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ISPP @polpsyispp.bsky.social · 6d

ISPP Small Grants are back for 2026! 💡 $50k total available; request up to $5k for research or network/workshop projects. Open to current ISPP members. Proposals due Dec 1, 2025. Selection uses a lottery among proposals that meet all criteria. Apply: ispp.org/funding/smal...

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Andrew Szarejko @szarejko.bsky.social · 7d

It’s publication day 🥳 my book is officially out in the world thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social, and I celebrated by giving it the 6+1 treatment at the @duckofminerva.bsky.social.

Duck of Minerva @duckofminerva.bsky.social · 7d

6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy

What’s the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025). What’s the argument?…

6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy

What’s the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, 2025). What’s the argument? Relations with Native American groups were constitutive of early U.S. foreign policy, and this should make us reconsider the notion that the United States was isolationist in this period.

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 7d

American Conquest by @szarejko.bsky.social is out now!

"This exciting, vital book places the frontier at the center of US foreign policy and forces us to rethink nineteenth-century American foreign relations."
—Eric Grynaviski

www.sup.org/books/politi...

Book cover of American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy by Andrew A. Szarejko

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Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 8d

What should we expect from President Trump’s new executive order on “wrongful detention”? My latest, on @goodauth.bsky.social, explains👇

goodauthority.org/news/trump-w...

Trump wants to punish countries that wrongfully detain U.S. citizens

A new executive order aims to strike back against “hostage diplomacy.”

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 11d

a pretext for an architecture boat tour.

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 11d

Armed border agents’ cruise on the Chicago River have been slammed as a "photo opp" by the area's alderman. blockclubchi.co/47Y4fpx

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 12d

Or the novice who likes to tell you how to do your job.

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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 13d

N. Koreans Residents React Positively to Kim Jong-un's China Visit: 'We Now Stand Shoulder-to-Shoulder with Great Powers' - Propaganda Campaign Begins Immediately www.asiapress.org/rimjin-gang/...

N. Koreans Residents React Positively to Kim Jong-un's China Visit: 'We Now Stand Shoulder-to-Shoulder with Great Powers' - Propaganda Campaign Begins Immediately

When Kim Jong-un attended the 80th anniversary commemoration of victory in the Anti-Japanese War and

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Satoshi Sugiyama @satoshijournal.bsky.social · 13d

WASHINGTON/TOKYO, Sept 24 (Reuters) - U.S. and Japanese officials are making arrangements for a trip by President Donald Trump to Japan next month, according to two government officials and another person briefed on the matter. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Exclusive: Trump poised to add Japan stop to upcoming Asia trip

U.S. and Japanese officials are making arrangements for a trip by President Donald Trump to Japan next month, according to two government officials and another person briefed on the matter.

www.reuters.com

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 14d

Op-ed in The Washington Post by Lee Jun-seok, former presidential candidate who leads South Korea’s Reform Party:

"The recent raid signals that Washington’s interest in the potential benefits of deepening this alliance is lacking."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | How to repair ties after the Hyundai raid

The immigration raid on a Hyundai-LG plant strained ties. Here’s how to get relations back on track.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 14d

Got boosted today!

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 14d

The Illinois Department of Public Health issued an order allowing almost anyone in the state to get the updated COVID-19 vaccine. The state’s protocols are in sharp contrast to the federal guidance issued last week, which declined to recommend the vaccine.
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Illinois health officials recommend COVID-19 vaccine for all adults, contradicting feds

The new guidance follows an executive order signed by Gov. JB Pritzker earlier this month aimed at expanding access for COVID-19 shots and other vaccines across the state.

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 14d

I got a headache from reading the eligibility

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🗞️연합뉴스 속보 봇 @news-bot.bsky.social · 14d

[속보] 李대통령 "교류·관계정상화·비핵화…'END'로 한반도대결 종식"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

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Haeyoon Kim 김혜윤 @haeyoonkim.bsky.social · 16d

"'Without a currency swap, if we were to withdraw $350 billion in the manner that the U.S. is demanding and to invest this all in cash in the U.S., South Korea would face a situation as it had in the 1997 financial crisis,' he said through a translator."

Exclusive: South Korea's President Lee says US investment demands would spark financial crisis

South Korea's economy could fall into crisis rivalling its 1997 meltdown if the government accepts current U.S. demands in stalled trade talks without safeguards, President Lee Jae Myung told Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 17d

MAGA media set their sights on South Korea | Media Matters for America www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...

