Raphaël Lefèvre

Senior Lecturer in International Relations @BristolUni
Researching the Middle East, Conflicts, Islamist Politics
Author: Jihad in the City @CUP_PoliSci

[Raphaël Lefèvre @RaphLefevre]

I'm extremely honoured that my book Jihad in the City @CambridgeUP is the co-recipient of the 2022 Best Book Award by @APSAMENA, alongside @AvitalLivny and her excellent Trust and the Islamic Advantage!🤓🥳

Check it out here: https://t.co/5gixHVBATr

[Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin]

The Radicals’ Dilemma After Civil Wars: Evidence from Syria - Raphaël Lefèvre, Survival: https://t.co/2ie6AE4LyR

[Victor Asal @Victor_Asal]

Armed Groups in the Middle East and Conflict Research
@PoPpublicsphere
@RaphLefevre

https://t.co/h9CTDfxusG

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

#OpenAccess from @PoPpublicsphere -

Armed Groups in the Middle East and Conflict Research - https://t.co/pAOcyzYKmf

- @RaphLefevre

#FirstView

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

@LMorgenbesser has compiled twenty-nine “lost” authoritarian politics books published between 1875-1948, and he investigates how these works challenge our assumptions about the history of the authoritarian politics literature, and what we can still learn from them.

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

Sarah Eaton and @Genia_Kostka’s chapter on Environmental Authoritarianism shows how a focus on authoritarian survival strategies—co-optation, legitimization, and repression—sheds entirely new light on the varieties of environmental authoritarianism.

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

More chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics have been published!
I am so grateful to all the handbook contributors––there are over 80!––who have worked so hard to pull off this project! https://t.co/9j1EipddDF 👇🧵

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

I didn't know that #PoliticalScience articles could be #trending, but I am pleased to learn that my new @cps_journal piece on the collapse of the Ben Ali dictatorship seems to draw interest. It's available open access: https://t.co/GiXKka5giM

[King's Middle East @KingsMiddleEast]

A conference co-organised by King’s academic @GunningJeroen together with colleague @mortenvalbjorn from Aarhus University highlighted the findings and insights of a major research project 🔖

Read more 👇

https://t.co/vTTQQcz1C5

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

It shows how the microanalysis of events can furnish new insights into highly impactful events in history—the collapse of the Ben Ali regime gave rise to the wider Arab Uprisings—and topics of key concern to scholars of contentious politics, authoritarianism, and democratization.

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

Thrilled that my article “How Erroneous Beliefs Trigger Authoritarian Collapse: The Case of Tunisia, January 14, 2011” is now out @cps_journal. It is the result of over a decade of research into the day the Ben Ali regime collapsed. Available open source🧵
https://t.co/GiXKka5giM

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

New review of my book on Tunisia's Ben Ali regime. Thanks to Konstantinos Theocharopoulos for taking the time to read and review my book, which focuses on contention within Ben Ali's ruling party, the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD). 👇👇
https://t.co/ebaS7fD5qz

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

More chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics have been published, with contributions on authoritarian legacies, the political opposition, dictatorships in Europe, and gendered forms of state repression 👇🧵https://t.co/j2yywRPntD

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

I still have two review copies of my book on Tunisia's Ben Ali regime, which looks at the dynamics of contention within his ruling party, and how these contributed to regime collapse in 2011. Who would like to read and review the book? 👉https://t.co/K96qhbQo3R

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

Elizabeth Perry and I scrutinise an important but understudied variety of contentious politics: state-mobilized movements, that is, movements that are actively promoted, overtly or covertly, by elements of the state itself, and which are critical to authoritarian resilience.

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

Really important scholarship programme at Oxford for scholars of and, especially, from Tunisia. Please share and circulate. This is going to be great!

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

More chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics are out, with contributions on authoritarian practices, contentious politics, authoritarian learning, legitimacy and legitimisation, and quantitative approaches to investigate dictatorships🧵
https://t.co/j2yywROPE5

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

How did China become big and autocratic? Professor Yuhua Wang @YuhuaWang5 delivers this year’s Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government at All Souls College. Fascinating research!

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

Thrilled that my article on ruling parties and authoritarian collapse during the Arab Uprisings has been published as part of a special issue on (and with!) Theda Skocpol, as well as @SKalyvas @HDrochon and Markus Kreuzer. It's available open access 👇👇👇https://t.co/k2YdIfxhxW

[Anne Wolf @AnneMWolf]

More chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics are available, presenting new research on digital authoritarianism, succession, authoritarian diffusion, religion and authoritarianism, women's rights, and the psychology of authoritarianism🧵👇https://t.co/j2yywROPE5