International Security
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International Security is America's leading peer-reviewed journal of security affairs. It provides sophisticated analyses of contemporary, theoretical, and historical security issues. International Security is edited at @belfercenter.bsky.social.
1) ***Announcement***
The new Fall 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by Marc Trachtenberg, @aaronbateman.bsky.social, @ajmount.bsky.social, Dong Jung Kim, and @mikegoldfien.bsky.social
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The new Fall 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by Marc Trachtenberg, @aaronbateman.bsky.social, @ajmount.bsky.social, Dong Jung Kim, and @mikegoldfien.bsky.social
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Volume 50 Issue 2 | International Security | MIT Press
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October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1) ***Announcement***
The new Fall 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by Marc Trachtenberg, @aaronbateman.bsky.social, @ajmount.bsky.social, Dong Jung Kim, and @mikegoldfien.bsky.social
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The new Fall 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by Marc Trachtenberg, @aaronbateman.bsky.social, @ajmount.bsky.social, Dong Jung Kim, and @mikegoldfien.bsky.social
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This is an intriguing new @intsecurity.bsky.social article on China as essentially a status quo power challenging US assumptions of high aggression
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What Does China Want?
Abstract. The conventional wisdom is that China is a rising hegemon eager to replace the United States, dominate international institutions, and re-create the liberal international order in its own im...
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August 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is an intriguing new @intsecurity.bsky.social article on China as essentially a status quo power challenging US assumptions of high aggression
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A US–USSR limited war was unlikely due to land theater & limited precision, yet US–China tensions, centered on a maritime theater with precision & non-kinetic weapons, make a limited regional nuclear war over Taiwan more likely, argue Henrik Hiim & Øystein Tunsjø @intsecurity.bsky.social 10/10
The U.S.-China Stability-Instability Paradox: Limited War in East Asia
Abstract. With China and the United States seemingly locked in intensifying and enduring competition, many analysts compare today's U.S.-China rivalry with the one between the Soviet Union and the Uni...
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August 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A US–USSR limited war was unlikely due to land theater & limited precision, yet US–China tensions, centered on a maritime theater with precision & non-kinetic weapons, make a limited regional nuclear war over Taiwan more likely, argue Henrik Hiim & Øystein Tunsjø @intsecurity.bsky.social 10/10
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Worth a read
“What Does China Want?” by @daveckang.bsky.social, Jackie S. H. Wong, and @zenobiachan.bsky.social
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This article is ungated thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social.
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This article is ungated thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social.
What Does China Want?
Abstract. The conventional wisdom is that China is a rising hegemon eager to replace the United States, dominate international institutions, and re-create the liberal international order in its own im...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Worth a read
Great piece on Iraq in this season's issue of @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
New and #OpenAccess in the Summer 2025 issue of International Security — Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy: direct.mit.edu/isec/article... @intsecurity.bsky.social
Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy
Abstract. This article identifies key differences between mainstream and Iraq-based understandings of Islamic State (ISIS) and how it rose to power in Iraq. The conventional wisdom in…
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September 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Great piece on Iraq in this season's issue of @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
Terrific issue. @belfercenter.bsky.social
Our journal, International Security, has defined the debate on U.S. national security policy and set the agenda for scholarship on international security affairs for over 40 years. The summer 2025 issue is out now: direct.mit.edu/isec/issue/5... @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
Volume 50 Issue 1 | International Security | MIT Press
International Security | 50 | 1 | August 2025
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September 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Terrific issue. @belfercenter.bsky.social
Great book on Iraq, which seems to have fallen off the map lately. Read my review, too. @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social
Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-3
Roger D. Petersen’s Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention
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“counterinsurgency and military intervention will not go away, despite any US desire to turn away from it” –Jacqueline L. Hazelton
Roger D. Petersen’s Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention
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“counterinsurgency and military intervention will not go away, despite any US desire to turn away from it” –Jacqueline L. Hazelton
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
***Announcement***
The Summer 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by @drsarahphillips.bsky.social and Daniel Tower; @daveckang.bsky.social, Jackie S. H. Wong, and @zenobiachan.bsky.social; Wu Riqiang; Nick Anderson and Daryl Press; and Henrik Hiim and Øystein Tunsjø
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The Summer 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by @drsarahphillips.bsky.social and Daniel Tower; @daveckang.bsky.social, Jackie S. H. Wong, and @zenobiachan.bsky.social; Wu Riqiang; Nick Anderson and Daryl Press; and Henrik Hiim and Øystein Tunsjø
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Volume 50 Issue 1 | International Security | MIT Press
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August 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
***Announcement***
The Summer 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by @drsarahphillips.bsky.social and Daniel Tower; @daveckang.bsky.social, Jackie S. H. Wong, and @zenobiachan.bsky.social; Wu Riqiang; Nick Anderson and Daryl Press; and Henrik Hiim and Øystein Tunsjø
direct.mit.edu/isec/issue
The Summer 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by @drsarahphillips.bsky.social and Daniel Tower; @daveckang.bsky.social, Jackie S. H. Wong, and @zenobiachan.bsky.social; Wu Riqiang; Nick Anderson and Daryl Press; and Henrik Hiim and Øystein Tunsjø
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Summer 2025 issue preview! @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Phillips & Tower ➡️ ISIS
Kang, Wong, @zenobiachan.bsky.social ➡️ What does China want?
