Matt Conklin
@matthewjconklin
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PhD candidate, political science @UChicago. International security, grand strategy, foreign policy, American political development. Kansan.
Joined May 2021
Excited to share my article with @carsonaust, “Co-optation at the Creation: Leaders, Elite Consensus, and Postwar International Order.” It’s forthcoming in @SecStudies_Jrnl!
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This article analyzes how democratic leaders cultivate an elite consensus in favor of participating in international institutions. We theorize two tactics to prevent elite dissent. Delegating early...
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RT @maryumalam: Many thanks to @JordanMBecker @WestPointSOSH for another outstanding & energizing security seminar! So honored & humbled by….
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During WWII, German and Italian POWs captured in North Africa were held at camps in rural KS. Many worked on farms to offset the wartime labor shortage. Some even attempted to escape Shawshank Redemption style!
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And Berinsky (2007), citing Mueller (1973)…"support for the U.S. effort at the time was not as self-evident as it was in retrospect. As Mueller aptly notes, 'the major reasons for supporting [WWII] were largely unappreciated while it was going on' (1973, 65).".
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Contrast with Klingberg (1952)…"Confidence that America will continue to play this [leadership] role in world affairs is weakened by the memory of America's political isolation following World War I, and by certain currents of American opinion noted by observers since [WWII]."
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"In the mysterious zone where history mixes with memory to breed national myths, Americans after 1945 enshrined another war altogether. It was the ‘good war,’ maybe the last good war. " (856).
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A couple quotes that capture the idea: WWII. "ended a century and a half of American isolationism" (855) and "the stubborn tradition of American isolationism." (xi).
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I always learn a lot from reading acknowledgments. Coincidentally, Kennedy wrote this one 25 years ago today!
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Returning to Kennedy’s (1999) history of the US in WWII for examples of the "WWII as watershed" thesis.
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RT @emily_tallo: Come through for this panel tomorrow where I'll be presenting some of my dissertation research and a co-authored working….
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It’s worth emphasizing Austin's point that the construction of foreign policy "consensus" is inherently political. Appeals to consensus can’t be taken for granted. Rather, it points to interesting behind the scenes politics worth exploring and theorizing.
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So stoked to have my first published article out! It was great working on this with @carsonaust. Check out his thread for the gist:.
New article in the current issue of Security Studies, co-authored with @matthewjconklin . 🧵with the highlights below, link to full article here.
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RT @ProfTalmadge: Applications to the Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations & Strategy (SWAMOS) are now open. Fantastic op….
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RT @GerardoMunck: 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆-𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 relies on a range of 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀. Here are short definitions on 10 common concepts u….
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RT @SecStudies_Jrnl: "Co-Optation at the Creation: Leaders, Elite Consensus, and Postwar International Order," by @carsonaust and Matthew C….
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RT @_alice_evans: Did the Napoleonic Wars spur the Industrial Revolution?. British men were press-ganged into the navy. Labour scarcity mo….
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RT @jaredcrubin: The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (co-edited with @jaj7d) will be published in September 2023!. Chapters….
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RT @jaj7d: Sharp cover! @jaredcrubin and I are pleased! Coming in late-2023. Should be in time for APSA!
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Both the Oxford Handbook on Historical Political Economy and the Handbook on World War II are dropping around the same time next year. Great timing for dissertation writing + the TOC for both look fantastic. Also digging the UN propaganda poster for the WWII cover.
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