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U.S. Considers Relocating THAAD, Patriots to Middle East U.S. Considers Relocating THAAD, Patriots to Middle East South Korea-based systems may be moved amid prolonged U.S. military operation against Iran

US considers relocating THAAD and Patriots to Middle East from Korean Peninsula – The Chosun Daily

Lee says possible shift of USFK's military assets won't affect deterrence against N. Korea | Yonhap News Agency By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung said Tuesday that a ...

Lee says possible shift of USFK's military assets won't affect deterrence against N. Korea | Yonhap News Agency en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...

This looks good!!!

It’s TJ’s salads in TJ’s cooler bag day for me

North Korea Is Getting Serious About Space Weapons The new chapter in defense planning seems like a direct response to Trump’s Golden Dome.

My latest in @foreignpolicy.com: with a war in the Middle East, the world appears to have missed that North Korea is now officially getting into the space weapons game (with strong incentives to put nukes in space). My analysis: foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/09/n...

🚀 "Capturing the minds: The role of child deportation in maintaining Russian authority over Ukraine’s occupied territories" by @drjademcglynn.bsky.social & Anastasiia Romaniuk is the eighth article of our special issue on kidnapping - and OUT NOW:

🇺🇦 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Will China Overplay Its Hand? How Beijing’s confidence will shake up the Trump-Xi summit.

Thomas Christensen discusses the potential sources of U.S.-Chinese tensions—and how they could “derail the gains of the Busan accord and further escalate bilateral tensions.”

Conceptualizing and Measuring Geopolitical Alignments A vast literature examines how geopolitical alignments influence militarized conflict, trade, investment, aid, and other outcomes in international relations. Yet, considerable ambiguity remains regard...

Conceptualizing and Measuring Geopolitical Alignments - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The 7th article in our special issue ‘Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security’ is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social. Barak Kushner explores how authoritarian states in 20th-century East Asia sought to reeducate captives for security reasons. doi.org/10.1017/eis....

Vibes-based international politics

Macron opens door to deploying French nuclear forces to European allies The plan is a “major evolution” of France’s deterrence posture, the president said in a long-awaited speech at the Île Longue naval base in Brittany.

In any normal week this would be a huge story. France moves toward extending a nuclear umbrella over European allies-- a major sign of declining credibility of US extended deterrence.
www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

U.S. May Relocate South Korea's THAAD, Patriot Systems to Middle East U.S. May Relocate South Koreas THAAD, Patriot Systems to Middle East Experts warn prolonged conflict may strain South Koreas defenses against North Korea

U.S. May Relocate South Korea's THAAD, Patriot Systems to Middle East; Experts warn prolonged conflict may strain South Korea's defenses against North Korea www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Uncertainty is growing over U.S. President Donald Trump’s high-stakes trip to China after Washington targeted a second foreign leader in two months.

🔗Read more: cnb.cx/4r5j5R2

Right of Boom Viewing the conflict from below

What it's like for me under the missiles

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chubby frog waving a taegeukgi

대한 독립 만세!! 🇰🇷
happy 3.1 everybody
#삼일절

Full text of President Lee Jae Myung's speech on 107th March 1 Independence Movement Day | Yonhap News Agency SEOUL, March 1 (Yonhap) -- The following is a translation of President Lee Jae Myung'...

Full text of President Lee Jae Myung's speech on 107th March 1 Independence Movement Day | Yonhap News Agency en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...

It was ages ago! That was in 2022…..

🪖📚 NEW: "The emotional politics of sovereignty: On dignity, state personhood, and kidnappings" from @nckc.bsky.social & @minseonku.bsky.social.

👉 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thanks Eric!!

Cover of the European Journal of International Security with a black and orange color scheme. The text reads "#OpenAccess".

#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social -

The emotional politics of sovereignty: On dignity, state personhood, and kidnappings - https://cup.org/4tXKaby

- @nckc.bsky.social & @minseonku.bsky.social

#FirstView

So be sure to check out other articles in the issue! The introduction by @profgustafsson.bsky.social and @rjsamuels.bsky.social can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We illustrate our theory of states as persons with dignity using two cases of captivity: the abduction of Adolf Eichmann by Israel in 1960, and Japan's ongoing response to North Korea's kidnapping of its citizens.

The article is part of a special issue on the international politics of captivity.

The emotional politics of sovereignty: On dignity, state personhood, and kidnappings

My co-authored article with @nckc.bsky.social is published in @ejisbisa.bsky.social with #openaccess!
We theorize captivity/kidnapping as a sovereignty violation, and states respond with emotional performativity to protect their dignity, constructing personhood.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

(LEAD) Russian Embassy removes banner, cancels external event amid controversy | Yonhap News Agency (ATTN: UPDATES headline, lead; ADDS details throughout) SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) --- The ...

Russian Embassy removes banner, cancels external event amid controversy | Yonhap News Agency en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...

Thrilled to say that my new book, "Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire," has officially gone into production with Routledge in the book series The New International Relations, and will be published this summer! 😃😊

Use Gyeongnam province if you want to make that point. Will also add Sejong is not that representative of a sample for ROK population

@sharonk.bsky.social He has spoken! "The conservative must start from scratch." lol

but also this is only Sejong city, with a population of 400k.

you're good

it would be a nightmare if he could run for a second term!!!!!!!