Sean Case
@seanmcase.bsky.social
Historian of modern U.S. history & IR / Book project on limited war as the dark side of nuclear deterrence / Policy as storyworlds, storyworlds as policy 🗺️ IR or D&D 🎲 ⚔️ 🐉
Today is Memorial Day. Expert James M. Lindsay commemorates the holiday by sharing the story of a citizen of Mexico who volunteered to serve as a U.S. Marine and "made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam."
Remembering a Fallen Hero on Memorial Day | Council on Foreign Relations
The story of a U.S. Marine who made the ultimate sacrifice for the United States.
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🪖📚 NEW: "The emotional politics of sovereignty: On dignity, state personhood, and kidnappings" from @nckc.bsky.social & @minseonku.bsky.social. 👉 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical context!
American Historical Association@historians.org · 6mo agoLooking for historical context on tariffs? Watch the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on C-SPAN, featuring historians @douglasirwin.bsky.social, @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, & @rauchway.bsky.social. They explore how federal tariff policy has shaped domestic & global economies. 🗃️
‘Tis the season for applications to the 2026 cohort of @columbiasipa.bsky.social Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS). Ithaca truly is GORGES during the summer and presents a welcome reprieve to serious debates on the roles of military operations & strategy
Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS) – SIWPS
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CFR President Michael Froman reflects on this year’s Munich Security Conference:
Dispatch from Munich: The Future of Transatlantic Relations | Council on Foreign Relations
CFR President Michael Froman reflects on this year's Munich Security Conference.
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Really enjoyed seeing the results of this survey of @shafrhistorians.bsky.social! The folks @cfr.org turned the lists into a great teaching resource, and I'm honored to have my book included in the section on the Cuban Missile Crisis! #History 🗃️ www.cfr.org/ten-best-ten...
The 10 Best and 10 Worst U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions
For two-and-a-half centuries, the United States has faced a challenging world. Some of its responses have advanced U.S. interests and values. Others have not. We asked members of the Society for Histo...
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This week, Historians At The Movies gets to talk about the South, Jim Crow, the Klan, music, and motherlovin’ VAMPIRES. Join us on Prime Video this Sunday, January 18th at 8pm eastern for SINNERS. Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
Your friendly independent bookstore breaking into your timeline to tell you to take a couple hours this weekend, put your phone in like, a box, or something & read a book. All of this <waves hand> will be here when you come back.
Headed to Chicago this week? Check out these panels made by and for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social #AHA2026
Check out the Week that Was, a roundup of Lawfare's articles and podcasts of the past week, compiled by Isabel Arroyo.
The Week That Was
Your weekly summary of everything on the site.
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I am pleased to share my dual review of Roady & Preston’s recent histories examining FDR’s New Deal & national security. My thanks to the @lawfaremedia.org editorial team for their guidance and to @mbrenes.bsky.social for his early support.
Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 8mo ago@seanmcase.bsky.social reviews “The Contest Over National Security" by Peter Roady and “Total Defense" by Andrew Preston, which both trace the faults with our current understanding of national security to the New Deal, but tell quite different tales and focus on different sets of key actors.
Happy #TheMightyNein on Prime to all those who celebrate 🎉 The chaotic band of 🌊 🍭 👊 🐈 🥃 🌙 🗡️ 🍄 ⏳ introduced me to #CriticalRole and showed how TTRPGs can shift our approach to teaching & framing international relations for the public good 🌎 🙌 #IsItWednesdayYet
Whenever I assist an intrepid traveler navigate the MBTA, I often want to say, “Good journey, adventurer”
OK #BookSky, here it is, our first micro-course on close reading! We’re hoping to help you slow down, have deeper & richer reading experiences, & spend some time enjoying one of the cool things your brain can do. This 1st one is definitely designed as an intro. Read on! 1/5
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · last yr.Heyyyyyyy #BookSky Been thinking a bit about how, given various cultural & technological forces, the importance of "close reading" is growing significantly. Since we're basically professional readers, would y'all appreciate occasional, tips, techniques, perspectives, dives into & on close reading?
Just in time for my birthday today, the NYT publishes my list of climate novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b...
Jeff VanderMeer’s Favorite Climate Fiction Novels
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A contemporary IR classic returns - the Paul Poast threads/“lectures” 🎉
Paul Poast@profpaulpoast.bsky.social · last yr.The return of 🧵s! Each weekend during the summer, I'll post (exclusively on Bluesky) a 🧵 "lecture" that uses my @wpr.bsky.social column to teach about some international relations concept. Let's start with what can learn in this week's column!
If you find yourself this afternoon at Day 2 of #SHAFR2025, come on by Studio D from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm for an incredible lightning round of research from rising junior scholars @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
It’s only the first day of #SHAFR2025 but I confirmed @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social is indeed THE Brad Simpson in this 2002 NYT letter to the editor. The more you know 💫 @shafrhistorians.bsky.social Kissinger: Right Man for the Job? www.nytimes.com/2002/11/30/o...
Opinion | Kissinger: Right Man for the Job? (Published 2002)
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Having seen this special exhibition 🌟 at the Morgan Library, I cannot recommend it enough! Bella da Costa Greene truly was a remarkable historical figure
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2y agoNice capsule biography of Belle da Costa Greene, occasioned by the ✨ exhibition at the Morgan Library. When I taught my knwldg infrastructures class at TNS, we’d spend a day @ the Morgan (for the cylinder seals!) + NYPL underground stacks; svrl students over the yrs focused their projects on Greene!
Came home from training to find a package…The Rivalry Peril uncorrected proof! Pre-order now!
The Legal History Blog -- the essential source for news related to the field, including publications, conferences & all the rest -- is now on Bluesky! Give them a follow: @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social!
Legal History Blog@legalhistoryblog.bsky.social · 2y ago
The Students Have Never Been the Enemy Student protest movements have historically functioned as an indispensable corrective for America and the West. That is the legacy of 1968 we should be talking about. New piece:
The Students Have Never Been the Enemy
Student protest movements have historically functioned as an indispensable corrective for America and the West. That is the legacy of 1968 we should be talking about
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H-Diplo|RJISSF Commentary II-4: @seanmcase.bsky.social 's "Kissinger and the Angel of Applied History” "These obituaries and memorials collectively omit one of Kissinger’s most enduring policy legacies: his self- perception as a historian" issforum.org/commentary/h...
So much of the coverage about the Israel-Gaza war is about how we talk about the war rather than the war itself
Heartbreaking stories of Afghan families being torn apart as Pakistan forcibly expels up to 1 million Afghans, many of whom were born in Pakistan and have spent their entire lives there. Cruel dilemma: hide in the shadows and hope to avoid getting caught, or go to Taliban Afghanistan?
Families Ripped Apart as Pakistan Expels Tens of Thousands of Afghans
Husbands and wives, parents and children, wonder when, or if, they will ever see each other again.
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Some exciting recently released/declassified docs on the National Security Archive site from the records of Ambassador Gerard C. Smith shed additional light on the 1977 discovery of South Africa's nuclear testing site, and the reactions/diplomacy between the US and USSR over that discovery. 🗃️
The Discovery of South Africa’s Secret Nuclear Test Site, August 1977
Today’s posting focuses on the decision-making and diplomatic process during August 1977 that began after the Carter administration obtained evidence confirming the existence of the Kalahari site.
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