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Eun A Jo

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Assistant Professor at William & Mary. www.eunajo.com

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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Grateful to have this out in @intsecurity.bsky.social. @jessicacweiss.bsky.social and I show how Cold War analogies obscure more than they reveal about US-China relations. 1/6
Title page of 'The Ideology Trap: China and the Limits of Cold War Analogies' by Eun A Jo and Jessica Chen Weiss.
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The issue includes: “The Ideology Trap: China and the Limits of Cold War Analogies,” by @eunajo.bsky.social and @jessicacweiss.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/ISEC...
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The Ideology Trap: China and the Limits of Cold War Analogies
Abstract. What role do ideological differences play in great power relations? Existing studies often treat ideological differences as fixed variables that exacerbate frictions between great powers. In...
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
New in International Security! Ideology, the security dilemma, nuclear weapons, China-Taiwan @eunajo.bsky.social @jessicacweiss.bsky.social @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social @kerbydavis.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social
New issue of International Security! US-USSR and US-China ideology, the security dilemma, nuclear first use, why states don't get nukes, China blockade
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Looks incredible - and resonates with the emergence of developmentalist thinking in Cold War Asia
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Please send us your dissertations to be considered for the APSA Nuno P. Monteiro Dissertation Award in IR theory! Deadline is tomorrow, March 31, 2026.
Nuno Monteiro Best dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award, named for Nuno P. Monteiro, is given for the best dissertation in International Relations Theory. All dissertations completed within the previous two calendar years are eligible for consideration. Nominations should be directed to all three members of the award committee. All members of the Section are eligible to make nominations.
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Sean Paul Ashley @regimes.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Excited to finally share my 🚨 new article 🚨 now online at @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social “The Dark Side of Defection: Security Force Defectors and the Aftermath of Nonviolent Revolutions. academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-.... Brief 🧵
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Jie-Hyun Lim interviewed by @ginsengamericano.bsky.social about his book, 'Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age', for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
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Jie-Hyun Lim, "Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"AI is not corrupting our tastes but revealing they were already predisposed to corruption. LLMs have exposed a vast pre-existing cultural appetite for false profundity, and gave everyone a machine that can produce it on demand."
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Sangsin Lee @sslee.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The sentencing trial for Yoon Suk-yeol will begin in 10 minutes.
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Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University @mortaracenter.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
On November 19th, Professor @jeffreyding.bsky.social from The George Washington University received the prestigious Lepgold Book Prize at the Mortara Center. This award recognizes the best book in international relations published in 2024. Photo credit: @georgetown-sfs.bsky.social
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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Japan’s new prime minister faces big foreign policy challenges. Can Sanae Takaichi keep Washington close – and navigate regional threats? William & Mary's @eunajo.bsky.social discusses here: goodauthority.org/news/sanae-t...
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Japan’s new prime minister faces big foreign policy challenges
Can Sanae Takaichi keep Washington close – and navigate regional threats?
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Pauliina Patana @pauliinapatana.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
What a delight to attend @kbclarke.bsky.social’s book launch at the fully packed @mortaracenter.bsky.social tonight! Such thought-provoking and insightful scholarship and engaging discussion @laiabalcells.bsky.social
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Paul Schuler @paulschuler.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We have a new article in @cpsjournal.bsky.social theorizing founding leader personality cult emergence in Vietnam, China and Indonesia. It'll be part of a special issue "Imagining Nations" w/ @eunajo.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, @jiyoungko.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Founding Leaders and National Narratives: Anthropomorphism and the Roots of Founding Leader Personality Cults in Three East Asian Cases - Paul Schuler, Trung-Anh Nguyen, Yongfeng Tang, Mohammad Khan, ...
Founding leader personality cults are crucial components of national narratives. Yet, relatively little research examines how they emerge. A small political sci...
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Seo-young Silvia Kim @sysilviakim.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
U.S. political scientists, are any of your depts *not* admitting new PhD students this year (esp. for international applicants)? I'm gathering info to help students know where to reconsider applying. Applications are not cheap and they're despairing. Appreciate any details.
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Donghyun Danny Choi @dhdannychoi.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
So happy to see this out! We caution against excessive optimism that the opposition will restore countries back to their democratic trajectories after electoral victory. Weakened institutions and the memory of repression makes it tempting to continue rather than buck the trend of autocratization.
