Ronan Tse-min Fu ❤️ Memecoin

In the introductory essay (rdcu.be/b34Lz), we review literature on the direct and indirect effects of foreign aid on state-society relations and institutions, situating the contributions of the special issue and highlighting a set of questions for future research. 4/6

Roundtable 11-15 on Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy issforum.org/roundtables/15…

What works in stopping the spread of Coronavirus: 1. Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds 2. Cough and sneeze into your elbow 3. Stay home if you're sick What doesn't work: 1. Racism

Analysis | Are ‘Game of Thrones’s’ dragons the equivalent of nuclear weapons? We don’t think so. washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…

(1/7) So apparently some (I hope very few) people online are using the fact that I am the primary developer of the eht-imaging software library (github.com/achael/eht-ima…) to launch awful and sexist attacks on my colleague and friend Katie Bouman. Stop.

.@andyguess is doing a debut presentation of our US part of #MEOF project in front of political scientists. Not pictured here @p_barbera @simonsaysnothin #MPSA19

My latest book, What Everyone Needs to Know about North Korea, is out from Oxford UP today! At just $12, great to assign to a class or for the general reader. amazon.com/North-Korea-Ev…

Survey research folks. Anyone have items to measure attitudes towards “political correctness”?

Projected seeding distribution and playoff probabilities for the rest of the 2018-19 #NBA season through games on 3/31/19 (Based off 10,000 simulations):

Watch our latest Author Chat featuring Reid Pauly discussing his fall 2018 article: youtu.be/4tczAmmxjzA. Pauly explains how declassified records of wargames played by U.S. policymakers can reveal why nuclear weapons have not been used since 1945.

Very useful pointers for attending big conferences!

‘China is now a bigger economy at PPP than the US, accounting for 19 per cent of world output this year, more than double the 7 per cent in 2000. India is now the world’s third-largest economy, with a GDP about double the size of either Germany or Japan’ ft.com/content/520cb6…

@Nick_L_Miller Great news, congratulations!

“For the liberal international order to survive, it should become conservative.” My @ForeignAffairs essay with @dartmouth colleague William C. Wohlforth. na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Guns or butter? Does growth lead to more butter AND guns? Does gaining an ally abroad mean more butter at home? These Qs are core to the "Political Economy of Security" subfield, which I describe in a new @AnnualReviews piece (👇). A good weekend read! annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Call for papers! "Non-Democratic Politics Mini Conference," April 19-20, 2019, San Diego, @theWPSA. Empirical and formal papers on dictatorship, repression, protest, propaganda, and censorship welcome. Abstracts due 10/8 to autocratic.politics.2019@gmail.com. Please share widely!

@NarangVipin It only reminds me of a wonderful book, Analogies at War.

Just published! Hierarchy in the Vietnam-China relationship, 1365-1841. Granular detail and clear hypotheses about war, rebellion, and other violence. Great work from @ronantfu , @changmishaw , and Dat Nguyen! journals.sagepub.com/eprint/jv957Tv…

North and South Korea have vowed to sign a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War this year, 65 years after hostilities ceased cnn.it/2HAly5a

We may want more. But the only way to get to “more” is to start with this.