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Brian Blankenship

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Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami

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Alexander Lanoszka @lanoszka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New experimental research indicates that "negative alliance signals" have weak and inconsistent effects on individuals' support for acquiring nuclear weapons, with surveys drawn from respondents in Germany, Japan, Poland, and South Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Reid Pauly @reidpauly.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

🚨 It’s publication day! THE ART OF COERCION is finally out. When do threats work? When they are perceived as credibly *conditional*. Credible and painful punishments are not enough. Threats fail if targets feel “damned if they do and damned if they don’t.” shorturl.at/qa4T5

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The Art of Coercion by Reid B. C. Pauly | Paperback | Cornell University Press

The Art of Coercion presents a fresh explanation for the success—and failure—of coercive demands in international politics.Strong states are surprisingly bad at coercion. History shows they prevail...

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Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"Wheat at War" is now available! If you are interested in World War I, the origins of global economic governance, or how food shapes warfare, you'll learn something from this book. E-book is available today, with the physical copies shipping tomorrow!

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Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War

Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War [Cappella Zielinski, Rosella, Poast, Paul] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War

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Brian Blankenship @brianblankenship.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Very pleased to have this research note in ISQ! It finds that unconditional signals of U.S. abandonment, and to a lesser extent conditional U.S. threats of abandonment and increased alliance burden-sharing, modestly increase support for nuclear weapons. But effect sizes are fairly small overall.

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