Tom Long
@tomlongphd.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations at University of Warwick; Latin America; Historical IR; small states
Greg Grandin's new book is sweeping, ambitious, and compelling. Likely to be read as a history of Latin America, the region primarily acts as a mirror to the United States. "However, in this reflection, the history of Latin America is distorted," I argue. My review:
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America, América: A New History of the New World. By Greg Grandin. New York: Penguin Random House, 2025. Pp. 768. $35.00 cloth. | The Americas | Cambridge Core
America, América: A New History of the New World. By Greg Grandin. New York: Penguin Random House, 2025. Pp. 768. $35.00 cloth.
www.cambridge.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Greg Grandin's new book is sweeping, ambitious, and compelling. Likely to be read as a history of Latin America, the region primarily acts as a mirror to the United States. "However, in this reflection, the history of Latin America is distorted," I argue. My review:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A Man, a Plan, and a Long History of Overplayed Hands
In Foreign Policy, PAIS's Tom Long and Carsten-Andreas Schulz put Donald Trump's recent threats to reclaim the Panama Canal in a long-term perspective.
Read the article -> buff.ly/FE8QRe0
In Foreign Policy, PAIS's Tom Long and Carsten-Andreas Schulz put Donald Trump's recent threats to reclaim the Panama Canal in a long-term perspective.
Read the article -> buff.ly/FE8QRe0
A Man, a Plan, and a Long History of Overplayed Hands
Trump did not invent hardball U.S. diplomacy with Panama. Then, as now, it is doomed to backfire.
foreignpolicy.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A Man, a Plan, and a Long History of Overplayed Hands
In Foreign Policy, PAIS's Tom Long and Carsten-Andreas Schulz put Donald Trump's recent threats to reclaim the Panama Canal in a long-term perspective.
Read the article -> buff.ly/FE8QRe0
In Foreign Policy, PAIS's Tom Long and Carsten-Andreas Schulz put Donald Trump's recent threats to reclaim the Panama Canal in a long-term perspective.
Read the article -> buff.ly/FE8QRe0
And check out the underpinning research, open access in APSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read @tomlongphd.bsky.social & @caschulz.bsky.social's short essay in @us.theconversation.com covering their recent @apsrjournal.bsky.social article.
"How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order" - cup.org/3IBG3P5
"How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order" - cup.org/3IBG3P5
How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order
France imposed an emperor on Mexico. The Mexican republic resisted.
theconversation.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
And check out the underpinning research, open access in APSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The history of international order is usually the history of the great powers. But what can we learn from looking at worldviews of those who resisted intervention?
Very pleased to have this new post available on The Conversation with my coauthor and friend @caschulz.bsky.social.
Very pleased to have this new post available on The Conversation with my coauthor and friend @caschulz.bsky.social.
France imposed an emperor on Mexico. The Mexican republic resisted.
How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order
France imposed an emperor on Mexico. The Mexican republic resisted.
tcnv.link
July 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The history of international order is usually the history of the great powers. But what can we learn from looking at worldviews of those who resisted intervention?
Very pleased to have this new post available on The Conversation with my coauthor and friend @caschulz.bsky.social.
Very pleased to have this new post available on The Conversation with my coauthor and friend @caschulz.bsky.social.
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Congratulations to this year's ISA #BookAward winners! Check them out and add them to your summer reading list. Stay tuned for more winner announcements throughout the summer.
July 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Congratulations to this year's ISA #BookAward winners! Check them out and add them to your summer reading list. Stay tuned for more winner announcements throughout the summer.
IR accounts of history have long emphasized turning points; increasingly, IR scholars invoke "critical junctures." But how should IR understand these?
In this article, forthcoming in EJIR, @caschulz.bsky.social, and I propose a framework for CJ analysis in IR:
wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...
In this article, forthcoming in EJIR, @caschulz.bsky.social, and I propose a framework for CJ analysis in IR:
wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...
Critical junctures in international relations : antecedents, contingency, and change in world politics - WRAP: Warwick Research Archive Portal
wrap.warwick.ac.uk
June 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
IR accounts of history have long emphasized turning points; increasingly, IR scholars invoke "critical junctures." But how should IR understand these?
In this article, forthcoming in EJIR, @caschulz.bsky.social, and I propose a framework for CJ analysis in IR:
wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...
In this article, forthcoming in EJIR, @caschulz.bsky.social, and I propose a framework for CJ analysis in IR:
wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...
