I’m on the job market! I work on IOs, diplomacy & climate. Who controls IOs' agendas? How do actors maximize agenda-setting power? Through what pathways do issues like climate change reach the agenda? See my website (sabrinabarias.com) & get in touch! A 🧵on my work:

Why did Moore write Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy? Why did O’Donnell write Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism? Did they not get the memo with the title: “Modernization theory is the reigning paradigm and you must work within it”? Long thread

New article: "Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange," with contributions from Alexander Cooley and @dhnexon, Paul Poast, and @j_k_alley and Matt Fuhrmann. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Oh man, the product of 5 years of research is finally out in Security Studies! I bring you “Left of Liberal Internationalism: Grand Strategies within Progressive Foreign Policy Thought.” 1/x tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

NEW🚨How have sanctions impacted Russia? In this new Bruegel paper we assess both the immediate economic impact and the likely longer-term impact of sanctions on the Russian economy. Short🧵with key takeaways. bruegel.org/policy-brief/h…

🚨 So happy to see this published at Journal of Conflict Resolution @SAGE_Publishing journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

IR Book of the Week! "Backfire" by Agathe Demarais. Economic sanctions are based on self-harm: a state will hurt its own economy to change another state's behavior & sanctions can also produce a host of unanticipated consequences. Time to reconsider them? amazon.com/Backfire-Sanct…

Coming to @OUPPolitics, March 2023.

The Netherlands is convinced "we need to move to qualified majority voting in the areas of sanctions, human rights, and civilian EU missions. This will dramatically increase our versatility." government.nl/government/mem…

Today, a call for Qualified Majority Voting (QMV). Yesterday, a legislative package for joint weapons production & procurement. Finally things are moving in EU defense & foreign policy integration. But do people support it? In a new experiment, we find huge support for both.

🚨 Is the madman theory of international politics just crazy, or does it have any merit? 🚨 Find out in my new paper in Security Studies, which is open access! 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #PoliSciResearch Belfer Center MIT SSP

Good morning! New article with @GhashiaKiyani, Ryan Yu-Lin Liou, and Dursun Peksen in Armed Forces & Society! We look at how sanctions alter relationships between armed forces & civilian leaders, limiting civilian control but not generally increasing coup attempts. doi.org/10.1177/009532…

🚨Cool new civ-mil paper alert!🚨 Exciting new Armed Forces & Society piece by @GhashiaKiyani , Ryan Yu-Lin Liou, Amanda Murdie and Dursun Peksen shows that destabilizing economic sanctions decrease civilian control of the military in target countries. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Economic sanctions could escalate rather than reduce violence and support for terrorism. Find out why in the article from Navin Bapat & Meneviş Cılızoğlu argue 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogss/…

Our open access article is now available at Journal of Peace Research online first: doi.org/10.1177/002234… It is about public support for international sanctions on human rights violators. See @socioburak's thread below:

Thrilled my paper with Neil Malhotra is out at American Political Science Review! Have you always been captivated by the impacts of trade policy on political behavior, applications of causal machine learning, and shocks to soybean prices? Ok well regardless this is still the paper for you! A thread 🧵

New Article:Peyman Asadzade, Cameron Thies, and I published in International Studies Quarterly, showing low-income households in Iran bear the brunt of sanctions, offering evidence to claims that elites in authoritarian states shift the burden onto the vulnerable Political Science Leiden doi.org/10.1093/isq/sq…

When other alternatives cannot work, sanctions are a responsible and effective tool to protect international peace and security, Josep Borrell Fontelles writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/11/eu-…

This is a great resource from Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center Nice work, Kimberly Donovan, Sarah BauerleDanzman, and Josh Lipsky atlanticcouncil.org/programs/geoec…

What happens when sanctions are lifted? How do target states adjust? Check out new work from @claymwebb and me exploring these questions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…