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Sabrina Karim

@sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
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Cornell Assistant Professor specializing in security sector reform, policing, peacekeeping, and gender. Director of the Gender and Security Sector Lab sabrinamkarim.com

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Multilateralism is not necessarily fading! There is still civilian support for it in different parts of the world. Using two sets of independent conjoint experiments, we show that civilians in Liberia prefer multilateral actors (the UN) to oversee (not rebuild) security sector reforms
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The Gender and Security Sector Lab @gsslab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
📣 Publication alert 📣 GSS Lab Director Dr. Sabrina Karim (@sabrinamkarim.bsky.social) and GSS Lab Fellow Dr. Cameron Mailhot have a new paper out on civilian preferences for international state building, utilizing survey evidence from Liberia. Congratulations! 🎊 #polisky #int-rel
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International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia | International Organization | Cambridge Core
International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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This upstate New York town is a showstopper for scenery | CNN
Jam-packed with waterfalls tumbling through dramatic gorges, the vibrant college town of Ithaca in New York’s Finger Lakes region also has the cultural landscape of a much larger destination.
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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Paper on the ideology gender gap with Eurobarometer data from @gesis.org by @nennstielr.bsky.social and @hudde.bsky.social . Most interesting finding: while young women are becoming more left-wing in 11 countries, in 5 of them young men are also becoming more right-wing (DK, FI, SE, FR and LT)
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Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries
Abstract. Growing gender differences in political ideology among young people are a major concern because of their potential long-term societal implication
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
www.military.com/daily-news/2... a big part of this is that if they have a choice between having an integrated service that's inclusive or a divided service that's not, they'll opt for the latter because they believe that integration destroys institutions
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Surge of Female Enlistments Helped Drive Army Success in Reaching 2024 Recruiting Goal
Nearly 10,000 women signed up for active duty in 2024, an 18% jump from the previous year, while male recruitment increased by just 8%, the data shows.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/06/2025
This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...
To trust the polling, the trends are perhaps more distressing among those still too young to have even dipped their toes into the work force. According to the data analyst David Waldron’s assessment of the world-class Monitoring the Future Survey, run by the University of Michigan, in 2018, 84 percent of eighth- and 10th-grade boys said they agreed either “completely” or “mostly” that women should have the same job opportunities as men. Five years later, the number had fallen to 72 percent. The share who agreed “at all” that men and women should be paid the same money for the same work had fallen from 87 percent to 79 percent. The share who said they agreed “completely” with equal pay for equal work had fallen from 72 percent to 57 percent — just over half.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Very excited to be joining the Spring 2026 fellows at the American Academy in Berlin @americanacademy.bsky.social What an amazing group of people! www.americanacademy.de/announcing-t...
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Announcing the 2025-26 Class of Fellows - American Academy in Berlin
Learn more about the incoming class of Berlin Prize Fellows and their projects.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This graph represents tens of thousands of active NSF grants. About 14% of them were awarded in 2020 or earlier, yet none were terminated. All 1044 cancellations occurred since 2021. The odds against such an occurrence arising by chance is p<0.0001, less than 1 in 10,000.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.
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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
For this month's final member spotlight, check out our Q&A with @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social . The feature dives into her work on the role of gender inclusion & gender norms on police performance as well as citizen trust in security institutions. Read more: buff.ly/AX1x0YH
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Q&A with Members: Gender and policing with Sabrina Karim – EGAP
Author: Max Méndez Beck
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The Gender and Security Sector Lab @gsslab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Congratulations @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social, @zinab.bsky.social, @kathleenfallon.bsky.social, Inka Lilja, and Sarah Rowse for their hard work!
