International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Attending 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! 0101
International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The 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.socialdirect.mit.eduVolume 51 Issue 1 | International Security | MIT Press 175
Reposted by International SecurityAmanda Pearson @pearson-edits.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Summer 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?” 246
International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 04/06/2026The 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/issuedirect.mit.eduVolume 50 Issue 4 | International Security | MIT Press 1123
Reposted by International SecurityMIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 18/03/2026New 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.socialdirect.mit.eduDeception and Detection: Why Artificial Intelligence Empowers Cyber Defense over OffenseAbstract. 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… 0113
International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 11/03/20261) ***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.socialdirect.mit.eduVolume 50 Issue 3 | International Security | MIT Press 130
Reposted by International SecurityElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 11/03/2026So 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.pdfcaitlintalmadge.com 14413
International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 28/10/20251) ***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.socialdirect.mit.eduVolume 50 Issue 2 | International Security | MIT Press 164
Reposted by International SecurityBoyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 21/08/2025This 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...direct.mit.eduWhat 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... 011
Reposted by International SecurityLiviu Horovitz @liviuhorovitz.bsky.social · 29/08/2025A 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 10/10direct.mit.eduThe U.S.-China Stability-Instability Paradox: Limited War in East AsiaAbstract. 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... 032
Reposted by International SecurityOsmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Worth a read 085
International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Great piece on Iraq in this season's issue of @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social 000
International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Terrific issue. @belfercenter.bsky.social 000
International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 17/09/2025@drjlhazelton.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social 001
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/issuedirect.mit.eduVolume 50 Issue 1 | International Security | MIT Press 141
Reposted by International SecurityAmanda Pearson @pearson-edits.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Summer 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 084
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Summer 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 0114
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline 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...direct.mit.eduNot So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western EuropeAbstract. 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... 195
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 07/07/2025@mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social 022
Reposted by International Securitymaybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Language Machines is out today, can be ordered from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932... - gathering a few parergonal writings below 1/ 511928
Reposted by International SecurityHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 24/06/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Crypto Is a Threat to the U.S. Financial System 1356
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Live 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...international-security.simplecast.com7 – The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China | The International Security PodcastWill 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.... 054
International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 02/06/2025A 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.socialthereader.mitpress.mit.eduMonks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in AsiaBuddhism is commonly associated with peace, tolerance, and compassion. But like every other great religion, it has a violent side. 094
International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 14/05/20251) 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...direct.mit.eduVolume 49 Issue 4 | International Security | MIT Press 133
Reposted by International SecurityJen Spindel @spindel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Wasn'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 5296
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Here is the latest International Security podcast, "Competing Visions of Restraint." @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitp @belfercenter.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.socialinternational-security.simplecast.com5 – Competing Visions of Restraint | The International Security PodcastAt 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... 056
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025New International Security podcast: "Competing Visions of Restraint" @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/5-c...international-security.simplecast.com5 – Competing Visions of Restraint | The International Security PodcastAt 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... 021
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 23/02/2025@intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social 033
Reposted by International SecuritySheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Our @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...direct.mit.eduSecurity without Exclusivity: Hybrid Alignment under U.S.-China CompetitionAbstract. 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... 152
Reposted by International SecurityMIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Discover 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 011
Reposted by International SecurityNick Lindsay @bluenoser2.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Provocative 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...direct.mit.eduPutin's Preventive War: The 2022 Invasion of UkraineAbstract. 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... 011
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 26/03/2025MIT 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...cato.orgStrategic Empathy & the Roots of the Ukraine WarFeaturing Barry R. Posen and John Glaser 022
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Read 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...direct.mit.eduPutin's Preventive War: The 2022 Invasion of UkraineAbstract. 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... 021
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025In 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.socialinternational-security.simplecast.com6 – Putin’s Preventive War | The International Security PodcastEpisode 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... 015
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025In 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 113
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Read the original article on weaponized interdependence in @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social 064
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025@intsecurity.bsky.social 011
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Great piece. @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social 042
Reposted by International SecurityJacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 07/05/2025I concur. Please do this. @intsecurity.bsky.social 011
Reposted by International SecurityAmanda Pearson @pearson-edits.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Spring 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 0169
Reposted by International SecurityJohn Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social · 27/11/2023I will never recover from this student email. 37993822331