Consuelo Thiers
@consuelothiers.bsky.social
Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. Political psychologist interested in political leaders, interstate rivalries, emotions, foreign policy analysis and Latin America. 🇨🇱
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/consuelo-thiers
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📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now!
'No more Mr nice guy? A leadership trait analysis of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer' by @consuelothiers.bsky.social, Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery
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'No more Mr nice guy? A leadership trait analysis of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer' by @consuelothiers.bsky.social, Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery
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January 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now!
'No more Mr nice guy? A leadership trait analysis of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer' by @consuelothiers.bsky.social, Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery
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'No more Mr nice guy? A leadership trait analysis of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer' by @consuelothiers.bsky.social, Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery
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Los invito a leer mi columna en Ciper sobre el caso venezolano y lo que revela acerca de la bancarrota moral de Europa. Es una reflexión sobre incoherencias, silencios y valores que se declaran, pero no siempre se practican
www.ciperchile.cl/2026/01/10/e...
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El caso venezolano y la quiebra moral de Europa - CIPER Chile
Medio de investigación periodística independiente en Chile, enfocado en reportajes de actualidad y brindar información de calidad a la ciudadanía.
www.ciperchile.cl
January 13, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Los invito a leer mi columna en Ciper sobre el caso venezolano y lo que revela acerca de la bancarrota moral de Europa. Es una reflexión sobre incoherencias, silencios y valores que se declaran, pero no siempre se practican
www.ciperchile.cl/2026/01/10/e...
www.ciperchile.cl/2026/01/10/e...
New paper out with Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery in @bjpir.bsky.social We used Leadership Trait Analysis on UK PM Keir Starmer. Turns out he's much tougher than the "cautious technocrat" image suggests🧵
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January 7, 2026 at 1:09 PM
New paper out with Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery in @bjpir.bsky.social We used Leadership Trait Analysis on UK PM Keir Starmer. Turns out he's much tougher than the "cautious technocrat" image suggests🧵
@edinburghpir.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1369...
@edinburghpir.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1369...
I answered some questions for Anadolu Agency about José Antonio Kast and recently elected right and far-right presidents in Latin America. Read here 👇
www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
YEAR-ENDER - 2025: How rising right-wing reshaped Latin America’s political landscape
Latin America sees right-wing leaders rise to power in countries like Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador - Anadolu Ajansı
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December 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I answered some questions for Anadolu Agency about José Antonio Kast and recently elected right and far-right presidents in Latin America. Read here 👇
www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
I was interviewed by the
@timeshighered.bsky.social on the current concerns around higher education and research in Chile under José Antonio Kast. You can read the article here
Chilean academics fear funding cuts under new far-right leader www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chilean...
@timeshighered.bsky.social on the current concerns around higher education and research in Chile under José Antonio Kast. You can read the article here
Chilean academics fear funding cuts under new far-right leader www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chilean...
Chilean academics fear funding cuts under new far-right leader
Incoming president pledges to slash government spending but remains quiet on other higher education issues
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I was interviewed by the
@timeshighered.bsky.social on the current concerns around higher education and research in Chile under José Antonio Kast. You can read the article here
Chilean academics fear funding cuts under new far-right leader www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chilean...
@timeshighered.bsky.social on the current concerns around higher education and research in Chile under José Antonio Kast. You can read the article here
Chilean academics fear funding cuts under new far-right leader www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chilean...
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⏰ Last call: FPA Section travel grants for #ISA2026 (Columbus) — two awards of $750. Priority: grad students, Global South scholars, and those with limited institutional support. Send CV + motivation letter by 1 Oct 2025. Details: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
⏰ Last call: FPA Section travel grants for #ISA2026 (Columbus) — two awards of $750. Priority: grad students, Global South scholars, and those with limited institutional support. Send CV + motivation letter by 1 Oct 2025. Details: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...
En mi nueva columna,reflexiono acerca de cómo los bots, las fake news y la política-espectáculo son parte de una industria de la mentira. Hablo de cómo funciona y por qué es un riesgo para la democracia. www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/opi...
September 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
En mi nueva columna,reflexiono acerca de cómo los bots, las fake news y la política-espectáculo son parte de una industria de la mentira. Hablo de cómo funciona y por qué es un riesgo para la democracia. www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/opi...
¿Cómo gobernarían Jara y Kast? 🧠🇨🇱
En mi nueva columna en CIPER Chile analizo sus estilos de liderazgo desde la psicología política y lo que esto implica para el futuro de Chile.
