Jordan Tama
@jordantama.bsky.social
Prof, American University; Non-Resident Sr Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Sr Director, Bridging the Gap. New books: Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2014), Polarization and US Foreign Policy (Palgrave, 2014).
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In a new chapter of @elgarpublishing.bsky.social's Handbook of International Relations, @ausis.bsky.social professors @susannacampbell.bsky.social & @jordantama.bsky.social explore what bridging the gap for scholars in international relations looks like. Read below: www.american.edu/sis/research...
Susanna Campbell and Jordan Tama, Bridging the Gap in International Relations
Susanna Campbell and Jordan Tama's new book chapter in the new Handbook of International Relations discusses competing perspectives on whether scholars should seek to bridge the gap between research a...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
In a new chapter of @elgarpublishing.bsky.social's Handbook of International Relations, @ausis.bsky.social professors @susannacampbell.bsky.social & @jordantama.bsky.social explore what bridging the gap for scholars in international relations looks like. Read below: www.american.edu/sis/research...
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RIPIL Director @susannacampbell.bsky.social and @jordantama.bsky.social discuss the evolution of efforts to connect research and policy on international issues in a chapter titled "Bridging the Gap in International Relations" as part of the new Handbook of International Relations. Link below!
Handbook of International Relations
‘Cameron G. Thies has done a remarkable job of assembling a rich collection of contributions to the Handbook of International Relations. Both broad and deep, the diversity of coverage provides an exce...
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September 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
RIPIL Director @susannacampbell.bsky.social and @jordantama.bsky.social discuss the evolution of efforts to connect research and policy on international issues in a chapter titled "Bridging the Gap in International Relations" as part of the new Handbook of International Relations. Link below!
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American University is currently hiring two faculty positions in international affairs!
Assistant Professor, International Security:
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Assistant Professor, Economic Security
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37868709...
Assistant Professor, International Security:
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Assistant Professor, Economic Security
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37868709...
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August 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
American University is currently hiring two faculty positions in international affairs!
Assistant Professor, International Security:
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Assistant Professor, Economic Security
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37868709...
Assistant Professor, International Security:
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Assistant Professor, Economic Security
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37868709...
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The University at Albany, SUNY Center for Policy Research is seeking a one-year post doctoral research fellow for the Project on International Security, Commerce, & Economic Statecraft (PISCES). Position to start early September!
www.cpr-pisces.org/postdoc-rese...
www.cpr-pisces.org/postdoc-rese...
PISCES Post-Doctoral Research Fellow — Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft
www.cpr-pisces.org
July 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The University at Albany, SUNY Center for Policy Research is seeking a one-year post doctoral research fellow for the Project on International Security, Commerce, & Economic Statecraft (PISCES). Position to start early September!
www.cpr-pisces.org/postdoc-rese...
www.cpr-pisces.org/postdoc-rese...
It was great having you be part of the workshop!
Had a great time at the IPSI @bridgingthegap.bsky.social workshop in DC this week! Grateful to workshop my project on the geography of conflict mediation (tvancisin.github.io/elisa_damico/). Thanks to the organizers + amazing participants for the feedback, advice, and solidarity in uncertain times.
ELISA
tvancisin.github.io
June 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It was great having you be part of the workshop!
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Sanctions are likely to remain an attractive foreign policy tool for Congress because they tend to have bipartisan support and are relatively easy to pass.
@jordantama.bsky.social gives some recommendations for how Congress can make sanctions more effective.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
@jordantama.bsky.social gives some recommendations for how Congress can make sanctions more effective.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
How Congress Can Shape America’s Use of Economic Sanctions
Congress can guide and constrain key aspects of U.S. foreign policy through careful legislating and vigorous oversight on sanctions.
www.lawfaremedia.org
May 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Sanctions are likely to remain an attractive foreign policy tool for Congress because they tend to have bipartisan support and are relatively easy to pass.
