J. Patrick Rhamey

@BohdanaKurylo @Joanna_Szostek Thank you both for contributing, and Joanna specifically for inspiring the endeavor! I'm only disappointed that despite the lengthy publication process, the warnings in the forum are perhaps more relevant to the foreign policy community today than they were when we first began.

@Joanna_Szostek Your posts have made me feel nostalgic 🥲 I’m glad @patrickrhamey brought us all together, and I especially enjoyed your contribution to the forum, Joanna

I'm a bit late to post this, but here's a new publication about Russia's invasion of Ukraine to which I have contributed, alongside the excellent @patrickrhamey, @ALanoszka, Seva Gunitsky, @ProfPaulPoast, @BohdanaKurylo and Tom Volgy. academic.oup.com/isr/article-ab…

Very excited to share this new article on Ukraine, public-facing IR, and domestic and area studies knowledge in International Studies Review with @ALanoszka Seva Gunitsky @ProfPaulPoast @Joanna_Szostek @BohdanaKurylo and Tom Volgy (link in comments).

We really should stop taking foreign policy advice from JD's badly interpreting 20 year old work by Robert Axelrod.

2025 State of World Liberty Rankings 1) @MySwitzerland_e 2) @PureNewZealand & @GoToIreland 4) @DanishMFA, @LuxembourgLU, @Ulkoministerio, & @visitnorway patrickrhamey.com/saturday-resea…

Some longer form thoughts about the tragedy happening in an area so dear to my childhood - the Guadalupe, Hunt, Camp Mystic, and Kerrville - and people trying to point fingers. patrickrhamey.com/saturday-resea…

@drglennsullivan But are they esteemed?

How about we bring back “esteemed” and stop pretending that all our colleagues are “amazing” and “incredible.”

War Eagle#XBracketChallenge x.com/i/jf/brackets/…

A nation is a “group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours.” - Karl Deutsch I explain what this has to do with "Great Power Stupidity" in my latest for @WPReview worldpoliticsreview.com/us-trump-russi…

UN General Assembly vote on A/79/L.54: Declaring July 12 the International Day of Hope to "enhance peace, tolerance and social stability, respect for diversity and mutual respect, and create...an environment conducive to well-being, peace and mutual understanding."

One of the more perplexing things I find about neorealists is that despite their complete reliance on power as a causal variable, they are often rendered totally incapacitated if you ask them how to measure it.

@blagden_david Second, a priori, the comparison has credibility. The Russian military suffered before NATO arsenals arrived, and it is misleading to suggest they've sustained a fight against such. They've fought a fraction of such, trickling in, and suffered enormous casualties as a result.

@blagden_david First, you don't want to use PPP as a measure of military spending because economic local context is less relevant to arms manufacturing, increasingly so as the sophistication of the weapon increases. PPP is good for comparing the price of chickens, not aircraft.

Still the “economy smaller than Italy” line? Despite >3 years of them sustaining a fight against the combined arsenals of NATO? - In PPP terms, Russia’s GDP’s closer to that of Germany. - If Italy militarised to the hilt and went on a rampage, SE Europe would know about it. 1/3

@BohdanaKurylo Well said! It's exciting to meet young scholars just starting their careers and hear all the excellent work they're doing, whether in research, teaching, or policy-advocacy. It's the responsibility of mid-career and senior scholars to promote these future greats!

Leaving #ISA2025 with this promise to myself: whatever stage of my career I reach, I'll always treat junior scholars with respect and dignity. Having sometimes experienced the opposite, I'm determined no one else should feel that way.

Illustration of yesterday's @UN resolution on a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine. 93 In Favour 18 Against 65 Abstain

I would really like to get to a point where I don't have to keep posting this. duckofminerva.com/2022/03/the-in…

Inspiring talk tonight by @avalaina on human rights and Ukraine's struggle for freedom! "Unpunished evil grows."

@drewhaney29 I don't know for sure, but on the VMI facebook page I saw a comment saying that live-viewing wasn't available for the talk But - you can see many of her recent talks online: csis.org/events/firesid…

Very excited to announce that Oleksandra Matviichuk, whose organization the Center for Civil Liberties was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, will be speaking at VMI next week! Details below: vmi.edu/news/headlines…

VMI will welcome Oleksandra Matviichuk, Ukrainian lawyer and global human rights defender, Monday, Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. in Gillis Theater. The event is free and open to the public. More details: vmi.edu/calendar/?trum…