Multilateralism is not necessarily fading! There is still civilian support for it in different parts of the world. Using two sets of independent conjoint experiments, we show that civilians in Liberia prefer multilateral actors (the UN) to oversee (not rebuild) security sector reforms

📣 Publication alert 📣 GSS Lab Director Dr. Sabrina Karim (@sabrinamkarim.bsky.social) and GSS Lab Fellow Dr. Cameron Mailhot have a new paper out on civilian preferences for international state building, utilizing survey evidence from Liberia. Congratulations! 🎊 #polisky #int-rel

Paper on the ideology gender gap with Eurobarometer data from @gesis.org by @nennstielr.bsky.social and @hudde.bsky.social . Most interesting finding: while young women are becoming more left-wing in 11 countries, in 5 of them young men are also becoming more right-wing (DK, FI, SE, FR and LT)

www.military.com/daily-news/2... a big part of this is that if they have a choice between having an integrated service that's inclusive or a divided service that's not, they'll opt for the latter because they believe that integration destroys institutions

This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

Very excited to be joining the Spring 2026 fellows at the American Academy in Berlin @americanacademy.bsky.social What an amazing group of people! www.americanacademy.de/announcing-t...

This graph represents tens of thousands of active NSF grants. About 14% of them were awarded in 2020 or earlier, yet none were terminated. All 1044 cancellations occurred since 2021. The odds against such an occurrence arising by chance is p<0.0001, less than 1 in 10,000.

Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.

For this month's final member spotlight, check out our Q&A with @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social . The feature dives into her work on the role of gender inclusion & gender norms on police performance as well as citizen trust in security institutions. Read more: buff.ly/AX1x0YH

Congratulations @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social, @zinab.bsky.social, @kathleenfallon.bsky.social, Inka Lilja, and Sarah Rowse for their hard work!

🚨 New #Publication: We tracked how policy and parenthood reshaped gender inequality in Germany from the 1960s to today. In early decades, only 14% of the gender gap was due to kids—now it's 64%. How did children become the biggest factor? Thread🧵 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 with Hansen, @dominiksachs.bsky.social & Lüthen

Chilling email from USIP staff

🌟THANK YOU🌟 to everyone who attended @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social's book launch last week! Academic research is key to advancing #WomenPeaceSecurity #CSW69📚 Couldn't make it? No worries! You can watch a recording of the event here! youtu.be/qDCcmADPYUs?... #gendersky #polisky

Mark your calendars! 🗓️ @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social is holding a #booklaunch event on March 6th to discuss "Positioning Women in Conflict Studies: How Women's Status Affects Political Violence" with Summer Lindsey & Kanisha Bond. No registration required! Hope to see you there! #polisky #gendersky

Mariel Barnes and I have a new paper: The Manosphere and Politics, which argues that the manophere is a political space and theorizes about which parts are more prone to different forms of violence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Heard of the #manosphere? Dr. Mariel Barnes & @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social's new @cpsjournal.bsky.social paper urges the recognition of the revived men's movement as political, and explores when different parts of the manosphere turns violent. #GenderSky #polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In a new @economist.com video, @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social uses evidence from her new book to comment on how harm to women increases the likelihood of #politicalviolence. Check out the video ⤵️ youtu.be/alXI1kDhmT0?... #GenderSky #internationalpolitics #IntSec #WomenPeaceSecurity

Check out the @economist.com 15min video on "How Nationals that Fail Women, Fail" where I am interviewed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=alXI...

🏆 Prize Alert! 🏆 The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN) is awarding their 2025 Prize! Learn more at the link below. Deadline to apply is February 1st! #GenderSky #internationalpolitics #PoliSky #Comparativesky #academia www.egenpolisci.org/prize-applic...

New op-ed about steps the interim government of Bangladesh can take to safeguard democracy time.com/7014316/bang...

Come work with me! Cornell University's Government Department is searching for three lines in international relations across all rank! I am on the search committee- so feel free to ping me! members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...

