Happy that our piece "Authoritarian Audiences: Subnational Propaganda Targeting in N.Korea" has been accepted by Comparative Politics. (cc Yu Bin Kim / 김유빈 (金裕彬) Heather-Leigh K. Ba). Propaganda is not monolithic; autocracies target different groups w/specific messages that facilitate regime survival:

Very happy that our article on "War and Nationalism" has appeared today online first in the American Political Science Review. This has been a great collaboration with Alex De Juan, @riazsascha, Thomas Tichelbaecker, & Carlo Koos cambridge.org/core/journals/… What is this paper about & what do we find? 🧵

New AJPS! Tobias Heinrich, Yoshi Kobayashi (University of Leeds), Meneviş Cılızoğlu (St. Olaf College), and William T. Christiansen (Mount St. Mary's University) investigate why countries close borders during pandemics and highlight the challenges the #WHO faces. #OpenAccess #PandemicResponse doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1…

We also congratulate Skyler Cranmer, Bruce Desmarais, and Jason Morgan for receiving an Honorable Mention in the Best Book Award for their book, Inferential Network Analysis!

#Vol11Iss3 | Sangyeon Kim, Howard Liu, and Bruce Desmarais offer a new methodological approach to capture the dynamic nature of political actors in a given space and to account for interaction between moving actors. Research note in #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…

Really pleased to share that "Making Sense, Making Choices: How Civilians Choose Survival Strategies During Violence" is accepted at American Political Science Review . You can see the accepted version here! I'll post more about the paper once it's up on FirstView. aidanmilliff.com/media/Milliff_…

Super excited to see this paper in print @ Journal of Conflict Resolution! Hugest thanks to UNU-WIDER Patricia Justino for supporting this project 🙂 Full paper avail here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/UQMH2WX…

Excited to share my new paper published at Political Behavior! I argue for authoritarian nostalgia as a source of group sentiment in developing democracies using survey data from South Korea and Taiwan. doi.org/10.1007/s11109…

New paper on an (unfortunately) topical subject. This paper began when I was in grad school (years pre-Dobbs) and we decided to pick it back up after the SCOTUS decision. In it, we draw on moral psychology to examine responses to different types of abortion restrictions.

The Concentration Camps (CCamp) Dataset is finally out at JPR! This started as a research project back in 2019 and became my dissertation. I'm super proud of the work @theBraith and Daniel Solomon put into this - I'm looking forward to others finally getting to use these data!

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 Cooperation and Conflict Studies in Chinese IR academic.oup.com/isp/article-ab… Why does Chinese security research focus more on cooperation than conflict? 📊 Unique insights from bibliometric data, grant projects, and insider interviews

Now the dust has settled, happy to announce the book jointly won best book on migration from the American Political Science Association, the President's book award from the Social Science History Association and the Hedley Bull Prize for best book in International Relations☺️

Save the date! PolNet & PaCSS 2025 are joining forces at Harvard and Northeastern on August 11–14, 2025—workshops on Aug 11–12, conference on Aug 13–14. Stay tuned for details on CFP, registration, and more. See you at #PolNetPaCSS2025!

Join us for the 2025 Political Networks & Computational Social Science Conference (sites.google.com/view/confpolin…), Aug 11-14 at Harvard & Northeastern, with Duncan Watts delivering the keynote. Workshops: Aug 11-12; panels: Aug 13-14. Submit by March 28:

🚨New article!🚨 Very happy to share the link to the article that Pippa Morgan and I have just published in International Studies Quarterly 🔗academic.oup.com/isq/article/69… Feel free to contact me if you do not have access.