🚨Job alert 🚨 UVA is hiring an assistant professor in CP! Apply here 👉🏻 apply.interfolio.com/190673

@sharangrewal.bsky.social observes that "Saied’s populist allegations about conspiracies, corrupt elites, and foreign plots ring increasingly hollow when the faucets run dry and the air conditioning goes out" and asks if today's crisis becomes a democratic opening. www.brookings.edu/articles/tun...

Tunisia’s summer of discontent | Brookings

Water and electricity shortages during a record-hot summer in Tunisia are producing growing discontent with President Saied's rule.

brookings.edu

#Tunisia “Five years later, Tunisians may finally be waking up to the ugly truth. #Saied’s populist allegations about #conspiracies, corrupt elites, and foreign #plots ring increasingly hollow when the faucets run dry and the air conditioning goes out.” #تونس #قيس_سعيد

Tunisia’s summer of discontent | Brookings

Water and electricity shortages during a record-hot summer in Tunisia are producing growing discontent with President Saied's rule.

brookings.edu

Five years after Kais Saied's power grab, Tunisians are finally souring on populism. My latest for @brookings.edu: #Tunisia www.brookings.edu/articles/tun...

Tunisia’s summer of discontent | Brookings

Water and electricity shortages during a record-hot summer in Tunisia are producing growing discontent with President Saied's rule.

brookings.edu

In his upcoming book, The Rise and Fall of Tunisian Democracy (universitypress.cambridge.org), SPA Assoc. Prof. @sharangrewal.bsky.social explores how a political system built on compromise ultimately gave way to populism and polarization. Congrats, Prof. Grewal! 👉 bit.ly/4xCJAkz

Today marks 5 years since Kais Saied seized power and dismantled #Tunisia's democracy. If you want to know how democracy collapsed so quickly in what had been the Arab Spring's one success story, I've got the book for you!

Sharan Grewal@sharangrewal.bsky.social · 4w ago

👀 see you in October: The Rise and Fall of Tunisian Democracy, Cambridge University Press Grateful for the endorsements from Professors Melani Cammett and Milan Svolik and Prime Minister Youssef Chahed. Coming soon to a library near you! www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

👀 see you in October: The Rise and Fall of Tunisian Democracy, Cambridge University Press Grateful for the endorsements from Professors Melani Cammett and Milan Svolik and Prime Minister Youssef Chahed. Coming soon to a library near you! www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Today in @foreignaffairs.com, @reidpauly.bsky.social and I reflect on why Trump’s belligerent approach to coercion so often fails, and what it will take to repair the damage that Trump is inflicting on U.S. statecraft:

The Lost Art of Coercion

Why Trump’s belligerence is a sign of weakness.

foreignaffairs.com

And since I wrote that piece, @risabrooks12.bsky.social and @sharangrewal.bsky.social wrote a great piece showing "how military attitudes of superiority undermine civilian control" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The head of Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission, which investigated crimes committed by the previous dictatorship, is now imprisoned by the next dictatorship.

Bassam Khawaja@khawaja.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A Tunis court today sentenced Sihem Bensedrine, 75, a prominent human rights defender to 25 years in prison in apparent retaliation for her work. The sentence reflects the cruelty of the governments attempt to strangle human rights in Tunisia. www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...

Our department has three calls for tenure track positions. IE is a fast growing group of scholars doing top-notch work, which offers very attractive conditions in a great European city. If you are looking for an academic job in Europe, definitely do consider applying.

IE Political Science Department@iepolisci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are hiring! We have 3 tenure track positions open: - Comparative Politics: apply.interfolio.com/188149 - International Relations: apply.interfolio.com/188150 - Political Economy: apply.interfolio.com/188151 All jobs have deadlines Oct 5th. Please help spread the word to potential candidates.

Do you study institutional resilience to democratic erosion? We want to hear from you! Check out our Call for Proposals for an upcoming scholar-practitioner convening on “Guarding the Guardrails of Democracy.” The submission portal is open through June 30. Please apply, and spread widely!

For folks in DC, this is an interesting program next week @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/events/stole...

