Sam Seitz

Postdoctoral Fellow @Politics_Oxford. Previously @MIT_SSP, @BalliolOxford, and @GeorgetownCSS alum. I study alliances, status seeking, mil power, & nukes.

[Sam Seitz @samseitz3]

1/ Check out my new article in @jststs (open access) w/@Elliotshuwei_Ji: “When competition becomes contagious." In it, we investigate how the emergence of conventional counterforce systems is shaping nuclear competition and alliance politics.

https://t.co/jCQAaXk0gE

[European Journal of International Security @EJIntSec]

🪖🌟 NEW: "Resisting relegation to the rank and file: Explaining the effects of status seeking on military force structure" by Samuel Martin Seitz.

👉 Free to read here: https://t.co/yq7fJf3P7P

[kb @ojvhteuhyhes]

so weird how wedded americans are to this lie lol. the uk is arguably the most culinarily diverse country in europe. you’re more likely to find a restaurant serving eritrean, iraqi, afghan etc food than jellied eels or whatever it is you think we eat

[Austen Allred @Austen]

It’s my favorite time of year: when Europeans explain to people in Louisiana that it feels hotter when there’s humidity

[Sam Seitz @samseitz3]

As an American now living in the UK, the solution literally is as easy as AC, just as it is in every other hot climate… I know because we got AC in our flat and, surprise surprise, had no issues the past few days 🙄

[Ben Ramanauskas @BenRamanauskas]

Stamp Duty isn't just a bad tax, it's the worst tax on the books.

It's incredibly economically damaging and should be scrapped for everyone and every property.

[Samuel Watling @watling_samuel]

Is that the reason? Or is the main reason you pay post-docs and PhD students a maximum of £20,000 to live in one of the most expensive areas in the planet when they could instead earn three times that in the US.

[Matthew Ford @warmatters]

Maybe the JEF isn’t the only consideration for the Swedes? Maybe the JEF isn’t as important as the Brits think it is?

[“andrew” @_funmachine]

so there are these people that insist there’s only one city in a country of 340 million

[Thom Davies @ThomDavies]

My "Russell Group" university no longer gives access to academic journals 😶

[Matt Clancy @mattsclancy]

My generic career advice, as an economist-teacher-blogger-program director with an Econ PhD from a dept. outside T30 (T50?). As with most career advice, N = 1.
1. The danger in optimizing for a very specific career outcome is that you could get stuck at a local max.
2. Lean into your comparative advantages.
3. Send signals to different audiences. Research papers are one kind of signal, but so are blogs, policy white papers, talks, tweets, digital projects, etc.
4. It's hard to predict the future, so don't shortchange doing things that are interesting/valuable today.

[Ancient Mariner @pegge49]

80% availability for their 16 strong escort force, multiple operational SSNs & 70 day deterrent patrols, so they seem to be doing something right.
Yes whilst the FREMMs are relatively new, the oldest of their La Fayette class frigates is actually 1 year older than the newest T23

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

Political science is pretty good in this regard.

[constans @constans]

It blows my mind that the country whose capital is one of the world’s major financial centers finds an upper middle class American salary to be beyond the imagination

[Markus K. Brunnermeier @MarkusEconomist]

For PhD students around the world.
Online Summer School (6 weeks) @PrincetonBCF
Interested? Please register and join. First meeting May 19th
https://t.co/oryNoRLItO

[Solus @Ersatz_Solus]

This kinda shit is why I'm actually somewhat glad that America is an absurdly litigious when it comes to hospitals. Also another case of public goods being only for the old - she was ignored because she was young and articulate in a crisis.

[Arthur Spirling @arthur_spirling]

Colleagues-- I am looking for a postdoc at @Princeton. Position posted below, and is currently taking applications: I'll begin reviewing applications on July 1. Some flexibility wrt start date. Please circulate as you see fit.
https://t.co/eFSNhl99Cs

[Jan Vogler @Jan_Vogler]

🚨 Coming soon: “The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy” 🚨

My book is forthcoming in 2026 with @CambridgeUP! A preview of the cover art is below. Thanks to Dan Carpenter, @SeanGailmard, & @jrgingrich for their endorsements! 🙏

More details will follow in future posts. 😊

[max tempers @maxtempers]

The largest supermarket in Britain, that operates on razor-thin margins, is about to be crushed for the crime of paying different jobs different salaries, while our legislature shrugs.

How dare they suggest that “so-called market rates” can exist in Soviet Britain.

[Ho-fung Hung @hofunghung]

good to see the renewed serious debate about $ hegemony (again). so many recent good books on this topic that i roughly classify into the $ hegemony is always secured b/c of TINA camp & $ hegemony is vulnerable b/c of US problems (institutional & fiscal) camp .. 1/2