@jordantama.bsky.social gives some recommendations for how Congress can make sanctions more effective.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
@jordantama.bsky.social gives some recommendations for how Congress can make sanctions more effective.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
With many Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill calling for new sanctions on Russia, sharing here my new @lawfaremedia.org piece on how Congress can best influence US foreign policy through sanctions legislation
cc: @ausis.bsky.social @bridgingthegap.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/congressands...
cc: @ausis.bsky.social @bridgingthegap.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/congressands...
How Congress Can Shape America’s Use of Economic Sanctions
Congress can guide and constrain key aspects of U.S. foreign policy through careful legislating and vigorous oversight on sanctions.
tinyurl.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
With many Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill calling for new sanctions on Russia, sharing here my new @lawfaremedia.org piece on how Congress can best influence US foreign policy through sanctions legislation
cc: @ausis.bsky.social @bridgingthegap.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/congressands...
cc: @ausis.bsky.social @bridgingthegap.bsky.social
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PhD students – we'd love to get an application from you!
4 more days to apply for the 2025 New Era Workshop!
NEW is an annual three-day training program for PhD students in international affairs and related disciplines, held September 25-27, 2025 at the University of Denver! Applications can be found on our website. Share with your networks!
NEW is an annual three-day training program for PhD students in international affairs and related disciplines, held September 25-27, 2025 at the University of Denver! Applications can be found on our website. Share with your networks!
NEW — Bridging the Gap
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May 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
PhD students – we'd love to get an application from you!
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Applications for the 2025 New Era Workshop (NEW) are now open! NEW is an annual three-day training program for PhD students in international affairs and related disciplines, held September 25-27, 2025 at the University of Denver! Applications and more info can be found on our website. Please share!
NEW — Bridging the Gap
www.bridgingthegapproject.org
March 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Applications for the 2025 New Era Workshop (NEW) are now open! NEW is an annual three-day training program for PhD students in international affairs and related disciplines, held September 25-27, 2025 at the University of Denver! Applications and more info can be found on our website. Please share!
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GAO wants you to know: This watchdog stands guard
thehill.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
GAO wants you to know: This watchdog stands guard
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Calling all ISA members! We hope you'll join the new Research and Policy Section (RAPS).
@naazneenbarma.bsky.social @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social @jordantama.bsky.social @bwj77.bsky.social @danigilbert.bsky.social @sch-ir.bsky.social
@naazneenbarma.bsky.social @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social @jordantama.bsky.social @bwj77.bsky.social @danigilbert.bsky.social @sch-ir.bsky.social
Research and Policy Section (RAPS)
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March 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Calling all ISA members! We hope you'll join the new Research and Policy Section (RAPS).
@naazneenbarma.bsky.social @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social @jordantama.bsky.social @bwj77.bsky.social @danigilbert.bsky.social @sch-ir.bsky.social
@naazneenbarma.bsky.social @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social @jordantama.bsky.social @bwj77.bsky.social @danigilbert.bsky.social @sch-ir.bsky.social
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🚨 Calling all alumni of Bridging the Gap programming…
Check your email! We’ve just sent you a survey, and we’d love your input.
Let @bridgingthegap.bsky.social know if you didn’t receive it, and feel free to ask @miweintraub83.bsky.social & me any questions.
Thanks so much in advance!!
Check your email! We’ve just sent you a survey, and we’d love your input.
Let @bridgingthegap.bsky.social know if you didn’t receive it, and feel free to ask @miweintraub83.bsky.social & me any questions.
Thanks so much in advance!!
March 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🚨 Calling all alumni of Bridging the Gap programming…
Check your email! We’ve just sent you a survey, and we’d love your input.
Let @bridgingthegap.bsky.social know if you didn’t receive it, and feel free to ask @miweintraub83.bsky.social & me any questions.
Thanks so much in advance!!
Check your email! We’ve just sent you a survey, and we’d love your input.
Let @bridgingthegap.bsky.social know if you didn’t receive it, and feel free to ask @miweintraub83.bsky.social & me any questions.
Thanks so much in advance!!
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We looking forward to connecting with many of you at ISA in Chicago in a few days! Please join us at the BTG reception Monday 8:00-9:00pm in the Hilton's Waldorf Room. Safe travels to those attending!
