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International Security is America's leading peer-reviewed journal of security affairs. It provides sophisticated analyses of contemporary, theoretical, and historical security issues. International Security is edited at @belfercenter.bsky.social.

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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Attending APSA? Stop by the MIT Press booth tomorrow, September 4, 4-5:30pm for drinks, nibbles, new magnets, and help International Security celebrates its 50th!
Four stacks of magnets with the International Security logo on a white table in front of a globe squeezy ball and copies of the journal.
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Summer 2026 issue is online! Read articles by @stephenwalt.bsky.social, Mearsheimer, Cederman et al (incl. @andijot.bsky.social, @jwucherpfennig.bsky.social), Sanchez. Plus letters to the editor on studying what China wants. direct.mit.edu/isec/issue/5... @mitpress.bsky.social
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Amanda Pearson @pearson-edits.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Summer 2026 issue preview @intsecurity.bsky.social! 50th anniversary essay | @stephenwalt.bsky.social & J. Mearsheimer Lars-Erik Cederman et al. @ethz.ch | nationalist geopolitics E. Sanchez @ssp-mit.bsky.social l | emerging tech & transparent oceans Plus authors debate “What Does China Want?”
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The new Spring 2026 issue is online! Articles by @eunajo.bsky.social, @jessicacweiss.bsky.social, Rosato, @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social, Ven Bruusgaard, Joshi, @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social, @kerbydavis.bsky.social, Gholz Correspondence on paradigms, realism, Ukraine direct.mit.edu/isec/issue
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Volume 50 Issue 4 | International Security | MIT Press
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
New and #OpenAccess in the International Security Winter 2026 Issue: Deception and Detection: Why Artificial Intelligence Empowers Cyber Defense over Offense direct.mit.edu/isec/article... @intsecurity.bsky.social
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Deception and Detection: Why Artificial Intelligence Empowers Cyber Defense over Offense
Abstract. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to automate key tasks in the life cycle of a cyber operation. Many have predicted that AI will revolutionize cyber conflict by enabling…
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
1) ***Announcement*** The new Winter 2025/26 issue is online! Read articles by Ron Krebs; @janinadill.bsky.social, Emily Myers, and Livia Schubiger; @lmaschmeyer.bsky.social; Joel Brenner; and @johnseverini.bsky.social and Stephen Biddle. direct.mit.edu/isec/issue @mitpress.bsky.social
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Volume 50 Issue 3 | International Security | MIT Press
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
So foreseeable that my amazing former colleague @proftalmadge.bsky.social published this analysis, “Closing Time: Assessing the Iranian Threat to the Strait of Hormuz,” in 2008 in @intsecurity.bsky.social. www.caitlintalmadge.com/uploads/8/5/4/1/85419560/closing_time.pdf
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
1) ***Announcement*** The new Fall 2025 issue is online! Read articles by Marc Trachtenberg, @aaronbateman.bsky.social, @ajmount.bsky.social, Dong Jung Kim, and @mikegoldfien.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/isec/issue @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
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Volume 50 Issue 2 | International Security | MIT Press
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This is an intriguing new @intsecurity.bsky.social article on China as essentially a status quo power challenging US assumptions of high aggression direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
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What Does China Want?
Abstract. The conventional wisdom is that China is a rising hegemon eager to replace the United States, dominate international institutions, and re-create the liberal international order in its own im...
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Liviu Horovitz @liviuhorovitz.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A US–USSR limited war was unlikely due to land theater & limited precision, yet US–China tensions, centered on a maritime theater with precision & non-kinetic weapons, make a limited regional nuclear war over Taiwan more likely, argue Henrik Hiim & Øystein Tunsjø @intsecurity.bsky.social 10/10
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The U.S.-China Stability-Instability Paradox: Limited War in East Asia
Abstract. With China and the United States seemingly locked in intensifying and enduring competition, many analysts compare today's U.S.-China rivalry with the one between the Soviet Union and the Uni...
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Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Worth a read
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Great piece on Iraq in this season's issue of @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Terrific issue. @belfercenter.bsky.social
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
***Announcement*** The Summer 2025 issue is online! Read articles by @drsarahphillips.bsky.social and Daniel Tower; @daveckang.bsky.social‬, Jackie S. H. Wong, and @zenobiachan.bsky.social; Wu Riqiang; Nick Anderson and Daryl Press; and Henrik Hiim and Øystein Tunsjø direct.mit.edu/isec/issue
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Amanda Pearson @pearson-edits.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Summer 2025 issue preview! @intsecurity.bsky.social ‪@mitpress.bsky.social‬ Phillips & Tower ➡️ ISIS Kang, Wong, ‪@zenobiachan.bsky.social‬ ➡️ What does China want? Wu Riqiang ➡️ China’s views on arms control Anderson & Press ➡️ Military primacy in Asia Hiim & Tunsjo ➡️ Limited war in East Asia
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Summer 2025 issue preview: ISIS, what does China want? China on arms control, military primacy in Asia, limited war in East Asia @daveckang.bsky.social @zenobiachan.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social
International Security Summer 2025 issue preview: ISIS, what does China want? China on arms control, military primacy in Asia, limited war in East Asia
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
@senerakturk.bsky.social's fascinating International Security article, "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe” wins the Outstanding Article Award from APSA International History and Politics Section direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
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Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
Abstract. Sizeable Jewish and Muslim communities lived across large swathes of medieval Western Europe. But all the Muslim communities and almost all the Jewish communities in polities that correspond...
