The "Most Anticipated Books of 2025"!! @ForeignPolicy has selected The Once and Future World Order among the "biggest releases in foreign affairs, history, and economics". (And here are the preorder info and some advance praises from Arne Westad, Gareth Evans, Ayse Zarakol, Kishore Mahbubani & Amitav Ghosh- others to come)

Gulf of America Day, 2025 – The White House How about Turtle Island Day Or Khéya Wíta Day Or Anowara:kowa Day

@ashutosh3310 Not Odisha .

@MathiFryy No, not Nagpur.

An insightful review & application of norm literature. Norm contestation and framing strategies: the home rule movements in Taiwan and Korea during Japan’s colonial era- Christina Lai

TRUMP DOES NOT BLUFF, HE BLINKS If his tariff threat on Mexico & Canada is any guide. Faced with adverse market reaction and token concessions made by his target nations to mollify him & allow him to declare victory, Trump blinks. The Gaza occupation plan may be going the same way. This may not work in all cases but suggests the need for other nations -especially those friendly to US - to show guts (that his advisers don't seem to have) & stand up against his crazier schemes.

Scenes in and along the road to the village. Including a feast I joined, the road by our house, priest offering worship at the temple of Shiva and the river scenery.

USAID is the global face of American humanitarianism and shutting it down in a heavy-handed way will be viewed around the world as a reckless attack on humanitarianism. After Trump’s attacks on multilateralism, now this assault on humanitarianism, is a further blow to the old US-led world order. It will cost US in terms of soft power and credibility. It is one thing to restructure an agency for higher efficiency and lower costs but suddenly bulldozing an entire government agency, before any professional or non-ideological assessments of its functions were done, while prying on its sensitive data, should trouble Americans, not just foreigners.

Goodbye West? "We have to do everything to avoid this totally unnecessary and stupid tariff war or trade war,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk The EU is “a power that stands its ground." US tariffs would end up "pushing Europeans to be more united, more active in addressing their collective security challenges.” French President Emmanuel Macron "if the U.S. puts tough terms on Europe, we need a collective and robust response,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

RT @ProfPaulPoast: @AmitavAcharya Agree completely. Worth noting that Roosevelt was VP to McKinley (the president that Trump seems to love…

If you stretch the timeline a few years forward, you will find Theodore Roosevelt : NY Governor and then US President: who advocated exterminating native Americans, built the Panama Canal that Trump wants to take back, endorsed Kipling's White Man's Burden, and expanded the Monroe Doctrine with a Roosevelt Corollary, just as we have Trump Corollary now that includes militant anti-immigration. Details in #once_and_future_world_order

Welcome to Trumpworld, where America's allies are Trump's adversaries and America's adversaries are Trump's allies. #once_and_future_world_order

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@Rmanning4 Good question. One thing for sure: I would not wake up Trump while he had gone to bed after having caused the crisis and may be dreaming of tariffs and insults. Expand choices depending on location and nature of crisis (and wait out four more years)

This application of my theory of world order to small island states can apply to general analysis of world order as well "the critical IR scholar Amitav Acharya (2014, 2018)...has emphasised that world order is not something that rests solely on the material power of hegemons: it is constructed (and contested) on the basis of shared (or resisted) norms and practices. Three specific ideas from his work chime with our analysis here. One is that these norms are also reproduced by non-hegemonic actors who reshape them; they are not passive recipients of them. Another is that existing order is breaking down in the wake of decaying US hegemony, leading to what Acharya calls a 'multiplex world' with 'both risks and opportunities for managing international stability' (Acharya 2017). This means that elements of 'order' and 'disorder' can exist simultaneously. A third is the notion that globalisation will not disappear: it will change in form and become less western-centric as the 'rising powers' accrue ever-greater economic power (see Bishop 2016)."