Alexander Sorg
@alexsorg.bsky.social
Postdoc, Harvard University | European security, nuclear umbrellas
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In DIE ZEIT, our postdoc researcher Christian Gläßel & Adam Scharpf draw troubling parallels between ICE’s raids, rapid hiring & loyalty incentives and past authoritarian regimes, showing the importance of personnel decisions in driving repression.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
In DIE ZEIT, our postdoc researcher Christian Gläßel & Adam Scharpf draw troubling parallels between ICE’s raids, rapid hiring & loyalty incentives and past authoritarian regimes, showing the importance of personnel decisions in driving repression.
📖 Read more: lnkd.in/d4vvTHyq
📖 Read more: lnkd.in/d4vvTHyq
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The Stanton Foundation awards a new major grant to @hertieschool.bsky.social's Centre for International Security, funding annual Stanton Fellowships & the Frank Stanton Distinguished Visiting Chair to grow nuclear security research & transatlantic collaboration. Read More → lnkd.in/dNega9gP
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The Stanton Foundation awards a new major grant to @hertieschool.bsky.social's Centre for International Security, funding annual Stanton Fellowships & the Frank Stanton Distinguished Visiting Chair to grow nuclear security research & transatlantic collaboration. Read More → lnkd.in/dNega9gP
Just found this fascinating 2019 poll conducted by Pew Research. Unfortunately, this question does not appear to have been repeated since then.
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Just found this fascinating 2019 poll conducted by Pew Research. Unfortunately, this question does not appear to have been repeated since then.
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i now believe in the Chinese century
October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
i now believe in the Chinese century
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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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This might be the clearest example ever of media false equivalence ever where literally the entire leadership of the Republican Party, which currently controls every branch of the Federal government, insists Donald Trump was cheated in 2020 vs like four podcasters in a trenchcoat doing 2024 BlueAnon
After Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat, Republicans used dubious arguments to say he had been cheated. Now the left is dabbling in some of those same questionable theories to claim that Kamala Harris really won last year’s election, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.
The People Who Are Still Convinced Kamala Won
The left is dabbling in 2024-election-fraud theories.
bit.ly
September 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This might be the clearest example ever of media false equivalence ever where literally the entire leadership of the Republican Party, which currently controls every branch of the Federal government, insists Donald Trump was cheated in 2020 vs like four podcasters in a trenchcoat doing 2024 BlueAnon
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These four types of political violence are all unacceptable.
The right can’t frame this as a left-wing issue.
It’s an American problem—one that affects all sides, but hits harder on the right
The right can’t frame this as a left-wing issue.
It’s an American problem—one that affects all sides, but hits harder on the right
September 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
These four types of political violence are all unacceptable.
The right can’t frame this as a left-wing issue.
It’s an American problem—one that affects all sides, but hits harder on the right
The right can’t frame this as a left-wing issue.
It’s an American problem—one that affects all sides, but hits harder on the right
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Available evidence suggests that Russia’s nuclear deployment to Belarus was primarily motivated by extended deterrence, but also by power projection to intimidate NATO & by desire for future arms control leverage - less by assurances, argues @alexsorg.bsky.social in The Nonproliferation Review 6/10
Nuclear Belarus: explaining Russian security guarantees
In 2022, Russia announced its plans to deploy nuclear weapons to Belarus, which would mark the first such deployment in an allied state since the Soviet Union’s collapse. Deploying nuclear weapons ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Available evidence suggests that Russia’s nuclear deployment to Belarus was primarily motivated by extended deterrence, but also by power projection to intimidate NATO & by desire for future arms control leverage - less by assurances, argues @alexsorg.bsky.social in The Nonproliferation Review 6/10
Thanks @lanoszka.bsky.social for the kind words, and for reminding me to engage in SELF PROMOTION ☝️ Russian ☢️-deployments to Belarus are driven by 🇷🇺 interests: preventing interference in 🇧🇾 and using them as a lever against NATO. At least, that is what I deduce from the limited evidence available.
A timely new article by @alexsorg.bsky.social looks at the reasons for why Russia might have positioned nuclear weapons in Belarus. As he puts it, it is "potentially the first new foreign nuclear-weapons deployment by any state since 1974."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Nuclear Belarus: explaining Russian security guarantees
In 2022, Russia announced its plans to deploy nuclear weapons to Belarus, which would mark the first such deployment in an allied state since the Soviet Union’s collapse. Deploying nuclear weapons ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Thanks @lanoszka.bsky.social for the kind words, and for reminding me to engage in SELF PROMOTION ☝️ Russian ☢️-deployments to Belarus are driven by 🇷🇺 interests: preventing interference in 🇧🇾 and using them as a lever against NATO. At least, that is what I deduce from the limited evidence available.
