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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks for having us - hope your listeners and readers enjoy it!

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Andrej Matisak @matisaksk.bsky.social · 2h

Many thanks to @alexdukalskis.bsky.social & Alexander Cooley for a very interesting debate about their book - Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech

by @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social via @jhuartssciences.bsky.social press (2025)

#AutumnReading

Authoritarians in the Academy

How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech

www.press.jhu.edu

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 2d

This is gross from Marco Rubio’s state department. Other agencies have neutral messages on their websites. This was a choice.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 2d

Join us later this week!

Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 5d

If you're in Dublin next week come join me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social at the Institute of International & European Affairs (IIEA) on Thursday where we'll talk about our new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

Details: www.iiea.com/images/uploa...

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 4d

I wanted to share some of the sources and inspirations for my new @jodemocracy.bsky.social essay this week on transnational repression. Like with anything, there are citations but then there's also stuff that doesn't make it into the piece

www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the...

The Golden Age of Transnational Repression | Journal of Democracy

Authoritarian regimes are targeting exiles and diaspora communities in more places than ever before. Activists, journalists, and regular people living abroad must watch their backs…

www.journalofdemocracy.org

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 5d

If you're in Dublin next week come join me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social at the Institute of International & European Affairs (IIEA) on Thursday where we'll talk about our new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

Details: www.iiea.com/images/uploa...

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 6d

New social media bio just dropped:

“respected member of the EU press corps”

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 6d

And the winner is @krisruijgrok.bsky.social !

Kris - email me your postal address and I’ll get a copy in the post next week.

Thanks to everyone who spread the word!

If you didn’t win the drawing please consider grabbing yourself a copy.

Now released world-wide!

Details:

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 7d

Been waiting for this piece by @nateschenkkan.bsky.social

Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 7d

New today: my essay in @jodemocracy.bsky.social on The Golden Age of Transnational Repression: www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the...

The Golden Age of Transnational Repression | Journal of Democracy

Authoritarian regimes are targeting exiles and diaspora communities in more places than ever before. Activists, journalists, and regular people living abroad must watch their backs…

www.journalofdemocracy.org

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 8d

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 23d

Author copies for

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!

If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 9d

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 8d

All from accounts with blue ticks and names like “the real China story” or “Bob in China” or “Uyghur stories”

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 8d

I know everyone here hates Twitter because of the owner the US/Euro politics on it but when I occasionally go there the “for me” feed is constant pro-Beijing propaganda. Every other post is “everything is great in Tibet” or “the western media is biased against China” or “life in China is amazing”

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UCD Politics and International Relations @ucdpolitics.bsky.social · 9d

SPIRe's Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social talked about his new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics on the RTE Behind the Story podcast this weekend.

Check it out here: www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

Podcast: Rising authoritarianism, Kneecap and Eurovision

An expert in international relations has told RTÉ's Behind the Story podcast it is "extremely alarming" that Donald Trump has the full force of the US government behind him for another three years.

www.rte.ie

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks!

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 9d

Looking forward to this!

Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 23d

Author copies for

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!

If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 9d

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 10d

The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West

by @shaunwalker7.bsky.social (2025)

#AutumnReading

The Illegals - Profile Books

profilebooks.com

Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 10d

“In 2025, the weakest link in Ukraine’s defences still lies in the minds of its western friends.”

Why Ukraine is winning the war

Russia has failed to achieve its core aim — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation

www.ft.com

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 11d

And here’s a write-up:

Podcast: Rising authoritarianism, Kneecap and Eurovision

An expert in international relations has told RTÉ's Behind the Story podcast it is "extremely alarming" that Donald Trump has the full force of the US government behind him for another three years.

www.rte.ie

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 11d

I gave up trying to understand Irish politics. I focus on the easy stuff like North Korea.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 11d

Yep. And that assessment is wrong.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 11d

“In terms of militarisation and economic subordination to war aims, it is Putin’s Russia — not today’s Germany — that most closely resembles the dictator-led expansionism of the 1930s”

- @donnachadcu.bsky.social

Academics disagree with Catherine Connolly's 'German militarisation' comments

History and politics professors say foreign aggression was behind the rearmament under Adolf Hitler, while defence against Russian aggression was the purpose of Germany's current spending increase

www.irishexaminer.com

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