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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What makes states talk about arms control as a security issue rather than a humanitarian one? @tobiasrisse.bsky.social shows that intrastate conflict shifts UN rhetoric toward national security—revealing how domestic conflict shapes arms-control debates. More: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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National security versus human security: Intrastate conflict and states’ rhetoric on conventional arms control in the United Nations general assembly - Tobias Risse, 2026

While arms control during the Cold War was primarily concerned with weapons of mass destruction and their role in national security, the end of the bipolar orde...

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New publication @respol.bsky.social In this article, I study how civil war affects states' rhetoric on conventional arms control. I find that acute conflicts, but not intractable ones, lead states to emphasize national security. See abstract below or full article here: tinyurl.com/3me9nwyp

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

🚨 Entering the last 2 weeks to apply for one of these postdoc positions on children's political socialization in my team at Aarhus Uni 🚨 I'm looking for talented candidates w qual methods skills who want to understand the deep roots of political marginalization: international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 09/04/2026

🔵 Do politicians trade human rights for the benefits of arms deals? Not more than citizens do. Those are findings from @tobiasrisse.bsky.social & @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social's survey experiments conducted on public and elite samples in 🇬🇧 & 🇩🇪. Just published in JCR: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

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Svend-Erik Skaaning @skaaning.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026. international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Three 2-year Postdoctoral positions at Aarhus University: Projects on personality cults and strategic communication in autocracies - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Check out our (w/ @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social) new article in the Journal of Conflict Resolution on how citizens and politicians weigh moral and instrumental concerns when forming attitudes toward arms exports. For more information, see abstract below or the full article: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Trading Arms, Trading Values? Experimental Evidence on Attitudes Toward Arms Exports Among Citizens and Political Elites

Tobias Risse and Christoph Valentin Steinert

Foreign policy making involves balancing ethical values and instrumental concerns. Do politicians and citizens differ in how they weigh these factors when directly confronted with this trade-off? Focusing on attitudes toward arms exports, we argue that citizens, but not politicians, tend to prioritize human rights concerns over the political and economic benefits for their own states. We tested these arguments in four survey experiments among citizens and parliamentarians in the United Kingdom and Germany. We presented participants with fictitious arms deals and varied the human rights records of recipient regimes as well as the benefits of arms deals to assess how these factors influence attitudes toward arms exports. While we find substantial effects of both human rights violations and benefits on support for arms exports, their interaction remains insignificant across all samples. Hence, our findings yield no evidence for an elite-public gap in weighing ethical and instrumental concerns in foreign policy attitudes.

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Regine Schwab @reginesonja.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

📢 #New article in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. In this paper, we demonstrate that pro-regime forces’ targeting of hospitals in Syria backfired, as rebels responded with increased violence. #polisky #MENAsky #IRsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

‼️ Two weeks left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP project 👇.

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 12/11/2025

Does public opinion shape elite preferences for nuclear weapon use? 🚀 Our new article in @ejisbisa.bsky.social provides the first experimental evidence that political elites are at least partially influenced by public sentiment when considering high-level decisions on nuclear weapon use.

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 27/10/2025

We are excited to welcome new researchers to the PRCP! 🥳 Read more about their background and research focus below. 👇

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 10/10/2025

Just two more days to apply! ⬇️ @iirprague.bsky.social

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

📢 My last PhD paper is out in Legislative Studies Quarterly 📢 📌 Main finding ➡️ Party control of speaking time in parliament limits MPs’ geographical focus ➡️ Open access increases constituency representation 🔗 Read it open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Lorenzo Crippa @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Very happy to have this one with @patrickbayer.bsky.social and @fgenovese.bsky.social accepted in @psrm.bsky.social! We show that, without unambiguous policy commitments, stock markets will not stir capital away from fossil fuel and towards renewable energy investments. More info in the thread!