Excited to be a recipient of Cornell Arts &Sciences New Frontiers Grant to use the GSS Lab reports as a way to understand how well generative AI does with writing policy reports for the United Nations news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

For the ten year remembrance of Ebola in Liberia, Ismene Gizelis and I have a new piece out at World Development about how securitization of pandemics affects public opinion about the security forces www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There is still time to apply to Cornell's Visiting Assistant Professor in IR positions: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27140

Do grassroots anti-election violence initiatives between the police and youth party leaders work? Using an RCT in Liberia, @pruett.bsky.social @dyzenhaus.bsky.social Dao Freeman and I find that the short answer is no. But it is complicated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to @profpaulpoast.bsky.social and the University of Chicago Political Science Dept for the opportunity to present at WIP. Really great comments and feedback!

CrisisWatch | New Update ⚡ Six conflict risks in December ↘️ Ten conflict situations deteriorated in November ↖️ One improved situation 🔎 The Democratic Republic of Congo is our country in focus this month with high risks of election-related violence. www.crisisgroup.org/crisiswatch

📢New #PAG VSI on Violence against Women 📢 Francesca Gains & Vivien Lowndes present a case study of newly elected police in 🇬🇧 to see how they implemented new rules to respond to VAW polisky gendersky 🌟 Open Access 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My new book published by Oxford University Press with Danny Hill will be out in May 2024!

My new book with Danny Hill Jr. coming out in May 2024 with Oxford University Press!

Finally a CyberMonday offer for political scientists!  Are you teaching Intro to Political Science or Intro to Comparative this winter/spring and looking for a new type of text??  🧵👇 polisky politicsexperiment.com 1/

Can someone tell me the best books to read about the Zapatistas? And the civil war in Chiapas?

Are you a researcher who hopes your work will shape policy? *Consider policymakers' incentives!* For a policy to have legs, politicians must believe it will help them win elections🗳️. But researchers often (willfully?) overlook this crucial detail. A 🧵 on my recent WP: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

The UN has a zero tolerance policy for SEA by UN peacekeepers- in a new article with Radwa Saad and Laura Huber, we find that there are two negative effects from the zero tolerance policy: 1) gender segregation 2) violence against female peacekeepers. See here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Polisky! With @danieladonno.bsky.social @parzetterberg.bsky.social, we are excited to share this new open access article in the American Political Science Review. Can autocrats burnish a reputation for democracy by advancing women’s rights? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Proud that my piece on respectability is officially out at APSR. It’s open access! The piece matters a lot to me bc it reflects my strong belief that Black people’s political & social lives warrant deep study & deserve their place in our field’s “top” journals. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#polisky "Theories of Democratic Backsliding" with @carlorato.bsky.social @luozhaotian.bsky.social and Edoardo Grillo is now accepted at the Annual Review of Political Science. Read if you are looking for help organizing and applying the theoretical literature on backsliding: t.co/UwFneFzAl7

Three amazing colleagues. One great paper.

Directly targeting and killing civilians is an immoral war crime. Full stop. Sadly, such acts, motivated by a desire for revenge, are not rare in international politics. [THREAD]

Curious about how IO works, or about what sorts of manuscripts fit our journal’s scope? Join us for our second annual virtual “Ask the IO Editors” session, Nov 2, 10:30am-noon EDT. To attend, register here: princeton.zoom.us/meeting/regi... We also will record and post the session.

Excited to host EGEN at Cornell! The conference would not have been possible without the hard work of Emily Jackson (emilybjackson.weebly.com) and the GSS lab’s new lab manager, Janna Solomon.

Gender and Security Sector Lab Workshop happening today: Great presentations by Almira Sadykova-DuMond on how curfews affect terrorism; @zinab.bsky.social on how aid quality affects incumbent support in Afghanistan; and DeAnne Roark on how conflict processes affect gendered transitional justice

First post here! Early view of my AJPS article with Leonard Wantchekon on the legacy of African independence movements. We argue that rural insurgencies generated political exclusion & autocratic regimes, while urban protests fostered democratic behavior & institutions. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

A huge thank you to @meganastewart.bsky.social who is the best academic workshop host. From limo pick up to custom designed Michigan swag, I really enjoyed giving two talks at the Ford School International Policy Center and received fantastic feedback.

Striking results according to a new World Bank study - there has been minimal progress on a number of gender equity measures in S. Asia over the last 50 yrs across socioeconomic groups. Opens up a host of questions on why. ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps... Gendersky Southasiasky Polisky

Police play a key role in providing security for citizens, but in many contexts, trust is low. Urban areas face particular challenges. In this article, @hathaonguyen.bsky.social, Kristine Höglund and I probe the urban-rural divide in police trust in Kenya: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... polisky