Paul Poast
@ProfPaulPoast
Tweeting to teach. International Relations and Foreign Policy. @UChicago Prof. @ChicagoCouncil Fellow. @WPReview Columnist.
I'm posting again on Twitter/X. But I won't be posting THREADS. This is for three reasons: access, engagement/relevance, & @elonmusk. 1) Access: I started posting threads on this platform because it was a useful way to create accessible (open and free) content for my…
A slew of Pentagon officials bowed out of the annual Aspen Security Forum at the last minute. Don’t read too much into it, @ProfPaulPoast writes. worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-aspen-se…
The Pentagon may stop attending security conferences and forums. That's not a big deal. My latest for @WPReview worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-aspen-se…
When it comes to AI and Quant tech, recent @ChicagoCouncil survey shows that most US respondents want regulation…or don’t know what to think.
Many thanks to @ProfPaulPoast for the shout out! Awesome to have our book on his list. For some reason—I still don’t know why—you can get our book on Amazon for only $7 right now.
IR Book of the Week! "The Rivalry Peril" by @mbrenes1 & @RealVanJackson. Great Power Competition with China is not a structural necessity. It is a policy choice. And that choice can have negative consequences at home for the USA, even more than abroad. amazon.com/Rivalry-Peril-…
IR Book of the Week! "The Rivalry Peril" by @mbrenes1 & @RealVanJackson. Great Power Competition with China is not a structural necessity. It is a policy choice. And that choice can have negative consequences at home for the USA, even more than abroad. amazon.com/Rivalry-Peril-…
I'm quoting this in the section of my syllabus about AI usage.
the AI marketing message is still "AI god" as The Verge likes to say. Utopia / dystopia, end of humanity stuff. The reality might be more like refined sugar
Today I’m teach a group of high school students about what I call “Einstein’s Problem”. Nope, not talking about black holes. We’re discussing “The Problem of International Organization”
The @BulletinAtomic's Nobel Assembly on the Prevention of Nuclear War ended last week with the below Declaration. Fully support the initiative. But I'm going to have my Intro to IR students dissect the statement...and explain why it won't work. nobelassembly.org/declaration/
ICYMI: "Apparently, when phones aren’t ringing, letters must be sent." In my latest for @WPReview, I assess Trump's preferred mode of diplomacy: the letter worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-tariff-l…
"the more apt description of diplomacy for Trump...is attributed to Winston Churchill: that diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions" Trump seems to have mastered the former, but not the latter. worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-tariff-l…
Writing letters is tried and true form of diplomacy. But not in the way Trump is using them. I explain why in my latest for @WPReview worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-tariff-l…