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Deborah Avant
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Professor @josefkorble @UofDenver | global politics | climate | technology | security | human rights | democracy | pragmatism. I know, it's a lot. Also ISA, hiking, baking, travel, and #roseistoocute she/her deborahavant.com .. more

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Deborah Denise Avant is an American political scientist and faculty member at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Avant was also the inaugural Director of the university's Sie Cheou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy and is a Distinguished University Professor. In 2015 Professor Avant launched the Journal of Global Security Studies for which she served as Editor-in-Chief until 2020. She was the 2022-2023 president of the International Studies Association. .. more

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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · 3d
USC's reaction is a good start
www.latimes.com/california/s...
USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right
The USC Academic Senate held a special meeting to discuss the Trump administration's education compact, which was presented to the school last week.
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · 3d
Here's hoping @himself.bsky.social is right and universities hold the line.
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Trump's University Compact demonstrates weakness, not strength
The administration would act differently if it were confident
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · 15d
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Lower Than Cowards
The surrender of America’s elites
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · 16d
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...
Opinion | A U.S. Sale Isn’t Enough. Here’s How to Make TikTok Safer.
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · 18d
Yep... though I haven't read it yet.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23d
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 25d
These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.
3:164 • Make five years of payments — $200 million annually - and set up a $172 million fund for people with claims of civil rights violations. • Ensure foreign students who are "anti-Western" will not be admitted. • Pay for all costs of the settlement, including the fee for an outside monitor. • Annually release demographic data for hires as well as students who have applied or have been admitted, broken down by "race, color, grade point average, and performance on standardized tests." • Make a public statement declaring that transgender people's identities are no longer recognized. • End gender-affirming care for minors at medical facilities. • Give the government access to "all UCLA staff, employees, facilities, documents, and data related to the agreement" not protected by attorney-client privilege.
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · 28d
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...
From Scholarship Winner to Wanted Man: The Path of the Kirk Shooting Suspect
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Aug 27
The excerpts I heard from the Cabinet meeting yesterday made me nauseous. @himself.bsky.social made me even more so with this post...I would rather this concept be somewhat less useful.
www.programmablemutter.com/p/short-post...
Short posts on useful concepts I : Flattery Inflation
Grotesque self-abasement can be entirely rational.
www.programmablemutter.com
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Aug 25
As we approach September, I thought I would repost our ad for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Technology and Global Affairs. Interested? Apply by September 15!
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Jul 28
The @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social is searching for a tenure line position in Technology and Global Affairs at the Assistant or Associate level. I am chairing the committee and happy to talk with anyone who is interested. Please share!
jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
Details - Assistant or Associate Professor, Global and Public Affairs - Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs | University of Denver
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Aug 23
Despite the subtitle @dandrezner.bsky.social gives a hopeful look at how Tufts (and I think many universities) are managing in the face of the Trump assault on higher education.
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What It's Like To Be An International Affairs Graduate School Administrator in 2025
Not great, Bob.
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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · Aug 17
It is important that we don't become desensitized to the astonishing level of Trump's profiting from the presidency

It's illegal, of course, but who will stop him?

David D. Kirkpatrick, from the New Yorker, estimates $3.4 Billion in grift. The income sources are in the chart below.
sources of trump profit from presidency
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Aug 14
Exactly. They should be speaking loudly and to their local and state lawmakers as well as to the country as a whole. Universities are important economic engines and screwing them up will affect local and state economies - in addition to national competitiveness.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Aug 14
Today in "You can't unplug 1/4 of the budget of research universities & do the same things, & there doesn't seem to be any backup plan other than to cancel things, & WHERE ARE THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS SPEAKING OUT LOUDLY & COLLECTIVELY ABOUT THIS EXISTENTIAL CRISIS?"

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · Aug 14
The University of Chicago will pause admissions for “a small number” of Ph.D. and master’s programs across several schools amid mounting fiscal pressures.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Aug 14
Today in "You can't unplug 1/4 of the budget of research universities & do the same things, & there doesn't seem to be any backup plan other than to cancel things, & WHERE ARE THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS SPEAKING OUT LOUDLY & COLLECTIVELY ABOUT THIS EXISTENTIAL CRISIS?"

