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The DT-VVP bromance is official now, marking the 3rd anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. (This made me decide that I could not afford to give up on social media for the moment). www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

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Relying on casualty lists compiled by volunteers and inheritance case data from Russia’s National Probate Registry, an estimated 160,000–165,000 Russian soldiers, officers, contract troops, mobilized personnel, and other fighters have been killed since February 2022. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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My takeaways on the 3rd anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Russian-led Eurasian Union project collapsed; Russia can't claim to be no.2 military power anymore (couldn't even capture Kharkiv let alone Kyiv in 3 years); the invasion forces Europe to defend itself www.aa.com.tr/tr/analiz/ru...

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Rusya’nın Ukrayna’yı işgali dünya siyasetinde neleri değiştirdi? "ABD ve Çin’in başat aktörleri olduğu yeni çift kutuplu dünyada Rusya artık oyun kurucu değil ancak onların kurduğu bir oyunda oyuncu olabilecek gibi gözüküyor." www.aa.com.tr/tr/analiz/ru...

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"South Africa does have a history of racist land inequality. Just not in the way Trump and Musk are portraying" edition.cnn.com/2025/02/11/a...

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Yesterday, I spoke on "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe" to Professor Zuhal Mert Uzuner at MURCIR. The talk was in English. You can watch it on YouTube: MURCIR Wednesday Talks, 19.02.2025 - Şener Aktürk www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-H2...

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"Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe" Podcast & Transcript: international-security.simplecast.com/episodes/2-c...

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Yesterday, I spoke on "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe" to Professor Zuhal Mert Uzuner at MURCIR. The talk was in English. You can watch it on YouTube: MURCIR Wednesday Talks, 19.02.2025 - Şener Aktürk www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-H2...

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I read with great interest, "Homo Algorithmicus" by Alex Gendler. About Elon Musk, J. D. Vance, Nick Beckstead, Karl Pearson, Charles Murray, TESCREAL, "effecitve altruism," Social Darwinism, scientific racism, genocide as utilitarian population management, and more. thepointmag.com/politics/hom...

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"Inside one of Syria's most feared places - where scale of Assad regime's brutality is revealed. Sky News has looked through burnt documents at Syria's political security prison where thousands were held - many for trivial crimes." news.sky.com/story/inside...

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One more tonight from NYRB, this one by Gary Saul Morson on the history of Russian liberals and how their deep distrust of ordinary people helped preserve the authoritarianism in Russia that's come back to eat them. American orthodoxy shares some of these assumptions. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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“The Uyghur language is banned in schools, hospitals, and government buildings. Uyghur mosques are being shut down, Uyghur cultural activities are being banned, and there are no places to speak and practice our culture.” —Abduweli Ayup, interviewed by Willa Glickman

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Russian liberals' "two brief moments of influence—from 1905 to the Bolshevik takeover in 1917, and from Mikhail Gorbachev’s proclamation of perestroika and glasnost until the presidency of Putin—ended in illiberal regimes and the discrediting of liberal ideas." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Out today! This report from @htheaker.bsky.social and me has been a long time in production. We hope that this can be a resource through which we can discuss the program of #Sinicization in #Hui communities comprehensively and develop a clearer picture of what its implementation has produced.

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My GLODEM Book Club talk on "The Arab Spring: Past, Present, and Future" is available on YouTube: youtu.be/dQYTqrJRsPw?... I thank GLODEM Center and @merihangin.bsky.social for their kind invitation and moderation of such a wonderful talk with such an engaging audience at Koç University!

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"The West’s Troubled Origins: Clerics and the Eradication of Europe’s Jews and Muslims" www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-wests-...

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"Tulsi Gabbard’s history with Russia is even more concerning than you think" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Please nominate & submit eligible books for the Luebbert Prize! "The Luebbert Best Book Prize is awarded annually for the best book published in the field of comparative politics. Books published in the last two years (2023 & 2024) are eligible" @apsa.bsky.social Details: apsanet.org/membership/o...

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This is such an important issue. Many Syrians now want to travel home but are fearful of loosing asylum in Europe when Syria's future is still uncertain and the country is destroyed www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Timely joining bsky on the date "Bringing War Back In" was published worldwide with Cambridge UP. Check it out if you are interested in how war makes states also in its aftermath, and how the wars of a distant past explain the variation of state capacity within Latin America until today.

