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Nick Kitchen

@nickkitchen.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in International relations at University of Surrey. IR theory, great power politics and net assessment.

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Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org · 01/05/2026
What’s the best way to assess a nation’s power? Quantitative rankings can be misleading, says @nickkitchen.bsky.social. See the first paper in Carnegie’s new Future of American Power project for what analysts can turn to instead: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
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Methods of National Power Analysis: Pitfalls and Best Practices
Power assessments shape our perceptions of the limits of the possible, but quantitative rankings and dashboards can provide false confidence.
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
New Article Alert! “If You Build It, They Will Come.” Infrastructure, Hegemonic Transition, and Peaceful Change, with Simon Curtis is out in @gsqjournal.bsky.social. Thanks to the team there for a really smooth review process. doi.org/10.1093/isag... (1/)
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“If You Build It, They Will Come.” Infrastructure, Hegemonic Transition, and Peaceful Change
Abstract. Hegemonic transition is typically associated with major power war. Relatively neglected is its association of systemic change with shifts in mate
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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American Foreign Policy Is Being Run by the Dumbest Motherfuckers Alive
The fuckwittery on display right now by Trump's foreign policy team boggles the mind.
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New piece out! Thread coming on it soon (with added Costner references), but if you can’t wait, click away, it’s open access!
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The thing about Europe's challenges is that, despite Russian aggression, US abandonment, rise of radical right, it looks increasingly attractive in comparison to totalitarianism in China, bankrupt authoritarianism in Russia, and nakedly corrupt oligarchy in the US. Come along and join the debate!
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This ‘agreement’ is less substantive than almost any international accord I’ve ever read. There’s almost nothing in it that constitutes a commitment by either party. on.ft.com/4ihKjzH US-Ukraine minerals deal: the full text
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US-Ukraine minerals deal: the full text
The terms of the bilateral agreement between Kyiv and Washington
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Centre for Britain and Europe @cbesurrey.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
We are pleased to confirm our keynote speakers for the Challenges to Europe-European Challenges Conference: @exadaktylos.bsky.social and @nickkitchen.bsky.social Meanwhile, if you are interested in presenting, abstract submission is open until 20th Jan! More updates to come!📬
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
.@thepriceoffootball.bsky.social given the reports of utd being prepared to sell mainoo for PSR reasons, is there a case for making homegrown first team player wages deductible for PSR? How much impact would that have on FFP at Mainoo levels? Or Rashford? @nqatpod.bsky.social
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Another great piece from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on "Inequality hasn’t risen. Here’s why it feels like it has" www.ft.com/content/b325...
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I read right through, and though I initially went ‘Stephen, what are you doing?’ I didn’t feel the need to do anything other than go, hey, this is fun, Bluesky. Love Jurassic Park, love all its silliness.
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Roll up! Great opportunity to present work on all things Europe - from populist politics to the Western alliance. I'll be giving a keynote entitled 'Sleeping with a stricken elephant' but don't let that particular imagery put you off - get your abstracts in!
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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
It was MOOCs 15 years ago. Now, it's AI. Wonder what silver bullet the higher-ed consultants and tech set will offer next that will simultaneously lower standards for students and increase workloads for instructors.
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
How utterly ridiculous. There’s upholding standards in public life, and god knows they’ve been poor over the past few years. but having to resign for a spent conviction, already disclosed to your boss when he appointed you, is absurd. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Louise Haigh resigns as UK transport secretary after admitting phone offence
Haigh tells PM she is ‘totally committed’ but leaves role after incorrectly telling police a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Very good 😂 But also, check out how much regular inflation expectations have changed.
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It would be much more helpful to most readers if we just said ‘purged’.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
New data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland. The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.
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Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Putin has staged another performance concerning the "missile": kremlin.ru/events/presi.... He bragged about the specs and promised to start serial production. A master bullshi**er, he delights in intimidation. You can tell from his demeanor here that he thinks his tactic has worked.
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Совещание с руководством Минобороны, представителями ВПК и разработчиками ракетных систем
Президент провёл совещание с руководством Министерства обороны, представителями ВПК и разработчиками ракетных систем.
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Amorin’s physical performance coach has a PhD in hamstring injury prevention. Good news for Mason Mount? Not so fast: sadly, Paulo Barreira’s research failed to identify significant differences between study and control groups @nqatpod.bsky.social researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/57...
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
IR is the child of the science of imperial management: Foreign Affairs started life as the journal of race development, and it remains focused on imperial powers, with ‘development’ - the white man’s civilising burden - hived off to a strange coterie of enabling post-anti-imperialists 🤷‍♂️
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Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Rivals reminds me of the only fallback idea I ever had if academia didn’t work out: a jodhpur-based posh porn site called the horsebox. What? You’re all watching it already.
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I set this up a while back, but the most recent exodus prompted me to re-share. If you want to be added, let me know.
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