Check out my new article with @lee_yaechan92! From contest to convergence in East Asia: why do regional challengers end up resembling incumbent institutions? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today’s action against Harvard is beyond shocking, beyond stupid, beyond illegal, and beyond irresponsible. It is breathtaking to see the government trying to destroy America’s most dominant global industry for such petty and clearly dishonest reasons.

🧵 Today's revocation of Harvard's ability to enroll international is awful for many reasons, chief among them the human cost as @jeremywallace.bsky.social notes. It's also an attack on the US economy. But maybe less obvious: it is terrible national security policy. It makes Americans less safe. 1/

Student visas are being revoked without notice or explanation in the middle of the semester. Students don’t find out that they’re out of status from ICE, so universities need to comb SEVIS every day. You can’t have due process without notice or explanation. The cruelty and uncertainty are the point.

Applications for the Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan program are open! This program is a joint activity of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and #NEHgov. Learn more: ow.ly/xrfN50VcFXX

I’m teaching intro to IR this semester, so I feel an obligation figure out a rationale for what just happened at the White House. Why rational? Because even if Trump himself is not rational or is compromised, he managed to get almost 100% support from GOP and they can’t all be irrational/compromised

Please repost: I've had a couple of inquiries about this search, and I'd like to be clear that we have several areas of need, so the ad's text refers to keywords "Asia/Global History/Technology/Politics/Society." This could include media and technology studies, transnational history, etc. 1/3

Flogging will continue until morale improves.

(LIVE) Vehicles from the Public Prosecutor's Office have arrived to execute second arrest warrant for President Yoon. Police have set up barricades and begun deploying riot police from an hour ago. Riot police consist of 51 units and 3,000 members. - MBC News www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikU-...

HIRING: We are hiring THREE new roles at Korea Risk Group. If you're interested in geopolitics and the Korean peninsula, this is the perfect time to get involved in our mission. Let's go through the roles one-by-one.

My look at Korea-Japan relations after the Yoon coup, for Toyo Keizai Online (English version). toyokeizai.net/articles/-/8...

RIP to Takeshi Inoguchi, a superb scholar and fantastic human being. He was my faculty mentor at Tokyo University in 1992-93 and I saw him occasionally in Tokyo and Cambridge in the years since. And of course I continued to read his work. I will always remember his kindness and sense of humor.

Great overview thread on current state of play. I’m still just gobsmacked.

RISK ANALYSIS: President Yoon Suk-yeol's martial law declaration marks a watershed moment for 🇰🇷 democracy, raising risks of political turmoil + violent unrest. A quick thread on key risk factors and what may happen next... based on my latest at NK Pro: shorturl.at/PuCJx

Let’s hope the vote sticks. It’s unbelievable that Yoon is doing this with no political backing. And who knows which way the army goes. (I don’t expect violence, just questioning whether Yoon will be able to maintain command.) No matter what happens, it will have terrible long term consequences.

Posting info about the UCSD China Data Lab Dataverse. We have several data sets, which can be downloaded after seeking our permission chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/china-data-l...

Less than 24 hours left to apply for our open-rank, open-field position in Japanese Law and Society at Oxford! Details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

books.google.com/books/about/... “Sultanistic regimes, as Juan Linz describes them, are authoritarian regimes based on personal ideology and personal favor to maintain the autocrat in power; there is little ideological basis for the rule except personal power.” Posting for no particular reason…

I spent yesterday starting to inventory a big new batch of USIA reports for digitization, and it took all my willpower not to photograph every page. Here are a few tidbits. From a survey of young men in W Germany, 1951, characterization of Americans versus Russians.

Check out our new article with @lee_yaechan92 and @WilliamNKring “The varieties of financial statecraft and middle powers: assessing South Korea’s strategic involvement in regional financial cooperation” in @ReviewPacific! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This article in the Chronicle is so disturbing. This sort of censorship fails even on its own terms. www.chronicle.com/article/slou...