Axel Dreher
@adreher.bsky.social
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Professor of International and Development Politics, Editor of RIO. #china, #aid, www.axel-dreher.de.
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The RIO allows manuscripts rejected at APSR, IO, ISQ to be transferred to the RIO (and v.v.). Interested in discussing the draft of RIO’s transfer policy? Share your thoughts and suggstions for improvement: shorturl.at/9jbQb,
@the-peio.bsky.social, @iojournal.bsky.social, @apsrjournal.bsky.social
www.wp.peio.me
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leecrawfurd.bsky.social
Another call for better aid reporting. Axel Dreher says we should distinguish & report separately on:

1. Humanitarian aid
2. Global public goods
3. Development aid

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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adreher.bsky.social
Deadline for PEIO 2026: September 30.
adreher.bsky.social
Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (@the-peio.bsky.social) at IE University in Segovia, Spain, January 29-31, 2026. Submission is now open at peio.me. Thanks to Nikitas Konstantinidis for hosting!
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bschlipphak.bsky.social
Again, a highly interesting and timely paper in @the-peio.bsky.social. Thanks to @benchristian.bsky.social for distributing it! @adreher.bsky.social - is there a way to push ROIO authors to have a bluesky-account? 😉
benchristian.bsky.social
UN funding is under pressure. In a new article @the-peio.bsky.social, my colleagues Alex Tokhi and Lisbeth Zimmermann (@goetheuni.bsky.social) show that the participation of far-right parties in government has significant negative effects on the funding of IOs.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The far right and international organizations: How the far right in government affects foreign aid funding - The Review of International Organizations
The far right is on the rise, winning elections, entering governments globally, and politicizing international cooperation. Existing research finds only very limited effects of far-right governments on international organizations (IOs), however.. We argue that the far right in government undermines IOs by systematically reducing their earmarked funding, as it cannot fully align its anti-migration agenda with the liberal mandates and purposes of most IOs. Using new data on earmarked funding to IOs from 37 OECD donor states between 1990 and 2020, we examine how far-right participation in government affects IO funding. Expanding the data on far-right parties beyond Western Europe, we employ three-way fixed effects and dynamic balancing weights to address both static and dynamic confounding with marginal structural models. Our results show that governments with far-right parties reduce earmarked funding contributions to IOs by almost 30%, without affecting bilateral aid commitments. This suggests that the far right not only politicizes IOs but also attempts to directly undermine their operation when IOs cannot be aligned with their anti-migration agenda.
link.springer.com
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voxeu.org
@adreher.bsky.social, Jingke Pan, & @cjschneider.bsky.social find that in regions receiving foreign aid, targeted killings of politicians are 15-20% higher in the years with aid inflows. Direct cash transfers should be considered in fragile contexts.
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Map of the world by ADM1 regions showing the number of years with targeted political violence in each region, 1990-2020.

Western donors drastically cut foreign aid in 2025, reigniting the familiar debate over whether aid works. This column examines how aid affects targeted political violence, looking at assassinations and attacks against politicians in 121 countries between 1990 and 2020. In regions receiving aid, targeted killings of politicians are 15%-20% higher in the years with aid inflows, especially where institutions are weak and elections are upcoming. Donors should avoid large transfers immediately before elections, consider direct cash transfers in fragile contexts, and incorporate political dynamics in risk assessments.
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CESifo @cesifo.org · Jul 15
New Paper Alert!📢
"Foreign Aid and Targeted Political Violence" by @adreher.bsky.social‬ Jingke Pan @cjschneider.bsky.social

To understand how foreign aid can unintentionally fuel political violence in fragile democracies, read the full study here:
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
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marcdebus.bsky.social
Looking forward to present new research (with @hannaeback.bsky.social and @michaelimre.bsky.social) on the relationship between ideological polarization, coalition governance and the number of party members in the German states at the Sogang Conference on Party Activism and Democracy next week 😊
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epssnet.bsky.social
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

🧵
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lennartkaplan.bsky.social
I look forward to this week's dialogue on a (sadly) timely topic: Sudden aid cuts @langlotzsarah.bsky.social @isdcberlin.bsky.social @adreher.bsky.social @kiel.institute @uni-goettingen.de @fuchsa.bsky.social
3dseminar.bsky.social
On June 26, the 3D Seminar will continue with Angelika Budjan (University of Stuttgart) and Md Abu Bakar Siddiq (Tetra Tech), who will discuss the implications of sudden cuts in international aid for development cooperation and affected communities.

Register at:
listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...
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kaigehring.bsky.social
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2 exciting PreDoc positions in my team at the University of Bern, starting late summer/early fall! Collaborate on cutting-edge research in Political Economy, Development &Behavioral Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
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fuchsa.bsky.social
Study #Development #Economics in #Göttingen! We accept applications for our Master of students with either citizenship or Bachelor from EU/EEA countries until May 15. Info: uni-goettingen.de/en/203661.html. @unigoettingen.bsky.social @agrarunigoe.bsky.social igoe.bsky.social @3dseminar.bsky.social
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miquai.bsky.social
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Salute to the Canadians for putting these ads up in downtown DC, they’re right and they should say it more 🫡
A picture of a bus ad that says “TARIFFS ARE A TAX ON HARDWORKING AMERICANS”
adreher.bsky.social
The Review of International Organizations invites papers using geocoded data on foreign aid for a special issue “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD).” See godad.me, godad.uni-goettingen.de/uploads/RIO_...
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paulgp.com
This is a pretty remarkable set of results. I got fixated on adults in this, since it seems like a big change!

One fact that I discovered by digging into the original reports is that this masks some pretty interesting heterogeneity:

www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
report showing heterogeneity in changes in literacy and numeracy across countries
adreher.bsky.social
The RIO allows manuscripts rejected at APSR, IO, ISQ to be transferred to the RIO (and v.v.). Interested in discussing the draft of RIO’s transfer policy? Share your thoughts and suggstions for improvement: shorturl.at/9jbQb,
@the-peio.bsky.social, @iojournal.bsky.social, @apsrjournal.bsky.social
www.wp.peio.me
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andrew.heiss.phd
I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
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bschlipphak.bsky.social
Thanks to @eu-renew.bsky.social, the main findings of our recent @the-peio.bsky.social article on the link between IO design, cosmopolitan identity and potential domestic effects (uni.ms/m1ckl) are now also available in the format of an audio book: eu-renew.eu/podcast/, ep. 18. Strongly recommended!
Podcast – EU RENEW
eu-renew.eu
adreher.bsky.social
Some thoughts on the suspension of USAID in an interview with @wirtschaftswoche.bsky.social: wiwo.de/politik/ausl... (in German)
WirtschaftsWoche
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