Tessera
Folgen

Wolfgang Minatti

@wolfgangminatti.com

Postdoc @leuphana.bsky.social | Research on Peace and Conflict | Previously @EUI_EU, @UniAndes, @LeidenHum & @PolSciUIBK | he/him | @wolfgangMinatti

29 Posts374 Follower688 Folgt
Gawhary@gawhary.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Die ersten sechs Folgen meines Podcasts sind jetzt draußen. Ich würde mich freuen, wenn ihr meinen Podcast gratis abonniert, und weiterempfehlt. Er ist mit Null Euro Werbebudget gestartet und hängt von eurer Mund-Zu-Mund-Propaganda ab nahostnahdran.simplecast.com

Nahost. Nah dran.

Der preisgekrönte Journalist und langjährige Nahost-Experte Karim El-Gawhary nimmt euch mit, die arabische Welt hautnah zu erfahren. Er erzählt Geschichten aus dem Leben in der Region, analysiert komp...

nahostnahdran.simplecast.com

Nihad Aboud نهاد عبود@nihadaboud.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 My first solo article is out! "A Quest for Legitimacy: Drivers of Organizational Affiliation with Global Jihadist Networks" @journalofgss.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogag016 Short Summary 👇

A Quest for Legitimacy: Drivers of Organizational Affiliation with Global Jihadist Networks

Abstract. Why do some locally oriented Islamist militant groups affiliate with global jihadist networks such as al-Qaeda or the Islamic State while others

doi.org

Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the @wzb.bsky.social Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.

Bild
Lennart Bade@badelenn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Meine Lesenotiz zu #Muskism Ich habe dem Buch und dem Konzept-Entwurf anfänglich viel abgewonnen - am Ende überwogen aber die Fragezeichen. Das liegt wohl aber auch einfach an dem erratischen Analysegegenstand

Theorieblog@theorieblog.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Der neue Leviathan Auf dem Cover thront er: Elon Musk im Gewandt des Leviathans! Einst zierte der Stich des allherrschenden Souveräns mit Zepter, Krone und zusammengesetzt aus seinen Untertanen Thomas Hobbes’ Buch aus dem Jahr 1651. Nun wollen also der... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30647

Ralph Janik@ralphjanik.com · 4mo ago

"Uncrewed Reaper drones were used to protect the crew member once he had been located, by “striking Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers”" Sounds like even more US war crimes – murders – to me. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

US rescues second crew member of downed F-15E fighter jet from Iran

Trump gives further details on rescue and threatens to bomb infrastructure if strait of Hormuz is not reopened

theguardian.com

Mikki Brock@mikkibrock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

Wolfgang Minatti@wolfgangminatti.com · 4mo ago

The first results of my research on rebel legitimacy in #Colombia are now available in the Journal of Peace Research. The link to the paper "It takes three to tango: contested authority, violence, and rebel legitimacy in Colombia" is in the first comment!

It takes three to tango: contested authority, violence, and rebel legitimacy in Colombia Wolfgang Minatti Why do civilians’ perceptions of the legitimacy of armed actors vary locally during civil war? Existing scholarship grounds legitimacy in the resonance between armed actors’ justifications and civilians’ beliefs, but struggles to explain why legitimacy frequently diverges across villages facing similar actors and conditions. This article argues that understanding wartime legitimacy requires attention to how legitimation processes are shaped by armed actors’ contestations of authority. I theorise two mechanistic logics of legitimation under contested authority: intra-actions between armed actors and civilians, and inter-actions between competing armed actors. Drawing on fieldwork and process tracing, the article tests these mechanisms in a most-similar case study of two Colombian villages contested by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian army between 1990 and 2010. The analysis indicates that intra-actions between armed actors and civilians cannot fully capture variation in the legitimacy of armed actors. Rather, inter-actions between the FARC and the army influenced civilian beliefs and gave credence to the FARC’s justifications in one case but not the other. These findings illustrate the role of contested authority within the literature on rebel governance and legitimacy while also informing policy debates on how to build efficient and legitimate authority during conflict.
Rania Abouzeid@raniaab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Widespread panic in #Beirut after Israel issues unprecedented evacuation order for southern suburbs. Traffic is choked, people rushing to leave & head north. Drones in the air. WhatsApp messages urging ppl to crack windows open to avoid shattering from expected blasts #lebanon

Jason "Red5" Lyall@jaylyall.bsky.social · 5mo ago

US used Anthropic’s AI tool Claude, along with Maven Smart, another AI system built by Palantir, to choose 100s of targets in the opening day of airstrikes against Iran Claude + Maven Smart were used to suggest "hundreds of targets, issue precise location coordinates, and prioritize" those targets

Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud

Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is playing a key role in the U.S. military’s campaign in Iran, amid a bitter fight with the Pentagon over the terms of its use in war.

washingtonpost.com

Roy Karadağ@roykaradag.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My colleague @anavelasco.bsky.social raises an important issue, especially for doctoral scholars applying for mobility funds attend the conferences and workshops of @europeanisa.bsky.social. Hopefully, this will be taken up and triggers some debate and critical reflection on the matter!

Ana Velasco@anavelasco.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Dear colleagues, If any of you know the members of the @europeanisa.bsky.social EISA Governing Board, I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this with them. There is a very unfair system in the application for mobility funds, and I believe it requires the attention of senior members.

Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 7mo ago

The EU’s centrist powers need to move to the right to reflect the new political reality, the leader of the European People’s Party Manfred Weber has told in an exclusive interview with POLITICO.

Rebecca Buxton@rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. Sam and I have worked on this since we first put our heads together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we were writing and thinking. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...

The Way Out by Rebecca Buxton, Samuel Ritholtz - Hardcover

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

ucpress.edu

Wolfram Lacher@wlacher.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience. What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?

The Demise of Conflict Studies - Dissent Magazine

An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.

dissentmagazine.org

Mike (1 of many)@chicagomike.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

Bild
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 8mo ago

I am losing my mind DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP

Sabine Carey@sabinecarey.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣 out now, with @argohdes.bsky.social and Mark Gibney - and in honour of the wonderful Steve Poe, who motivated the 1st edition with @universitypress.cambridge.org tinyurl.com/2s4kh6z3. If you enjoy reading this even a fraction as much as I enjoyed creating it, you’re in for a ride 🤩

The Politics of Human Rights | Cambridge Aspire website

Discover The Politics of Human Rights, 2nd Edition, Sabine C. Carey, HB ISBN: 9781009537919 on Cambridge Aspire website

cambridge.org

Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Direct casualties in Gaza likely exceed 100,000. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

MPIDR - Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life and Life Expectancy

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the ongoing conflict in Gaza on mortality. They estimate that 78,318 (70,614-87,504) people were killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and December 31, 2024. As a result, life expectancy in Gaza in 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. An update of their analysis, produced after the publication of the study, revealed that the current violent death toll likely exceeds 100,000.

demogr.mpg.de