Excited to present research from my dissertation and job market paper The Bush School, TAMU's Albritton Center for Grand Strategy! If you're interested in how the conventional wisdom overestimates the benefits of using military force, register to attend virtually

Texas A&M Political Science is hiring! We have 5 faculty positions that are all open field. 4 tenure-track assistant professors: apply.interfolio.com/112060. 1 associate/assistant: apply.interfolio.com/112057. Committee will start review Sep 30. womenalsoknowstuff POCAlsoKnowStuff

Wondering how Putin’s nuclear threats over Ukraine compare to other nuclear crises? Todd Sechser and I identified 19 attempts to use nukes for political leverage from 1946 to 2016. Here’s our list, from Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy, p. 128.

#IRtwitter: what's your favorite new research (including working papers) on military alliances? Bonus points if it has implications for the future of NATO. Self promotion encouraged.

Check out this cool new paper by James Kim!

This book by ⁦Tristan Anderson Volpe⁩ is critical for understanding today’s nuclear landscape. It brings greater attention to the problem of nuclear latency, which is important but understudied.

Proud of these two! Joowon Yi (@joo_urney) is off to become assistant professor at School of Public & International Affairs | UGA. James Kim (James D. Kim) will be a postdoc at MIT SSP. Keep an eye out for their exciting research!

This is a terrific opportunity for junior scholars doing research on nuclear security. Apply!

For an assignment in my foreign policy seminar, I’m asking PhD students to write referee reports on working papers. If you have a paper you’d like some feedback on, please send it my way! [email protected]

Keep an eye out for James Kim if you’re hiring in International Relations! Check out his interesting study on how exposure to wartime violence as a child affects support for nuclear weapons as an adult: doi.org/10.1177/002200….

Congratulations James D. Kim!!!

A must read for anyone interested in foreign policy.

.Carnegie Nuclear Policy is recruiting! We're looking for a fellow to also serve as director of the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference (yes, that's the one) that'll next be held in spring 2025. (1/n) carnegieendowment.applicantpro.com/jobs/3279331

Influence Without Arms has a cover! Available July 2024 from Cambridge University Press - Politics.

It was fantastic being on this panel on Nuclear Threats & Arms Control with Profs. Matt Fuhrmann (@McFuhrmann), Scott Sagan (CISAC) & Marie Berry (@MarieeBerry) organized by the @Sie_Center & WorldDenver last month! The video recording is here: tinyurl.com/325wvfz7

Check out this H-diplo RJISSF roundtable on Secrets in Global Governance by Allison Carnegie and Austin Carson. A terrific book with insightful engagement from Mindy Haas, Natalie Bryce and Leslie Johns issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJISS….