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Christina Cottiero

@ccottiero.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. International organizations + international influences on autocracy/democracy. www.christinacottiero.com ucigcc.org/research/future-of-democ…

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🎙️ In the new episode of our series produced in collaboration with @jodemocracy.bsky.social, @ccottiero.bsky.social, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Stephan Haggard, and Christina J. Schneider discuss the US’ disengagement from institutions of global governance. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 🎧 Listen to it: 👉 tinyurl.com/yunvxepe
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Spotted at the CUP table at APSA! If any grad students working on regional IOs or African IR would like a copy, I have a couple with me- please message or email me!
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm excited to share that my book PROTECTIVE CLUBS is now available from Cambridge University Press! Available in hardcover, paperback, or digital editions: www.cambridge.org/9781009755801
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
New Q&A blog with Jana Lipps on how the Council of Europe responded to Putin's aggression through 2021, including why some parties in PACE were more sympathetic to Putin. Based on her recent CPS article with @erikvoeten.bsky.social @ipz.bsky.social via @ucigcc.bsky.social ucigcc.org/blog/five-qu...
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Five Questions on How the Council of Europe Deals with Putin - IGCC
An ongoing question for international organizations dominated by democracies is whether they should accommodate or sanction member countries that openly violate core liberal norms. In a recent article...
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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Joining us next week for the last workshop of the season! On May 5, @liviosilva.bsky.social (@weatherheadcenter.bsky.social) and Henrique Sposito (Bern) will present "Do Backsliders Defund the Liberal World Order?" Anna M. Meyerrose (Arizona State) and @ccottiero.bsky.social (Utah) will discuss.
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Very timely new blog post from @fburil.bsky.social and Erica Shein (IFES) about what lessons we can learn from Bangladesh about transitioning from autocracy to democracy, based on their recent IFES report. @ucigcc.bsky.social ucigcc.org/blog/free-at...
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“Free at Last”: What Bangladesh’s Interim Government Can Teach Other Countries in Transition - IGCC
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Lauren Prather @laurenrprather.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🚨🚨🚨🚨 New Podcast Alert 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Please download and share The Election Trust Research Podcast. The Center for Transparent and Trusted Elections at UCSD produced a series of episodes last spring interviewing experts and folks on the front lines of American democracy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Election Trust Research Podcast
Government Podcast · At a time when American elections are being tested in new and complex ways, it's more important than ever to bridge the gap between those who run elections and those who study the...
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 03/03/2026
#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience - cup.org/4bjlp1U - @ccottiero.bsky.social & Christina J. Schneider #FirstView
White letters "IO" on a purple background with the hashtag "OpenAccess" below.
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🎉I'm excited to share my new article with @cjschneider.bsky.social, now online at International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social: “International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience.” Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S002... ✨🧵thread🧵✨
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International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience | International Organization | Cambridge Core
International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚨We have a series of great new posts on our IGCC project page (thread) ucigcc.org/research/fut...
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Illiberal Regimes and Global Governance - IGCC
The rise of illiberal regimes is reshaping global and regional organizations and posing challenges to U.S. foreign policy. International organizations once firmly under the control of democracies are ...
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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Applications for the 2026 Journeys in World Politics workshop (10/1-10/3) in San Diego are being accepted (due 6/1). The workshop features Kathleen Cunningham & Leah Windsor as senior mentors. Christina Schneider is our local host! Visit the site below to apply. www.saramitchell.org/journeys.html
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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Closing the season on May 5, @liviosilva.bsky.social (@weatherheadcenter.bsky.social) and Henrique Sposito (Bern) will present "Does democratic backsliding defund the liberal world order?" Anna M. Meyerrose (Arizona State) and @ccottiero.bsky.social (Utah) will discuss.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/01/2026
The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation.
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US will exit dozens of international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation
The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations.
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"The West African regional bloc, Ecowas, deployed troops from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast to secure key installations and prevent any resurgence of the violence" www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Benin coup attempt: About 200 soldiers from Nigeria and Ivory Coast deployed for 'clean-up'
This is the first time that officials have said how many foreign soldiers were deployed to help thwart the mutiny.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/12/2025
Nigeria's president says he sent fighter jets, troops to Benin to help quell a coup attempt by mutinous soldiers.
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Nigeria says it deployed troops to Benin to ‘dislodge coup plotters’
Nigeria's president says he sent fighter jets, troops to Benin to help quell a coup attempt by mutinous soldiers.
