Richard Maass
@richardmaass.bsky.social
International Relations prof @ODU @GPIS_ODU
US Foreign Policy, Security, Int'l Law, etc.
Books: 🦅 The Picky Eagle 🦅
🇺🇸 The US + International Law 🌐
US Foreign Policy, Security, Int'l Law, etc.
Books: 🦅 The Picky Eagle 🦅
🇺🇸 The US + International Law 🌐
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Richard Maass
@richardmaass.bsky.social
· Jun 23
The Picky Eagle for $14.50?
For those interested in US foreign policy history, race&IR, etc... no better time to grab a copy than during the huge 50% off sale at @cornellupress.bsky.social this week!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
For those interested in US foreign policy history, race&IR, etc... no better time to grab a copy than during the huge 50% off sale at @cornellupress.bsky.social this week!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
We're excited to welcome Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of US forces in the Indo-Pacific and a GPIS alum, to ODU for the Waldo Family Lecture on September 29.
If you're in the area, RSVP by scanning the QR code in the flyer below, and join us for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion!
If you're in the area, RSVP by scanning the QR code in the flyer below, and join us for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion!
September 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We're excited to welcome Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of US forces in the Indo-Pacific and a GPIS alum, to ODU for the Waldo Family Lecture on September 29.
If you're in the area, RSVP by scanning the QR code in the flyer below, and join us for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion!
If you're in the area, RSVP by scanning the QR code in the flyer below, and join us for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion!
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The wait is over! The Crowd Counting Consortium (with @djpressman.bsky.social & @chenoweth.bsky.social) has just released its June report. They find that No Kings Day was one of the largest days of protest in US history (comparable to Women's March 2017). wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...
August 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The wait is over! The Crowd Counting Consortium (with @djpressman.bsky.social & @chenoweth.bsky.social) has just released its June report. They find that No Kings Day was one of the largest days of protest in US history (comparable to Women's March 2017). wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...
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The recent collision between Chinese vessels in the South China Sea has brought renewed focus to the gray zone tactics being used in that region. Our latest podcast episode with @richardmaass.bsky.social looks at international legal mechanisms to deter this kind of activity. youtu.be/KlQ0dzuX-Xg
August 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The recent collision between Chinese vessels in the South China Sea has brought renewed focus to the gray zone tactics being used in that region. Our latest podcast episode with @richardmaass.bsky.social looks at international legal mechanisms to deter this kind of activity. youtu.be/KlQ0dzuX-Xg
This article by @unlawfulentries.bsky.social in yesterday's TIME magazine offers a short and readable history of birthright citizenship in the United States - including what problems it was meant to solve. Definitely worth checking out!
July 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This article by @unlawfulentries.bsky.social in yesterday's TIME magazine offers a short and readable history of birthright citizenship in the United States - including what problems it was meant to solve. Definitely worth checking out!
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What is the "gray zone?" Richard Maass (@richardmaass.bsky.social) presents different conceptualizations of these aggressive actions and offers international legal mechanisms as a method to reduce their likelihood of success in his latest article. Read more tnsr.org/2025/06/lega...
July 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What is the "gray zone?" Richard Maass (@richardmaass.bsky.social) presents different conceptualizations of these aggressive actions and offers international legal mechanisms as a method to reduce their likelihood of success in his latest article. Read more tnsr.org/2025/06/lega...
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal... endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."
HBD to an extraordinary document, worth re-reading annually:
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
HBD to an extraordinary document, worth re-reading annually:
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...
www.archives.gov
July 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal... endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."
HBD to an extraordinary document, worth re-reading annually:
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
HBD to an extraordinary document, worth re-reading annually:
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
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How can international law deter "gray zone" aggression? Richard Maass (@richardmaass.bsky.social) argues for a new strategy of "legal deterrence by denial."
July 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
How can international law deter "gray zone" aggression? Richard Maass (@richardmaass.bsky.social) argues for a new strategy of "legal deterrence by denial."
What happens when you mix
🔹 3 cups international law
🔹 2 cups deterrence
🔹 2 cups gray zone conflict
🔹 1 cup aggression
🔹 1 cup strategic initiative?
You get this new article, out today in @tnsr.org!
tnsr.org/2025/06/lega...
🔹 3 cups international law
🔹 2 cups deterrence
🔹 2 cups gray zone conflict
🔹 1 cup aggression
🔹 1 cup strategic initiative?
You get this new article, out today in @tnsr.org!
tnsr.org/2025/06/lega...
Legal Deterrence by Denial: Strategic Initiative and International Law in the Gray Zone - Texas National Security Review
International security competition in the twenty-first century is likely to remain largely within the “gray zone”—a category of aggressive activities that threaten core aspects of statehood while avoi...
tnsr.org
June 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
What happens when you mix
🔹 3 cups international law
🔹 2 cups deterrence
🔹 2 cups gray zone conflict
🔹 1 cup aggression
🔹 1 cup strategic initiative?
You get this new article, out today in @tnsr.org!
tnsr.org/2025/06/lega...
🔹 3 cups international law
🔹 2 cups deterrence
🔹 2 cups gray zone conflict
🔹 1 cup aggression
🔹 1 cup strategic initiative?
