Why do people protest against authoritarian regimes even when facing extreme dangers? Check out this amazing piece 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/MPRSF... by @vladsurdea.bsky.social is such an engaging reading. Can’t miss it!

To the last point: one useful practical demand of causal identification thinking is that you translate "I cannot (credibly) estimate this causal effect" into "You'd need to believe <assumptions list> for that quantity there to estimate this causal effect" Then people can decide for themselves.

So I started a new thing with @letitiaroman.bsky.social, @markuspo.bsky.social and Erin Jenne this term. Check out our interview with @stephenwalt.bsky.social on our new podcast “Vienna Dialogues: Coffee and IR” here! open.spotify.com/episode/2SrC...