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It's not a big leap from the govt sending people to a death prison for having the wrong tattoo to blowing up 11 people that may or may not have had drugs on their boat.
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It's not a big leap from the govt sending people to a death prison for having the wrong tattoo to blowing up 11 people that may or may not have had drugs on their boat.
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In the context of debates on military capacities, this small research note uses the exact date of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an unexpected event during a survey to corroborate that willingness to fight rises with proximity to conflict (cf. doi.org/10.1017/eis.2025.12)
Any feedback is welcome!
Any feedback is welcome!
August 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In the context of debates on military capacities, this small research note uses the exact date of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an unexpected event during a survey to corroborate that willingness to fight rises with proximity to conflict (cf. doi.org/10.1017/eis.2025.12)
Any feedback is welcome!
Any feedback is welcome!
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Israel is assassinating journalists
Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Israel is assassinating journalists
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This is one of those moments when the hollowness of our democratic systems becomes visible to the public. Facts are verified, but deliberation is pure performance, and accountability is nowhere. The system absorbs truth without ever acting on it.
Protesting over Gaza’s starvation feels like screaming into a void – but we mustn’t stop | Nesrine Malik
Protesting over Gaza’s starvation feels like screaming into a void – but we mustn’t stop | Nesrine Malik
Political platitudes and a few trucks of aid won’t save the children dying now. But they show leaders can’t ignore public opinion for ever, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This is one of those moments when the hollowness of our democratic systems becomes visible to the public. Facts are verified, but deliberation is pure performance, and accountability is nowhere. The system absorbs truth without ever acting on it.
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July 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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@gtconway.bsky.social So much for holding firm.
Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
@gtconway.bsky.social So much for holding firm.
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Die #rechtsextremen Minister der #israelischen Regierung werden in den deutschen Medien oft erwähnt, aber selten zitiert. So hört sich das an. Und es sag bitte keiner hinterher, dass man ja nichts wusste. Es ist bekannt und veröffentlicht, denn sie halten ja mit nichts hinter'm Berg. #Staatsräson
July 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Die #rechtsextremen Minister der #israelischen Regierung werden in den deutschen Medien oft erwähnt, aber selten zitiert. So hört sich das an. Und es sag bitte keiner hinterher, dass man ja nichts wusste. Es ist bekannt und veröffentlicht, denn sie halten ja mit nichts hinter'm Berg. #Staatsräson
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Es ist peinlich, dass die Union jetzt Macron kritisiert, statt endlich Druck gegenüber der israelischen Regierung aufzubauen.
Erinnert mich daran, wie man jahrelang Macron kritisierte, weil er die strategische Autonomie Europas forderte, aus Angst, die USA zu verprellen.
Erinnert mich daran, wie man jahrelang Macron kritisierte, weil er die strategische Autonomie Europas forderte, aus Angst, die USA zu verprellen.
July 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Es ist peinlich, dass die Union jetzt Macron kritisiert, statt endlich Druck gegenüber der israelischen Regierung aufzubauen.
Erinnert mich daran, wie man jahrelang Macron kritisierte, weil er die strategische Autonomie Europas forderte, aus Angst, die USA zu verprellen.
Erinnert mich daran, wie man jahrelang Macron kritisierte, weil er die strategische Autonomie Europas forderte, aus Angst, die USA zu verprellen.
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"Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israel Defence Forces, without a doubt.
"Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.”
youtube.com/watch?v=72aZ...
"Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.”
youtube.com/watch?v=72aZ...
Former US Green Beret says Israel committed war crimes at Gaza food distribution site | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
youtube.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israel Defence Forces, without a doubt.
"Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.”
youtube.com/watch?v=72aZ...
"Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.”
youtube.com/watch?v=72aZ...
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Just an all timer that captures this era of journalism.
Imagine it applied to any other example of war crimes or ethnic cleansing in history.
Imagine it applied to any other example of war crimes or ethnic cleansing in history.
July 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Just an all timer that captures this era of journalism.
Imagine it applied to any other example of war crimes or ethnic cleansing in history.
Imagine it applied to any other example of war crimes or ethnic cleansing in history.
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the regularity of this makes it brutally clear it's the result of deliberate policy, something confirmed by Haaretz reporting - www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the regularity of this makes it brutally clear it's the result of deliberate policy, something confirmed by Haaretz reporting - www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.