Same for South Korea and Japan, coincidentally two places with no shortage of capable nuclear engineers.

Meanwhile that is not an option available for Southeast Asians who are concerned about the other part of the First Island Chain (and the South China Sea.) ASEAN cannot keep pretending it can be an economic bloc without collectively security. Great news for the five people with SEATO op-eds ready…

December 1 this year being the Monday right after Thanksgiving seems really inconvenient for everyone involved.

With the way Taiwanese politics are going, we might only be five years away from the CCP rehabilitating Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in its official history.

I did kind of appreciate the Times going straight to a real existing Kremlin agent to provide "balance" for this piece rather than someone from the usual slate of western pundits cloaking appeasement under a thin veil of quirky contrarianism (the Ohio diner of foreign policy analysts if you will...)

Y’all’s Party

who's the big sam of politics

This is so funny! What book is this in?

dm me your email!

We the people want Brutus Buckeye to make an appearance at #SHAFR2026!

I am always down to talk about pandas (as China's "mascot"), so if you are both down for a panel/roundtable in Columbus, this could be a lot of fun! (Alas I don't think the UN has a mascot that I know of... unless @dexterfergie.bsky.social has found one?)

does @shafrhistorians.bsky.social have a mascot? should we have a roundtable on mascots this summer?

This looks wonderful—congratulations!!

what I find interesting is that the people who make this argument almost always rely on the premise that the United States is omniscient and omnipotent, which if that is true then surely there are better and more cost-efficient ways of getting oil/other natural resources than full military invasions

I love the ones who slowly jog there just to make a point even if they cannot make it there for any potential brawl. Those are the people who are upholding the norms of the international order.

I love @lydiawalker.bsky.social’s book on how some anticolonial nationalist movements received international legitimacy and became sovereign states and the plights of many others that are left on the margins of the global narrative of decolonization. www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Y’all did a horrible job both before and after the race and you should be incredibly embarrassed for patting yourself on the back like this.

are you also able to take a football team to the playoffs?

Yup! No LMS in the old days would have meant maybe handling paper submissions via email instead or grading on a spreadsheet, but now the students cannot access any course materials. One failure of the website and suddenly no learning is possible anymore. All that was knowledge melted into thin air.