Political Science PhD candidate @MIT, previously @GeorgetownCSS and @KenyonCollege. @Browns, @Cavs, and @ManUtd fan

Joined June 2017
PhD student @DCebul has been selected to receive a World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship by the Smith Richardson Foundation for his PhD dissertation research. polisci.mit.edu/news/2026/ph… @StudiesMit4226 @MIT_CIS @MIT_SHASS @MIT
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We're pleased to highlight PhD candidate Wright Smith who is on the job market. Learn more about Wright Smith at wrightlsmith.com/ @WrightLSmith @MIT_SSP @MIT_SHASS @MIT_CIS
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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
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Daniel Cebul retweeted
Five former Sec Def’s have penned a letter condemning Trump’s firing of senior military officials. “Mr. Trump's dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration's desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President's power.”
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Are you a PhD student, junior faculty member or early/mid-career national security practitioner interested in using wargaming as an analytic or teaching tool? Apply for the 2025 @MIT_SSP Wargaming Lab Summer Institute!
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Daniel Cebul retweeted
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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I'm presenting my job market paper at #APSA2024 (10am Sun)! I'm on the market this year, and the paper draws from my dissertation project, which shows how CN shapes int'l order by commandeering the existing rules, rather than overturning them or building new institutions 1/
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Big news from Berkeley Risk and Security Lab. We are hiring for FOUR new positions. If you're interested in working at the intersection of #technology and #security (with a little bit of #wargaming in the mix) here at the University of California, Berkeley, join us:
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when I’m not posting about pokemon or food I sometimes do research - read about some of it here!
Rising superpowers like China are “cautious opportunists” in global institutions, and the U.S. should avoid overreaction, PhD student Raymond Wang argues. news.mit.edu/2024/rules-game… @MIT_SHASS @MIT_CIS @soraywang
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⁦@MITPoliSci⁩ is searching for an Assistant Professor of International Relations. Details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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New studies by @sukrit_puri show that caste and ethnic identity play an outsize role in how business interacts with government in developing countries. @MIT_SHASS @MIT_CIS Check out his profile here. news.mit.edu/2024/all-in-fam…
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Twitter hive mind: putting an ISA panel together on rising powers in IOs/int order. Anyone interested?
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Your terrifying piece of info for today: Roughly one-third of adults under 30 regularly scroll TikTok for news, a 255% increase since 2020. Huge vector for disinformation.
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Excited to open the call for new applications for Pathways@GDL, a summer internship for undergraduates at US universities hosted by @MITPoliSci @lab_diversity aimed at expanding access to PhD programs. More info here: globaldiversitylab.mit.edu/s…
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Ever notice how defense contractors seem to advertise in DC subway stops near major government institutions? I spent five weeks in the subway system to learn more. A thread 🧵:
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