky.social 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS)@warwickpais.bsky.social · 4mo ago

PAIS's Tom Long won the 2026 best article award from the ISA Diplomatic Studies Section for “Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85.” The piece was published in Journal of Global History, with Carsten-Andreas Schulz of Cambridge.

PAIS’s @tomlongphd.bsky.social has published an article in @cambridgecria.bsky.social entitled "Latin American small states in the Belt and Road Initiative: Narrating status amidst US-China tensions" 🧵

Why have Latin American small states retained their affinity for China's Belt and Road Initiative despite varying results? Alongside Zara Albright & Diego Telias, we argue that BRI offered discursive resources even when material benefits fell short. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very much looking forward to discussing "The Trump Effect" with fellow panelists Maryhen Jiménez, @tomlongphd.bsky.social & David Doyle later at St Antony's College, @ox.ac.uk today! www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/main-s...

Joint Seminar: The Trump Effect: What Next For Venezuela?

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Interested in how international inequalities are institutionalized? In the history of IOs? Please check our new paper in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social! 👇

Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS)@warwickpais.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 PAIS's Tom Long and Carsten-Andreas Schulz of Cambridge have just published 'Bound by History: How Antecedents Shaped the League of Nations Institutional Design,' in International Studies Quarterly. Read it here: academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Exciting new article by @tomlongphd.bsky.social and @caschulz.bsky.social on the League’s institutional design 👇 #HistIR

Bound by History: How Antecedents Shaped the League of Nations Institutional Design

Abstract. The founding of the League of Nations marked a turning point in international governance. It entrenched great-power privilege by creating a bifur

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Wonderful news!!

American University School of International Service@ausis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We are delighted to share that SIS PhD program director and former SIS dean Jim Goldgeier (@jimgoldgeier.bsky.social) has been elected President of the International Studies Association (@isanet.bsky.social) for 2027–2028! Congratulations, Jim, on this distinguished leadership role!

Absolutely fantastic opportunity for an IR scholar focused on Latin America at the Parsee School at Boston University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31333

The new special issue of EJIR is a wonderful and diverse look at "History and Theory in International Relations". The issue includes my article with @caschulz.bsky.social on critical junctures in IR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🧵🧵🧵 @ejir.bsky.social @warwickpais.bsky.social

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Great to be back in Mexico City, visiting some old friends! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It was great to talk with France 24 about US military operations in the Caribbean. Southern Sphere seems part and parcel of an effort to repurpose the language, legal rationale, and technologies developed in the "war on terrorism" for a newly aggressive war on drugs. www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...

États-Unis vs Venezuela : le grand flou de l’opération Lance du Sud

Le ministre américain de la Défense, Pete Hegseth, a annoncé, jeudi, le début de l’opération Lance du Sud en Amérique latine pour lutter contre les narco-terroristes. Mais les incertitudes sont nombre...

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Greg Grandin's new book is sweeping, ambitious, and compelling. Likely to be read as a history of Latin America, the region primarily acts as a mirror to the United States. "However, in this reflection, the history of Latin America is distorted," I argue. My review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A Man, a Plan, and a Long History of Overplayed Hands In Foreign Policy, PAIS's Tom Long and Carsten-Andreas Schulz put Donald Trump's recent threats to reclaim the Panama Canal in a long-term perspective. Read the article -> buff.ly/FE8QRe0

A Man, a Plan, and a Long History of Overplayed Hands

Trump did not invent hardball U.S. diplomacy with Panama. Then, as now, it is doomed to backfire.

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And check out the underpinning research, open access in APSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last yr.

Read @tomlongphd.bsky.social & @caschulz.bsky.social's short essay in @us.theconversation.com covering their recent @apsrjournal.bsky.social article. "How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order" - cup.org/3IBG3P5

The history of international order is usually the history of the great powers. But what can we learn from looking at worldviews of those who resisted intervention? Very pleased to have this new post available on The Conversation with my coauthor and friend @caschulz.bsky.social.

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · last yr.

