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My new book, Death, Diversion, and Departure: Voter Exit and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in Zimbabwe, examines how large-scale voter exit affects the stability of authoritarian regimes. In the book, I show that both voluntary and involuntary exit create avenues for authoritarian regimes to hold onto power. When voters are absent, either because they have […]
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This year marks 25 years since the United States led the military intervention in Afghanistan, following the 9/11 attacks. The war that followed lasted for two decades and was highly internationalized, with external actors and networks supporting the different warring parties. In our new book on how Islamist civil wars end – Jihadist Peace – we […]
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In the recent Christopher Nolan film “The Odyssey” we see a curious depiction of Circe transforming Odysseus’ crew of sailors into pigs. The cinematic representation drips with Circe’s disdain for the sailors and their crude, vicious, animal-like qualities. Some suggest that Nolan’s departure in this regard from precise details of the Homeric narrative is driven […]
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Our guess is that most people’s arms are still bolted tightly to their sides. If so, this book is for you. Constitutionalising Anarchy blows a hole in the conventional claim made by legal and political theorists that political constitutions are the exclusive reserve of states. Exhuming the body of nineteenth century anarchism to outline a […]
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Transnational repression, understood as the extraterritorial repressive actions by states against members of their national community abroad, has become a global phenomenon. One commentator even suggested that “This is the golden age of transnational repression. More states now have more tools to target more exiles and diaspora communities in more countries for fewer resources than […]
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Every day there is a media story about public opposition to immigration fueling the populist far-right in Europe. Academic public opinion research has a similar slant, with endless studies about why people oppose immigration. This could lead one to believe that Europeans all hate immigration. Especially as there is very little attention to support for […]
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Presidents have long sought to shape the federal bureaucracy. But few have challenged it as aggressively as Donald Trump. Throughout his political career, Trump has argued that unelected bureaucrats—the so-called “deep state”—exercise too much influence over government policy. In his March 4, 2025 address to Congress, he declared, “The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are […]
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In June 2008, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre sat aboard a nuclear icebreaker in Murmansk, watching a football match and drinking vodka. Two years later, the two countries settled a maritime boundary dispute that had dragged on for four decades. That was Arctic geopolitics. In December 2024, an […]
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