John Chin

Assistant teaching professor @cmist_cmu. Father of 3. @PUPolitics PhD. @fordschool MPP. @NotreDame alum. Author of Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups D’etat.

[John Chin @johnchinphd]

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

[John Chin @johnchinphd]

@JulianWaller Tullock (1987) — if wanting to dive into early public choice approach?

[CMIST @cmist_cmu]

"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

[CMIST @cmist_cmu]

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

[CMIST @cmist_cmu]

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

[CMIST @cmist_cmu]

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

[jkc @jcanfil]

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

[John Chin @johnchinphd]

@RexDouglass There must be a German word for nostalgia for an imagined past that only existed in collective consciousness thanks to Aaron Sorkin?

[John Chin @johnchinphd]

@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

[John Chin @johnchinphd]

@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”!

[CMIST @cmist_cmu]

"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

[Hannah Bailey @Hannah_LSBailey]

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👇

[John Chin @johnchinphd]

@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)?

[CMIST @cmist_cmu]

"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

[Erica De Bruin @esdebruin]

New explainer from me, on understanding ICE as a paramilitary force, in more than one sense of the term 👇

[John Chin @johnchinphd]

@GerardoMunck Start the discussion here:

[Adam Przeworski @AdamPrzeworski]

This is my current understanding of the value and the essence of democracy, in 350 words.

[CMIST @cmist_cmu]

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

[John Chin @johnchinphd]

@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.

[John Chin @johnchinphd]

@JohnHolbein1 This is the way.

[John Chin @johnchinphd]

@Ayaan @UnderSecPD Really, a hand clap? From a woman whose bio starts with the defining fact that you “escaped the Islamic world and came to the West”?

[John Chin @johnchinphd]

@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