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Assistant Professor of Political Science @JohnCabotRome: state development, political economy | Postdoc @Princeton | Lecturer @Politics_Oxford | PhD @UChicago Bgpopescu.net
Thank you Dima once again for a very productive workshop.
13.11.2025 22:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Thanks so much, Maria! Honestly, when I first started writing Imperial Borderlands, I didnโt imagine it would spark this kind of cross-field interestโI was just focused on the puzzle itself. Itโs been a really rewarding surprise to see it resonate so widely.
13.09.2025 17:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Chapter two of my book journey takes me to Vancouverโexcited to present at APSA 2025
13.09.2025 17:40 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Grateful for two new reviews on my book - Imperial Borderlands.
- Perspectives on Politics by Christina Zuber (Konstanz): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- EH.net by Stefan Nikolic (Loughborough: eh.net/book_reviews...
Thank you both for the thoughtful engagement!
Thank you for your kind words, Will. I hope you're doing well :)
21.08.2025 06:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Big news: Imperial Borderlands is now out in paperback @universitypress.cambridge.org James Robinson (2024 Econ Nobel) calls it "pathbreaking." Empire + institutions + data scienceโsame frontier, softer cover. www.amazon.com/Imperial-Bor...
20.08.2025 07:57 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Casually holding one of the documents that made Europe: the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz. Borders redrawn, empires rebalanced, futures rewrittenโon parchment. Archival research for my second book on imperial legacies, state formation, and the making of modern Europe.
22.07.2025 09:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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#FirstView from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -
@bgpopescu.bsky.social's review of 'Bureaucracies at War. The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation' by Tyler Jost - cup.org/3Uejy5f
Buy the book from @universitypress.cambridge.org here - cup.org/4lPLRTs
Thrilled to present my second book at the Inequality and Democracy in Central Eastern Europe workshop @UniKonstanz discussing authoritarian legacies and institutions, and development. Thank you @lotemhalevy.bsky.social and Laura Jakli for inviting
03.07.2025 05:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Thanks to @ricarthuguet.bsky.social for the thoughtful review of my book in @govjournal.bsky.social ! Grateful for the engagement with my work! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
17.03.2025 10:23 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Excited to be presenting parts of my second book at the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture in Washington DC
07.03.2025 13:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Brilliance isn't just in the mindโit's also in the wardrobe. Excited to celebrate my advisor, James Robinson, on his birthday and his Nobel Prize win in Chicago this weekend!
03.03.2025 14:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Had a fantastic book workshop with some of the sharpest minds in the field. Grateful for their insightsโnow back to revising!@timurkuran.bsky.social @izading.bsky.social @ahmetkuru.bsky.social @annagbusse.bsky.social @aspaglayan.bsky.social
17.02.2025 14:24 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Excited to present my second book - Islam, Sultans, and the Printing Press at the Research Seminar Series tomorrow at 12:30 at @UniLUISS! ๐
Thanks to Aline Mungiu Pippidi and Seth Jaffe for the inviteโlooking forward to the discussion! #PoliticalScience #History
Join us online on Feb 14, 2025 for a deep dive into my second book "Islam, Sultans, and the Printing Press" ๐๐. Featuring an all-star lineup @timurkuran.bsky.social
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@ahmetkuru.bsky.social
@annagbusse.bsky.social
@aspaglayan.bsky.social
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