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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...

@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...

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Language Machines is out today, can be ordered from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932... - gathering a few parergonal writings below 1/

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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...

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.

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

Volume 49 Issue 4 | International Security | MIT Press

7) We hope you enjoy the new issue of International Security!

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6) “Lost in Transmission: Bureaucracy, Noise, and Communication in International Politics,” by @doncasler.bsky.social and Tyler Jost.
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5) “Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia,” by Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda
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4) “The U.S.-China Military Balance in Space,” by Zachary Burdette
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3) “Hedging on Hegemony: The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China,” by @stephenwalt.bsky.social
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2) Articles from the issue include:

“War and International Politics,” by John J. Mearsheimer
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Volume 49 Issue 4 | International Security | MIT Press

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

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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

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...

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...

New International Security podcast: "Competing Visions of Restraint" @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/5-c...

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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:
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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

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...

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

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Strategic Empathy & the Roots of the Ukraine War Featuring Barry R. Posen and John Glaser

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...

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...

6 – Putin’s Preventive War | The International Security Podcast Episode Summary: Why did Vladimir Putin decide to invade Ukraine in 2022? Barry Posen argues that Putin’s decision is consistent with the logic of preventive war. Increasing U.S. and NATO military coo...

In the latest International Security Podcast, MIT's Barry Posen argues that Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in 2022 is consistent with the logic of preventive war. @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social

In the latest International Security Podcast, SSP’s Barry Posen argues that Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in 2022 is consistent with the logic of preventive war. @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social

Read the original article on weaponized interdependence in @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social

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Great piece. @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

I concur. Please do this. @intsecurity.bsky.social

Spring 2025 issue preview!

J. Mearsheimer < war & international politics> @stephenwalt.bsky.social <realism and China>
Zach Burdette <space>
N. Saiya & S. Manchanda <Buddhist violence>
@doncasler.bsky.social & T. Jost <noisy negotiations>

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