A bill at the Ohio Statehouse has some worried about their livelihoods in Ohio, but others say it is a matter of national security. nbc4i.co/4kvYt1h?utm_me…

🚨Call for papers: US Foreign Policy Working Group annual conference 🚨 Theme: US foreign policy in the post-unipolar world 🌎 5-6 September 2025 UCL ft/ keynote from Professor Christopher Nichols @CMcKNichols.bsky.social Deadline 21 July 👉 ow.ly/fWn750W3YuJ Zeno Leoni Georg ‘Dr. Maverick’ Löfflmann Tom Furse

Come on out Tuesday June 10 at 3pm ET/12pm PT Oregon Historical Society free, public, remote, on the historical context of contemporary issues related to "Free Speech, Misinformation, and National Security." #HATN SHAFR Historians Organization of American Historians

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Surveillance. Espionage. Classification. What are the roots of today's free speech debates? Tues June 10 3pmET/12pmPT Historians & the News (#HATN): Free Speech, Misinformation, & National Security, my conversation w/Prof Sam Lebovic free, public, remote ohs.org/events/histori…

A bill to ban law enforcement agencies from enforcing ticket quotas passed the House with unanimous support and is now on the way to Gov. Mike DeWine's desk. Previous: nbc4i.com/news/politics/…

Coming up next week - June 26-28, 2025, the annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (#SHAFR) SHAFR Historians in Arlington, VA, check out this amazing program, honored to a part Organization of American Historians H-Diplo, with RJISSF shafr.org/assets/docs/SH…

Pollack says what US learned after Gulf war & US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was that the Israeli strike on Osirak reactor in Iraq “so infuriated Saddam Hussein that he began pouring resources into Iraq's nuclear program, & that it made far greater progress after the 1981 strike

Expect to see this around the U.S. escalating political violence should be deeply troubling to all

Delighted to be talking w/Jackie Gillis NBC4 Columbus about the US strikes, Iranian reprisals, possible paths forward -- including the acute need for deft U.S. diplomacy (is the US up to it? what is possible?), & some of the ways Iran might continue to push back

I don’t know if any other first baseman in history would have had the chimichangas to charge that bunt so aggressively.

BACK TO THE 19TH CENTURY-What is happening worldwide is unprecedented, especially w/US President Donald Trump’s return to office & his ‘America First’ stance. Honored to be 1 of 2 specialists w/Paul Poast interviewed extensively in SouthAsia southasia.com.pk/2025/06/30/bac…

🚨 Call for papers 🚨 BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group call for papers for their annual conference is still open! 🇺🇸 Theme this year: 'Foreign policy in the post-unipolar world' 🌎 Keynote - Prof Christopher McKnight Nichols Submit deadline - 21 July 🌟 Read more - bisa.ac.uk/members/workin… Tom Furse

Mershon Center Hayes National Security Chair Christopher Nichols @CMcKNichols.bsky.social was quoted in an article in the South Asia  entitled “Back to the 19th Century.” southasia.com.pk/2025/06/30/bac…

Timely insights & continued relevance: progressivism, reform struggles, the Gilded Age & Progressive Era, & political philosophy. On the Legacy of Fighting' Bob LaFollette's Progressive Vision by Nancy Unger madebyhistory #MbH TIME SHGAPE 🗃️ time.com/7293419/robert…

Advanced PhD students working on US foreign relations broadly defined + early career scholars check this out! Consider applying to the SHAFR Historians Summer Institute being hosted by Mershon Center at Ohio State in June 2026, deadline 12/15/25: mershoncenter.osu.edu/events/society…

Mershon Center Hayes Chair Christopher Nichols @CMcKNichols.bsky.social is quoted in a Semafor story on the information wars. semafor.com/article/08/03/…

A U.S. policy that isolates Russia has the potential to accelerate Sino-Russian coordination in the Arctic, Christopher McKnight Nichols and Eda Ayaydin argue. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/arc…

My latest in Foreign Policy co-written with Mershon Center visiting fellow Eda Ayaydın, what the US's new hardline foreign policy stance with Russia might mean for the Arctic, competition, cooperation, China, and more SHAFR Historians foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/arc…

I wrote with Christopher Nichols @CMcKNichols.bsky.social on the U.S.’s new hardline approach toward Russia and why we think a strategy of selective cooperation in the Arctic would better serve long-term interests.