Ryan D. Griffiths
@ryan-griffiths.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
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New Books: The Disunited States (Oxford UP, 2025) and Before Colonization (Columbia UP, 2025, with Charles Butcher)
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New Books: The Disunited States (Oxford UP, 2025) and Before Colonization (Columbia UP, 2025, with Charles Butcher)
Great to see this special issue out at International Studies Review. Thanks to Paul Diehl, Gary Goertz, Andrew Owsiak, and Luis Schenoni for putting it together.
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Great to see this special issue out at International Studies Review. Thanks to Paul Diehl, Gary Goertz, Andrew Owsiak, and Luis Schenoni for putting it together.
Conceptualizing and Operationalizing the “Interstate System” url: academic.oup.com/isr/article-...
Conceptualizing and Operationalizing the “Interstate System”
Paul F. Diehl
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December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Thank you! I hope you like it.
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Thank you! I hope you like it.
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Voters lose when maps get redrawn before every election instead of once a decade − a trend started in Texas, moving to California and likely spreading across the country
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David Patterson Soule
Kyle Redican
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David Patterson Soule
Kyle Redican
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Voters lose when maps get redrawn before every election instead of once a decade − a trend started in Texas, moving to California and likely spreading across the country
With a new, mid-cycle redistricting war raging in state after state, the media and politicians focus on which party is winning or losing seats. But are citizens winning or losing in this conflict?
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October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Voters lose when maps get redrawn before every election instead of once a decade − a trend started in Texas, moving to California and likely spreading across the country
@us.theconversation.com
David Patterson Soule
Kyle Redican
theconversation.com/voters-lose-...
@us.theconversation.com
David Patterson Soule
Kyle Redican
theconversation.com/voters-lose-...
My piece in The Conversation:
Polarizing political events are leading Americans to increasingly call for a national divorce
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Polarizing political events are leading Americans to increasingly call for a national divorce
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Polarizing political events are leading Americans to increasingly call for a national divorce
As support for secessionist movements increases, it’s vital that political leaders reduce the divisions that threaten to tear the US apart.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My piece in The Conversation:
Polarizing political events are leading Americans to increasingly call for a national divorce
theconversation.com/polarizing-p...
Polarizing political events are leading Americans to increasingly call for a national divorce
theconversation.com/polarizing-p...
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Check out the latest Campbell conversation where SU Prof Grant Reeher interviews @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social on his new book about these disunited states:
www.wrvo.org/podcast/camp...
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Ryan Griffiths on the Campbell Conversations
Ryan Griffiths, a political scientist at Syracuse University, talks about his new book, "The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work."
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October 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Check out the latest Campbell conversation where SU Prof Grant Reeher interviews @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social on his new book about these disunited states:
www.wrvo.org/podcast/camp...
www.wrvo.org/podcast/camp...
It was a pleasure talking to Grant Reeher on the Campbell Conversations about my new book, The Disunited States.
www.wrvo.org/show/campbel...
www.wrvo.org/show/campbel...
Ryan Griffiths on the Campbell Conversations
Ryan Griffiths, a political scientist at Syracuse University, talks about his new book, "The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work".
www.wrvo.org
October 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It was a pleasure talking to Grant Reeher on the Campbell Conversations about my new book, The Disunited States.
www.wrvo.org/show/campbel...
www.wrvo.org/show/campbel...
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Party like it's 1984! & 1985, 1987, 1989, & 1995!
(If you don't get the joke: these are previous years when the US used the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund to bailout Argentina)
(If you don't get the joke: these are previous years when the US used the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund to bailout Argentina)
Anyway we're bailing out Argentina
October 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Party like it's 1984! & 1985, 1987, 1989, & 1995!
(If you don't get the joke: these are previous years when the US used the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund to bailout Argentina)
(If you don't get the joke: these are previous years when the US used the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund to bailout Argentina)
This article offers an interesting twist on the analogy between national divorce and marital divorce – an analogy that I critique in The Disunited States. The author argues that where California is concerned, the US Government is guilty of “constructive abandonment.”
October 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This article offers an interesting twist on the analogy between national divorce and marital divorce – an analogy that I critique in The Disunited States. The author argues that where California is concerned, the US Government is guilty of “constructive abandonment.”
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We had a rousing conversation about the future of the dollar, the euro, and more at the @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social
Transatlantic Forum on GeoEconomics in Brussels earlier this week. Thanks to Josh Lipsky for leading us.
Watch the full panel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k6w...
Transatlantic Forum on GeoEconomics in Brussels earlier this week. Thanks to Josh Lipsky for leading us.
