The first issue of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social for 2026 has been published #openaccess.
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Photo taken by Rimantė Jaugaitė. Appeal to Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), 2023.
Grateful to Meghan and to all the contributors for an intellectually rich collaboration—and hoping this framework sparks further debate and research on these critically important and deeply troubling phenomena. 8/8
Together, these articles highlight the value of cross-disciplinary dialogue and lay the groundwork for a more integrated analytical framework for studying eliminationist politics. 7/8
@erinjenne.bsky.social, Promise Frank Ejiofor, @fionaadamson.bsky.social, Kelly M. Greenhill,
Svitlana Chernykh, Benjamin E. Goldsmith, Sascha Nanlohy, @avitallivny.bsky.social, @lillyfrost.bsky.social, Christopher Blair, Rachel Van Nostrand, Alex Braithwaite 6/8
The piece also introduces a special issue on *The Logics of Eliminationist Politics* featuring contributions by scholars examining the causes, rhetoric, tactics, and consequences of eliminationist policies across cases and contexts. 5/8
To illustrate what’s at stake, we revisit a paradigmatic case—the 1923 Greco-Turkish compulsory population exchange—and show how different analytical choices lead to very different causal stories and claims to generalizability. 4/8
While existing work has generated major theoretical insights, we show that persistent variation in concepts and measures has important consequences for theory-building, empirical inference, and ultimately for understanding prevention. 3/8
The article takes stock of how scholars across the social sciences conceptualize and operationalize eliminationist policies—which we define as "deliberate actions by state or non-state actors aimed at destroying, removing, or erasing groups based on salient identity categories". 2/8
I’m writing this post to share a new article, co-authored with @mmgarrity.bsky.social, that examines eliminationist politics and proposes an analytical framework for their study, published in @scmrjems.bsky.social
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Under what conditions do kin-states pursue militarized irredentism rather than limiting themselves to irredentist rhetoric or cultural engagement with co-ethnics abroad?
Check out my @journalofgss.bsky.social article here 👉 academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...
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The year 2024 confirmed a global environment defined by:
↔️ pronounced political fragmentation
🗳️ heightened electoral activity
📈 + a deepening wave of autocratisation that continued a 25-year trajectory.
⬇️ Read the 2025 yearbook now!
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📌 The new issue of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social has been published #openaccess. Check it out here 👇
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An interdisciplinary group of panelists mulled over immigration and national unity during a panel hosted by the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics on Wednesday.
Maya Y. Fu, Adrian U. Ramirez, and Alexa M. Schmitt report.
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My chapter on "State- and Nation-Building in Modern Greece," written for The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek History, has been published online 👉 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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🆕 #Greece #PoliticalData
🗳️ In a turbulent 2024, Greece saw low-turnout for the #EUelections, #SYRIZA's leadership crisis, #Wildfires, inflation + became the 1st Orthodox Christian country to legalise 💒 #SameSexMarriage, reports @harrismylonas.bsky.social.
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The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-9
Kathleen E. Powers’s Nationalisms in International Politics
“challenges the conventional wisdom about nationalism and supranationalism by demonstrating that not all nationalisms and supranationalisms are the same.” –Jiyoung Ko
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Interested in #nationalism and international relations?
Check out the latest @h-diplo.bsky.social Jervis Forum Roundtable on Powers’ book
Introduction by Jonathan Renshon; reviews by Jiyoung Ko, Deborah Welch Larson, and Harris Mylonas; reply by Kathleen Powers
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The new issue of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social is now published
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On the cover, photo taken by Isabelle DeSisto
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*Nationalism and ethnicity in the study of international relations* a chapter that @erinjenne.bsky.social and I co-authored for the Elgar Handbook of International Relations edited by @cameronthies.bsky.social has (finally) been published!
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The 2024 Impact Factor for @nationalitiesp.bsky.social has increased to *1.6*, up from *1.3* in 2023. This marks a remarkable climb from 0.728 in 2019.
A heartfelt thank you to our dedicated editorial board, reviewers & authors!
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Fantastic dissertation! Great meeting you @axelcronert.bsky.social !
Looking forward to it
Deborah Boucoyannis and I draw on Richard Bensel’s “The Founding of Modern States” to highlight a point overlooked in political science: state- and regime-building are deeply tied to how “the people” are defined—nation-building. Check out the piece👉 academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
Varieties of Nationalism @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org co-authored with Maya Tudor was released into the world 2 years ago. Thank you to everyone who has adopted it in their courses or incorporated its ideas into their research, helping it find a place in the field
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#ASN2025 #NY
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Given that we are now 27 years since the publication of “Identity in Formation,” David Laitin agreed to add a newly drafted coda, which you will find below Pål Kolstø’s reaction 3/4
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In the exchange below, David Laitin evaluates his predictions against evidence that he amassed over the years, and Pål Kolstø reacts. 2/4
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In 2018, David Laitin and Pål Kolstø engaged in a discussion at the Annual Meeting of the @asn-org.bsky.social The panel was a 20-year retrospective on Laitin’s “Identity in Formation: the Russian-speaking populations in the Near Abroad” 1/4
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