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In my latest for @goodauth.bsky.social, I write about why boundary-keeping is just as important as developing inclusive narratives for democracy
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Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More information about my new book which will be published by the Cambridge University Press on 11 December: www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I’m happy to share this paper in @cpsjournal.bsky.social on democracy and national narratives, with insights from South Korea and Taiwan. It is part of a special issue on postcolonial narratives with @paulschuler.bsky.social, @deandulay.bsky.social, + others. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
This paper explores how democratization can reconstitute understandings of nationhood by empowering a new class of “storytelling elites”---those with the institutional and rhetorical resources to challenge the state’s narrative. In this critical juncture, storytelling elites may challenge (1) the bottom-line premise or (2) the sideline elements of the prevailing national narrative. Their narrative strategies, in turn, shape how the terms of the debates are redefined and structured under democracy. I develop this argument through a comparison of “One Korea” and “One China” narratives in postwar South Korea and Taiwan. Using interpretive process tracing of archival and other qualitative data, I find that democracy helped entrench “One Korea” narratives in South Korea but displace “One China” narratives in Taiwan, as new storytelling elites challenged dominant narratives of “oneness” to varying degrees. This resulted in increasingly divergent support for unification as a national objective, with enduring implications for peace.
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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
So over the next few days I want to tell you a little bit about my new @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book about looted art. The book is about art so there are many great pictures! A very short, mini-thread 👇
cover of book "The Art of Status" by Jelena Subotic
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👓 Byunghwan 'Ben' Son @textvulture.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Deadline (7/25) is approaching. If you're interested in a year-long (but w/ light commitment) experience of talking about politics of Korea in a safe online community, this is a great opportunity. While priority is given to junior scholars, ANYONE is encouraged to apply.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 23/07/2025
We live in an era of democratic backsliding. But the terminology of "backsliding" isn't up to the task of making sense of the deep crisis of liberal democracy around the world. I've just finished a working paper that lays out what I think is going on. tl;dr it's about the state and society 🧵
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State, Society, and the Politics of Democratic Backsliding
Recent scholarship on democratic backsliding has focused on measuring its global prevalence and identifying the causal processes and mechanisms that produce or
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
With LDP's defeat today (and a sharper turn to the right in Japan's domestic politics), trade negotiations are about to get even more complicated. Some thoughts on @goodauth.bsky.social about what Trump's tariffs might mean for Japan and South Korea: goodauthority.org/news/trumps-...
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Trump’s tariffs are testing America’s Asian allies.
U.S. tariffs have become a symbol of diminishing U.S. credibility in the region.
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Jennifer Mitzen @jennifermitzen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Please share widely! IR Theory Colloquium (IRTC) 2025-2026 Call for applications / Due July 31 IRTC is a monthly, 90-minute Zoom workshop for early career researchers, aimed at improving theoretical arguments and expanding the IR Theory community. More info below:
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Deadline is now July 25th! @textvulture.bsky.social @jennargibson.bsky.social @edwardgoldring.bsky.social
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Deadline is today! If you’ve got a paper on Korea, consider applying to the fourth cohort of the Korean Political Studies Colloquium (KPSC): textvulture.github.io/presentation...
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 02/07/2025
The @duckofminerva.bsky.social is a International Relations blog with a focus on theory, teaching, and research. I founded it in 2005. It quickly grew to become a cooperative endeavor. It's gone from multiple pieces a day to maybe an article every 2 weeks. But it's still alive and publishing.
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The Duck of Minerva
The Duck Quacks at Twilight
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In South Korea, protest is a ubiquitous and essential form of political expression. Against Abandonment is at once a chronicle of the life-and-death character of protesting precarity in South Korea and a searing examination of repertoires of solidarity for upending injustice www.sup.org/books/as...
Book cover of Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest
by Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han
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Mike Thompson-Brusstar @mthompsonbrusstar.com · 19/06/2025
I made an explorer for some data I OCRd on Chinese organization work and management to '97, largely drawn from《党的组织工作大事记》(1990,1993,1999). mthompsonbrusstar.shinyapps.io/zuzhirenshi/ Might be of interest to the Chinese political science crowd, sinologists interested in the state / party, etc.
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Organization and Personnel (组织人事) Events Browser (1978–1997)
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CSIS Korea Chair @korea.csis.org · 18/06/2025
LIVE NOW | 1:10–2:20 PM ET Panel 2: The Next Generation: The Future of Trilateral Cooperation 🔹 Derek Mitchell 🔹 Adam Farrar 🔹 @eunajo.bsky.social 🔹 @rosenbergerlm.bsky.social 🔹 Ayumi Teraoka 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVnb...
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Gender polarization in SK in one pic. Blue is progressive. Red is conservative. Orange is splinter-conservative.
Screenshot of a exit poll analysis from South Korea's snap election, showing majority support for progressive candidate among women and majority support for conservative candidate among men.
