How do leaders wage war or end conflicts when ordinary voters have a different preference?

Elizabeth N. Saunders launches her latest book, w/ commentary from
Kori Schake 🌻🇺🇦 @kschake.bsky.social Michael O'Hanlon Edward Luce & EJ Dionne.

Next Monday at 10:30 AM Eastern.
brookings.edu/events/the-ins…

Thrilled for this event next week, join us in person or virtually! 👇

Looking forward to this event today!

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Everything is terrible but the Eurovision Song Contest goes on. If you teach international cooperation, like sequins, or are Eurovision-curious, Alexandra Guisinger has the Good Authority (from the team that published TMC) explainer for you. goodauthority.org/news/good-to-k…

This was a fun chat when I was across the pond earlier this spring! Thanks for having me, LSE Phelan US Centre LSE Ballpark Podcast.

🎙️ The LSE Ballpark | The Insiders’ Game: How Elites Make War and Peace

🎧 Listen to Elizabeth N. Saunders (@Columbia) discussing the role of ‘elites’ in US foreign policymaking, and her new book from Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2024…

How are leaders able to wage war in the face of popular opposition, or end conflicts when the public still supports them?

Elizabeth N. Saunders answers this & more in her new book, 'The Insiders’ Game: How Elites Make War and Peace'.

Get your copy today:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

A 9pm Knicks Game 6 start conjures up the many 90s huge games that ended right on the NYT largest edition deadline, requiring if-win and if-lose running columns and the postgame terror of wondering, even for a heart-stopping second, that the wrong one had been filed.

How are leaders able to wage war in the face of popular opposition, or end conflicts when the public still supports them?

Elizabeth N. Saunders answers this & more in her new book, 'The Insiders’ Game: How Elites Make War and Peace'.

Get your copy today:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Hear Ken Opalo & kim yi dionne (@dadakim.bsky.social) talk about democratic backsliding + resilience in the latest episode of our podcast, hosted by Erik Voeten. They draw on their recent Journal of Democracy essays and highlight what we learn from Afrobarometer data.

Listen/subscribe here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/goo…

This piece from Heather Sullivan helpfully puts recent police crackdowns on campus protesters in the context of broader shifts in strategies of protest management — check it out!

In recent years, authorities have rolled back policies designed to manage protests peacefully, and now, using riot police to break up peaceful protest is becoming common.

Heather Sullivan discusses these regulations, separations, and crack downs.

Read: goodauthority.org/news/using-rio…

Looking forward to this visit to CISAC next week!

Just-published research shows that partisan election officials don't appear to favor their own party. New from me Good Authority (from the team that published TMC):

goodauthority.org/news/partisan-…

Join us!

+1 this afternoon.

Iran is playing a high-stakes game by attacking Israel.

Here's what political science tells us about conflict, war, and unmanned attacks.

Read the story: goodauthority.org/news/iran-is-p…

Read the great Jacquelyn Schneider in Good Authority (from the team that published TMC) on the risks of unmanned warfare:

Really looking forward to launching my book, Made in China, in London on May 7 at LSE!

The event is free and open to the public although please do make sure to register: lse360.my.site.com/events/s/event…

For those outside London, it will also be broadcast online!