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Michael Allen
@michaelallen.bsky.social
Professor • Boise State • International Relations • Focus: War, FoPo, Basing, and Troop Deployments • Nerd: scifi, gaming, methods.
It was worse than I imagined. Time to close that account.
October 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
What the hell?
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
@xkcd.com Can we get an updated map of the internet? I moved offices, put up my 2007 one, and need a replacement I think.
August 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Is Chomsky a fascist in the Lore universe?! @ryannorth.ca
June 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I know there is some constructivist work that approaches this in terms of how states learn/use legalistic language in speeches/international treaties over time. Regardless, I think I can push it further until it hits upon a true gem, but that will be for later. It did produce a neat table.
April 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The algorithm has decided that my book, The Gamer's Guide to International Relations, is half on Kindle today at Amazon.

#irksy #polisky
March 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Not sure if this is a misspelling or the mobsters in this universe have very filthy guns. @ryannorth.ca
March 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
About two years ago, @carlammm.bsky.social, @flynnpolsci.bsky.social, Grzegorz Smułek, and I conducted a survey experiment in Poland.

A few interesting finds: 1) Observationally, support for US basing was noticeably higher in 2023 than it was in 2020, when we last surveyed

#irsky #polisky
March 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I lack chill.

#polisky #irsky
March 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The doors have ears and the
March 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If you are at ISA, consider joining us on Sunday at 10:30am to discuss "The Gamer's Guide to International Relations." Andrew Szarejko (@szarejko.bsky.social) chairs with great discussants including...
February 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My new book, The Gamer's Guide to International Relations, is now out. The book uses genres (MMORPG, Survival, MOBA, BR, and 4x) to show how games within these genres contain ideas we find in international relations and political science. #polisky #teaching #irsky
February 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Not sure where I will hang this yet.
January 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
What other trilogy has gotten better with each movie?
December 21, 2024 at 4:29 PM
It's the best time of the year (for my international relations final). #politicalscience
December 9, 2024 at 4:27 PM
A new variable for my executive turnover models.
December 6, 2024 at 12:49 AM
We watched "A Taste of Armageddon" for the final week of my Politics and Pop Culture. We will be chatting about AI tomorrow.

#politicalscience #polisky
December 3, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Well before platforms that prioritize micro-content, memes, and the general enshittification of social media.
December 3, 2024 at 3:30 PM
One of the few academic works where I have to make a comment like this in the proofs. #academia #politicalscience
November 23, 2024 at 9:05 PM