A reminder about applications for the 2026 Journeys in World Politics workshop being due on June 1st! Please apply!

Sara Mitchell@sbmitche.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Applications for the 2026 Journeys in World Politics workshop (10/1-10/3) in San Diego are being accepted (due 6/1). The workshop features Kathleen Cunningham & Leah Windsor as senior mentors. Christina Schneider is our local host! Visit the site below to apply. www.saramitchell.org/journeys.html

Excited to announce a new Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies special issue co-edited with @harrismylonas.bsky.social: The Logics of Eliminationist Politics. @scmrjems.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/5...

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

The Logics of Eliminationist Politics. Volume 52, Issue 4 of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Never wanted Canadian citizenship more

J. Kelly Nestruck@nestruck.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

We have just witnessed state security services execute a protestor in cold blood. If they can get away with it, we have entered a new, exceptionally dangerous stage in America’s authoritarian slide.

abolish ice is the moderate position to be honest. whichever candidate promises to nuremberg the ice agents has my vote at this point

Move slightly to the side or murder someone, tough choices ICE officers have to make daily.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 7mo ago

Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)

Do historical analogies shape public opinion about foreign policymaking? Read the latest research by @chriswblair.bsky.social, Paul Lendway, and CMIST's @joshschwartz.bsky.social in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Historical Analogies and Public Support for Foreign Policy Action - Christopher Blair, Paul Lendway, Joshua A. Schwartz, 2025

Politicians frequently use historical analogies to justify their preferred foreign policies. However, despite their prevalence, it remains unclear whether, how,...

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Historical analogies are omnipresent in foreign policy debates—like accusations that Trump's Russia-Ukraine peace plan is akin to appeasing Hitler. But are analogies an effective rhetorical tool? Check out my new article w/ @chriswblair.bsky.social & Paul Lendway. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

I was quite pessimistic about the trajectory of American democracy in my last response to a Brightline Watch survey. Clearly I was not sufficiently pessimistic.

Our article on civilian harm and military legitimacy is now available at @iojournal.bsky.social. We believe it has timely implications for events playing out now in the Middle East and beyond. From North Carolina to Northern Iraq, working with Jon and Mara has been a truly rewarding experience!

Mara Revkin@mararevkin.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share a new open-access article with @benckrick.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social, "Civilian Harm & Military Legitimacy" www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... This project started in 2018 Mosul, Iraq’s 2nd largest city, in the aftermath of a 9-month battle … 1/7

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

good_description/good_description_ddk_agb.pdf at main · ddekadt/good_description

Homepage of "Good Description" by Daniel de Kadt & Anna Grzymala-Busse - ddekadt/good_description

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A new Trump administration policy offers cash to migrants undertaking "self-deportation." It was a pleasure to speak with @bloomberg.com on some of the potential pitfalls of this approach, building on my research on a cash-for-repatriation scheme in Pakistan www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This dataset is truly awesome. Check out this example map (especially Latin America) from their report introducing the dataset. Thanks to the authors & contributors! @chriswblair.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social

Guy Grossman@guygrossman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Last week, our research team launched The Dataset of World Refugee and Asylum Policies (DRWAP). Video introducing the data: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J330... Public dashboard to play with the data: datanalytics.worldbank.org/dwrap/ The dataset itself is hosted at: shorturl.at/NGr7v

The most revolting Oval Office presser since Feb. 28 (the Zelensky one). Even just hitting a few of the lowlights of this will leave you sickened and dismayed. BUT it's also clarifying. Anyone who has been talking about "the road to authoritarianism" can stop that now. The road is behind us.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia? BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous TRUMP: These are sick people

on.ft.com/42gQ4HA How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America

How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America

A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’

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As my colleagues and I wrote in the Daily Princetonian last week, we all have to stand up for our science, and not accept this attack on universities. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

To stop intimidation, Eisgruber needs your help

When targeting one institution is a bald attempt to divide and conquer, as is the case with Columbia, it is essential for a coalition or group of institutions and individuals to stand up together.&nbs...

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What I feel is ashamed.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Trump to Zelenskyy: "Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. You're in no position to dictate that. You're in no position to dictate what we're gonna feel. We're gonna feel very good and very strong. You're right now not in a very good position. You're gambling with World War 3."

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

🚨🚨🚨🚨 New WP (with @benckrick.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social) available at the ESOC working paper series: esoc.princeton.edu/wp39

🚨🚨🚨🚨 New WP (with @benckrick.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social) available at the ESOC working paper series: esoc.princeton.edu/wp39

1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

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Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

@harvardlil.bsky.social is working on this at lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...

Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab

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Scholars across many fields are frantically grabbing government data that’s disappearing from the public domain. Is there any forum for sharing access - like an open source, central repository - that all of us who archived data could contribute to for purposes of scholarship and public interest?

Deborah Blum@deborahb.bsky.social · 2y ago

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

The new Gitmo plan is horrifying. As a research aside, I’ve got FOIA’ed data on every migrant and drug interdiction by the USCG from 1997-2017 - haven’t had much time to work with it, but I will say they patrol a huge area as far south as the Galapagos and the Colombian coast.

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here at the White House, DHS Secretary Noem and border czar Homan tell reporters that as a result of the president's latest executive order the US Coast Guard, already tasked to intercept migrants at sea, “can take them straight to Guantanamo Bay.”

In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, @sabrinabarias.bsky.social and @chriswblair.bsky.social show that individuals affected by Hurricane Ian reported increased support for climate policy action and more positive attitudes towards climate migrants for up to six months after the hurricane. bit.ly/4g5aBVq

From our new issue: "In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes" by Sabrina Arias (@sabrinabarias.bsky.social) and Christopher Blair (@chriswblair.bsky.social). www.cambridge.org/core/service...

🚨🚨 Thrilled that my work with @sabrinabarias.bsky.social in @apsrjournal.bsky.social is featured on the cover of the latest issue. 🚨🚨 Article available Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...