The American people have their priorities. What are yours?

How LLMs haven't revolutionized IR research (yet)

Contextualizing recent claims with data

What students at my university think about US foreign policy

The most likely outcome, based on the data, isn't US victory

A look at 50 years of public opinion on US foreign policy

Otherwise known as the Olympics

It was as of 2024...

Plotting and comparing trends between WW1 and WW2

The thing bugging me about the Claude-Code-hype for social science

A little counter programming as the world seems to be burning down

Just shut it down and announce it to the world

U.S. belligerence in Venezuela and its threats elsewhere fit with the data (which is potentially not good)

A look at party affiliation and attitudes toward Trump among international students at my university

What metrics offer early warning signs of collapse?

What's the current state of U.S. foreign aid?

What the American seizure of a Venezuelan tanker means for war

Use remains high, but students also don't like it

The United States of America

Data on life satisfaction across the world

One IR scholar's take on AI for writing and research

A sobering reminder that luck, more than anything, may explain the lack of systemic war since WWII

Quantifying the risk of war in South America

The answer depends on how you slice the data.

China gives lots of foreign aid to developing countries. Do they notice?

What factors explain why some countries get more Nobel laureates than others?

The promise of a more data-centric poli sci curriculum

And who doesn't?

Are we entering an era of extreme political violence?

Kind of okay, actually

An R package for adding dyadic and country-level ODA data to {peacesciencer} constructed datasets. - milesdwilliams15/odadata

Making sense of America's escalation against so-called "narco-terrorists"

Yes, a less independent Federal Reserve would be bad

A recent study suggests that personalist forms of rule harm economic growth. Is that true, and should we be worried about the Trump Administration's personalist trajectory?

How I'm handling AI in my undergraduate courses

The current US administration's approach to mediation in the Russia-Ukraine War is an outlier compared to America's approach since World War II

A cool idea, but lackluster based on the data

How can that be?

Yes, yes it does.

A look at survey data on assessments of U.S. troop presence

Can private foreign investors fill the gap left by foreign aid cuts?

Newborn babies have sharper teeth

The simple math of who's winning the geopolitical race for AI dominance

A nerdy take on measuring this important concept

Yes, we can!

It's that no one really cares

A look at trade between the U.S. and BRICS members

As Europe questions U.S. commitments to European security, which country will take the lead?