@royaizadi.bsky.social has a wonderful piece in @goodauth.bsky.social. A few takeaways 1/3 1.) pre war support for the government was higher than most people think (50%), while support for regime change was low (30%). The regime had a lot more support than media coverage would suggest.

Why Washington keeps misreading Iran

What history and political science can tell us about the resilience of the Islamic Republic’s government and institutions.

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Many studies find a link between sexism and support for political violence in some countries, but does it hold worldwide? We explore this in our new research note at @conflictmanagement.bsky.social! Spoilers: Kinda yes but also kinda no journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Peace through equality: Exploring the cross-national micro-foundations of the gender equality-peace nexus - Laura Huber, Elaine Tagert, 2026

Does individual-level support for women's rights decrease tolerance of political violence cross-nationally? While some research demonstrates that support f...

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New set of fellows at good authority. A really good resource for those looking for expert takes on current events. Shout out for @royaizadi.bsky.social who one of the new fellows.

John Sides@johnsides.bsky.social · last mo.

Very excited to welcome these new fellows to @goodauth.bsky.social! goodauthority.org/news/new-voi...

New in @theconversation.com In short: @rightstracker.bsky.social data show the US is behind on economic and social rights (education, healthcare, dignified work and fair pay, food and nutrition) relative to what it can afford and its peers, looking at 30 years theconversation.com/americans-ar...

Americans are not as well off as people in peer nations – US safety net’s shortfalls show up in global data

This is not a one-year blip. The US has been underperforming in terms of health, education and more for the past 25 years.

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New in the Journal of Human Rights: when countries actually comply with IMF loan conditions, their people’s economic & social rights tend to get worse, not better. With @stephenmbagwell.bsky.social and Shristi Rai First 50 articles are free to access 1/

Compliance with International Monetary Fund concessional lending policies and economic and social rights fulfillment

Does compliance with International Monetary Fund (IMF) concessional lending conditions improve or harm the fulfillment of economic and social rights? While existing scholarship examines IMF program...

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Knicks in five! An amazing NBA final. Knicks win the title

Rachel Van Nostrand and I wrote a piece for The Conversation U.S. (with help from two excellent University of Arizona students, Malia Hirasa and Sydney Horton.) We detail how US ICE detention facilities qualify as a system of concentration camps.

When immigration detention becomes a system of concentration: Lessons from research on 150 historical cases

Scholars have defined the elements of what qualifies as a concentration camp system. Based on those, ICE detention facilities meet the definition of concentration camps.

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🖨️ Thrilled to end a chockablock week with the online publication of my third peer-reviewed article coauthored w/ William & Mary students. We employ GIS mapping tools to understand memorialization of political violence in the empirical context of a post-colonial state. Link: doi.org/10.1177/0738...

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)@portlandken.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Too bad Trump and Rubio destroyed US diplomatic capacity. goodauthority.org/news/trump-a... @goodauth.bsky.social

Trump and Rubio dismantled U.S. diplomacy. It’s making the Iran War harder.

Since the start of 2026, President Donald Trump has taken the wheel of American military power and pressed hard on […]

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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Bessent with an interesting idea: “an international coalition”. 🤡

A recent piece I wrote with David Cingranelli. We argue that the US is committing atrocities and things are on track to escalate. Take this as me ringing the alarm bell. Things are deteriorating worldwide, and the US is not an exception.

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 6mo ago

Atrocities are rising worldwide. All governments can meet the threshold for an “atrocity” when widespread extrajudicial killings and other serious rights abuses occur. Spotting warning signs early and defining things clearly can help prevent violence from escalating. buff.ly/wxOno9l

BTG Alum Erica De Bruin recently published a timely article in The Conversation, "ICE Not Only Looks Like a Paramilitary Force-- It is One, and That Makes it Harder to Curb."

ICE not only looks and acts like a paramilitary force – it is one, and that makes it harder to curb

ICE, created in response to 9/11, meets most definitions of paramilitary forces. Critics worry it’s gone beyond its writ of immigration enforcement.

