Associate Professor at @setonhall.bsky.social Diplomacy. Teaches conflict, nationalism, methods. Researches separatism, diplomacy, civilians. Yes I will belay you.https://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3mrwxgtx7fs2yGuess whose ugly mug is gonna be in the Sept/Oct issue of Foreign Affairs. Here I'm bragging about @setonhall.bsky.social's new Masters program. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/sponsored/gradschoolforum/seton-hall-university31 Jul 2026 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrwxgtx7fs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3mimbde4gp22iMy undergrads wrote a short survey about the Iran war. It's short, only 3 min. They're trying to get responses ASAP. Could you take it real quick, and maybe pass it to others? Works on PC and smartphone. All perspectives welcome. Here's the link: https://shu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3h24D9vcjZZlNY203 Apr 2026 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimbde4gp22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3mcmt5lyfm222@njpbs.bsky.social @steveadubato.bsky.social had me on to talk about the cruel, reckless sabotaging of USAID and other amazing Trump foreign policy decisions of the last year. https://www.njpbs.org/programs/think-tank-with-steve-adubato/r-joseph-huddleston-us-rep-herb-conaway-jr-uyln7p/17 Jan 2026 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcmt5lyfm222https://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3m7d7lduxw22n🚨Job Alert! @setonhall.bsky.social is hiring a TT asst prof of Cybersecurity and Policy, split appointment between CompSci and Diplomacy. Open until filled (but I'd say get apps in by early January). Come live in the Garden State! https://jobs.shu.edu/cw/en-us/job/497063/assistant-professor-of-cybersecurity-and-policy06 Dec 2025 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7d7lduxw22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3m65in3oce22q@setonhall.bsky.social Diplomacy is hiring! We're looking for an Assistant Professor in International Human Rights Law. Apply! And let me know if you have questions. https://jobs.shu.edu/cw/en-us/job/497064/assistant-professor-international-human-rights-law-public-international-law21 Nov 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3m65in3oce22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3m5vvgaha5s2bAny PhDs (maybe ABDs) out here in the NJ-NYC area who'd be interested in teaching a (once a week) masters level course in international security in the spring semester? We're a 30min train ride from Penn Station NY. Reach out if you have someone in mind (including yourself)!18 Nov 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5vvgaha5s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lltk4vbcp22sI am spending my sabbatical year working on Cory Booker's foreign policy team. What he pulled off with his 25-hr speech was extraordinary. I feel proud and incredibly privileged to have contributed. Here's a bit of the national security section my team worked on: https://youtu.be/GnKDC5xzAi0?si=SEcoYV3A3kgNEKrG02 Apr 2025 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lltk4vbcp22shttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3leaexgcxrc2dNew publication! @reyhuang.bsky.social and I ask a tough ethical question of ourselves and conflict scholars: Are we marketing rebellion? A few years ago, we discovered we both were grappling with this question. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2024.2431910 1/826 Dec 2024 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3leaexgcxrc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3ldduh6ubic2qInitial 2 reactions. Good: Wow, an AI that has read my syllabus and all my slides/readings will probably give better answers to my students than rando internet AIs at 3am. Evil: Wow, a lot of people think this AI could replace TAs. I guess we finally have a solution to the overproduction of PhDs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Dec 2024 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldduh6ubic2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3ldacqsow4s2cSomeone please help Mr Lizard get Big Scooter to make things right (preferably not Luigi-style). [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Dec 2024 03:02 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldacqsow4s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lcptr3vadk25Holy cow, when was the last time a state collapsed this fast under rebel group pressure? [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Dec 2024 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcptr3vadk25https://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lbziolj4us26Perfect way to kick off Thanksgiving weekend (and preburn a few thousand calories, Denny's Cove, Tennessee) #climbsky28 Nov 2024 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbziolj4us26https://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lbwjrejgns2aThis is all the reason anyone needs to stay off the birdsite. https://www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2024/bluesky-boom-worries-chinese-media27 Nov 2024 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbwjrejgns2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lbb5bans5c2yThis is probably why I really