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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · 22h

Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis #QCA is now on #YouTube. 📺 Thanks to everyone at #ISA @isanet.bsky.social for making this possible! 🙏

Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · 22h

Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis #QCA is now on #YouTube. 📺 Thanks to everyone at #ISA @isanet.bsky.social for making this possible! 🙏

Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

YouTube video by International Studies Association (ISA)

www.youtube.com

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats, Steve, Phil, and David! I'm glad to see this is out, but I wouldn't have minded if it weren't frighteningly timely. 😱

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 19d

Today's violation of Estonia's airspace by Russian military aircraft is an extremely dangerous provocation.

This marks the third such violation of EU airspace in days and further escalates tensions in the region.

The EU stands in full solidarity with Estonia (1/2)

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks for the wonderful turnout for this event: 86 people from 27 countries! 🌐🎉 The #QCA recording will be made available by @isanet.bsky.social via their channels.

Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · 27d

Social and political phenomena rarely have single-cause explanations. Qualitative Comparative Analysis #QCA offers a structured approach to causal complexity. On Sep 17, @isanet.bsky.social hosts a free virtual introduction to the method of #QCA - sign up here: buff.ly/fMK5s2L

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 22d

History has focused on Watergate, but many people are unaware that the second article of impeachment against Nixon was for his abuse of "the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies," as John Dean put it in the famous memo.

An image of John Dean's memo titled "Dealing with our Political Enemies."

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · 27d

Social and political phenomena rarely have single-cause explanations. Qualitative Comparative Analysis #QCA offers a structured approach to causal complexity. On Sep 17, @isanet.bsky.social hosts a free virtual introduction to the method of #QCA - sign up here: buff.ly/fMK5s2L

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · 27d

Social and political phenomena rarely have single-cause explanations. Qualitative Comparative Analysis #QCA offers a structured approach to causal complexity. On Sep 17, @isanet.bsky.social hosts a free virtual introduction to the method of #QCA - sign up here: buff.ly/fMK5s2L

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International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social · 28d

In #IR, #Social & #Political phenomena rarely have a straightforward explanation. Join us for a seminar on Qualitative Comparative Analysis, a structured approach to understanding these complexities, and learn how to apply these methods to your own #Research in #InternationalStudies: buff.ly/fMK5s2L

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · 28d

Nun auch in gedruckter Form: der ZfP-Sonderband (Janusch/Dörfler) zur Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie. Mein Beitrag aus außenpolitischer Perspektive ist hier frei zugänglich: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Sep 7

So much flows from this core mistake to not prosecute Trump for insurrection in spring 2021. By the time they changed course it was too late. Media and public attention had moved on from Jan 6. And Trump had begun to reassemble Republican support.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · Aug 28

Luckovich on orange cabinet meetings in 2017 and 2025. It's the same obsequiousness on display to cosplay government and provide reality TV sound bites to the orange ego and the faithful. Editorial cartoonists cut it to the essence.

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · Aug 15

An intensive week of #QCA at the 29th ‪@usi.ch Summer School comes to a close. It was a pleasure to be working with such a motivated group! Good luck with all your #QCA projects!

Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · Aug 10

Back again.

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨 Last chance to register this week 👇

Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · Mar 25

Want to learn #QCA in presence? Register for "Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis", 29th #USI Summer School (August 11-15, 2025): www.usi.ch/en/education...

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · Jul 8

You can now watch the recording of our info session on ISA's Dissertation Completion Fellowship @isanet.bsky.social #PhD
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International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social · Jul 8

Interested in applying for the 2025 ISA Dissertation Completion #Fellowship? Watch ISA's info session with the Committee members as they discuss and answer questions on eligibility criteria, submission details, and how to build your application.

ISA's Dissertation Completion Fellowship

The ISA Dissertation Completion Fellowship is open to applicants from across the social sciences and humanities working in the broad field of International Studies.

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨 Last chance to register this week 👇

Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · Mar 25

Want to learn #QCA in presence? Register for "Exploring Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis", 29th #USI Summer School (August 11-15, 2025): www.usi.ch/en/education...

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jul 2

Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too.
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Jul 2

The way to empower a mob boss is to pay tribute to a mob boss. That’s what Paramount has done.

Trevor Timm @trevortimm.bsky.social · Jul 2

Paramount has thrown its own respected journalists under the bus, along with countless other news outlets—who Trump will inevitably target for a shakedown next with his ridiculous and unconstitutional legal theories.

Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · Jun 13

✨Frisch erschienen: der Sonderband zur (ersten) Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie @nomosverlag.bsky.social. Freu mich, mit einem Beitrag zum Wandel deutscher Außenpolitik dabei zu sein. Open access hier: doi.org/10.5771/9783...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jun 22

Note to media:
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.