New publication in IJSSP 🎉 We analyse with @mkemmerling.bsky.social how digital care platforms (CPs) contribute to the marketisation of care across the European Union (EU) by examining their business models and national variations. Full article is here: doi.org/10.1108/IJSS...

📰 Many PR firms work for brutal regimes — polishing their image, attacking critics + helping dictators cling to power. 🚫 @alexdukalskis.bsky.social, Christian Gläßel & @ascharpf.bsky.social ask: why does this happen, and what can democratic societies do to stop it? 👉 bit.ly/496GA6Y

If you're in Paris this week join me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social at @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social on Thursday where we'll talk about our new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics Details here:

If you're in Paris this week join me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social at @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social on Thursday where we'll talk about our new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics Details here:

Whatever else you want to say about the guy, Dick Cheney had an APSR

Let's not leave out the uni admin negotiating with a foreign intelligence service (without informing their national government) to protect their ability to enroll PRC nationals paying full tuition

Excellent for Mamdani. Creep endorsing creep + Mamdani gets an enemy to fight with and justification if he can’t deliver. TBH people who don’t like Mamdani should just sit back and let him be mayor for a while. New Yorkers will hate him after a couple years and his political career will be dead.

"The documents she obtained showed the university "had negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market," she told the BBC."

Meanwhile in Ireland…

Confirmation of key thesis in @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and @alexdukalskis.bsky.social's book "Dictating the Agenda:" channels for global cultural and market liberal influence now being weaponized by authoritarian states against liberal society institutions www.theguardian.com/education/20...

As the government refuses to support universities in dire financial situations, many will look to foreign markets and opportunities with severe implications like the ones below.

"[T]he book leaves a powerful impression. It forces readers to confront how profoundly the liberal order’s instruments—aid, education, culture, and commerce—have been retooled by its rivals." @moisesnaim.bsky.social reviews "Dictating the Agenda" by Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis.

This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.

Why authoritarians are no longer on the defensive – and how they are reshaping world #politics. My 🎙 #podcast, #TheGlobalAgora, with @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social & @alexdukalskis.bsky.social about their book. ▶️ podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/and...

Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence by @bethanyallen.bsky.social (2024) #AutumnReading

Why authoritarians are no longer on the defensive – and how they are reshaping world #politics. My 🎙 #podcast, #TheGlobalAgora, with @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social & @alexdukalskis.bsky.social about their book. ▶️ Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... ▶️ Spotify spotify.link/4qj8KEeNPXb

Why authoritarians are no longer on the defensive – and how they are reshaping world #politics. My 🎙️ #podcast, #TheGlobalAgora, with @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social & @alexdukalskis.bsky.social about their book. ▶️ ko-fi.com/post/Podcast... If you enjoy what I do, please buy me ☕️ coffee. Thank you!

If you fancy more on thid, tune into @newstalkfm.bsky.social at 2pm and the @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social show. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Join us tomorrow!

Why authoritarians are no longer on the defensive – and how they are reshaping world #politics. My 🎙 #podcast, #TheGlobalAgora, with @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social & @alexdukalskis.bsky.social about their book. ▶️ #Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... ▶️ #Spotify spotify.link/4qj8KEeNPXb

If you’re in New York join me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as we talk w/ @adamtooze.bsky.social about our new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics Register here: harriman.columbia.edu/event/book-l...

Thanks for having us @matisaksk.bsky.social - it was a great conversation!

If you’re in New York join me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as we talk w/ @adamtooze.bsky.social about our new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics Register here: harriman.columbia.edu/event/book-l...

Very interesting:

Thanks so much for having us - it was a great conversation!

If you are Berlin-based and want to come to an invite-only book roundtable on NOV 7 about Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics, shoot me an email.

When your profile is definitely real.

Ireland’s next president basically decided. Ireland’s president doesn’t have that many powers but this is a clear W for the Irish left. The centre/centre-right strategy of putting up almost painfully uninspiring candidates seems to have failed miserably.

The U.S. government right now really hitting that sweet spot of blatant corruption of 1990s Central Asia, the weirdo personality cult of Gaddafi, the bad plastic surgery of Berlusconi’s Italy, the religious zeal of the Taliban, and the thuggish brutality of a right-wing Cold War dictatorship.

Why is every NBA game like 140-125? Does anyone play defense anymore or are offensive analytics just that good? If it’s the latter will defensive analytics catch up?

If you are Berlin-based and want to come to an invite-only book roundtable on NOV 7 about Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics, shoot me an email.

Amazing conversation with @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and @alexdukalskis.bsky.social by the excellent @konstantinkipp.bsky.social about their essential new book on the authoritarian resurgence in world politics

🎙️ In our new podcast, @alexdukalskis.bsky.social and @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social argue that the project to spread liberalism around the world has caused a snapback, in which authoritarian regimes aim to capture and repurpose the actors, tools, and norms. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/aa6cs3vz

“…China has thrown its weight behind the junta, backing its plan to hold an election in December. This plan has been widely condemned because it excludes Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, which won the last election but its government was ousted in the coup…”

Thanks so much for having us - it was a great conversation!

My first solo-authored publication is out in The International Journal of Press/Politics! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Based on 50+ interviews with foreign correspondents in China, it explores how authoritarian media control operates and the responses it provokes. (1/3)

I suppose this was inevitable but still sobering to see it happen.

Hey: check out this new article by @linettelim.bsky.social of @ucdpolitics.bsky.social on control of foreign journalists in China. It’s Linette’s first solo-authored publication and it’s superb. She uses interviews to highlight less visible forms of control and journalist response.

Very notable shift

Laws against murder too much of a hassle for serial killers, experts say.

I’m old enough to remember when people were offended by a clunky phrase like “basket of deplorables”

A pathology of personalist dictatorships. www.ft.com/content/7af3...

#China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional release. Read our joint statement ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/china-p... #FreeGuiMinhai

Many thanks to @moisesnaim.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of Dictating the Agenda by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social “This is an excellent book…. one of the most penetrating and original accounts yet of how authoritarian regimes are reshaping the global order.”

My new book has arrived. Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics, by Alexander Cooley & @alexdukalskis.bsky.social.

Many thanks to @moisesnaim.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of Dictating the Agenda by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social “This is an excellent book…. one of the most penetrating and original accounts yet of how authoritarian regimes are reshaping the global order.”

The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime by Bradley Hope (2022) #AutumnReading

Looking forward to giving along w/ @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social the @nupinytt.bsky.social & Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics annual lecture in Oslo Wednesday. “Dictating the Agenda – How Authoritarians are Transforming Global Governance” Details & live stream:

Imagine the least user-friendly financial software you can. Then make it more complicated. Then add a bunch of mistakes. Then make it so you have to swim through a lake full of hungry piranhas to do a simple task like figure out how much budget you have in a project. The result: Workday Financial.

"What is curious is that the authoritarian resurgence has grown and now thrives in a global context shaped by the West ... Part of the answer is that authoritarian states learned to survive and then repurpose global interconnectedness."