Stolen revolution: Betrayal and hope in modern Iran | Brookings

On June 3, Brookings will host the authors of "Stolen Revolution" to reflect on how the events of modern Iranian history have led to the current moment.

brookings.edu

📢 Public good announcement : I’m releasing 3 R packages 📦 with data from the last 2 censuses in Tunisia 🇹🇳, including one with harmonized panel data (I’m using in my dissertation). Available on my GitHub. CRAN version upcoming. www.mohameddhiahammami.com/data

Conventional wisdom says that US foreign military training builds influence abroad, but is it true at the individual level? U.S. trained officers **are** more likely to grant a U.S. request, but expect reciprocity. New paper at #JCR with @ilkerkalin.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our Spring 2026 Newsletter is out from editors @dbgreenwald.bsky.social @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social @samershehata.bsky.social! Featuring deep dives into the role of AI in MENA politics, and in MENA research. Plus career reflections from Nathan Brown. Check it out! zenodo.org/records/2019...

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

JD Vance on government funding for interpreters: "People should be speaking English in the United States of America. I think that's common sense."

Are you an early career scholar? Do you want to be part of the next season of our workshop series and get feedback from experts in the field? Apply by May 31 here: forms.gle/5SSuuybK3739... For more information visit: apsg.work/seminar-rules/

Apply to Present Your Work!

Complete the form to be considered for the Authoritarian Political Systems Group Fall 2026 Season. Read the Seminar Rules before applying.

forms.gle

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion/IR (3 yrs) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Work on democratic resilience in times of crisis using cross-national survey data. flexible start (earliest possible) deadline: 31 May 2026 🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

I won't be at #MPSA, but my brilliant coauthor Wali Reheman will be presenting our new paper on Muslims in Europe: Comments welcome, please reach out for a draft! #MPSA2026

@au.dk is hiring 3 postdocs (2 yrs) on personality cults & strategic communication in autocracies, led by Jakob Tolstrup & Alexander Baturo. They're looking for profiles with text-as-data, survey experiments and/or Chinese politics experience. Start fall 2026. Looks like a great opportunity!

Three 2-year Postdoctoral positions at Aarhus University: Projects on personality cults and strategic communication in autocracies - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

New work out today at @psjeditor.bsky.social: Using a survey experiment fielded with civil servants from 9 US states, Dan Butler and I find bureaucrats are less responsive to term-limited chief executives onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝! Postdoc Position at V-Dem Institute and GLD ❗ Applications still open for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cross-National Survey Methodology in Political Science. 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 15 here: tiny.cc/au61101 #PoliSky #PolDataSky #PoliSciSky #PoliticalScienceJobs #AcademicSky

"Hegseth had been pressing senior Army leaders, including Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, for months to remove the officers’ names.... But Mr. Driscoll, citing the officers’ decades-long records of exemplary service, had repeatedly refused." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List

nytimes.com

For folks still at ISA on Wednesday, I'll be presenting two papers with my PhD students: 8:15am: US reactions to self-coups 10:30am: Natural disasters and military rule Abstracts attached!

I told @brookings.edu that Trump will be further emboldened after Maduro's capture and Khamenei's killing to go after heads of state. "Trump has proven to be even more hawkish than his predecessors, leaving future generations to face the eventual blowback." www.brookings.edu/articles/aft...

Fascinating paper by Sean Paul Ashley on "The Dark Side of Defection" in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social: "I find that where nonviolent revolutions involved security force defection, coups and civil wars were significantly more likely to ensue." academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...

What should military leaders do when a president orders something illegal? History offers a guide. @kschake.bsky.social on how Ulysses S. Grant navigated the most dangerous civil-military crisis in American history.

If Forced to Choose, Our Military Leaders Should Follow the Law Not the President—Like Ulysses S. Grant

The choices the Civil War general faced can inform how they ought to conduct themselves in these perilous times

theunpopulist.net

Exciting news! We just posted an opening for a Survey Associate on @pewresearch.org's Methods team! This is an amazing opportunity for someone relatively early in their career to join what is, IMO, the most fun methods team in the business. Full description at the link below.

Survey Associate, Methodology

Pew Research Center Organization Overview Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts publi...

pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com