Oren Samet
Opposition parties, authoritarianism, and democratization in Southeast Asia and beyond. PhD candidate @ UC Berkeley orensamet.com
@ozlemtuncel.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate at GSU (she/her/hers) #FirstGen studying political parties in autocracies, opposition coordination, and post-rebel political parties
@myanmarip.bsky.social
@karabekir.bsky.social
Researcher at SOAS • Autocratisation and Militarisation • Turkey • Iran • Brazil • Author of "Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey" (EUP 2024) • https://www.karabekir.net/
@a-weissman.bsky.social
PoliSci PhD candidate @ UC Berkeley | previously MITPoliSci, TuftsUniversity annaweissman.com
@kaimthaler.bsky.social
Global Studies prof at UC Santa Barbara, views own. Proud Mainer. Conflict, violence, statebuilding, protest, democracy & authoritarianism. COYS. kaithaler.com
@ceherrold.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Maxwell School @ Syracuse. Researching civil society in Balkans and Middle East. Author of Delta Democracy. CFR International Affairs Fellow. Fulbrighter in Serbia. Swimmer. www.catherineherrold.com
@bridgingthegap.bsky.social
Promoting scholarly contributions to public debate and decision making on global challenges and U.S. foreign policy.
@jpaulgoode.bsky.social
Russia, Eurasia, nationalism, propaganda, autocracy Editor of Communist and Post-Communist Studies (@cpcs.bsky.social) Co-lead of East European & Transatlantic Network (@eetn.bsky.social) McMillan Chair of Russian Studies, EURUS, Carleton University
@zingherpolisci.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Author of “Political Choice in a Polarized America” @OUP. Dad. Sauna enthusiast. Crossword solver. Powerlifter. Cyclist. ✡️ ∞
@annemeng.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Politics at UVA. Author of Constraining Dictatorship. Authoritarian Politics & Democratic Erosion. http://www.annemeng.com/
@matthewkavanagh.bsky.social
Director, Center for Global Health Policy & Politics Georgetown University, Prof of Global Health and Law @oneillinstitute.bsky.social https://ghpp.georgetown.edu/profiles/matthew-m-kavanagh-phd/
@anniebenn.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Colgate University. US executive politics, bureaucracy, separation of powers.
@abuaardvark.bsky.social
Marc Lynch. GW Professor, on leave AY24-25 and hopefully hard to find. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST (Hurst) on the way! Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
@adamprz.bsky.social
@mariannedahl.bsky.social
Senior researcher @PRIOresearch and deputy editor @JPR_journal, Non-violence, security force behavior, democratization & peace processes. Opinions are my own. Webpage: www.mariannedahl.com
@profsaunders.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Columbia; editor, Good Authority; non-res Senior Fellow, Brookings. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace (preorder: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game)
@lindsaypcohn.bsky.social
Political Scientist (all views own), Visiting Assoc Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl/natsec law, pol econ
@jaylyall.bsky.social
Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Diversity and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen Website: www.jasonlyall.com
@sharangrewal.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at American University Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Me: https://sharangrewal.com/ My book: https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Democracy-Military-Legacies-Spring/dp/0198873514/
@uticaeric.bsky.social
Former intelligence and policy professional, lawyer, investor, and soldier. In a kind of exile, approaching what's next. “…and that's how I know he can be beaten. Because he's a fanatic. And the fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.”
@bafriedman.bsky.social
Amphibious Warfare, Strategy, and Clausewitz. CLE expat. Malevelon Creek veteran. Substack: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
@kschake.bsky.social
Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of Safe Passage, contributing writer at The Atlantic. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
@risabrooks12.bsky.social
Marquette Prof studying U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, political violence & armed forces in democracies and non-democracies.
@smsaideman.bsky.social
#CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
@drjchambers.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher, anthropologist, at @diisdk exploring revolutionary politics, conflict & climate change in Myanmar. Author of ‘Pursuing Morality’ (2024)
@billyford.bsky.social
Myanmar Program Officer at USIP | Studied Buddhism at Hamilton College and Policy @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social || formerly The Asia Foundation and Myanmar Country Rep @freedomhouse.bsky.social
@mzdeloffre.bsky.social
Associate Professor International Affairs and Director Humanitarian Action Initiative. Research - NGO and humanitarian accountability, NGOs, standard-setting, humanitarian financing, localization. Rock climbing, baking, playing tennis badly🐶🇺🇸🇫🇷
@ianbassin.bsky.social
Founder and Executive Director @protectdemocracy.org. Former Associate White House Counsel. Tweets my own.
@protectdemocracy.org
We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit group working to prevent authoritarianism. This account is owned and operated by Protect Democracy United. Follow us on other platforms ➡️ https://protdem.org/m/stay-connected
@yusufsarfati.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, Illinois State University, autocratization, religion, social movements & mobilization. Turkey, Israel. Istanbulite, Normalite. Anti-fascist. He/him. Siyaset Bilimi. Akademisyen. İnsan. Baba.
@zeitzoff.bsky.social
Professor @au-spa.bsky.social Political Violence | Political Psychology New book "Nasty Politics" https://www.zeitzoff.com/book-project.html
@justsand.bsky.social
Development economist. Senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. https://www.cgdev.org/expert/justin-sandefur
@cequirk.bsky.social
Opinion research and advocacy/political strategy in declining democracies and emerging autocracies. Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to. Nice, FR quirkglobalstrategies.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinequirk/
@nateschenkkan.bsky.social
Personal account. For your freedom and ours! Opinions are mine and do not represent anyone else.
@emilyfishbein11.bsky.social
Independent journalist focusing on Myanmar. Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow 2025
@zecsaky.bsky.social
Senior research fellow CER @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social. Mostly EU stuff, sprinkled with some democracy & Central Europe. Past lives Freedom House, EUI, Bloomberg.
@anjaneundorf.bsky.social
Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow | DEMED project @ERC_Research | Main interest: Democracy and Autocracy, Public Opinion, Civic Education, Higher Ed. #FirstGen
@mattyrdubs.bsky.social
Sharing info on local humanitarian action & resistance in Myanmar. Sometimes posting about 🇲🇲 ⚽.
@markleongoldberg.bsky.social
Veteran international affairs journalist. Editor, UN Dispatch. Host and founder, Global Dispatches. https://www.globaldispatches.org/
@akmyat.bsky.social
PhD student/teaching assistant in polsci, former MPhil HKU, Gunner
@orcunselcuk.bsky.social
Author of The Authoritarian Divide: Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization (University of Notre Dame Press) 🇹🇷🇻🇪🇪🇨 Researching polarizing populist leaders and their opponents around the world.
@danigilbert.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science at Northwestern, studying hostage taking in international security. Director with Bridging the Gap, contributor to Good Authority. She/her. Hiking, biking, mostly plants 🌱 #COYS
@rithikakumar.bsky.social
mostly a wallflower but occasionally post about South Asia: gender, migration, politics and Bollywood🌻✨| https://rithikakumar.com | Houston < Philly < Bombay
@szakonyi.bsky.social
Associate Professor at George Washington University Co-Founder, Anti-Corruption Data Collective (@acdatacollective.bsky.social) Researching corruption, kleptocracy and authoritarianism in Russia and the West
@stanfordcddrl.bsky.social
Official account of Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. CDDRL produces policy-relevant research to advance political development. Visit us at: http://cddrl.stanford.edu