🚨We are still accepting submissions for our Specialist Group's Best PhD Paper Award 2026! 🚨 The award is for the best article/chapter by a current PhD candidate. The paper *does not* have to have been presented at the PSA. Self-nominations welcome! Email us at arc.psa.sg@gmail.com by 19 June!

Israeli media and the wider public seem to be aligned in the expectation that war with Iran will resume soon. As national broadcaster Kan reports: "security preparedness is at the highest stage" since the ceasefire right now. www.kan.org.il/content/kan-...

בישראל ציפו לתקיפה באיראן תוך שעות - והופתעו מהדחייה האמריקנית

ההיערכות לאפשרות של תקיפה אמריקנית בשטח איראן נמשכת. גורם ביטחוני אמריקני לכאן חדשות:

kan.org.il

We're hiring a Post-Doc (3 years) at the @hertieschool.bsky.social for a @scripts-berlin.eu project on authoritarian influence in the video games industry (I am soooo excited about this project)! More details here (deadline 31 May): hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

Postdoctoral Researcher - Narrative, Power, and Control (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com

In an effort to promote open data, I just uploaded my media-based data collection on political DDoS attacks from 2008-2016 with manual coding of attacker types, targets, and attribution certainty. Feel free to explore the early days of Anonymous and Russian hacktivists: osf.io/preprints/so...

Ich durfte für die @zeit.de meine Gedanken zur Rolle der Golfstaaten im Iran-Krieg aufschreiben 👇 www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Angriffe des Iran auf Golfstaaten: Die Golfstaaten werden angegriffen und wehren sich nicht – warum?

Brennende Raffinerien, geschlossene Flughäfen: Die iranischen Angriffe treffen die Golfstaaten hart. Aber sie halten sich raus, denn sie haben andere Interessen.

zeit.de

Happy to share my new article on Saudi Arabia’s regional policy. Setting aside the misplaced talk of a “return to Islamism,” I situate Saudi strategy historically and show how Riyadh’s “zero-conflict” turn is being undermined by ongoing Emirati and Israeli interventionism.

New Lines Magazine@newlinesmag.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NEW: After decades of shifting alliances that failed to deliver stability, Saudi Arabia now has a “zero-conflict” regional policy. It is this that is paradoxically creating tension with the UAE and Israel, writes @alamer.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/saudi...

Scariest chart I've seen in a long time. If this is real, UK graduate vacancies have fallen 70% relative to 2017 and are as low as at the bottom of the pandemic. Data is from job matching platform Adzuna. www.ft.com/content/c894...

We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds! You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/ It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below. The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.

Who has a good diaspora politics syllabus theyre willing to share (grad level preferred)

🥳 Job update I'm delighted to share that I completed my PhD on Saudi politics at Cambridge and started a new role as Junior Research Fellow in politics @magdalenoxford.bsky.social You can find out more about my research here: www.bschmidtfeuerheerd.com

Thanks Google AI for the helpful summary of Greg Gause’s Foreign Affairs article “The Price of Order.”

Enjoying watching the UK trip over own shoelaces on this...

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Rest of world already pouncing. @bloomberg.com @reuters.com #H1B www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🔝 This is the most-read story on FT right now >>

Ahmed Al Omran@alomran.me · 12mo ago

🚨 My latest story: Saudi authorities shut down two dozen music “lounges” in recent weeks over violations to public health and hygiene codes, but their existence has been controversial for years as conservatives see them as signs of the rapid decay of morals and social norms.

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Politics Journal@politicsjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

2024 Best Research Article published in Politics @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com @uofglasgow.bsky.social: we're happy to announce the winner is Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd @brunofeuerheerd.bsky.social for his work on violence in social movements. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/pol/col...

If you’re a PhD student from or working on MENA, or if you are advising MENA students who could benefit from a supportive online working space, please reach out. We’ve had dozens of PhD students from Turkey alone finish their dissertations, apply for grants and jobs, revise article submissions.

Lisel Hintz@liselhintz.bsky.social · last yr.

Tomorrow begins Week 119 of the Zoom writing group I started post-2023 earthquakes. What are we? *Students and scholars of all levels/fields *Expanded to include those from or working on MENA *8-10 sessions/week, join any/all *Solidarity + structure for writing tasks Interested? Please reach out!

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social is now published by OUP in the USA (rest of world soon) If you are interested in why you see so many dictatorships & illiberal leaders influencing world politics then this is the book for you.