Wu Riqiang ➡️ China’s views on arms control
Anderson & Press ➡️ Military primacy in Asia
Hiim & Tunsjo ➡️ Limited war in East Asia
Phillips & Tower ➡️ ISIS
Kang, Wong, @zenobiachan.bsky.social ➡️ What does China want?
Wu Riqiang ➡️ China’s views on arms control
Anderson & Press ➡️ Military primacy in Asia
Hiim & Tunsjo ➡️ Limited war in East Asia
August 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Summer 2025 issue preview! @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Phillips & Tower ➡️ ISIS
Kang, Wong, @zenobiachan.bsky.social ➡️ What does China want?
Wu Riqiang ➡️ China’s views on arms control
Anderson & Press ➡️ Military primacy in Asia
Hiim & Tunsjo ➡️ Limited war in East Asia
Phillips & Tower ➡️ ISIS
Kang, Wong, @zenobiachan.bsky.social ➡️ What does China want?
Wu Riqiang ➡️ China’s views on arms control
Anderson & Press ➡️ Military primacy in Asia
Hiim & Tunsjo ➡️ Limited war in East Asia
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Summer 2025 issue preview: ISIS, what does China want? China on arms control, military primacy in Asia, limited war in East Asia @daveckang.bsky.social @zenobiachan.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Summer 2025 issue preview: ISIS, what does China want? China on arms control, military primacy in Asia, limited war in East Asia @daveckang.bsky.social @zenobiachan.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social
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@senerakturk.bsky.social's fascinating International Security article, "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe” wins the Outstanding Article Award from APSA International History and Politics Section direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
Abstract. Sizeable Jewish and Muslim communities lived across large swathes of medieval Western Europe. But all the Muslim communities and almost all the Jewish communities in polities that correspond...
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July 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
@senerakturk.bsky.social's fascinating International Security article, "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe” wins the Outstanding Article Award from APSA International History and Politics Section direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
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@senerakturk.bsky.social's fascinating International Security article, "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe” wins the Outstanding Article Award from APSA International History and Politics Section direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
Abstract. Sizeable Jewish and Muslim communities lived across large swathes of medieval Western Europe. But all the Muslim communities and almost all the Jewish communities in polities that correspond...
direct.mit.edu
July 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Language Machines is out today, can be ordered from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932... - gathering a few parergonal writings below 1/
June 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Language Machines is out today, can be ordered from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932... - gathering a few parergonal writings below 1/
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June 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Live now. The Realist Debate Over How to Respond to China. With @stephenwalt.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/7-t...
7 – The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China | The International Security Podcast
Will China make a bid for regional hegemony in East Asia, and can it succeed? In the modern era, only the United States has achieved regional hegemony—all other attempts have met catastrophic failure....
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June 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Live now. The Realist Debate Over How to Respond to China. With @stephenwalt.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/7-t...
A short piece from the new issue of International Security: "Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia" thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/monks-behavi... Great piece. @intsecurity.bsky.social @pearson-edits.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia
Buddhism is commonly associated with peace, tolerance, and compassion. But like every other great religion, it has a violent side.
