OK Adam Scharpf Christian Gläßel & I have an ongoing project about dictatorships using PR firms in democracies and we have some funds to hire someone for some work on a freelance basis. Kind of unusual but could be really fun & productive. Email interest by Sept 6 Details ⬇️

Are you an expert in dealing with lobby registers, transparency laws, corporate registers and the like? You want to understand how autocrats and their regimes influence foreign democracies? Let's work together! ⬇️

Apply, apply! People who have experience working with public lobbying registers and databases, this is cool project and great learning opportunity

Election over.

If you ask a colleague how their summer 'break' was and they respond with an angry look it's probably because they have primary school-aged kids.

nobody will remember: -your salary -how "busy" you were -how many hours you worked people will remember: -your citation count -how powerful you were as associate dean -that one time an honorary doctorate thanked you by name in their speech

Thanks German Institute for Global and Area Studies & Maria J. 🔴 @[email protected] - it was fun!

How your email finds me.

Reaching for the past: North Korea's engagement with Koreans in Japan Junhyoung Lee (이준형 Junhyoung Lee) and Alexander Dukalskis (Alex Dukalskis) buff.ly/3WenDae

Russia pressing criminal charges on journalists for reporting from Russian areas Ukraine has captured. themoscowtimes.com/2024/08/27/rus…

ICYMI

Why do some authors use "we" when it is a single-authored piece of writing? As in: "In this paper, we will argue...."

This is an excellent event.

Check out this beautifully written, introspective, and powerful essay by UCD Politics and International Relations PhD candidate Linette Lim in Jom jom.media/my-authoritari…

I feel hurt. The trump campaign is *very clearly* targeting young men who do not know anything about politics and I haven't been contacted once.

Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program by Axel Dreher Andreas Fuchs Bradley Parks Austin Strange & Mike Tierney via Cambridge University Press #AutumnReading cambridge.org/core/books/ban…

Whatever else you think about the Brazilian Twitter fiasco, it's interesting that Musk is freaking out about it while staying silent about the fact that Twitter has been banned in China for years. Tyranny of low expectations + mixed business motives = preemptive compliance.

Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World by Casey Michel via Macmillan Publishers (2024) #AutumnReading us.macmillan.com/books/97812502…

This guy keeps failing to clear the absolute lowest posible bars. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

None of this makes any sense. I look forward to wall-to-wall reporting about his mental capacities from very serious and respectable reporters along with editorials and op-eds in leading outlets about how he's too old and intellectually infirm to be president.