J. Luis Rodriguez
@jluisrodriguez.com
Assistant Professor at George Mason's Schar School of Policy and Government | Affiliate at Stanford CISAC | Adjunct non-resident fellow at CSIS PONI | PhD from Johns Hopkins | International security, international law, and Global South | 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🏳️🌈
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As some of you already know, I recently moved to Paris for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social. Here is a recent interview I did on my research agenda and background. www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/en/news...
Are nuclear issues at the heart of the Russia-Iran relationship?
Interview with Nicole Grajewsi
www.sciencespo.fr
January 22, 2026 at 1:07 PM
As some of you already know, I recently moved to Paris for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social. Here is a recent interview I did on my research agenda and background. www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/en/news...
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Economic Displacement by Francisco Urdinez
China's economic displacement of the US in Latin America erodes US political leverage, challenging international order.
📚 https://cup.org/3NaVGPU
China's economic displacement of the US in Latin America erodes US political leverage, challenging international order.
📚 https://cup.org/3NaVGPU
January 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Economic Displacement by Francisco Urdinez
China's economic displacement of the US in Latin America erodes US political leverage, challenging international order.
📚 https://cup.org/3NaVGPU
China's economic displacement of the US in Latin America erodes US political leverage, challenging international order.
📚 https://cup.org/3NaVGPU
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Apparently the State Department, led Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, released a strategic plan. Goal 1 is U.S. National Sovereignty. Goal 2 is "The Western Hemisphere and Establishment of the Donroe Doctrine."
There's more, but take that in.
www.state.gov/agency-strat...
There's more, but take that in.
www.state.gov/agency-strat...
Agency Strategic Plan - United States Department of State
The Agency Strategic Plan sets forth the vision and direction for how the Department will implement U.S. foreign policy and foreign assistance.
www.state.gov
January 16, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Apparently the State Department, led Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, released a strategic plan. Goal 1 is U.S. National Sovereignty. Goal 2 is "The Western Hemisphere and Establishment of the Donroe Doctrine."
There's more, but take that in.
www.state.gov/agency-strat...
There's more, but take that in.
www.state.gov/agency-strat...
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@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
January 15, 2026 at 11:20 PM
@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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In the wake of the U.S. operation in Venezuela, all constraints on the exercise of state power are in jeopardy, write @oonahathaway.bsky.social and Scott Shapiro. “A system of rules can survive some hypocrisy, but nihilism will bring it down.”
A World Without Rules
The consequences of Trump’s assault on international law.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:42 PM
In the wake of the U.S. operation in Venezuela, all constraints on the exercise of state power are in jeopardy, write @oonahathaway.bsky.social and Scott Shapiro. “A system of rules can survive some hypocrisy, but nihilism will bring it down.”
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I spoke with BBC Mundo about the Drago Doctrine: a Latin American pushback against using force to collect public debts.
Latin America's early history of decolonisation helped make it a champion of non-intervention, a key principle that now looks increasingly fragile.
www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...
Latin America's early history of decolonisation helped make it a champion of non-intervention, a key principle that now looks increasingly fragile.
www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...
El bloqueo naval y el ataque a Venezuela hace más de 120 años que inspiró la Doctrina Drago - BBC News Mundo
Lo que sucedió en las costas venezolanas en diciembre de 1902 provocó que un diplomático argentino se pronunciara con alarma. Lo que planteó se convirtió en un hito en el derecho internacional.
www.bbc.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I spoke with BBC Mundo about the Drago Doctrine: a Latin American pushback against using force to collect public debts.
Latin America's early history of decolonisation helped make it a champion of non-intervention, a key principle that now looks increasingly fragile.
www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...
Latin America's early history of decolonisation helped make it a champion of non-intervention, a key principle that now looks increasingly fragile.
www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...
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Hegemony is when the dominant state is liked and supported by followers. Empire is when the dominant state acts transactionally, with impunity. There is an important difference and we have elided that difference to our detriment.
January 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Hegemony is when the dominant state is liked and supported by followers. Empire is when the dominant state acts transactionally, with impunity. There is an important difference and we have elided that difference to our detriment.
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1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Denmark's PM urges Trump to 'stop the threats' of annexing Greenland
The prime minister of Denmark called on Trump to “stop the threats” of the U.S. annexing Greenland after renewed comments garnered international attention.
abcnews.go.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:24 PM
1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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🌟 Call for papers 🌟
'How is the earth written, by whom and to what ends? And how is it written through law? What distinguishes the planetary, the global & the international—and how might these distinctions matter legally?'
Join us in Florence in June!
@eui-eu.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social
'How is the earth written, by whom and to what ends? And how is it written through law? What distinguishes the planetary, the global & the international—and how might these distinctions matter legally?'
Join us in Florence in June!
@eui-eu.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🌟 Call for papers 🌟
'How is the earth written, by whom and to what ends? And how is it written through law? What distinguishes the planetary, the global & the international—and how might these distinctions matter legally?'
Join us in Florence in June!
@eui-eu.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social
'How is the earth written, by whom and to what ends? And how is it written through law? What distinguishes the planetary, the global & the international—and how might these distinctions matter legally?'
Join us in Florence in June!
