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Wolfgang Minatti

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Postdoc @leuphana.bsky.social | Research on Peace and Conflict | Previously @EUI_EU, @UniAndes, @LeidenHum & @PolSciUIBK | he/him | @wolfgangMinatti

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🚨New First View Article🚨 "Ad hoc coalitions across time: Shaping international cooperation amid political rivalry" by Stephanie C. Hofmann , Raffaele Mastrorocco & Anastasia Prokhorova is now available #OpenAccess on our website! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/PuXrEaG
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Gawhary @gawhary.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Goodbye ORF als Korrespondent nach 22 Jahren. Das Büro in Kairo ist zugesperrt. Dazu habe ich einen ORF-Abschiedsbrief in Form eines Podcasts verfasst. nahostnahdran.simplecast.com
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Gawhary @gawhary.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Die ersten sechs Folgen meines Podcasts sind jetzt draußen. Ich würde mich freuen, wenn ihr meinen Podcast gratis abonniert, und weiterempfehlt. Er ist mit Null Euro Werbebudget gestartet und hängt von eurer Mund-Zu-Mund-Propaganda ab nahostnahdran.simplecast.com
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Nahost. Nah dran.
Der preisgekrönte Journalist und langjährige Nahost-Experte Karim El-Gawhary nimmt euch mit, die arabische Welt hautnah zu erfahren. Er erzählt Geschichten aus dem Leben in der Region, analysiert komp...
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Nihad Aboud نهاد عبود @nihadaboud.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 My first solo article is out! "A Quest for Legitimacy: Drivers of Organizational Affiliation with Global Jihadist Networks" @journalofgss.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogag016 Short Summary 👇
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A Quest for Legitimacy: Drivers of Organizational Affiliation with Global Jihadist Networks
Abstract. Why do some locally oriented Islamist militant groups affiliate with global jihadist networks such as al-Qaeda or the Islamic State while others
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the @wzb.bsky.social Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.
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Lennart Bade @badelenn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Meine Lesenotiz zu #Muskism Ich habe dem Buch und dem Konzept-Entwurf anfänglich viel abgewonnen - am Ende überwogen aber die Fragezeichen. Das liegt wohl aber auch einfach an dem erratischen Analysegegenstand
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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 06/04/2026
"Uncrewed Reaper drones were used to protect the crew member once he had been located, by “striking Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers”" Sounds like even more US war crimes – murders – to me. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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US rescues second crew member of downed F-15E fighter jet from Iran
Trump gives further details on rescue and threatens to bomb infrastructure if strait of Hormuz is not reopened
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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.
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Wolfgang Minatti @wolfgangminatti.com · 01/04/2026
The first results of my research on rebel legitimacy in #Colombia are now available in the Journal of Peace Research. The link to the paper "It takes three to tango: contested authority, violence, and rebel legitimacy in Colombia" is in the first comment!
It takes three to tango: contested authority, violence, and rebel legitimacy in Colombia

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Why do civilians’ perceptions of the legitimacy of armed actors vary locally during civil war? Existing scholarship grounds legitimacy in the resonance between armed actors’ justifications and civilians’ beliefs, but struggles to explain why legitimacy frequently diverges across villages facing similar actors and conditions. This article argues that understanding wartime legitimacy requires attention to how legitimation processes are shaped by armed actors’ contestations of authority. I theorise two mechanistic logics of legitimation under contested authority: intra-actions between armed actors and civilians, and inter-actions between competing armed actors. Drawing on fieldwork and process tracing, the article tests these mechanisms in a most-similar case study of two Colombian villages contested by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian army between 1990 and 2010. The analysis indicates that intra-actions between armed actors and civilians cannot fully capture variation in the legitimacy of armed actors. Rather, inter-actions between the FARC and the army influenced civilian beliefs and gave credence to the FARC’s justifications in one case but not the other. These findings illustrate the role of contested authority within the literature on rebel governance and legitimacy while also informing policy debates on how to build efficient and legitimate authority during conflict.
