Rethinking American Grand Strategy | Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Co-OrganizersChristopher McKnight Nichols - Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies and Professor of History, The Ohio State University Andrew Preston - W.L. Lyons Brown Jr.
As the Monroe Doctrine comes roaring back in USFP, I'm thrilled to announce the Rethinking American Grand Strategy International conference at @mershoncenter.bsky.social l May 29-30, 2026 | What topics, what a lineup of scholars, thinkers, and practitionersποΈ mershoncenter.osu.edu/rethinking-a...
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Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-18 on Peacock, Frequencies of Deceit
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-18 Margaret Peacock, Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East.
The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-18
Margaret Peacockβs Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East
βa tremendous book with which to think about radio, the power of language and discourse, and what it means for our world today.β βBenjamin V. Allison
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Just looking at the Comey indictment mess, would you wager that this same DOJ has a solid legal justification for the killing spree at sea?
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sorry,
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At @aseees.bsky.social 2025? Come by Columbia 10 in the first session to hear papers from me, Alexey Chernyavskiy, Nikolaus Graf Vitzthum, and Svetlana Savranskaya, with commentary by the great, powerful, and virtual @radchenko.bsky.social!
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Hey, that's me!
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The purported route of a Soviet airlift to South Yemen and Ethiopia in October 1979, as reported in Newsweek.
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SCENE: [A doctorβs office exam room. Milton Friedman sits, in a gown, on top of the exam table, swinging his feet and squinting at a prescription slip]
Friedman: Sudafed?! Thatβs what Iβve been saying!
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Mamdani referred to a friend as 'bro' but a Free Press investigation has determined that this man is not his sibling.
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Any of the homies tryna put together a @shafrhistorians.bsky.social panel for June? Ideally on MENA and/or 1970s/80s?
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Yβknow, when I suggested in 2021 that, among other things, maybe we needed to cut PhD lines to solve the jobs crisis, this is not what I had in mindβ¦ www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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β¦you know what? Heβs right.
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For more on the history of federal government shutdowns (8 in Reagan's two terms alone! and 14 total since 1981), their duration, and government control by party, see this excellent graphic and @cnn.com articleποΈ www.cnn.com/politics/lon...
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Ahmed Jibril on the Islamic Revolution in Iran:
"... we recognized its victory was a gift from heaven. Our tranquil gift and compensation for Egypt which Sadat took into the Israeli and American embrace."
Jibril, Muthakaraat, 288.
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β¦my Lenten break was longer than anticipated
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Blessed Lent. See yβall later.
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How I source my dissertation on relations between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Steadfastness and Confrontation Front.
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Immediately told my wife βhe just got finedβ
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Gonna be at @aseees.bsky.social on Thursday? Come to this panel on the USSR and the Middle East, featuring @radchenko.bsky.social, Robert Freedman, Margaret Peacock, Dmitry Asinovskiy, and me!*
* our final panelist, Vassily Klimentov, unfortunately canβt be with us this week
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This may be overly-optimistic, but it seems entirely possible that Trump is torching all of his political capital before he even enters office. This could hamstring him moving forward.
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So uhβ¦ didnβt realize I owned Zbigniew Brzezinskiβs copy of this book.
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I regret to inform yβall that I am back.
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