It's great to finish #APSA2024 with the feeling you accomplished everything you wanted to accomplish: meet people you admire, get feedback, and give feedback. And now it's time to continue working and implement comments!

In the final episode of our democracy podcast miniseries, Emilie Hafner-Burton (UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy) and Christina Schneider (UC San Diego) reflect on how today’s threats to American democracy measure up historically—and what can be done to protect it. Listen here: bit.ly/3NkaV5T

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Here are a few snapshots from our IGCC Dissertation Fellowship Orientation this past week. On October 25, IGCC team members traveled to the UCLA campus to meet with our 13 new dissertation fellows, who took turns sharing their ongoing research projects. 🧵(1/3)

Happy to be part of a great community, and meet with peers working on great projects 🙂 Thanks UC Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation !

Cancelling the election was a bold move, but might have been the only way to stop things from getting worse...

#MartialLaw, mass protests, and #impeachment - these are what #SouthKorea just when through in the past 10 days. Join us if you are interested in what political scientists can share about the crisis.

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The National Immigrant Justice Center created a know your rights sheet for immigrants specifically under the second Trump administration. Here are 5 key takeaways from that document. National Immigrant Justice Center immigrantjustice.org/sites/default/…

Colombia's president announces that some of the Colombian migrants who the Trump administration attempted to deport on U.S. military planes have arrived in Colombia, on a Colombian Air Force plane. "The migrant is not a criminal," he says.

AfD leads a German election poll for the first time ever

Revoking Harvard’s visa program won’t just derail countless students; it sets a chilling precedent for the future of higher education in the United States.

🚨A father held by ICE screams for his son. My translation: "Help me. Help me. Help me. BRAYAN! Ay, no. Help me. Help. Help. Ay, no. Help. Help. Help. Help me. Help me" In the background, there is a sound like a child shouting back to him. I make out the words "papa, papa!"

The Insurrection Act has not been invoked without a state request since 1965, when LBJ invoked it to protect civil rights marchers as they traveled from Selma to Montgomery AL. brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…

Even the LAPD is saying the protests are peaceful and managed (I.e. it is not an uncontrolled insurrection requiring the National Guard) Do you know how fucking out of line you have to be, to be so authoritarian that the LAPD is siding with the protestors?!

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP DECLARES L.A. RESIDENTS TO BE IN “REBELLION AGAINST THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES” This could presage martial law. He’s illegally federalized the Guard and this looks like the pretext he’s waited for. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…