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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 1d

Just two more days to apply! ⬇️ @iirprague.bsky.social

Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 9d

📢 Job opportunity: Postdoctoral Researcher!

Join the @iirprague.bsky.social INTERFER team and delve into foreign interference research with a focus on technology.

💼 Full-time position until Dec 2028
💶 64,600 CZK gross/month + travel funds
🗓 Apply by 12 Oct 👉 www.prcprague.cz/news/2025/9/...

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · 18d

Now with an issue number: Check out our article (w/ D. Finke) @psrm.bsky.social on states‘ positions in UNGA 1st Comm. speeches: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Using a new combination of 3 methods, we find 2 latent conflicts: one on conventional arms, one on WMD.
#armscontrol
#polisky
#conflictsky
#nukesky

Multidimensional conflicts over disarmament and international security: analyzing speeches in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Multidimensional conflicts over disarmament and international security: analyzing speeches in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly - Volume 13 Issue 4

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · 18d

📢 My last PhD paper is out in Legislative Studies Quarterly 📢

📌 Main finding
➡️ Party control of speaking time in parliament limits MPs’ geographical focus
➡️ Open access increases constituency representation

🔗 Read it open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Lorenzo Crippa @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social · 26d

Very happy to have this one with @patrickbayer.bsky.social and @fgenovese.bsky.social accepted in @psrm.bsky.social! We show that, without unambiguous policy commitments, stock markets will not stir capital away from fossil fuel and towards renewable energy investments.

More info in the thread!

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 @patrickbayer.bsky.social, @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social and I have a paper entitled “Energy Transition, Financial Markets and EU Interventionism: Lessons from the Ukraine Crisis” cond. accepted at @psrm.bsky.social.

Text: federica-genovese.com/downloads/Ba...

Gist of the paper in this 🧵 :

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"Energy Transition, Financial Markets and EU Interventionism:
Lessons from the Ukraine Crisis" by Patrick Bayer, Lorenzo Crippa and Federica Genovese

A successful energy transition requires the reallocation of private capital away from fossil fuel assets to greener alternatives. This transition is typically hindered by investors’ focus on today’s returns. In times of crisis, however, credible and unambiguous political signals about the future profitability of green industries can steer investments towards low-carbon assets. Drawing on European Union interventions during the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we present an event study of daily stock market returns following the most salient policy announcements by the European Commission in 2022. Our analysis shows that markets for shares of EU-based energy firms were initially prepared to move capital to cleaner companies, suggesting support for the clean energy transition. However, the short-lived distributional effects materialized only for announcements that could unmistakably be understood as unwavering commitments to the EU’s green renewal, while more ambiguous announcements did not have the same distributional implications. Our findings emphasize that repeated and unambiguous political signals during crisis episodes can create favorable market conditions, at least in the short-term, to support capital reallocation towards greener stocks.

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Aug 9

🚨 Just published: the first global quantitative study on the relationship between democracy and state support for arms control from @tobiasrisse.bsky.social!

➡️ Read the full article here (open access): academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

@ims.fsv.cuni.cz @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz

Democracy and State Support for Arms Control

Abstract. This article presents the first global quantitative study of the relationship between states’ level of liberal democracy and their support for ar

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · Aug 7

🚨 Publication alert @fpajrnl.bsky.social

In this article, I examine how democracy affects states' arms control preferences. I find that democracy facilitates support for conventional, but not nuclear arms control. For more info, see abstract below or full article: academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

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Christoph Valentin Steinert @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social · Jul 18

Due diligence laws make firms liable for human rights violations and environmental damage in their supply chains. But the business lobby heavily criticizes these laws because of the required bureaucracy and potential compliance costs, which may create economic disadvantages. (1/5)

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Christoph Valentin Steinert @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social · Jul 15

How does filing complaints to the United Nations affect the human rights situation of civil society organizations? To learn more about this question, check out our publication (with the fantastic Hannah Smidt) in the British Journal of Political Science. (1/8)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Jun 20

New research alert! 🚨

@tobiasrisse.bsky.social just published an article in
@intlinteractions.bsky.social on the topic of interstate rivalry, major power status, and state support for arms control.

🌎 He argues that rivalries with major powers decrease non-major powers’ support for arms control.

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · Jun 16

Out now @intlinteractions.bsky.social:
In my new article, I find that rivalries with major powers tend to decrease minor powers' support for arms control. Why? See abstract below 👇 or here for the full article: doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2025.2518394

#armscontrol
#conflictsky
#polisky 🗺

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · Apr 4

Congrats! 🤗🤗

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · Feb 25

🚨🚨🚨 Publication alert!

Out now at @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social:

"Political Representation as Communicative Practice"

together with Fabio Wolkenstein. We ask: What is political representation & how should we study it?

⬇️ Download for free for 13 days! 🧵On what you can expect👇

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Valentin Daur @valentindaur.bsky.social · Jan 30

How will voters react to CDU shifting away from its strict "no collaboration"-stance toward AfD? During my PhD, I sought to answer this question. Sooner than I had hoped, it is no longer mostly hypothetical. A thread… (1/6)
doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond

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Enzo Nussio @enzonussio.bsky.social · Jan 17

Closing in two weeks:

2 open positions in my new consolidator project "Decades of Peace" at the University of Zurich @ipz.bsky.social funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social, focusing on Latin America.

PhD position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:e32a...

Postdoc position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:94e1...

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · Jan 3

Now with an issue number: Check out my article @conflictmanagement.bsky.social on civil war and state support for conventional arms control 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0738...

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · Dec 29

Thanks 😊

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · Dec 10

Check out this brilliant and important study by my friend and co-author @valentindaur.bsky.social 👇

Valentin Daur @valentindaur.bsky.social · Dec 10

🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨
Excited to share that my article has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social!

It examines voter responses to mainstream party legitimization of (former) pariah parties.

A thread 👇1/n...
doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond

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Valentin Daur @valentindaur.bsky.social · Nov 28

🚨 Job Alert 🚨: Postdoc Opportunity @ LMU Munich!

Join the ERC-funded CIVILSPACE project. We're looking for a postdoc with:
📊 Experience in survey experiments
🤝 Interest in civil society, non-profit, organization or interest group research

⏰ Application deadline: December 8, 2024

Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x)

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · Nov 13

Could you please add me? 😊

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · Oct 14

🚨🚨🚨 Very happy to share that my paper w/ Daniel Finke on states' rhetorical positions in the UNGA First Committee is out @psrm.bsky.social. We analyze speeches by combining 3 automated text-analytic methods in a novel way. See abstract below, or here: doi.org/10.1017/psrm... #polisky #conflictsky

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · Apr 2

Now with an issue number: Check out my article on external threats and state support for arms control in the Journal of Peace Research 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
#polisky
#conflictsky

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Christoph Valentin Steinert @chrisvsteinert.bsky.social · Mar 27

Are international human rights bodies remedies for elites? My new study shows that socio-economic elites are more likely to file complaints to UN human rights bodies, while marginalized groups from low-income countries are underrepresented (1/7) academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Elitist Remedies? Complaint Resources and Representation in International Human Rights Bodies

Abstract. This article investigates determinants of representation in international human rights bodies. It is argued that socioeconomic factors shape whet

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Tobias Risse @tobiasrisse.bsky.social · Jan 23

My paper "Civil war and state support for conventional arms control" is now available at @conflictmanagement.bsky.social. It explores the relationship between, well, civil war and state support for conventional arms control. See below for the abstract and here for the paper: doi.org/10.1177/0738...

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