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"An important source of declassified materials for scholars of American diplomacy is now under threat" Prof Mitch Lerner at LSE Blog on the Historians Advisory Council, declassification, FRUS & much more #SHAFR @osuhistory.bsky.social @mershoncenter.bsky.social 🗃️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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May 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"An important source of declassified materials for scholars of American diplomacy is now under threat" Prof Mitch Lerner at LSE Blog on the Historians Advisory Council, declassification, FRUS & much more #SHAFR @osuhistory.bsky.social @mershoncenter.bsky.social 🗃️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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New article decentring the Berlin Conference from the point of view of Latin America, by @tomlongphd.bsky.social and @caschulz.bsky.social #HistIR www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85 | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85
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May 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
New article decentring the Berlin Conference from the point of view of Latin America, by @tomlongphd.bsky.social and @caschulz.bsky.social #HistIR www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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📢 New on First View!
Tom Long (@tomlongphd.bsky.social) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz (@caschulz.bsky.social) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism.
Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Tom Long (@tomlongphd.bsky.social) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz (@caschulz.bsky.social) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism.
Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85 | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
📢 New on First View!
Tom Long (@tomlongphd.bsky.social) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz (@caschulz.bsky.social) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism.
Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Tom Long (@tomlongphd.bsky.social) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz (@caschulz.bsky.social) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism.
Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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I am delighted to share the programme of 'Global Order and Governance beyond the West' (May 29) at @cityhistory.bsky.social. Featuring talks by Arnulf Becker Lorca (EUI), Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge), @mjbayly.bsky.social (LSE).
In person/online registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
In person/online registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I am delighted to share the programme of 'Global Order and Governance beyond the West' (May 29) at @cityhistory.bsky.social. Featuring talks by Arnulf Becker Lorca (EUI), Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge), @mjbayly.bsky.social (LSE).
In person/online registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
In person/online registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
It was a pleasure to host Ignacio Higueras Hare, Peru's ambassador to the UK, at the University of Warwick and @warwickpais.bsky.social. We appreciated his remarks about Latin American integration, and especially his outreach to our students.
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Peru’s Ambassador Visits Warwick
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May 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
It was a pleasure to host Ignacio Higueras Hare, Peru's ambassador to the UK, at the University of Warwick and @warwickpais.bsky.social. We appreciated his remarks about Latin American integration, and especially his outreach to our students.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...
Small States & Territories assembled a great forum on Veenendaal and Corbett's influential, "Why Small States Offer Important Answers to Large Questions."
My essay, "Historical dynamics of international relationships: Veenendaal and Corbett beyond
comparative politics" www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...
My essay, "Historical dynamics of international relationships: Veenendaal and Corbett beyond
comparative politics" www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...
www.um.edu.mt
May 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Small States & Territories assembled a great forum on Veenendaal and Corbett's influential, "Why Small States Offer Important Answers to Large Questions."
My essay, "Historical dynamics of international relationships: Veenendaal and Corbett beyond
comparative politics" www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...
My essay, "Historical dynamics of international relationships: Veenendaal and Corbett beyond
comparative politics" www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...
Excited to be in this issue of APSR, with "A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico," with @caschulz.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
@warwickpais.bsky.social
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@warwickpais.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Excited to be in this issue of APSR, with "A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico," with @caschulz.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
@warwickpais.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
@warwickpais.bsky.social
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🎙️ My new #podcast New Regional Orders is now live!
Ep. 1: @tomlongphd.bsky.social from @warwickpais.bsky.social & I discuss U.S. #power in #Latin #America, #small #states & #regionalism.
As #Trump 2.0 reshapes #foreign #policy, this couldn’t be more timely.
🎧 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhm...
Ep. 1: @tomlongphd.bsky.social from @warwickpais.bsky.social & I discuss U.S. #power in #Latin #America, #small #states & #regionalism.
As #Trump 2.0 reshapes #foreign #policy, this couldn’t be more timely.
🎧 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhm...
Prof. Tom Long on Small States & U.S. Power in Latin America | Episode #01 | New Regional Orders
YouTube video by Dr. Ivo Ganchev
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May 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🎙️ My new #podcast New Regional Orders is now live!
Ep. 1: @tomlongphd.bsky.social from @warwickpais.bsky.social & I discuss U.S. #power in #Latin #America, #small #states & #regionalism.
As #Trump 2.0 reshapes #foreign #policy, this couldn’t be more timely.
🎧 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhm...
Ep. 1: @tomlongphd.bsky.social from @warwickpais.bsky.social & I discuss U.S. #power in #Latin #America, #small #states & #regionalism.
As #Trump 2.0 reshapes #foreign #policy, this couldn’t be more timely.
🎧 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhm...
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Thrilled to see Nicaragua Must Survive discussed in a H-Diplo roundtable. Deeply grateful to @mollyavery.bsky.social , Michelle Chase, @tomlongphd.bsky.social & @sarahosten.bsky.social for their engagement and kind words. Thank you @emleake.bsky.social for organising!
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April 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Thrilled to see Nicaragua Must Survive discussed in a H-Diplo roundtable. Deeply grateful to @mollyavery.bsky.social , Michelle Chase, @tomlongphd.bsky.social & @sarahosten.bsky.social for their engagement and kind words. Thank you @emleake.bsky.social for organising!
issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJI...
issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJI...
