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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · Aug 18

New paper out in @fpajrnl.bsky.social - tldr: Recipient leadership turnover does not affect the continuation of existing international arms transfers relationships. In the paper, I discuss why this is surprising and how we can make sense of it.

FPA Journal @fpajrnl.bsky.social · Aug 15

Does leadership turnover in recipient states reduce arms orders from previous suppliers? Mehrl (2025) finds no empirical evidence that it does.
academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

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FPA Journal @fpajrnl.bsky.social · Aug 10

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
Risse (2025) shows that democracies consistently support conventional arms control but back nuclear arms control only when resolutions are co-sponsored by other democracies.
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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · Jun 17

Well, turns out the deadline was extended until 20 June - 3 more days to submit! www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · Jun 12

Co-organsing a workshop on "“Defining, Measuring, Investigating, and Predicting Solidarity and International Solidarity” here and still open for submissions!

BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jun 11

🌟We are still open for papers for our BISA-ISA Joint International Conference 2025! 🌟

'Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities'

Submit now 👉 buff.ly/hVecwF2

@eeeswg.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social @ipegbisa.bsky.social @gnobisa.bsky.social

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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · May 14

Happy to have been a small part of this!

Journal of Peace Research @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social · May 12

New publication alert! The article on the 2023/24 VIEWS Prediction Challenge is now out in JPR.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · May 13

"The government's argument sounds plausible. There's just one problem. It doesn't fit the facts. And the government knows it."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s only one problem with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes

The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes

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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · Mar 11

Currently in FirstView: “Exponential Random Graph Models for Dynamic Signed Networks: An Application to International Relations” by @corneliusfritz.bsky.social, @mehrl.bsky.social, Paul Thurner, and Göran Kauermann. The authors propose the Signed Exponential Random Graph Model (SERGM).

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Jan 17

There are new #OpenAccess articles from @polanalysis.bsky.social available on the journal's #FirstView page -

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Inc. papers by @tara-slough.bsky.social, @devincaughey.bsky.social, @mehrl.bsky.social, @olsisblue.bsky.social, @corneliusfritz.bsky.social, @pkoc.bsky.social & and more

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · Feb 16

Foreign Legionnaires and Military Mutinies | Journal of @journalofgss.bsky.social
Abel Escribà-Folch Christopher Faulkner @mehrl.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...

Foreign Legionnaires and Military Mutinies

Abstract. The composition of the armed forces is, by now, well established as a major factor determining the risk of coups d’état. However, military discon

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Journal of Global Security Studies @journalofgss.bsky.social · Feb 18

How does recruiting foreign nationals into the armed forces impact mutiny risk? 🤔 The answer isn’t simple! 💡Read the research by Abel Escribà-Folch, Christopher Faulkner, and @mehrl.bsky.social to uncover the complex dynamics at play.

🔍 Read their open-access article here: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

The cover image of The Journal of Global Security Studies appears on the left. At the bottom of the image, the journal's homepage URL (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and BlueSky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) are displayed in white text on a navy blue background. The main background features an image of a tank with smoke. This is overlaid with the article title and author name(s): “Foreign Legionnaires and Military Mutinies” by Abel Escribà-Folch, Christopher Faulkner, and Marius Mehrl.

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Conflict Management and Peace Science @conflictmanagement.bsky.social · Apr 22

Spring is arriving (at least where we are), and so is CMPS issue 41(3), featuring six articles on the effects of UNHRC shaming and of civilian victimization, rough terrain insurgency, public attitudes on sanctions, airpower, and piracy. Articles are here:

Conflict Management and Peace Science - Volume 41, Number 3, May 01, 2024

Table of contents for Conflict Management and Peace Science, 41, 3, May 01, 2024

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · Mar 14

My 2021 book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship is now published as a paperback w/ Oxford University Press.

To celebrate I will put everyone who reposts this before March 21 into a random drawing & send the winner a free copy anywhere they happen to be in the world.

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Conflict Management and Peace Science @conflictmanagement.bsky.social · Mar 5

Did you know that in addition to regular articles, CMPS also publishes two other types of articles?

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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · Feb 20

Also, feels right to point to Ioannis' and my companion paper in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, where we study how secret police affect levels of state repression.

Secret Police Organizations and State Repression - Marius Mehrl, Ioannis Choulis, 2023

Secret police are generally viewed as key institutions in autocrats’ repression apparatus. However, we lack clear empirical evidence on the link between secret ...

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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · Feb 20

The paper is online now, get in touch in case you cannot access it.

Preventing Dissent: Secret Police and Protests in Dictatorships | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · Feb 20

Very happy to see "Preventing Dissent: Secret Police and Protests in Dictatorships" now published as a "just accepted" paper in @thejop.bsky.social! It's joint work with Ioannis Choulis and Abel Escribà Folch, examining how the presence of secret police organisations affects protests.

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Conflict Management and Peace Science @conflictmanagement.bsky.social · Feb 13

CMPS issue 41(2) is now available at journals.sagepub.com/toc/cmpb/41/2 and we are starting up threads summarizing our issues here on bsky! Issue 41(2) is a special issue on “New Research on Leaders and Peace Science”, edited by @jeffcarter.bsky.social.

Conflict Management and Peace Science - Volume 41, Number 2, Mar 01, 2024

Table of contents for Conflict Management and Peace Science, 41, 2, Mar 01, 2024

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Conflict Management and Peace Science @conflictmanagement.bsky.social · Jan 2

Happy 2024! CMPS is now also on bsky, and we will have some exciting news and content here.

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Sarah Langlotz @langlotzsarah.bsky.social · Dec 6

Call for papers: The 23rd Jan Tinbergen Peace Science
Conference
17-19 June, 2024, Dublin City University, Ireland

Abstracts (max. 300 words) with a tentative title must be submitted via portal.europeanpeacescientists.org by December 31, 2023.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · Nov 30

Too often, the data that we use in Social Science research is pretty dodgy. May that be because of poor sampling, measurement problems, nonresponse, etc. So we either reject it or use it and hope for the best (maybe add a few caveats in our discussion).

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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · Nov 16

Thank you Salah!

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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · Nov 16

Thank you Sharan!

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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · Nov 16

Thank you Elizabeth! And also, thank you for creating this dataset in the first place, really a great resource to systematically study legionnaires.

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Marius Mehrl @mehrl.bsky.social · Nov 15

New paper with Abel Escribà Folch, studying the logic of autocrats' recruiting foreign legionnaires, out in Democratization. Legionnaire recruitment is associated with increased personalization and decreases the risk of coup attempts and mass protests. Available open access!

The dictator’s legionnaires: foreign recruitment, coups, and uprisings

Several countries recruit foreign nationals into their armed forces. This is despite the norm of citizen armies and the strong idea that individuals join the military to defend their home country w...

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