Nicholas Danforth

@NicholasDanfort

Senior Policy Analyst, Bipartisan Policy Center. Mideast Politics. Turkey. Maps. Historical Randomness. Retweets are not endorsements nor necessarily sarcastic.

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    Nov 16

    My new article in Journal of Social History "The Silk Road and the Sitar: Finding Centuries of Cultural Exchange in the History of an Instrument."

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    Nov 18

    is erdogan emboldened? maybe, but he's been arresting academics, vowing to defy iran sanctions and threatening us troops in syria for a long time now.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    New policy. If you argue Turkey is actually responsible for all the civilians killed by the PKK or the PKK is actually responsible for all the civilians killed by the Turkish army you get blocked.

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  4. 3 hours ago

    "renewing alliances" is a cheap think tank cliche up until the moment you realize it requires you to mobilize against austria-hungary and germany.

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  5. 3 hours ago

    I think "renewing alliances" to "shape a future to [their] liking" was actually what everyone was trying to do in 1914 too

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  6. 3 hours ago

    "Will Manbij and the area east of the Euphrates be key to US-Turkish cooperation in northern Syria or a bomb to blow up their strategic partnership?"

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    "I really think that inadequate force projection in theaters of vital interest will create a bow wave inviting further deployments of gray zone tactics by near-peer competitors hoping to undermine the post-WWII liberal international order."

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  8. 21 hours ago

    Meanwhile if Erdogan is looking for something to give Putin, he can choose between this Ottomans vs Byzantines chess set or the 19th century Ottomans-Russians version

    Capitalists versus Workers chess set given by Stalin to Ismet Inonu
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  9. 23 hours ago

    apparently old archeological journals hired pirates as illustrators

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  10. Nov 18

    "Today the UK is “just” another European power – a big Canada rather than a small United States" "The UK today could not dream of fighting the Second World War, or even invading Egypt"

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  11. Nov 18

    similarly, unrealistic rhetoric from both sides about how great things are was also a pretty standards feature of the relationship right up until the moment it wasnt

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  12. Nov 18

    For all the speculation about dirty deals or the kashoggi effect, it really seems like us-turkish relations have just returned to the dysfunctional status quo that existed before the brunson issue exploded

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  13. Nov 18

    Very glad spoke up as well. Unfortunately when it comes to Turkey this is what the liberal order looked like since the mid-50s. Principled individuals objecting when our NATO ally jails intellectuals and Washington not necessarily following suit

    Proud of for using the Halifax forum of democracies to hold a NATO ally accountable. This is what upholding the liberal order looks like -- well done, my friend.
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    Nov 17

    "By way of conclusion, this paper takes as self-apparent the irreducible complexity of cities and their articulation with global flows and forces, which necessitate a global political economic optic."

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  15. Nov 17

    I enjoyed learning about the sinister side of the Istanbul Hilton, but at the end of the day my critique of US Cold War foreign policy is still more about the dictators and death squads

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  16. Nov 17

    So how's MESA going? Any good papers?

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  17. Nov 17

    Capitalists versus Workers chess set given by Stalin to Ismet Inonu

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  18. Nov 17

    Qualia: come for the coffee, stay for 1100 pages of diplomatic history

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