Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, @VanderbiltU. International politics and the political economy of conflict
Nashville, TN
Joined July 2009
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“As AI systems become increasingly central to leaders’ decision-making, they could give information warfare a potent new role in coercion and conflict,” warn @bvbenson and Brett Goldstein.
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I made this for my grad students but figured I would share publicly: A LaTeX template for formal papers in political science.
Main use case is when you state formal results in the body of the paper but prove them in the Appendix.
github.com/brentonk/formal-l…
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Hi folks. A few months back I gave a talk at Caltech.
It was the best campus visit experience I've had in quite some time. And it has made me want to change campus visit norms a bit.
So today at lunch @sgehlbach told me I should tweet about it, which I'm now doing.
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The upcoming Biden-Xi phone call later this week, reported by @Dimi, is likely to force both sides into a box from which it will be hard to escape. 2/
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It’s because people in IR have a much better understanding that the probability any two countries go to war in a given year is very low. We should always get instances of war “wrong” in that regard. [1/3]
How did the IR community get Russia/Ukraine so wrong? dlvr.it/SRLbrp
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Former president of the Republic of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid speaks about the future of combating adversaries in modern conflict at day two of the Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats.
Watch live, and see day one's speakers, at vu.edu/summit.
ALT Kersti Kaljulaid speaks at the summit
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Working at Starbucks. Person next to me leaves her phone, laptop, headphones, and purse and disappears for ages, with no worries at all that someone will take her unattended belongings. One of my favorite things about Taiwan.
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In this paper, Clair and I used micro data from the Ming dynasty to show how China's civil service examination system prolonged China's autocratic rule. It is a clever mechanism.
A Longevity Mechanism of Chinese Absolutism | The Journal of Politics journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ep…
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Brief, random thoughts on cyber security:
1. A key point we make in this article is that increased Russian cyber ops + attribution problems means others likely more active in cyberspace right now too. (cambridge.org/core/journals/…)
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My new paper (doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poac001) is featured in the @SCMPNews: scmp.com/news/china/diplomac…. Full paper (pre-print) available at SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.….
Younger Chinese more likely to hold unfavourable view of US, says study which concludes Donald Trump is much more to blame than propaganda scmp.com/news/china/diplomac…
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My latest paper at @cjip_journal is online now (doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poac001). We theorize how how public opinion may influence foreign policy in China and report findings from a two-wave survey conducted before and after the 2020 US presidential election.
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So thrilled to see that my dissertation with lab-in-the-truck (!) experiments is finally out at @AJPS_Editor! I am indebted to so many colleagues who have given me invaluable feedback over the years.
Read @VandyPoliSci Prof. @eunjikim_media forthcoming @AJPS_Editor article: Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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New publication with @mike_gibilisco and @ruedamiguel13 at JCR.
doi.org/10.1177/002200272110…
We argue that armed groups are more likely to use violence against civilians when they expect their rivals to do so too. This played a big role in Colombia's civil war.
Details in thread.
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I'm delighted to see my paper with @bvbenson ``Commitment Problems in Alliance Formation'' published at @AJPS_Editor
In it, we study how adversaries respond to the prospect of a new or expanded alliance with military aggression.
Quick thread follows if you're interested 🧵
Commitment Problems in Alliance Formation by Brett V. Benson and Bradley C. Smith is now available in Early View. @bvbenson @BradSmithUNC ajps.org/2022/02/01/commitme…
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Read @VandyPoliSci Prof @bvbenson & @BradSmithUNC forthcoming article in @AJPS_Editor on alliance formation: Commitment Problems in Alliance Formation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Thanks for sharing our article, Hein! Here's a final version of the article, and I'll post a quick thread once the finalized version is up on the @AJPS_Editor website. Hope you all enjoy reading it as much as Brett and I enjoyed writing it. dropbox.com/s/5ty9blz5vbbqwe…
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Dolly Parton may get a statue in her home state’s Capitol, replacing a confederate general and Klan member. That’s the basis of a proposal put forward by a Tennessee lawmaker, and it’s getting a ton of traction on social media.
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.@BonnieGlaser: Announcement that "directly linked the decision to send Ambassador Craft to #Taiwan to China’s actions against pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, is the clearest evidence yet that the Trump administration views Taiwan as a cudgel it can use against Beijing"
The Trump Administration will use its final days in office to poke China in the eye one last time with a trip by the UN Ambassador to Taiwan aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/8/…
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“Chinese jets flew closer to Taiwan and frequently into its defence zone on at least 110 days last year.
This compared with just six long-distance training missions around Taiwan in 2016, and 20 in 2017.”
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