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29 Dec, 8 tweets, 2 min read
Folks have discovered my various "IR and Movies" threads from 2020. Therefore, I'm breaking my "end of 2020 Twitter break" to post a thread of these threads.

If you want to bring popular movies into the IR classroom, this thread is for you!
Independence Day

Frozen

Black Panther

Rocky IV

The Rock

DIE HARD

More to come in 2021! See you then Everyone!!

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19 Dec
DIE HARD is the perfect Christmas Movie...for understanding how Americans view international politics

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To be clear: the movie doesn't capture ALL aspects of international politics (especially IR theory)

For that, you need to watch ID4!

But the movie expertly captures the anxieties associated with US "global leadership" during the late Cold War era.

Those are

-- relative economic decline

-- Vietnam syndrome

-- Terrorism

Let's look at each one (and what DIE HARD has to say about them)
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14 Dec
Is it true that democracies don't go to war with each other?

Sort of. But I wouldn't base public policy on the finding.

Why? Let's turn to the data.

[THREAD]
The idea of a "Democratic Peace" is a widely held view that's been around for a long time.

By 1988, there already existed enough studies on the topic for Jack Levy to famously label Democratic Peace "an empirical law"
The earliest empirical work on the topic was the 1964 report by Dean Babst published in the "Wisconsin Sociologist"
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12 Dec
What does the Texas lawsuit (& the Supreme Court's decision to reject that lawsuit) teach us about "Sovereignty"?

[THREAD]

cnn.com/2020/12/11/pol…
By way of background, the Texas Lawsuit asked the US Supreme Court to nullify the votes from Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. Texas perceived those states as having carried out flawed elections.

texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/…
At the heart of the case was the idea of "sovereignty"
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9 Dec
Why are civil-mil scholars upset about Austin Lloyd's nomination as the 28th Secretary of Defense?

Consider the nomination of the 3rd Secretary of Defense: George Marshall

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In 1950, Truman wanted to fire the second SecDef, Louis Johnson, and install George Marshall as Secretary of Defense.
There was a problem: when the Department of Defense was created in 1947, section 202 of the 1947 National Security Act (which created the DoD, then called "The National Military Establishment") would not allow recently retired officers to serve as SecDef

global.oup.com/us/companion.w…
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6 Dec
What's the "value" offered by international relations scholarship?

What does it mean to think about world events "like an international relations scholar"?

Trump's order to withdrawal 🇺🇸 troops from 🇸🇴 offers a useful illustration.

[THREAD]

bbc.com/news/world-us-…
This event could be viewed from a variety of angles, from the "micro-level" on up.

International Relations scholars/analysts can and do use each of the following angles, though not all are strictly speaking taking an "International Relations angle".

Let's explore the angles.
The "country-expert" angle entails discussing the event by laying out the situation within Somalia, providing details on key figures involved and perhaps how the conflict has disrupted Somalia's internal governance and society.

africa.cgtn.com/2020/09/27/som…
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28 Nov
Beyond its impact on 🇮🇱-🇮🇷 & 🇺🇸-🇮🇷 relations, this assassination highlights hypocrisy by those touting the "liberal, rules-based international order".

But as I explain to my students, hypocrisy & contradiction are baked into the "liberal international order"

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To start, what is meant by "international order"? LOTs of definitions out there, but I use the definition from Ikenberry:

"The governing arrangements among a group of states, including its fundamental rules, principles, and institutions"
That definition is found in his famous book, "After Victory"

amazon.com/After-Victory-…
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