Happy to share my new article on Saudi Arabia’s regional policy.
Setting aside the misplaced talk of a “return to Islamism,” I situate Saudi strategy historically and show how Riyadh’s “zero-conflict” turn is being undermined by ongoing Emirati and Israeli interventionism.
Index for UK vacancies, June 2016 = 100. Graduate jobs defined as those explicitly described as a graduate job or entry-level jobs where there is a degree requirement
Scariest chart I've seen in a long time. If this is real, UK graduate vacancies have fallen 70% relative to 2017 and are as low as at the bottom of the pandemic. Data is from job matching platform Adzuna.
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We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds!
You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/
It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below.
The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.
Thank you :)
🥳 Job update
I'm delighted to share that I completed my PhD on Saudi politics at Cambridge and started a new role as Junior Research Fellow in politics @magdalenoxford.bsky.social
You can find out more about my research here: www.bschmidtfeuerheerd.com
Thanks Google AI for the helpful summary of Greg Gause’s Foreign Affairs article “The Price of Order.”
Enjoying watching the UK trip over own shoelaces on this...
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If you’re a PhD student from or working on MENA, or if you are advising MENA students who could benefit from a supportive online working space, please reach out.
We’ve had dozens of PhD students from Turkey alone finish their dissertations, apply for grants and jobs, revise article submissions.
Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics
by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social is now published by OUP in the USA (rest of world soon)
If you are interested in why you see so many dictatorships & illiberal leaders influencing world politics then this is the book for you.
This should be much, much bigger news in Germany. It should be a lead item on the national news.
"A four-year-old Black boy died in a fire in a house in Wilhelmshaven occupied exclusively by people of recent immigration background...The public prosecutor's office is now investigating the arson."
POMEPS Call for Papers: Syria after Assad Workshop. We seek papers on topics related to understanding Syria today that will be discussed at a virtual workshop on Sept. 19th. The deadline to apply is July 21st. For more info on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...
Exit polls and turnout figures look very promising for Nicușor Dan (and prediction markets seem to agree). But lots of uncertainty remains given the gap between exit polls and results in the first wave. Meanwhile, Simion claimed victory, setting the stage for fraud claims (and possibly violence.)
“'No one knows better than us that the Gazans have nowhere to return,' explained a commander, whose battalion was involved in the destruction of about a thousand buildings over two months in 2025. [...]'The idea was to destroy everything.'" #Gaza
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Do you have any new publications or CfPs to share with the APSG community? Do you work on authoritarian politics and are in the academic market (or will soon)?
Let us know!!
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Wrote up a similar set of results the other day if you haven’t read it already.
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They're also canceling The Middle East Journal as an academic outlet to transition it to a policy-focused format by fall 2025
Ähnlich ein überraschend kritischer Kommentar in der FAZ von Christian Meier kürzlich: www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
The comparativists are making good sense of US politics: a great new piece by my old friend and collaborator @lmorgenbesser.bsky.social
A decline in public investments and overall austerity, however, create more breeding ground for grievances that the far right can capitalize on.
If you combine this with a normalization of their anti-immigrant position, it is the ideal situation for them.
This is exactly what Labour is doing.
AI free is the new organic
My latest: Trump is heading to Saudi in mid-May, chasing $1 trillion in investments
He may leave disappointed
The kingdom’s role in the global economy is shifting -- from an exporter of capital to a seeker of funds
Full analysis on the Bloomberg terminal
Das betrifft nicht nur Journalist*innen, die für die SZ schreiben, sondern auch alle Wissenschaftler*innen. Informa (Routledge, Taylor&Francis) hat sämtliche Daten an Microsoft verkauft, ohne Zustimmung der Autor*nnen & ohne jede Vergütung.
Danke für nichts.
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Very excited to see my PhD dissertation published! I asked who gets to imagine Edinburgh’s future. I spoke with political leaders, tech entrepreneurs and higher education officials responsible for delivering the Edinburgh City Region Deal. Open access link ⬇️
At a time when international students and scholars are turning away from America, instead of seizing this opportunity, Number 10 have a steely focus on winning the Runcorn by-election to help defend their wafer-thin majority of 174 seats.
