Matt Castle
@matthewcastle.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington.
https://sites.google.com/site/matthewcastle
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A truly inspirational lecture from Amitav Acharya, 2025's visiting Kippenberger Prof @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social's Centre for Strategic Studies. Fitting end to April 2/3 to hear 5000 years of context for thinking about world order
April 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A truly inspirational lecture from Amitav Acharya, 2025's visiting Kippenberger Prof @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social's Centre for Strategic Studies. Fitting end to April 2/3 to hear 5000 years of context for thinking about world order
This is so crazy
Thoughts with all the trade wonks, portfolio managers and equity analysts who spent the past six weeks trying to come up with a coherent model of reciprocal tariffs. Ah well, never mind.
Wow this is wild.
James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This is so crazy
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Wow this is wild.
James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Wow this is wild.
James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
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He's getting emotional. You can see the delirium setting in.
I want a Thurmond-record countdown clock, C-SPAN! Three hours and 15 minutes to go.
I want a Thurmond-record countdown clock, C-SPAN! Three hours and 15 minutes to go.
Coming up on 20 hours and he is ON FIRE right now. This is not a reading from the phone book kind of filibuster. This a presidential candidate stump speech on steroids kind of speechifying.
OMG. Booker is still going. He started speaking on the Senate floor at 7pm last night and HE'S STILL TALKING about the destructiveness of the Trump administration. Check it out.
www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
April 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
He's getting emotional. You can see the delirium setting in.
I want a Thurmond-record countdown clock, C-SPAN! Three hours and 15 minutes to go.
I want a Thurmond-record countdown clock, C-SPAN! Three hours and 15 minutes to go.
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There was a point in 2019, when everyone was generally not thrilled with their available choices in the Democratic primary, when this version of Cory Booker should have cooked.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
There was a point in 2019, when everyone was generally not thrilled with their available choices in the Democratic primary, when this version of Cory Booker should have cooked.
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Every once in a while, we write articles we truly care about.
This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ:
This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ:
Responding to Unilateral Challenges to International Institutions
Abstracts. How do international institutions respond to unilateral challenges by its member states, such as non-compliance, blocking of reforms, renegotiat
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March 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Every once in a while, we write articles we truly care about.
This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ:
This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ:
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Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise.
How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support?
In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social
paper exploring
Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out
shorturl.at/xgeho
How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support?
In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social
paper exploring
Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out
shorturl.at/xgeho
March 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise.
How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support?
In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social
paper exploring
Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out
shorturl.at/xgeho
How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support?
In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social
paper exploring
Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out
shorturl.at/xgeho
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February 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We are hiring! Come and work in Wellington in a wonderful department stacked with great people.
Search is for IR/strategic studies, focus on Asian IR and/or Asian security. Interest in NZ-Asia or Australia-Asia relations a plus.
Close date 17 March 2025
ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Search is for IR/strategic studies, focus on Asian IR and/or Asian security. Interest in NZ-Asia or Australia-Asia relations a plus.
Close date 17 March 2025
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Media: "Elon Musk stirs debate by changing the logo of X to the swastika, a Hindu glyph symbolizing the sun, prosperity, and good luck."
January 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Media: "Elon Musk stirs debate by changing the logo of X to the swastika, a Hindu glyph symbolizing the sun, prosperity, and good luck."
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As of today I'll be a monthly contributor to World Politics Review. A link to my cheery, super-upbeat column is contained in this post! danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-great-po...
A Great Power War Is Coming
The implicit assumption behind a lot of recent rhetoric.
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January 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
As of today I'll be a monthly contributor to World Politics Review. A link to my cheery, super-upbeat column is contained in this post! danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-great-po...
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Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz – live
Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz – live
Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner last month
Scholz, who is deeply unpopular, will begin the session at 1pm CET with a short speech presenting his reasons for calling…
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December 16, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz – live
Great thread and discussion here
I am increasingly convinced that comparative politics (including especially me) has fundamentally misunderstood contemporary democratic backsliding. We are attending to elections and the rule of law, when the politics is more fundamental, about a vision for the state and society within it 1/x
December 16, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Great thread and discussion here
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Really enjoyed our intense, stimulating, and fun workshop on when, why, and how the accommodation dilemma shapes how the international community deals with noncooperation. Looking forward to co-editing a special issue on this with the wonderful @lisadellmuth.bsky.social!
December 13, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Really enjoyed our intense, stimulating, and fun workshop on when, why, and how the accommodation dilemma shapes how the international community deals with noncooperation. Looking forward to co-editing a special issue on this with the wonderful @lisadellmuth.bsky.social!