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International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Aug 7

Check out new OPEN ACCESS research from @chrauh regarding perceptions of the EU as political actor:
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International recognition of European Union “actorness”: Language-based evidence from United Nations general debate speeches 1970–2020

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · Jul 16

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?

My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · Jul 16

➡️ Bottom line: Recognition of EU actorness is hardly global and rather mirrors power and value-based conflicts in the international system.

📖 For more detail & context read the full open-access article here: dx.doi.org/10.1080/0305...

The European Union is often portrayed as a global actor that is said to wield ‘economic’ or even ‘normative’ power. Such perspectives presume that states in the international system recognize EU ‘a...

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International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Aug 7

Cool new OPEN ACCESS research on the impact of non-military aid on recipient capabilities by Marco Binetti www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Leader visits and nuclear pursuit

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International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Jul 12

In this new paper, Youngsang Lee shows how US presidential visits can slow the pursuit of nuclear proliferation.
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How can nuclear pursuits be effectively reduced? Existing research primarily focuses on traditional policy instruments such as security guarantees and coercion, despite their inherent limitations. ...

You’re the one I want: Substitutability, policy preference divergence, and the cost of multilateral sanctions

International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Jul 12

Love the musical Grease and Sanctions? Well, if so this new paper by @peiyuwei.bsky.social‬ on substitutability and multilateral sanctions will be the ONE that YOU WANT www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Under what conditions do sanction-sending states choose to form coalitions? Do the same determinants that affect military sanction coalition formation affect how coercive economic coalitions are fo...

Over the long horizon: Party institutionalization and antidumping trade remedies

International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Jul 12

Sick of all tariffs in the news? Tyler Coleman explores non-tariff barriers in his new paper and asks what impact do domestic politics have on the use of non-tariff barriers?

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International political economy scholarship has documented that non-traditional barriers to international trade have proliferated since the 1970s. Contemporary explanations attribute these trends t...

International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Jun 19

Check out cool new work by @tobiasrisse.bsky.social on rivalries and arms control!

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 🗺

To punish or to reward? The effect of sanction threats on public opinion

International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Jun 19

How do individuals respond to the threat of economic sanctions? Using a survey experiment in Turkiye, @efetokdemir.bsky.social, Menevis Cilizoglu, Omer Zarpli explore how targeted publics respond to sanctions threats.
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How do individuals respond to the threat of economic sanctions? Under what conditions do the target population demand policy concessions, and when do they rally behind their beleaguered leader? We ...

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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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Susan Hannah Allen @ladyprofessor.bsky.social · Jun 12

@intlinteractions.bsky.social Congrats!!!

Political Networks @politicalnetworks.bsky.social · Jun 12

🏆 Congratulations to Weidong Zhang for winning the 2025 Best Conference Paper Award for "The Importance of Money and Connections: Explaining International Status from UNGA Draft Sponsorship Networks," published in International Interactions @weidong.bsky.social

Quantifying women’s rights naming and shaming: A novel text-as-data approach

International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Jun 12

Can we measure naming and shaming? @ghashiakiyani.bsky.social @yuanzhouir.bsky.social & Charles Crabtree show us how in www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This research note introduces a novel methodology for quantifying naming and shaming practices in the context of women’s rights, utilizing a corpus of 10,760 human rights reports from the US State ...

Hegemonic shocks and patterns of secession

International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Jun 12

How do major geopolitical shocks shape state birth? A new article finds that great power shocks (like WWI, WWII, Cold War’s end) spark secessionist “bubbles”—many new bids for independence, few successes. @KyungwonSuh @RyeGriffiths & @SevaUT www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Studies of secession typically focus on domestic factors that produce independence movements, such as the role of ethnic divides or the concentration of material resources. But motivations for sece...

Is trade the enemy of environment?: Congressional voting on environmental policies after the China shock

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International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · May 24

How does a sudden increase in imports affect support for environmental policies? There is some evidence that an increase in import competition can lead to more pro-environmental votes in the US. Why? To find out more, check out new work by @rgpark.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How does trade competition affect support for environmental protection? On the one hand, import shocks can dampen support for environmental protection, as international trade can lead to a race to ...