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Ulrich Glogowsky @uglogowsky.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🚨 New #Publication: We tracked how policy and parenthood reshaped gender inequality in Germany from the 1960s to today. In early decades, only 14% of the gender gap was due to kids—now it's 64%. How did children become the biggest factor? Thread🧵 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 with Hansen, @dominiksachs.bsky.social & Lüthen
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Chilling email from USIP staff
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The Gender and Security Sector Lab @gsslab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
🌟THANK YOU🌟 to everyone who attended @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social's book launch last week! Academic research is key to advancing #WomenPeaceSecurity #CSW69📚 Couldn't make it? No worries! You can watch a recording of the event here! youtu.be/qDCcmADPYUs?... #gendersky #polisky
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The Gender and Security Sector Lab @gsslab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Mark your calendars! 🗓️ @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social is holding a #booklaunch event on March 6th to discuss "Positioning Women in Conflict Studies: How Women's Status Affects Political Violence" with Summer Lindsey & Kanisha Bond. No registration required! Hope to see you there! #polisky #gendersky
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Mariel Barnes and I have a new paper: The Manosphere and Politics, which argues that the manophere is a political space and theorizes about which parts are more prone to different forms of violence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Gender and Security Sector Lab @gsslab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Heard of the #manosphere? Dr. Mariel Barnes & @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social's new @cpsjournal.bsky.social paper urges the recognition of the revived men's movement as political, and explores when different parts of the manosphere turns violent. #GenderSky #polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Manosphere and Politics - Mariel J. Barnes, Sabrina M. Karim, 2025
The revived men’s movement, colloquially the “manosphere,” has recently increased in prominence and influence, and has been connected to numerous instances of v...
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The Gender and Security Sector Lab @gsslab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
In a new @economist.com video, @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social uses evidence from her new book to comment on how harm to women increases the likelihood of #politicalviolence. Check out the video ⤵️ youtu.be/alXI1kDhmT0?... #GenderSky #internationalpolitics #IntSec #WomenPeaceSecurity
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Why nations that fail women fail
YouTube video by The Economist
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Check out the @economist.com 15min video on "How Nationals that Fail Women, Fail" where I am interviewed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=alXI...
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Why nations that fail women fail
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The Gender and Security Sector Lab @gsslab.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
🏆 Prize Alert! 🏆 The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN) is awarding their 2025 Prize! Learn more at the link below. Deadline to apply is February 1st! #GenderSky #internationalpolitics #PoliSky #Comparativesky #academia www.egenpolisci.org/prize-applic...
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The Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) Working Group
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
New op-ed about steps the interim government of Bangladesh can take to safeguard democracy time.com/7014316/bang...
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How Bangladesh Can Become a True Democracy
Interim leader Muhammad Yunus must prioritize reforming police and military, the constitution, and the judiciary.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Come work with me! Cornell University's Government Department is searching for three lines in international relations across all rank! I am on the search committee- so feel free to ping me! members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Excited to be a recipient of Cornell Arts &Sciences New Frontiers Grant to use the GSS Lab reports as a way to understand how well generative AI does with writing policy reports for the United Nations news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...
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Projects funded by 2024 New Frontier Grants look toward the future | Cornell Chronicle
The College of Arts and Sciences has awarded five New Frontier Grants to cutting edge projects in science, social science and the humanities led by A&S faculty, some with collaborators from other coll...
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
For the ten year remembrance of Ebola in Liberia, Ismene Gizelis and I have a new piece out at World Development about how securitization of pandemics affects public opinion about the security forces www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/w...
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
There is still time to apply to Cornell's Visiting Assistant Professor in IR positions: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27140
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Do grassroots anti-election violence initiatives between the police and youth party leaders work? Using an RCT in Liberia, @pruett.bsky.social @dyzenhaus.bsky.social Dao Freeman and I find that the short answer is no. But it is complicated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Thanks to @profpaulpoast.bsky.social and the University of Chicago Political Science Dept for the opportunity to present at WIP. Really great comments and feedback!
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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 07/12/2023
CrisisWatch | New Update ⚡ Six conflict risks in December ↘️ Ten conflict situations deteriorated in November ↖️ One improved situation 🔎 The Democratic Republic of Congo is our country in focus this month with high risks of election-related violence. www.crisisgroup.org/crisiswatch
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December Alerts and November Trends 2023
CrisisWatch is our global conflict tracker, an early warning tool designed to help prevent deadly violence. It keeps decision-makers up-to-date with developments in over 70 conflicts and crises every ...
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
📢New #PAG VSI on Violence against Women 📢 Francesca Gains & Vivien Lowndes present a case study of newly elected police in 🇬🇧 to see how they implemented new rules to respond to VAW polisky gendersky 🌟 Open Access 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Screenshot of research article ' Identifying the Institutional Micro-Foundations of Gender Policy Change: A Case Study of Police Governance and Violence against Women and Girls' by Francesca Gains & Vivien Lowndes
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
My new book published by Oxford University Press with Danny Hill will be out in May 2024!
