A major new (non-partisan and independent) assessment of Brexit. TLDR: it’s even worse than original estimations, that were casually dismissed by Brexiteers as ‘project fear’. The UK economy today is 6-8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit. policycommons.net/artifacts/36...

The International Association of Genocide Scholars, the main association of experts on genocide and mass violence, has just passed a resolution declaring that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

I cannot more strongly recommend this post.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New post just out: "The financial crisis theory of everything" Why the 2008 crash was the WW1 of our generation that led to nearly all of the problems we have today - from the rise of the radical right to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Really important research from The Policy Institute and the Higher Education Policy Institute: The UK public hugely underestimate both the economic importance of universities to the economy, and the levels of graduate satisfaction with university. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...

Public hugely overestimate graduate regret while underestimating economic value of universities and being wrong on tuition fees – new study

People guess that 40% of graduates wouldn't go to university if they could choose again, when the reality is just 8%

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Delighted that my article ‘The logic of idealization in political theory’, which substantially reformulates the debate over idealization and ideal/non-ideal theory, is now out in the latest American Journal of Political Science. Available open-access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

AEP Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods

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This is from a few weeks ago, but I really recommend this great column from Dr Lise Butler, at City St George’s University of London, on the lessons for the UK Labour Party from Canada. renewal.org.uk/2025/03/01/s...

Sleeping with the elephant

Lise Butler What Starmer could learn from Canada  My country, Canada, faces an existential threat. Over the course of his new administration’s first month, Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted that…

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3 new jobs in my department at King's College London @Kingspol_econ - 2 in Political Theory, and one in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. It's a great department. Details below! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108485-...

Lecturer in Political Theory

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For those who missed my last post - I’m excited to be speaking at the Cascade Institute tomorrow (Thursday) on ‘How Global Ideological Competition Drives Russia’s War in Ukraine’. 1pm Pacific/4pm East Coast/9pm UK/10pm W Europe. Join me on Zoom! Details below: cascadeinstitute.org/about/events/

Events - Cascade Institute

The Institute explores how humanity interacts as a complex system and how they must therefore be addressed systemically, not separately.

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Looking forward to speaking at the Cascade Institute in Victoria, Canada, on the 16th January on ‘How Ideological Competition Drives Russia’s War in Ukraine’! You can join in person or online! Full details below: cascadeinstitute.org/about/events/

Events - Cascade Institute

The Institute explores how humanity interacts as a complex system and how they must therefore be addressed systemically, not separately.

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I study mass killing, which includes genocides. @alexhinton.bsky.social @jleadermaynard.bsky.social @uungor.bsky.social @vukusiciva.bsky.social and @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social are on here and should fit as well.

Delighted to announce that my new article, 'The Logic of Idealization in Political Theory' has been published in the American Journal of Political Science! The article is open access! So anyone can read it for free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

The role of ideals and idealizations is among the most vigorously debated methodological questions in political theory. Yet, the debate seems at an impasse. This paper argues that this reflects a fun....

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Delighted to announce the publication of a new article, that I have co-authored with Nenad Tomasev and Iason Gabriel, on ‘Manifestations of Xenophobia in AI Systems’, out now (free to access) in AI & Society! Please check it out here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Manifestations of xenophobia in AI systems - AI & SOCIETY

Xenophobia is one of the key drivers of marginalisation, discrimination, and conflict, yet many prominent machine learning fairness frameworks fail to comprehensively measure or mitigate the resulting...

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Thrilled, and honoured, by this hugely generous review of my book, Ideology and Mass Killing, by the great Professor Alex J Bellamy - one of world's foremost scholars of atrocities and humanitarianism. t.co/FdD2JE3gL1

Ideology & Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides & Deadly Atrocities, written by Jonathan Leader Maynard

"Ideology & Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides & Deadly Atrocities, written by Jonathan Leader Maynard" published on 01 Mar 2024 by Brill | Nijhoff.

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Two great new job openings at Canada's Cascade Institute (where I sit on the scientific advisory board) in British Columbia: an Energy Systems Transformation Research Lead and Fellow. Do check them out: cascadeinstitute.org/est-team-lead/ cascadeinstitute.org/est-fellow/

Research Team Lead, EST - Cascade Institute

RESEARCH TEAM LEAD, ENERGY SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION The Cascade Institute is based at Royal Roads University and acknowledges that our headquarters are located on the traditional lands of the Xwsepsum (...

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A great new job in my department at King's College London! It's an amazing department and terrific political theory group. Check it out! t.co/9izN8Bgy8I

Lecturer in Gender and Political Theory

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Ok, I need someone to explain this Tradle bombshell to me…

Great new job opportunity to work in the UK Parliament as a committee specialist on home affairs and justice - posting for anyone who might be interested: housesofparliament.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

New post: to what extent do people in Gaza support Hamas? In which I look at some survey data: https://open.substack.com/pub/alexandreafonso/p/5-to-what-extent-do-gazans-support?r=ercs8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#5 To what extent do Gazans support Hamas?

Survey data shows that Gazans have little trust in the Hamas government, and a majority of them favour a solution to the conflict that recognises the existence of Israel alongside a Palestinian state

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I'm honoured to see this detailed and thoughtful review of my book, 'Ideology and Mass Killing', alongside the late great Lee Ann Fujii's amazing book 'Showtime: The Logic and Power of Violent Display', by the foremost scholar of Torture, Darius Rejali. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Why People Do Violence? - Human Rights Review

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Do any international lawyers on here have thoughts on this more optimistic report on the possibility of transferring Russian sovereign assets (not just profits made off those assets, but the assets themselves) to Ukraine? rdi.org/wp-content/u...

Important read by William Hague in The Times: 'Hamas has set a trap that Israel must avoid'. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hama...

Such an important read.

Iva Vukušić@vukusiciva.bsky.social · 3y ago

The morning pre-teaching read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The morning pre-teaching read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?

Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.

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Only Brits will know what I'm asking about, but has anyone seen any good long-reads/podcasts on what has happened to HS2 (how the project has gone so over-budget etc.)? For non-Brits: this is the controversy over 'High Speed 2', a massive proposed, and now half cancelled, UK rail project.

We've known about this for some time, but this is still a key conclusion on the extensive use of torture by Russian forces in their occupation of Ukraine by the UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russ...

The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee is currently accepting evidence for its inquiry on: "The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa". If you have relevant expertise, please consider submitting evidence! Details here: committees.parliament.uk/work/7869/th...

Two key UK Parliamentary calls for evidence are open, by the Foreign Affairs Committee ('Follow Up to Afghanistan Inquiry') and Defence Committee ('Defence in the Grey Zone'). Please engage if you have relevant expertise! committees.parliament.uk/work/7936/ committees.parliament.uk/work/7937/de...

Follow-up to Afghanistan inquiry - Committees - UK Parliament

<p>In May 2022 the Committee concluded that there were systemic failures of intelligence, diplomacy, planning and preparation in the UK Government’s handling of its withdrawal from Afghanistan. In t...

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'The Puzzles of State Extremism' Delighted to be giving this lecture at Vrije University Amsterdam tomorrow (21st September) at 3.30pm Central European Time! Please join - in person if you're in Amsterdam or online! Full details below: extremebeliefs.com/event/lectur...