4th annual @WestPointSOSH seminar is on! Submit abstracts for panels or individual papers by 3 September at the link below (Seminar is 5-6 February at West Point (@DeanUsma): https://t.co/FSqvi3qnP4 @CSDS_Brussels @PISM_DC @DartmouthDickey @TheMESOLab are our partners!

I am delighted to announce that I will be a Visiting Professor at La Sapienza in Rome for May 2025. Huge thanks to @g_natalizia for encouraging me to apply!

🇺🇸𝐑𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝! We are proud to announce that Class of 2025 cadets Sarah Cao, Shepherd Dzina, Gabriella Sorrentino, and Ava Spinar have been named Rhodes Scholars and will study at the University of Oxford, in Oxford England, UK in the fall.

With Donald Trump's reelection, NATO allies meeting their defense spending obligations is more important than ever. But why did the allies agree to such obligations in the first place? @JordanMBecker, Tim Hasebrouck, and I evaluate which states were most eager to make the 2%

Interesting paper: "Setting targets: Abatement cost, vulnerability, and the agreement of #NATO’s Wales Pledge on Defense Investment" https://t.co/lfDMce2ohN

PS. It is quite interesting to see that we (Czechia) supported the idea in 2014... and yet we have failed to deliver so far (hopefully this year - 2024 - we will make it to 2%).

Another nice paper by @JordanMBecker (et al.), this time on "why did NATO allies... agreed to ‘aim to move towards’ increased defense spending (2% of GDP on defense and 20% of def. budgets on equipment) at their 2014 Wales Summit?" https://t.co/v9mKl20oa1 PS. Even the very first

Come work with me! @WestPointSOSH is hiring a one-year part time adjunct faculty member to teach political economy and Chinese politics. Details in link - please share widely! https://t.co/nZb5DBSwGd @DeanUsma @WestPoint_USMA @JordanMBecker @slimbock @Mike_Rosol

6/We find that vulnerability and abatement costs affected both the order in which states agreed the pledge, and the extent to which they have complied with it.

5/This argument finds support from participant interviews & a purpose-built dataset including overall defense spending and share of defense budgets allocated to equipment modernization, vulnerability to security threats and ‘abatement cost’ of meeting the Wales Pledge aims).

4/Moreover, why have they largely complied with this agreement subsequently? We argue that the ‘Interest Based’ framework for understanding the success or failure of environmental agreements is useful for understanding the agreement and implementation of the Wales Pledge.

3/More specifically, why did NATO allies, with disparate geography and perceptions of the international security environment, agree to ‘aim to move towards’ increased defense spending (2% of GDP on def and 20% of def on equipment modernization) at their 2014 Wales Summit?

2/Why do countries mutually agree to constraints on their behavior? Why do they comply with such constraints in the absence of enforcement mechanisms?

1/New Publication! Setting targets: Abatement cost, vulnerability, and the agreement of NATO’s Wales Pledge on Defense Investment - Jordan Becker, @ProfPaulPoast , Tim Haesebrouck, 2024 https://t.co/YMEYLp0uAu @WestPointSOSH @RTPerson3 @CSDS_Brussels @DeanUsma @ECODEF_IHEDN

Nice work @dpjankowski & @SusMonika ! @RTPerson3 @WestPointSOSH @rosellacappella @SIPRIorg @kaijaschilde

If you want to learn about @DAcemogluMIT research on your morning communute. Check out one of my favorite podcasts. https://t.co/u1lD0lxMjV

Nice new piece from @WestPointSOSH-mate @nakissapjahan checkitout!

My latest with Michael Mieses and Noelle Kerr in @lawfare about Iranian cyber proxies and operations and the impact of artificial intelligence 👇🏻

Who Cares? is now published @PSRMJournal https://t.co/Ai6T2jtFUv (1/)

Thanks for the invitation to contribute to @FPRI's podcast on all things #NATO alongside such a stellar line-up of other experts 👇

New @nberpubs from @WestPointSOSH teammates @greenberg_k & @MatthewGudgeon in the Army as a family business checkitout!