📢 CfP for 2026 (virtual) Workshop on Human Rights and IR organized by Zoltán Búzás w the International Race and Rights Lab and Klau Institute for Civil & Human Rights. Abstracts due 12/20. Strongly recommend this community, esp. for grad, postdoc, junior scholars raceandrights.org?page_id=31

Why did US Southern politicians turn away from #multilateralism after WWII? @benfordham.bsky.social finds that both #economics and racial hierarchy played a role in his October WP article. #race #trade #politics #ForeignPolicy doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Huge congrats to ISA President-elect @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social !! This is such great news! Looking forward to the great work he will be sure to do! 🎉🎊

Helpful resource to share with graduate students! David Lake's guide to writing an academic political science article (I remember reading some version of this in the past) ucigcc.org/publication/... @ucigcc.bsky.social

Truly an honor and dream come true to see my book, Local Peace, International Builders, with the other Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org award winners at @apsa.bsky.social APSA 2025! www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace

It's always a busy news day, but the military attack on an alleged drug smuggling vessel is a very big deal. @bcfinucane.bsky.social breaks down domestic and international law questions here: www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal...

Routed West @bampfa.bsky.social is stunning & worth the visit. I’d already planned to go but happened to meet one of the quilters leaving a coffee shop a few days before. She told me “look for the red cardinals” (her quilt) next to her grandmother’s (age 109) & great aunt’s quilts. Very memorable—

“What I do not doubt is the abiding importance of public service, and the value of what you have done with yours…I know that you will continue to serve in different ways, helping to stand watch over our great experiment, even as too many of our elected leaders seem to be turning their backs on it.”

🚨 🚨Calling all #polisky grad students who presented at #ISA2025: I'm chairing the committee for the Human Rights Section’s Steven C Poe best grad student paper award. We are currently accepting nominations, including self-nominations, and all you have to do is email your paper to me!

Way back in the day, I was lucky enough to get a dissertation fellowship from the UC system’s IGCC. They asked for some reflections all these years later, and I was happy to oblige ucigcc.org/alumni-confi...

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

📄 New publication: Stephen Chaudoin and I have a new article in @thejop.bsky.social, featuring the largest-ever survey experiment on public opinion on the ICC (N > 10,000 ppl across Georgia, Israel, Philippines, South Africa, and the US)! doi.org/10.1086/732982

I'm loving all the videos of yesterday's protest but especially this wedding party that decided to join in

As political scientists, we really want to know when, where, and why people mobilize against repressive governments. Happy to share my latest article is out that helps us understand this in a specific context: intl legal petitions in the UN. How do courageous individuals overcome barriers?

Congratulations to @htrinkunas.bsky.social of @stanfordcisac.bsky.social on receiving the Alfred Stepan Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin American Studies Association for his outstanding academic career and contributions to security and defense studies.

"Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalization framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why."

I couldn’t write a more eye-opening lecture on race and white identity politics than what this administration is offering in its differential treatment of Afrikaners versus every other refugee or immigrant group.

based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right

I’ve been honored to serve as the @apsa.bsky.social rep on the committee (a role mandated by Congress) since 2020 + to have chaired the committee since 2021. Congress understood in creating its 1991 statute governing our work the importance of “thorough, accurate, and reliable” accounts of the past

listening to some stevie and i kind of think that you could bring a good chunk of americans back from the abyss if you could just get them to listen to “As” and force them to hear him sing/growl “did you know that you're loved by somebody?!?”

Are you interested in applying to PhD programs in political science? If so, join us for an info session on May 1 at 6:00pm pacific time (virtual and in person). You may register with this link: forms.gle/LHpzVZTaitvf...

Amid all the uncertainty around the world, I am so honored that I get to have a book launch for Local Peace, International Builders with discussants @matanock.bsky.social and Salma Mousa. 📘 Book Link: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace If you're in Santa Barbara on April 30th, come join us!

Excited to share that my new book is now available for pre-order! This book has been a labor of love for the past decade & I am grateful to a whole community of people who supported this project. Get 30% off your purchase using code UCPNEW at UChicago Press! Link: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Ailey week! finding free (2024) & treading (1979) were amazing, both bay area premieres. Revelations (1960) gets me every time. The company dedicated their Cal residency to Judith Jamison. Don’t think there was a dry eye in the house. Might stir something hopeful for you too youtu.be/kDXerubF4I4?...

weird, what could explain this

New paper out from me, Adams-Fuller (Howard soc), Ahlquist (UCSD GPS), & Starman (Howard soc) using new survey of workers in hospitality, retail, telecom, health care, & warehousing tl;dr 14% experience wage theft and many (mostly women) are ready to act gated: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Next week: "The Gender Digital Divide and Gender Gaps in Political Participation" with Jakana Thomas RSVP here⤵️ cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/gende...

Looking forward to presenting next week at the Junior IO Scholars workshop! It’s online and open to all so please tune in if you’re interested Will be presenting new work on party internationals - part of my larger research on opposition politics and transnational networks

This week included good news from former pipeline students, sharing their acceptances to great graduate programs! Sharing in their success is one of the best parts of this job! To read more about the pipeline program, check out this article in @thejop.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1086/726954

Check out this amazing H-Diplo roundtable on our book, "Beyond the Wire." Thanks to Lindsay Cohn, @smsaideman.bsky.social, Sebastian Schmidt, and @cnwillis.bsky.social for engaging so thoughtfully with our work! @michaelallen.bsky.social @flynnpolsci.bsky.social issforum.org/roundtables/...

Very excited to see our article out in @internatltheory.bsky.social. In this article, @arturochang.bsky.social and I argue for the importance of tackling questions of agency and resistance from within colonial-racial orders through an examination of Black Loyalist and Indigenous royalist movements.

I couldn’t be at #ISA2025 but was nevertheless happy to hear that our article with Sarah von Billerbeck, “Race and International Organizations”, is a runner-up for the Diplomatic Studies Section (DPLST) Best Article Award! The link to our article is below: academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

38,000 workers didn’t die building the Panama Canal, and the 5,000 who did die were almost all Afro-Caribbean workers who toiled in segregated conditions under white American supervisors.

It was great to have a research workshop on paths forward for the empirical study of race in IR with Robbie Shilliam and friends at #ISA2025! We selected published works & working papers that make conceptual or methods contributions to this yet developing field of inquiry. See some papers below 🧵

My new article ‘Mission Impossible? Humanitarian Actors and the Civilizational Logic of International Aid Delivery during the “Congo Crisis,” 1960–1964’ is now open access with Humanity. Worth checking out for the photos, if nothing else. Here is (most of) the abstract. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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/

A beautiful and moving piece about the Black art community of Altadena

Truly frightening to see civil-military relations experts be so distraught today. I hadn't understood that no POTUS has ever replaced the top brass 1 month into office plus fired the JAGs. We’re in autogolpe territory, more so if Trump changes the head of Northern Command.

I wrote angry about the purging of the US military. saideman.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-...

I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

I'm excited to share that "Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes" coauthored with Daniel Lobo (Berkeley, Phd Student) is now out in @apsrjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.