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Helpful resource to share with graduate students! David Lake's guide to writing an academic political science article (I remember reading some version of this in the past) ucigcc.org/publication/... @ucigcc.bsky.social
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How to Write an Academic Article in Political Science - IGCC
While each paper may be unique, the process of writing an academic paper is not (or does not have to be). In the hopes of helping to make the process more efficient and the final product more clear, c...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
State Department International Organizations Account, Outlays by Calendar Year Quarter ($m). International Atomic Energy Agency and the International Civil Aviation Organization doing OK. UN got about half of what it is owed. Other organizations do worse.
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
📣🚨The University of Utah is hiring! 1st line: Assistant Prof in Comparative Politics! For applicants who work on Asia (esp. China) or Africa, will be expected to teach quant methods, grad + undergrad. If you're a good fit and have questions, I can chat at APSA! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/188...
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science
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UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation @ucigcc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Commentators are divided in their appraisals of two Trump-led Ukraine peace summits. But most have missed one thing: how the meetings have taught the president crucial realities about ending the war, argues Branislav Slantchev of @ucsandiego.bsky.social: ucigcc.org/blog/the-edu...
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The Education of Donald J. Trump: Reflections on Two Peace Summits - IGCC
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UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation @ucigcc.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Political science can explain the historical factors behind authoritarianism, but has little to say about the actual experience of living under dictatorship. IGCC's Steph Haggard shares five novels that illuminate the realities of autocratic rule: bit.ly/45u6TBO
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To Understand Authoritarian Rule, Read These Five Novels - IGCC
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
New post summarizing the takeaways from the new book by @debremaria.bsky.social !
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Trump team pushes to oust No. 2 official at world energy body
The administration and its Republican allies in Congress say the Paris-based International Energy Agency discourages fossil fuel investments around the world.
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UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation @ucigcc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The U.S. has had a fraught relationship with UNESCO for decades. But, argue Christina Cottiero and Stephan Haggard, the recent decision to withdraw—again—from the organization forms part of a pattern of the U.S. ceding influence in UN bodies to China: bit.ly/4mCmZPu
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Here We Go Again: The U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO - IGCC
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
2 weeks ago, the U.S. announced we're leaving "woke" "pro-China" "pro-Palestine" "DEI" UNESCO. New blog from me & Steph Haggard on U.S. withdrawal from IOs + implications for Trump admin officials who claim countering China is "absolutely critical"+ thoughts on what's next ucigcc.org/blog/here-we...
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Here We Go Again: The U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO - IGCC
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 01/08/2025
🧵 When the government announces that it will fire people for producing numbers that the government doesn't like, here is how our institutions should respond. (Whether they do is another story.) 1/
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Hegemonic suicide, example #214. Trump fired all USIP employees (for a second time) in a dead-of-night email; USIP effectively dead once again
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US Institute of Peace employees experience another round of mass firings following court ruling | CNN Politics
Employees at the United States Institute of Peace were terminated for a second time by the Trump administration, after a federal court ruling last month paved the way, according to multiple fired empl...
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This is painfully embarrassing.
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Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Insightful piece by @sarahbush.bsky.social and @jenniferhadden.bsky.social (for your fall syllabi): reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/07/03/t...
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The End of the Age of NGOs?
How Civil Society Lost Its Post–Cold War Power
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
For @lawfaremedia.org, I explained how the Trump administration has destroyed promising policy progress on transnational repression in record time www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trum...
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Trump Is Undermining Policies Against Transnational Repression
The Biden administration made policies to protect exiles and diasporas a priority. Trump 2.0 has already undercut these efforts.
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Utah drought management and water conservation policy is going great. Annual pray for rain day!
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New 5 Questions piece on the Illiberal Regimes and Global Governance project page! On the super interesting new book by @alexdukalskis.bsky.social & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social ucigcc.org/research/fut... @ucigcc.bsky.social
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Illiberal Regimes and Global Governance - IGCC
The rise of illiberal regimes is reshaping global and regional organizations and posing challenges to U.S. foreign policy. Organizations once firmly under the control of democracies are being forced t...
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
📌The special issue "Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations" is now published as Vol. 20 Issue 2 in RIO! @the-peio.bsky.social link.springer.com/journal/1155... Summary thread with each piece-- 🧵
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The Review of International Organizations
The Review of International Organizations publishes original scientific contributions in the entire field of international political economy, with a focus on ...
