International Security
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International Security is America's leading peer-reviewed journal of security affairs. It provides sophisticated analyses of contemporary, theoretical, and historical security issues. International Security is edited at @belfercenter.bsky.social.
The new Spring 2026 issue is online! Articles by @eunajo.bsky.social, @jessicacweiss.bsky.social, Rosato, @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social, Ven Bruusgaard, Joshi, @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social, @kerbydavis.bsky.social, Gholz Correspondence on paradigms, realism, Ukraine direct.mit.edu/isec/issue
Volume 50 Issue 4 | International Security | MIT Press
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New and #OpenAccess in the International Security Winter 2026 Issue: Deception and Detection: Why Artificial Intelligence Empowers Cyber Defense over Offense direct.mit.edu/isec/article... @intsecurity.bsky.social
Deception and Detection: Why Artificial Intelligence Empowers Cyber Defense over Offense
Abstract. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to automate key tasks in the life cycle of a cyber operation. Many have predicted that AI will revolutionize cyber conflict by enabling…
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1) ***Announcement*** The new Winter 2025/26 issue is online! Read articles by Ron Krebs; @janinadill.bsky.social, Emily Myers, and Livia Schubiger; @lmaschmeyer.bsky.social; Joel Brenner; and @johnseverini.bsky.social and Stephen Biddle. direct.mit.edu/isec/issue @mitpress.bsky.social
Volume 50 Issue 3 | International Security | MIT Press
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So foreseeable that my amazing former colleague @proftalmadge.bsky.social published this analysis, “Closing Time: Assessing the Iranian Threat to the Strait of Hormuz,” in 2008 in @intsecurity.bsky.social. www.caitlintalmadge.com/uploads/8/5/4/1/85419560/closing_time.pdf
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Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5mo ago5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
1) ***Announcement*** The new Fall 2025 issue is online! Read articles by Marc Trachtenberg, @aaronbateman.bsky.social, @ajmount.bsky.social, Dong Jung Kim, and @mikegoldfien.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/isec/issue @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
Volume 50 Issue 2 | International Security | MIT Press
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This is an intriguing new @intsecurity.bsky.social article on China as essentially a status quo power challenging US assumptions of high aggression direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
What Does China Want?
Abstract. The conventional wisdom is that China is a rising hegemon eager to replace the United States, dominate international institutions, and re-create the liberal international order in its own im...
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A US–USSR limited war was unlikely due to land theater & limited precision, yet US–China tensions, centered on a maritime theater with precision & non-kinetic weapons, make a limited regional nuclear war over Taiwan more likely, argue Henrik Hiim & Øystein Tunsjø @intsecurity.bsky.social 10/10
The U.S.-China Stability-Instability Paradox: Limited War in East Asia
Abstract. With China and the United States seemingly locked in intensifying and enduring competition, many analysts compare today's U.S.-China rivalry with the one between the Soviet Union and the Uni...
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Great piece on Iraq in this season's issue of @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 11mo agoNew and #OpenAccess in the Summer 2025 issue of International Security — Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy: direct.mit.edu/isec/article... @intsecurity.bsky.social
Terrific issue. @belfercenter.bsky.social
MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 11mo agoOur journal, International Security, has defined the debate on U.S. national security policy and set the agenda for scholarship on international security affairs for over 40 years. The summer 2025 issue is out now: direct.mit.edu/isec/issue/5... @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton@drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 11mo agoGreat book on Iraq, which seems to have fallen off the map lately. Read my review, too. @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social
***Announcement*** The Summer 2025 issue is online! Read articles by @drsarahphillips.bsky.social and Daniel Tower; @daveckang.bsky.social, Jackie S. H. Wong, and @zenobiachan.bsky.social; Wu Riqiang; Nick Anderson and Daryl Press; and Henrik Hiim and Øystein Tunsjø direct.mit.edu/isec/issue
Volume 50 Issue 1 | International Security | MIT Press
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Summer 2025 issue preview! @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social Phillips & Tower ➡️ ISIS Kang, Wong, @zenobiachan.bsky.social ➡️ What does China want? Wu Riqiang ➡️ China’s views on arms control Anderson & Press ➡️ Military primacy in Asia Hiim & Tunsjo ➡️ Limited war in East Asia
Summer 2025 issue preview: ISIS, what does China want? China on arms control, military primacy in Asia, limited war in East Asia @daveckang.bsky.social @zenobiachan.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social
@senerakturk.bsky.social's fascinating International Security article, "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe” wins the Outstanding Article Award from APSA International History and Politics Section direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
Abstract. Sizeable Jewish and Muslim communities lived across large swathes of medieval Western Europe. But all the Muslim communities and almost all the Jewish communities in polities that correspond...
