Hegemony is about ability, willingness,....and confidence. I reflect on the recent remarks by PM Japanese Prime Minister Kishida in my latest for World Politics Review.

worldpoliticsreview.com/us-hegemony-gl…

IR Book of the Week!

'Paper Soldiers' by Saleha Mohsin. Military bases and alliances might be the 'shields of the republic', but the true basis & expression of US global power is using the dollar, as the global reserve currency, to further US interests.
amazon.com/Paper-Soldiers…

Seems the majority want a close reading of Trump’s Gettysburg Address this weekend

I'm torn between two options for my weekend 🧵:

- What we know about nuclear deterrence

- Why there were no pirates at the battle of Gettysburg

Working on Chapter 4 of my book project 'Man, Russia, and War'.

The goal of that chapter?

To determine whether our sophisticated regression-based large-n statistical models of international conflict essentially boil down to 'Russia did it'

Cynicism about the value of international law is understandable, Paul Poast writes. But it’s a mistake to look at recent developments and conclude that the rules that underpin the rules-based order do not matter.
worldpoliticsreview.com/war-gaza-inter…

I agree that international law is real law. But it isn’t more real than domestic law.

Great thread from Paul Poast:

'International law is fake law.'

'The only real law is domestic law.'

Both statements are wrong. In some sense, the opposite might be true.

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Hilo imperdible que recomiendo a buena parte del Gobierno y a algún que otro periodista metido a internacionalista que estos días ha dicho auténticas locuras a nivel de DIP.

Is it ironic that Iran's diplomats adopted Trump's ALL CAPS Twitter style?