Sabrina Karim

@sabrinamkarim.bsky.social

Cornell Assistant Professor specializing in security sector reform, policing, peacekeeping, and gender. Director of the Gender and Security Sector Lab sabrinamkarim.com

Multilateralism is not necessarily fading! There is still civilian support for it in different parts of the world. Using two sets of independent conjoint experiments, we show that civilians in Liberia prefer multilateral actors (the UN) to oversee (not rebuild) security sector reforms

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 11mo ago

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia - cup.org/47q06KN - Cameron Mailhot & @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social #FirstView

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📣 Publication alert 📣 GSS Lab Director Dr. Sabrina Karim (@sabrinamkarim.bsky.social) and GSS Lab Fellow Dr. Cameron Mailhot have a new paper out on civilian preferences for international state building, utilizing survey evidence from Liberia. Congratulations! 🎊 #polisky #int-rel

International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia | International Organization | Cambridge Core

International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia

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This graph represents tens of thousands of active NSF grants. About 14% of them were awarded in 2020 or earlier, yet none were terminated. All 1044 cancellations occurred since 2021. The odds against such an occurrence arising by chance is p<0.0001, less than 1 in 10,000.

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social · last yr.

🧪 Concrete evidence of political motives: Out of 1044 NSF terminations so far, *not a single one* started under Trump 1.0. Zilch. Nada. 0%. That is, all terminated NSF awards started Feb 1, 2021 or later after Biden took office. Yet, Trump 1.0 awards still account for 15% of still-active awards.

Graph comparing % of NSF awards separated for those terminated vs. all active by award start year

Do grassroots anti-election violence initiatives between the police and youth party leaders work? Using an RCT in Liberia, @pruett.bsky.social @dyzenhaus.bsky.social Dao Freeman and I find that the short answer is no. But it is complicated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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CrisisWatch | New Update ⚡ Six conflict risks in December ↘️ Ten conflict situations deteriorated in November ↖️ One improved situation 🔎 The Democratic Republic of Congo is our country in focus this month with high risks of election-related violence. www.crisisgroup.org/crisiswatch

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