Pumped to share my new EJIR (European Journal of International Relations) article:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…
On int'l cooperation in AI, some have called for us to find the 'permissive action link (PAL) for AI' (locks that limit unauthor. nuclear launches) - as in tech the US would want even its rivals to have
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Warm recommendation to apply for this exciting PhD position with my brilliant colleague Hannah Smidt

Student protests and repressive police tactics are front and center in the news. As Ayal Feinberg and I write in this article, protest escalation is more likely when students are involved. 1/

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

New article: “The Language of Responsibility in the United Nations Security Council, 1946–2020” with Felix Haass & Holger Niemann in International Studies Quarterly
Article: doi.org/10.1093/isq/sq…
Preprint: felixhaass.de/www/manuscript…
Data/Code: t.ly/ChKOG

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(1/2) How do political parties speak about IOs? @tommccraehunter and Stefanie Walter compare the communication of parties in national parliamentary debates, with oral statements on 75 different IOs.

“It’s horrible, it's outrageous. It's a sin, as my mother would have said

“There will always be an immigration policy in most countries, but we've got to get a humane one.

“It's also useless.”

Mick Lynch pulls apart the Tories’ Rwanda deportation scheme.

Beyond happy that Christoph Valentin Steinert and my paper on protest mobilization and political imprisonment was awarded the Peace Science Society (International) Will H. Moore prize. Many thanks to PSSI and the award committee!
Paper: shorturl.at/eQRZ3
Politics Research at York YCCS University of York

Excited this is moving through proofs & getting closer to getting out there! LMK if anyone's depts/ centers etc. would like a talk on peacekeeping SEA, accountability, and child victims in the coming academic year!

Individuals matter in international organizations even when policies have backing by member states and leadership! We show in new American Political Science Review article that women are less likely to engage in box ticking on World Bank gender mainstreaming (1/4)

doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

Some wise advice by Theda Skocpol about scholarship.👇

From Skocpol’s 2017 interview with Eric Schickler: annualreviews.org/docserver/full…

Morgen ist der int. Tag zur Aufklärung über #Landminen . Laut dem Landminen-Monitor 2023 stammen 85% der Opfer aus der Zivilbevölkerung. Neben der humanitären Minenräumung braucht es Aufklärung über die Gefahren von #Minen , Sprengfallen und Blindgängern, um Unfälle zu vermeiden.

In American Political Science Review, @Robert_a_blair Jessica Di Salvatore & Hannah Smidt use an IV design to show that UN peacekeeping missions in Africa to promote democracy increase the quality of democracy in host countries, particularly for civilian-staffed missions.

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Updated UN General Assembly voting and ideal points data that fixes some issues with the previous release. Note the sharp divergence for Russia and China in 2022. i will soon at the 2023 data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?…