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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
www.cnn.com/travel/ithac...
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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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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This is the best ad
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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
I’ll be working on salvaging as much as I can from my defunded NSF CAREER grant
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Cornell University College of Arts & Sciences is nicely represented: nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Two A&S professors awarded the Berlin Prize
The highly competitive Berlin Prize is awarded annually to U.S.-based scholars, writers, composers and artists from the United States who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields
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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
So sorry Jeff
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I am so sorry to hear about the Journeys grant. It is such an amazing program and I learned so much from it.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Without this grant, we will lack crucial knowledge about the extent of police violence globally, about how to prevent it, and about how to transform police forces into agencies that protect civilians rather than perpetrate violence against them.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Finally, it included an educational component to train police officers from around the world on how they can work to mitigate police violence within their own agencies.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It also involved conducting the largest quantitative survey of police officers worldwide—including participants from Uruguay, Senegal, Zambia, Jordan, and many other countries—to understand how officers' experiences shape their decisions about using force.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Using these data, the project sought to identify the political causes of police violence and ways to mitigate it.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This project used large language models and machine learning to aggregate data on global police violence, uncovering the extent of the problem, geographic variation, and differences in types of violence.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
All around the world, police forces commit violence against civilians on a daily basis—whether during protests, through extrajudicial killings, or in routine abuses during traffic stops.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
What was my research about?
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
After winning it, my plan was to dedicate the resulting book to him. Now, I am not sure that I will be able to finish the book. Aside from this loss, and the obvious job loss for my students and post-doc, each termination comes with a cost to losing knowledge.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is the most prestigious award that the NSF gave out to junior scholars and something that my dad had always pushed me to apply for and hoped I would win.
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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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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Now, I am not sure that I will be able to finish the book. Aside from this loss, and the obvious job loss for my students and post-doc, each termination comes with a cost to losing knowledge.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is the most prestigious award that the NSF gave out to junior scholars and something that my dad had always pushed me to apply for and hoped I would win. After winning it, my plan was to dedicate the resulting book to him.
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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
The evidence for my comments are based on my new book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I explain how misogyny can be a recruitment tool for armed groups and how harm to women can demobilize women making non-violent revolutions less likely and political violence more likely
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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
YouTube video by The Economist
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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 · 29/03/2024
This is, of course, unless soldiers engage in human rights abuses. If people witness military abuse, public opinion subsides.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
So, militaries may gain public approval by intervening in health crises because it signals state capacity and willingness to stop spread but police enforcement is seen negatively.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
We find that securitization worsens public opinion in marginalized communities about the police but not necessarily for the military
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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
Our panel data of police officers and youth party leaders suggest that the experience of the crucial election led to improvements in views about democracy and peace.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Anti-election violence programs focused on the individual level are likely to have less of an effect when overall experiences with governance improve.
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
We find that this was the case during the 2017 Liberian elections, which saw the first successful transition in power (an example of what we call a "crucial" election)
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