France imposed an emperor on Mexico. The Mexican republic resisted.

Congratulations to this year's ISA #BookAward winners! Check them out and add them to your summer reading list. Stay tuned for more winner announcements throughout the summer.

IR accounts of history have long emphasized turning points; increasingly, IR scholars invoke "critical junctures." But how should IR understand these? In this article, forthcoming in EJIR, @caschulz.bsky.social, and I propose a framework for CJ analysis in IR: wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...

"An important source of declassified materials for scholars of American diplomacy is now under threat" Prof Mitch Lerner at LSE Blog on the Historians Advisory Council, declassification, FRUS & much more #SHAFR @osuhistory.bsky.social @mershoncenter.bsky.social 🗃️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

New article decentring the Berlin Conference from the point of view of Latin America, by @tomlongphd.bsky.social and @caschulz.bsky.social #HistIR www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 New on First View! Tom Long (‪@tomlongphd.bsky.social‬) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz ‪(@caschulz.bsky.social‬) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism. Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...

I am delighted to share the programme of 'Global Order and Governance beyond the West' (May 29) at @cityhistory.bsky.social. Featuring talks by Arnulf Becker Lorca (EUI), Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge), @mjbayly.bsky.social (LSE). In person/online registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

It was a pleasure to host Ignacio Higueras Hare, Peru's ambassador to the UK, at the University of Warwick and @warwickpais.bsky.social. We appreciated his remarks about Latin American integration, and especially his outreach to our students. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...

Small States & Territories assembled a great forum on Veenendaal and Corbett's influential, "Why Small States Offer Important Answers to Large Questions." My essay, "Historical dynamics of international relationships: Veenendaal and Corbett beyond comparative politics" www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...

Excited to be in this issue of APSR, with "A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico," with @caschulz.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000... @warwickpais.bsky.social

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last yr.

NEW ISSUE from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - American Political Science Review - Volume 119 - Issue 2 - May 2025 - cup.org/4kc941s cc @apsa.bsky.social

🎙️ My new #podcast New Regional Orders is now live! Ep. 1: @tomlongphd.bsky.social from @warwickpais.bsky.social & I discuss U.S. #power in #Latin #America, #small #states & #regionalism. As #Trump 2.0 reshapes #foreign #policy, this couldn’t be more timely. 🎧 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhm...

Prof. Tom Long on Small States & U.S. Power in Latin America | Episode #01 | New Regional Orders

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Thrilled to see Nicaragua Must Survive discussed in a H-Diplo roundtable. Deeply grateful to @mollyavery.bsky.social , Michelle Chase, @tomlongphd.bsky.social & @sarahosten.bsky.social for their engagement and kind words. Thank you @emleake.bsky.social for organising! issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJI...

Big congratulations to my @warwickpais.bsky.social colleague, Charlie Price!

EJIR@ejir.bsky.social · last yr.

In his paper in EJIR, charlieprice.bsky.social analyses the Nordic Resistance Movement’s fantasy of the Nordic Nation and shows how collective ideological fantasies become grounded in present bodies to make such fantasies intelligible. You can read it here: t1p.de/lpjet

The assault on the US knowledge infrastructure continues.

AAUP@aaup.org · last yr.

DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵

The Wilson Center has been effectively shuttered by Trump and Musk. This saves taxpayers almost nothing, while erasing space for policy research, dialogue, and exchange, all things I gained from and made a small contribution to. For shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

Workers at Wilson Center Put on Leave as Trump Seeks Shutdown

About 130 employees of the Wilson Center were told they were being put on leave, just four days after workers for Elon Musk’s team entered the center.

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The arguments the Trump admin is making in this case are alarming. The USG can deport someone with legal status to another country's prisons (supposedly by mistake), cannot correct that error, nor be challenged in court as a "unitary executive". No limits, no checks. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

U.S. Says Deportation of Maryland Man Was an ‘Administrative Error’

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was in the U.S. legally, is now in prison in El Salvador, and federal courts have no jurisdiction to order his release, the Trump administration said in a court filin...

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