Dylan Motin

法国学者迪伦•莫廷：中国崛起会引发周边新的对冲 莫廷表示，在当代亚洲，各国权力分配不平衡，大多数印太国家都害怕中国新获得的力量，中国与美国及其盟友的竞争不可避免。

Sharing my recent interview with the Financial Times Chinese Edition where I discuss the current security landscape in Northeast Asia and Korean foreign policy issues:
ftchinese.com/story/001108...

YouTube video by Open to Debate Is War Inevitable?

I defended the 'yes' position in the debate 'Is war inevitable?'. If you're interested in war or international politics, give it a try!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sdi...

#OpenToDebate

My review of Jim Pomeroy’s “Alliances & Armor.”

www.militaryhistorychronicles.org/article/1448...

Me with my new book! Available on all your favorite platforms.

Some insights from 'How Louis XIV Survived His Hegemonic Bid.'

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📕 How did Louis XIV survive his failed bid for hegemony?

My new book with @anthempress.bsky.social explores the Sun King’s war termination lessons, still relevant for great powers today.

🛒 Get it here: www.amazon.com/How-Louis-XI...

The U.S. foreign policy upheaval: back to the basics? Trump-led changes in U.S. foreign policy have been years in the making

The U.S. foreign policy upheaval: back to the basics?
www.meer.com/en/90716-the...

최근 출간된 『한국의 핵안보 프로젝트 2』에 저의 연구가 21장에 실렸습니다. 이번 장에서는 영국과 프랑스를 효과적으로 설득하는 방안을 다루며, 한국의 핵안보 환경에서 두 유럽 강대국이 가지는 전략적 의미와 외교적 레버리지를 분석했습니다.

핵안보, 외교전략, 한반도 안보정책에 관심 있는 분들께 이 책을 추천드립니다.
👉 product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S0002...

Do we count military power right? The limitations of economic indicators in global security assessments

www.meer.com/en/89368-do-...

My review of "Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea" is out in the North Korean Review.
jstor.org/stable/27393...

My latest article explores Vietnam's regional expansionism after 1975 and the international conditions that enabled, and ultimately contained, its ambitions.
snuacwebzine.snu.ac.kr?p=8889

While Thailand and Cambodia edge toward war, my two recent books explore regional power politics, and the two countries feature prominently in both:
🌏 Territorial Expansion and Great Power Behavior During the Cold War
🌐 Bandwagoning in International Relations
🔗 www.dylanmotin.com/my-books

JEAS abstract of a scholarly article discussing why Meiji Japan succeeded in modernizing its state apparatus while Qing China failed, focusing on variables such as state embeddedness, political leadership, and elite cohesion.

#OpenAccess from our new issue -

Best Practices and Elite Belief: International Competition and State Modernization in Qing China and Meiji Japan - cup.org/4eHFG1y

- Alexandre Haym & @dylanmotin.bsky.social

If you'd like to learn more about President Lee's policies towards China and Russia, you can check out @joelatkinson.bsky.social's and my appearance on KBS World from yesterday (episode from 07.08, at minute 8).

world.kbs.co.kr/service/prog...

JEAS abstract of a scholarly article discussing why Meiji Japan succeeded in modernizing its state apparatus while Qing China failed, focusing on variables such as state embeddedness, political leadership, and elite cohesion.

#OpenAccess from our new issue -

Best Practices and Elite Belief: International Competition and State Modernization in Qing China and Meiji Japan - cup.org/4eHFG1y

- Alexandre Haym & @dylanmotin.bsky.social

New article out in Asian Development Perspectives:
“Who Won the San Francisco Earthquake?” The Impact of Disasters on International Politics

🔍 Not all disasters reshape world politics.
📉 Only those that shift the balance of power do.
🌍 Realists, take note.

Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.22681/ADP...

North Korea’s Russian advantage: the KPA’s transformation Pyongyang’s military capabilities will improve significantly with Russian help in three key areas

www.meer.com/en/88600-nor...

My book Bandwagoning in International Relations is now in paperback!

Grab it with 30% off at Vernon Press — use code OHSJ30.

🛒 vernonpress.com/book/2109

#IR #PowerPolitics #China #Russia #BookRelease

Iran’s predicament is a textbook example of why realists prize raw military power. If you have enemies and lack sufficient military capabilities, you get attacked, no matter how loud your rhetoric or how wide your network of proxies.

📘 My new book is out with Routledge!

Territorial Expansion and Great Power Behavior During the Cold War explores why and when states like Egypt & Vietnam expanded to acquire resources.

Grab a copy: www.routledge.com/Territorial-...

#InternationalRelations #IR #SecurityStudies #MiddleEast #History

Could Presidents Lee and Trump be the key to peace in Korea? I explore this question in this new piece.
nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-w...

NATO allies ‘not prepared’ for war, top UK defense adviser warns Grace Cassy, an adviser to the British government’s defense review, tells POLITICO the U.K. has a “way to go” on taking up cutting-edge military tech.

A shocker, who could have possibly foreseen that?
www.politico.eu/article/nato...

Nukes won’t protect you from everything. But in a rough neighborhood, a state without them is on a timer.

The first rule is to never read old stuff again!

So much for "nothing ever happens."

Shifting power on the Korean peninsula North Korea’s resilience may shift the balance as South Korea faces decline

Shifting power on the Korean peninsula?
www.meer.com/en/87664-shi...

The ‘New Axis of Evil’: imminent danger or threat inflation? Why treating these nations as a unified threat puts U.S. diplomacy at risk

The ‘New Axis of Evil’: imminent danger or threat inflation?

www.meer.com/en/86797-the...

🚨 India–Pakistan tensions are rising.

One alliance that still shapes the region: China & Pakistan.

I unpack it in Bandwagoning in International Relations.

📘 vernonpress.com/book/1913

#Geopolitics #IR #ChinaPakistan

Latest issue of free-to-access Journal of East Asian Affairs from South Korea’s Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS). (I am executive editor, with INSS Director Han Sukhee as publisher and Mason Richey as editor-in-chief). Submissions welcome, 1 million KRW honorarium.