Associate Prof of Political Science @univmiami. Alliances and US foreign policy. Book The Burden-Sharing Dilemma available now: https://nitter.cf/t.co/TfbHyQ3CKm.
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Joined January 2016
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Today is release day for my book, The Burden-Sharing Dilemma! You can buy it now via the publisher @CornellPress (30% discount code: 09BCARD) or on Amazon.
cornellpress.cornell.edu/boo…
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Does U.S. pressure on allies push their publics toward the bomb? New survey experiments in Japan, Germany, Poland, and South Korea find that even blunt statements that America wouldn't defend them barely change public support for nuclear weapons. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
I’m thrilled to share that I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! My sincere thanks to all of the mentors and colleagues who have made this possible by supporting me over the years. I’m deeply grateful to @umiamiPOL and @univmiami for their vote of confidence.
New open access article in @ISQ_Jrnl! Do U.S. allies' efforts to invest in self-defense increase the U.S. public's support for defending them? The results from a series of survey experiments suggest they don't, and can even decrease it. Link below.
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It’s an enormous honor to have my book, The Burden-Sharing Dilemma, discussed by such a tremendous group of scholars in @HDiplo! My sincere thanks to @mcfuhrmann, @JordanMBecker, @carlammm, Tim Crawford, and Michaela Mattes for taking the time to thoroughly engage with the book.
RJISSF Roundtable Review 17-2
Brian D. Blankenship’s The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics
“highlights the risk to the United States of putting too much pressure on its allies without reassuring them—the United States loses its influence over them.” –Michaela Mattes
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And the Remote Revolution has a cover! Thanks to RetroPilot for the awesome Global Hawk art! Landing at bookstores this fall (and available for pre-order now). Order directly from Cornell University Press using the code 09BCARD for 30% off.
cornellpress.cornell.edu/boo…
It was a real pleasure to contribute to this @BrookingsChina Q&A on the role of alliances in US-China competition!
brookings.edu/articles/are-a…
Are America’s alliances a source of strength or a burden as it competes with China?
The Global China project convened experts @solis_msolis, @thomaswright08, @Doug_Bandow, & @BrianDBlank, to answer. They agree that alliances matter - but disagree on how: brook.gs/3ZibuTS
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@BrianDBlank tests whether U.S. signals of abandonment and efforts to encourage allied burden-sharing using threats of abandonment increase support for nuclear weapons acquisition, using a survey of foreign policy elites from 16 European NATO members.
tinyurl.com/sqaf039
Very pleased to have a research note in the upcoming issue of @ISQ_Jrnl. The article explores a classic issue--nonproliferation & US alliances--using a new data source: a survey of elites (foreign & defense policy experts and policymakers) in European NATO countries.
The piece finds that unconditional signals of U.S. abandonment, and to a lesser extent conditional U.S. threats of abandonment and increased alliance burden-sharing, modestly increase support for nuclear weapons. But effect sizes are fairly small overall.
doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf039
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We have a title! Cover coming soon...and the book comes out in October via @CornellPress.
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I am elated to say that my book, "Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict," is now published and available to order!
In the book, I argue and demonstrate that negotiations are not only used to end wars but can also be wielded to fight them.
A summary thread is below.
I have a new piece published by @defpriorities that evaluates the effectiveness of different strategies for soliciting alliance burden-sharing. Check it out!
defensepriorities.org/conten…
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I just received an advance copy of my book, Words of War! I am thrilled to hold it. The nice cover is a bonus.
The book argues that negotiations are not only used to end wars but also to fight them.
Words of War comes out on February 15, 2025. More info: cornellpress.cornell.edu/boo…
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🇩🇪 is planning to reintroduce national service to strengthen its national and collective deterrence & defence capabilities and build up a strong reserve. The new legislation was approved by the Cabinet today and will be debated in the Bundesrat and Bundestag early next year. 1/2
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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’.
doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00488
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Thrilled to review @BrianDBlank's fantastic book for @PSQuarterly. I suppose you can read it, but just go read the actual book if you can. It's awesome.
academic.oup.com/psq/advance…