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
ayatollah is supposed to be an academic position and you can tell this is true because after an extensive search they went with an internal candidate
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Widespread panic in #Beirut after Israel issues unprecedented evacuation order for southern suburbs. Traffic is choked, people rushing to leave & head north. Drones in the air. WhatsApp messages urging ppl to crack windows open to avoid shattering from expected blasts #lebanon
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
US used Anthropic’s AI tool Claude, along with Maven Smart, another AI system built by Palantir, to choose 100s of targets in the opening day of airstrikes against Iran Claude + Maven Smart were used to suggest "hundreds of targets, issue precise location coordinates, and prioritize" those targets
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Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud
Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is playing a key role in the U.S. military’s campaign in Iran, amid a bitter fight with the Pentagon over the terms of its use in war.
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Tareq @teraqerat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Here we go again www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
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Ana Velasco @anavelasco.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Dear colleagues, If any of you know the members of the @europeanisa.bsky.social EISA Governing Board, I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this with them. There is a very unfair system in the application for mobility funds, and I believe it requires the attention of senior members.
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Roy Karadağ @roykaradag.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My colleague @anavelasco.bsky.social raises an important issue, especially for doctoral scholars applying for mobility funds attend the conferences and workshops of @europeanisa.bsky.social. Hopefully, this will be taken up and triggers some debate and critical reflection on the matter!
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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 29/01/2026
Zotero 8 is out (www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/). If you're not already using, highly recommended!
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Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Zotero 8
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
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re:constitution @reconeurope.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📣 Are you an early- or mid-career scholar or practitioner passionate about #Democracy and the #RuleofLaw in #Europe? Apply now for the re:constitution Fellowship 2026/2027! @democracyreporting.bsky.social @stiftungmercator.bsky.social
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Within the next decade the radical right is going to be the main force on the right in Europe (national and EU level). This includes far-right parties and formerly centre-right parties shifting their position. Moderate conservatism and Christian democracy will largely disappear on the right. 1/
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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. Sam and I have worked on this since we first put our heads together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we were writing and thinking. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
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The Way Out by Rebecca Buxton, Samuel Ritholtz - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Wolfgang Minatti @wolfgangminatti.com · 12/01/2026
A good review of where we are as a discipline of conflict studies!
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Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
In the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience. What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?
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The Demise of Conflict Studies - Dissent Magazine
An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.
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Mariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Join us next Monday for our hybrid event on the USA, Venezuela and the Politics of Force @interactfu.bsky.social. We look forward to discussing with @heikekrieger.bsky.social, @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social, Lora Viola and @lawaisbich.bsky.social! More info: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/conv...
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Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
BREAKING: Donald Trump, on his Truth Social account, claims that the US has captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as part of an operation that involved "large scale strikes" on Caracas
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Mike (1 of many) @chicagomike.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
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Alexandra Phelan @alexphelan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🚨 Call for Special Issue Papers for Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, please share widely! @ginavale.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the call for papers for our upcoming special issue on insurgent-run education. Proposal deadline is 8 January 2026, and full details are below👇🏼
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Sabine Carey @sabinecarey.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📣 out now, with @argohdes.bsky.social and Mark Gibney - and in honour of the wonderful Steve Poe, who motivated the 1st edition with @universitypress.cambridge.org tinyurl.com/2s4kh6z3. If you enjoy reading this even a fraction as much as I enjoyed creating it, you’re in for a ride 🤩
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The Politics of Human Rights | Cambridge Aspire website
Discover The Politics of Human Rights, 2nd Edition, Sabine C. Carey, HB ISBN: 9781009537919 on Cambridge Aspire website
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/11/2025
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Direct casualties in Gaza likely exceed 100,000. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
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MPIDR - Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life and Life Expectancy
A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the ongoing conflict in Gaza on mortality. They estimate that 78,318 (70,614-87,504) people were killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and December 31, 2024. As a result, life expectancy in Gaza in 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. An update of their analysis, produced after the publication of the study, revealed that the current violent death toll likely exceeds 100,000.