Watch the full panel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k6w...
October 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We had a rousing conversation about the future of the dollar, the euro, and more at the @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social
Transatlantic Forum on GeoEconomics in Brussels earlier this week. Thanks to Josh Lipsky for leading us.
Watch the full panel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k6w...
Transatlantic Forum on GeoEconomics in Brussels earlier this week. Thanks to Josh Lipsky for leading us.
Watch the full panel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k6w...
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New blog!
The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won’t Work
Read @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social on what a project of American secession would look like, and why America is ill-suited for a peaceful 'national divorce'
Read more: edin.ac/46Tl0jy
The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won’t Work
Read @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social on what a project of American secession would look like, and why America is ill-suited for a peaceful 'national divorce'
Read more: edin.ac/46Tl0jy
The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won’t Work
There is a growing interest in secession, or what some refer to as a national divorce, between Red and Blue America. Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for it on multiple occasion...
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October 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
New blog!
The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won’t Work
Read @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social on what a project of American secession would look like, and why America is ill-suited for a peaceful 'national divorce'
Read more: edin.ac/46Tl0jy
The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won’t Work
Read @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social on what a project of American secession would look like, and why America is ill-suited for a peaceful 'national divorce'
Read more: edin.ac/46Tl0jy
A recent Times/Siena survey found that 64% of Americans think the country is too politically divided to solve its problems. Some might think a division into Redland and Blueland is the answer. It's not. I explain why in this book.
A 2023 Axios poll found that 1 in 5 Americans support a “national divorce” between red and blue states. With polarization rising, is secession a real solution or a dangerous illusion that could tear the country apart?
See more in “The Disunited States” available now: oxford.ly/4nC1zTC
See more in “The Disunited States” available now: oxford.ly/4nC1zTC
October 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A recent Times/Siena survey found that 64% of Americans think the country is too politically divided to solve its problems. Some might think a division into Redland and Blueland is the answer. It's not. I explain why in this book.
I wrote an op-ed about the dangers of a second American civil war.
Commentary: How might future historians explain the events that led to a second civil war? www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
Commentary: How might future historians explain the events that led to a second civil war? www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
Commentary: How might future historians explain the events that led to a second civil war?
More than a dystopian thought experiment, it's a chance to recognize the signs — and change course.
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September 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I wrote an op-ed about the dangers of a second American civil war.
Commentary: How might future historians explain the events that led to a second civil war? www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
Commentary: How might future historians explain the events that led to a second civil war? www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
Thanks. I encourage you to read the book. A constitutional convention is one of the things I discuss.
September 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Thanks. I encourage you to read the book. A constitutional convention is one of the things I discuss.
In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has once again called for a national divorce. But as I argue in a new book, an American divorce would be a violent disaster, and is no solution at all. See www.amazon.com/Disunited-St...
The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work
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September 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has once again called for a national divorce. But as I argue in a new book, an American divorce would be a violent disaster, and is no solution at all. See www.amazon.com/Disunited-St...
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I was at a panel at APSA that discussed this issue. Ryan D. Griffiths just wrote this book about it: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I was at a panel at APSA that discussed this issue. Ryan D. Griffiths just wrote this book about it: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Just started reading The Disunited States by Ryan Griffiths (for an APSA roundtable) about the potential for secession in the US the same day South Carolina troops may be headed to DC.
I don't like this timing.
I don't like this timing.
August 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Just started reading The Disunited States by Ryan Griffiths (for an APSA roundtable) about the potential for secession in the US the same day South Carolina troops may be headed to DC.
I don't like this timing.
I don't like this timing.
Thank you so much for the interest!
August 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thank you so much for the interest!
Wonderful talk with Daniel Moran at New Books Network about The Disunited States.
Here's the link to the podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/the-disunite...
Here's the link to the podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/the-disunite...
Ryan Griffiths, "The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work" (Oxford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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August 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Wonderful talk with Daniel Moran at New Books Network about The Disunited States.
Here's the link to the podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/the-disunite...
Here's the link to the podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/the-disunite...
One takeaway is that there are recurring patterns to how precolonial states ruled over space, independent of the geographic setting.
August 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
One takeaway is that there are recurring patterns to how precolonial states ruled over space, independent of the geographic setting.
Thanks to Kirkus for reviewing my book, The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
THE DISUNITED STATES | Kirkus Reviews
An exploration of the possibility that the U.S. could disintegrate along ideological lines.
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July 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Thanks to Kirkus for reviewing my book, The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
