A Man, a Plan, and a Long History of Overplayed Hands In Foreign Policy, PAIS's Tom Long and Carsten-Andreas Schulz put Donald Trump's recent threats to reclaim the Panama Canal in a long-term perspective. Read the article -> buff.ly/FE8QRe0

And check out the underpinning research, open access in APSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The history of international order is usually the history of the great powers. But what can we learn from looking at worldviews of those who resisted intervention? Very pleased to have this new post available on The Conversation with my coauthor and friend @caschulz.bsky.social.

Congratulations to this year's ISA #BookAward winners! Check them out and add them to your summer reading list. Stay tuned for more winner announcements throughout the summer.

IR accounts of history have long emphasized turning points; increasingly, IR scholars invoke "critical junctures." But how should IR understand these? In this article, forthcoming in EJIR, @caschulz.bsky.social, and I propose a framework for CJ analysis in IR: wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...

"An important source of declassified materials for scholars of American diplomacy is now under threat" Prof Mitch Lerner at LSE Blog on the Historians Advisory Council, declassification, FRUS & much more #SHAFR @osuhistory.bsky.social @mershoncenter.bsky.social 🗃️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

New article decentring the Berlin Conference from the point of view of Latin America, by @tomlongphd.bsky.social and @caschulz.bsky.social #HistIR www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 New on First View! Tom Long (‪@tomlongphd.bsky.social‬) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz ‪(@caschulz.bsky.social‬) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism. Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...

I am delighted to share the programme of 'Global Order and Governance beyond the West' (May 29) at @cityhistory.bsky.social. Featuring talks by Arnulf Becker Lorca (EUI), Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge), @mjbayly.bsky.social (LSE). In person/online registration: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

It was a pleasure to host Ignacio Higueras Hare, Peru's ambassador to the UK, at the University of Warwick and @warwickpais.bsky.social. We appreciated his remarks about Latin American integration, and especially his outreach to our students. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...

Small States & Territories assembled a great forum on Veenendaal and Corbett's influential, "Why Small States Offer Important Answers to Large Questions." My essay, "Historical dynamics of international relationships: Veenendaal and Corbett beyond comparative politics" www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...

Excited to be in this issue of APSR, with "A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico," with @caschulz.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000... @warwickpais.bsky.social

🎙️ My new #podcast New Regional Orders is now live! Ep. 1: @tomlongphd.bsky.social from @warwickpais.bsky.social & I discuss U.S. #power in #Latin #America, #small #states & #regionalism. As #Trump 2.0 reshapes #foreign #policy, this couldn’t be more timely. 🎧 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhm...

Thrilled to see Nicaragua Must Survive discussed in a H-Diplo roundtable. Deeply grateful to @mollyavery.bsky.social , Michelle Chase, @tomlongphd.bsky.social & @sarahosten.bsky.social for their engagement and kind words. Thank you @emleake.bsky.social for organising! issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJI...

Big congratulations to my @warwickpais.bsky.social colleague, Charlie Price!

The assault on the US knowledge infrastructure continues.

The Wilson Center has been effectively shuttered by Trump and Musk. This saves taxpayers almost nothing, while erasing space for policy research, dialogue, and exchange, all things I gained from and made a small contribution to. For shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

The arguments the Trump admin is making in this case are alarming. The USG can deport someone with legal status to another country's prisons (supposedly by mistake), cannot correct that error, nor be challenged in court as a "unitary executive". No limits, no checks. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

A happy 219th birthday to Mexico's Benito Juárez! If you'd like to learn more about the international political thought of the Benemérito and his Liberal coalition in the tumultous 1860s, please take at look at our recent piece in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

As Carsten Schulz and I head to #ISA2025, fittingly, a paper that we presented at ISA 2024 has just been accepted in the Journal of Global History! "Seeing the Berlin Conference from the Periphery: Latin American Reactions to Imperialism Elsewhere, 1884-1885," details coming soon.

Really looking forward to #ISA2025 in Chicago. So many people to see, and so much to discuss. I'll be in the workshop "From Latin America to the World: Peripheral Norms and Practices in the Constitution of Global Order" on Saturday, led by Carsten Schulz, Marinana Andrade e Barros, and myself.

Such a pleasure to make my first (definitely not last!) visit to NUPI and spend time with these lovely, brilliant people.

Amidst the Trump circus and horror show, the oligarchs are getting what they paid for. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Really, I'd have thought there were bigger stories in UK higher education at the moment...but it's good to see the BBC bringing the hardest-hitting university news.