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton@drjlhazelton.bsky.social · last yr.@senerakturk.bsky.social's fascinating International Security article, "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe” wins the Outstanding Article Award from APSA International History and Politics Section direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Language Machines is out today, can be ordered from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932... - gathering a few parergonal writings below 1/
Live now. The Realist Debate Over How to Respond to China. With @stephenwalt.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/7-t...
7 – The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China | The International Security Podcast
Will China make a bid for regional hegemony in East Asia, and can it succeed? In the modern era, only the United States has achieved regional hegemony—all other attempts have met catastrophic failure....
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A short piece from the new issue of International Security: "Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia" thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/monks-behavi... Great piece. @intsecurity.bsky.social @pearson-edits.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia
Buddhism is commonly associated with peace, tolerance, and compassion. But like every other great religion, it has a violent side.
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1) The new Spring 2025 issue is online! Read articles by John Mearsheimer, @stephenwalt.bsky.social , Zachary Burdette, Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda, and @doncasler.bsky.social and Tyler Jost direct.mit.edu/isec/issue/4...
Volume 49 Issue 4 | International Security | MIT Press
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Wasn't sure if this article would ever see the light of day, but am absolutely thrilled to have an article in the forthcoming Winter 2024/2025 of @intsecurity.bsky.social
Here is the latest International Security podcast, "Competing Visions of Restraint." @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitp @belfercenter.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social
5 – Competing Visions of Restraint | The International Security Podcast
At least since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, some scholars and policymakers have called for retrenching the United States’ global military presence. Miranda Priebe and John Schuessler discuss rea...
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New International Security podcast: "Competing Visions of Restraint" @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/5-c...
5 – Competing Visions of Restraint | The International Security Podcast
At least since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, some scholars and policymakers have called for retrenching the United States’ global military presence. Miranda Priebe and John Schuessler discuss rea...
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Sheena Chestnut Greitens@sheenagreitens.bsky.social · last yr.Delighted to have a new article out with @ibkardon.bsky.social in International Security. China is emerging as a global security provider, including to countries that get security assistance from the US. 1/3
Our @intsecurity.bsky.social article is up! @ibkardon.bsky.social & I talk about "security hybridization" - an emerging phenomenon wherein states seek security from China & the US simultaneously, but not symmetrically: direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Security without Exclusivity: Hybrid Alignment under U.S.-China Competition
Abstract. This article explores an emerging dynamic in the international system: Countries across the world are engaged in simultaneous security cooperation with both China and the United States. Chin...
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Sheena Chestnut Greitens@sheenagreitens.bsky.social · last yr.Delighted to have a new article out with @ibkardon.bsky.social in International Security. China is emerging as a global security provider, including to countries that get security assistance from the US. 1/3
Discover new developments in nuclear proliferation, international relations theory, defense technology, and more in America's leading peer-reviewed journal of security affairs, International Security: direct.mit.edu/isec @intsecurity.bsky.social
Provocative new @intsecurity.bsky.social article from Barry Posen suggests that Russia's invasion of Ukraine fits a well-worn pattern of preventative war in the face of a rapidly shifting security situation. @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Putin's Preventive War: The 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
Abstract. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine is consistent with the logic of preventive war. States often initiate wars because they fear the consequences of a shifting balance of military power and...
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MIT Professor Barry Posen argues that Russia's war on Ukraine likely followed the logic of preventive war as NATO-US cooperation w/ Ukraine increased. 1/2 @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social www.cato.org/multimedia/p...
Strategic Empathy & the Roots of the Ukraine War
Featuring Barry R. Posen and John Glaser
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Read the "International Security" article. This essay argues "that Vladimir Putin likely viewed Russia's strategic situation through a preventive war frame. @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Putin's Preventive War: The 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
Abstract. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine is consistent with the logic of preventive war. States often initiate wars because they fear the consequences of a shifting balance of military power and...
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton@drjlhazelton.bsky.social · last yr.MIT Professor Barry Posen argues that Russia's war on Ukraine likely followed the logic of preventive war as NATO-US cooperation w/ Ukraine increased. 1/2 @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social www.cato.org/multimedia/p...
