This article looks at the ‘dark’ sides of ethnic power-sharing. Fantastic seeing #UCL PhDs and their publishing successes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Nearly 40 years on from the US embassy siege in Tehran, Iraqi protesters have attacked the Iranian consulate in Karbala

This is a very interesting piece and can be read as a comment to some of the current political events. Luke Abbs Journal of Peace Research

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It is really the protest year. theguardian.com/world/2019/nov…

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Multilayer networks with an exciting IR application. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Very excited that @RCN_Norway is funding our project on actor mobilization in democratic and autocratic transitions with the dreamteam Sirianne Dahlum Marianne Dahl Carl Henrik Knutsen Tore Wig Nils W. Metternich and @espen_g_roed - who have all already done fantastic research on this

Fantastic to see our UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy PhD students publish at such a high standard. Congrats @swebera!

I guess everyone would have expected a fall in protest events in the recent months, but nonetheless stunning to see it in ICEWS data. See details at SocArXiv: osf.io/preprints/soca…

#EPSA2020 #COVID19 UPDATE Regretably #EPSA exec council has canceled 2020 conference Prague #VirtuallyEPSA planned! epsanet.org/epsa-2020-reim… Mary Stegmaier Vera E. Troeger @FlorianFoos Rachel Gibson Andreas Murr Stefanie Reher Debra Leiter http://AliCirone.bsky.social Kelly Kadera and Tim Haughton.

It will important to record protest activities in the coming months. I am afraid Lebanon is just one example. theguardian.com/world/video/20…

#Firstview Does Social Media Promote Civic Activism? @FlorianFoos et al. show that social media campaigns are effective at selecting activist-types, but changing views and behaviors of the broader social media population may be more difficult 👉 doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…

In this #APSR article, Knox, @conjugateprior, & Jonathan Mummolo demonstrate how analyses using administrative records are statistically biased, severely underestimating levels of racially biased policing or masking discrimination entirely. doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

#Firstview Where do armed conflicts occur? Kyosuke Kikuta provides an answer to this question by developing a machine learning method that is less dependent on areal-unit assumptions and can flexibly estimate conflict zones doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…

I am not sure everyone reading this tweet was actually born when Julian Wucherpfennig Hertie School and I presented this work tandfonline.com/eprint/RUGGIWN… Peace Science Society (International) for the first time. I am really glad this work found with International Interactions a fantastic outlet.

Our paper (Janina Beiser-McGrath) on ethnic coalitions in authoritarian regimes has seen the light during lockdown at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… . Thank you to everyone who has provided us with their valuable feedback over the past years. UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy

Very excited to see this one out! Nils W. Metternich and I investigate which ethnic coalitions are most likely to form in autocracies. doi.org/10.1177/001041…

The list of presenters for the Environmental Politics and Governance Online seminar is now live! The seminar will be running Thursdays at 8:30 PT, 11:30 ET, 16:30 GMT, 17:30 CET, 21:00 IST, 23:30 CST

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