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February 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We looking forward to connecting with many of you at ISA in Chicago in a few days! Please join us at the BTG reception Monday 8:00-9:00pm in the Hilton's Waldorf Room. Safe travels to those attending!
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There's *a lot going on at the moment* in American politics...
Which makes it all the more important to join us next Wednesday, February 19, from *3:30-4:30 PM ET* for the next session on Congress and Foreign Policy featuring @fgawehns.bsky.social!
Register here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Which makes it all the more important to join us next Wednesday, February 19, from *3:30-4:30 PM ET* for the next session on Congress and Foreign Policy featuring @fgawehns.bsky.social!
Register here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
a man in a suit and tie is talking about congress
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking about congress
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February 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
There's *a lot going on at the moment* in American politics...
Which makes it all the more important to join us next Wednesday, February 19, from *3:30-4:30 PM ET* for the next session on Congress and Foreign Policy featuring @fgawehns.bsky.social!
Register here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Which makes it all the more important to join us next Wednesday, February 19, from *3:30-4:30 PM ET* for the next session on Congress and Foreign Policy featuring @fgawehns.bsky.social!
Register here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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BTG team member Jordan Tama recently published this piece with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on how Congress can check the president in foreign policy. Check it out at the link below!
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
Congress Can Check the President on Foreign Policy—Even Under Trump
Some Republican lawmakers may be willing to join with Democrats in efforts to preserve core elements of internationalism.
carnegieendowment.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
BTG team member Jordan Tama recently published this piece with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on how Congress can check the president in foreign policy. Check it out at the link below!
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
Although Trump looks like an unstoppable force, Congress is still capable of constraining aspects of his foreign policy. I explain how in this new @carnegieendowment.org commentary
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
Congress Can Check the President on Foreign Policy—Even Under Trump
Some Republican lawmakers may be willing to join with Democrats in efforts to preserve core elements of internationalism.
carnegieendowment.org
January 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Although Trump looks like an unstoppable force, Congress is still capable of constraining aspects of his foreign policy. I explain how in this new @carnegieendowment.org commentary
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
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𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 2025 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞!
Know anyone who could use tools and networks to disseminate policy-relevant academic research? Now's the time! Applications close Sunday 1/26@11:59pm MT
www.bridgingthegapproject.org/ipsi
Know anyone who could use tools and networks to disseminate policy-relevant academic research? Now's the time! Applications close Sunday 1/26@11:59pm MT
www.bridgingthegapproject.org/ipsi
IPSI — Bridging the Gap
www.bridgingthegapproject.org
January 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 2025 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞!
Know anyone who could use tools and networks to disseminate policy-relevant academic research? Now's the time! Applications close Sunday 1/26@11:59pm MT
www.bridgingthegapproject.org/ipsi
Know anyone who could use tools and networks to disseminate policy-relevant academic research? Now's the time! Applications close Sunday 1/26@11:59pm MT
www.bridgingthegapproject.org/ipsi
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Hey everyone, new book alert!🚨
@profjessblankshain.bsky.social and I have a chapter in here (Modern Day Minutemen? Public Opinion and Reserve Component Mobilization), as do @jordantama.bsky.social @benfordham.bsky.social @robertralston.bsky.social and many more
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
@profjessblankshain.bsky.social and I have a chapter in here (Modern Day Minutemen? Public Opinion and Reserve Component Mobilization), as do @jordantama.bsky.social @benfordham.bsky.social @robertralston.bsky.social and many more
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Checking the Costs of War
A thorough reassessment of how domestic factors do and do not constrain the use of American military force abroad in the early twenty-first century. More than two decades have passed since the Septemb...
