New policy piece on our @bjpols.bsky.social paper with Paolo Bertolotti, Ali Jadbabaie, and Fotini Christia.
What do drone strikes do to civilians nearby? The non-lethal effects are larger than advertised
irregularwarfare.org/hidden-costs-of-precision-what-drone-strikes-actually-do-to-civilians
I also took the opportunity to write more about one of our puzzling findings: Why do we see so much regional variation in Indians' foreign policy attitudes?
I toss out some ideas in this blog post: aidanmilliff.com/blog/indian-...
@pstaniland.bsky.social I appeared on Grand Tamasha 🎙️ with @milanv.bsky.social to discuss our new book on Indian public opinion.
Check out the episode here: grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/wha...
And the book is free to download until June 15: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
📣 The Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Carlos III is recruiting for a fixed-term 2-year position in Political Science.
This is a two-year opportunity to conduct research, teach, and and collaborate in a vibrant and interdisciplinary academic environment.
More info: lnkd.in/eyVbmPRJ
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Super clever idea.
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Book Alert! @pstaniland.bsky.social and I have a new Cambridge Element out now — and free to download through May 18. It's the result of nine years of digging through historic survey data on how the Indian public thinks about major powers.
Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
New research in Science from @dominic-rohner.bsky.social and others:
USAID cuts caused violent conflict to spike immediately in areas that received the most USAID support and last for months.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
📣 The Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is recruiting a Visiting Professor in Political Science to join its international faculty.
This is a two-year opportunity to te...
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"The non-lethal effects of drone strikes have substantial humanitarian and political costs."
We are proud to highlight some outstanding new research on drone strikes by @aidanmilliff.com, Paolo Bertolotti, Fotini Christia, and Ali Jadbabaie at IWI.
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Less than a week after its inauguration, the second Trump administration issued a blanket stop-work order for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the largest national human...
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New research using cellphone data from Yemen reveals that U.S. drone strikes cause widespread civilian displacement and communication spikes, even when avoiding casualties. These non-lethal disruption...
New research using cellphone data from Yemen reveals that U.S. drone strikes cause widespread civilian displacement and communication spikes, even when avoiding casualties. These non-lethal disruption...
“Writing is hard.” Thrilled to share that this simple idea led to a new paper in Political Analysis! Where most text methods focus on content, I test if expression is also effortful action. I find simple measures like character counts reveal attitudes and predict voting. cup.org/4cUmoXi 1/
