Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology

cmist-cmu.bsky.social

16 October 2026 13:20

Why do states wait to govern emerging technologies? In International Studies Quarterly, justin key canfil identifies an "opacity trap" in which the mutual secrecy needed for technological competition delays recognition that competition may be counterproductive. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqag079

Security Studies Program MIT

ssp-mit.bsky.social

09 October 2026 20:02

Former Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Fellow @joshschwartz.bsky.social and coauthor @sabrinabarias.bsky.social release a new study that provides one of the few causally identified tests of local policy makers’ climate policy preferences. via Perspectives on Politics: https://bit.ly/4iamOeH

Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology

cmist-cmu.bsky.social

05 October 2026 18:50

Congratulations to @joshschwartz.bsky.social on winning the 2026 @perryworldhouse.bsky.social @foreignaffairs.com Emerging Scholars Policy Prize! His essay, “Fighting for Credibility Can Destroy It," will be published by Foreign Affairs in the coming months. perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/news-and-ins...

Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology

cmist-cmu.bsky.social

30 September 2026 15:59

What kinds of environmental plans do local policymakers support? In Perspectives on Politics, @sabrinabarias.bsky.social and CMIST's @joshschwartz.bsky.social demonstrate that the probability of policy adoption can be increased by strategic design. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ankit Panda

nktpnd.bsky.social

25 August 2026 17:56

This was a fun discussion with Mike Horowitz and Josh Schwarz on their recent work on automation and the credibility of nuclear threats. Listen here (for @warontherocks.bsky.social members): warontherocks.com/episode/thin...