Consuelo Thiers
@consuelothiers.bsky.social
Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. Political psychologist interested in political leaders, interstate rivalries, emotions, foreign policy analysis and Latin America. 🇨🇱 https://consuelothiers.com/
Pleased to share a new collection of undergraduate student work from my course, The Political Psychology of Global Affairs. Students apply leadership profiling to explore how personality and beliefs shape foreign policy. Read here consuelothiers.com/political-psychology-leader-profiles-2025-26.pdf
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📣 FPA colleagues, two award deadlines are coming up fast on 15 July 2026 📅 🌱 Emerging Scholar Award 📝 Alexander George Best Paper Award Self-nominations are welcome. Send nominations to Valerio Vignoli or Jennifer Spindel. Details on the ISA FPA Section page.
The Foreign Policy Analysis section just launched a LinkedIn page. Follow us and share! @fpa-isa.bsky.social
Foreign Policy Analysis @ ISA@fpa-isa.bsky.social · last mo.FPA people, we have a LinkedIn page! Follow us for section news, calls, awards, events, and updates from the wider FPA community. Got a new article, book, workshop, job, CFP, panel, or teaching resource? Tag us, and we’ll repost relevant FPA news. www.linkedin.com/company/fore...
📢 Don't miss the upcoming FPA Section award deadlines! 15 July: 🏆 Emerging Scholar Award 📄 Alexander George Best Paper Award 31 July: 🔍 Margaret Hermann Award 📚 Best Book in Foreign Policy Analysis Award Details: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...
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Do mutual negative beliefs inevitably lead to escalation, or can they sometimes produce stability? Read @consuelothiers.bsky.social’s #openaccess article to learn how leaders’ beliefs in rival dyads influence escalation and cooperation: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiag031
Check out my article in the new issue of @iajournal.bsky.social “The psychology of interstate rivalries: leaders' beliefs and the dynamics of conflict and cooperation” 👇🏽
International Affairs@iajournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨New issue is out now! 🌍 Is there a future for the UN in the Middle East? 💻 Have technologies revolutionized maritime security? 👀 How does ignorance shape world orders? Read research on these topics and much more, along with 20 book reviews, in our May issue: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/102/3
📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from #BJPIR - Volume 28, Issue 2 (May 2026) 'No more Mr nice guy? A leadership trait analysis of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer' by @consuelothiers.bsky.social, Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery 🔗 buff.ly/MK1nfMy @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
After Labour’s significant losses in the latest elections, our paper with Benjamin Martill and Alan Convery on Starmer’s personality is very timely. It offers some insight into his past, present, and likely future behaviour. Read here (free access) 👇
Political Studies Association@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew #OpenAccess article in PSA Journal @bjpir.bsky.social 'No more Mr nice guy? A leadership trait analysis of UK Prime Minister #KeirStarmer' by @consuelothiers.bsky.social, Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery 👇
📢 JOB ALERT: Editorial and Communications Assistant We are looking for someone to join our team to support us through the peer review process and help promote the journal’s ideas to a global audience. Apply here 👇 careers.chathamhouse.org/jobs/7652736...
Editorial and Communications Assistant - Chatham House
You will play a vital part in supporting authors and editors through the peer review process and helping promote the journal’s ideas to a global audience.
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My new article, "The psychology of interstate rivalries: leaders' beliefs and the dynamics of conflict and cooperation," is out today. I explain why leaders' beliefs on both sides matter for understanding conflict and cooperation. academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
📝 Don't miss one of our most cited #openaccess #BJPIR articles! 'Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic' by @consuelothiers.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/EBmzNsu @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Congratulations to the winners! See you in Columbus :)
Foreign Policy Analysis @ ISA@fpa-isa.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe 2026 ISA Annual Convention in Columbus is just a few weeks away. Time to celebrate some great scholarship. 🎉 We are excited to announce the 2026 FPA Section Award winners and highlight a few events you will not want to miss. 🧵
📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'No more Mr nice guy? A leadership trait analysis of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer' by @consuelothiers.bsky.social, Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery 🔗 buff.ly/zW78fKh @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Los invito a leer mi columna en Ciper sobre el caso venezolano y lo que revela acerca de la bancarrota moral de Europa. Es una reflexión sobre incoherencias, silencios y valores que se declaran, pero no siempre se practican www.ciperchile.cl/2026/01/10/e...
El caso venezolano y la quiebra moral de Europa - CIPER Chile
Medio de investigación periodística independiente en Chile, enfocado en reportajes de actualidad y brindar información de calidad a la ciudadanía.
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New paper out with Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery in @bjpir.bsky.social We used Leadership Trait Analysis on UK PM Keir Starmer. Turns out he's much tougher than the "cautious technocrat" image suggests🧵 @edinburghpir.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1369...