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 09/08/2025

🚨 Just published: the first global quantitative study on the relationship between democracy and state support for arms control from @tobiasrisse.bsky.social! ➡️ Read the full article here (open access): academic.oup.com/fpa/article/... @ims.fsv.cuni.cz @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz

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Democracy and State Support for Arms Control

Abstract. This article presents the first global quantitative study of the relationship between states’ level of liberal democracy and their support for ar

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🚨 Publication alert @fpajrnl.bsky.social In this article, I examine how democracy affects states' arms control preferences. I find that democracy facilitates support for conventional, but not nuclear arms control. For more info, see abstract below or full article: academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

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Christoph Valentin Steinert @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Due diligence laws make firms liable for human rights violations and environmental damage in their supply chains. But the business lobby heavily criticizes these laws because of the required bureaucracy and potential compliance costs, which may create economic disadvantages. (1/5)

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Christoph Valentin Steinert @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

How does filing complaints to the United Nations affect the human rights situation of civil society organizations? To learn more about this question, check out our publication (with the fantastic Hannah Smidt) in the British Journal of Political Science. (1/8) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 20/06/2025

New research alert! 🚨 @tobiasrisse.bsky.social just published an article in @intlinteractions.bsky.social on the topic of interstate rivalry, major power status, and state support for arms control. 🌎 He argues that rivalries with major powers decrease non-major powers’ support for arms control.

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Out now @intlinteractions.bsky.social: In my new article, I find that rivalries with major powers tend to decrease minor powers' support for arms control. Why? See abstract below 👇 or here for the full article: doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2025.2518394 #armscontrol #conflictsky #polisky 🗺

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Publication alert! Out now at @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social: "Political Representation as Communicative Practice" together with Fabio Wolkenstein. We ask: What is political representation & how should we study it? ⬇️ Download for free for 13 days! 🧵On what you can expect👇 cup.org/3ERYIUR

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Valentin Daur @valentindaur.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

How will voters react to CDU shifting away from its strict "no collaboration"-stance toward AfD? During my PhD, I sought to answer this question. Sooner than I had hoped, it is no longer mostly hypothetical. A thread… (1/6) doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond

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Enzo Nussio @enzonussio.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Closing in two weeks: 2 open positions in my new consolidator project "Decades of Peace" at the University of Zurich @ipz.bsky.social funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social, focusing on Latin America. PhD position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:e32a... Postdoc position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:94e1...

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Check out this brilliant and important study by my friend and co-author @valentindaur.bsky.social 👇

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Valentin Daur @valentindaur.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

🚨 Job Alert 🚨: Postdoc Opportunity @ LMU Munich! Join the ERC-funded CIVILSPACE project. We're looking for a postdoc with: 📊 Experience in survey experiments 🤝 Interest in civil society, non-profit, organization or interest group research ⏰ Application deadline: December 8, 2024

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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x)

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

🚨🚨🚨 Very happy to share that my paper w/ Daniel Finke on states' rhetorical positions in the UNGA First Committee is out @psrm.bsky.social. We analyze speeches by combining 3 automated text-analytic methods in a novel way. See abstract below, or here: doi.org/10.1017/psrm... #polisky #conflictsky

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Now with an issue number: Check out my article on external threats and state support for arms control in the Journal of Peace Research 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0022... #polisky #conflictsky

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Christoph Valentin Steinert @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Are international human rights bodies remedies for elites? My new study shows that socio-economic elites are more likely to file complaints to UN human rights bodies, while marginalized groups from low-income countries are underrepresented (1/7) academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

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Elitist Remedies? Complaint Resources and Representation in International Human Rights Bodies

Abstract. This article investigates determinants of representation in international human rights bodies. It is argued that socioeconomic factors shape whet

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

My paper "Civil war and state support for conventional arms control" is now available at @conflictmanagement.bsky.social. It explores the relationship between, well, civil war and state support for conventional arms control. See below for the abstract and here for the paper: doi.org/10.1177/0738...

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