Ryan D. Griffiths

Ryan D. Griffiths

@ryan-griffiths.bsky.social

Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University ryan-griffiths.com New Books: The Disunited States (Oxford UP, 2025) and Before Colonization (Columbia UP, 2025, with Charles Butcher)

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Paul Poast
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IR Book of the Week! "Taming the Careerists" by Minju Kim. When it comes to US foreign policy, we focus a lot on Presidents, top-level diplomats, and the close advisers to both. But US foreign policy is also dramatically (and surprisingly, as Kim shows) influenced by career bureaucrats.

Ryan D. Griffiths
@ryan-griffiths.bsky.social

It was a tremendous pleasure having this conversation with James Ker-Lindsay about secession in America.

James Ker-Lindsay@jameskerlindsay.bsky.social

Could the #UnitedStates break apart? Aside from deep political differences between Red and Blue states, it also has some fascinating separatist movements. It was great to talk about all this with @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social #CalExit #Texit youtu.be/ZmGfSa2gfXQ

youtu.beThe Disunited States | Could Secession Tear America Apart?YouTube video by Prof James Ker-Lindsay
Ryan D. Griffiths
@ryan-griffiths.bsky.social

Do states make systems, or do systems make states? Michael McCall and I provide an answer in this EJIR article. @mccall.bsky.social

EJIR@ejir.bsky.social

"The state made the system and the system made the state" by Ryan D. Griffiths and Michael C. McCall is out now in EJIR and available open access. You can read it here: t1p.de/yxac5

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Karlo Basta
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Join @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social @erinjenne.bsky.social and me for a book panel on Ryan's The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America, and Why They Won't Work. All details below 👇 @uoe-sps.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social

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The Disunited States - Online Event Join author Ryan Griffiths and our panel to discuss his new book, The Disunited States, in which he examines what a project of American secession would look like, and why America is ill-suited for a peaceful national divorce. Register/info: edin.ac/40MwMcG

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Victor Asal
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Voters lose when maps get redrawn before every election instead of once a decade − a trend started in Texas, moving to California and likely spreading across the country @us.theconversation.com David Patterson Soule Kyle Redican theconversation.com/voters-lose-...

theconversation.comVoters lose when maps get redrawn before every election instead of once a decade − a trend started in Texas, moving to California and likely spreading across the countryWith a new, mid-cycle redistricting war raging in state after state, the media and politicians focus on which party is winning or losing seats. But are citizens winning or losing in this conflict?

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Daniel McDowell
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Party like it's 1984! & 1985, 1987, 1989, & 1995! (If you don't get the joke: these are previous years when the US used the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund to bailout Argentina)

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Ryan D. Griffiths
@ryan-griffiths.bsky.social

This article offers an interesting twist on the analogy between national divorce and marital divorce – an analogy that I critique in The Disunited States. The author argues that where California is concerned, the US Government is guilty of “constructive abandonment.”

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Centre on Constitutional Change
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New blog! The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won’t Work Read @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social on what a project of American secession would look like, and why America is ill-suited for a peaceful 'national divorce' Read more: edin.ac/46Tl0jy

edin.acThe Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won’t WorkThere is a growing interest in secession, or what some refer to as a national divorce, between Red and Blue America. Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for it on multiple occasion...
Ryan D. Griffiths
@ryan-griffiths.bsky.social

A recent Times/Siena survey found that 64% of Americans think the country is too politically divided to solve its problems. Some might think a division into Redland and Blueland is the answer. It's not. I explain why in this book.

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A 2023 Axios poll found that 1 in 5 Americans support a “national divorce” between red and blue states. With polarization rising, is secession a real solution or a dangerous illusion that could tear the country apart? See more in “The Disunited States” available now: oxford.ly/4nC1zTC

Ryan D. Griffiths
@ryan-griffiths.bsky.social

In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has once again called for a national divorce. But as I argue in a new book, an American divorce would be a violent disaster, and is no solution at all. See www.amazon.com/Disunited-St...

amazon.comThe Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't WorkThe Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work - Kindle edition by Griffiths, Ryan D.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work.

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