This is great, but right now I think remembering Panamá's agency in this process is crucial. That included an effective UNSC push, detailed here: www.jstor.org/stable/26376... And a decades-long govt and popular effort: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Hello 👋👋 We are the Journal of International Relations and Development, and we are happy to be here! Please follow, retweet, and stay tuned to meet our new editors and learn more about the journal over the coming weeks ▶️ www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/4...

BREAKING Trump delays tariffs on Mexican goods after Sheinbaum agrees to rush 10,000 troops to border. Canada, source of 1.5 percent of migrants and 0.2 percent of fentanyl, spent $900M on new border security to appease Trump. Tariffs on Canadian goods are still set to start Tuesday bit.ly/3CAyHso

When unconsolidated states confront lucrative, illicit markets, state-building takes an unexpected turn. We argue that these states, like post-revolutionary Mexico, develop not as one protection racket, but as two. New article with Ben Smith, open access, available below. @warwickpais.bsky.social

"To be clear, we have never been here before," writes Canada's Colin Robertson, an establishment former diplomat who has long advocated close ties with the United States. His anger–understandable, righteous–shows how counterproductive Trump's tariffs will be. www.policymagazine.ca/the-antagoni...

Trump managing to create unity in Canada's fractured political landscape...

Trump has wantonly destroyed North America as we've known it. A disastrous move that will backfire on the US economy and competitiveness. His nonsensical demand is to keep US citizens from overdosing, made while he cuts programs that might actually do that. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Sitting here waiting for the tariff announcement, and thinking back to this piece I wrote late last year. Congress shouldn't sit idly by if Trump takes sweeping action on tariffs. www.cfr.org/article/tari...

Across the board, unilateral tariffs against our closest trading partners—apparently set for tomorrow. This is the end of North America as we know it. It's also a self-inflicted economic catastrophe that will dramatically weaken the US position in the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/b...

I'm excited to announce a new 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins to advance research in historical & contemporary intersections of empire, migration, & racial hierarchy and help support our new major Critical Diaspora Studies. Pls share! apply.interfolio.com/162692

Nueva publicación en al anuario publicado por Sciences Po: “La región de Schrödinger: América del Norte después de 30 años,” In D. Recondo (dir.), América Latina: El año político 2024/Les Etudes du CERI, n° 275-276, Enero 2025. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Are you interested in the Cold War? Do you love history? Do you love learning Cold War history? A starter pack to follow a group of very passionate and varied Cold War historians. go.bsky.app/NAWTQUp

Pleased to be joining this panel tomorrow at @warwickpais.bsky.social. I'm less pleased that we have sooooo much to talk about only 48 hours into the administration.

On Tues, 21 Jan, I'll be chairing a reading group at the Warwick Global History and Culture Centre on Lauren Benton's new book, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence." How did "small wars" and violence at imperial frontiers shape global legal orders? Details here: lnkd.in/dD8EWgdu

Closing in two weeks: 2 open positions in my new consolidator project "Decades of Peace" at the University of Zurich @ipz.bsky.social funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social, focusing on Latin America. PhD position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:e32a... Postdoc position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:94e1...

@wlharder.bsky.social Welcome! And perhaps BlueSky can finally give us a platform for our inappropriately eponymous podcast? Hope life is treating you well!

I enjoyed this article by Alejandro Castrillón on the political thought of Simón Rodríguez, best known as Bolívar's tutor. And it's great to see discussions of Latin American political thought in journals like AJPS! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sheinbaum: "You carry with you the courage and heart of Mexico." Trudeau: "Neighbours helping neighbors" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Over *60* tenure-track postings in History or History-adjacent fields over the course of December 2024:

Perhaps the least understood dimension of Carter’s much-maligned, one-term presidency was that he dramatically changed the nature of the Cold War, setting the stage for the Soviet Union’s ultimate collapse.

Fascinating (and excellent) choices. (Carter's frequent and direct commentary on docs spoiled me as a new Ph.D. student researching at the Carter Library. It was a shock to move on to Reagan, Nixon, et. al., and so much less written engagement.) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Farewell to Jimmy Carter, who strove to use power in the service of principle and public good to an extent uncommon among world leaders. I studied under Carter's NSC director for Latin America, protege, and friend Bob Pastor. I got to meet the former president briefly on a couple of occasions.

To close the year, I'd like to share some of my publications from 2024. If I could give any advice, it would be this: find yourself such fantastic co-authors and co-editors, and this line of work can be a real joy. Happy holidays and best wishes for 2025!

Check out this influential piece by my PAIS Warwick colleagues!

IR Books of the YEAR! Thanks to the Chicago Council for featuring my "10 Best Global Affairs" books of 2024. Each one was published this year and featured as an "IR Book of the Week" during 2024.