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

Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don't: The Assurance Dilemma in International Coercion — Reid Pauly recently published a paper exploring the relationship between threats and coercive assurance: how bolstering one can undermine the other. ow.ly/v3Vl50TogHr

Fall 2024 issue International Security preview! Jennifer Lind ➡️Bipolarity is Back David C. Logan (davidclogan.bsky.social) ➡️Chinese Views of Strategic Stability J. A. Friedman ➡️U.S. Foreign Policy Miranda Priebe, J. Schuessler, B. Rooney, Jasen Castillo RAND ➡️Competing Visions of Restraint The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social

Great work in this issue. International Security Belfer Center Belfer Center's Applied History Project The Dickey Center at Dartmouth Dartmouth 🌲

Confused by the grand strategy debate? In International Security, we break down the arguments in favor of a new U.S. approach that emerge from realist, conservative, and progressive ideas. (w/ John Schuessler, Jasen Castillo, & Bryan Rooney) direct.mit.edu/isec/article/4…

1) ***Announcement*** The new Fall 2024 issue is online! Read articles by Jennifer Lind; David Logan; Jeffrey Friedman; and Miranda Priebe, John Schuessler, Bryan Rooney, and Jasen Castillo; and correspondence by Mark Bell and Matthew Evangelista. direct.mit.edu/isec/issue

Fall issue is live! In my International Security article I argue that China's rise has shifted the international system back to bipolarity. (ungated article here): direct.mit.edu/isec/article/4…

"On most metrics, China exceeds the Soviet Union at its peak, and the two countries share notable similarities in their great power portfolios. If the USSR was a superpower then, China is one today. The world is bipolar." - Jennifer Lind direct.mit.edu/isec/article/4…

I first started thinking about this project in fall of 2015, so it is pretty surreal to have this in my hands right now

Our new article in International Security on grand strategy unpacks Team Restraint. Take a gander.

The latest annual report from International Security. International Security Belfer Center The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Amanda Pearson belfercenter.org/collection/int…

A US grand strategy of restraint involves using diplomacy to settle differences, reducing forward presence, downgrading/ending commitments, and raising the bar for the use of force. Our new RAND brief outlines competing visions of restraint: rand.org/pubs/research_…

Winter 2025 issue preview International Security! Barry Posen MIT SSP ➡️Preventive war Dima Adamsky ➡️Russian deterrence John Owen UVA ➡️International institutions Sheena Chestnut Greitens & Isaac B. Kardon ➡️Security hybridization Jen Spindel University of New Hampshire ➡️Arms transfer signals The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Jacqueline Hazelton drjlhazelton.bsky.social

***Announcement*** The new Winter 2024-25 issue is online! Read articles by Barry Posen, Dima Adamsky, John Owen, @SheenaGreitensand Isaac B. Kardon, and Jennifer Spindel. direct.mit.edu/isec/issue

With Sheena Chestnut Greitens, we argue in IS that the global security landscape has been shifting under our feet. If we are in a "cold war" with China, it bears little resemblance to the "Cold War" with the Soviet Union - and not only because of high levels of economic integration. (1/4)

Latest w Barry Posen on the roots of Russia's war in Ukraine. He discusses preventive war, the role of NATO & US leaders, Putin's war aims, strategic empathy, realism, post-CW US FP, negotiating peace, & at the end he offers a warning about Taiwan. Listen! cato.org/multimedia/pow…

Spring 2025 issue preview International Security The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social! John Mearsheimer ➡️War & international politics Stephen Walt ➡️Realism & China Z. Burdette➡️U.S.-China Military Balance in Space Nilay Saiya NTU Singapore & Stuti Manchanda ➡️ Buddhist violence Don Casler & Tyler Jost➡️Noisy negotiations

1) ***Announcement*** The new Spring 2025 issue is online! Read articles by John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, Zachary Burdette, Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda, and Don Casler and Tyler Jost direct.mit.edu/isec/issue/49/4

When does communication fail in international politics? In a new International Security piece, Tyler Jost and I present some fresh theory and evidence on an enduring challenge for states — getting others to understand what they are trying to say

Tribute to Owen R. Coté, Jr. issforum.org/tribute/h-dipl…