Michael Rubin

The essay by Daniel Arnon, Richard J. McAlexander, and Michael Rubin is free in celebration of its dual award wins:
- International Studies Association’s Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration section, 2025, and
- American Political Science Association’s Middle East and North Africa section, 2024.

Thanks to @drjlhazelton.bsky.social and the IS team!

Social Cohesion and Community Displacement in Armed Conflict Abstract. What are the origins of conflict-related population displacement? Why do some communities in conflict zones suffer mass casualties while others evade conflict violence? Whether civilians mig...

The team @intsecurity.bsky.social has graciously made our article “Social Cohesion and Community Displacement in Armed Conflict” - w @danielarnon.bsky.social @rickmcalexander.bsky.social - free for this week only! Access it here:

direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

We use Iris' Armed Group Dataset, which includes a treasure trove of information on armed groups both above and below conventional thresholds for inclusion in datasets used in the study of civil wars. For more info on the data see the data feature paper:
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New piece at ISQ w Iris Malone: "Foreign Sponsorship of Armed Groups and Civil War"
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Preliminary evidence suggesting armed groups' organizational attributes, rather than foreign support on its own, are critical to explaining civil war risk

That is, @rjschoner.bsky.social . Some day I'll learn how to use this app.

Join us in Dodd 162 on Thurs, January 25 (12:30-1:45pm) for what will be a fascinating event with @rjschoner (@tulane). We'll learn about her research on how victims of human rights abuse engage in UN institutions to pressure repressive govts. Register here:
events.uconn.edu/human-rights...

Thanks! Not a Mac user but will look into Windows equivalents

Thanks! This is helpful and useful to know about the tradeoff with privacy. I appreciate these recommendations and will look into it.

Any polisky friends that do interview based research have recommendations for the best apps or programs for recording and transcribing audio of interviews?

News from Home: How Local Media Shapes Climate Change Attitudes Abstract. Highlighting the local impacts of climate change has the potential to increase the public’s awareness of and engagement with climate change. However,

Thrilled to share my new paper (with Jeong Kim and Cana Kim)! We find the local news is more likely than national news to highlight the local impacts of climate change. And, this coverage increases Republicans’ willingness to help stop climate change!

Polisky: please help us spread the word about the Saltzman Institute’s postdoc, and tell your best students to apply!

www.siwps.org/programs/cal...

I wrote a thing:

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Thanks, Megan! Hope you're doing well and we have the chance to catch up soon.

Thanks Seb! Appreciate your interest in the research! Hope to reconnect soon.

Conflictsky polisky

Finally published online in First View at APSR, our paper (with @rickmcalexander.bsky.social and Rob Williams) in which we show a link between right-wing radicalization and Iraq and Afghanistan war fatalities:
doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Introducing Conflictsky, a new feed for political conflict and violence!

Like and pin the feed here:
bsky.app/profile/did:...

To post, tag with 'conflictsky' or 'violencesky'

It's a polisky sub-feed, so request to join that list if you haven't already: www.paulmusgrave.info/how-to-use-p...