Jordan Becker

Institute for Qualitative & Multi-Method Research

Grad students in political science and other social sciences! Consider applying to the great 2-week summer program in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse. Info is here:

www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

As did Turkey when Russia violated it's air space ten years ago. What's there to scoff at?

It’s true generally but here even more so: for anyone who received an award or honor, there are dozens more who would have been worthy

Who among us has not gone to war and said "my kingdom for the world's longest bridge"?

Basi Militari: tutte le notizie - Limes Basi Militari: aggiornamenti e approfondimenti. Tutte le notizie a tema Basi Militari pubblicate su Limes

www.limesonline.com/argomenti/ba...

The future of UK-EU relations - UK in a changing Europe Join UK in a Changing Europe and The Open University in Brussels as they bring together leading academics, think tankers, officials and journalists in Brussels to discuss UK-EU relations.

In Brussels in September? Come along! ukandeu.ac.uk/events/the-f...

Re-upping this great opportunity for junior scholars working on conflict and international security using quantitative methods to present research, including practice job talks — apply to @jqconworkshop.bsky.social by August 14

Europe’s roads and rail unfit for war with Russia, EU transport chief warns Brussels aims to spend €17bn on upgrading transport networks to be prepared for conflict

This is why the extra 1.5% of GDP on defense-related expenditures is absolutely necessary and could be quite useful.

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📢 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop Fall 2025
PhD students, postdocs & junior faculty: Present your research/practice job talk!
🗓️ Virtual: 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 1pm ET
📝 Deadline: Aug 14

Application below:

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📣 Terrific and supportive opportunity from @jqconworkshop.bsky.social for junior scholars working on conflict and international security using quantitative methods to present research, including practice job talks 📣

🚨 ISSS is accepting award nominations through September 15, 2025, for the following section awards:
🏆 Book Award
🏆 Best Security Article Award
🏆 Patricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding ISSS Graduate Student Paper
🏆 ISSS Emerging Scholar Award
All details here: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

Looking good too

Yes. Domestic politics is a thing!

#EDUsky #education #teaching #edchat#quotesoftheday

The U.S. Won’t Abandon Europe A whirlwind week left observers writing the trans-Atlantic alliance’s eulogy. But the U.S., even under Trump, isn’t interested in abandoning Europe.

This week's @wpr.bsky.social column wasn't about illustrating general IR concepts, so much as it was about addressing a pressing current issue.

But I did draw a bit from some of my recent research on alliances, primarily NATO specifically. Specifically...

Can't wait to see that!

Yes!
"Our findings suggest that, while public opposition to military spending remains high in Italy, external threats dampen the public's opposition to military spending, even under high debt burdens."
doi.org/10.1017/S000...

New article: For the Times They Are A‐Changin': Towards a ‘Homeland Economics’ Paradigm of the European Union? - Brockenhuus‐Schack; Nedergaard - JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #dkpol

Yesterday, our researcher Lotje Boswinkel was in Santander as part of the annual "Spain in the World" gathering, organised by the Spanish MFA and UIMP. Lotje discussed European security and shifts in the global order.

More info🔸 www.uimp.es/en/ @lotjeboswinkel.bsky.social

More gold. New favorite substack. Particularly important for those of us straddling academe and policy.

We've got an article in here! @profpaulpoast.bsky.social Tim Haesebrouck and I that is...
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We've got an article in here! @profpaulpoast.bsky.social Tim Haesebrouck and I that is...
bsky.app/profile/jord...

As JPR's Editorial Office heads into the summer break, we are excited to share that we have just published our largest issue yet!

👉 Check out the July issue here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/JPR/curr...

We will be back in early August - until then, happy reading and a peaceful summer! 🌞

5/5 We find that vulnerability and abatement costs affected both the order in which states agreed the pledge, and the extent to which they have complied with it.

4/5 This argument finds support from interviews with participants and a purpose-built dataset including overall defense spending and share of defense budgets allocated to equipment modernization and vulnerability to security threats and ‘abatement cost’ of meeting the Wales Pledge aims.

3/5 Moreover, why have they largely complied with this agreement subsequently? We argue that the ‘Interest Based’ framework for understanding the success or failure of environmental agreements is useful for understanding the agreement and implementation of the Wales Pledge.

2/5 More specifically, why did NATO allies, with disparate geography and perceptions of the international security environment, agree to ‘aim to move towards’ increased defense spending (2% of GDP on defense and 20% of defense budgets on equipment modernization) at their 2014 Wales Summit?

🧵1/5 Happy to report that this article has an issue in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
Abstract
Why do countries mutually agree to constraints on their behavior? Why do they comply with such constraints in the absence of enforcement mechanisms?

Thanls for making words worth reading!

Words to (try to) live by