Shelley Liu
@shelleyliu.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of PubPol and PoliSci @ Duke University.
Statebuilding, conflict, development, African politics.
📚: Governing After War (bit.ly/govafterwar)
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Statebuilding, conflict, development, African politics.
📚: Governing After War (bit.ly/govafterwar)
shelleyxliu.com
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After 6 years of work, I am thrilled to introduce "Polarization and Exposure to Cross-Partisan Media in an Electoral Autocracy," with Jeremy Bowles @shelleyliu.bsky.social and Ahmet Akbiyik. We hope you enjoy it! tinyurl.com/TBLLA
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
After 6 years of work, I am thrilled to introduce "Polarization and Exposure to Cross-Partisan Media in an Electoral Autocracy," with Jeremy Bowles @shelleyliu.bsky.social and Ahmet Akbiyik. We hope you enjoy it! tinyurl.com/TBLLA
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After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field & I’m really looking forward to it! 😊
I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.
I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.
June 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field & I’m really looking forward to it! 😊
I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.
I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.
Happy to see this paper finally out! :)
Just published on APSR First View: "Sustaining Exposure to Fact-Checks: Misinformation Discernment, Media Consumption, and Its Political Implications" by Jeremy Bowles, Kevin Croke, Horacio Larreguy, Shelley Liu, and John Marshall. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Happy to see this paper finally out! :)
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Hanson and Kopstein get it. The new right is neither libertarian nor populist: it is corporatist, statist, and it understands Weber's definition of the state as the compulsory organization with a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence within a given territory
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Assault on the Systems That Keep Americans Safe Is Dangerous
Eviscerating modern state institutions almost always clears a path for a different political order, built on loyalties and connections to the ruler.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Hanson and Kopstein get it. The new right is neither libertarian nor populist: it is corporatist, statist, and it understands Weber's definition of the state as the compulsory organization with a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence within a given territory
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...
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What if they just periodically had to sit in their office closets while someone simulated being a shooter in the corridor, like my grade school children do?
“New York state is considering creating a special hotline exclusively for CEOs to report perceived threats”
New Crisis Hotline for CEOs?
Governor of New York wants to protect CEOs
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 16, 2024 at 11:29 PM
What if they just periodically had to sit in their office closets while someone simulated being a shooter in the corridor, like my grade school children do?
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Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one
December 10, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one
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It is pretty crazy how bad US democracy looks right now in comparison with South Korea, or Brazil for that matter. Remember, folks: it’s not the coup attempt, it’s how you respond to it…
December 3, 2024 at 8:06 PM
It is pretty crazy how bad US democracy looks right now in comparison with South Korea, or Brazil for that matter. Remember, folks: it’s not the coup attempt, it’s how you respond to it…
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Now have two complete starter packs for "Africa News, Policy, Business, Econ & History". Starting a thread of all of my Africa starter packs, including more specific ones like, country/region, journalists, academics, media orgs, etc.
Here's the first Africa starter pack: go.bsky.app/BNYnWSJ
Here's the first Africa starter pack: go.bsky.app/BNYnWSJ
November 25, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Now have two complete starter packs for "Africa News, Policy, Business, Econ & History". Starting a thread of all of my Africa starter packs, including more specific ones like, country/region, journalists, academics, media orgs, etc.
Here's the first Africa starter pack: go.bsky.app/BNYnWSJ
Here's the first Africa starter pack: go.bsky.app/BNYnWSJ
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Second Africa Starter Pack
go.bsky.app/LgaSjF9
go.bsky.app/LgaSjF9
November 25, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Second Africa Starter Pack
go.bsky.app/LgaSjF9
go.bsky.app/LgaSjF9
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IMO one of the most significant findings in CP/IR over the last 15 years is that you can either have 1) a coercive apparatus that can repress but not be able to remove the leader or 2) win on the battlefield and be able to remove the leader
But you can't have both
But you can't have both
"Lack of trust in subordinates and reluctance to delegate mark every command level of the Russian military. The Soviet-era practice of waiting for orders to filter down from headquarters...often results in missed opportunities on the battlefield."
www.journalofdemocra...
www.journalofdemocra...
Armies and Autocrats: Why Putin’s Military Failed | Journal of Democracy
When Vladimir Putin launched a massive invasion of Ukraine, he expected an easy victory. Instead, the world has witnessed an object lesson in how a corrupt Russian regime crippled its own military…
www.journalofdemocracy.org
November 30, 2024 at 4:42 PM
IMO one of the most significant findings in CP/IR over the last 15 years is that you can either have 1) a coercive apparatus that can repress but not be able to remove the leader or 2) win on the battlefield and be able to remove the leader
But you can't have both
But you can't have both
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New paper in @apsrjournal.bsky.social with @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, Dominik Hangartner, and Dalston Ward about #immigration and voting for the #FarRight in #Switzerland
November 26, 2024 at 4:11 PM
New paper in @apsrjournal.bsky.social with @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, Dominik Hangartner, and Dalston Ward about #immigration and voting for the #FarRight in #Switzerland
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It's that time of year again... The call for our UCL Conflict & Change PhD Workshop is out! We invite ECRs working on IR, conflict and contentious politics to apply by 8 December. We look forward to having you in London 24-25 February, 2025. Apply here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2025
PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change
conflictandchange.org
November 22, 2024 at 9:27 AM
It's that time of year again... The call for our UCL Conflict & Change PhD Workshop is out! We invite ECRs working on IR, conflict and contentious politics to apply by 8 December. We look forward to having you in London 24-25 February, 2025. Apply here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2025
Full paper now available here! doi.org/10.1086/729947
November 19, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Full paper now available here! doi.org/10.1086/729947
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Re-upping this recent International Security piece about civil war stabilization in a world of much more restricted international peacekeeping for the many new people on here:
Pleased to have this new International Security article w/ Basil Bastaki & Bryan Popoola out in the world. We explore how civil wars can be stabilized or ended when international peacekeeping and other forms of externally-supported peace-building are not plausible:
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Stabilizing Civil Wars without Peacekeeping: Evidence from South Asia
Abstract. Peacekeeping is helpful in resolving civil wars, but there is little chance of peacekeeping operations or other international peace-building interventions for many conflicts. How do internal...