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Skip Mark @skipmark.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Why do peaceful protest turn violent? Today’s #NoKings protests are a case study of why we need to think about both how protesters behave AND how the government and police respond to protest. Millions of people protested peacefully, LA erupted in violence This is an analysis of why A thread
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U.S. Institute of Peace @usip.org · 13/06/2025
👋 Hello, we're the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)! We are very happy to join @bsky.app, and thrilled to announce that our website, www.usip.org, is back online! We look forward connecting here and bringing you useful content, resources and opportunities for peacebuilders around the world.
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
As political scientists, we really want to know when, where, and why people mobilize against repressive governments. Happy to share my latest article is out that helps us understand this in a specific context: intl legal petitions in the UN. How do courageous individuals overcome barriers?
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Individual Mobilization by Victims of Human Rights Abuse: Who Files Petitions in the United Nations?
Abstract. Who files petitions against repressive regimes in the United Nations? Victims of human rights abuse face high personal costs of participation, in
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Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Excited to share my new piece just out in @foreignpolicy.com: We keep hearing Trump’s foreign policy abandoned “values” for raw interests. But that’s not quite right. It still talks about “freedom” and “shared values” - just repurposed to serve a new agenda. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/27/u... 🧵 1/
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America Still Has a ‘Values-Based’ Foreign Policy
It’s increasingly difficult to understand Trump’s foreign policy without an ideological lens.
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Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is quite something on the State Department's Substack: statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-f...
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The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe
Author: Samuel Samson
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Not just student data. DOJ apparently requested any email or text where faculty or staff discussed the Trump DEI EOs -- something that would target lots of pure political speech.
The department also told Harvard to produce all texts, emails, Signal chats and other correspondence from current or former employees discussing Mr. Trump’s executive orders earlier this year that revoked policies to support minorities and ended the government’s support of diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I couldn’t write a more eye-opening lecture on race and white identity politics than what this administration is offering in its differential treatment of Afrikaners versus every other refugee or immigrant group.
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Traoré reportedly asking Chad for back-up to strengthen "national security" post-coup attempt kassataya.com/2025/05/06/a...
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Au Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré sous pression après l’annonce d’une nouvelle tentative de putsch - Kassataya Mauritanie
Le Monde  – Durant ses trois premières années au pouvoir, le capitaine Ibrahim Traoré a dénoncé de nombreuses tentatives de coup d’Etat contre son régime. Certaines avérées, d’autres moins. Dernière e...
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Sharan Grewal @sharangrewal.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"America has, with stunning speed, descended into a world in which opponents of the government fear criminal investigations, lawsuits, tax audits and other punitive measures.” Levitsky, Way, & Ziblatt: US has crossed the threshold into competitive authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
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They don't need a warrant
A federal kidnapping in Worcester
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UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation @ucigcc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
U.S.-China tensions are intensifying. But while the U.S. backs away from international commitments, China seeks to assert global leadership. IGCC Nonresident Fellow Rachel Hulvey discusses how China is positioning itself as a responsible world leader for Talking Policy: ucigcc.org/podcast/amer...
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America First vs. a Community of Shared Future: The U.S.-China Competition for Hearts and Minds - IGCC
Tensions between the United States and China are intensifying, with a trade war being the latest sign of friction following President Trump’s imposition of tariffs, which were themselves followed by C...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Many political science faculty perceive declines in academic freedom since January, especially on Israel/Palestine (43%) & DEI (42%). Self-censorship reported in extramural speech (55%), communicating with students (40%), teaching (33%), and research (20%).
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A lawless government wants us to believe we live in a lawless country. If we buy that lie, we start to think it can do whatever it wants—just because it says so. The rule of law is on life support, but it’s not dead yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...
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Mohsen Mahdawi, Columbia Student Detained by Trump Administration, is Freed (Gift Article)
Mohsen Mahdawi had been an organizer of pro-Palestinian protests at the university. The Trump administration had tried and failed to deport him for it.
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intlcollaboration.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We have travel grants of $500 for grad students going to APSA. Please apply using the following link: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
My position is this is not an either-or choice: the current autocratization in the US is a product of learning within an overt far-right network (Hungary, Brazil, El Salvador) AND traveling well-worn grooves in the American tradition for restricting rights
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
China deploys NGOs to quash criticism at U.N. organizations in Geneva www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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China deploys NGOs to quash criticism at U.N. organizations in Geneva
Dozens of self-described nongovernmental organizations active at the United Nations have hidden ties to Beijing, an investigation shows.
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