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If states are operating in an era of great-power competition, it is incumbent on them to know who is winning. Nicholas Kitchen on making net assessment work. go.iiss.org/Survival66-4

If states are operating in an era of great-power competition, it is incumbent on them to know who is winning. Nicholas Kitchen on making net assessment work. go.iiss.org/Survival66-4

CGPC co-director Josh Andresen argues that the proliferation of economic sanctions does not undermine their lawfulness, but rather increased state practice will support a customary norm of unilaterally imposed sanctions link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Really valuable thread. The main issue I see with SDRs is that the DR bit has to follow from the S bit, and (grand) strategy cannot be limited to defence - GS is ultimately about national goals and how you achieve them, defending against threats is only a part of that.

Hi Airbnb, Airbnb Help: it’s now over three weeks, three calls and seven ignored chat messages since your last engagement with my support case. Is you approach to customer support to ignore customer problems until they get bored?

When the great Bob Jervis comes in the post and it used to belong to Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social

Hi Guardian Money I’ve got a consumer case for you. Airbnb refusing to provide a partial refund because the host refuses to, despite a property not having an advertised tennis court. Apparently this doesn’t count as a ‘significant difference’ and Airbnb Help just closed the case

I was a discussant for an earlier version of this paper back BISA - British International Studies Association in Glasgow last year, and it's really good to see it out. Trump's particular brand of masculinity and his declinism are clear, what Clara does really nicely is to connect the two.

As long as he didn’t use the word liberalist he’s fine by me

Moving to the other place nick kitchen.bsky.social

Roll up! Great opportunity to present work on all things Europe - from populist politics to the Western alliance. I'll be giving a keynote entitled 'Sleeping with a stricken elephant' but don't let that particular imagery put you off - get your abstracts in!

This is so true. There’s a gigantic credibility gap.

Very timely stuff: I would expect a different diagnosis of Europe's challenges than JD Vance presented at Munich, but if the point of that particular intervention was to encourage great European autonomy, that discussion will certainly be prominent.