It was great to discuss @patporter76.bsky.social's new book 📕 "How to Survive A Hostile World: Power, Politics, and the Case for Realism" (lnkd.in/e2J27rWC) yesterday at the University of Birmingham book launch event (with Rita Floyd and Marco Vieira). Get a copy today!

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Withdrawing from the JCPOA was an obvious own goal from the start

University of Birmingham MA students in politics and international relations visited the European Commission today to hear about the Commission's work as well as the External Action's work on human rights. For more info on the Brussels tour, see: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gove....

It was a real pleasure to visit the UK Mission to the EU today with University of Birmingham Masters students in politics/IR. We heard about life in the civil service and the UK's relationship with the EU www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gove... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

The sun has set
Not long ago
Now everyone goes below
To take a bath in one big tub
With soap all over
Scrub, scrub, scrub

When the wife tries to extract details from me

Astonishing figure from the American Presidency Project

I don't have anywhere else to post an obituary, but he deserves one. Beau was our 'baked potato.' An excellent, if reluctant, big brother. He suffered with epilepsy, and his life became seizure-recover-repeat. But he was a good boy. He can rest easy now.

A beautiful UK mother's Day

A moment of Zen on the University of Birmingham campus

Feel for these workers, as well as those who planned to do research at the fantastic JFK library

Me proposing a new course to teach vs me actually having to prep and teach that new course

Me to myself when I'm in a research rut

#declinism

Ron Krebs and I have a chapter in this new volume edited by Kreps and Kriner. The chapter explores a pattern we observed in surveys: Sephardic or Mizrahi Jewish respondents and nonwhite respondents show greater casualty sensitivity than do their Ashkenazi or white counterparts.

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just finished David Lodge's Campus Trilogy, with lots of connections to the University of Birmingham/"Rummidge" -- a very good trilogy!