Sean Case

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‘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

Dispatch from Munich: The Future of Transatlantic Relations | Council on Foreign Relations CFR President Michael Froman reflects on this year's Munich Security Conference.

CFR President Michael Froman reflects on this year’s Munich Security Conference:

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...

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...

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

What a great pairing 👏 And I’m not surprised given how GRRM incorporated the language of regime change into later books in the Song of Ice and Fire series

Already ordered and received 🫡 Looking forward to reading it!

The Week That Was Your weekly summary of everything on the site.

Check out the Week that Was, a roundup of Lawfare's articles and podcasts of the past week, compiled by Isabel Arroyo.

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.

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”

Deserves to be a Renaissance painting in the Louvre!

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

No, it’s not good - it’s great! I shout it from the rooftops far and wide 🎉

Jeff VanderMeer’s Favorite Climate Fiction Novels

Just in time for my birthday today, the NYT publishes my list of climate novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b...

A contemporary IR classic returns - the Paul Poast threads/“lectures” 🎉

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

Opinion | Kissinger: Right Man for the Job? (Published 2002)

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...

Having seen this special exhibition 🌟 at the Morgan Library, I cannot recommend it enough! Bella da Costa Greene truly was a remarkable historical figure

If you’re using Amtrak, your best bet would be the Hartford Line www.amtrak.com/amtrak-hartf...

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!

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

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:

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...

It’s incredible! I can’t wait for Season 2

So much of the coverage about the Israel-Gaza war is about how we talk about the war rather than the war itself

Congratulations to all AHA book prize winners!

So very true 😂