direct.mit.edu
November 16, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Re-upping this recent International Security piece about civil war stabilization in a world of much more restricted international peacekeeping for the many new people on here:
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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Award, for graduate students in their final year, is now open. It's a $25,000 award to facilitate diss write-up. All projects that focus on the causes and/or control of violence welcome. Applications accepted from 1 Nov to 1 Feb 2025.
Details: www.hfg.org
Details: www.hfg.org
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation - HFG
www.hfg.org
November 13, 2024 at 9:56 PM
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Award, for graduate students in their final year, is now open. It's a $25,000 award to facilitate diss write-up. All projects that focus on the causes and/or control of violence welcome. Applications accepted from 1 Nov to 1 Feb 2025.
Details: www.hfg.org
Details: www.hfg.org
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Started a working list of researchers, journalists, and practitioners working on humanitarian aid, peacebuilding/peacekeeping, and development in fragile and conflict-affected settings, please let me know if I missed you or anyone else who should be added! go.bsky.app/BWQc97A
November 12, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Started a working list of researchers, journalists, and practitioners working on humanitarian aid, peacebuilding/peacekeeping, and development in fragile and conflict-affected settings, please let me know if I missed you or anyone else who should be added! go.bsky.app/BWQc97A
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Here is a public policy starter list. Mostly people who are studying the social safety net.
go.bsky.app/6W6j6oS
go.bsky.app/6W6j6oS
November 11, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Here is a public policy starter list. Mostly people who are studying the social safety net.
go.bsky.app/6W6j6oS
go.bsky.app/6W6j6oS
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That US debate focuses more on distant European precedents rather than institutionally and culturally closer forms of Latin American authoritarianism or state failure also indicates which aspects of global history are given more space in US education and which are not.
November 9, 2024 at 2:39 PM
That US debate focuses more on distant European precedents rather than institutionally and culturally closer forms of Latin American authoritarianism or state failure also indicates which aspects of global history are given more space in US education and which are not.
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Two things can be true at the same time:
1. Many people will suffer much pain in the coming years.
2. The election results are not the end of democracy, and it's a political mistake to announce they are (since then, nothing matters). Dems should prepare for a fight to win back the House in 2026.
1. Many people will suffer much pain in the coming years.
2. The election results are not the end of democracy, and it's a political mistake to announce they are (since then, nothing matters). Dems should prepare for a fight to win back the House in 2026.
November 9, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Two things can be true at the same time:
1. Many people will suffer much pain in the coming years.
2. The election results are not the end of democracy, and it's a political mistake to announce they are (since then, nothing matters). Dems should prepare for a fight to win back the House in 2026.
1. Many people will suffer much pain in the coming years.
2. The election results are not the end of democracy, and it's a political mistake to announce they are (since then, nothing matters). Dems should prepare for a fight to win back the House in 2026.
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So excited to get a copy. Congrats @shelleyliu.bsky.social!
April 16, 2024 at 12:41 AM
So excited to get a copy. Congrats @shelleyliu.bsky.social!
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My paper with @karinkitchens.bsky.social, “Explaining Variation in Political Leadership by Marginalized Groups: Black Officeholding and 'Contraband Camps'" is now forthcoming @thejop.bsky.social. Abstract is below, and you can read it in full here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A brief summary:
A brief summary:
January 22, 2024 at 2:27 PM
My paper with @karinkitchens.bsky.social, “Explaining Variation in Political Leadership by Marginalized Groups: Black Officeholding and 'Contraband Camps'" is now forthcoming @thejop.bsky.social. Abstract is below, and you can read it in full here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A brief summary:
A brief summary:
📚🚨 My book, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding", will be out on Feb 22 and avail for pre-order! bit.ly/govafterwar
❓: how does rebel governance & social control shape rebel victors' post-war strategies for consolidating power?
❓: how does rebel governance & social control shape rebel victors' post-war strategies for consolidating power?
January 22, 2024 at 7:16 PM
📚🚨 My book, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding", will be out on Feb 22 and avail for pre-order! bit.ly/govafterwar
❓: how does rebel governance & social control shape rebel victors' post-war strategies for consolidating power?
❓: how does rebel governance & social control shape rebel victors' post-war strategies for consolidating power?
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I've always liked this by @pstaniland.bsky.social. It's about lessons from S. Asia for US in Afghanistan. But it is helpful for thinking about the Gaza war and the deep political contradictions of a democracy engaging in state/nation building in the 21st century.
foreignpolicy.com/2009/11/24/c...
foreignpolicy.com/2009/11/24/c...
Counterinsurgency is a bloody, costly business
By Paul Staniland The current conventional wisdom on counterinsurgency (COIN) focuses on simultaneously building a strong state and creating mass legitimacy for the government. Gen.…
foreignpolicy.com
December 25, 2023 at 2:58 PM
I've always liked this by @pstaniland.bsky.social. It's about lessons from S. Asia for US in Afghanistan. But it is helpful for thinking about the Gaza war and the deep political contradictions of a democracy engaging in state/nation building in the 21st century.
foreignpolicy.com/2009/11/24/c...
foreignpolicy.com/2009/11/24/c...