I answered some questions for Anadolu Agency about José Antonio Kast and recently elected right and far-right presidents in Latin America. Read here 👇 www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
YEAR-ENDER - 2025: How rising right-wing reshaped Latin America’s political landscape
Latin America sees right-wing leaders rise to power in countries like Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador - Anadolu Ajansı
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I was interviewed by the @timeshighered.bsky.social on the current concerns around higher education and research in Chile under José Antonio Kast. You can read the article here Chilean academics fear funding cuts under new far-right leader www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chilean...
Chilean academics fear funding cuts under new far-right leader
Incoming president pledges to slash government spending but remains quiet on other higher education issues
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⏰ Last call: FPA Section travel grants for #ISA2026 (Columbus) — two awards of $750. Priority: grad students, Global South scholars, and those with limited institutional support. Send CV + motivation letter by 1 Oct 2025. Details: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...
FPA Travel Grants
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En mi nueva columna,reflexiono acerca de cómo los bots, las fake news y la política-espectáculo son parte de una industria de la mentira. Hablo de cómo funciona y por qué es un riesgo para la democracia. www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/opi...
¿Cómo gobernarían Jara y Kast? 🧠🇨🇱 En mi nueva columna en CIPER Chile analizo sus estilos de liderazgo desde la psicología política y lo que esto implica para el futuro de Chile. #PsicologíaPolítica #EleccionesChile2025 #Kast #Jara www.ciperchile.cl/2025/08/28/j...
Jara vs. Kast: lo que revela la psicología sobre los futuros estilos de gobierno - CIPER Chile
Medio de investigación periodística independiente en Chile, enfocado en reportajes de actualidad y brindar información de calidad a la ciudadanía.
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This is my latest piece in The Loop @ecpr.bsky.social based on recent fieldwork in Argentina 🇦🇷. Thank you to all the officials and informants who shared their insights with me. @edinburghpir.bsky.social
The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 12mo ago🌎 #JavierMilei is not merely shifting Argentina's foreign policy but dismantling it's diplomatic institutions, argues @consuelothiers.bsky.social. 💭 As ideology replaces expertise, #Argentina is a stark example of how personalist leadership can upend international relations. 👉 buff.ly/oJPgD5y
Honoured to be part of @3sat.bluesky.com.de Kulturzeit on Trump & how psychology helps decode leaders like him. As strongman politics rise, it’s great to see psychology getting airtime. I don’t speak German, so here’s hoping the subtitles were kind😅 www.zdf.de/video/magazi...
Was die Spieltheorie über Trumps Politik verrät
Donald Trumps Strategien sind unberechenbar, er will seine Gegner maximal verwirren. Die Spieltheorie bietet hier überraschend schlüssige Erklärung für Trumps Politik.
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Leadership in #Africa & the #MiddleEast is complex. Join us to discuss oz7777.bsky.social & drcanbolat.bsky.social's award-winning book, where they profile 14 leaders, explore connections between #Political ideologies & offer insights into #Negotiations: buff.ly/TRVjCdX
📢Who really shapes foreign policy in Latin America? Often: the president. 📑My latest article—a systematic review—explores how leadership, ideology & domestic politics drive decisions. Now out in International Relations (open access) @edinburghpir.bsky.social www.ir-journal.com/online-first...
Political Leaders’ Role in Latin American Foreign Policy: A Systematic Review — IR
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My latest on @uk.theconversation.com Keir Starmer’s mindset is unlike other PMs — and that could matter when facing Trump. 🧠 A political psychology perspective @edinburghpir.bsky.social #PoliticalPsychology #Starmer #Trump #leaders
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · last yr.Starmer shares some traits with other prime minister, but differs in several key ways.
🚨 It’s time to put political psychology back at the center of global analysis. My new commentary out today with @rusi.bsky.social : "Bringing the Leader Back In: The Case for Political Psychology in International Affairs" Understanding who leads matters more than ever @edinburghpir.bsky.social
RUSI@rusi.bsky.social · last yr.Amid rising geopolitical tensions and the resurgence of personalist rule, how essential is it to recenter leaders in strategic analysis? Dr Consuelo Thiers explores this question further in the latest RUSI Commentary.
Impressed by the quality of UG Politics & IR dissertations at @edinburghpir.bsky.social; proof of what brilliant students & committed staff can achieve. This is exactly what job cuts & closures risk destroying. Senior management must reconsider before causing irreversible harm.
UCU Scotland@ucuscotland.bsky.social · last yr.Cuts at this level are “tantamount to academic and economic vandalism” says @ucu.org.uk #SaveHE #StopTheCuts
Meet our newly elected FPA Section Executive Council! 🎉 🔹 President: Burcu Bayram 🔹 VP & Program Chair: Jordan Tama 🔹 At-large Officers: Consuelo Thiers, Jen Spindel, Adriana Boersner & Mariya Omelicheva 🔹 Past President: Falk Ostermann Congrats to all! 🎊 #FPA
Our favorite conference, #ISA2025, is over, but here are a few pictures highlighting some key moments from our section.
