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International Security is America's leading peer-reviewed journal of security affairs. It provides sophisticated analyses of contemporary, theoretical, and historical security issues. International Security is edited at @belfercenter.bsky.social.
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · Aug 21
This is an intriguing new @intsecurity.bsky.social article on China as essentially a status quo power challenging US assumptions of high aggression

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What Does China Want?
Abstract. The conventional wisdom is that China is a rising hegemon eager to replace the United States, dominate international institutions, and re-create the liberal international order in its own im...
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Liviu Horovitz @liviuhorovitz.bsky.social · Aug 29
A US–USSR limited war was unlikely due to land theater & limited precision, yet US–China tensions, centered on a maritime theater with precision & non-kinetic weapons, make a limited regional nuclear war over Taiwan more likely, argue Henrik Hiim & Øystein Tunsjø @intsecurity.bsky.social 10/10
The U.S.-China Stability-Instability Paradox: Limited War in East Asia
Abstract. With China and the United States seemingly locked in intensifying and enduring competition, many analysts compare today's U.S.-China rivalry with the one between the Soviet Union and the Uni...
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Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · Sep 8
Worth a read
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 20
“What Does China Want?” by @daveckang.bsky.social, Jackie S. H. Wong, and @zenobiachan.bsky.social

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What Does China Want?
Abstract. The conventional wisdom is that China is a rising hegemon eager to replace the United States, dominate international institutions, and re-create the liberal international order in its own im...
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 21d
Great piece on Iraq in this season's issue of @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 28d
New and #OpenAccess in the Summer 2025 issue of International Security — Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy: direct.mit.edu/isec/article... @intsecurity.bsky.social
Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy
Abstract. This article identifies key differences between mainstream and Iraq-based understandings of Islamic State (ISIS) and how it rose to power in Iraq. The conventional wisdom in…
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 21d
Terrific issue. @belfercenter.bsky.social
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 25d
Our journal, International Security, has defined the debate on U.S. national security policy and set the agenda for scholarship on international security affairs for over 40 years. The summer 2025 issue is out now: direct.mit.edu/isec/issue/5... @intsecurity.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
Volume 50 Issue 1 | International Security | MIT Press
International Security | 50 | 1 | August 2025
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 21d
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 21d
Great book on Iraq, which seems to have fallen off the map lately. Read my review, too. @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 23d
Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-3
Roger D. Petersen’s Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention
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“counterinsurgency and military intervention will not go away, despite any US desire to turn away from it” –Jacqueline L. Hazelton
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 20
We hope you enjoy the new issue of International Security!

Summer 2025: direct.mit.edu/isec/issue
Volume 50 Issue 1 | International Security | MIT Press
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 20
“The U.S.-China Stability-Instability Paradox: Limited War in East Asia,” by Henrik Hiim and Øystein Tunsjø

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The U.S.-China Stability-Instability Paradox: Limited War in East Asia
Abstract. With China and the United States seemingly locked in intensifying and enduring competition, many analysts compare today's U.S.-China rivalry with the one between the Soviet Union and the Uni...
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 20
“Access Denied? The Sino-American Contest for Military Primacy in Asia,” by Nick Anderson and Daryl Press

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Access Denied? The Sino-American Contest for Military Primacy in Asia
Abstract. How has the balance of power shifted in maritime East Asia, and what does this change mean for the U.S.-China military competition in the region? We examine these questions by focusing on a ...
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 20
“Keeping Pace with the Times: China’s Arms Control Tradition, New Challenges, and Nuclear Learning,” by Wu Riqiang

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Keeping Pace with the Times: China's Arms Control Tradition, New Challenges, and Nuclear Learning
Abstract. Many scholars assume that classical arms control theory, derived from U.S.-Soviet experiences, is universal. But China—being the weaker party in an asymmetric nuclear relationship—has develo...
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 20
“What Does China Want?” by @daveckang.bsky.social, Jackie S. H. Wong, and @zenobiachan.bsky.social

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What Does China Want?
Abstract. The conventional wisdom is that China is a rising hegemon eager to replace the United States, dominate international institutions, and re-create the liberal international order in its own im...
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 20
Articles from the issue include:

“Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy,” by @drsarahphillips.bsky.social and Daniel Tower

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Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy
Abstract. This article identifies key differences between mainstream and Iraq-based understandings of Islamic State (ISIS) and how it rose to power in Iraq. The conventional wisdom in English-language...
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 20
***Announcement***

The Summer 2025 issue is online!

Read articles by @drsarahphillips.bsky.social and Daniel Tower; @daveckang.bsky.social‬, Jackie S. H. Wong, and @zenobiachan.bsky.social; Wu Riqiang; Nick Anderson and Daryl Press; and Henrik Hiim and Øystein Tunsjø

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Amanda Pearson @pearson-edits.bsky.social · Aug 14
Summer 2025 issue preview! @intsecurity.bsky.social ‪@mitpress.bsky.social‬

Phillips & Tower ➡️ ISIS
Kang, Wong, ‪@zenobiachan.bsky.social‬ ➡️ What does China want?
Wu Riqiang ➡️ China’s views on arms control
Anderson & Press ➡️ Military primacy in Asia
Hiim & Tunsjo ➡️ Limited war in East Asia
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · Aug 14
Summer 2025 issue preview: ISIS, what does China want? China on arms control, military primacy in Asia, limited war in East Asia @daveckang.bsky.social @zenobiachan.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social @intsecurity.bsky.social
International Security Summer 2025 issue preview: ISIS, what does China want? China on arms control, military primacy in Asia, limited war in East Asia
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · Jul 7
@senerakturk.bsky.social's fascinating International Security article, "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe” wins the Outstanding Article Award from APSA International History and Politics Section direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
Abstract. Sizeable Jewish and Muslim communities lived across large swathes of medieval Western Europe. But all the Muslim communities and almost all the Jewish communities in polities that correspond...
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · Jul 7
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · Jul 7
@senerakturk.bsky.social's fascinating International Security article, "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe” wins the Outstanding Article Award from APSA International History and Politics Section direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
Abstract. Sizeable Jewish and Muslim communities lived across large swathes of medieval Western Europe. But all the Muslim communities and almost all the Jewish communities in polities that correspond...
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maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social · Jun 24
Language Machines is out today, can be ordered from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932... - gathering a few parergonal writings below 1/
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Jun 24
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · Jun 24
Live now. The Realist Debate Over How to Respond to China. With @stephenwalt.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/7-t...
7 – The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China | The International Security Podcast
Will China make a bid for regional hegemony in East Asia, and can it succeed? In the modern era, only the United States has achieved regional hegemony—all other attempts have met catastrophic failure....
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · Jun 2
A short piece from the new issue of International Security: "Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia" thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/monks-behavi... Great piece. @intsecurity.bsky.social @pearson-edits.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia
Buddhism is commonly associated with peace, tolerance, and compassion. But like every other great religion, it has a violent side.
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · May 14
7) We hope you enjoy the new issue of International Security!

Spring 2025: direct.mit.edu/isec/issue/4...
Volume 49 Issue 4 | International Security | MIT Press
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · May 14
6) “Lost in Transmission: Bureaucracy, Noise, and Communication in International Politics,” by @doncasler.bsky.social and Tyler Jost.
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · May 14
5) “Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia,” by Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda
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International Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · May 14
4) “The U.S.-China Military Balance in Space,” by Zachary Burdette
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