I'm continually amazed at the time & effort historians such as Alex Wellerstein put into H-Diplo, with RJISSF reviews, here 9 pages on James J. Wirtz & Jeffrey A. Larsen, eds., NUCLEAR COMMAND, CONTROL, AND COMMUNICATION: A PRIMER ON US SYSTEMS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES. issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RE104…

Sharing the call for applications for the International Relations Theory Colloquium—this was a great experience for me last year, and I can’t recommend enough for PhD students and postdocs:

Article Review 171: Rittinger on Rachel Tecott Metz. “The Cult of the Persuasive: Why US Security Assistance Fails,” International Security is here: issforum.org/articlereviews…

Happy to share that an article drawn from the first part of my book project is now online at International Studies Quarterly, on why rising powers like China become revisionist powers. It is based on a manuscript that previously won ISSS@ISA's Patricia Weitsman award 1/n academic.oup.com/isq/article/68…

We have a cover, folks! Coming soon, the collection “Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors,” edited with ⁦Dr. Misbah Hyder⁩ Thanks to all of our wonderful contributors! link.springer.com/book/978303170…

H-Diplo | RJISSF Tribute to the Scholarship and Legacy of Bear Braumoeller is published here: issforum.org/to/jt2

It was a pleasure to engage Iain D. Henry’s excellent new book Reliability and Alliance Interdependence, with Brian Blankenship, Dr. Michael Green, and Jeff Taliaferro in H-Diplo, with RJISSF: issforum.org/roundtables/h-…

Did you publish an article on historical IR between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024? If so, you have less than one week to submit a nomination for our Merze Tate Prize! Deadline is August 15. See instructions here (self nominations encouraged!): histsectionisa.weebly.com/awardrules.html

My book has a webpage! Coming in early 2025 with Cornell University Press: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150177…

Shamelessly returning to this site for some self-promotion: My latest article “Mnemonic encounters: the construction and persistence of international ‘history wars’ and the case of Japan-South Korea relations” is now out in International Studies Quarterly! academic.oup.com/isq/article/68…

From the 9th September, all articles accepted for publication by EJIS will be open access; published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online! Read more about this transformation here: cambridge.org/core/open-rese…

As departments and universities were rapidly/frantically holding panels in response to generative AI last year, Patrick Y. Wu and I got curious and partnered with @APSATweets to survey political science educators on AI & pedagogy. bit.ly/3YMl1TM

With the nuclear club modernizing arsenals, the history of the antinuclear movement merits greater attention. For a deep study of the political impacts of the 1980s Freeze! movement, we have Stephanie Freeman's DREAMS OF A DECADE, reviewed H-Diplo, with RJISSF here: issforum.org/to/jrt16-6

Today, I'm going to the rival territory and giving a book talk at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. I am looking forward to the conversation with faculty and students. Thanks, Andrew Szarejko, for the kind invitation!

The roundtable of my book, THE NUCLEAR CLUB, reviews by Sean Malloy, Nicholas Miller, Mariana Budjeryn & Shane Maddock, intro by Or Rabinowitz, is out today! Nothing else of note is happening this week; so, you’ll have plenty of time to read all 26 pages (or just the intro)!

Roundtable XXVI-12: Cecelia Lynch’s Wrestling with God: Ethical Precarity in Christianity and International Relations “replete with precious insights and excellent in combining theoretical rigor and empirical analysis” –Vassilios Paipais hdiplo.org/to/RT26-12

AVAILABLE NOW “Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors,” a collection of chapters on the unique challenges and opportunities facing early career instructors - co-edited with Dr. Misbah Hyder! doi.org/10.1007/978-3-…

If you are at ISA, consider joining us on Sunday at 10:30am to discuss "The Gamer's Guide to International Relations." Andrew Szarejko (Andrew Szarejko) chairs with great discussants like Chad Clay (K. Chad Clay), Joseph Lovell, Joshua Foust, and Amanda M. Rosen (Amanda M. Rosen).

New Review – Base Towns ift.tt/jNnBVoq

Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras, Barry Buzan Cambridge University Press | Reviewed by Andrew Szarejko at doi.org/10.1093/psquar…