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Professor at Georgetown University with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service.

I am mostly about cats and power politics.
But I repeat myself.

Podcasthttps://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/whiskeyindiaromeo
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Political Bloghttps://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
Academic Bloghttps://www.duckofminerva.com/
The people we hire to clean our house always setup displays like the one below, which was in our currently-at-college daughter’s room.
The DSA International Committee apparently apparently favors a completely open trade regime, opposes BDS, and would rather the U.S. enter into multiple wars than impose sanctions. Who knew?

For Hanukkah my college-aged kid received:

One Mitzvah Moose &
One Star-Wars themed Hanukkah t-shirt,
because kitsch.

(Murray the Mitzvah Moose is also practical — the antlers light up, turning him into a dorm-room safe menorah).

Onwards to Christmas.

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*New article* in #JCR presenting country-year data on state membership in informal IOs 📈

Coauthored w @[email protected], this complements the existing @[email protected] formal IO dataset and unlocks our ability to study these bodies.

Link (open access): https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027221139431

🧵👇

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JOBS. We're hiring two Assistant Professors

(1) Disinformation and European Democracy
(2) European Political History since 1945

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]. Application deadline 31 January. Please RT 1/5 🧵

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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] MUSK: The Twitter Files expose the outrage that people were regularly banned from Twitter even though they hadn't broken any rule in the TOS.

Also MUSK: If I ban someone, that means they violated a rule in the TOS, and I can add new rules to the TOS just by thinking about them.

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i suspect that if professors start accusing students of cheating because of unclear antecedents and repetitive waffle there are going to be a *lot* of false positives

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Very happy to be back at #NonProlifWP #NukesatXmas after 5 years! Grateful to @[email protected] & his team for bringing us together again to reflect on #NPT #RevCon and lay paths toward disarmament, nonpro, & peaceful uses.

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