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I mean OK i guess but like two weeks ago he voted to confirm Hegseth and Gabbard, clearly endorsing trump’s foreign policy agenda. Stirring speeches ring a bit hollow now.

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Hey good news!

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Flattered my book Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, on identity and Xi Jinping's China, is on @foreignpolicy.com 's list of most anticipated books for this year with a lot of great-looking China books coming out too! foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/31/2...

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Happy to share my latest article co-authored with Janjira Sombatpoonsiri and Tyler Williams, published in Democratization.

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This is what happens when you get shared ideology btw putinists & trumpists + a shared “might makes right” worldview & relishing cruelty toward the little guy + jealousy + ignorance + maybe stuffing millions of $$ in the president and his allies pockets through crypto and other schemes

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Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America by @newsprof1.bsky.social @martinscott2010.bsky.social & @melbunce.bsky.social via Oxford University Press (2024) #WinterReading

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The book has a cover!

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Deadline end of this week. These are great jobs - take a peek if you’re on the academic job market and consider applying! If you have questions feel free to get in contact.

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The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (2023) (non-academic) #WinterReading

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My school @ucdpolitics.bsky.social has 2 positions (deadline Feb 21) one in Global Governance, one in Environmental Politics. They're called "Ad Astra Fellows" but between you & me they're basically tenure-track posts. It's a good deal. You get a PhD line & annual €5000 research budget for 5 years.

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Congo has written to the NBA, asking it to cut its ties with Rwanda, in light of what is going on in the east of the country: www.espn.in/nba/story/_/...

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This dude is marinading in some weird sh*t.

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As Reuters reports here, at Freedom House our China Dissent Monitor, which does an incredible job documenting and analyzing protest across the country, is currently frozen because of this

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Whatever his motivations are for attacking institutions like NED, the people most happy about it are the likes of Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping, etc.

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Meanwhile he fails to tell this to Putin, an actual Soviet-style enemy of free speech and democracy.

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Who is the political leader of the liberal democratic world right now? Macron’s on his way out, Germany is in flux, Ishiba is boring, Yoon obviously ain’t liberal or democratic, Starmer is a handsome piece of cardboard. It’s really Zelenskyy isn’t it? But he rules a state under attack. Kaja Kallas?

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What could possibly go wrong?

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This is my department @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - get in touch if you have any questions!

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Trying to convince people to not vote for rfk:

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Yep, this point always seems to get lost. It’s a pretty simple solution actually.

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“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One”

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Trump is taking a sledgehammer to the US's anti-corruption bona fides, and opening the door to kleptocrats and malign actors from around the world. My piece for @financialtimes.com on the worst week in the history of anti-corruption efforts in US history: www.ft.com/content/f9d1...

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Vietnam is proclaiming an "era of national rise," but there're inherent risks of imperial overstretch. Vietnam needs to match its ends and means and avoids new international responsibilities to ensure best chance of success for the "era." My latest @thediplomat.com thediplomat.com/2025/02/viet...

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PUBLISHED! Forget talk of a coup or self-coup, Musk's siege of America's vast federal bureaucracy is a form of state capture. It fits seamlessly with Trump's authoritarianism. I suspect this will be the most important thing I ever say about American politics. theconversation.com/is-elon-musk...

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This is my department @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - get in touch if you have any questions!

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Academic freedom is under serious threat in the United States right now. Even setting aside important values and principles, this is wildly self-sabotaging. The best research usually results from contexts in which talented researchers have academic freedom protections. The US is hurting itself.

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This is awful. The Trump administration is making it legal for US firms to bribe foreign governments. (Prohibiting such practices was a benefit to US firms rather than a drag bc they could credibly tell foreign governments they couldn’t bribe, which saved them money!)

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Men are too emotional to be in politics.

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This cannot possibly be true. I was assured during the election that there was no difference between the two parties.

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Universities will spend hundreds of thousands of euro per year on business class airfare for senior managers and then scrutinise your academic conference expenses like you’re a criminal.

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Indeed! You can see my thoughts on the matter here: chinaobservers.eu/what-china-s...

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For about 80 cents per American per year USAID helped sustain a global ecosystem of media investigating important stories like the Panama Papers, the Bucha Massacre, and countless others. That’s all under threat now and the biggest winners are autocrats and kleptocrats.

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Exact chair design from the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates encountered in the University of Copenhagen political science department (picture from the debate on wall behind). Chair designed by a Dane, and a proud moment in Danish design, apparently. I must say it was quite comfortable.

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The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld by @tokyovice.bsky.social (2023) #WinterReading

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In case you missed it!

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