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Rod Abouharb

@rodabouharb.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of International Relations, University College London Researches human rights, international political economy, World Bank, IMF www.rodabouharb.org

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🟡 Print Edition The Digital Domain Is the Most Mortal of All Social media and digital storage are radically changing our concept of time and consciousness of death, writes @peterjukes.bsky.social
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The Digital Domain Is the Most Mortal of All
Social media and digital storage are radically changing our concept of time and consciousness of death, writes @peterjukes.bsky.social
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UCL Political Science @uclspp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Among the victims of crime it was found that higher rates of state killing were associated with increased popularity of the president, where less harsh forms of punishment make the president less popular. Read more: tinyurl.com/239363bz #LatinAmerica #governance #democracy
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 19/06/2025
The reality of “democracy” in capitalism SAPs forced governments to cut public spending and divert resources to debt service. They also privatized public assets and abolished protective tariffs, subsidies and regulations, rolling back the progressive reforms of the post-colonial era.
Structural Adjustment Programmes
Years spent under IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes, 1981-2004
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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Can governments scapegoat the #IMF 🌐 to avoid domestic #blame for austerity policies? 🏦📉 In a study with @rodabouharb.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social & Bernhard Reinsberg @uofgsocsci.bsky.social, published in @gsqjournal.bsky.social #GSQ, we put this claim to a test: doi.org/10.1093/isag...
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Delighted to share our new article with #RisaKitagawa & #SamBell; when members of the public have been crime victims they are more likely to support extreme human rights violations by their government including extrajudicial killings @uclspp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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States of exception: Unpacking mixed citizen reactions to repression
How does repression affect trust in government? Scholarship on the effects of state violence on political trust has produced conflicting evidence. We argue that one explanation is rooted in differe...
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Delighted to present our book co-authored with #Bernhard_Reinsberg #IMF Lending Partisanship Punishment & Protest at #UEValencia @universitypress.cambridge.org @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Available Open Access cambridge.org/core/elements/…
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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Fear of being sent to a notorious El Salvador prison, where inmates never see the light of day, plays into that goal, said @rodabouharb.bsky.social, an associate professor of international relations who researches forced disappearances at the University College London.
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
An important story by @brittanywong.huffpost.com on #EnforcedDisappearances now also taking place in the #US under the #Trump administration.
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Delighted to be presenting work at #IMEBESS conference with #BernhardReinsberg on #Scapegoating the #IMF
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Delighted to be invited to #CRAM tinyurl.com/CRAM2025 workshop to present work with #BernhardReinsberg on #IMF programs and the Distributional Politics of Economic and Social Rights #ESCR #DistributionalPolitics #Politics
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Consortium for Rights Analysis and Measurement (CRAM)
Dates: May 14, 2025, 9:00am-4:30pm May 15, 2025, 9:30am-5:00pm  May 16, 2025, 9:30am-5:00pm Location: University of Rhode Island Bay Campus – 215 South Ferry Rd, Narragansett, RI, USA On behalf of the...
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This is one I didn’t see coming: Under Putin, there will never be a real Ukraine peace-deal - The i Paper apple.news/Algbp9OGzS0C...
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Under Putin, there will never be a real Ukraine peace-deal — The i Paper
The answer is simple for Europe: don’t stop supporting Ukraine in practical and political terms
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is an indication of the kind of political consensus that can be built if Labour makes the right case for breaking its red lines: Uniting right wing concerns about defence & patriotism, left-wing demands for investment & independence from the US, and widely-shared commitments to Ukraine.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny
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No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.
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Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Well researched and evidenced article by Jonathan Chait in the Atlantic apple.news/AXohAuShTRXS...
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The Real Reason Trump Berated Zelensky — The Atlantic
Politics He simply likes Vladimir Putin better. February 28, 2025 Of the many bizarre and uncomfortable moments during today’s Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, and Volodymyr Zele...
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UN Volunteers @unv.org · 27/02/2025
When Super Typhoon Yagi devastated Vietnam, UN Volunteers Dang Bao Chau, Bui Thi Hai Anh, and Vu Le Hoang stepped up. As part of @unicef.org emergency response, they delivered life-saving aid to those in need. Read their powerfull story 🔗 unvolunteers.exposure.co/un-volunteer...