MAGA media set their sights on South Korea

MAGA media personalities with ties to Trump ally Steve Bannon are holding a conference in South Korea with the goal of starting “a MAGA movement” in Korea called Build Up Korea. As South Korea faced p...

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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 20d

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy's Special Issue on Caste in Indian Diplomacy & IR is out. Edited by Vineet Thakur, Pavan Kumar & Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social @haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social

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Adam Kochanski @adamkochanski.bsky.social · 19d

Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) and I are co-editing a special of Journal of Contemporary East Asian Studies on "#NormContestation and the Politics of #TransitionalJustice in East and Southeast Asia." Please send us your 250-word abstract by Oct 15. CfP below 👇https://www.adamkochanski.com/jceas-cfp

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 20d

FYI for anyone who would like to no longer be on the academia dot edu site 👇

Daniel Feshbach @danielprime.bsky.social · 20d

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:

In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 21d

Poor guy has PTSD

Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 21d

Maybe not, since Trump’s attendance hasn’t been confirmed.

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위성락 "APEC 계기 트럼프·김정은 만남 힘들다…가능성 크지 않아"

한재준 김지현 기자 = 위성락 국가안보실장은 17일 내달 말 경주에서 열리는 아시아태평양경제협력체(APEC) 정상회의를 계기로 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령과 김정은 북한 노동당 총비서가 만날 가능성에 대해 "힘들 것

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 21d

What a way to make the APEC summit in Korea next month awkward for the 🇺🇸 president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21d

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid

When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.

www.forbes.com

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Australian Journal of International Affairs @austjia.bsky.social · 21d

🚨New online! Srdjan Vucetic analyses how various European far right groups view "the Anglosphere". ⬇️ #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations #Politics
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ABSTRACT
Contemporary Europe is witnessing a surge in radical-right leaders, parties, movements and knowledge producers who seek and proclaim a new world order. Consulting texts collected from different media and forms of communication, this paper asks how these actors view 'the Anglosphere, a distinct geopolitical space that challenges seemingly stable 'Western' and 'Euro-Atlantic' identities. 'The' European radical being a kind of empty signifier, the analysis identifies discourses that simultaneously inform and challenge each other. 'National conservatism' treats the Anglosphere as part of a singular Western world - albeit one overwhelmed by the worst excesses of liberalism. 'Anglo-skepticism' constructs the Anglosphere as Other, a blend of America's uninvited imperialism and an Anglo-Saxon civilisation-state. 'Neo-Eurasianism' agrees with 'Anglo-skepticism' on the Anglosphere's fundamental otherness but casts it as an enemy rather than a mere rival. The three discourses suggest contrasting and complementary understanding of international order.
National conservatives aim to morally and politically recast the West. In contrast, Anglo-skeptics and neo-Eurasianists abandon this aspiration, instead emphasising greater 'sovereignty' and
'strategic independence' for Europe. As these previously fringe visions seep into the European political mainstream, they gain significance for the current international reordering.

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 23d

It’s also probably not wise for LJM govt to conclude and announce the tariff investment deal anytime soon amid the salience of the ICE raid in SKorea and as more recounts of poor treatment are being shared in the media. In short, the ICE raid is both unfortunate and a good wakeup call for Seoul.

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 23d

Meanwhile the ROK Presidential Office is “open” to accepting the 25% tariff rate instead of going with the $350 billion investment it promised as the two govts continue to work out profit-sharing. The ICE raid has probably given Seoul more reason to reconsider the investment. naver.me/Ge4NfOnO

[단독] 정부, '25% 관세 감수' 여지에 "모든 가능성 열려 있어"

한미 관세협상 후속 협의가 교착 상태에 놓인 가운데 정부 내부에서 '25% 관세 감수' 가능성도 여러 옵션 중 하나로 고려되고 있는 것으로 전해졌습니다. 정부 고위 관계자는 오늘(14일) 연합뉴스TV 통화에서 미측의

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 23d

Some see Landau’s comment on regret as aimed at pacifying Koreans, but these groups have been assembling outside the US embassy long before the raid. They could capitalize on the recent raid, but hard to say if the raid had shifted views toward the US and the alliance among moderate/centrist Koreans

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