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
My new book with Danny Hill Jr. coming out in May 2024 with Oxford University Press!
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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Finally a CyberMonday offer for political scientists!  Are you teaching Intro to Political Science or Intro to Comparative this winter/spring and looking for a new type of text??  🧵👇 polisky politicsexperiment.com 1/
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Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Can someone tell me the best books to read about the Zapatistas? And the civil war in Chiapas?
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Wayne Sandholtz @wsandholtz.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Are you a researcher who hopes your work will shape policy? *Consider policymakers' incentives!* For a policy to have legs, politicians must believe it will help them win elections🗳️. But researchers often (willfully?) overlook this crucial detail. A 🧵 on my recent WP: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
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School reform in Liberia improved test scores but lost votes by
Public service reforms can provoke political backlash from service providers, but when quality increases sufficiently, the electoral rewards can outweigh the costs
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
The UN has a zero tolerance policy for SEA by UN peacekeepers- in a new article with Radwa Saad and Laura Huber, we find that there are two negative effects from the zero tolerance policy: 1) gender segregation 2) violence against female peacekeepers. See here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Banning sex: who pays the price? The effects of zero-tolerance policies on female peacekeepers: Inte...
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Sarah Bush @sarahbush.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Polisky! With @danieladonno.bsky.social @parzetterberg.bsky.social, we are excited to share this new open access article in the American Political Science Review. Can autocrats burnish a reputation for democracy by advancing women’s rights? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies | American Political Science Review...
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Proud that my piece on respectability is officially out at APSR. It’s open access! The piece matters a lot to me bc it reflects my strong belief that Black people’s political & social lives warrant deep study & deserve their place in our field’s “top” journals. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes | American Political Scienc...
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes - Volume 117 Issue 4
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Monika Nalepa @monikanalepa.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
#polisky "Theories of Democratic Backsliding" with @carlorato.bsky.social @luozhaotian.bsky.social and Edoardo Grillo is now accepted at the Annual Review of Political Science. Read if you are looking for help organizing and applying the theoretical literature on backsliding: t.co/UwFneFzAl7
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Three amazing colleagues. One great paper.
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Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Directly targeting and killing civilians is an immoral war crime. Full stop. Sadly, such acts, motivated by a desire for revenge, are not rare in international politics. [THREAD]
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International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Curious about how IO works, or about what sorts of manuscripts fit our journal’s scope? Join us for our second annual virtual “Ask the IO Editors” session, Nov 2, 10:30am-noon EDT. To attend, register here: princeton.zoom.us/meeting/regi... We also will record and post the session.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Excited to host EGEN at Cornell! The conference would not have been possible without the hard work of Emily Jackson (emilybjackson.weebly.com) and the GSS lab’s new lab manager, Janna Solomon.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Gender and Security Sector Lab Workshop happening today: Great presentations by Almira Sadykova-DuMond on how curfews affect terrorism; @zinab.bsky.social on how aid quality affects incumbent support in Afghanistan; and DeAnne Roark on how conflict processes affect gendered transitional justice
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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
First post here! Early view of my AJPS article with Leonard Wantchekon on the legacy of African independence movements. We argue that rural insurgencies generated political exclusion & autocratic regimes, while urban protests fostered democratic behavior & institutions. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
A huge thank you to @meganastewart.bsky.social who is the best academic workshop host. From limo pick up to custom designed Michigan swag, I really enjoyed giving two talks at the Ford School International Policy Center and received fantastic feedback.
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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Striking results according to a new World Bank study - there has been minimal progress on a number of gender equity measures in S. Asia over the last 50 yrs across socioeconomic groups. Opens up a host of questions on why. ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps... Gendersky Southasiasky Polisky
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Emma Elfversson @emmaelfversson.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Police play a key role in providing security for citizens, but in many contexts, trust is low. Urban areas face particular challenges. In this article, @hathaonguyen.bsky.social, Kristine Höglund and I probe the urban-rural divide in police trust in Kenya: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... polisky
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The urban-rural divide in police trust: insights from Kenya
The police occupy a central role in the functioning of the state by being tasked with upholding security, law and order. Across the African continent, the public has little trust in the police, but...
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