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Frontline emergency response for Typhoon Yagi in Viet Nam             by UN Volunteers on Exposure
In September 2024, Super Typhoon Yagi, the strongest storm to strike Vietnam in 70 years, devastated the northern provinces. More than three hundred people reportedly died and nearly two thousand were...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.
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Andrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S.
Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes.
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
What kind of sick world are we living? These guys are wanted in the UK, about to stand trial in Romania and are now partying in Florida? Does anyone seriously believe they will ever face justice? Andrew Tate and brother Tristan leave Romania on private jet to US - The Times and The Sunday Times
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I’m so angry; my Alma mater where I began studying political science is cutting jobs. Useless #Labour #government does nothing. Stop the drop in international students, allow them to bring their families! UCU - Brunel University staff back strike action over job cuts www.ucu.org.uk/article/1390...
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Brunel University staff back strike action over job cuts
Staff at Brunel University have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in defence of jobs announced the University and College Union (UCU) today, with 75% of staff who voted in the ballot voting in f...
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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We are pleased to announce UCL's first Replication games! UCL colleagues, grab your opportunity to be part of a team and join this one-day event that brings together researchers to collaborate on reproducing and replicating papers! Its a great opportunity. More info: buff.ly/3ECE4bo
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Paul Atherton FCL FRSA @alondonerslondon.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Londoners love to expland their mental horizons. Dinner #RaviShankar, #DrummondStreet with @ucl.ac.uk Asst. Professor @rodabouharb.bsky.social discussing new British Society i.e. rid ourselves of an absract concept: Money! Replace it with shared community #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife3
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The latest litany of President #Trump’s misdeeds reported on by the @apnews.com
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Ryan Brutger @ryanbrutger.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
New @iojournal.bsky.social is a must read for those studying threats, conflict, etc. It epitomizes how we can learn from other fields to enhance our understanding of political science. Congratulations @mlandauwells.bsky.social on an impressive contribution. doi.org/10.1017/S002...
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Building from the Brain: Advancing the Study of Threat Perception in International Relations | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Building from the Brain: Advancing the Study of Threat Perception in International Relations - Volume 78 Issue 4
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intlcollaboration.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
New paper in @iojournal.bsky.social uses data from numerous countries to examine public perceptions of IO’s ideology and how those perceptions moderate the legitimacy of IOs. Congrats to @lisadellmuth.bsky.social, Tallberg, and Ecker-Ehrhardt on a great article. doi.org/10.1017/S002...
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intlcollaboration.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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intlcollaboration.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New article alert: "The Wrong Winners: Anti-Corporate Animus and Attitudes Towards Trade" by @armenon.bsky.social and Iain Osgood is now published in @bjpols.bsky.social Link to article: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions
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intlcollaboration.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
New article alert!
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Patrick Bayer @patrickbayer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Serving on this year's "Best Dissertation Award" committee for @apsa.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social Section. Send your students' best dissertation work to our section chair @danieladonno.bsky.social by 3 March! Self-nominations welcome! Details here: apsanet.org/membership/o...
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Section48 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
International Collaboration (Section 48) The International Collaboration (IC) Section of the American Political Science Association works to promote and
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is a deeply disturbing situation for higher education in the #UK. The #Labour government could simply reverse the restrictions on international students bringing their dependents with them. This simple change could have an enormous impact easing finances for #UKHE qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
What do the governments of the United Kingdom and Afghanistan have in common? Neither of them have signed or ratified the Convention on #EnforcedDisappearances #WCED #CED www.edworldcongress.org
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World Congress on Enforced Disappearances I WCED
The World Congress on Enforced Disappearances (WCED) is organised by CEDI, in partnership with the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human...
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I am looking forward to attending the World Congress on #EnforcedDisappearances Scholars and activists are doing amazing work to end the impunity for these crimes, bring them to public attention, and have governments ratify the Convention on Enforced Disappearances #WGED www.edworldcongress.org
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World Congress on Enforced Disappearances I WCED
The World Congress on Enforced Disappearances (WCED) is organised by CEDI, in partnership with the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🔴Kemi Badenoch’s Refusal to Distance Herself From Elon Musk is an Act of Moral Cowardice The Conservative Party leader’s refusal to criticise the X owner’s dangerous misinformation campaign against the UK should exclude her from ever returning to high office, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
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Kemi Badenoch's Refusal to Distance Herself From Elon Musk is an Act of Moral Cowardice
The Conservative Party leader's refusal to criticise the X owner's dangerous misinformation campaign against the UK should exclude her from ever returning to high office
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About Why you won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/l...