This should be much, much bigger news in Germany. It should be a lead item on the national news. "A four-year-old Black boy died in a fire in a house in Wilhelmshaven occupied exclusively by people of recent immigration background...The public prosecutor's office is now investigating the arson."

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · last yr.

Grim news from Germany. A black family, who had previously experienced several incidents of racial harassment, was the victim of a suspected arson attack on Monday. One child is dead, the other is in critical condition. A fundraiser for them is here: www.gofundme.com/f/unterstutz...

POMEPS Call for Papers: Syria after Assad Workshop. We seek papers on topics related to understanding Syria today that will be discussed at a virtual workshop on Sept. 19th. The deadline to apply is July 21st. For more info on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers: Syria after Assad Workshop - Project on Middle East Political Science

The stunning collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024 has thrown up crucial questions about the future of Syria and the Syrian people. For example, is Syria transitioning mainly from fourteen yea...

pomeps.org

Exit polls and turnout figures look very promising for Nicușor Dan (and prediction markets seem to agree). But lots of uncertainty remains given the gap between exit polls and results in the first wave. Meanwhile, Simion claimed victory, setting the stage for fraud claims (and possibly violence.)

“'No one knows better than us that the Gazans have nowhere to return,' explained a commander, whose battalion was involved in the destruction of about a thousand buildings over two months in 2025. [...]'The idea was to destroy everything.'" #Gaza www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

Do you have any new publications or CfPs to share with the APSG community? Do you work on authoritarian politics and are in the academic market (or will soon)? Let us know!! forms.gle/wMqEnjAgJyxq...

Wrote up a similar set of results the other day if you haven’t read it already. benansell.substack.com/p/labour-is-...

Labour is Learning the Wrong Lessons

Centre-left incumbents are staying in power by aggressively pushing back on populists, not by aping them

benansell.substack.com

The comparativists are making good sense of US politics: a great new piece by my old friend and collaborator @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social

How ICE is becoming a secret police force under the Trump administration

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement meets most criteria that have defined secret police forces in authoritarian regimes. And the worst may be yet to come.

theconversation.com

A decline in public investments and overall austerity, however, create more breeding ground for grievances that the far right can capitalize on. If you combine this with a normalization of their anti-immigrant position, it is the ideal situation for them. This is exactly what Labour is doing.

AI free is the new organic

My latest: Trump is heading to Saudi in mid-May, chasing $1 trillion in investments He may leave disappointed The kingdom’s role in the global economy is shifting -- from an exporter of capital to a seeker of funds Full analysis on the Bloomberg terminal

Das betrifft nicht nur Journalist*innen, die für die SZ schreiben, sondern auch alle Wissenschaftler*innen. Informa (Routledge, Taylor&Francis) hat sämtliche Daten an Microsoft verkauft, ohne Zustimmung der Autor*nnen & ohne jede Vergütung. Danke für nichts. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Taylor & Francis AI deal sets "worrying precedent"

The publisher didn’t give authors any notice before selling access to its data to Microsoft for $10 million. The agreement could improve academic research, but it further entrenches the predatory natu...

insidehighered.com

Quentin Lichtblau@lichtblauq.bsky.social · last yr.

Das ist heftig: Wer für die SZ arbeiten will, muss neuerdings einer Klausel zustimmen, welche die eigene Arbeit für KI-Training freigibt. Völlig richtig, dass der @djv.de dagegen vorgeht. www.djv.de/medienpoliti...

"The data analytic tools now being used to scour social media were enhanced during the Biden administration, a former Biden administration DHS official said."

Very excited to see my PhD dissertation published! I asked who gets to imagine Edinburgh’s future. I spoke with political leaders, tech entrepreneurs and higher education officials responsible for delivering the Edinburgh City Region Deal. Open access link ⬇️

Envisaging Dataist Modernity

Who gets to imagine datafied visions of the future city (region) and why is it important to look at universities as powerful urban stakeholders?

transcript-publishing.com

At a time when international students and scholars are turning away from America, instead of seizing this opportunity, Number 10 have a steely focus on winning the Runcorn by-election to help defend their wafer-thin majority of 174 seats.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last yr.

The UK government is proposing to finally finish off its universities by further tightening the terms of the graduate visa route. The stupid fools. Playing with dangers they don't even understand. www.ft.com/content/f441...