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It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Similar to Poland in 2023, young voters in Hungary seem to have turned out to vote in larger numbers than in earlier elections and - importantly so, as this poll suggests - have massively voted AGAINST the illiberal incumbent party.

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

She left her copy of my self-published Civil War poetry book, so I know she's coming back

Det här är den värsta tänkbara tiden att skära ner på public service som SVT. I takt med att mer och mer makt läggs i händerna på privat ägande och miljardärer sprider desinformation behövs högkvalitativa public service-medier mer än någonsin. www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/...

How should we treat FIMI when it comes from inside the EU? How should we treat EU governmente that directly cooperate with an hostile enemy country? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

"Autocratization is now truly global. (...) In 2025, Western Europe and North America registers the most notable decline on both country- and population-weighted averages. This is primarily due to the recent developments in the US." V-Dem released its latest report. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

Pretty staggering that the FT Trump interview opens with ‘if NATO doesn’t help us sort this mess, there’ll be problems’ and ends with ‘Russia might be helping target American soldiers, but really that’s sort of fair enough - we started it’. www.ft.com/content/1ca6...

Add to the mix Hegseth’s unrestrained lethality doctrine at the expense of critical thinking and unless these efforts get reversed soon, the US military may well become dumber and more dangerous - especially with civilian leaders who think that a list of targets is a sufficient plan.

Can this be a solution?

Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

HERREGUD! Tyska forskningsministern ”synliggör” kvinnliga forskare inwn broschyr. Men bilderna är ai-genererade! Trots att det finns riktiga foton av samtliga. Alla kvinnorna har också gjorts ”snyggare”, och Rosalind Franklin får dessutom posera med ett nobelpris, trots att hon inte fick det.

All those conferences I have participated in with top officials with very concerned faces going on and on about soft power and countering Chinese influence, Russian disinformation, it is all terrible, etc… Guys. Fund. The. BBC.

Delighted to see our new article analysing the threat of foreign election interference and the institutional logics of democratic resilience published in European Security.

«The unveiled force of Nadella’s statement is: All those who have power over workers and consumers are going to need to use it to make them start accepting and using the Generative AI tools our industry has collectively invested trillions in.»

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

The position coming out of Washington today is that Greenland is critically exposed to threats from Russia and China And also that any other country that tries to improve Greenland's security will face tariffs

ICYMI: I sat down with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social to discuss the crisis in our information environment and its roots in social identity.

There is a lot of talk about what Europeans will do if Trump follows though on his illegal plans towards Denmark. But I would like to know what Americans are expected to do

1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

The decision to finance arms for Ukraine through collective EU debt is taboo-breaking--but also part of a larger security turn in Europe. Ophelia Bentley & I have a new piece out that shows how the EU has geopoliticized markets in an unexpected arena: competition policy. doi.org/10.1017/elo.... 1/

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Great short thread on the National Security Strategy.

US national security strategy. Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Very good thread.

This Friday I had the pleasure to present my article ”Assange & Honeytrap(s) for the special issue on the contextual turn in intelligence analysis in Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies edited by @hedvigorden.bsky.social at #show2025 @sochistorywar.bsky.social as always an amazing experience!

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture. 🔍 Zoom in…

can’t fucking catch a breath make it stop

New article with @draege.bsky.social out in Scandinavian Political Studies: “Asymmetric Influence: Politicians Can Fuel but Not Dampen Conflict.” We test whether politicians in one of the world’s least polarized democracies, Norway, can calm conflict as effectively as they can inflame it. #polisky

In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.

Reading headlines about the US massing forces to Venezuela and ”what is Trump’s aim with the troops ?” reminds me of a certain other country that massed troops at a neighbour’s border 4 years ago and headlines were wondering what Putin’s aim could possibly be

Read the letter:

Ny rapport om högskolornas budget: Det statliga "produktivitetsavdraget" innebär effektiviseringskrav på 1-2 % av budgeten/år. Idag har högskolorna 40 % mindre resurser per elev än för 30 år sedan, vilket minskat den lärarledda undervisningen drastiskt. tankesmedjanbalans.se/ny-rapport-o...

När 13-åringar slängs i fängelse har vi gett upp, skriver Karin Pettersson i en text som inleder artikelserien ”Våra drömmars barn”: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/Eyd...

Danish Presidency backs away from 'chat control' The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Well isn’t this a literal fucking nightmare…

🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account. A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

Hur gör svenska regeringen och FRA? När debatten pågick 2008 påpekade jag (och andra) att lagstiftningen medger bred inhämtning och.lagring av data. Lagen saknar meningsfulla begränsningar vad gäller utbyte med andra länder, regeringen och FRA har fria händer.

The Dutch intelligence services are already sharing less intelligence with the US than they used to, their directors confirm: "Though we do not take any political positions, we are very cognisant of the potential politicisation of how our intelligence gets used by others." nos.nl/artikel/2586...

You need to read this. A collision of the CIA, the Smithsonian, a famous sculptor, and two writers with a love of library sciences.