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Eric Rittinger

@ericrittinger.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Science at Salisbury University, teaching and writing on US foreign policy, IR theory, and civil-military relations in Latin America

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Eric Rittinger @ericrittinger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We're hiring! Looking for a visiting assistant professor specializing in the politics of the Middle East, to start fall 2027. Salisbury University is part of the university system of Maryland. For more information and to apply: marylandconnect.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SU_Car...
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Visiting Assistant Professor - Political Science
Job Posting: JR102201 Visiting Assistant Professor - Political Science (Open) Department: Political Science Department, JM Position Type: Non-Regular Fixed Term (Fixed Term) Open Date: 09-24-2026 Clos...
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Dear editors, there are too many international relations now. Please remove three. PS I am not a crank
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Nann2Plutocrats @nann2plutocrats.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Just wrapped up the panel on Fostering Student Engagement at the 83rd Annual MPSA Conference! 🎉 Such a rich conversation — grateful for the thoughtful colleagues and ideas shared. Lots to bring back to the classroom. #MPSA2025 #PoliticalScience #HigherEd
Flyer for MPSA panel Fostering Student Engagement, with image of panelist
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 09/02/2026
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/12/2025
Wednesday morning, 7 ICE agents in Salisbury, MD, smashed in windows & violently dragged a mother out of her car while she was dropping her daughter off at elementary school. These abusive tactics are absolutely unacceptable. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/12/17/s...
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ICE operation near Salisbury school sparks outrage, questions
Witnesses say an apparent ICE raid near a Salisbury elementary school involved smashed car windows and terrified neighbors.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/08/2025
I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Were Aime Césaire alive to conduct a structural analysis of the advancing militarization of American law enforcement since 9/11, I suspect he would have understood DHS as a template for how Imperial Boomerangs operate in the 21st century. Me for @zeteo.com on LA, and what led to it.
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The Imperial Boomerang Lands in Los Angeles
As police and the National Guard escalate against anti-ICE protesters, the Department of Homeland Security bridges US violence abroad and US violence at home.
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Eric Rittinger @ericrittinger.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Campus life - something for everyone
University signage for a room scheduled to hold a UN simulation and a bible study group
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John Polga-Hecimovich 🧉 @jpolga.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I'm delighted that Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro, the book I co-edited with Raúl Sánchez Urribarrí, has officially been published! It is available at in paperback, hardcover and eBook almost everywhere. See: www.routledge.com/Authoritaria...
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Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro
Bringing together experts from across the social sciences, this volume examines the consolidation of authoritarianism in Venezuela under the government of Nicolás Maduro. Taking a comparative perspect...
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Adam Przeworski @adamprz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
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Diary
Week 1
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Orlando J. Pérez @perez1oj.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Taking back the Canal” would indeed be a violation of treaty, actually two treaties! It would undermine US relations with one of our closest ally in the region & piss off every other country in Latin America! And would be a gift to Chinese pretensions in the region…other than that…a great idea! 🙄
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20/01/2025
Reminder that the US didn't lose "38,000 lives" building the Panama Canal, or even the estimated 5,600 who died on America's watch. Almost all who died were underpaid Afro-Caribbean workers living in U.S.-imposed conditions of segregation. Also China doesn't control the canal.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/11/2024
In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.
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A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s
In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.
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Sam Rosenfeld @samrosenfeld.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Short-term: Lots about November 5 was poli-sci-normal and not a particularly sound impetus for massive intra-Dem recriminations. Long-term: The party's central crisis remains class dealignment and there's no quick or easy way out of it. democracyjournal.org/arguments/th...
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Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If Trump is keen on adopting 19th Century policies, then one that I encourage is a streamlined and open immigration policy. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/immigration-...
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The U.S. Should Welcome Immigrants With Open Arms—and Open Borders
The US would reap economic and geopolitical benefits from adopting an “open border” immigration policy.
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
It took me eight years to write something about the Fascism Debate, so let me say this: what is most exasperating is that no one (save Paxton) seems to be willing to change their mind. Well...
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Trump in the Garden - Dissent Magazine
Eight years into the fascism debate, few skeptics seem to be willing to admit that they were wrong.
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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Today in Good Authority, @profsaunders.bsky.social interviews Kelly Greenhill, author of Weapons of Mass Migration, about how states and non-state actors can use mass migration as a tool of war. Greenhill offers context for the current crisis. goodauthority.org/news/how-sho...
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How should we think about a mass exodus of Palestinians from Gaza?
Countries, armed groups, and organizations use mass migration as a tool of war.
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
For @nplusonemag.bsky.social, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways
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Have We Learned Nothing? | David Klion
There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and w...
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