Be my colleague! Fantastic opportunity for 2y postdoc ABIFreiburg with focus on S or SE #Asia . Pls fwd and pls contact me, I'd love to chat about working here and in @Freiburg :) arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/jobsinterns… Sinan Chu @chwirthNEAsia Alex Hinton Sandra Destradi @sdestradi.bsky.social

New article out with Bridget L. Coggins on why countries may strategically skip controversial votes in UNGA. We find that weak states and countries not allied with the US use this practice to avoid political blowback. Check it out here! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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More evidence of strategic absence: UNGA adopts a resolution supporting Palestinian statehood. Media outlets emphasize the vote count: 143-9, with 25 abstentions. But 16 other countries conveniently missed voting on a resolution that the US lobbied aggressively against.

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This RIO/PEIO/RIO special issue (edited by Duncan Snidal, Thomas Hale, @EmilyJonesBSG, Karolina Milewicz, and myself) explores the strategies that “weak” states use to advance their interests. It includes some fantastic contributions: [THREAD] link.springer.com/article/10.100…

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best

CA/MN! Let’s Go!!

Just in time for the General Assembly! Bridget L. Coggins Annjulie Vester, Jungjae Hong, and I have a UC Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation post previewing new data. If your view of UNGA is US isolation and Is/Pal resolutions, the truth is a bit more complicated... #UNGA2024 ucigcc.org/blog/at-the-un…

Interesting to see all the CP and IR folks beltway reading the faux Nobel references this morning. Maybe this work isn’t economics…

Very worried about South Korea right now. There is absolutely no cause for this sort of extraordinary military action.

"A spokesman for the U.S. military command in Seoul did not answer repeated phone calls." | Reuters reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

I’m at the National Assembly. Reported military chopper flying low. Police with shields. People chanting “open the door” and confronting police, saying, “you are going to regret this. This is a sin that will go down the history.” More on NK NEWS KOREA PRO

This is a good note for the US from John. And the US has not covered itself in glory up to now when it comes to Yoon’s record on women or democratic values either.

The South Korean National Assembly has decisively rejected President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration, with 190 of the 300 lawmakers voting in favor of the motion to block it. By law, Yoon must comply. Most likely, impeachment procedure will begin.

MVP Kamala Harris with the first all female US Air Force crew for her last flight to CA! A vice presidency of many firsts. 🥹

Harvard's Library Innovation Lab just released all 311,000 datasets from data .gov, totalling 16 TB.🫡🫡 This is a complete archive of federal public datasets harvested during 2024-2025, updated daily.

If you live in Wisconsin – or have friends or family who do – there’s an important Supreme Court race happening right now. And there’s only one candidate ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of Wisconsinites: Judge Susan Crawford. We’ve all seen how important

I wrote about the origins of the "Global South," tracing its origins through Henry Maine's vision of indirect rule, Albert Sauvy's conception of three worlds, and Carl Oglesby's critique of U.S. imperial overreach. With shoutouts to DuBois, Douglass, Mamdani and Karuna Mantena.

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