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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’ll be on WFXR tonight at 6:30 and 10:00 talking Iran peace MOU!

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Really enjoyed working on the project on AI sycophancy with a great, interdisciplinary group of colleagues! rhetaicoalition.substack.com/p/ai-sycopha...

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AI Sycophancy: Foundations, Challenges, and a Theoretical Intervention

A RhetAI Coalition research challenge deliverable

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Excited to be heading back out to the Los Angeles area on April 28th to give a talk on our current book project, Unraveling.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Heading to California later this month to participate in the Alpha Persuade Summit at UC Irvine. Very different environment, but should be exciting!

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

More interviews tonight: WRIC/ABC in Richmond and 13 News Now in Norfolk.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I’ll be on this evenings WFXR Roanoke and WSET Lynchburg news broadcasts discussing the conflict with Iran.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

For those in the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area, just finished an interview on Iran that should feature on the NBC/WAVY morning news tomorrow.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Some longer form thoughts about the tragedy happening in a place so dear to my childhood - and people trying to point fingers. I want to thank @texasinafrica.bsky.social and some of her posts/responses for inspiring/motivating me to sit down and get these thoughts on digital paper.

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The Texas Flood — J. Patrick Rhamey Jr.

I've gotten questions from people about how this terrible flooding was even possible, and I've seen some despicable finger-pointing and misinformation on social media by those who have no familiarity ...

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

When you live somewhere and disaster strikes, it makes no sense to pretend it isn’t personal. For me, there’s no other way to process terrible things than to make journalism. To my friends from home who went to Camp Mystic and Heart O' the Hills — this is for you. thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/05/c...

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‘Goodnight, Camp Mystic. We Love You.’: A 100-Year-Old Community Honors Its Missing & Dead Girls

Fifteen children are dead and 27 girls are still missing amid devastating floods in Texas. “I’m holding onto the love and light that Mystic gave us, even in the darkest night,” one former camper said....

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I spent a lot of time growing up on the Guadalupe. I was married on its shores just half a mile from Camp Mystic. It’s a wonderful place, with wonderful people, who have suffered an unimaginable tragedy. Please do what you can.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It’s a cruel irony that I wrote about the death of American soft power just before the passing of Joe Nye. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/joseph-nye...

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Joseph Nye, R.I.P.

Nye developed the concept of "soft power" -- but he did so much more.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Tonight my kids decided to play congress. To avoid bedtime, my five year old spoke for 58 minutes. Thanks, @corybooker.com, thanks.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Farewell to Brandon Valeriano. Just taught his work on cyber today. Going to conferences just won’t be the same.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

UN General Assembly vote on A/79/L.54: Declaring July 12 the International Day of Hope to "enhance peace, tolerance and social stability, respect for diversity and mutual respect, and create...an environment conducive to well-being, peace and mutual understanding."

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

One of the more perplexing things I find about neorealists is that despite their complete reliance on power as a causal variable, they are often rendered totally incapacitated if you ask them how to measure it.

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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Hegemonic suicide strategy

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Farewell ISA - so great to see old friends, particularly given all the current things, and experience well-deserved distinguished scholar panels for Birol Yesilada, Jacek Kugler, and Pat James!

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

As I said, he played it beautifully. To the neorealists criticizing Zelenskyy: I know Mearsheimer made neorealism synonymous with Putinism in the popular consciousness, but that doesn't mean the rest of you neorealist think tankers have to become tankies.

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Western allies rally around Zelensky after Trump spat deepens rift with Europe | CNN

Western leaders came out to back Ukraine after Friday’s acrimonious meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky deepened the already yawning fault lines between Washington and many of its key ...

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Watching the neorealists attack Zelenskyy for yesterday is shocking. Z handled it beautifully. It was an obvious ambush, and Trump has no intention of helping Ukr. Standing up to the pathetic attempt at bullying gained him enormous cred with those who will actually continue to come to his aid.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Coyne argues Ukraine is a more reliable ally than the US because of ideas, not that it is stronger. What good is strength if the ally doesn't come to your aid? But why is the US unreliable? Because ideas peddled by "neorealist" scholars have leaked into the Trump administration. Not power.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Illustration of yesterday's UN resolution on a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine. 93 In Favour 18 Against 65 Abstain

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Great powers capitulating to declining powers is certainly new one.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Oh come on. I was a city council member of a 5k population town, and I got death threats. Grow a spine, you’re a United States Senator.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Inspiring talk tonight by @avalaina.bsky.social! “Unpunished evil grows.”

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Academic friends outside the US: what are the main job posting sources for positions in your country? I like to keep an eye on apsa and chronicle, but non-US postings there are usually limited to only the largest research universities.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Very excited to announce that Oleksandra Matviichuk, whose organization the Center for Civil Liberties was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, will be speaking at VMI next week! Details below: www.vmi.edu/news/headlin...

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2024-2025: Nobel Laureate Speaks at VMI - VMI News

Virginia Military Institute welcomes Oleksandra Matviichuk, Ukrainian lawyer and global human rights defender, Monday, Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. in Gillis Theater. The event is free and open to the public.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I talk extensively about this both in the conclusion to Kugler and I’s textbook and my new edited volume with Bakich. Tl;dr - offshore balancing is a disaster.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Thrilled to have a physical copy of this project in hand. So many great contributions that could not be more timely given the events of this past week.

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Alexander Lanoszka @lanoszka.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Trump might yet throw Ukraine under the bus, but Biden's sin was to create the conditions to make that possible.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Nate Silver would have failed my undergraduate methods course.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

At Power Lines - Kang, Kugler, and Zeng talk deterrence and avoiding nuclear war. trcacademic.substack.com/p/averting-n...

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Averting Nuclear War

Kyungkook Kang, Jacek Kugler, and Yuzhu Zeng

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

"Professors are all radical Marxists" is the kind of take that makes sense if you haven't met a college professor since 1971 or base your opinions on professors from movies. The modal faculty member's platonic ideal of a politician is like, Tim Kaine. Mayor Pete's a bit too far left for them.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 02/10/2024

When my kids call me out in the middle of one of my rants

the rules were you guys weren't going to fact check!

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Never have two people in a twitter fight deserved each other more.

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Patrick Rhamey @patrickrhamey.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Not only do we exist, but there are so many more of us. Not to be intimidating, but you are woefully outnumbered.

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