left. For months I blocked/muted every one of these ad accounts, but they were infinite. I screenshotted them for about a week before I said eff that. Just an awful information experience overall. Wasn't gonna last.19 Nov 2024 00:06 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbb5bans5c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lb5owzysoc2mThis place is so much better at connecting peers than Twttr/X ever was. My follower count is recovered after only a week, I'm finding interesting folks I never knew about and, they are mostly not bots. It's all signal and very little noise around here. So much better.17 Nov 2024 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb5owzysoc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lazo2tzuus2aJust found this over there. I think he means it as a diss, but it's not a diss, and anyway he's right.16 Nov 2024 00:45 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lazo2tzuus2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lazn3m7y6s2pI've been thinking about this argument of Arendt's a good bit lately. (Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1973)16 Nov 2024 00:28 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lazn3m7y6s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3laktojiuhk2bIf a Trump HHS really wanted to do something they'd get universal credit for, it would not be to ban fluoride from our water, but micro-plastics. But then they'd have to take on big oil, so...10 Nov 2024 03:16 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3laktojiuhk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lagvry6kto2wSorry, @andrew-yang.bsky.social, ranked choice voting lost practically everywhere. Folks just prefer to keep their party extremists... https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2024/11/05/ranked-choice-voting-ballot-measures/08 Nov 2024 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lagvry6kto2whttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lael47eyzn2hI've thought this too, and I sincerely hope it plays out. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Nov 2024 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lael47eyzn2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lacn36u4ch24Okay, I'm moving in for real this time.06 Nov 2024 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lacn36u4ch24https://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lbfbmx3gzw2kI'm shy on Twitter, and not too popular, but I've been here since 2009. I loved it here. But I just don't anymore. The ads are ghastly, my fave posters are buried in algorithmic garbage, and most the good ones don't post anymore either. I'm moving on. I'll still be over at 🦋06 Nov 2024 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfbmx3gzw2khttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lbfbmx4rdn223 normy siblings spontaneously texted me today: - "Blown away...seems like a genuine person." - "Gave a B- speech...in the context of her-or-trump she sounds pretty good." - "She doesn't seem like a libtard." In this clan, this is really quite significant. #DNC2024CHICAGO24 Aug 2024 01:33 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfbmx4rdn22https://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lbfbmx6hql2kExciting news! This month, I start as a @CFR_org fellow by joining @CoryBooker's foreign policy team to work on research, legislation, oversight, and policy advising, especially on Sen. Booker's work as chair of the @senatefrc subcommittee on...02 Aug 2024 20:13 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfbmx6hql2khttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lbfbmx7keq2lNothing has made me more demoralized about the future of AI than these @Google use case ads of children using Gemini to write letters to their role models. #OlympicGames #Paris202431 Jul 2024 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfbmx7keq2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lbfbmxanjq2l"It's slicker than snot on teflon out here!" as my TN dad says. Gotta feel for the @TeamUSA women triathletes. #Paris202427 Jul 2024 13:25 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfbmxanjq2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lbfbmxbmp52xMy parents' 50th anniversary is coming up, my aunt's making a quilt, and I decided to try my hand at some diwani calligraphy on my contribution. How'd I do?12 May 2024 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfbmxbmp52xhttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lbfbmxrtud2kIn the last 4 yrs, this woman has - left an abusive marriage - left an abusive religion - raised/supported 4 boys - started a new career and - finished her bachelor's! She seized control of her life. I'm so amazed by my big sis Jessica for her exceptional grit and optimism!05 May 2024 17:34 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfbmxrtud2khttps://bsky.app/profile/joehud.bsky.social/post/3lbfbmycc762kHard to express how honored I am to have been named University Teacher of the Year by @SetonHall. I will continue to do my damnedest to educate and empower our excellent students at @shuDiplomacy (after a quick 1yr sabbatical🙃)23 Apr 2024 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:4n6gbjcb2htkgl7kdold2gty/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfbmycc762k