I’m a signatory, and my ideas about this come from this report by @schneierblog and I, which was published by @SNFAgoraJHU last week https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/rechanneling-beliefs-how-information-flows-hinder-or-help-democracy …https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1399733934360076295 …
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I’ve a whole long essay in me on the circumstances under which these things may or may not have influence (or academic ideas more generally). Short version is that they are always long shots, almost never change people’s minds, but can help at the margins in coalition building.
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Triangulating between https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/06/04/who-influences-whom-reflections-on-u-s-government-outreach-to-think-tanks/ …, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/security-scholars-for-a-sensible-foreign-policy-a-study-in-weberian-activism/3631AA4F68FEEB6EACE40ACBB4ED323B … and http://henryfarrell.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ISQ-PDF-final-submission.pdf …. Which is a longwinded way of saying I Have Opinions On This Question.
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And in an emphatic demonstration of the letter’s surefire political efficacy, I’m starting to get ALL CAPS EMAILS from random strangers again, looking to inspire me to take up their causes.
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