Grateful to have this out in @intsecurity.bsky.social. @jessicacweiss.bsky.social and I show how Cold War analogies obscure more than they reveal about US-China relations. 1/6

The issue includes: “The Ideology Trap: China and the Limits of Cold War Analogies,” by @eunajo.bsky.social and @jessicacweiss.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/ISEC...

The Ideology Trap: China and the Limits of Cold War Analogies

Abstract. What role do ideological differences play in great power relations? Existing studies often treat ideological differences as fixed variables that exacerbate frictions between great powers. In...

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New in International Security! Ideology, the security dilemma, nuclear weapons, China-Taiwan @eunajo.bsky.social @jessicacweiss.bsky.social @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social @kerbydavis.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social

Looks incredible - and resonates with the emergence of developmentalist thinking in Cold War Asia

Patrick Iber@patrickiber.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026

Please send us your dissertations to be considered for the APSA Nuno P. Monteiro Dissertation Award in IR theory! Deadline is tomorrow, March 31, 2026.

Excited to finally share my 🚨 new article 🚨 now online at @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social “The Dark Side of Defection: Security Force Defectors and the Aftermath of Nonviolent Revolutions. academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-.... Brief 🧵

Jie-Hyun Lim interviewed by @ginsengamericano.bsky.social about his book, 'Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age', for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

Jie-Hyun Lim, "Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age" (Columbia UP, 2025)

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"AI is not corrupting our tastes but revealing they were already predisposed to corruption. LLMs have exposed a vast pre-existing cultural appetite for false profundity, and gave everyone a machine that can produce it on demand."

Seva@seva.bsky.social · 5mo ago

LLM prose is everywhere now. How did it happen so quickly? I think at some point we have to stop blaming the technology. new post

The sentencing trial for Yoon Suk-yeol will begin in 10 minutes.

On November 19th, Professor @jeffreyding.bsky.social from The George Washington University received the prestigious Lepgold Book Prize at the Mortara Center. This award recognizes the best book in international relations published in 2024. Photo credit: @georgetown-sfs.bsky.social

Japan’s new prime minister faces big foreign policy challenges. Can Sanae Takaichi keep Washington close – and navigate regional threats? William & Mary's @eunajo.bsky.social discusses here: goodauthority.org/news/sanae-t...

Japan’s new prime minister faces big foreign policy challenges

Can Sanae Takaichi keep Washington close – and navigate regional threats?

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What a delight to attend @kbclarke.bsky.social’s book launch at the fully packed @mortaracenter.bsky.social tonight! Such thought-provoking and insightful scholarship and engaging discussion @laiabalcells.bsky.social

We have a new article in @cpsjournal.bsky.social theorizing founding leader personality cult emergence in Vietnam, China and Indonesia. It'll be part of a special issue "Imagining Nations" w/ @eunajo.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, @jiyoungko.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Founding Leaders and National Narratives: Anthropomorphism and the Roots of Founding Leader Personality Cults in Three East Asian Cases - Paul Schuler, Trung-Anh Nguyen, Yongfeng Tang, Mohammad Khan, ...

Founding leader personality cults are crucial components of national narratives. Yet, relatively little research examines how they emerge. A small political sci...

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U.S. political scientists, are any of your depts *not* admitting new PhD students this year (esp. for international applicants)? I'm gathering info to help students know where to reconsider applying. Applications are not cheap and they're despairing. Appreciate any details.

So happy to see this out! We caution against excessive optimism that the opposition will restore countries back to their democratic trajectories after electoral victory. Weakened institutions and the memory of repression makes it tempting to continue rather than buck the trend of autocratization.

Journal of Democracy@jodemocracy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Conventional wisdom says that, once in power, opposition parties will return backsliding countries to the democratic path. In reality, not only is this not true, but it is not uncommon for the opposition to adopt the autocratic habits of the regime they replaced. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a... 1/2

In my latest for @goodauth.bsky.social, I write about why boundary-keeping is just as important as developing inclusive narratives for democracy

Good Authority@goodauth.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Good to Know: Nationalism and democracy. - What is nationalism, exactly? - What should nationalism look like in a democracy? Democracy needs more than a good story. Read our latest, filled with resources from @eunajo.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/good-to...

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More information about my new book which will be published by the Cambridge University Press on 11 December: www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

I’m happy to share this paper in @cpsjournal.bsky.social on democracy and national narratives, with insights from South Korea and Taiwan. It is part of a special issue on postcolonial narratives with @paulschuler.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, + others. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

So over the next few days I want to tell you a little bit about my new @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book about looted art. The book is about art so there are many great pictures! A very short, mini-thread 👇

Deadline (7/25) is approaching. If you're interested in a year-long (but w/ light commitment) experience of talking about politics of Korea in a safe online community, this is a great opportunity. While priority is given to junior scholars, ANYONE is encouraged to apply.

Eun A Jo@eunajo.bsky.social · last yr.

Deadline is now July 25th! @textvulture.bsky.social @jennargibson.bsky.social @edwardgoldring.bsky.social

We live in an era of democratic backsliding. But the terminology of "backsliding" isn't up to the task of making sense of the deep crisis of liberal democracy around the world. I've just finished a working paper that lays out what I think is going on. tl;dr it's about the state and society 🧵

With LDP's defeat today (and a sharper turn to the right in Japan's domestic politics), trade negotiations are about to get even more complicated. Some thoughts on @goodauth.bsky.social about what Trump's tariffs might mean for Japan and South Korea: goodauthority.org/news/trumps-...

Trump’s tariffs are testing America’s Asian allies.

U.S. tariffs have become a symbol of diminishing U.S. credibility in the region.

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Please share widely! IR Theory Colloquium (IRTC) 2025-2026 Call for applications / Due July 31 IRTC is a monthly, 90-minute Zoom workshop for early career researchers, aimed at improving theoretical arguments and expanding the IR Theory community. More info below:

Deadline is now July 25th! @textvulture.bsky.social @jennargibson.bsky.social @edwardgoldring.bsky.social

Eun A Jo@eunajo.bsky.social · last yr.

Deadline is today! If you’ve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...

Deadline is today! If you’ve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...

The @duckofminerva.bsky.social is a International Relations blog with a focus on theory, teaching, and research. I founded it in 2005. It quickly grew to become a cooperative endeavor. It's gone from multiple pieces a day to maybe an article every 2 weeks. But it's still alive and publishing.

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In South Korea, protest is a ubiquitous and essential form of political expression. Against Abandonment is at once a chronicle of the life-and-death character of protesting precarity in South Korea and a searing examination of repertoires of solidarity for upending injustice www.sup.org/books/as...

I made an explorer for some data I OCRd on Chinese organization work and management to '97, largely drawn from《党的组织工作大事记》(1990,1993,1999). mthompsonbrusstar.shinyapps.io/zuzhirenshi/ Might be of interest to the Chinese political science crowd, sinologists interested in the state / party, etc.

LIVE NOW | 1:10–2:20 PM ET Panel 2: The Next Generation: The Future of Trilateral Cooperation 🔹 Derek Mitchell 🔹 Adam Farrar 🔹 @eunajo.bsky.social 🔹 @rosenbergerlm.bsky.social 🔹 Ayumi Teraoka 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVnb...