Professor/author: Nigeria, dictatorship + democracy, politics of pandemic mistrust, Boko Haram, constitution-making. Follow me at @democracyprofdc.bsky.soci
American University in DC
Joined January 2013
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Dear friends - I am no longer active on Twitter / X. Please follow me on Blue Sky at @DemocracyProfDC
OK. Let's be honest. Who is thinking about leaving Twitter for Threads? And who is planning on just trying to do both, on top of all the other media? – at Illinois, USA
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Apply - Interfolio AU SPA has two methods positions and one comp pol (pol institutions) apply.interfolio.com/128076
We are everywhere! Great to see @AU_SIS @phd_sis alumna Ela Rosmiller here at #CES2023 @CES_Europe in #Iceland. Lots of debates here on populism and its links to authoritarianism, especially in Poland. – at Iceland
H.E. Guoni Th. Johannesson, President of #Iceland at @CES_Europe #CES2023 - humor is necessary in political discourse. Humor is fine when you make fun of people in power. It's a sign of confidence. It's very different when your jokes target those who can't defend themselves. – at Iceland
H.E. Guoni Th. Johannesson, President of #Iceland at @CES_Europe #CES2023 How did Iceland prevail over UK in dispute over fishing rights? conservation, cynicism, commitment, global compassion, and cold war (leveraging history of close alliance with US), intl law – at Iceland
H.E. Guoni Th. Johannesson, President of #Iceland at @CES_Europe #CES2023 on "Presidents and Academics, Nationalism and Objectivity" – at Iceland
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Excited to be attending my first #CES2023 conference at @uni_iceland! Join me on Wednesday for panel "European and American Responses to Post-Truth Populism" at 11 am in Askja w/Max Conrad et. al
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Congratulations to our Veronica Limeberry for winning an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! The project is "Measuring Impacts of Community Seed Banks on Nutrition, Food Security, and Food Sovereignty
in Underserved Regions of the US Southeast and Southwest"
Attending my first #CES2023. Would love to tweetup after panels on Tuesday about democratic backsliding, polarization and identity, and social mobilization etc.
Excited to be attending my first #CES2023 conference at @uni_iceland! Join me on Wednesday for panel "European and American Responses to Post-Truth Populism" at 11 am in Askja w/Max Conrad et. al
Carl LeVan retweeted
Congratulations to fantastic colleagues Andrew and Shahryar and thank you to my department and everyone who made this possible! Looks like I made it to the other side of tenure alive.
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In 1990, I was at a protest in front of the White House and I asked someone what the Gulf of Tonkin was. It was Daniel Ellsberg. He schooled me and went on to become an active member of Marc Raskin's national security seminar at GWU. Rest in Power.
washingtonpost.com/obituarie… – at Mantoloking, NJ
Note to self: add to syllabus for discussion of rational choice theory. "Cash-strapped Taliban selling tickets to ruins of Buddhas it blew up"
washingtonpost.com/world/202… – at Washington, DC
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NEW: U.S. lawmakers have asked the White House to punish South Africa because of intelligence suggesting that South Africa provided arms to Russia for the Ukraine war. They are asking the administration to move an important trade forum out of South Africa. nytimes.com/2023/06/12/world…
Remembering 30 years since June 12. Honouring #NigeriaDemocracyDay and the hard work of @CDDWestAfrica CLO, CRP, NADECO and many others whose sacrifices brought Nigerian political life closer to dignity and democracy
"Tensions Mount in #Senegal" as Pres Sall cracks down on opponents and contemplates a 3rd term... on.cfr.org/3oO4xeu via @CFR_org – at Washington, DC
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SIS professor Sumitra Badrinathan @KhariBiskut weighs in on the dangers of health misinformation and health fads in developing countries in an article from @dailydot. dailydot.com/debug/india-cow…