EU Parliament's top group suggests blacklisting Switzerland after Credit Suisse leaks reut.rs/3p5OJk5

What every nationalist in Eastern Europe does (and I have seen it many times) is this: take any point in history when your country controlled most territory. Make this point "normal" or "right". Proceed to argue that any other point is an anomaly that ought to be corrected.

How long can Russia endure Western sanctions? A THREAD based on my research on the political economy of Russian grand strategy. Data from World Bank, IMF and Russian Ministry of Finance. 1/

If we want to end this conflict quickly, we need to give Russia an off-ramp, beyond just the hope that sanctions will be cancelled. If they get rid of Putin and make a durable peace with Ukraine, we should implement a Marshall plan for Russia. noahpinion.substack.com/p/beyond-sanct…

Interview for the Bulgarian National Television БНТ about the situation in #Bosnia. We talked about the reasons behind the ongoing #political crisis and what could come out of it. The talk is dubbed into Bulgarian language. bntnews.bg/news/ima-li-op…

Glad to learn I was selected for participation in and funding for the mini-conference on subnational election data organized by APSA on Sept. 14 in Montreal. Great opportunity to discuss ongoing projects and a nice present for my birthday which is on the exact same day. :)

Session three participants, instructors and staff had a great time walking the #Wivenhoe trail last night on the way to the pub run! #ESS2022 🌳☀️🍺

When Putin announced the mobilization of 300k reservists — and maybe 1.2 mln — many began asking how long it would take for Russians to rise up in resistance. What Twitter and the commentariat want to know now is why that resistance hasn't come. A very, very long 🧵. /1

Three years after graduating from Universiteit Leiden, the ceremony interrupted by covid finally took place. We got the chance to sign our names in the ‘Sweat Room”, right next to those of Churchill’s and Mandela’s. The cherry on top of what was the best formative experience of my life.

Every time I see people bragging that America's economy is doing better than other rich countries, I inwardly cringe. Those are our friends and allies, and their economic struggles are a huge problem for the U.S. noahpinion.blog/p/economic-los…

The publication of my first PhD paper on Local Ethnic Demography and Ethnonationalist Voting (from interwar Yugoslavia). Happy to see it out! I also had a great editorial experience with the Nationalism and Ethnic Politics journal. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

democracy was never made to withstand this combination of money and disinformation.

It's a wrap! THANK YOU to our great participants and discussants for making our 8th Workshop a success! Shoutout to Anna-Lena Hönig (@annalenahoenig.bsky.social) @kpaula__ @Fabi0Sch Evgenija Kroeker and Bastian Gruschwitz for organising and HfPMuenchen TU München Uni Konstanz Department of Politics & Public Admіn for hosting/supporting us!

My basic piece of advice to young people is: E-commerce. Buy and sell stuff over the internet at a young age. Clothes, collectibles, designer drugs...whatever. It will give you more confidence than winning any football trophy or math competition.

The talk in Europe is “how to get a seat at the table.” Respectfully, that’s the wrong question. The right question is, “how can Europe build a new table.”

americans voted to end globalization. the man they voted for is trying hard to give it to them. democracy is working as intended.

I know no one listens to rational arguments or cares about actual economics, but anyway...TRADE DEFICITS DO NOT MAKE A COUNTRY POORER noahpinion.blog/p/trade-defici…

🚨 We’ve released the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data and Assemblies (AIEEDA) 🗳️ 25 European democracies, 1919–1939: party positions, cabinet formation, elections (and subnational geo-coded data for 6 countries) 1/2 ⬇️

I miss being lost and wasting time