Political Science @ Old Dominion University:
IR, US Foreign Policy, Security, Int'l Law,
Race, Diplo History
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Book: 🦅 The Picky Eagle 🦅
Jun 16, 2022 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
"Realism’s role is to continually point to the gravity that undercuts human attempts to fly."
Great line from @ProfPaulPoast's @ForeignAffairs essay illustrating both realism's core + its key flaw: the implicit conceit of having a monopoly on gravity...
foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukrai…
First, by focusing on realism's curmudgeonly aspect, Poast highlights (correctly, I think) the core through-line connecting Carr, Morgenthau, Waltz + Mearsheimer (overrepresented here as in the broader realism-Ukraine commentary), as well as Merze Tate (admirably featured here)
It's great to see our local Hampton Roads leaders engaging urgent USFP questions!
Rep. Luria raises Q's central to IR research...
1/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
As @NGrossman81 highlighted, everyone on both sides of the Pacific knows that the US doesn't want to fight a war with China over Taiwan.
At the same time, the US doesn't want China to try to conquer Taiwan either.
Hence the dilemma.
Building on excellent comments by @pstanpolitics and @carsonaust on this subject, here are some additional thoughts for first-time academic book authors based on my experiences signing 2 books (1 solo-authored, 1 co-edited) with university presses. THREAD
My comments are arranged into a few categories: your MINDSET when embarking on the book-publishing process, your PREP before submitting, TALKING with editors, SUBMITting your manuscript, CONTRACT negotiating, and the subsequent PROCESS.