Big congratulations to my @warwickpais.bsky.social colleague, Charlie Price!
In his paper in EJIR, charlieprice.bsky.social analyses the Nordic Resistance Movement’s fantasy of the Nordic Nation and shows how collective ideological fantasies become grounded in present bodies to make such fantasies intelligible.
You can read it here: t1p.de/lpjet
You can read it here: t1p.de/lpjet
April 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Big congratulations to my @warwickpais.bsky.social colleague, Charlie Price!
The assault on the US knowledge infrastructure continues.
DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵
April 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The assault on the US knowledge infrastructure continues.
The Wilson Center has been effectively shuttered by Trump and Musk. This saves taxpayers almost nothing, while erasing space for policy research, dialogue, and exchange, all things I gained from and made a small contribution to. For shame.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
Workers at Wilson Center Put on Leave as Trump Seeks Shutdown
About 130 employees of the Wilson Center were told they were being put on leave, just four days after workers for Elon Musk’s team entered the center.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The Wilson Center has been effectively shuttered by Trump and Musk. This saves taxpayers almost nothing, while erasing space for policy research, dialogue, and exchange, all things I gained from and made a small contribution to. For shame.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
The arguments the Trump admin is making in this case are alarming. The USG can deport someone with legal status to another country's prisons (supposedly by mistake), cannot correct that error, nor be challenged in court as a "unitary executive". No limits, no checks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
U.S. Says Deportation of Maryland Man Was an ‘Administrative Error’
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was in the U.S. legally, is now in prison in El Salvador, and federal courts have no jurisdiction to order his release, the Trump administration said in a court filin...
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The arguments the Trump admin is making in this case are alarming. The USG can deport someone with legal status to another country's prisons (supposedly by mistake), cannot correct that error, nor be challenged in court as a "unitary executive". No limits, no checks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
A happy 219th birthday to Mexico's Benito Juárez! If you'd like to learn more about the international political thought of the Benemérito and his Liberal coalition in the tumultous 1860s, please take at look at our recent piece in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A happy 219th birthday to Mexico's Benito Juárez! If you'd like to learn more about the international political thought of the Benemérito and his Liberal coalition in the tumultous 1860s, please take at look at our recent piece in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
As Carsten Schulz and I head to #ISA2025, fittingly, a paper that we presented at ISA 2024 has just been accepted in the Journal of Global History!
"Seeing the Berlin Conference from the Periphery: Latin American Reactions to Imperialism Elsewhere, 1884-1885," details coming soon.
"Seeing the Berlin Conference from the Periphery: Latin American Reactions to Imperialism Elsewhere, 1884-1885," details coming soon.
February 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
As Carsten Schulz and I head to #ISA2025, fittingly, a paper that we presented at ISA 2024 has just been accepted in the Journal of Global History!
"Seeing the Berlin Conference from the Periphery: Latin American Reactions to Imperialism Elsewhere, 1884-1885," details coming soon.
"Seeing the Berlin Conference from the Periphery: Latin American Reactions to Imperialism Elsewhere, 1884-1885," details coming soon.
Really looking forward to #ISA2025 in Chicago. So many people to see, and so much to discuss.
I'll be in the workshop "From Latin America to the World: Peripheral Norms and Practices in the Constitution of Global Order" on Saturday, led by Carsten Schulz, Marinana Andrade e Barros, and myself.
I'll be in the workshop "From Latin America to the World: Peripheral Norms and Practices in the Constitution of Global Order" on Saturday, led by Carsten Schulz, Marinana Andrade e Barros, and myself.
February 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Really looking forward to #ISA2025 in Chicago. So many people to see, and so much to discuss.
I'll be in the workshop "From Latin America to the World: Peripheral Norms and Practices in the Constitution of Global Order" on Saturday, led by Carsten Schulz, Marinana Andrade e Barros, and myself.
I'll be in the workshop "From Latin America to the World: Peripheral Norms and Practices in the Constitution of Global Order" on Saturday, led by Carsten Schulz, Marinana Andrade e Barros, and myself.
Such a pleasure to make my first (definitely not last!) visit to NUPI and spend time with these lovely, brilliant people.
A pleasure to welcome @tomlongphd.bsky.social to @nupinytt.bsky.social Theory Seminar!
February 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Such a pleasure to make my first (definitely not last!) visit to NUPI and spend time with these lovely, brilliant people.
Amidst the Trump circus and horror show, the oligarchs are getting what they paid for.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
February 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Amidst the Trump circus and horror show, the oligarchs are getting what they paid for.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
Really, I'd have thought there were bigger stories in UK higher education at the moment...but it's good to see the BBC bringing the hardest-hitting university news.
February 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Really, I'd have thought there were bigger stories in UK higher education at the moment...but it's good to see the BBC bringing the hardest-hitting university news.