Assistant teaching professor @cmist_cmu. Father of 3. @PUPolitics PhD. @fordschool MPP. @NotreDame alum. Author of Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups D’etat.
Author’s copies of my first book arrived the other day! I’m very proud of this one — it took a nearly a decade to research and 4 years to write. It’s two volumes span 1,442 pages and weigh 5.2 lbs. Shout out to my co-authors — the twitterless Joe Wright and @DavidBCarter12
"The book problematizes what many IR liberals consider natural: that personalists themselves are the problem." CMIST's @johnchinphd reviews @Madison_Schramm's book, Why Democracies Fight Dictators — part of the @HDiplo Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-40.
Read: https://t.co/wxWwlX49Et
Why has the Sahel region emerged as the global epicenter of coups d’état and terrorism since 2020? CMIST's @johnchinphd explores the structural and transnational causes of this political instability in his recent article via Current History.
Read here: https://t.co/EAbVeB1xV2
Three CMU students have been awarded prestigious fellowships, including Ethics, History & Public Policy and International Relations & Political Science major Aleksaundra Handrinos, who has been selected for the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows program. https://t.co/3tIQKLSu1A
Since 2020, a narrow corridor from Guinea-Bissau to Sudan has become the global epicenter of coups d'etat & terrorism. CMIST's @johnchinphd explores the why behind this political instability in his recent article via Current History, @ucpress.
Read here: https://t.co/EAbVeB1xV2
1/ Technology is always advancing. So what does it take to future-proof the law? My latest research in @IntOrgJournal argues that efforts to maximize legal clarity can actually undermine the law’s resilience.
https://t.co/RWqsiqEEsq
@RexDouglass There are episodes where the distillation of issues is even clearer than reality it paralleled. The episode on PNTR/WTO accession for China, for example. It would be as good as a documentary for teaching what that debate came down to and how liberal theory of history won out
@AlexDukalskis I enjoyed reading Dictating the Agenda. So did students in my Introduction to Political Science last fall who read it in their “book club”!
"Linkage, Leverage, and Authoritarian Snapback." CMIST’s @johnchinphd reviews Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics, by Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis.
Part of a book review roundtable in Asia Policy https://t.co/GdWCVB3Gzm
We keep saying China is on a collision course with the US.
But what if China is not heading for war, but running a campaign?
In a new article, Todd Hall and I argue China acts as a global opposition party, using institutions, coalitions, and messaging to win influence.
Link👇
@JohnHolbein1 A majority of parents don’t have that outside option given budget or other constraints. So mainly it just undermine social trust / trust in public institutions, and may increase absenteeism (why should parents be diligent when schools will close for any reason)?
"Linkage, Leverage, and Authoritarian Snapback." In the latest issue of Asia Policy, CMIST’s @johnchinphd participates in a roundtable review of Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis’s Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics https://t.co/GdWCVB3Gzm
Although Russia has expanded its footprint in Africa in recent years, subtle but significant indicators of potential long-term vulnerabilities are emerging. @johnchinphd, Haleigh Bartos, and Aleksaundra Handrinos offer three signposts to watch for. https://t.co/CPWpgnvSYH
@RexDouglass Repression is usually demobilizing. Except, sometimes it backfires (societal collective action problem resolved after a tipping point). To be isolated / atomized in the meantime is very scary and it is not much consolation to know things could get better in the future maybe.
@RexDouglass Your analytic clarity on ICE as paramilitary stands alone in my feed. Perilous times. Joe wright and I warned last spring that Trump could seek personalist security forces to repress in way regular military / law enforcement would not:
https://t.co/l6AchhPRNi