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Miles Kahler

@mileskahler.bsky.social

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Global politics and governance, contemporary and historical. American University SIS and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Gardening, travel, hiking. Opinions my own. Re-posts do not = endorsement.

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · 9d

US bailout of Argentina in question. Is a US promise to do "whatever it takes" credible from this administration? Especially with anger of US soybean interests over a bailout of one of its competitors. If additional IMF resources are required, will Europe and Japan go along?
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Argentine assets hit by fresh selling amid worries over US bailout

Peso, stocks and bonds all fall as investors fret over lack of details from Washington on rescue plan

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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Stacie B. Dusetzina, American Library Association , and 10 more Anna O. Law, Stacie B. Dusetzina, American Library Association, Miles Kahler, Sanford F. Schram, Daniel W. Drezner, Jonathan Hopkin, Melanie C. Green, David R. Miller, McKenzie Wark, Susan Strasser, Dana Schmalz, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 6

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House:

Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · Sep 6

Check out the MASSIVE crowd in DC marching to the White House to protest the federal takeover of the city!

#FreeDC!

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Sep 4

We ought to think about #AI as a #humanrights issue.

💬 Sep. 16, I will be back in Toronto to give the Frank W. Woods lecture at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.

Come join us! Registration and info here👇
munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/we-dat...

#bigdata #humanrights #wethedata

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Benjamin Faude @benjaminfaude.bsky.social · Sep 1

Please join us for the launch of our E&IA Roundtable: 'Global Governance in Hard Times.'

Presentations: Faude+Karlsrud; @yoramhaftel.bsky.social & @stephofmann.bsky.social; @ninareiners.bsky.social; Julia Morse; @mstephen.bsky.social.

Comments: @hbirk.bsky.social; @tsommerer.bsky.social.

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yet another way that citizens can push back against a presidential power grab in their city: serve on grand juries and refuse to indict.

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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · Aug 18

My Trade Secrets today. India's east Asian-style goods export model has taken a bit of a battering from Trump, and it's not entirely clear what will replace it.

Also, the UK brouhaha over age verification for online porn shows that deregulation is tougher than it looks.

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India struggles to escape the Trump tariff trap

Narendra Modi’s push for the country to become a low-cost goods exporter has made it vulnerable

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Aug 15

Easy to miss, with Alaska and DC news, but the Trump admin has sided with autocratic petrostates to block a treaty on plastic pollution. One delegate described the US position as "more regressive than the Saudis."
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UN plastics treaty talks fail after US joins petrostates in blocking action

Delegates criticise role of Trump administration in siding with Saudi Arabia and other petrochemical producers

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Aug 14

Cat Stevens and the Pet People

Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Aug 14

Like other major cities, inequality is the core problem: highest per capita income ($78,479) but also a poverty rate above the national average (which is too high). Even so, poverty rate is below many red states (starting with Alabama and continuing through WVA). Stats from Chronicle of Higher Ed.

Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Aug 14

A reminder from the hellscape described by Trump (my city-state of DC): compared to 50 states, highest percentage of BA degree holders (26.9%); highest (by far) of PhDs (10.4%).

Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks, Cullen. Look forward to reading your latest WP from @piie.com.

Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Aug 1

I have left the @cfr.org Studies program to join the Global Order and Institutions Program @carnegieendowment.org. Look forward to working with Stewart Patrick and @carnegieendowment.org colleagues on the urgent agenda of sustaining multilateral cooperation and reforming global institutions.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · Mar 14

🧵 Friends, a thread speaking just for myself. I joined Columbia in Jan 2024. A lot I still don't know, but some is crystal clear. Most important is what's not in the news: Columbia students and faculty show great capacity for respectfully and thoughtfully engaging difficult topics every day. 1/

Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · Mar 14

Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · Mar 14

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

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Reposted by Evelyne de Leeuw, Antje Wiener, Nicolas Véron , and 10 more Evelyne de Leeuw, Antje Wiener, Nicolas Véron, Miles Kahler, Hungary, Patricia Owens, Joost Vervoort, Howard Stevenson, Mark Robinson, Sébastien Chauvin, Alexandra Kemmerer, Rodríguez Fernández, Carlos Carroll

Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · Jun 28

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Jun 20

My entry in an earlier Iran debate,,about JCPOA. Despite opposition to the regime, Iranian views probably remain the same: widespread support for a national nuclear program (not a nuclear weapon). Argument against harsher sanctions then and military action to dislodge the regime now.

