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mehrl.bsky.social
Lecturer, University of Leeds. Editor, @conflictmanagement.bsky.social Armed conflict, authoritarian politics. And Basketball. Website: https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/2078/dr-marius-mehrl
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Also, feels right to point to Ioannis' and my companion paper in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, where we study how secret police affect levels of state repression.
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The paper is online now, get in touch in case you cannot access it.
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Thank you Salah!
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Thank you Sharan!
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Thank you Elizabeth! And also, thank you for creating this dataset in the first place, really a great resource to systematically study legionnaires.
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Thanks Nic! Definitely took a while, but very happy this is out. And there is more to come :)
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.. newly collected data on the Interwar ams trade, and open access. I think this is how threads work here?
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In contrast, dyadic rivalry does not affect whether countries trade weapons with each other. These findings also replicate in tests using Cold War data. Other highlights include nice network graphics, ERGM and AME models,...
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Our core argument is that sharing rivals shows countries that they have common security interests and thus increases their probability of trading Major Conventional Weapons. We find support for this expectation of a triadic rivalry effect.
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I found my way on the so called "Superhighway" for bicycles today. Still fells more like in rather than out of the roundabout though...