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Michael De Groot

@mdegroot51.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof of International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington; Cold War international history and geoeconomics; Book--Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2024); Stanford baseball alum

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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Alarming www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks to @kreienbaumj.bsky.social for his careful read and thoughtful review of Disruption
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re gonna be on hold for a while given the number of other customers wishing to make returns too
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Awful in every phase
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Congrats!
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Often overlooked category
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Yes, but Curry is way better at evaluating popcorn
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
He’s modest as well as the goat—the complete package indeed
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Correct answer
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It was always going to be a hagiographic disaster
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H-Net Reviews @hnetreviews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New book review: Mickelson on De Groot, Michael: _Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War_. Cornell University Press, 2024. Published by H-War. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20158273
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De Groot, Michael. Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War. : Cornell University Press, 2024. xii + 307 pp. $53.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781501774119. Reviewed by Nathanael Mickelson (University of Georgia) Published on H-War (August, 2026) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Independent Scholar)
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I've learned so much from the H-Diplo roundtables over the years, and it is a thrill to have such respected historians review my work in this venue. Many thanks to Thomas Schwartz, Aleksandra Komornicka, and László Borhi for their engaging reviews of my book
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Is it this? cup.columbia.edu/book/saving-...
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Saving Apartheid | Columbia University Press
During the 1980s, as global antiapartheid sentiment grew, an international coalition of far-right activists arose to preserve racial hierarchy in South Afric... | CUP
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In celebration of SHAFR, @cornellupress.bsky.social is having a 40 percent off sale + free shipping on many international history books, including my own. Lots of great options! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/our-shafr-20...
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Our SHAFR 2026 Books on Display
In coordination with the SHAFR 2026 Annual Meeting in Columbus, OH, we’ve created this online portal so you can take advantage of the book deals normally only given to physical conference attendees.
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Very grateful to André Steiner for his engaging and generous review of Disruption in the June 2026 issue of Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft:
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I was glad to contribute to the roundtable on Mark Kramer’s excellent book. Perhaps the most interesting part was the news that Kramer will publish *next year* a three-volume series on the Soviet bloc, which promises to set a new standard and should be on everyone’s reading list
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Wildly inappropriate
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thanks! Hope you enjoy it
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Jonas Kreienbaum @kreienbaumj.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Next book to review. I am very much looking forward to reading „Disruption“ by @mdegroot51.bsky.social.
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Tornado warning
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The NBA has been putting up pinball score numbers…not a fan
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Always something to celebrate
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Abandoning NATO, the greatest alliance in history, would be a strategic mistake of epic proportions
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Gritty win with a 10am Pacific start, needed that!
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Second order effect of the Iran war: not just countries hosting U.S. bases reconsidering whether it increases their security.
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Just a reminder that the Washington Treaty defines the geography of NATO’s mutual defense pledge — at U.S. insistence in 1949 — to prevent allies from committing us to their wars outside of Europe.
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Tough pill to swallow today but reason for optimism about the trajectory of the program
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Harry is so bad that I still cringe whenever I see the actor in other roles
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I've written at least two op-eds that are sitting in the mailboxes of editors that may or may not publish them. So here's a preliminary take: "One can believe the regime deserved to fall and still believe this war is a disaster in the making." hedgeofstate.substack.com/p/farce-again
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Farce, Again?
Some preliminary thoughts on the US-Israeli strikes on Iran
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Again, for emphasis: russia has not agreed to ANYTHING. Nearly 100% of the media coverage presents the current situation as: if Ukraine agrees to giving up Donbas, there will be peace. That is not the case! Stop acting as if it were.
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Thomas P. Stephens @tpstephens.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Teaching or researching U.S. history post-45? Join @carrienbaker.bsky.social Scott Laderman, @davidgreenberg.bsky.social and @mdegroot51.bsky.social for a webinar on understanding U.S. history in 1960s–80s. Tomorrow at 5:00 PM Eastern, I'll be moderating! #historians #bskyhistorians #ushistory #oah
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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
After Researching Tenure’s History, Tennessee Lawmaker Drops Bill to End It www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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After Research, Tennessee Lawmaker Drops Bill to End Tenure
Tennessee’s House Higher Ed Subcommittee chair has withdrawn his bill to end tenure in public universities after saying he “stumbled into a little bit of the history” and “got a little deeper than I t...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/02/2026
In Munich "I did not meet a single person of any nationality who thinks that the American-European relationship is returning to business as usual" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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No, It’s Not Back to Business as Usual
Marco Rubio was more civil than J. D. Vance had been, but the message to longtime allies was the same.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 17/02/2026
ICYMI: I feel this didn’t get enough attention because it was published in the runup to the Munich Security Conference, but this open letter by every single US Ambassador to NATO since 1998 (and until the Trump appointee) and all but one SACEURs since 1997 on NATO’s value is worth reading.
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NATO is Vital to U.S. National Security
A joint statement by 16 U.S. Ambassadors to NATO and Supreme Allied Commanders, arguing "NATO is not an act of American generosity. It is a strategic bargain that ensures the United States remains the...
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Congratulations!
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Brutal but fair
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Can’t quite get over the hump yet but still in it
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Really sad to see the news. Playing for 9 was the thrill of a lifetime for me.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Before every meeting or even phone call with Zelinskyy, Trump first calls Putin. That should tell you something. It is a strictly one-way street since he never calls Zelinskyy, EU leaders, or anyone else before talking with Putin. Clearly, Putin's approval matters to him.
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The National Security Archive posted transcripts of Bush/Putin conversations in 2001, 2005, and 2008. Well worth reading. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Archive Lawsuit Opens Vladimir Putin Memcons/Telcons
Washington, D.C., December 23, 2025 - The verbatim transcripts of Vladimir Putin's meetings and telephone calls with U.S. president George W. Bush from 2001 to 2008 opened to the public yesterday as t...
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
HOOSIERS!!!
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
44 percent off @cornellupress.bsky.social books, including my own, with the promo code below. Lots of great choices!
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Book workshops are *fantastic.* Whether or not resources are an issue, the Zoom version (2-3 hours) works incredibly well and makes it much easier for participants to attend. Other book workshop tips 🧵:
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This is an important thread
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30. @conteurohistory.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Managing Editor – Call for Applications
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with framed pictures on it
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with framed pictures on it
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back.
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Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
On behalf of all Giants fans: get it done, Toronto!
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