Looking to finish, propose, or submit an international history (broadly defined) book in 2026? We'd love to see it at InterConnections: The Global 20th Century series at UNC @uncpress.bsky.social @juliairwin.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social @renatakeller.bsky.social 🗃️ uncpress.org/series/inter...

If you are an advanced PhD student working on US foreign relations or early career scholar in the area, check this out and consider applying to the #SHAFR Summer Institute being hosted by the @mershoncenter.bsky.social at The Ohio State University in June 2026🗃️: mershoncenter.osu.edu/events/socie...

Call for submissions on Nuclear History for @oah.org blog Process. This is for you @shafrhistorians.bsky.social & others. www.oah.org/process/call...

Out from paywall (and super-relevant imho) - my latest newrepublic.com/article/1961...

Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues at #SHAFR2025 this week! Join us on Saturday morning for our roundtable on The Global Cold War ✨

Daniel Immerwahr with a timely @newyorker.com piece on "Tariff Man" Trump's William McKinley infatuation. Especially one for all you historians of the Gilded Age. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

An excerpt in @foreignpolicy.com from Andrew Preston's superb new book, Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/30/f...

H-Diplo Roundtable on Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

I *think* i have a cover for my book. The art is from a painting “Journey into Freedom” by an old friend Shakti Kroopkin. www.shaktikroopkin.com

We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming GHIL Summer Lecture Series! 📣 We're kicking off our summer programme on 6 May with a lecture by David Milne (@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social) on 'Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune, and the Third Reich'! 📅 1/2

Or does it? If not, it’s up to Beijing to walk the walk, not just talk the talk. Cold War lessons for our current predicament. Latest from me for Foreign Affairs. www.foreignaffairs.com/china/china-...

I'm happy to see this generous roundtable review of Days of Opportunity in H-Diplo. Thanks to @susiecolbourn.bsky.social, Jayita Sarkar, Umberto Tulli, Carter Malkasian, and Terry Anderson for their thoughtful contributions. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Debunking US exceptionalism is featured in this morning’s Chartbook Top Link. For more insight, sign up here: tinyurl.com/39wmtk4c

Please share with any postdocs in the History of the Americas who would like to join the brilliant and eclectic bunch of historians at Edinburgh University - 3 years, mainly research. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

History of UK HE in the last 30 years follows the repeated sequence (1) politicians demand universities act in a certain way (2) uni managements comply against academic misgivings (3) effects are uncongenial for politicians (4) pundits denounce universities for acting that way, echoed by politicians

Over the past 40 years, State has been fighting a losing battle for influence in the executive branch, David Milne writes.

My latest piece in @foreignpolicy.com, on another four years of pain for the State Department. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/21/t...

You can’t understand the politics of the United States right now unless you acknowledge that there’s a third social class, the Professional-Managerial Class, which exercises control over working-class Americans, columnist Adam Tooze writes.

Delighted to see that my article with Amanda Demmer in Modern American History is officially+completely out Open Access: Normalizing Relations from the Cold War to the Present: Continuing War, Pursuing Peace, & Building Empire | 🗃️ #SHAFR #diplomacy #normalization www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"... rhino-involved goring."

“The paradox of American power: the United States is a divided country, perpetually perceived as in decline, yet it consistently remains the wealthiest and most powerful state in the world—leaving competitors behind.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Delighted that @foreignpolicy.com selected my piece on Trump and his foreign policy picks as one of its top five articles on US foreign policy in 2024!

“The United States must therefore be prepared to successfully prosecute a high-end conventional war while at the same time providing face saving off-ramps to the adversary. To do otherwise risks a nuclear holocaust, as indeed occurred in three game iterations.” www.csis.org/analysis/con...

Protip: keep an eye out for Andrew Preston's new book! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

We are now up to 84 universities making staff redundant. A key part of our society is retreating at a staggering pace that would never be allowed if the decisions were all seen and weighed up together. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Hey look what Nelson Lichtenstein says about my book.

Been wondering what nominations such Rubio, Gabbard, Waltz, & others, likely mean for their roles in shaping the US's foreign policies? @davidjmilne.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com draws on recent past to suggest that at the end of the day it will be Trump's FP 🗃️ foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/21/t...

The 25th anniversary edition of Cold War Civil Rights is available for pre-order!! Pub date 6/17/25. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

I enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman. The only way to find it if you’d enjoy it too is to listen to the whole thing several times.

Now featured in the @financialtimes.com weekend print edition, in case you missed it

Went to see the Lehman Trilogy with my son yesterday. It was brilliant in every way a night at the theatre should be.

Such a self-promoting Bluesky debut... Apologies!