Introducing the tracking of terrorist organization splintering (totos) dataset

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International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · May 22

How do we know when terror splinter groups will survive? 🐕‍🦺TOTOS🐕‍🦺 and Wendland have answers! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What explains why some splinter groups are highly violent, capable, and durable, while others are not? Although existing scholarship provides important insights into the causes and consequences of ...

Credit claims and the survival rates of terrorist organizations

International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · May 22

Do terrorist groups that actively claim credit for their violence thrive? @ilaydaonder.bsky.social and Nazli Avdan and Aaron Hoffman explore this question in a new paper in II! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This study investigates the relationship between terrorist credit claims and government counterterrorism efforts, focusing on the impact of claims on group survival. Using data from the Extended Da...

Women Suicide Terrorism: The Strategic and Tactical Logic of Civilian Killings

International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · May 22

Do female suicide terrorists choose different targets? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A growing body of research indicates that women are increasingly involved in suicide attacks. These studies suggest that women, due to their seemingly innocent appearance, can more effectively targ...

Blame Games in Cyberspace: How Foreign Cues Shape Public Opinion on Cyber Attribution and Retribution

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Marcelo M. Leal @mleal.bsky.social · May 12

Do allies and adversaries shape U.S. views on cyber attribution? In a new paper at @intlinteractions.bsky.social, I show that allies’ endorsements boost Americans' trust in attribution and support for retribution, while adversary denials produce limited and inconsistent effects.

Conflicting narratives about who is responsible for a cyberattack are often thought to create uncertainty about the aggressor’s identity, which in turn could lead to greater restraint in state resp...

A Public Demand Theory of Economic Sanctions

International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · May 1

Does public demand for economic sanctions exist? If so, what factors shape this demand? Check out this new paper by @claywebb.bsky.social & Cora Caton www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A number of theories about the effectiveness, design, and targeting of economic sanctions highlight public perceptions of economic sanctions as an important factor influencing foreign policy decisi...

Unpacking Urban (Dis)Continuities of Postwar Violence

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Emma Elfversson @emmaelfversson.bsky.social · Apr 24

Which cities become arenas for violent contestation after war? Me and @rokon-uddin.bsky.social study this question in a newly published article in @intlinteractions.bsky.social. A key takeaway: Postwar urban violence is not just a continuation of war. doi.org/10.1080/0305... (1/5)

Which cities become arenas for violent contestation after war? A growing literature has documented how conflict-related violence often continues after the formal end of armed conflict, and also tha...

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International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Apr 16

How low can you go?? Do warring countries gain anything from low credibility false flag operations? Dov Levin explores these ideas in a new article in International Interactions.

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How Low Can You Go? The Effects of Low Credibility False Flag Incidents on International and Domestic Approval for Interstate Wars1

What are the international and domestic effects of low credibility false flag incidents? One way in which wars occasionally start (as in the case of the 2022 Ukraine war) is with false flag inciden...

Never fear to negotiate? Talks and rally effects

International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Mar 27

Do leaders get a rally effect bump in public opinion for negotiations? Matthew Fehrs explores the impact of Cold War negotiations for US presidents.

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Research on the concept of “rallying around the flag” has focused on the potential benefits for leaders under certain conditions of conflict. What has gone underexplored is whether leaders receive ...

Are Foreign Firms Good for the Environment? FDI and Protected Areas

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International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Mar 23

Are Foreign Firms Good for the Environment? Ana Carolina Garriga & Muzhou Zhang focus on protected areas to explore how FDI might affect biodiversity.
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Despite the coexistence of three trends—increased economic integration, a dramatic reduction in biodiversity, and the implementation of national policies to reduce extinction risks—we know little a...

Corruption Among Government Security Forces and Sexual Violence Against Civilians

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International Interactions @intlinteractions.bsky.social · Mar 19

Does corruption within the police & military increase the likelihood that government security forces will be associated with sexual violence against civilians?Margaret Adelia Avera says YES! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does corruption within the police and military increase the likelihood that government security forces will be associated with sexual violence against civilians? I conduct a cross-national analysis...