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June 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A short piece from the new issue of International Security: "Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia" thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/monks-behavi... Great piece. @intsecurity.bsky.social @pearson-edits.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
1) The new Spring 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by John Mearsheimer, @stephenwalt.bsky.social , Zachary Burdette, Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda, and @doncasler.bsky.social and Tyler Jost
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Read articles by John Mearsheimer, @stephenwalt.bsky.social , Zachary Burdette, Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda, and @doncasler.bsky.social and Tyler Jost
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Volume 49 Issue 4 | International Security | MIT Press
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May 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
1) The new Spring 2025 issue is online!
Read articles by John Mearsheimer, @stephenwalt.bsky.social , Zachary Burdette, Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda, and @doncasler.bsky.social and Tyler Jost
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Read articles by John Mearsheimer, @stephenwalt.bsky.social , Zachary Burdette, Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda, and @doncasler.bsky.social and Tyler Jost
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Wasn't sure if this article would ever see the light of day, but am absolutely thrilled to have an article in the forthcoming Winter 2024/2025 of @intsecurity.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Wasn't sure if this article would ever see the light of day, but am absolutely thrilled to have an article in the forthcoming Winter 2024/2025 of @intsecurity.bsky.social
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Here is the latest International Security podcast, "Competing Visions of Restraint." @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitp @belfercenter.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social
5 – Competing Visions of Restraint | The International Security Podcast
At least since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, some scholars and policymakers have called for retrenching the United States’ global military presence. Miranda Priebe and John Schuessler discuss rea...
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February 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Here is the latest International Security podcast, "Competing Visions of Restraint." @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitp @belfercenter.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social
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New International Security podcast: "Competing Visions of Restraint" @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/5-c...
5 – Competing Visions of Restraint | The International Security Podcast
At least since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, some scholars and policymakers have called for retrenching the United States’ global military presence. Miranda Priebe and John Schuessler discuss rea...
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February 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
New International Security podcast: "Competing Visions of Restraint" @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/5-c...
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Delighted to have a new article out with @ibkardon.bsky.social in International Security.
China is emerging as a global security provider, including to countries that get security assistance from the US. 1/3
China is emerging as a global security provider, including to countries that get security assistance from the US. 1/3
February 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Our @intsecurity.bsky.social article is up! @ibkardon.bsky.social & I talk about "security hybridization" - an emerging phenomenon wherein states seek security from China & the US simultaneously, but not symmetrically:
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February 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Our @intsecurity.bsky.social article is up! @ibkardon.bsky.social & I talk about "security hybridization" - an emerging phenomenon wherein states seek security from China & the US simultaneously, but not symmetrically:
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Discover new developments in nuclear proliferation, international relations theory, defense technology, and more in America's leading peer-reviewed journal of security affairs, International Security: direct.mit.edu/isec @intsecurity.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Discover new developments in nuclear proliferation, international relations theory, defense technology, and more in America's leading peer-reviewed journal of security affairs, International Security: direct.mit.edu/isec @intsecurity.bsky.social
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Provocative new @intsecurity.bsky.social article from Barry Posen suggests that Russia's invasion of Ukraine fits a well-worn pattern of preventative war in the face of a rapidly shifting security situation. @mitpress.bsky.social
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Putin's Preventive War: The 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
Abstract. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine is consistent with the logic of preventive war. States often initiate wars because they fear the consequences of a shifting balance of military power and...
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March 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Provocative new @intsecurity.bsky.social article from Barry Posen suggests that Russia's invasion of Ukraine fits a well-worn pattern of preventative war in the face of a rapidly shifting security situation. @mitpress.bsky.social
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MIT Professor Barry Posen argues that Russia's war on Ukraine likely followed the logic of preventive war as NATO-US cooperation w/ Ukraine increased. 1/2 @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social www.cato.org/multimedia/p...
Strategic Empathy & the Roots of the Ukraine War
Featuring Barry R. Posen and John Glaser
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March 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
MIT Professor Barry Posen argues that Russia's war on Ukraine likely followed the logic of preventive war as NATO-US cooperation w/ Ukraine increased. 1/2 @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social www.cato.org/multimedia/p...