You get this new article, out today in @tnsr.org!
tnsr.org/2025/06/lega...
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My students upon entering class this afternoon: “So we’re at war and we still gotta turn in homework?”
Me, a millennial:
Me, a millennial:
June 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My students upon entering class this afternoon: “So we’re at war and we still gotta turn in homework?”
Me, a millennial:
Me, a millennial:
This is evidently where we are now...
The Pentagon ordered a diversionary flight of B-2 bombers as misdirection, per NYT, because they were afraid Trump was giving the attack away to Iran via his social media posts
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...
June 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is evidently where we are now...
The Picky Eagle for $14.50?
For those interested in US foreign policy history, race&IR, etc... no better time to grab a copy than during the huge 50% off sale at @cornellupress.bsky.social this week!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
For those interested in US foreign policy history, race&IR, etc... no better time to grab a copy than during the huge 50% off sale at @cornellupress.bsky.social this week!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
June 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The Picky Eagle for $14.50?
For those interested in US foreign policy history, race&IR, etc... no better time to grab a copy than during the huge 50% off sale at @cornellupress.bsky.social this week!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
For those interested in US foreign policy history, race&IR, etc... no better time to grab a copy than during the huge 50% off sale at @cornellupress.bsky.social this week!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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A reminder of how the number of centrifuges in Iran soared after Trump’s 2018 JCPOA withdrawal.
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A reminder of how the number of centrifuges in Iran soared after Trump’s 2018 JCPOA withdrawal.
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
This 👇
The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.
June 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This 👇
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I think about this figure a lot.
June 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I think about this figure a lot.
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You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure"
It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Trump approval falls, Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and vaccines: June 13-16, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll | YouGov
This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers Trump approval numbers, the Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and opinion of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his actions
today.yougov.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure"
It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
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Can anyone confirm if we’re clean on OPSEC?
June 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Can anyone confirm if we’re clean on OPSEC?
Article 2 Section LEEROY JENKINS might have to make it onto the International Law syllabus next fall
I will be curious to see what legal authority the administration cites for this unauthorized act of war. Crazy stretch of the facts to fit some existing AUMF or just Article 2 Section LEEROY JENKINS
Trump announces the United States has bombed Iran.
June 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Article 2 Section LEEROY JENKINS might have to make it onto the International Law syllabus next fall
Good early context from @anjalikdayal.bsky.social
Trump's post sounds like he views these strikes as a clean 1-off rather than start of a larger war... unfortunately, international politics is about interactions where others also have a say in whether it is indeed now "time for peace"
Trump's post sounds like he views these strikes as a clean 1-off rather than start of a larger war... unfortunately, international politics is about interactions where others also have a say in whether it is indeed now "time for peace"
aside from being very dangerous, this is very clearly a breach of the UN Charter; it sounds like aggressive war. there’s a tendency to think violations don’t matter bc international law is hard to enforce but this is a cardinal principle of international cooperation *& it matters to other countries*
June 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Good early context from @anjalikdayal.bsky.social
Trump's post sounds like he views these strikes as a clean 1-off rather than start of a larger war... unfortunately, international politics is about interactions where others also have a say in whether it is indeed now "time for peace"
Trump's post sounds like he views these strikes as a clean 1-off rather than start of a larger war... unfortunately, international politics is about interactions where others also have a say in whether it is indeed now "time for peace"
Another must-read @profsaunders.bsky.social @foreignaffairs.com essay on presidential power and USFP.
Color me skeptical re: reporting requirements as a fix, though. Historically, Congress has best been able to rein in presidents on foreign policy via its power of the purse.
(1/2)
Color me skeptical re: reporting requirements as a fix, though. Historically, Congress has best been able to rein in presidents on foreign policy via its power of the purse.
(1/2)
America now has the foreign policy of a personalist dictator. New piece from me in @foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
American foreign policy in an age of unrestrained executive power.
www.foreignaffairs.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Another must-read @profsaunders.bsky.social @foreignaffairs.com essay on presidential power and USFP.
Color me skeptical re: reporting requirements as a fix, though. Historically, Congress has best been able to rein in presidents on foreign policy via its power of the purse.
(1/2)
Color me skeptical re: reporting requirements as a fix, though. Historically, Congress has best been able to rein in presidents on foreign policy via its power of the purse.
(1/2)
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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
June 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
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Ok, I’m no @profpaulpoast.bsky.social but I shall try to do a thread on militaries and protests. Apologies up front to all the brilliant scholars I accidentally leave out - am doing this from memory.
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June 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Ok, I’m no @profpaulpoast.bsky.social but I shall try to do a thread on militaries and protests. Apologies up front to all the brilliant scholars I accidentally leave out - am doing this from memory.
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Faculty here are doing their research and speaking out. Here's one resource: a compendium of many ways federally-funded research has made all of our lives better.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Faculty here are doing their research and speaking out. Here's one resource: a compendium of many ways federally-funded research has made all of our lives better.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
This 👇
I had someone ask me this week, "So, what's it like to suddenly have your research (that you've been working on for years) be so relevant?"
It's horrifying, actually. thanks for asking.
It's horrifying, actually. thanks for asking.
May 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This 👇