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
South Korea's snap election is tomorrow. It's been an intense 2 months since Yoon's impeachment was finalized. I share some thoughts on what to expect + hope for.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I can't stop thinking about this figure.
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Minwoo Jung @minwoojung.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Lee Ok-sun, a survivor of the Japanese military‘s wartime sexual slavery system known as “comfort women,” has died at the age of 97. Her death leaves only six registered survivors of the officially recognized victims.
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일본군 ‘위안부’ 피해 이옥선 할머니 별세…생존자 6명 뿐
일본군 ‘위안부’ 피해자인 이옥선 할머니가 건강 악화로 별세했다. 향년 97. 여성가족부는 11일 이 할머니가 이날 저녁 8시께 성남의 한 요양병원에서 세상을 떠났다고 밝혔다. 경기 광주시 나눔의집에서 생활해오던 이 할머니는 지난해 3월부터 건강 문제로 요양병원에서 지
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Elif Kalaycioglu @elifkalay.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It's publication day! Take a look if you are curious about the narrative modes through which states pursue world heritage recognition
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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
APSA's travel grants are open NOW and close May 1st! If you are planning to go to APSA, I *highly* encourage you to apply so that you can hopefully offset some costs of attending for yourself. apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
South Korea survived this democratic challenge. What’s next? The impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol is a critical first step in reversing the country’s authoritarian slide. goodauthority.org/news/south-k...
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South Korea survived this democratic challenge. What’s next?
The impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol is a critical first step in reversing the country’s authoritarian slide.
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
What a relief it was to hear such clear common sense, rather than some twisted legal logic. "As the president, he violated his duty to unite the society beyond those who support him."
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ThePeace21 @thepeace21.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
이런 선한 마음이 모여 지금까지 이 나라를 올바르게 지탱해 왔다고 생각한다
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
U.S. academia is all about pedigree. Where you get your PhD determines largely where you can get a job - even at senior level. Many places will hire an Ivy PhD without publications over a non-Ivy with several publications, even though the latter had much fewer resources during PhD period.
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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
New voices join Good Authority! We welcome nine political scientists to our team of experts in our latest cohort of Good Authority fellows. Learn more here: goodauthority.org/news/new-voi...
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Meet our 2025-2026 Good Authority fellows!
We welcome nine new Good Authority fellows for 2025-2026! Meet the new team here.
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Please spread the word: Reminder that, together with @emmylindstam.bsky.social and Joan Ricart-Huguet, we are organising a pre-EPSA workshop on Culture on June 25th at IE University. The deadline to submit papers is next week (Feb 15th). More details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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EPSA Pre-Conference on Culture
We invite submissions for a pre-EPSA workshop on the topic of “Culture”. The event will take place on June 25th, 2025 at IE University Madrid. The study of culture has a long-standing tradition in pol...
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Jessica Chen Weiss @jessicacweiss.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Our inaugural report is live! acf.sais.jhu.edu/getting-chin... @jonasnahm.com @gwbstr.com @pstasiatech.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @marygao1969.bsky.social @saranewland.bsky.social @apiavote.bsky.social Tune in today: video.ibm.com/channel/BvDQ... Full agenda: acf.sais.jhu.edu/getting-chin...
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GETTING CHINA RIGHT AT HOME
Newly established institute at SAIS convenes its first gathering of experts.
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Quentin Bruneau @qbruneau.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Delighted that my first book was awarded the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations! Many thanks to the prize committee and to my friends and colleagues in the Historical IR section at ISA!
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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I wrote about what are & are not climate emergencies today, connecting to @jodemocracy.bsky.social piece with @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social. Also began discussing some of the challenges that @triofrancos.bsky.social posed in her comment about China's planning and the energy transition. Lot's here!
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Resisting the Climate Emergency Sirens
And eco-authoritarian temptations
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2025
cannot overstate the degree to which i am negatively polarized against nimbys. like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically
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Amoz JY Hor @amozhor.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
We found it surprising at how little was written on Emotions and Global Governance, so @jittipm.bsky.social and I wrote this essay for the Oxford Handbook on Emotions and IR (edited by @simonkoschut.bsky.social & @andrewagross.bsky.social) :)
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Here it is: a tribute to Emma Hutchison, my amazing wife and research collaborator. I hope it does justice to the brilliant scholar and the remarkable person she was. Sorry it took me a while after Emma’s passing to gather enough strength to honour her. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...
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Benjamin A. Engel @benjaminaengel.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
In this short reflection article for the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, I focus on the impact of the New Right and election conspiracies among the Korean far right on Yoon's decision to declare martial law. 1/ apjjf.org/2024/12/engel
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Making Sense of South Korea’s Senseless Martial Law Declaration - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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