@eui-eu.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social
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You can read my take on Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela here: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation
A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.
www.newyorker.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM
You can read my take on Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela here: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Increasing wafts of neo-royalism. This is not about spheres of influence but extraction for insider elite cliques. Pay attention to mineral and oil resources.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Increasing wafts of neo-royalism. This is not about spheres of influence but extraction for insider elite cliques. Pay attention to mineral and oil resources.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Political scientists today
January 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Political scientists today
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#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social -
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order - https://cup.org/3KZzRly
- @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, @sethschindler.bsky.social, Sarah Logan et al
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order - https://cup.org/3KZzRly
- @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, @sethschindler.bsky.social, Sarah Logan et al
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social -
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order - https://cup.org/3KZzRly
- @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, @sethschindler.bsky.social, Sarah Logan et al
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order - https://cup.org/3KZzRly
- @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, @sethschindler.bsky.social, Sarah Logan et al
I was very lucky to participate in this year’s NPT Diplomacy Towards the 2026 Review Conference, “Nukes at Christmas,” organized by Wilton Park. I learned a lot from these track 1.5 discussions over almost four days in southern England.
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I was very lucky to participate in this year’s NPT Diplomacy Towards the 2026 Review Conference, “Nukes at Christmas,” organized by Wilton Park. I learned a lot from these track 1.5 discussions over almost four days in southern England.
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My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions.
careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
careers.ceu.edu
December 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions.
careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
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U/S DiNanno elaborates on Trump's surprise announcement at UNGA in September that the US interested in using AI for BWC verification
Modern Tools for Modern Threats: Towards Strengthening BWC Implementation, Verification, and Assurance
@state-department.bsky.social
www.state.gov/releases/und...
Modern Tools for Modern Threats: Towards Strengthening BWC Implementation, Verification, and Assurance
@state-department.bsky.social
www.state.gov/releases/und...
Modern Tools for Modern Threats: Towards Strengthening BWC Implementation, Verification, and Assurance - United States Department of State
As prepared Thank you very much for that generous introduction. Ambassadors, distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen – thank you for the warm welcome here in Geneva. My name is Thomas DiNanno a...
www.state.gov
December 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
U/S DiNanno elaborates on Trump's surprise announcement at UNGA in September that the US interested in using AI for BWC verification
Modern Tools for Modern Threats: Towards Strengthening BWC Implementation, Verification, and Assurance
@state-department.bsky.social
www.state.gov/releases/und...
Modern Tools for Modern Threats: Towards Strengthening BWC Implementation, Verification, and Assurance
@state-department.bsky.social
www.state.gov/releases/und...
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🚨 JUST IN: Scott Sagan and Shreya Lad offer a nuclear posture review, not a movie review, of Kathryn Bigelow’s 'A House of Dynamite,' and discuss in detail the realism or lack thereof of specific scenarios and plot lines in the film.
#nuclearweapons #nukesky
#nuclearweapons #nukesky
A house of mistakes: what Kathryn Bigelow’s 'A House of Dynamite' gets radically right—and dangerously wrong—about nuclear war
A House of Dynamite gets so many details wrong that the lessons viewers take from the film will likely be counterproductive, even dangerous. If it is a wake-up call, the audience will wake up on the w...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🚨 JUST IN: Scott Sagan and Shreya Lad offer a nuclear posture review, not a movie review, of Kathryn Bigelow’s 'A House of Dynamite,' and discuss in detail the realism or lack thereof of specific scenarios and plot lines in the film.
#nuclearweapons #nukesky
#nuclearweapons #nukesky
I just came back to DC from Rio. @nti.org and NPSGlobal organized a fantastic 1.5 track workshop on Latin America’s role in nuclear security and disarmament. I had a great time learning about regional approaches and plans to deal with an uncertain nuclear future.
December 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I just came back to DC from Rio. @nti.org and NPSGlobal organized a fantastic 1.5 track workshop on Latin America’s role in nuclear security and disarmament. I had a great time learning about regional approaches and plans to deal with an uncertain nuclear future.
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As China and the U.S. race to dominate AI, countries are wary of becoming dependent on the superpowers for a technology that could profoundly affect their own economies.
‘Sovereign AI’ Takes Off as Countries Seek to Avoid Overreliance on Superpowers
South Korea and others believe their homegrown tech sectors are strong enough to build up their own AI capabilities.
on.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
As China and the U.S. race to dominate AI, countries are wary of becoming dependent on the superpowers for a technology that could profoundly affect their own economies.
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The application portal for the 2026 Mobilization and Political Economy Summer Program is now open.
Please share with your talented undergraduate students. #politicaleconomy
@mpepitt.bsky.social @cape-team.bsky.social @ripejournal.bsky.social
Please share with your talented undergraduate students. #politicaleconomy
@mpepitt.bsky.social @cape-team.bsky.social @ripejournal.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The application portal for the 2026 Mobilization and Political Economy Summer Program is now open.
Please share with your talented undergraduate students. #politicaleconomy
@mpepitt.bsky.social @cape-team.bsky.social @ripejournal.bsky.social
Please share with your talented undergraduate students. #politicaleconomy
@mpepitt.bsky.social @cape-team.bsky.social @ripejournal.bsky.social
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It was deployed to support Operation Southern Spear. The ship is the first of a new class of aircraft carriers being built for the U.S. military. n.pr/4807YRU
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier is in the Caribbean. Here's its backstory
It was deployed to support Operation Southern Spear. The ship is the first of a new class of aircraft carriers being built for the U.S. military.
n.pr
November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It was deployed to support Operation Southern Spear. The ship is the first of a new class of aircraft carriers being built for the U.S. military. n.pr/4807YRU