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Happy Dave Wottle Day to all who celebrate youtu.be/S7KPmsJi24E?si…

Increasingly allergic to the quiet polisci norm that empirical papers should come up with elaborated theories/expectations first even if effectively they're intuitions from the process of data exploration. We/I have been inculcated this is the way to present but often doesnt work

🥁 Does public opinion on international affairs affect elites’ policy preferences? In short: yes, it does. Felix Bethke and I explore this in International Studies Quarterly based on a new survey experiment run with 253 US foreign policy practitioners with Teaching, Research & International Policy Project. 1/5 academic.oup.com/isq/article/69…

Just published on APSR First View: "The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States " by Lotem Bassan-Nygate (Lotem Bassan-Nygate), Jonathan Renshon (Jonathan Renshon), Jessica Weeks (Jessica Weeks), and Chagai Weiss (Chagai Weiss). cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📚 Book of the Week 📚 👉 A great book for anyone interested in contestation in IR, this week’s pick is ‘International norm disputes’, by Lisbeth Zimmerman, Nicole Deitelhoff, @MaxLesch, Antonio Arcudi and @AntonPeez (Oxford University Press). Read our joint review: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iia…

Data from 120,000 runners shows that slow and fast marathoners do essentially the same amount of medium and hard training, but vastly different amounts of easy training. But does that really mean that slow marathoners would get faster by training easier? outsideonline.com/health/trainin…

Surely this will never happen to me again, but I had TWO papers come out yesterday! In Journal of Peace Research, I introduce a new corpus of all 17,324 UNGA & UNSC resolutions from 1946-2018. Users will have searchable resolution texts, but also key metadata: citations, topics & reuse. 1/5

New article on economic coercion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… with Patrick Weber and Alessia Invernizzi. We show that the sanction regimes of both the EU and the USA are biased, but that there are also surprising parallels between the two most prolific senders.

Kudos everyone! Our theories must be so good for us to be rejecting nulls all the time like this. A+++

If you’re attending #MSC2025, give our Munich Security Conference/PRIF Decisionmaker Scenario Exercise a look – How can the UN Security Council be reformed? How might the Russia-Ukraine War be settled? Who are today’s “great powers”? Available in the conference platform/app under “Survey.”

For those of you attending #MSC2025: Please check out the new Decision-Maker Scenario Exercise (with PRIF) on the official Conferencing Platform (see "Survey") and spread the word! It just takes six minutes of your time! Thank you!

New paper with Anton (Anjo) Peez Tobias Bunde & Jonas Driedger We conducted a conjoint experiment with attendees of the 2025 Munich Security Conference , capturing their preferences for settlement scenarios of the Russo- Ukrainian war across six key issues.

The official MLB account posting gambling odds is horrible for baseball as a product

✍️ My quick take for Crisis Group on how last week's UNSC votes on South Sudan and Libya reflect on the broader sanctions debate at the UN. crisisgroup.org/global-south-s…

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Attia (2025) shows that U.S. presidents with strong party support and high approval are more likely to lift sanctions, while congressional oversight makes termination less likely and slower. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/21…