Elon Musk wants to topple Keir Starmer with election petition / The petition should worry the Conservatives, not Labour. newstatesman.com/politics/2024/… youtube.com/watch?v=IRz2dS…

Stephen Walt: Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right - The writer’s new argument for left-wing foreign policy has earned a mainstream hearing. foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/15/cho…

It was a privilege to present research and receive feedback at the 2025 O'Brien Notre Dame International Security Center Emerging Scholars Conference at Notre Dame last week. Also, a great opportunity to meet brilliant colleagues and make new friends. Thank you Michael Desch and Alex Yu-Ting Lin for inviting me!

"Then the historian may very well be related to the nonhistorian as the trained woodsman is to the ignorant traveller. 'Nothing here but trees and grass', thinks the traveller, and marches on. 'Look,' says the woodsman, 'there is a tiger in that grass.'" ~ R.G. Collingwood

"The sudden U-turn in American foreign policy could also spook partners in Asia that the U.S. would want on its side in any conflict with China." wsj.com/world/trump-pu… via The Wall Street Journal

To me, the "reverse-Kissinger" thinking that one often encounters these days in Washington, is both completely unsurprising, and fundamentally erroneous. "Completely unsurprising" means that we've seen this for years now; no sooner had China emerged as a possible strategic rival

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"Do our brains determine our politics, or can ideologies change our brains?" nytimes.com/2025/04/08/sci…

Dr Giuseppe Paparella (one of our Visiting Research Fellows) has announced the publication of his new book: "Abiding Influence: Presidents, Nationalist Beliefs, and US Policy in the Asia Pacific, 1898–1972", set to be released in November this year. sup.org/books/politics…

To mark the eightieth anniversary of VE Day, Prof Steve Casey published "Peace and Quiet" in History Today. Based on research from his forthcoming book, The Skeptic Isle, the article explores how Britain reacted to the end of World War II. historytoday.com/archive/featur… #ww2 #LSE

Rana Mitter: "[O]ver the past century, the least reliable way to predict what China will look like in 20 years has always been to extrapolate in a straight line from where it is now." foreignaffairs.com/china/once-and…

Major point: staff cuts to the National Security Council "underscored how [it] is set to be changed from a body that helped presidents formulate an overarching national security policy into one that implements ideas already held by the president." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

Honoured and grateful for advance praise of my forthcoming book by three stellar scholars of US-Asia relations: Rana Mitter, Simei Qing, and Steve Casey. Read more in links below: giuseppepaparella.squarespace.com sup.org/books/politics…

Join Dr Giuseppe Paparella for the launch of his book - Abiding Influence: Presidents, Nationalist Beliefs, and U.S. Policy in the Asia Pacific, 1898-1972. 📅 21 Nov | 🕔 17:00 |📍King's Building ➡️ ow.ly/elfz50XjMHo