Today’s Cornell University Press 50% off book sale is a great opportunity to pick up The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics! You can use code 094242490 for 50% off the hard cover version.

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Ever wonder which countries get US military training and why? Hint: almost everyone gets some. But the amount varies considerably. In a new article with Theo McLauchlin and Lee Seymour, we explore the logics behind who gets what.

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Join us on 2 May 15:30-16:45 CET for an online ONP seminar with Prof Brian Blankenship (Brian Blankenship) where he will present his working paper entitled 'Defense Burden-Sharing and Support for Nuclear Proliferation in NATO Countries'. You can sign up here: sv.uio.no/isv/english/re…

This TWQ piece by Brian Blankenship on the challenges of burdensharing is a must read for all those interested in alliances

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It's a real pleasure to have an article in the Spring issue of TWQ, and to be published alongside interesting articles by Tara_Varma, Wannes Verstraete, Kelly Grieco, Jennifer Kavanagh, Ankit Panda, Tristan Anderson Volpe, Chris Johnstone, Daniel Byman, Riley McCabe, and others!

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The new issue of TWQ contains a bunch of very interesting articles on #nuclear weapons (and alliance management/bargaining) by Brian Blankenship, Wannes Verstraete, Tara_Varma, Ankit Panda & Tristan Anderson Volpe, and Adam T. Biggs. Looking forward to reading them! twq.elliott.gwu.edu

Our spring issue is out! In Alliance Management, Brian Blankenship, Tara_Varma, Wannes Verstraete, Kelly Grieco + Jennifer Kavanagh, Ankit Panda + Tristan Anderson Volpe, and Chris Johnstone on balancing the trade-offs of burden sharing in Europe and the Indo-Pacific

Such a pleasure to discuss NATO burden-sharing with Camille Grand & Barry Posen at GU Security Studies #NATO75 conference, expertly moderated by Brian Blankenship. Congrats to Sara Bjerg Moller for putting together such an excellent day-long programme!

🚨 When major crises darken the global stage, what should great powers do to strengthen their alliances?

Don’t count out “cheap” signals, like statements of reassurance, in crisis response.

Read more in a new article with Alexander Lanoszka out now International Studies Quarterly

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Delighted to see my new International Studies Quarterly article with Lauren Sukin on how respondents in Poland, Romania, and the Baltic countries evaluated U.S. reassurance efforts in March 2022, not long after Russia initiated its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

A brief 🧵.
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For anyone who will be in DC on April 8, please consider attending Georgetown’s NATO at 75 conference! There are some fantastic panels lined up.

Details on how to register here: css.georgetown.edu/natoat75/.

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NATO will celebrate its 75th Anniversary this April. To mark this significant milestone, Georgetown SFS is bringing policymakers & scholars together to discuss the Alliance's past, present, and future. We invite you to join us on April 8: css.georgetown.edu/natoat75/

I had the great pleasure of speaking with John Allen Gay and Patrick Carver Fox on the Security Dilemma (@securitydpod) podcast about my new book The Burden-Sharing Dilemma. We discussed a wide range of topics related to burden-sharing and US alliances. open.spotify.com/episode/5e7KU7…

Great conversation with Brian Blankenship and John Allen Gay - America has gotten greater defense commitments from allies/partners before and there's a way to do it again.

My book is now available as an audiobook! You can find The Burden-Sharing Dilemma on Audible: audible.com/pd/B0CQPX8731?….

New article: 'The Market for Foreign Bases,' by Renanah Miles Joyce and Brian Blankenship.

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Please REPOST! Open access article Conflict Management & Peace Science from Hata, Iida, Izumikawa and myself: 'Does a patron state’s hardline posture reassure the public in an allied state?' doi.org/10.1177/073889…. In this quasi-natural experiment, where the 2019 Hanoi summit outcome served as a

This looks like a really interesting article in Security Studies: Congrats, Renanah Miles Joyce and Brian Blankenship!

'The Market for Foreign Bases'

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I had the honor of talking about my new book The Burden-Sharing Dilemma at a webinar hosted by UTokyo | 東京大学 ROLES（東大先端研創発戦略研究オープンラボ） Takuya Matsuda. The video is available on YouTube here!

IR Book of the Week!

'The Burden-Sharing Dilemma' by Brian Blankenship. The US always wants its allies to 'do more' and 'carry the burden', right? Not necessarily. The stronger you encourage and ally to be, the less the ally needs you.

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