press.uchicago.edu
January 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey everyone, new book alert!🚨
@profjessblankshain.bsky.social and I have a chapter in here (Modern Day Minutemen? Public Opinion and Reserve Component Mobilization), as do @jordantama.bsky.social @benfordham.bsky.social @robertralston.bsky.social and many more
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
@profjessblankshain.bsky.social and I have a chapter in here (Modern Day Minutemen? Public Opinion and Reserve Component Mobilization), as do @jordantama.bsky.social @benfordham.bsky.social @robertralston.bsky.social and many more
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
With new Congress in place and Trump about to return to presidency, sharing here recent @global-affairs.bsky.social reports I published with Dina Smeltz @ckafura.bsky.social Lama El Baz @busbyj2.bsky.social on views of US opinion leaders on international alliances and aid to Ukraine 1/
January 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
With new Congress in place and Trump about to return to presidency, sharing here recent @global-affairs.bsky.social reports I published with Dina Smeltz @ckafura.bsky.social Lama El Baz @busbyj2.bsky.social on views of US opinion leaders on international alliances and aid to Ukraine 1/
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The 2010s were and outstanding time for public facing scholarship. But that probably depended on legacy social media platforms that, by default, served the public function of amplifying scholarship. What is the future for public-facing scholarship when those platforms don't do that? 1/
December 17, 2024 at 6:20 PM
The 2010s were and outstanding time for public facing scholarship. But that probably depended on legacy social media platforms that, by default, served the public function of amplifying scholarship. What is the future for public-facing scholarship when those platforms don't do that? 1/
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Trump's election could mean less U.S. involvement in #Syria. A foreign policy scholar explains America's role and what #Assad's fall might mean for it. https://buff.ly/4grMC28 (@jordantama.bsky.social, American University) #polisky #middleeast
US role in Syria is unclear in wake of Assad’s fall from power
The US has been involved in Syria in several important ways, including sanctioning Bashar al-Assad’s government for more than a decade.
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December 13, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Trump's election could mean less U.S. involvement in #Syria. A foreign policy scholar explains America's role and what #Assad's fall might mean for it. https://buff.ly/4grMC28 (@jordantama.bsky.social, American University) #polisky #middleeast
Sharing here my interview with @us.theconversation.com about how US policy toward Syria evolved in recent years, what role US and other countries are playing in Syria now, and how US might approach Syria under Trump.
cc: @ausis.bsky.social @bridgingthegap.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2e9rsjdc
cc: @ausis.bsky.social @bridgingthegap.bsky.social
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US role in Syria is unclear in wake of Assad’s fall from power
The US has been involved in Syria in several important ways, including sanctioning Bashar al-Assad’s government for more than a decade.
theconversation.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Sharing here my interview with @us.theconversation.com about how US policy toward Syria evolved in recent years, what role US and other countries are playing in Syria now, and how US might approach Syria under Trump.
cc: @ausis.bsky.social @bridgingthegap.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2e9rsjdc
cc: @ausis.bsky.social @bridgingthegap.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2e9rsjdc
ICYMI - sharing new @global-affairs.bsky.social report by Lama El Baz, @ckafura.bsky.social, Dina Smeltz, @busbyj2.bsky.social, me on views of US foreign policy elites on war in Gaza. Key takeaway: US elites are even more polarized on war along partisan lines than the public.
tinyurl.com/5n6p64rk
tinyurl.com/5n6p64rk
US Opinion Leaders Deeply Divided on Israel-Gaza War
When it comes to the conflict in the Middle East, American foreign policy professionals are more divided along partisan lines than the general public.
tinyurl.com
December 9, 2024 at 4:40 PM
ICYMI - sharing new @global-affairs.bsky.social report by Lama El Baz, @ckafura.bsky.social, Dina Smeltz, @busbyj2.bsky.social, me on views of US foreign policy elites on war in Gaza. Key takeaway: US elites are even more polarized on war along partisan lines than the public.
tinyurl.com/5n6p64rk
tinyurl.com/5n6p64rk
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A bunch of really brilliant people who think about sanctions and their effects are now active on this site.
Here’s a Starter Pack so you can find them!
go.bsky.app/BHkeqVS
Here’s a Starter Pack so you can find them!
go.bsky.app/BHkeqVS
November 18, 2024 at 11:10 PM
A bunch of really brilliant people who think about sanctions and their effects are now active on this site.
Here’s a Starter Pack so you can find them!
go.bsky.app/BHkeqVS
Here’s a Starter Pack so you can find them!
go.bsky.app/BHkeqVS