Tom Long

The new special issue of EJIR is a wonderful and diverse look at "History and Theory in International Relations". The issue includes my article with @car on critical junctures in IR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… 🧵🧵🧵

If the Trump administration really wanted to weaken criminal groups and reduce violence in Mexico and Latin America, it would stop bombing small boats and go after the gun sales and trafficking on its own side of the border. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/wor…

@GraceJ_IPE Thanks, Grace! Great to see you yesterday and looking forward to catching up more soon.

Strongly recommended reading! 👇🏼

Why have Latin American small states retained their affinity for China's Belt and Road Initiative despite varying results? Alongside Zara Albright & Diego Telias, we argue that BRI offered discursive resources even when material benefits fell short. #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Very much looking forward to discussing "The Trump Effect" with fellow panelists Maryhen Jiménez, @tomlongphd & David Doyle later at St. Antony's College, @UniofOxford today! lac.ox.ac.uk/event/main-sem…

@RichardGowan1 You wouldn't believe how much more of this is in the archives... especially people's personal correspondence. Or perhaps you very much would believe it!

Pre-1914 diplomatic trash talk was pretty brutal (and predictably racist).

New article just dropped in @ISQ_Jrnl with @schulz_c_a! Bound by History: How Antecedents Shaped the League of Nations Institutional Design academic.oup.com/isq/article/70…

📣How do secondary states in the Asia-Pacific enhance security and strategic autonomy in a networked strategic environment? Check out my new article @JPR_journal that answers this using a dataset of joint military exercises of the Asia-Pacific (1970–2024). academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-ar…

Next week, I'll be at the @Canning_House Latin American Academic Forum discussing our @ahrcpress project and book-in-progress, Republican Internationalism. (@Harvard_Press, w. @schulz_c_a). Really looking forward to it! canninghouse.org/events/latin-a…

Good piece by Raul Zepeda Gil on the killing of El Mencho. theconversation.com/mexico-may-pay…

Are you a UK-based scholar interested in Latin American history? On 15 May, Warwick will be hosting the fifth annual @UklahNetwork conference! Call and registration info here: uklah.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/cal…

So pleased to see this is out. Read it!

@llschenoni I just ordered twelve copies of Facundo to do my part in rectifying this.

A friend just told me "Bringing War Back In" is #11 best seller in Latin American History on Amazon in the US, four positions ahead of "Facundo"... this is sacrilegious amazon.com/gp/bestsellers…

Bad Bunny isn't the first Benito to call for the fraternity of American republics in the face of intervention. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Colombian president Petro is in the news for his positive meeting with Trump. Like most discussions of Colombian foreign policy, the discussion has been all about the president. Yet, we showed here, there's more to Colombian FP... (@Sebastianbitar) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

The videos of US federal agents murdering Alex Pretti are absolutely horrifying. He was on the ground, being beaten by several officers, when he was shot. A police execution. The bald-faced lies and vitriol coming from Washington are blessing it.

And here's the Stephen Miller pillar of the Venezuela intervention...deporting 30,000 "de-documented" people per year, mostly back to poverty and sometimes personal danger. How are opposition leaders going to justify their support from Trump? nytimes.com/2026/01/23/wor…

Trump’s underlying vision for Latin America resembles the early-20th-century policies of then-U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, argue @tomlongphd and @schulz_c_a. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/19/us-…

Then as now, big stick diplomacy will lead to costly cycles of intervention and retrenchment. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/19/us-…

Please join us NOW (registration link below) for a discussion of how the unilateral US intervention in Venezuela is reshaping regional and global order. Thanks to Revecca Pedi for organizing and chairing and EISA for sponsoring. eisa-net.org/online-events-…

Trump's actions in #Venezuela and plan to "run" the country from offshore resembles nothing so much as the US interventionism of the early twentieth century. It's likely to face very similar problems. My essay in @ForeignPolicy, with @schulz_c_a. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/19/us-…