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Why do religious minority politicians secure the highest political office in some countries but not in others? I answer this question in my new article, "Faith of the Sovereign," focusing on the UK, France, Hungary, Italy, and Germany & an overview of 51 countries! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Why do religious minority politicians secure the highest political office in some countries but not in others? I answer this question in my new article, "Faith of the Sovereign," focusing on the UK, France, Hungary, Italy, and Germany & an overview of 51 countries! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Submit your #APSA2025 proposals by Jan. 15th! Join us for the 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Sept. 11–14, in Vancouver, Canada, to address the latest scholarship in #politicalscience. The 2025 theme is “Reimagining Politics, Power, & Peoplehood in Crisis Times.” connect.apsanet.org/apsa2025

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Please nominate & submit eligible books for the Luebbert Prize! "The Luebbert Best Book Prize is awarded annually for the best book published in the field of comparative politics. Books published in the last two years (2023 & 2024) are eligible" @apsa.bsky.social Details: apsanet.org/membership/o...

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Absolutely delighted about the publication of UNCONQUERED STATES (Oxford University Press), which looks at the global history of non-European powers in the imperial age.

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@delaneysimon.bsky.social, @graemesmithauthor.bsky.social and @jeromed.bsky.social urge Western countries to provide some immediate, unconditional sanctions relief to allow Syria's economic recovery and proactively present HTS with a roadmap to further easing: www.foreignaffairs.com/afghanistan/...

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2024 was an important milestone. I had academic publications for over 20 years but what I consider as my most significant article was published this year in International Security: "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe" direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

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2024 was an important milestone. I had academic publications for over 20 years but what I consider as my most significant article was published this year in International Security: "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe" direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

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One of the nicest exchanges I had over my publications on ethnicity, nationalism, and religion, although in Turkish :) My interlocutors asked good questions, and they were kind enough to include the links of my publications that we discussed under the YouTube video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzv4...

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INTERVIEW - Prof. Dr. Şener Aktürk: "All non-Catholic minorities in Western Europe were ethnically cleansed" v.aa.com.tr/3291136 I gave an interview based on my article, "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe," and it was translated into English. FYI:

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Be our colleague! "Koç University invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor position... candidates with a focus on International Political Economy and/or Comparative Politics are especially encouraged to apply." Deadline Dec. 31st. Read the details here: jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...

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"Religiously justified nationalism as being 'God’s chosen people' is clearly observable in Protestant nationalist movements such as the English, the Dutch, and Protestant settlers overseas such as the American Puritans, the Afrikaners, and as a non-Protestant example, Zionists." bit.ly/40IsX9R

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"Religiously justified nationalism as being 'God’s chosen people' is clearly observable in Protestant nationalist movements such as the English, the Dutch, and Protestant settlers overseas such as the American Puritans, the Afrikaners, and as a non-Protestant example, Zionists." bit.ly/40IsX9R

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Today is the 14th anniversary of the Arab Spring, and most meaningful as such since it follows the miraculous removal of the Assad regime by the Syrian revolutionaries. You can read our new book on "The Arab Spring," including 12 chapters by 12 authors: researchcentre.trtworld.com/books/the-ar...

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It was a huge honor for me to present my works along with great scholars of Russia, including my mentors from Chicago and Berkeley, at the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia 2024 in Tbilisi! You can watch my talk here "Sener Akturk: Pro-Russian Eurasianism in Turkey" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7m7...

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Today is the 14th anniversary of the Arab Spring, and most meaningful as such since it follows the miraculous removal of the Assad regime by the Syrian revolutionaries. You can read our new book on "The Arab Spring," including 12 chapters by 12 authors: researchcentre.trtworld.com/books/the-ar...

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Given the world-historical developments that took place in Syria over the last 12 days, I'd like to share our book, "The Arab Spring: Past, Present, and Future," which consists of 12 chapters by 12 international authors. You can download it for free below. researchcentre.trtworld.com/books/the-ar...

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In late 2019, I published "Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring and the Battle for a Free Syria," and 5 years later, it turned out to be very timely, and I dare say, accurate in its assessment of the potential of complementary Syrian and Turkish aspirations. researchcentre.trtworld.com/wp-content/u...

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On Monday, I'll have a Book Talk on our latest book, "The Arab Spring: Past, Present, and Future" on the 15th anniversary of the Arab Spring. It has 3 chapters on the Syrian Revolution. Dec. 16, 2:30 pm Turkish time 💻 Register: bit.ly/3ZFlSpp 📖 Download & read the Open access book: bit.ly/4fYgO5l

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On Monday, I'll have a Book Talk on our latest book, "The Arab Spring: Past, Present, and Future" on the 15th anniversary of the Arab Spring. It has 3 chapters on the Syrian Revolution. Dec. 16, 2:30 pm Turkish time 💻 Register: bit.ly/3ZFlSpp 📖 Download & read the Open access book: bit.ly/4fYgO5l

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Saydnaya Prison: Mapping the Assads' 'human slaughterhouse' "It is estimated by rights groups that more than 30,000 detainees had either been executed or died as a result of torture, lack of medical care or starvation between 2011 and 2018." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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