Ben Coates

Associate Prof. Wake Forest University. Historian of law, empire, and US foreign relations. Oaklander in exile. Writing a history of sanctions

[Ronald Angelo Johnson ✍🏾 @RonAJohnson]

Hit the “Send” button to @CornellPress on the revised manuscript of Entangled Alliances. 👨🏾‍💻✅

[Ben Coates @BenjaminACoates]

@DexterFergie Katherine Unterman, “Boodle over the Border: Embezzlement and the Crisis of International Mobility, 1880-1890,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 11:2 (2012): 151-189.

[Daniel McDowell @daniel_mcdowell]

This is great reporting & I agree w/ that the US over uses sanctions & yet these numbers are misleading. Saying "1/3 of all nations on Earth" face sanctions, or "60% of all poor countries" are under sanctions implies the US is targeting more gov'ts than it really is. Here's why.

[Philip Thai @philip_thai]

1/ For our @SHAFRConference panel "U.S. Sanctions and the World" I will review the curious history of U.S. antibiotics exports to China and Hong Kong in the early Cold War. A quick thread:

[Last Dive Bar 🏟 @LastDiveBar]

Voicing disgust for the move and paying homage to the history of the franchise and fanbase.

The A’s could learn a thing or two from literally every team in the MLB.

Thank you #ForTheFaithful! 💛����

[Cornell University Press @CornellPress]

This edition of the Authors in Conversation #podcast features @econroykrutz (author of MISSIONARY DIPLOMACY) and Matthew Shannon.

They discuss Shannon's new book Mission Manifest: American #Evangelicals and #Iran in the Twentieth Century.

Listen now: https://t.co/rot1cQiWmj

[Sarah Grossman @grossman_books]

I am prepping for #shafr2024 next week in Toronto. Reach out if you have a project in US foreign relations; global cold war; transnational history. #USintheworld @SHAFRhistorians @SHAFRDH

[Sarah Grossman @grossman_books]

Are you waiting to read @ctounsel1's amazing Bounds of Blackness, but fear you don't have the time? Listen to him talk about hist work with @BenjaminACoates on the newest Authors in Conversation podcast: https://t.co/EB4lrv5Dzw. .

[Ben Coates @BenjaminACoates]

@daniel_mcdowell and this is after FDR had already frozen virtually all European assets

[Ben Coates @BenjaminACoates]

@laurenfturek @Trinity_U @coateslibrary This is my first time hearing about the Coates library but I’m a fan

[Ben Coates @BenjaminACoates]

Had a great time talking with Chris Tounsel about his fantastic new book. Check it out!

[Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1]

Many thanks to @BenjaminACoates for our discussion of my new book "Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity" @CornellPress! 📚

Interested listeners can access it at the following link:
https://t.co/2g6nxjG8Ud

[Ben Coates @BenjaminACoates]

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[Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1]

Advance copy just arrived in the mail!!

If you'd like to preorder your copy of Bounds of Blackness, visit @CornellPress and use code 09BCARD to save 30%.

God is so good, y'all 🙌🏾

[Ben Coates @BenjaminACoates]

@boyd_vandijk Technically he doesn’t say if “the respect it deserves” is >0

[Ben Coates @BenjaminACoates]

@daniel_dsj2110 Bertha von Suttner. Good profile in Moyn’s Humane

[Ben Coates @BenjaminACoates]

@dbessner https://t.co/ea8jP68WAw
Gives you different measures and explains when you might want to use them

[American Historical Association @AHAhistorians]

On Feb. 6, the AHA will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on the role & impact of sanctions as an instrument of international relations. With moderator @danekkennedy & @BenjaminACoates, Bruce Jentleson, & Nancy Mitchell. https://t.co/m4iOpYpCzm

[Ben Coates @BenjaminACoates]

@drewmckevitt If you made $250,000 a day every day since Columbus sailed you still wouldn’t have enough money to pay what Elon paid for twitter.

[Maggie Blackhawk @MaggieBlackhawk]

It has been the greatest honor of my career to write the Foreword for this term's @HarvLRev. I am grateful to have been able to tell this story and to tell it from the heart in such a prominent forum. As always, I dream of a day when words can change minds and hearts--and worlds.