🚨JOB ALERT🚨 @WUSTLPoliSci is hiring an Assistant Professor in IR (as well as 4 other subfields!😳). I am on the search committee and happy to answer questions! Apply by 9/15! cc: womenalsoknowstuff @POCalsoknow #PsJMinfo apply.interfolio.com/151783

The US presence in Europe is on the ballot this November. We’ll be hosting a discussion on this topic in a The Bush School, TAMU event next month. If you’re in College Station TX, join us Oct 1 at 5:30 PM 👇 Or stay tuned for a thread later 😊

📚 We are looking for the next group of scholars and practitioners who are committed to IWI's foundational mission. Apply today for the 2025 Irregular Warfare Initiative Fellows program at the link below #IrregularWarfare  irregularwarfare.info/2025Fellowship

A few weeks ago, I visited training sites for the Ukrainian military in western Poland with FRANKY 🇺🇸🪖🛩️ 👊🇺🇸🔥 and Will Reno. We published our thoughts on training and ways to improve here 👇mwi.westpoint.edu/the-polish-exp…

How do we make sense of people’s behaviors, beliefs, and attributes in a complex, contested, and chaotic world? In War on the Rocks, I argue that human geography allows us to anticipate geopolitical shifts, counter disinformation, and assess "will to fight." warontherocks.com/2024/10/human-…

Sending this out before this site gets really weird. The latest Naval War College Review is online! This is the first issue out since I have stepped in as Interim Editor. So I'd like to introduce the issue and re-introduce the Review in a short thread. digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol…

Had the privilege to join this panel yesterday. So impressed by Georgetown SFS students and their commitment to asking big questions about future direction of US foreign policy

Apropos of absolutely nothing newsworthy today, my study on the effects of #IHL and #ethics training on military conduct has been published by ICRC 🧵 1/ shop.icrc.org/military-train…

In Foreign Affairs, I write that a competitive Trump China policy needs buy-in at home, abroad, & from Trump. The stakes are high. The US risks being surpassed by the PRC technologically, dependent on it economically, & defeated militarily. A few thoughts for the way forward:

My thoughts in the stunning developments in #Syria: lawfaremedia.org/article/how-to…

Excellent analysis (and no, I'm not biased): foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/09/ass…

Most sensible and important thing you will read on foreign aid and USAID.

As we start week 4 of the foreign assistance freeze, here are some of my favorite posts & why I’m cautiously optimistic. The first 2 weeks I was concerned because few outside the field were talking about the freeze, and organizations were slow to file suits. That’s changed.

New article out in International Studies Quarterly with stellar coauthor Rachel (Tecott) Metz. The US uses security assistance to get partner militaries to adopt liberal civ-mil relations, but whether it works depends on partner civilians. Our rec? The US should rethink its approach academic.oup.com/isq/article/69…

For those in Chicago bright and early Sunday, come join us! I will be presenting research on contingency access, an overlooked but crucial form of military cooperation. A lot of other interesting new work on the military elements of alliances Sam Gerstle Sam Leiter Ryan Grauer

We're thrilled to welcome Paul Staniland and Elizabeth Saunders to the CSSA team ! Come hear them + Austin Carson, ProfTalmadge & Alex Downes talk about the series, publishing on security affairs, and more at #ISA2025 Monday March 3 at 10.30am, Lake Erie, Room 14, Hilton

Some thoughts on DOGE/the Trump administration's destruction of USIP, the Wilson Center, and home-grown social science/area studies expertise about the rest of the world: paulstaniland.com/2025/04/16/usi…

My new article in International Politics just dropped! Examines the puzzle of US security assistance to Ukraine before 2022 -- why provide not enough aid to deter but also too much to appease Russia? Relevant to Taiwan today: rdcu.be/ei4Gu