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The Disturbing Return of the Fifth Column

(Foreign Affairs) How Enemies Within—Real and Imagined—Are Influencing Geopolitics In the wake of its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government has carried out a large-scale crackdown against citizens perceived as…

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NEW BOOK: Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns

The invocation of fifth columns in the political arena — whether contrived or based on real fears — has recurred periodically throughout history and is experiencing an upsurge in our…

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Belarus: A Glimmer of Hope?

(Cambridge Core blog) For decades, external observers have dismissed Belarus as a country with a weak or contested national identity and an underdeveloped civil society. Academic articles about the country often…

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Virtual Issue on Belarus from Nationalities Papers

(Nationalities Papers) In a recent interview with Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon, Alyaksandr Lukashenka—President of Belarus since the establishment of this office in 1994—explained why he was the only parliamentarian in Belarus…

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REVIEW: Human Geopolitics States, Emigrants, and the Rise of Diaspora Institutions

(globalcit.eu) Alan Gamlen has written an ambitious and insightful book on the emergence and spread of diaspora management institutions. The empirical puzzle that motivates this book is the slow spread of…

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Nation-Building and the Role of Identity in Civil Wars

(Ethnopolitics) (Co-authored by Kendrick Kuo) Abstract: What is the relationship between politically relevant identities and violent dynamics within civil wars? Civil war scholars over the last decade have studied intra-war dynamics, such as…

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After a decade of crisis, Greek politics are turning normal and more technocratic

(WP Monkey Cage) Greek voters just elected the first government in which a single party won a parliamentary majority since the economic crisis began in 2010. On July 7, a little fewer than…

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The Geopolitics of De Facto States

There are 193 states that are members of the United Nations, but sovereignty in some of them is contested by de facto states, anti-regime guerillas, and stateless nationalist movements. De…

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Nationalism and Foreign Policy

(World Politics) (Co-authored with Kendrick Kuo) Nationalism continues to be an important ideology that informs the way state elites formulate and implement foreign policy. The relationship between nationalism and foreign policy is…

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The Volatile State of Greek Politics

(Foreign Affairs) Every year in early September, Greece kicks off its political season with an address from the prime minister at the start of the Thessaloniki International Fair. This year…

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