New article by Madhav Joshi in @politicalgeography.bsky.social analyzes court filings in Nepal during the Maoist insurgency, showing that both rebel violence and governance, as well as state violence, significantly undermine state legitimacy.

New APSR article explores the generalizability of IR experiments beyond the U.S.

Findings may be relevant for researchers studying public reactions to political violence through experiments.

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New Journal of Conflict Resolution article by @tappeortiz.bsky.social examines how state leaders' background influences the termination of civil wars, showing that leaders with combat experience are more like to secure peace deals with rebels.

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Although this article by @shelleyliu.bsky.social is not recent, its relevance is clear as events unfold in Syria. The study analyzes how rebels consolidate power after civil war through strategies like leveraging ties in wartime strongholds or deploying loyal bureaucrats in unsecured areas.

Check out this new JoGSS article on rebel fragmentation!

Using the PKK in Turkey as a case study, @ulaserdogdu.bsky.social identifies two pathways to rebel fragmentation: democratization creating divides over armed struggle and foreign military intervention empowering rival groups.

Abstract for American social media users have ideological differences of opinion about the war in ukraine

Table 1: Description of the Tweets in the Dataset

Table 2: Five most frequently discussed clusters of tweets by ideology group

Figure 1: Proportion of Substantive Topics Discussed by Ideology Groups

New article accepted @natureportfolio.bsky.social HSSC (w/ @dahjinkim.bsky.social and Gechun Lin).

- Tweets about Russian invasion of Ukraine (Feb 22-25)
- Trace user ideology through networks
- Libs pro-Ukraine
- Cons more misinfo
- Mods in between

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Pre-print 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Working paper by @benckrick.bsky.social, @jonpetkun.bsky.social, and @mararevkin.bsky.social finds that civilians in areas affected by harm view armed forces as less legitimate, not only due to experiences with violence but also because of beliefs about the morality of armed forces’ conduct in war.

Check out this new publication by @sebastianvanbaalen.se and @andresuribe.bsky.social in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. The study challenges traditional theories that consider territorial control as a prerequisite for rebel governance.

Full paper now available here! doi.org/10.1086/729947

The Political Legacies of Wartime Resistance: How Local Communities in Italy Keep Anti-fascist Sentiments Alive - Simone Cremaschi, Juan Masullo, 2024 Can past wartime experiences affect political behavior beyond those who lived through them? We argue that local experiences of armed resistance leave political ...

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Exciting new article by @simonecremaschi.bsky.social & Juan Masullo in @cpsjournal.bsky.social uses evidence from Italy to explore how intergenerational transmission of wartime experiences can enable the past to influence present-day political behavior.

New article in the Journal of Politics by @shelleyliu.bsky.social examines how wartime coercive rebel governance shapes political development post-conflict, using Zimbabwe as a case to analyze the persistence of coercive control.

Recent article in International Security by Basil Bastaki, @pstaniland.bsky.social, Bryan Popoola examines how civil wars can stabilize without international peacekeeping. Using cases from South Asia, it highlights three trajectories: longterm limited cooperation, disarmament, and ongoing conflict.