Jonas W. Schmid

PhD student in International Relations The Department of Economic History and International Relations is a dynamic and strong education and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. Its International Re

📚 2 PhD positions in International Relations at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social! The positions are linked to my ERC-project about local change and public support for protectionism #academicsky #polisky
Deadline April 10, 2026, apply here! 👇
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Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...

Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?

Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:

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Beijing watching a completely mentally unstable U.S. President reorient all U.S. foreign policy to coerce Brussels:

In announcing the final makeup of the board, Trump highlighted how Putin will be joined by other distinguished individuals, including

Genghis Khan
King Leopold II
Caligula
Pol Pot
Lucky Luciano
Curtis LeMay
Tony Blair
Sauron
Hernán Cortés
Count Dracula
Benito Mussolini
Henry Kissinger
Thanos

Welcome to our Spring 2026 season!
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America is afflicted by a rare combination: early-stage authoritarianism, but with a late-stage dictator. Think El Salvador today ruled by a crazy Papa Doc Duvalier.

While chaos is the defining feature of this struggle, pro-democratic forces can still prevail…

www.thebulwark.com/p/crazy-or-c...

Donald the Dove

You should include US states next time to make the map even more colorful.

Come join us 15-16 June 2026 in London!

The CfP for our 4th Annual Conference, co-organized with @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social, is open until 1 Feb!

We invite scholars of authoritarianism at all career stages to apply here: forms.gle/5eQ1NHMtK5GS...

For more information: tinyurl.com/2ap6attd

Logo of the Michael Scott Paper Company from the TV show the office.

Same thing.

Seeing people do "here's the savvy take on how and why the US should acquire Greenland" and just feeling so *embarrassed* for them. Have some dignity. You don't need to be an apologist for the world's dumbest autocrat, you're not somehow sophisticated for seeing The Smart Play on imperial vainglory.

Come join the best (mini) conference on political elites in Oslo!!!

Zoom screenshot of the orga committee's meeting with various filters on the members' faces.

And if you need more convincing, here is live footage from the organization committee's planning meeting.

Join us for the 3rd(!) round of our workshop/mini-conference! We promise great research, fun people, and rumor has it that you will also get a chance to eat the best Chinese food in all of Norway if you attend!

We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites!

It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov.

You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...

Abstract for the publication "Does Hard Propaganda (Also) Work in Democracies? Evidence from the United States"

📄 New paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with my amazing co-author @plutscher.bsky.social !

💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020.

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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US

This view is wrong

A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Heidi N. Moore V @moorehn Follow The purpose of invading Venezuela is to steal its oil, guys. This is a pan-European project led by Norway. The European Parliament is eager for it because too much of Europe is dependent on Russian resources and they would love to steal it all from another country. .. ..

First time I’ve seen a post complaining about (((Norwegians)))

Today I published a replication outlining concerns with "Instrumentally Inclusive" by Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega (2024, APSR).

I document seemingly idiosyncratic and ad hoc choices made by the authors that create a pattern of statistically significant results consistent with their theory.

Wie lässt sich das brutale Vorgehen von Trump's ICE Agenten erklären? Und warum erinnert es so sehr an Diktaturen und ihre Geheimpolizei? Unser neues Buch liefert Antworten - wie wir heute in der @zeit.de erklären.

Buch: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

AI generated image of a giant Donald Trump Bronze statue on the White House Lawn.

Next step is a giant statue of himself on the White House lawn. After that the Washington Monument will be replaced by a giant, rotating statue of "The Art of the Deal".

Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil...

Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy.

Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

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In memoriam: youtu.be/KJ1LJvOxo6Q

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

This is as bleak as it gets:

‘China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show’ www.bbc.com/news/article...

something under discussed is the fact that white house renovations are currently being spearheaded by someone with famously bad interior design taste

The U.S. government right now really hitting that sweet spot of blatant corruption of 1990s Central Asia, the weirdo personality cult of Gaddafi, the bad plastic surgery of Berlusconi’s Italy, the religious zeal of the Taliban, and the thuggish brutality of a right-wing Cold War dictatorship.

Now that's a Hecker of a design!

Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021.

This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏

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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...