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · Aug 14
The University of Chicago will pause admissions for “a small number” of Ph.D. and master’s programs across several schools amid mounting fiscal pressures.
University of Chicago to pause Ph.D. admissions across several schools
The University of Chicago will pause admissions for “a small number” of Ph.D. and master’s programs across several schools amid mounting fiscal pressures.
www.chicagotribune.com
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Aug 12
Yup, this is the crime spree I wish everyone was paying attention to.
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · Aug 12
The Situation
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · Aug 12
"There is a real out-of-control crime situation in Washington, but it is not the one referred to in the president’s executive order. It is the one he is leading," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org in The Situation.
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · Aug 12
The Situation
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · Aug 12
"There is a real out-of-control crime situation in Washington, but it is not the one referred to in the president’s executive order. It is the one he is leading," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org in The Situation.
The Situation: My Dangerous City
Making Washington Safe Again
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Aug 4
Check out my colleague and co-author, George DeMartino's interview on the Hale Report. He argues that economists need ethics (maybe so do political scientists). Don't give up when things go quiet a minute in, the sound comes back before long!
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Jed Kolko @jedkolko.bsky.social · Aug 1
For six months, I've said that threats to economic data have been more collateral damage than intentional harm.

No longer.

Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Aug 1
I don't know. It seems pretty honest to me. Maybe that is what we need right now...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jul 31
Would love to see media attention to the fact that right of center groups like the Pacific Legal Foundation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have filed briefs in the case opposing Trump’s tariffs.

Counsel in the case @ilyasomin.bsky.social has provided a helpful summary. reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Jul 31
We are! And I am happy to answer questions from any who are interested.
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Naazneen Barma @naazneenbarma.bsky.social · Jul 31
📣 The @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social is searching for a tenure-line assistant or associate professor with a focus on the intersection of technology and global and public affairs — please share widely!
jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
Details - Assistant or Associate Professor, Global and Public Affairs - Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs | University of Denver
jobs.du.edu
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Jul 31
Agreed. The whole post is also interesting but this*aside* is actually a key point.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · Jul 30
This is a *really* interesting aside and I would like to know more.
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Naazneen Barma @naazneenbarma.bsky.social · Jul 31
📣 The @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social is searching for a tenure-line assistant or associate professor with a focus on the intersection of technology and global and public affairs — please share widely!
jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
Details - Assistant or Associate Professor, Global and Public Affairs - Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs | University of Denver
jobs.du.edu
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · Jul 30
This is a *really* interesting aside and I would like to know more.
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Jul 29
For sure!

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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Jul 28
The @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social is searching for a tenure line position in Technology and Global Affairs at the Assistant or Associate level. I am chairing the committee and happy to talk with anyone who is interested. Please share!
jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
Details - Assistant or Associate Professor, Global and Public Affairs - Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs | University of Denver
jobs.du.edu
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Jul 28
I don't think the rigidity of the postwar system was in its liberal DNA, but this is nonetheless a very smart article and I agree that the most optimistic future lies in an embrace of pragmatism and pluralism.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order
A less legalistic system would help protect democracies.
www.foreignaffairs.com
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Jul 24
Whoa.
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Pentagon suspends participation in think tank events
The move comes a week after the Defense Department pulled out of the Aspen Security Forum due to “the evil of globalism.”
www.politico.com
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Jul 23
The most promising avenue...might be a fusion of AOC/Bernie populism with a more political, less technocratic version of abundance.
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
The World Economy Is on the Brink of Epochal Change
Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade. How that turns out depends on enormously consequential political choices.
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · Jul 23
I am generally a supporter of Polis but JFC. This interview. Just be honest. Stop acting like a slime ball. What's wrong with, "I proposed the bridge, survey respondents rejected the idea, I will listen to them"?
coloradosun.com/2025/07/22/j...
Jared Polis vows to chain himself to Colorado Capitol plaza to stop $28 million pedestrian bridge that he proposed
The bridge was the governor’s idea to celebrate the state’s 150th anniversary. But it was panned by lawmakers, historic preservationists and, apparently, the public.
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