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Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x

Straight to the Intro to IR syllabus

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Yup. Welcome to the New Trumpian Anarchy. @dandrezner.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

The Doctor is right and correct

Ani Bundel@anibundel.com · 9mo ago

Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.

The chief reason Mamdani has aroused such keen interest is because he is the first leftwinger to show that politicians can not only face down Trumpism, they can beat him…The centre-left should be taking on the extreme right and acting as the anti-Trump. Instead…it is playing at being not-Trump.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo ago

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty

New co-authored article on international trade and forced labour. @nottspolitics.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ecpo...

International Trade and Forced Labor

We explore the link between trade liberalization and forced labor theoretically and empirically. Our theoretical framework predicts that the net effect of trade on the use of forced labor depends on ...

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New #firstview: @uazsgpp.bsky.social's Cameron Mailhot and @gsslab.bsky.social @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social on public perceptions of and support for international state-building, with evidence from conjoint experiments in Liberia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Privileged to write this editorial with @gretchentg.bsky.social of @ucs.org in @science.org: "Scientists’ role in defending democracy." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New piece in the @us.theconversation.com with @stephenmbagwell.bsky.social The protection of collective labor rights (right to unionize, strike, and bargain collectively) reduces income inequality between individuals (poor vs. rich) and between ethnic/racial groups (white versus Black).

Strengthening collective labor rights can help reduce economic inequality

A research team’s findings suggest that when workers are free to advocate for better wages and benefits for themselves, it also benefits society as a whole.

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Glad to see this letter: blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-are-nyc-r...

The Blogs: We are NYC rabbis who support Zohran Mamdani – Here’s why

His platform reflects the Jewish call for justice and also offers a clear plan to address antisemitic violence. That's what real protection looks like

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I'm happy to present Dr. Meridith LaVelle! Dr. LaVelle successfully defended her dissertation this morning. She will be a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Mannheim this fall. A huge thanks to her other committee members, Amanda Murdie, Danny Hill, and Jeffrey Berejikian.

This update took longer than I anticipated, but it's out now! New data on organizational use of violent and nonviolent tactics. Using a diversity of nonviolent tactics is linked to longer survival for orgs. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SXPRW...

Tactics of survival: Strategies of Resistance Data Project update - Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Ted Ellsworth, Harriet Goers, Michael Cowan, Oja Pathak, Ellin Chung, 2025

This article presents an update on the Strategies of Resistance Data Project. It extends the original coding of organizations seeking greater self-determination...

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🧵 To make this more concrete: don't assume Trump himself knows what he is going to do next in in the Israel-Iran conflict. He definitely doesn't want to get the US involved in a major war in the Middle East (that much he's been clear on). But he loves to bomb and look tough. 1/

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · last yr.

The poor communication, lack of trust, and awkward history in this group, plus Trump’s own track record, should give anyone who thinks they know what happens next a very long pause.

Why do peaceful protest turn violent? Today’s #NoKings protests are a case study of why we need to think about both how protesters behave AND how the government and police respond to protest. Millions of people protested peacefully, LA erupted in violence This is an analysis of why A thread

About a thousand people came out to protest at India Point Park in Providence, RI for the No Kings movement. Speeches by Senator Jack Reed and Representative David Morales. People turned out in large numbers despite the rain.

Thousands protest in Providence, RI at the capital for the No Kings movement

Sorry, but this stuff drives me absolutely crazy. I’m sorry economists & journalists are just discovering the field of international political economy. But we’ve been studying & publishing about this stuff for 50 years now. There’s no new age of anything & “geoeconomics” has been around forever.

Michael Pettis@michaelpettis.bsky.social · last yr.

1/2 I think Gillian Tett is right—the word is undergoing a major shift "in the intellectual zeitgeist—of a sort we have seen a few times before." In a way we are revisiting the 1930s when a period of huge trade imbalances, the subordination of... www.ft.com/content/daf5...

Congratulations to all participants and winners in today's 501 Poster Session!

I keep seeing people saying things like, "It is difficult to be a conservative at a University." If you think this is true, I beg you to spend some time at a public university in a red or purple state. Stop making generalizations based on private and/or elitist schools in the Northeast. 1/3