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Time for real talk about "Realism".This is the first of multiple threads on how I teach "Realism" to my Intro to International Relations students. The goal is to #KeepRealismReal[THREAD] When

What is Political Science? [THREAD] This week, I tweeted . This (understandably) led to A LOT of responses and alternative definitions.https://twitter.com/ProfPaulPoast/status/1387146043255672832 Before going into those responses, a few poi

@Noahpinion's latest substack illustrates an important general lesson for how approaches "Great Power Competition" w/ : don't ignore "small states"[THREAD]https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/ally-with-vietnam Noah

Is the "Democratic Peace" a stronger scientific finding than the link b/w smoking & lung cancer? That's the claim made in this new @IntOrgJournal paper. Let's unpack it.[THREAD]https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/i

Some fear that Biden's foreign policy team will be populated w/ "realists"! Others fear potentially too many "liberal internationalists"! Why the fear? Blame over the Iraq War (& not wanting

Which Sean Connery action movie is most relevant to our times?The one where he is:- Chasing Nazi's in the 1930s?- Using espionage (& cool gadgets) during the Cold War?- Defecting

Happy (belated) 75th Birthday @UN (#UN75)!Actually, a correction: the United Nations is 78 years old...and it's birthday was not this past Saturday (Oct 24)[THREAD] To be clear: the "United Nations"

The Armenia-Azerbaijan war won't seem to end. Will the Caucasus become the Balkans of the 21st Century: a (frequently overlooked) conflict-prone region that eventually sparks a wider war?Let's compare the

Why Rocky IV is the perfect Cold War movie[THREAD] The movie perfectly captures America's overinflated sense of exceptionalism...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9H8JKFMb7U ... and how that could lead to America's downfallhttps://ww

What do we know about leader exile?(I'm not saying, I'm just asking)[THREAD] With respect to leader exile, there is excellent work by @DanKrcmaric, such as his 2018 @AJPS_Editor paper...https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11

"Competitor? Adversary? Enemy?"@SusanPage posed that question about 's relationship with during #VicePresidentialDebate.Are such distinctions useful and do any of the terms accurately describe - relations?Let's break it d

You know who was a "sucker" that paid taxes?John D. Rockefeller[THREAD] And the kicker? the tax code was written with him and his family in mind. You see, when the