Thanks for the shout-out!

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social is now published by OUP in the USA (rest of world soon) If you are interested in why you see so many dictatorships & illiberal leaders influencing world politics then this is the book for you.

📣 Final Call for visiting fellowships for postdocs at the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social! Great opportunity to spend 2-4 weeks in a fantastic academic environment! See 👇 for details!

📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de! Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher 3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026 Please share widely 🙏

What's happening in ICE also seems to go in the FBI. The current US administration seeks to staff key security agencies with unprofessional careerists rather than skilled professionals. See 👇 🙏 for a great post and featuring our work/new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship", @donmoyn.bsky.social!

Wie lässt sich das brutale Vorgehen von Trump's ICE Agenten erklären? Und warum erinnert es so sehr an Diktaturen und ihre Geheimpolizei? Unser neues Buch liefert Antworten - wie wir heute in der @zeit.de erklären. Buch: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Many dictatorships use foreign helpers to influence democracies. In our new study, we examine why, when, which authoritarian regimes employ Western PR firms - a particularly important type of foreign helper. Study + summary are open-access 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social for featuring our work on the staffing of secret police organizations and how it is related to ICE. Our forthcoming book delves deeper into the authoritarian security apparatus and examines who serves where and why: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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🚨 New article out! “Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000... We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany. Short summary thread below 👇

We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u... Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

We know that Putin and other dictators try to build a new world order. Soft power plays a crucial role in this. Today, Russia hosts the Intervision 2025 – a competitor event to the Eurovision Song Contest. Which regimes participate in this contest? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervi...

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Fantastic special issue - Thanks so much for putting it together @laiabalcells.bsky.social @apvjustino.bsky.social @andrearuggeri.bsky.social 💪 [full disclosure: our article is part of it as well]

Had the chance to talk to the fantastic team of @worldpolitics.bsky.social about my new article on soft power, study abroad programs, the effectiveness of foreign influence campaigns and what all this has to do with Henry Kissinger. 👇

If you prefer to listen to your books, the audio book version of Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social was released today. Get it wherever you get your audio books - Audible, Amazon, Apple, Storytel, your library, etc.

I am hiring! 1-2 post-docs to join my project on political violence in democracies at @uupeace.bsky.social!

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

New UN ideal point estimates available. These are for the first time based on years rather than UNGA sessions. For more, see here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Nice, crisp introduction to my latest article on the targeting logic behind soft power 👇 Thanks @worldpolitics.bsky.social

The new issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social also includes a contribution from me 🥳 The article studies the targeted use of foreign influence campaigns. It examines an exchange program of a young Harvard scholar & one of the most influential politicians of the 20th century. 1/

📌The special issue "Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations" is now published as Vol. 20 Issue 2 in RIO! @the-peio.bsky.social link.springer.com/journal/1155... Summary thread with each piece-- 🧵

CfA: PhD scholarship in political theory @ucph.bsky.social Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas Apply by Aug. 3, 2025 ➡️ employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie... #PolTheory #demoinno

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

How does foreign #military training shape civil-military relations? April @worldpolitics.bsky.social authors @ascharpf.bsky.social and Jesse Dillon Savage analyze original #data on military training from the US School of the Americas to address this question. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

The deadline is approaching (5 June)! So, I am just reposting this once more... Perhaps it can reach a few more junior scholars interested in lobbying?

NEW - Legislative Cooptation in Authoritarian Regimes: Policy Cooperation in the Kuwait National Assembly - cup.org/4iVKa4R - @danieltavana.bsky.social & Erin York #OpenAccess

You can now see a preview on Google Books of my new book w/ Alex Cooley Dictating the Agenda: the Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics Out next month in USA, available for pre-order everywhere.

After years in the making, our article is finally out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social! Main takeaway: Foreign military training does not equal foreign military training - it depends on what is taught to soldiers! This has lots of implications for potentially harmful military aid.

I started the year with a great personal achievement. After years in the making, our book manuscript is ready and under contract with Oxford University Press. So stay tuned for deep insights into the security apparatus of dictatorships. Small preview 👇

Want to work with us? stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8...

📢 Call for applications: Professor of Military Strategy and Technology @hertieschool.bsky.social is hiring! We're seeking a top scholar in military strategy, tech, & defence-industrial production. Interdisciplinary expertise is a plus. 🔹 Apply by 19 March 2025: apply.interfolio.com/163523

‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

Going to APSA 2025 in Vancouver? We've put together a neat panel on new approaches to military effectiveness (broadly defined) that has room for one more paper (and, if you're a glutton for punishment, a discussant). Would love to have another junior scholar. Email me if interested #conflictsky

Do you research political elites and do you fancy a trip to Oslo on September 1-2, 2025? Then apply to the 𝘞𝘩𝘰𝘎𝘰𝘷 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴. The deadline is April 4th. We have funding, so we may be able to help finance your trip! You can find the call for papers here: bit.ly/WhoGovWorksh...

FIFA awarded the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia. ⚽🏆 FIFA boss, Gianni Infantino, stated that this would unite the world. Our research shows that the opposite is true! 👇

Do you want to work with world-class conflict researchers in a supportive environment? Come be my new colleague! @uupeace.bsky.social is hiring a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Senior Lecturer. More info here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... and here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Conflictsky

We @unikonstanz.bsky.social are hiring a junior professor in computational social science with a specialization in text-as-data methods and LLMs. Please share and contact me if you are interested! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

🚨 Danish Historical Political Economy Workshop 🚨 Do you work on HPE? If you do, make sure to check out Lasse Aaskoven's Danish HPE Workshop, scheduled for Feb. 21, 2025. I had a fantastic experience when I attended in 2023! Several travel & hotel grants are available. Deadline: Dec. 31, 2024 ‼️

ISQ just published a new paper by Arthur Goldsmith on self-coups. Timely stuff! academic.oup.com/isq/article-...

University of Oslo is hiring 2-4(!) Associate Professors in Political Science. The call is open to candidates from all subfields. Deadline is February 3rd. It comes with amazing colleagues, great work conditions, and lots of snow. Brown cheese, salmon, and cross-country skis can be supplementary.

Join our team! 🚨 We are hiring 2 postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University. We are looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies. Feel free to share!👇🏾 bss.au.dk/en/about-aar...

Also if you play the long game with your reading plans you can pre-order my next book (with Alex Cooley), due out in June: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Very cool paper. Great to see it published. Congrats @jbeisermcgrath.bsky.social and co-authors. Already loved it when you presented it at GIGA.

Please share widely: Our joint (fully funded) PhD programme (HU Berlin & Hertie School) is hiring 10 new doctoral researchers in the following fields: Political Science, Public Policy, Sociology, Demography, and International Relations 👇 More info & FAQs: sowi.hu-berlin.de/en/dynamics Polisky

📢 New article 🌟 👥 Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social, Lee Morgenbesser @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social, Tore Wig @torewig.bsky.social 🔎 On the move: Autocratic leaders, security, and capital relocations 📗 Open Access in Political Geography www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Can autocrats improve their image abroad by hosting major sporting events? 🏏🏑🏒🏓⚽️🏀🎾 To find out, check out the blog post below, which summarizes key findings of our forthcoming article. Thanks for featuring our work, @thejop.bsky.social!