Rachel Metz

Assistant Professor @GWtweets | @MIT_SSP PhD | security force assistance, security cooperation, org behavior, mil strategy

[Rachel Metz @ProfRachelMetz]

@IntOrgJournal @carsonaust @ProfPaulPoast Access (with apologies for the pun) the article here: https://t.co/F35B2Q9CzW

[Rachel Metz @ProfRachelMetz]

Excited to see "Allies and Access" out in @IntOrgJournal! @carsonaust , @ProfPaulPoast , and I argue that access is an overlooked benefit of America's network of alliances/partnerships. Loss of access would mean loss of the ability to project mil and intel power around the world.

[International Organization @IntOrgJournal]

Our special issue on The Future of Global Governance and World Order is out & #OpenAccess

The online special issue features 15 short essays and an editors' introduction. #IOFoGG

Thanks to @DonganTan @TTUPoliSci @EUI_Schuman @JuliaCMorse
@UCSBPoliSci
@uncpolisci
@fgenovese

[Nick Anderson @nickdanderson]

My article with Daryl Press, "Access Denied? The Sino-American Contest for Military Primacy in Asia," was published yesterday in @IntSecHarvard: https://t.co/U2SRcISAeF [1/4].

[Ryan Grauer @RyanGrauer]

Heading to Chicago today for #ISA2025? Come join @rtecottmetz, @sam_gerstle, @LeiterSam, @BrianDBlank, and me for a deep dive into alliance behaviors!

[Rachel Metz @ProfRachelMetz]

For those in Chicago bright and early Sunday, come join us! I will be presenting research on contingency access, an overlooked but crucial form of military cooperation. A lot of other interesting new work on the military elements of alliances @sam_gerstle @LeiterSam @RyanGrauer

[Rachel Metz @ProfRachelMetz]

@nickdanderson has written an excellent book. He points out an overlooked phenomenon: great power conquest is sometimes driven by rogue actors on the periphery, not centrally directed, and he presents an elegant framework for understanding the drivers of “inadvertent expansion.”

[Sina Azodi @Azodiac83]

Fantastic talk by @nickdanderson on his newest book Inadvertent Expansion.

[Rachel Metz @ProfRachelMetz]

New article alert, coauthored with the phenomenal @RenanahJoyce and just out in @ISQ_Jrnl. We explore how civilian leaders of recipient states can interfere with U.S. efforts to export liberal civil-military relations via security assistance.
https://t.co/QVyuZtuqvx

[Nick Anderson @nickdanderson]

SWAMOS was the single best experience I had in grad school, and it fundamentally altered the trajectory of my research. I also met great colleagues and friends. If you are a grad student, post-doc, or junior faculty member, I can't recommend it enough: https://t.co/n53vJnhN9x

[Nick Anderson @nickdanderson]

My book, Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics, was officially released by @CornellPress yesterday.

https://t.co/RBYKfkNWOV

[Reid Pauly @reidpauly]

We worry a lot about the credibility of threats. We should worry more about the credibility of coercive assurance. Targets of coercion defy credible threats when they think they are ‘damned if they do and damned if they don’t’.

https://t.co/sqPdJyUS6x

[Paul Poast @ProfPaulPoast]

IR Book of the Week!

"Technology and the Rise of Great Powers" by @jjding99. From Gilpin to Kennedy, technological change has long been a key to becoming a major power, even the global power. Book traces the process through 3 industrial revolutions
https://t.co/OzlsyZL5gE

[Rachel Metz @ProfRachelMetz]

A fantastic contribution by my colleague and friend @nickdanderson. 👏👏👏

[Nick Anderson @nickdanderson]

My book has a webpage!

Coming in early 2025 with @CornellPress:

https://t.co/jhIFepMriC

[Rachel Metz @ProfRachelMetz]

It was a pleasure to engage @IainDHenry’s excellent new book Reliability and Alliance Interdependence, with @BrianDBlank, @DrMichaelJGreen, and Jeff Taliaferro in @HDiplo: https://t.co/xgdLeWxA6Q

[Rachel Metz @ProfRachelMetz]

Thanks to @ProfRittinger for the insightful and generous review of my @IntSecHarvard article “The Cult of the Persuasive” in H-Diplo https://t.co/sfQtjYUwQz

[Rachel Metz @ProfRachelMetz]

New article with @mzmargulies out today in @jststs. We apply the IR cooperation concept of issue linkage to identify a success path in US efforts to convince security assistance recipients to reform their security sectors, with a close look at BiH https://t.co/aFLzU0MN5O

[Rachel Metz @ProfRachelMetz]

Pleased to see my article w @ErikAHSand out in @TWQgw. As the US moves towards forthright commitment to Taiwan's defense, this article lays out what fighting China to defend Taiwan could mean for the US military, American people, and wider world.

[Nick Anderson @nickdanderson]

Congrats to my friends and colleagues @rtecottmetz and Erik Sand on this important new article in @TWQgw. An important contribution to a central security policy debate:

"Defending Taiwan: But … What Are the Costs?" https://t.co/4stmoaUKhR

[The Washington Quarterly @TWQgw]

Winter @TWQgw is out! Our feature section, Debating China: David Lampton + Thomas Fingar on resetting US-China policy, @rtecottmetz + @ErikAHSand on cons of defending Taiwan, @ianjbowers + Oystein Tunsjo on US-China "hypercompetition", @BradGinTokyo on why tech denial is needed

[International Security @IntSecHarvard]

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***Announcement***

The new Fall 2023 issue is online!

Read articles by Jonathan Mercer, Aroop Mukharji, Richard Maass, Kacie Miura, and Ling Chen and Miles Evers.
https://t.co/DsYU0jt03G

[Aidan Milliff @amilliff]

Really pleased to share that "Making Sense, Making Choices: How Civilians Choose Survival Strategies During Violence" is accepted at @apsrjournal .

You can see the accepted version here! I'll post more about the paper once it's up on FirstView.

https://t.co/JwTMsqOzQk

[Rachel Metz @ProfRachelMetz]

We're hiring!!! TT, poli sci, international security. I only just started at GW and am not on the search committee, but I'd be happy to answer Qs to the extent I'm able, or direct you to those with more info https://t.co/uSxrETf3sv