Assistant Professor of Political Science at NYU Abu Dhabi. Studying technology, identity, and conflict.
New York, NY
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We are SUPER excited for this. Important note to grad students/postdocs: we expect to *fully fund* AT LEAST A DOZEN people to attend the conference. And if you've met me, you know the conference food will be awesome.
Me, @aaronrkaufman, @rmkubinec, & @benblaughlin are very happy to announce that @NYUAbuDhabi
is hosting the 11th Annual Asian/1st Annual MENA
@PolMethSociety meeting @NYUAbuDhabi in January 2024. Cfp will follow this summer. Thanks to @NYUAD_SocialSci @NYUADInstitute for support!
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Benjamin Laughlin retweeted
Me, @aaronrkaufman, @rmkubinec, & @benblaughlin are very happy to announce that @NYUAbuDhabi
is hosting the 11th Annual Asian/1st Annual MENA
@PolMethSociety meeting @NYUAbuDhabi in January 2024. Cfp will follow this summer. Thanks to @NYUAD_SocialSci @NYUADInstitute for support!
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Announcing a new working paper on the political effects of cell phones with amazing co-authors @GeShuning, @guygrossman, @kkosec, and @Apoorva__Lal. See Guy's thread for a great summary.
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Reconciliation after conflict @ESoConflict at UCSD @NicolaLimodio @LuisRMartinezA @econgaurav @austinlwright @benblaughlin @MarakujaDRC @renardsexton
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Benjamin Laughlin retweeted
Trump says walls got a bad rep because other walls were less attractive than his are: "It was crazy what they were putting up. In fact, I happen to think that the walls they were building were so unattractive and so ugly that walls got bad names. OK? If that means anything."
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Benjamin Laughlin retweeted
Very well done paper on the economic impacts of the US-Mexico border wall by @TrebAllen, Dobbin, @melaniemorten. We need more clever policy counterfactuals like ones in this paper. Several other relevant papers: [1] @anna_getmansky @guygrossman ( bit.ly/2TAX5Pq), (1/2)
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Our AER in the November issue on #electionviolence in Afghanistan. Thanks @AEAjournals #aer. @HarrisPolicy @PearsonInst
Insurgents strategically target elections to suppress voter turnout and calibrate attacks to avoid civilian casualties, say @austinlwright, @andrewcshaver, @prof_jameslong, and Luke Condra of @GSPIA. Featured in today’s #ChartOfTheWeek aeaweb.org/research/charts/a…
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Benjamin Laughlin retweeted
You know it's Christmastime in Romania when drunk bears dance in your living room nyti.ms/1IMh7JN https://nitter.net/t.co/J5Zc4kH6nO
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"Every year in Maramureş neighbours kill each other for these contested slips of territory."
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U.S. governors don’t have power to refuse refugees access to their states: to.pbs.org/20Z2Wwa | @newshour
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Vote for me? Ata-Meken poster shows ex-mayor of Osh, who's on the run to escape 7-year prison sentence #Kyrgyzstan http://t.co/15FL26b0ZN
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Oh. @Yatsenyuk_AP says Ukraine is banning Aeroflot and Transaero from flying to Ukraine.
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A guide for Kazakhstan geography teachers proposes students identify races by skin color, eyes, and hair. nitter.net/joshuakucera/status/61…
Creative thinking causes unethical behavior? psmag.com/health-and-behavio…
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Artist sells other people's Instagram photos for $100,000. gothamist.com/2015/05/21/art…
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"What objectives would you would like to accomplish on your jihad path?" Al Qaeda's job application. vox.com/2015/5/20/8630669/bi…
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Kyrgyzstan's president says Kyrgyzstan would be better if Kazakhstan's president were in charge. akipress.com/news:556882
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