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Great power competition turned collusion; international order and disorder; things that go boom.

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segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Next steps! Beyond honored to join this faculty, and especially grateful to the work of past directors (including the venerable @profsaunders.bsky.social www.sipa.columbia.edu/news/stacie-...
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Stacie Goddard Named Director of SIPA’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
A renowned political scientist, Goddard brings expertise in great power politics and international order to SIPA’s leading research institute on strategic studies.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Coming soon to a legislature near you iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Iran War Energy Cost Tracker
Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
You can tell it's Victory for USA because now everyone has to coordinate with the Iranian military to have the ability to transit the Strait of Hormuz
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else? Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.
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segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"There are dozens of us. DOZENS!!!"
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Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Never has so much US combat power been assembled with so little explanation to the public, allies, or Congress regarding why or how it will be used. Never.
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segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A fabulous project at an urgent moment. Gratitude to @profsaunders.bsky.social and her students for organizing!
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Barbara F. Walter @barbarafwalter.com · 26/01/2026
Research has shown that the fastest way to radicalize a population is to use brutal force against innocent people. It's happening in real time in MN and never ends well for the government. I've written about it here:
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The Strategies of Terrorism
Abstract. Terrorism is designed to change minds by destroying bodies; it is a form of costly signaling. Terrorists employ five primary strategies of costly signaling: attrition, intimidation, provocat...
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segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Also, please feel free to invite Mitt Romney and any other national U.S. political figure from the last 20 years.
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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I’ll say it. The NFL should postpone tomorrow’s championship games. When there is a masked secret police force killing peaceful protesters and observers in the streets, it’s time to take the biggest, sturdiest, and loudest stands.
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segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
When I teach "The End of History," this is the part my students focus on. The boredom. The search for meaning. And the chaos that might produce.
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segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Greenland is not about "spheres of influence," if we understand that term in the traditional great-power-competition-maximize-state-security sense. If we see the emerging order as composed of exceptional cliques seeking domination and extraction, it makes more sense. @abenewman.bsky.social
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segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It's not a world that we want, but failing to name Trump's vision makes it more likely to happen. @goodauth.bsky.social @iojournal.bsky.social
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segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Honored to be part of this effort to think about the future of world order. Slightly depressed that @abenewman.bsky.social and I see neo-royalism as a possible direction. #IOFoGG, @iojournal.bsky.social
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