Mladen Lišanin

@mladen_lisanin

Political scientist. Researcher. IR wonk. scholar, alumnus, former Visiting Fellow . Tweets in English & Serbian, usual disclaimers

Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Joined November 2016
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    2 hours ago

    60-100 days actually a very long time for this to be soft-pedaled, quietly rolled back, modified etc once out of public eye. I suspect much remains to be seen. Could easily imagine small US footprint still there indefinitely even if most publicly depart.

    U.S. official tells all State Department personnel are being evacuated from within 24 hours. All military forces will be pulled out once final stages of last operation against ISIS is complete. Time frame for pullout expected to be btw 60-100 days.
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    Whatever the wisdom/process of this decision and the feelings of D.C. pundits, this will probably play well domestically. Fair or not, the onus is now on Trump's critics to explain why US ground forces are necessary in Syria. Good luck with that.

    1. Astonished - but not surprised - by DC pundits outrage and horror over Trump's Syria withdrawal. "Trump is handing Syria to Russia and Iran"…
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  3. 4 hours ago

    Too bad it's not very likely to happen this time either

    I am happy to see a President who can declare victory and bring our troops out of a war. It’s been a long time since that has happened.
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    6 hours ago

    I think I have whiplash. Is our policy complete and immediate withdrawal, or to stay in Syria till all the Iranians are gone? I've heard both... this week.

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    11 hours ago

    The "ideological" argument seems compelling until you dig deeper. In my years of research in Russian and Chinese archives, I rarely saw anything that would amount to an ideological motives for policy making, except as an after-the-fact rationalization.

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    16 hours ago

    “The democratic public gradually loses respect for elites who fail to hold themselves to any plausibly legitimate standard while those elites lose patience with a public that refuses to define itself as a question to which elite mores would be an answer.”

    A genuinely wonderful response-and it doesn’t even mention clinics! If you believe like me (and unlike some progressives) that conservatives are worth engaging, not least because of common emerging objections to elite rule, it is a great place to start.
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    Dec 17

    I have written a good part and Cambridge University Press published a book by me: The Lisbon Treaty: A Legal and Political Analysis”.Read it. It explains roots and meaning, in particular why it put an end to a European Federal State.

    Replying to @piris_jc
    Have you read the Lisbon Treaty?
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  8. Dec 16

    Yet another proof that liberal international rules-based order is most efficiently destroyed from within

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    Dec 14

    1) Good discussion involving involving NDS Commission report and virtues of American primacy. I am not neutral (was lead writer for NDS Commission report and agree with most of what it says) but thread raises key issues.

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    Dec 13

    There is a tension here. Britain won special treatment within the EU precisely because it *is* big, important, and special (by EU standards). Leave *and* Remain hold (divergent) visions of that specialness. And *all* Western states face many of Brexit’s drivers. None of this..1/2

    1/ If you don’t follow Brexit every day, here’s some advice. Let go of any illusions that this drama is about trade protocols, residency rights or the status of the Irish border. Brexit is the story of a proud former imperial…
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  11. Dec 12

    This is some deeply disturbing stuff

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    John Kerry and Hillary Clinton dancing to Bollywood music with Shah Rukh Khan in India 2018 is weird.
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    Dec 12

    UK: CON-ECR Confidence Vote Prime Minister Theresa May survives an internal party confidence vote called over issues surrounding her proposed Brexit deal

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    Dec 11

    Sure, U.S. "disengagement" in ME is the problem. Not enough engagement with Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iran, Yemen. Not enough bases. Not enough money invested. Not enough arms sales. Not enough casualties. Not enough drone strikes. Not enough NSC time invested. Not enough sanctions.

    U.S. disengagement from much of Middle Eastern politics has encouraged allies to adopt more aggressive foreign policies, write and , which has in turn required an ideological language for sustaining that aggression. …
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    Dec 9

    5/ The point? We need to be careful NOT to be "fooled by randomness" (to quote , who also aptly quoted on this topic) when evaluating the "decline of war" thesis. (end)

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  15. Dec 5

    Možda biste mogli da proverite šta o problemima sa linijom 65 kažu GSP i gradski Sekretarijat za saobraćaj? Hvala

    Ja bih da se zahvalim Vesari što 20 min čekam 65 sa još (IZBROJALA SAM) 42 ljudi u Ruzveltovoj, radnim danom u 14:00. Gorane mi te volimo! ♥️♥️♥️♥️
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  16. Dec 4

    Piše da je dosta lako zaraditi platu kao specijalni predstavnik EU na Kosovu

    Ево реците ми, можда сам ја глуп, јел пише нешто у овом твиту?
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  17. Dec 4

    Every time

    Surely the German language has a handy 57 letter word for the space where the library book you were hunting used to be. Or the phenomenon of going to the library for a specific book but coming back with seven books found…
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    Dec 3

    This would honestly be great.

    I am certain that, at some time in the future, President Xi and I, together with President Putin of Russia, will start talking about a meaningful halt to what has become a major and uncontrollable Arms Race. The U.S. spent 716 Billion Dollars this year. Crazy!
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  19. Dec 3

    Pod B

    Is it just me ili saobraćaj u ovom gradu ne funkcioniše?
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  20. Dec 2

    "Choice is not between moral principles and the national interest, devoid of moral dignity, but between one set of moral principles divorced from political reality, and another set of moral principles derived from political reality" Morgenthau, In Defense of the National Interest

    Hey, nerds... as a young student, what sentence helped to change your perspective on the world? Let me know. I’ll start you off:…
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