Slavery has become taboo. Nuclear war has hopefully become taboo. Colonialism has become taboo, but Russian colonialism is sometimes exempted. This exemption is wrong, and moral reasoning as well as strategic reasoning is important in fighting wars. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

Usei muito VPNs em países autoritários, como China, para continuar a acessar sites de notícias e redes sociais. Nunca me passou pela cabeça que esse tipo de ferramenta seria proibido no Brasil. É distópico.

"Health policy is a matter for the 16 federal states in Germany. Each of them has a different set of standards a foreign doctor must meet."

Always fascinating to see how CDU/CSU leaders try to avoid acknowledging that one of Konrad Adenauer's most significant historical legacies is the mass immigration that turned Germany into the diverse society it is today

The two states going to the polls today have among the lowest levels of immigration in Germany. You may want to remember that for your hot takes tomorrow…

Most radical wing of AfD led by Hoecke predicted to get more than 1/3 seats in Thuringia giving them a blocking vote even if excluded from government. zdf.de/nachrichten/po…

🚨 Postdoc Alert 🚨 Please join my project on 'Deception in World Politics' (27 months, full-time) Politicologie, Radboud University! Are you into the linkages between IR/pol. theory, FPA, pol. comm., language? Why/when do states/others deceive/lie/bullshit/etc.? ➡️Apply! academictransfer.com/en/344831/post…

Vote share for far-right AfD among first-time voters Saxony: 31% Thuringia: 38%

Die AfD gilt als Gewinnerin der Landtagswahlen. Wie lässt sich ihr Ergebnis erklären und wo schneidet die Partei besonders gut ab? Ich habe dazu Strukturdaten & Wahlergebnisse zusammengetragen und am Beispiel Sachsens einige statistische Modelle gerechnet. Ein Thread. 🧵👇

One day after a far right extremist party won its first state election in Germany after 1945, one of the leaders of the centrist conservatives has nothing better to do than publicly destroying the Greens while parroting the paroled of the far right. Dangerous strategy.

New article out in Political Research Quarterly under certain conditions left-leaning politicians militarize the police more than their counterparts. Link to paper 👇🏽

Interesting special section on militarism and militarization in Brazil, edited by Thiago Rodrigues, PhD, Eduardo Heleno & Mariana Kalil, PhD rbed.abedef.org/rbed/issue/vie…

Despropósitos 🙃 en #USAelectoral 🇺🇸

Russia's Espionage War in the Arctic newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Just had a great authors' workshop in Copenhagen - supported by Carlsbergfondet Stay tuned for an exciting civil-military relations volume to be edited by Risa Brooks and myself!