For those attending @apsa.bsky.social save the date for the Int'l Collaboration section meeting! We will honor award winners, take care of a bit of business, and connect with our great community. The meeting will be Friday, September 12 from 6:30 - 7:30, Location still TBA.

The Distinguished Mentor award goes to Christina Schneider ‪‪@cjschneider.bsky.social‬ ‬, University of California, San Diego.

The honorable mention for Outstanding Dissertation goes to @kofi1.bsky.social bsky.social‬, Resisting Assistance: How External Financiers Influence IMF Bailout Requests, Ph.D. Oxford University

The Outstanding Dissertation award goes to Averell Schmidt, Essays on the Politics of International Law, Ph.D. Harvard University

Honorable mention for Outstanding Book goes to Geoff Wallace, International Law and the Public, Cornell University Press, cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

The Outstanding Book Award goes to Clara Park, Making Financial Globalization: How Firms Shape International Regulatory Cooperation, Oxford University Press, global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Honorable mention for Best Article: @llschenoni.bsky.social, Gary Goertz, Andrew Owsiak, and Paul Diehl, “The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas,” International Studies Quarterly, doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

Outstanding Article Award: @iasmingoes.bsky.social and Terry Chapman, “Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?” International Studies Quarterly, doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

Kudos!

Honored to contribute to this stellar special issue.

We have travel grants of $500 for grad students going to APSA. Please apply using the following link: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...

In this article, Simone Dietrich, @danieladonno.bsky.social, @katefleiner.bsky.social sky.social & Alice Iannantuoni underscore the importance of treating gender mainstreaming as a distinct category of assistance whose application is attuned to domestic implementation problems. tinyurl.com/sqaf033

Excited for this come out, in a tumultuous time for foreign aid.

It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.

Grateful that @h-diplo.bsky.social published a roundtable on “Monitors and Meddlers” today - the book that @laurenrprather.bsky.social I published in 2022 issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJI...

Trade wars are accelerating the decline of international economic governance. But instead of collapsing, global trade institutions are lurching forward in a zombie-like state. What happens next? Julia Gray describes our coming era of half-dead internationalism

Reminder deadline March 3. Please submit nominations and self-nominations!

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

I completely missed that Republicans introduced a bill to increase the endowment tax from 1.4% to 21%. If passed, Harvard would go from paying ~$35m to $525m/yr in federal taxes (that’s 8.2% of its current operating expenses)

Does legitimacy really matter for IOs? A question of extensive assumption and disagreement. We provide the first elite experimental evidence of legitimacy’s effect👇

New work on legitimacy and IOs by @tsommerer.bsky.social and @jonastallberg.bsky.social published in the @thejop.bsky.social. Full article here: doi.org/10.1086/735474

Some strategists think Dems shouldn't defend USAID because foreign aid is unpopular But this @goodauth.bsky.social piece shows strong support for many types of aid Americans also dislike changes to status quo and are increasingly concerned about Musk's influence goodauthority.org/news/how-dem...

Please nominate for awards for the Int'l Collaboration section of APSA! Best article, dissertation, book, and mentor awards! Deadline is March 3, 2025. Submissions should be sent by email to [email protected]. You can find the award criteria and info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

Same was true in Poland

In Memoriam Mala Htun (1969-2025) Mala Htun made a major impact on the study of women, gender, and politics as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and advocate. To honor her contributions, we have ungated access to her articles until the end of February 2025. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is the official account of the APSA International Collaboration section. We look forward to promoting our member's work, sharing news about the section, and connecting scholars of international collaboration. @apsa.bsky.social

Submit your nominations for the APSA International Collaboration Section’s awards for best book, best article, best dissertation, and distinguished mentor. Nominations should be sent to our section chair @danieladonno.bsky.social. For more info about submissions: apsanet.org/membership/o...

I’m here! Never plan to open X again. Please follow me and I’ll follow back. @the-peio.bsky.social . Stay tuned for info about APSA Intl Collaboration section @intlcollaboration.bsky.social