Benjamin Rhode

Senior Fellow; Editor, The Adelphi Series, @IISS_org. RT ≠ endorsement, opinions my own

[Benjamin Rhode @Benjamin__Rhode]

I have a Closing Argument in the latest issue of Survival. Come for the fin de siecle fantasies, stay for Hofstadter, Norman Cohn, the Book of Revelation's links to totalitarianism, and QAnon as a new paranoid/religious movement.
Some free downloads here: https://t.co/60kx2S5v7v

[IISS News @IISS_org]

In this new Adelphi book, Robert Ward considers whether Japan’s new grand strategy is sufficient for its new security environment.

📅 Thurs 10 July
⏰ 12:00–13:00 BST
💬 @RobertAlanWard & @Benjamin__Rhode

Join the launch event. https://t.co/jQtXYEi5nw

[Benjamin Rhode @Benjamin__Rhode]

@RobertAlanWard’s excellent new Adelphi book on Japanese grand strategy is now out — get your copy on Amazon or Routledge now! (Unless you are already an @IISS_org member, in which case your copy should soon be with you)

[Robert Ward @RobertAlanWard]

It’s out!

With thanks again to @Benjamin__Rhode, @alice_aveson, the @IISS_org’s wonderful design and comms teams and everyone inside and outside the IISS who supported the production of this book. It would not have been possible without you 🙏

[Robert Ward @RobertAlanWard]

It’s out!

With thanks again to @Benjamin__Rhode, @alice_aveson, the @IISS_org’s wonderful design and comms teams and everyone inside and outside the IISS who supported the production of this book. It would not have been possible without you 🙏

[Benjamin Rhode @Benjamin__Rhode]

Join us on Monday 15 July for a stimulating discussion of @bill_emmott’s new book on avoiding war over Taiwan, with commentary by @PhillipsPOBrien ! We will be in person at @IISS_org headquarters Arundel House and also online for those who can’t be in London

[IISS News @IISS_org]

In the latest Adelphi, Bill Emmott evaluates the diplomatic and deterrence strategies used to try to reduce the risk of a war over Taiwan.

📅 Monday 15 July
⏰ 15:00-16:00 BST
💬 @bill_emmott, @PhillipsPOBrien & @Benjamin__Rhode

Join the launch. https://t.co/v8pgWjX5EY

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

You'll ask GPT-5 a question and it'll get back to you seven years later, extremely depressed, having answered a totally different question by developing a novel and incoherent theory that will be debunked when it turns out a single decimal point was misplaced in an obscure line of R

[Peter Ricketts @LordRickettsP]

On this day in 1940, Churchill got War Cabinet agreement to an extraordinary document. A declaration of ‘indissoluble union’ between 🇬🇧🇫🇷. A thousand years of la différence erased by a two page document? It was not, of course, to be. But it was an intriguing road not taken 1/8

[Tom Nuttall @tom_nuttall]

Still two countries: how Germany voted. (Black=Union; blue=AfD).

[Nigel Gould-Davies @Nigelgd1]

As G7 Finance Ministers discuss how to use Russian Central Bank assets to help #Ukraine, we publish a compelling case for their full seizure by a team of leading International lawyers @IISS_org

https://t.co/LabBmQjawW

[Bastian Giegerich @B_Giegerich]

Very pleased to announce a new @IISS_org initiative in partnership with the government of the Czech Republic: IISS Prague Defence Summit https://t.co/ISZOotjP05

[Benjamin Rhode @Benjamin__Rhode]

@thingsbydan Bought the piston version! I hope everything goes as well as possible

[Matthew Hefler @matthefler]

@KissingerCenter @AJ_Institute @PrincetonUPress @CSSC_SSE @SAISHopkins Interested in these issues? Read Prof Gavin’s latest book:

The Taming of Scarcity and the Problems of Plenty: Rethinking International Relations and American Grand Strategy in a New Era

An Adelphi book from @IISS_org @Benjamin__Rhode

buy @routledgebooks
https://t.co/9n5kEWXXIp

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

May Day give-away! We've dug out a book from 1774, precisely a quarter-millennium ago: it's the triumvirate of love poets, Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius (+bonus Sulpicia!). Just RT this message, follow our account, and we'll draw out a winner at midday on May Day (1st) Gd luck!

[Benjamin Rhode @Benjamin__Rhode]

Many thanks to my @IISS_org colleagues @dana_allin for his encouragement with this and Carolyn West for her editorial support.

[Benjamin Rhode @Benjamin__Rhode]

Delighted and honoured that my essay 'Europe Without America' is the lead article in the latest issue of @SurvivalEditors!

The full article is FREE TO READ and is available to download here:
https://t.co/iNBCXlMjDU

[Benjamin Rhode @Benjamin__Rhode]

However, this anomalous and relatively happy period could soon end if, due to US internal political dynamics or a need to strategically prioritise East Asia, the American Leviathan withdraws from its function as Europe’s security provider.

[IISS News @IISS_org]

‘The age of abundance has promoted tolerance and radical individuality, while undermining social cohesion and weakening any sense of common purpose.’

Read the Adelphi FREE Introduction, by Frank Gavin. https://t.co/YfY7jQhESa

[Bruno Tertrais @BrunoTertrais]

I’m betting that there won’t ever be any combat troops. But the Chancellor cannot decide on his own that no sovereign NATO or EU country will ever do it.