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Language Machines is out today, can be ordered from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932... - gathering a few parergonal writings below 1/
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Opinion | Crypto Is a Threat to the U.S. Financial System
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Live now. The Realist Debate Over How to Respond to China. With @stephenwalt.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/7-t...
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7 – The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China | The International Security Podcast
Will China make a bid for regional hegemony in East Asia, and can it succeed? In the modern era, only the United States has achieved regional hegemony—all other attempts have met catastrophic failure....
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A short piece from the new issue of International Security: "Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia" thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/monks-behavi... Great piece. @intsecurity.bsky.social @pearson-edits.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
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Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia
Buddhism is commonly associated with peace, tolerance, and compassion. But like every other great religion, it has a violent side.
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
1) The new Spring 2025 issue is online! Read articles by John Mearsheimer, @stephenwalt.bsky.social , Zachary Burdette, Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda, and @doncasler.bsky.social and Tyler Jost direct.mit.edu/isec/issue/4...
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Jen Spindel @spindel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Wasn't sure if this article would ever see the light of day, but am absolutely thrilled to have an article in the forthcoming Winter 2024/2025 of @intsecurity.bsky.social
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Here is the latest International Security podcast, "Competing Visions of Restraint." @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitp @belfercenter.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social
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5 – Competing Visions of Restraint | The International Security Podcast
At least since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, some scholars and policymakers have called for retrenching the United States’ global military presence. Miranda Priebe and John Schuessler discuss rea...
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New International Security podcast: "Competing Visions of Restraint" @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/5-c...
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5 – Competing Visions of Restraint | The International Security Podcast
At least since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, some scholars and policymakers have called for retrenching the United States’ global military presence. Miranda Priebe and John Schuessler discuss rea...
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Our @intsecurity.bsky.social article is up! @ibkardon.bsky.social & I talk about "security hybridization" - an emerging phenomenon wherein states seek security from China & the US simultaneously, but not symmetrically: direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
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Security without Exclusivity: Hybrid Alignment under U.S.-China Competition
Abstract. This article explores an emerging dynamic in the international system: Countries across the world are engaged in simultaneous security cooperation with both China and the United States. Chin...
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Discover new developments in nuclear proliferation, international relations theory, defense technology, and more in America's leading peer-reviewed journal of security affairs, International Security: direct.mit.edu/isec @intsecurity.bsky.social
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Nick Lindsay @bluenoser2.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Provocative new @intsecurity.bsky.social article from Barry Posen suggests that Russia's invasion of Ukraine fits a well-worn pattern of preventative war in the face of a rapidly shifting security situation. @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
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Putin's Preventive War: The 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
Abstract. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine is consistent with the logic of preventive war. States often initiate wars because they fear the consequences of a shifting balance of military power and...
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
MIT Professor Barry Posen argues that Russia's war on Ukraine likely followed the logic of preventive war as NATO-US cooperation w/ Ukraine increased. 1/2 @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social www.cato.org/multimedia/p...
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Strategic Empathy & the Roots of the Ukraine War
Featuring Barry R. Posen and John Glaser
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Read the "International Security" article. This essay argues "that Vladimir Putin likely viewed Russia's strategic situation through a preventive war frame. @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
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Putin's Preventive War: The 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
Abstract. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine is consistent with the logic of preventive war. States often initiate wars because they fear the consequences of a shifting balance of military power and...
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
In the latest International Security Podcast, MIT's Barry Posen argues that Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in 2022 is consistent with the logic of preventive war. @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
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6 – Putin’s Preventive War | The International Security Podcast
Episode Summary: Why did Vladimir Putin decide to invade Ukraine in 2022? Barry Posen argues that Putin’s decision is consistent with the logic of preventive war. Increasing U.S. and NATO military coo...
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
In the latest International Security Podcast, SSP’s Barry Posen argues that Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in 2022 is consistent with the logic of preventive war. @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Read the original article on weaponized interdependence in @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Great piece. @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I concur. Please do this. @intsecurity.bsky.social
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Amanda Pearson @pearson-edits.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Spring 2025 issue preview! J. Mearsheimer < war & international politics> @stephenwalt.bsky.social <realism and China> Zach Burdette <space> N. Saiya & S. Manchanda <Buddhist violence> @doncasler.bsky.social & T. Jost <noisy negotiations> @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
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John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
I will never recover from this student email.
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