I'm extremely honored to have received the APSA Charles Taylor Book Award, conferred by the Interpretive Methodologies & Methods Section. The paperback edition of #DyingAbroad has just been released by Cambridge University Press - Politics and can be purchased here: tinyurl.com/yck8xkz3 A 📚 thread 👇 1/n

🚨🚨🚨 Thrilled to announce my latest, on the diffusion of the precision strike complex. Using original data on precision strike capabilities, Joshua Schwartz & I assess its spread and impact on balance of power! Check it out! Journal of Peace Research journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Coming in 2025! Sarah Cole and I have edited the Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells There are 47 chapters covering a huge range of topics, written by scholars from literature, politics, history, sociology, and more Table of Contents below academia.edu/124132072/Oxfo…

.The Well News: The definitive biography of Ronald Reagan has finally arrived. Author Max Boot discusses his latest work, one that finally captures the 40th president in full. It may well be the nonfiction book of the year. thewellnews.com/well-read/the-…

Just in time for the General Assembly! Bridget L. Coggins Annjulie Vester, Jungjae Hong, and I have a UC Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation post previewing new data. If your view of UNGA is US isolation and Is/Pal resolutions, the truth is a bit more complicated... #UNGA2024 ucigcc.org/blog/at-the-un…

My novel is out, "A Capital Calamity." Richard Clarke, fmr WH counterterrorism chief calls it an "only slightly exaggerated, darkly humorous look at 'national security'... Sometimes you can tell more truth through fiction, and this true fiction is fun." amazon.com/Capital-Calami…

Read Jeffrey Friedman and Andrew Payne on the way that foreign policy can shape presidential elections in the United States—and the influence that U.S. elections can therefore exert on international affairs: foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

A new review of my book "Iraq against the World" is out from "The Book Review" (India). Some highlights: "no other accounts on Iraq or US’s geopolitical approach in the region in the decades of 1990s and 2000s have been so comprehensive and well-explained as is the case ... 1/

I enjoyed being part of this nuanced discussion yesterday! (Also, I am now fully convinced that Europeans are much better at, and intellectually serious about, doing political talkshows.) Thanks The Debate – France 24 and François Picard for having me!

Reading List: US Foreign Relations 🇺🇸 From Trump's policy toward Russia and Sino-US rivalry, to Ukraine and nuclear politics, here are 1⃣5⃣ articles we recommend to understand America's global politics. 👇 academic.oup.com/ia/pages/us_fo…

PLA Assessment: "Although the U.S. military is equipped with sophisticated weaponry, it is extremely afraid of getting injured or killed ... Although the U.S. military won the Gulf War with relatively low casualties, due to the inherent nature of its bourgeois army, the fear of

Will Donald Trump's tariff threats bring Canadians together? Check out Tyler Girard's take in Good Authority, which expertly applies a framework Dominic Tierney and I developed to explain when foreign threats reduce domestic polarization goodauthority.org/news/canada-tr…

Juxtaposing our results with recent findings by Schwartz (Joshua Schwartz) and Tierney (Dominic Tierney) can even bring new insights. They contribute novel evidence that threat primes, if vivid and bipartisan, could reduce affective polarization in the US. 5/ doi.org/10.1177/002200…

My latest academic article is out in Conflict Management & Peace Science with Sarah Maxey - focused on moral attitudes surrounding emerging tech and autonomous weapon systems! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07… and more detail here: linkedin.com/posts/michael-…

Great essay on United’s season from hell.

📢 RSVP for tomorrow's event, Threat Politics: Promise and Peril Brett Rosenberg discusses threat politics with Chris Chivvis, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Dominic Tierney, Ryan Hass, and Rachel Myrick – and launches her new paper. 📍 July 29, 1pm EDT, online. RSVP: carnegieendowment.org/events/2025/07…

1/ Returning from a social media hiatus to share that my first book, Polarization and International Politics, will be released on September 16 with Princeton University Press as part of their Studies in International History and Politics Series.

Fall 2025 issue preview International Security The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social! M. Trachtenberg UCLA | rules-based international order Aaron Bateman | U.S. space power Adam Mount | conventional deterrence of nuclear use DJ Kim | clients' demand evasion Michael Goldfien | hawks, doves, & rapprochement