Decent Friday night lineup!

New from me and Allison Carnegie!

🚨 Now out in @bjpols.bsky.social w @busbyj2.bsky.social @jordantama.bsky.social @ckafura.bsky.social: Do American foreign policy elites know what the public wants? Partnering with @global-affairs.bsky.social, we show that elites systematically misread the room 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Some news: I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Notre Dame. Very grateful to colleagues at ND; mentors and colleagues at Cornell, Princeton, and Columbia; my coauthors; and my students. Feels like a real full-circle moment: I graduated from ND nearly 10 years ago to the day ☘️

I’m very excited to serve as Director of the Sheedy Program in Economy, Enterprise, and Society @artslettersnd.bsky.social. Sheedy is a unique program connecting the liberal arts and business through discussion-based courses and shared experiences. More here! al.nd.edu/news/latest-...

Need some light reading? Check out @rickyclark.bsky.social and Allison Carnegie's article on how populists are reshaping international institutions. goodauthority.org/news/how-pop...

Populists aren’t just weakening global institutions; they’re reshaping them. In @goodauth.bsky.social with Allison Carnegie, we show how IOs respond by appeasing and sidelining populists and their constituents. Both help institutions survive, but at a cost. goodauthority.org/news/how-pop...

📢 Virtual IPES (VIPES) Spring/Summer 2026 CFP! Great chance to workshop IPE/CPE papers in a small-group format with detailed discussant feedback. 🗓 Deadline: April 20, 2026 📄 Full papers (≤10k words) 🔗 forms.gle/KDnxua5L5DrX... More info: www.internationalpoliticaleconomysociety.org/virtual-ipes

This thread on Iran is worth your time (as always) from @profsaunders.bsky.social. I’ll be relaying to my students!

Hi all. Please consider supporting my colleague Mike Hoffman following the tragic loss of his wife. Like Mike, Kathy was unfailingly kind. Mike and his kids can use all the support we can provide during this time. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Got Theory? @rickyclark.bsky.social & @anna-meyerrose.bsky.social do. In their article “Austerity and Aggression: Government Responses to IMF Conditionality” they test their #theory using a #multimethod#approach. Read how their findings greatly contribute to #IMF literature: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

After watching this shit show in Iran can we now agree that maybe having academics isn’t a bad thing?

🎙️NEW episode just dropped on international organizations: how they resist political attacks, and what it looks like when international law gets circumvented. Featuring @allisoncarnegie.bsky.social @rickyclark.bsky.social & @anjalikdayal.bsky.social goodauthority.podbean.com/e/cp3/

🎧NEW episode of @chalkboardpolitics.bsky.social just dropped, on international organizations and [gestures at all this]. Feat. @allisoncarnegie.bsky.social @rickyclark.bsky.social & @anjalikdayal.bsky.social. @goodauth.bsky.social @siwpscolumbia.bsky.social goodauthority.podbean.com/e/cp3/

It was a pleasure to discuss "Global Governance Under Fire" on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. Check out the episode here or wherever you listen to podcasts! newbooksnetwork.com/global-gover...

In Global Governance Under Fire, Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark argue that international organizations are, in fact, strategic agents with the tools to resist populist pressures. Now available! Read a free preview of this timely and compelling book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

So proud to be a part of this intellectual community research.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

no one in the history of the world has ever loved the City of Cleveland more than José Ramírez

You might be wondering: Can international organizations survive the onslaught, and if so, how? My new book with Allison Carnegie comes out this month with @princetonupress.bsky.social, and it addresses precisely these questions! See reply for publisher link and save 30% with code P329!

The Browns should offer John Harbaugh $1 billion

Fun little delivery from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Order your copy today, and ask your library to do the same! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Free at last, free at last. (Stefanski, not the Browns)

Firing Stefanski while keeping Berry in place makes absolutely zero sense. Browns continue to do Browns things.

I feel like have a pretty high bar for being surprised by this administration, but Trump capturing Maduro still elicited a genuine “what the fuck.” So many questions. Are Iran and Cuba next? Does this legitimize aggression by Putin and others? Just mind boggling stupidity on display.

"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

As good a take as you will see.

been there

This was a lot of fun to research, and also the most-read sports piece I've published since returning from public-baseball-analysis exile: I found statistical evidence (not just Smoltzesque bellyaching) that MLB teams are going to their bullpens too early, and should leave their starters in longer.

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

once again everyone would have been happier, Trump included, if we just Truman Showed him and let him play pretend president on the teevee

My thoughts are with colleagues and friends at Brown, and with their loved ones. Another day, another shooting on a college campus in this country. This kind of violence is preventable if only our leaders had the courage and moral clarity to act.

Got Theory? In their new research, Allison Carnegie, @rickyclark.bsky.social and @noahzucker.com theorize that #populist #leadership helps explain variation in whether accurate information is provided to #IOs due to populists’ #anti-elitism. Read more here: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

‼️ New working paper ‼️ We find bipartisan appeals credibly signal policymaking intentions—on an issue-by-issue basis We show how and why bipartisan lawmaking persists amid congressional conflict: progress often comes through issue-specific pathways rather than broad consensus between Ds and Rs 🧵👇

So excited that my book with @allisoncarnegie.bsky.social, Global Governance Under Fire: How International Organizations Resist the Populist Wave, will be published with @princetonupress.bsky.social on January 27, 2026. You can pre-order the book now for 30% off with the code P329 at the below link!

Political inexperience in Congress has measurable effects on legislative outcomes. Our research finds that when districts elect political newcomers over career politicians, congressional dysfunction tends to increase. New explainer of our PNAS study: theconversation.com/amateur-hour...

I’m on the committee for this search and am happy to answer questions as well. Come join us at ND! ☘️

Applications for our Visiting Fellowship are open @kellogginstitute.bsky.social, and I want to encourage folks of all ranks to apply! It is a tremendous intellectual community, and we are looking for postdoctoral as well as junior and senior faculty fellows kellogg.nd.edu/about-our-vi...

New research using African public opinion finds citizens support foreign aid conditions when they distrust their government & trust the donor. These findings reshape our understanding of accountability relations in global governance. @rickyclark.bsky.social sky.social; @lindsayrdolan.bsky.social

Really exciting to see this article with @lindsayrdolan.bsky.social and Alexa Zeitz published @isq-jrnl.bsky.social. As aid is increasingly politicized, we examine how publics in recipient countries assess various conditions that are commonly attached to aid. academic.oup.com/isq/article-...

🧵 When the government announces that it will fire people for producing numbers that the government doesn't like, here is how our institutions should respond. (Whether they do is another story.) 1/

You can also hear me discuss my book, Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance, on the Global Stage podcast from @keoughglobalnd.bsky.social @kellogginstitute.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5Pws...

Many thanks to Michael Breen @dublincityuni.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of my book, Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance, in The Review of International Organizations @the-peio.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This sounds batsh*t crazy but it's, quite literally, a straightforward & purely factual description of what's going on here

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

Is it a humanitarian disaster? Yes But is it a geopolitical disaster? Also yes But is it a financial disaster? Again, yes

If I had to sum up what I’ve learned from analyzing mountains of election data—and what Mamdani’s campaign exemplified perfectly—it’s this: Stop moderating. Start energizing.

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