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Rob Mickey @robmickey.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Upcoming deadlines to apply to Syracuse U's great Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 2-week summer program! Fellowships available to cover the costs! Pls circulate widely! www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
⏰ Only 7️⃣ days left to apply for the #PreDoc and #PostDoc positions in the VARICRIS project❗ #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
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Mariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
„Die Begriffe „Krieg“ und „Genozid“ sollten nicht gegeneinander ausgespielt werden“ - @amenzel.bsky.social und ich haben als Friedens- und Konfliktforscherinnen ein Plädoyer für diskursive Mehrgleisigkeit geschrieben debatte.krisol-wissenschaft.org/die-begriffe...
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Die Begriffe „Krieg“ und „Genozid“ sollten nicht gegeneinander ausgespielt werden – Debatte
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Tobias Lenz & Fredrik Söderbaum's article in our latest issue demonstrates the significant changes in comparative realism over the past decade. It's free to read now! 📘 👉 buff.ly/XREtDrU
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Civil War Paths @civilwarpaths.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
What a fantastic talk this morning by @enzonussio.bsky.social for our second seminar of the 2025-2026 Civil War Paths Seminar Series, discussing violence against ex-combatants in Colombia!
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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh: edin.ac/4hVNTAL
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WARSHARE PhD Scholarships | School of Social and Political Science
Applications for the 3 PhD scholarships close at 23:59 GMT on Thursday 11th December 2025. Late applications cannot be accepted.Following a European Advanced Grant Award funded by UKRI to Professor An...
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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027! 📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort! Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd #EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
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DVPW #TakeOver @dvpwkongress.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
That’s it from us. Happy weekend!
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DVPW #TakeOver @dvpwkongress.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Sari Shrayteh‘s talk deals with predictions as part of popular culture in unstable situations, eg coffee readings, palmistry, or astrology in the news during wartime
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DVPW #TakeOver @dvpwkongress.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The second panel today starts with @roykaradag.bsky.social on "Death by Historical Analogy: The Illegitimate Victimhood of Palestinians in Germany" #RethinkingViolenceDVPW
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Mariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We start our workshop with the first panel on “Legacies of war and Violence“ with Jan Busse, recounting the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict as a history of political violence
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Mariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Next is Wolfgang Minatti, with a presentation on legitimacy through violence, drawing on fieldwork in Colombia
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Mariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Now, @amenzel.bsky.social is offering comments, encouraging as to go back to the “classics“, linking the presentations with work by Ferguson and Kalyvas, and bring out clearer the questions and puzzles that we seek to address in our research. Whom are we writing for? Whom are we writing against?
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
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Sergi Martínez @sergisme.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
📢 Exciting news from EAFIT University in Medellín 🇨🇴! The Politics and Development Area of the School of Finance, Economics, and Government is opening 3️⃣ tenure-track positions to join our interdisciplinary School. 👇 More details in the next posts.
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👻Notorischer User dieser Plattform🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Imitating the results of human creative labour while blackboxing the processes behind (which largely consist of acts of appropriation, extraction, exploitation & waste of energy) is what genAI is all about. Presenting it is a neutral guide means depoliticizing a highly political technology 7/
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
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Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
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Frederik Carl Windfeld @fredwindfeld.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.
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Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment - Frederik Carl Windfeld, 2025
Contemporary discussions over emergent and disruptive technologies in military affairs are often framed in futurist and existential terms. The article theorises...
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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Jan Lepeu @janlpe.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I had the privilege this week of being awarded the title of Doctor of Political and Social Sciences from the @eui-eu.bsky.social after successfully defending my thesis on the EU sanctions policy.
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Stephanie Hofmann @stephofmann.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 big congratulations Dr. Lepeu 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾
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