New article out on Conflict Management & Peace Science! Michal Onderco and myself analyze the impact of states' security situation (alliances, rivalries) and treaty legalization (obligation, precision, delegation) on state commitment toward multilateral disarmament treaties.

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Check out our new Masters programme in Public Administration: Artificial Intelligence and Governance, starting this September! Rise of AI requires a new generation of trained public administration experts that are tech-savvy. 🦾 vu.nl/en/news/2024/r…

🚨Want to learn Qualitative Comparative Analysis? Register for the #QCA Workshop at the USI University Summer School in Social Science Methods (August 19-23) - in presence, in beautiful Lugano🇨🇭 Institute of Communication and Public Policy ICPP Rstats MethodsNET usi.ch/en/education/l…

June 17-21, I offer a #ProcessTracing course for the MethodsNET summer school Radboud University @[email protected].

Part of the Summer School in Social Research Methods ( #3SRM ), it is for those interested in qualitative case studies and studying 'causal mechanisms'.

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**Job alert**
I am hiring a PhD researcher (fully funded) to study social distance in relation to state foreign policy making. Focus: #ForeignPolicy , #Narratives , #Interpretivism .

Spread the word! Deadline: April 26.
With Matthew Longo #DanielThomas

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It's one thing to admit that no one knows exactly what Putin's intentions are, it's quite another to argue against planning for the worst-case scenario.

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Is there a religious bias? Through a vignette-based experiment we find German students are more supportive of an intervention when the victims of war-related violence are Christians rather than Muslims.

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If you’re at #isa2024 in San Francisco, consider joining us for the Methods Cafe on Foreign Policy Analysis today at 1.45 in the Park55 „Embarcadero“ room. I‘ll be talking about Emotion Discourse Analysis (EDA). Falk Ostermann Marijke Breuning ISA

I'm skipping this year's ISA #ISA2024 , but at least I'm having myself some San Francisco cookies while y'all are enjoying the conference. 🍪🙄

Very happy to write, together with Wolfgang Wagner and Alexander Sorg, in ClingendaelSpectator about our NWO Nieuws-funded work on the willingness to fight for one's country. spectator.clingendael.org/nl/publicatie/…

Our article with Sarah von Billerbeck (Sarah Kanafani) is out in International Studies Quarterly! In the article, we develop the concept of a racialized international organization using a case study of the UN peacekeeping workforce.

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How nice to find a hard copy in today's mail! Many hanks to Juliet Kaarbo and Cameron Thies for inviting me to contribute to this wonderful handbook!

A must-read for the party politics and military interventions-community: Richard Sonneveld's analysis of deployment votes in the Dutch Parliament, a truly unique setting with no less than 17 parties, covering more political space than elsewhere.
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🚨 Join us tomorrow Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam VU Bestuurswetenschap & Politicologie, for a book talk by Kseniya Oksamytna on her recent book 'Advocacy and Change in International Organizations', with Ueli Staeger as discussant - looking forward to this!

If you're in Amsterdam on Tuesday 12 March, please join us for a chat about my book over morning coffee at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam VU Bestuurswetenschap & Politicologie

Thanks to Patrick A. Mello and Wolfgang Wagner for the invitation and to Ueli Staeger for being the discussant!

It was pleasure to review Lebow's book. Whether the positivism-interpretivism divide does justice to prevailing practices can be discussed, but it's an enlightening read nonetheless. Have a look at the 4 research strategies on how to deal with the challenges of causal analysis!

The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations: How Do We Know?, Richard Ned Lebow Cambridge University Press - Politics | Reviewed by Patrick A. Mello at doi.org/10.1093/psquar…

Together with ZMSBw, Centre for International Security - Hertie School hosted a workshop with researchers from various parts of Europe to discuss the different responses to Russia's war on Ukraine. Steve Saideman has written a nice summary: saideman.blogspot.com/2024/03/zeiten… #Zeitenwende