Sharp review by @jrhuntx.bsky.social of Van Jackson’s new book, Pacific Power Paradox

A History That Needs to Be Retold | Los Angeles Review of Books Vivien Chang reviews Howard W. French’s “The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.”

What a lovely, sharp and deeply engaging review by @vivienlchang.bsky.social this is! Thank you. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-hi...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki offers a sobering reminder of the ironies that define the nuclear age, writes @jrhuntx.bsky.social. bit.ly/45nPVUf

Mexico and the Balancing of Nuclear Perils and Promises in the 1960s Conventional interpretations of the origins of the global nuclear order are incomplete. In the 1960s, the representatives of eighteen countries, including Mexico, drafted the Treaty on the Non-Prol...

Some years ago, @jrhuntx.bsky.social invited me to write a paper on Mexico's role in the NPT design. I delved into the archives and reconstructed the negotiations following the actions of the Mexican delegation. This very empirical paper is now out with Cold War History! doi.org/10.1080/1468...

got some great help from some brilliant folks for this piece, including @theomilo.bsky.social, Jesse Tumblin, Zaynab Quadri, @cmcknichols.bsky.social, Doyle Hodges, and @jrhuntx.bsky.social.

Best books of 2024: Economics Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles

Wow! My book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (@princetonupress.bsky.social), has just been named one of the 'best books of 2024' by @financialtimes.com. Truly honored to be included.

"This book is an excellent counter to contemporary conventional wisdom."

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Recruiting for 2 panels at next June's Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference in DC.

1) roundtable exploring how historians use (or reject) security studies & IR concepts.

2) papers on Pacific Ocean as a geostrategic imaginary/space.

DM if interested or w/ referrals!

I am in a quandry about what to do next relative to nuclear weapons.

We have one enormous problem and action: to preserve the United States as a democracy. Nuclear weapons are a part of that, but not the main part, which is mobilizing the vote.

That leaves little bandwidth for other issues. 1/

Nuclear Fatalism in ‘Oppenheimer’ Is a Dead End The Oscar-winning film leaves out Oppenheimer's hopes for nuclear containment.

I’m in @ForeignPolicy today with a plea that Best Picture “Oppenheimer” not leave audiences with a sense of futility about the Bomb. Please read and share.

“Nuclear Fatalism in ‘Oppenheimer’ Is a Dead End” foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/17/o...

Hey @cherylrofer.bsky.social thanks for the invite! Cooking through all the Twitter exiles on here I feel like I’m reading the “missed connections” section of the old Austin Chronicle. Here’s to recapturing some sanity outside the Elon Cinematic Universe!