Babak Bahador

Last week, we had the opportunity to host our 25th Anniversary Conference on The Future of Public Diplomacy. This 2-day conference brought leading public diplomacy practitioners and scholars together to celebrate IPDGC and examine the future of the field. @smpagwu.bsky.social @gwu1821.bsky.social

Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting Preconference The journalism of war and conflict is facing extraordinary threats. Israel's ongoing assault in Gaza has killed a historically unprecedented number of journalists at a time when the norms protecting t...

Big CfP: ICA preconference in Cape Town, 3 June 2026, for our Media, War and Conflict journal. Theme: Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting bit.ly/mwcpreconfer... - any questions can be emailed to the organisers at: r.j.stupart@liverpool.ac.uk. Thanks to @icahdq.bsky.social!

New Article Spotlight: What Does Peace Journalism Mean to Peace Journalists in East Africa?

A study revealed that journalists tended to understand peace journalism in one of two ways.

By Doll @meagandoll.bsky.social of @hubbardschoolumn.bsky.social.

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The limits of strategic narratives: the EU–US relationship between emotive polarization and uncertain times Perceptions of the European Union (EU) in the United States (US) have changed notably over the past decade. While the EU is still viewed positively overall, liberals view it more favourably than co...

What can the EU and Europeans do about this study showing many US citizens don't really rate it as an ally or as significant? Does the EU have a story any more? New study by @babak9.bsky.social and Gabriel Savagner sets the scene: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Briant, Emma L. | School of Media & Public Affairs | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University Emma L. Briant is a researcher at the School of Media and Public Affairs.

Excited to be a George Washington University visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication, enriching the work I'm doing at @lucyinstitute-nd.bsky.social. Thanks to @babak9.bsky.social for inviting me, I hope many collaborations may flourish! smpa.gwu.edu/emma-briant

Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy Abstract. This volume introduces a “connection action” framework for explaining democratic backsliding. We bring together a mostly political science compar

The entire Open Access book is now available for FREE download here:
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Invitation to potential authors - AI Politics: new book series by @intellectbooks.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social edited by @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & I. View the full call here>>
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Propaganda feedback loops as communication rituals: Hate speech on talk radio - Steven Livingston, Babak Bahador, 2025 The goal of this paper is to deepen the clarity of Benkler, Farris, and Robert’s “propaganda feedback loop” concept. It argues that a sizeable portion of the in...

New by Steven Livingston and @babak9.bsky.social on why narrative and rituals matter more than truth in US politics.

Propaganda feedback loops as communication rituals: Hate speech on talk radio
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Propaganda feedback loops as communication rituals: Hate speech on talk radio - Steven Livingston, Babak Bahador, 2025 The goal of this paper is to deepen the clarity of Benkler, Farris, and Robert’s “propaganda feedback loop” concept. It argues that a sizeable portion of the in...

Happy to see this new publication w/ my dear friend Babak Bahador. We fit Benkler et al's propaganda feedback loop concept into James Carey's communication ritual framework, arguing that the logic of the former is explained by the latter. shorturl.at/u0pOF

The call for papers for the APSA Political Communication Preconference in Vancouver is now open!

Together with @ashleymuddiman.bsky.social and @patyrossini.bsky.social, we're thrilled to invite your submissions.

📅: May 25th, 2025, 11.59pm PDT (GMT-7)

More information: u.osu.edu/apsa2025/

GW's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication is hosting a series of upcoming webinars around the recent publication of the book I edited, Handbook on Public Diplomacy. I'll be talking to some of the amazing authors about their work and contemporary PD issues and challenges. Join us!

New Article Spotlight: Kosovo’s Long Path to Lasting Peace

One year after #Kosovo celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of its de facto independence, the country still struggles to secure peace.


@gezimvisoka.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social

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New Article Spotlight: Peace Desperately Needed as M23 Rebels Claim Takeover of Goma, DRC.

#GOMA_RDC #Congo #congoIsBleeding

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Great choice of thumbnail to accompany our op-ed about Zuckerberg’s techbro power play flexing exceptional American values against calls for global tech justice. Co authored with my own academic “bro” @tomdivon.bsky.social 🔥💪🏽

New Article Spotlight: The late president did not always perfectly embody his human rights rhetoric while in office, but spent the rest of his life waging peace. By Pablo Molina Asensi.
#JimmyCarter


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New Article Spotlight: As we start a new year, we are sharing our top 10 most viewed articles of 2024.

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Costa Rica ads get right to the point!

2024 is now the deadliest year on record for humanitarian workers.

This cannot continue.

Volunteers, staff, and humanitarians everywhere must be protected—and the need is urgent.

Together, we can #ProtectHumanity.

New Article Spotlight: Peace studies as a field of research has historically overlooked critical aspects of environment in conflict, and environmental violence, writes Dr. Richard Marcantonio.

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Slow Peace: Three Lessons from Grassroots Peacebuilders in Colombia - Peace News Network What does the Colombian campesino approach to "peace without hurry" entail? Angela Lederach shares three lessons she has learned.

Last week, Angela Lederach shared three lessons that she has learned from the Colombian campesino approach to "peace without hurry."

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Call for papers: Hubris in International Relations research workshop Call for papers for a 'Hubris in International Relations' workshop taking place in Belfast in 2025.

Our CfP: Hubris in International Relations - now on the official @mybisa.bsky.social site here: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/call-pa... Send us an abstract: Monday 6 January 2025. Hopefully see you in Belfast in June. 🌞🚢 Co-organised with @profmiskimmon.bsky.social & @adamblerner.bsky.social

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New issue of Media, War and Conflict, with a series of good analyses and important issues, read them here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/MWC/curr...