📰Professor @fionaadamson.bsky.social has received a special grant from The British Academy to boost collaborative efforts of migration research in Global South. Read more: bit.ly/45hJIut

When it comes to AI and Quant tech, recent @global-affairs.bsky.social survey shows that most US respondents want regulation…or don’t know what to think.

I’m excited to be reviving the @ChicagoCouncil’s Deep Dish #podcast. I was joined this week by @vali_nasr and @MaloneySuzanne to discuss the Iran-Israel conflict, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and US strategy. You can listen here. globalaffairs.org/commentary-a...

A very nice short analysis on Trump’s economic policies by @maxyoeli.bsky.social

First day of the #EuropeanAssociationofTaiwanStudies (EATS) conference in Olomouc. Great to meet my authors in person and showcase their work! If you're attending, please do stop by for a chat or to explore our latest publications. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social

It was great to be part of @mybisa.bsky.social panel “US-China Tech Race” where Prof. Yvette To and I presented our paper “Mismatches, Mobility and Volatility: China's Strategies for Chip Talent”.

Food for thought this Friday 🍸📘 In a full-length interview with @thetimes.com, SOAS's Ha-Joon Chang talks about tariffs that work, making economics accessible - and why he loves a good Pisco Sour. #HaJoonChang #EdibleEconomics #FridayReads #Economics www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

New Publication! 📣 Did you ever think that all these measures for "hybrid" autocracies out there are kinda the same? Read "Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?" by @jonaswschmid.bsky.social in @democratization.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2vmyrw8e

@theatlantic.com’s writers and editors are on Bluesky. Follow us for ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling: go.bsky.app/NVbMa2Y

A very insightful research paper in today rapidly changing world !

Some scattered thoughts after the most shocking and horrible moment of US diplomacy most of us have ever seen. Not even sure what the point of writing anything about this is, but here goes. 1/

Selling off US citizenship for cash...just like island states such as Dominica, Grenada, and St Lucia... highly recommend Kristin Surak's book on this.... www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

🗓️ Feb 20 @ 4pm | How do children from cross-border marriages in Taiwan form identity at the intersection of geopolitical tensions and multicultural policies? Join National Taiwan University's Pei-Chia Lan, a @casbsstanford.bsky.social Stanford-Taiwan Social Science Fellow, on campus.

So pleased to be able to follow @gepjournal.bsky.social on this platform. Looking forward to sharing and discussing new research from this great journal! direct.mit.edu/glep

Job opportunity at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University! The team is looking for a Project Assistant who will assist the project leader to develop new interactive materials to enhance students’ active learning in social sciences classes. Apply here jobs.polyu.edu.hk/job_detail.p...

Is the world still unipolar? Now multipolar? And why should we care? See my post in this week’s Blue Blaze blueblaze.substack.com/p/how-chinas...

Delighted to share, Dr. Yvette To @HongKongPolyU and I will be presenting one of our working papers “Mismatches, Mobility and Volatility: China’s Strategies for Chip Talent” at BISA2025.

As Donald Trump takes his seat in the Oval Office, the world braces itself for four more years of volatile leadership from a global superpower. Join us tomorrow night (6pm - 7.30pm), as a panel of SOAS experts discuss the implications of Trump 2.0 for Asia. 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

These results survive robustness checks including alternative measures of exposure and alternative weights, clusters, and estimators. But do effects persist longer than the 4 post-storm weeks our initial survey covered? A 6-month follow-up survey reveals no long-run impacts.

A inspiring lecture by Prof. James A. Robinson, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2024) at HKU

We are proud to announce a new Taiwan Studies track of the East Asia MA degree at the University of Washington. This would be the first graduate program in Taiwan Studies in North America and the second in the world. Apply by Jan 31 for fall 2025 admission: jsis.washington.edu/taiwan/acade...

Polisky Dictatorsky Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!! While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!

This week, I will talk with @KoriSchake and @dandcaldwell about US national security policy. www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/r...

Chip nerds: don’t miss this great episode of ChinaTalk, covering updated and future US export controls against China —hosted by @jordanschneider.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

It’s out! Happy to share my new @intsecurity.bsky.social article, about how China’s rise shifted the balance of power back to bipolarity. direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

Glad to see @soasuni.bsky.social over here. Follow us for a look at all the great things going on at SOAS!

Fossil fuel lobbyists have historically been granted access to COP through trade assoc such the Int'l Chamber of Commerce. Theres an application process for that; the Secretariat has discretion. But: in recent years they have also become part of member states' delegation. Thats a much harder fight.

Number of fossil fuel lobbyists at most recent COPs: COP26 (2021): 503 COP27 (2022): 636 COP28 (2023): 2,456 COP29 (2024): 1,773 Blame the petrostate hosts, I guess. But if trend does not reverse in Belem (Brazil) next year, COPs really seem to have been put in the hands of fossil fuel lobbies.

More and more evidence that the costs of not responding to high-risk events happening around us in our society (sitting around, hoping they just go away, like many are doing re climate) are way higher than doing the things that expert tell us we should do. If only politics was this simple.

A stunning – many would say shocking – victory must put to rest any assumption that Trump is an aberration. It may have started that way, but today it appears there is no going back. My comment on the US election for @ChathamHouse www.chathamhouse.org/2024/11/elec...

Research Seminar | Rethinking Chinese Migration and Mobility Research Dr. Mette Thunø, Associate Professor at Aarhus University will provide new insight on Chinese Migration and Mobility studies in the upcoming research seminar at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Join us. 🗓️11 Nov 🕰️10:30

Calling all STEM students from China and Taiwan ! Dr. Yvette To and I are looking for more participants for a research project @HongKongPolyU on "STEM talent in China and Taiwan". Participate today by scanning the QR code provided in the poster below.

Event | Why do autocrats survive? @anneapplebaum.bsky.social joins our director Bronwen Maddox to discuss her latest book Autocracy, Inc. and the way modern autocratic regimes use power to survive. Date📅: 3 September Time⌚️: 18:00 Find out more:

I enjoyed presenting my paper “Climate Change Debate And Its Influence On Party Stereotypes in 2018 And 2022 Taipei Mayor Election" in the 21st EATS Annual Conference at University of Vienna. This research paper was supported by the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies.

God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America is now discounted on Amazon: 15% off for hardcover and 65% (!) off on Kindle. Get your copy today! @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social @cfr.org www.amazon.com/God-Guns-Sed...

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There is nothing happier than attending an panel discussion event with an 'all-star cast' in the IR field! @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social @leslievinjamuri.bsky.social @aysezarakol.bsky.social