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All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You won't have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This is going to be a tough one: maybe rejoin the single largest free market on your doorstep step? #Starmer throws down gauntlet to watchdogs with growth edict - Sky News #EU #growth
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Ranjita Weiss-Wendt 🦉📚🗺️🔍 @ranjita.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The murder of more than 180 elderly people in Wharf Jérémie, fueled by accusations of witchcraft, exposes the brutality of gangs, the historical persecution of voodoo and the desperation of a people caught between violence and state neglect english.elpais.com/internationa...
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Terror, massacre and voodoo in the latest episode of gang violence in Haiti
The murder of more than 180 elderly people in Wharf Jérémie, fueled by accusations of witchcraft, exposes the brutality of gangs, the historical persecution of voodoo and the desperation of a people c...
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Bill Frelick @billfrelick.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Poland: "A 28-year-old Somali woman said...she & 11 others were taken to a border station where they asked for asylum, but were required to sign papers they did not understand & were subsequently taken to the border & pushed thru the fence." @lydsg.bsky.social @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
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Poland: Brutal Pushbacks at Belarus Border
Polish law enforcement is unlawfully, and sometimes violently, forcing people trying to enter the country back to Belarus without considering their protection needs, Human Rights Watch said today. Tho...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/12/2024
The rebel alliance that overthrew the Assad government in Syria vowed on Tuesday to hunt down and punish senior officials of the previous regime who are implicated in torture and other abuses, but said that rank-and-file conscripted soldiers would receive amnesty.
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Syrian Rebels Vow Punishment for Atrocities Under Bashar al-Assad
The rebels who seized Damascus are trying to get a new government up and running, even as foreign powers like Israel and Turkey, and armed Syrian groups, fight for power.
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Susan Pennington @spennington.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani said rebels have a wanted list of regime officials. abcnews.go.com/Internationa... via ABC News App
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Assad's infamous Syria prisons empty as rebel leader vows 'just punishment'
Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani said late Monday that his forces "will not hesitate to hold accountable" alleged regime war criminals and torturers.
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Vahid وحید 🇨🇦, PhD @vahidyucesoy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Syrian rebels have put out this statement saying that they won’t impose any religious dress on women and promised to guarantee personal freedoms for everyone. So far, a very positive development
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Hopefully the rebel groups will agree to a democratic transition that respects the will of the Syrian people. Otherwise this moment of hope will slip into violence as groups compete for control of the state. apple.news/A19-cJ_nxRHi...
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Syria's President Assad is in Moscow and has been granted asylum, confirms Russian state media — Sky News
President Bashar al Assad left office on Sunday after his government fell following a lightening offensive
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History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Day 6 of our @HistoryPolicy Advent Calendar, and as Keir Starmer promises to make progress in easing the housing crisis, we present this 2018 policy paper by Brian Lund arguing that an expansion in local authority housing could be part of the solution. www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...
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The housing crisis as the long-term casualty of austerity politics, 1918-2018
<p>Brian Lund shows how a century of stop-start building has flowed from relatively short-termist austerity decisions of successive government - despite the clear long-term pay-offs that arise from ma...
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Deeply troubling article by #michellegoldberg on the potential impact of an #FBI led by #KashPatel persecuting opponents of #Trump www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s F.B.I. Pick Has an Enemies List. Biden Should Pardon Everyone on It.
The president has a chance to save innocent people from MAGA persecution.
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The Liberty Pear @thelibertypear.com · 26/11/2024
Started another one! If you'd like to be a part of it - up to 150 people - just repost. Probably won't make another, so get in while you can! #Resist #Democracy #BlueCrew #NoDemsUnder1K go.bsky.app/CYkSrHM
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.
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Luis L. Schenoni @llschenoni.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Timely joining bsky on the date "Bringing War Back In" was published worldwide with Cambridge UP. Check it out if you are interested in how war makes states also in its aftermath, and how the wars of a distant past explain the variation of state capacity within Latin America until today.
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Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Bringing War Back In
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Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
So six years ago, this was the satirical opening of #DonaldTrump on #SNL, it could be the same in January youtu.be/1iCm8tYX-Vw?... via @YouTube
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Donald Trump Baltic States Cold Open - SNL
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