Bill Wohlforth
@wwohlforth.bsky.social
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Professor of International Relations at Dartmouth.
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Wonderful to get this news!
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In just published book, Jill Kastner & I examine cases of great powers subverting each other over 2000 years. Our usual reaction to claims about subversion is "been there, done that, you're exaggerating novelty." But US unilateral disarmament in subversion game under Trump is truly unprecedented.
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Life, and research on status in IR, goes on. So, you IR scholars who study role of status, check this out!
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🚨 New Special Issue! 🚨
1/ What do opera houses, NATO troops & climate rankings have in common? Mine and @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social's special issue in @coco-journal.bsky.social answers just that: They are all status symbols
📖 Read the full issue (open access!)
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/toc/caca/60/1
Cooperation and Conflict - Volume 60, Number 1, Mar 01, 2025
Table of contents for Cooperation and Conflict, 60, 1, Mar 01, 2025
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What a title! A must read . . .
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This'll be fun!, with Barry Posen, @nathalietocci.bsky.social & @sdestradi.bsky.social . . .
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Are we shifting toward #Multipolarity, #Bipolarity, or a lingering #Unipolar dynamic in global politics? Join ISA and EISA for a joint roundtable on #WorldPower under #Trump & how this complex dynamic impacts alliances, global norms, & stability in #InternationalOrder: https://buff.ly/42CRVIy
A World Order Out of Balance? Power, Populism, and the Shaping of Tomorrow's Global Order. Feb 5, 2025. 11 am (ET). EISA and ISA logos. Background: A golden balance scale with one side holding Earth and the other side empty.
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It was wonderful to work with @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social post doc fellowship alumnus @mpoznansky.bsky.social on this piece . . .
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But "If this incident is part of a larger pattern, than [sic] by all means it should be treated as an egregious affront to academic integrity."
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"War is declining." Oh, wait, that was back in 2010s.
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I've watched US "soft power" dissipating since 1975. And, yet, USA persists.
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new here: what is Polisky?