Iran, Sanctions, and the Illusion of a Better Bargain

Even the most vehement critics of the Obama administration’s agreement curbing Iran’s nuclear capabilities, among them Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · May 28

Electoral meddling again: Trump cabinet member supporting an illiberal presidential candidate in an allied democracy. After the Trump administration has targeted major instruments (USAID, VOA) that undermine authoritarian regimes.
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Noem urges Poles to elect Trump ally as CPAC holds its first meeting in Poland

The Conservative Political Action Conference, a U.S. group that seeks to spread conservative ideas worldwide, is holding its first meeting in Poland, where the second round of a presidential election ...

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · May 27

The Hives of Others

Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · May 27

Surely there will also be a few shares for the Trump family as well, you know, as a kind of commission?

Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · May 14

I am sure that many Afghans, Venezuelans, and others would be pleased to have tenured professorships in Canada at this moment. I suspect they will offer much advice on resistance from their perches across the border.

Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · May 10

Much-touted UK "trade deal" is a "concept of a deal." Summary confirms what all trade experts know: the devil is in the details. For aspiring Range Rover and Mini owners, 10% tariff remains on cars exported under quota--better than North American imports (as US automakers notice).
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The unanswered questions over Donald Trump’s trade deal with Britain

Pact lacks clarity in many crucial areas, say trade experts and industry bodies

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · May 5

Clear "Trump effect" in Australia and Canada, boosting center-left. Trump remains unpopular in UK, yet Trump-style appeal of Reform/Farage leads to big gains in local elections. Less perceived threat from Trump in UK? Or protest vote in local elections, with no risk of Reform national government?

First Canada, Now Australia: The Trump Factor Boosts Another World Leader in an Election

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was returned to power in an election Saturday, the latest left-leaning leader to achieve a comeback victory thanks partly to President Trump.

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · May 1

So Waltz is not fired, just exiled to a cold, unfriendly, distant place, which will describe the UN for the next few years.

Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · May 1

Waltz firing recalls The Mirror and The Light: embarrassed the king (Anne of Cleves for Cromwell; Signal for Waltz), and then enemies in the court move in for the kill (literally for Cromwell; not so serious for Waltz). Does not end well for several of those Henry VIII courtiers; in Trump's case?

Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · May 1

An iPhone is a very sophisticated device, but this dissection demonstrates why disentangling supply chains and moving manufacturing back to the US is such a pipe dream.
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Why Trump can’t build iPhones in the US

The administration wants the iPhone to be manufactured in America. The components that power it show why that is highly impractical

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Apr 29

I defer to Canadian election experts, but these results indicate a lot of strategic voting on the left, especially prior NDP voters. As well as a sad reflection on the US 2024 election: what would have been the equivalent scare to convince stay-at-home Dems to turn out? We had Trump, after all.

Canada Election 2025 Live Results and Map: Carney and Liberals Win

Canadians are heading to the polls today to elect their members of Parliament. First polls close at 7 p.m. Eastern.

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Apr 23

Recently read All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren. Based on Huey Long, one of the greatest US novels about politics. Story of populist Willie Stark and his journalist-fixer Jack Burden definitely resonates today. Streamed 1949 film of same; won 3 Oscars, even darker than the novel.

Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Apr 16

Looks like Australia is following Canada: a Trumpy right-wing leader is losing ground to Labour. The Trump brand does not seem to be playing well internationally (or increasingly in the US?).
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Rightwing challenger Peter Dutton’s ‘anti-woke’ drive loses ground with Australian voters

Opposition leader has taken a hit from comparisons with Donald Trump in run-up to election

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Miles Kahler @mileskahler.bsky.social · Apr 9

If you are not alarmed by current events: Martin Wolf in the pages of the very mainstream FT:
"The debate over whether to take Trump literally or seriously is over. His administration is engaged in a comprehensive assault on the American republic and the global order it created."
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Trump’s tariffs will damage the world

The trade deficits will remain roughly unchanged — the globe will just end up poorer

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · Apr 8

The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions in 14 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, & Yemen. The World Food Program calls it a ‘death sentence’

These life-saving programs, some of the last humanitarian aid to these countries, were being canceled “for the convenience of the US Government”

The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a 'death sentence'

The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them stru...

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