Today is the last day to nominate papers for ISA's ILAW Best Paper Award. Please consider nominating a paper presented at the ISA Annual Meeting in Columbus that engages with international law topics. Self-nominations are welcome! I'm chairing the award committee.

Nominations for the best ILAW paper presented at the last ISA meeting are open until July 30! Please consider nominating a paper (yours or someone else's). I'm chairing the award committee. More information about the award and nomination process can be found here: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

📢 ECPS Interview 🌍 Asst. Prof. Gino Pauselli: LGBTQ+ Rights Have Become a Symbolic Boundary in Global Politics ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📕 Read here: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/asst-prof-pa...

Pauselli and Simmons argue that, throughout much of the world, border walls don’t just block. They are interpreted as license to violate rights. [2/2]

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Global torture is down. Border official abuse is up. What explains the gap? New research by @ginopauselli.bsky.social & Beth Simmons shows that building a wall sends border guards a signal: secure this border at all costs. [1/2]

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - From Barriers to Abuse: Border Hardening and Torture - https://cup.org/4d9sNN6 - @ginopauselli.bsky.social & Beth A. Simmons #FirstView

New paper with Beth Simmons in @iojournal.bsky.social: "From Barriers to Abuse: Border Hardening and Torture." A signaling story with big implications for human rights research. 🧵

Buenos Aires, such an amazing city

UniMelb is hiring for a new Senior Advisor for LGBTIQA+ Inclusion.  This is a key high-level role within the D&I team in Chancellory, with a lot of responsibility and ability to actually influence and drive the university's actions in this space.

Senior Adviser, Lgbtiqa+ Inclusion Job in Parkville, Melbourne VIC - SEEK

Join us in championing LGBTIQA+ inclusion at the University of Melbourne, driving impactful diversity initiatives.

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This Wednesday, 11/19, Assistant Professor @ginopauselli.bsky.social, of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will lead the ABF Speaker Series on "Finding the Right Forum: Non-State Actor Engagement in International Organizations." 🔗: www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speake...

Speaker Series: Gino Pauselli - ABF

How does institutional design affect non-state actors’ preferences for international organizations (IOs)? We develop a theory of strategic forum shopping, where non-state actors choose the most…

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Thrilled about this dissertation award! So thankful for my committee members (all of them w/o bluesky).

In Vancouver for APSA? Check out tomorrow’s panel (Thursday) at 10am on global norms, international law, and NGOs. Papers by @mikeallen.bsky.social & Acron, Chaudoin & Lim, @jenniferhadden.bsky.social, and myself. Cc @erikvoeten.bsky.social @cjschneider.bsky.social

We are hiring in political behavior (comparative politics or American politics)! UIUC is a great place to work. More info here: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

📌The special issue "Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations" is now published as Vol. 20 Issue 2 in RIO! @the-peio.bsky.social link.springer.com/journal/1155... Summary thread with each piece-- 🧵

The Review of International Organizations

The Review of International Organizations publishes original scientific contributions in the entire field of international political economy, with a focus on ...

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To wrap up the term, in my human rights course we analyzed a word cloud generated from our semester’s readings. In a world where institutions are tested daily, these concepts aren’t abstract. They highlight debates over sovereignty, accountability, and the role of nations in a fractured world. 🌐

coming to #ISA2025? drop by our roundtable on USAID funding cuts! Monday @ 10:30 in Conference Room 4J, 4 Chicago Hilton ft. @naazneenbarma.bsky.social @suparnac.bsky.social @dadakim.bsky.social Kelly Hunter @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Haley Swedlund Mike Tierney Matt Winters

Winter ❄️

Call for Papers! Panel: Innovations in Research on International Organizations: Representation, Discrimination and Power Dynamics Join @andrealiese.bsky.social and me at the upcoming @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference 2025. www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/pr...

Postdoc opportunity! The University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment postdoc application is open. It's a terrific program, and I'd love to see more social scientists apply. sites.google.com/umn.edu/ione...

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Excited to share the online version of a new article in the Journal of Peace Research. I show that (geographic) proximity to outgroups increases support for human rights activism in other countries. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Excited to share the online version of a new article in the Journal of Peace Research. I show that (geographic) proximity to outgroups increases support for human rights activism in other countries. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring! The Department of Political Science is hiring for an open-rank faculty position in Quantitative Methods. Deadline: September 16th. Apply and join an amazing and vibrant community! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

😨🎇LAST CHANCE!! Read "Why Autocracies Fear LGBTQ+ Rights" by Gino Pauselli and María-José Urzúa while it's still free (through EOD tomorrow!) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Very excited to have this piece out at the @jodemocracy.bsky.social. We investigate why autocracies resist the expansion of SOGI rights 🏳️‍🌈 in the UN Human Rights Council, and also look at the cases of Russia and Cuba.

Journal of Democracy@jodemocracy.bsky.social · 2y ago

The battle over rights for sexual minorities has divided countries into opposing camps. But autocrats are lashing out with one aim: countering the liberal international order. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

The fourth IO Editorial Cafe will be held virtually on May 20, 2024, from 10:30am-noon EDT. Editorial board and editorial team members will provide feedback to authors as they prepare manuscripts for submission to IO or other selective journals.

NEWS: @iojournal.bsky.social is running another IO Editorial Cafe on May 20.    This is a great opportunity. IO editors and editorial board members give feedback on selected papers with the goal of helping authors prepare their work for submission to IO or other selective journals. Apply here:

Now Online First at ISP: "A Matter of Journal Choice: A Conjoint Experiment on Submission Choices of Latin American IR Scholars" from Florencia Montal, Gino Pauselli, and Patricio Yamin academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...

Have I mentioned how beautiful my hometown is? #Posadas #Argentina 🇦🇷