#PsicologíaPolítica #EleccionesChile2025 #Kast #Jara
www.ciperchile.cl/2025/08/28/j...
En mi nueva columna en CIPER Chile analizo sus estilos de liderazgo desde la psicología política y lo que esto implica para el futuro de Chile.
#PsicologíaPolítica #EleccionesChile2025 #Kast #Jara
www.ciperchile.cl/2025/08/28/j...
Jara vs. Kast: lo que revela la psicología sobre los futuros estilos de gobierno - CIPER Chile
Medio de investigación periodística independiente en Chile, enfocado en reportajes de actualidad y brindar información de calidad a la ciudadanía.
www.ciperchile.cl
September 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
¿Cómo gobernarían Jara y Kast? 🧠🇨🇱
En mi nueva columna en CIPER Chile analizo sus estilos de liderazgo desde la psicología política y lo que esto implica para el futuro de Chile.
#PsicologíaPolítica #EleccionesChile2025 #Kast #Jara
www.ciperchile.cl/2025/08/28/j...
En mi nueva columna en CIPER Chile analizo sus estilos de liderazgo desde la psicología política y lo que esto implica para el futuro de Chile.
#PsicologíaPolítica #EleccionesChile2025 #Kast #Jara
www.ciperchile.cl/2025/08/28/j...
This is my latest piece in The Loop @ecpr.bsky.social based on recent fieldwork in Argentina 🇦🇷. Thank you to all the officials and informants who shared their insights with me.
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🌎 #JavierMilei is not merely shifting Argentina's foreign policy but dismantling it's diplomatic institutions, argues @consuelothiers.bsky.social.
💭 As ideology replaces expertise, #Argentina is a stark example of how personalist leadership can upend international relations.
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💭 As ideology replaces expertise, #Argentina is a stark example of how personalist leadership can upend international relations.
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Milei’s Argentina and the unmaking of diplomacy
Consuelo Thiers argues that Javier Milei is not merely shifting Argentina's foreign policy but dismantling its diplomatic institutions. As ideology replaces expertise, and institutional norms…
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August 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This is my latest piece in The Loop @ecpr.bsky.social based on recent fieldwork in Argentina 🇦🇷. Thank you to all the officials and informants who shared their insights with me.
@edinburghpir.bsky.social
@edinburghpir.bsky.social
Honoured to be part of @3sat.bluesky.com.de Kulturzeit on Trump & how psychology helps decode leaders like him. As strongman politics rise, it’s great to see psychology getting airtime. I don’t speak German, so here’s hoping the subtitles were kind😅
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www.zdf.de/video/magazi...
Was die Spieltheorie über Trumps Politik verrät
Donald Trumps Strategien sind unberechenbar, er will seine Gegner maximal verwirren. Die Spieltheorie bietet hier überraschend schlüssige Erklärung für Trumps Politik.
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June 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Honoured to be part of @3sat.bluesky.com.de Kulturzeit on Trump & how psychology helps decode leaders like him. As strongman politics rise, it’s great to see psychology getting airtime. I don’t speak German, so here’s hoping the subtitles were kind😅
www.zdf.de/video/magazi...
www.zdf.de/video/magazi...
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Leadership in #Africa & the #MiddleEast is complex. Join us to discuss oz7777.bsky.social & drcanbolat.bsky.social's award-winning book, where they profile 14 leaders, explore connections between #Political ideologies & offer insights into #Negotiations: buff.ly/TRVjCdX
April 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Leadership in #Africa & the #MiddleEast is complex. Join us to discuss oz7777.bsky.social & drcanbolat.bsky.social's award-winning book, where they profile 14 leaders, explore connections between #Political ideologies & offer insights into #Negotiations: buff.ly/TRVjCdX
📢Who really shapes foreign policy in Latin America? Often: the president.
📑My latest article—a systematic review—explores how leadership, ideology & domestic politics drive decisions. Now out in International Relations (open access) @edinburghpir.bsky.social www.ir-journal.com/online-first...
📑My latest article—a systematic review—explores how leadership, ideology & domestic politics drive decisions. Now out in International Relations (open access) @edinburghpir.bsky.social www.ir-journal.com/online-first...
Political Leaders’ Role in Latin American Foreign Policy: A Systematic Review — IR
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April 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📢Who really shapes foreign policy in Latin America? Often: the president.
📑My latest article—a systematic review—explores how leadership, ideology & domestic politics drive decisions. Now out in International Relations (open access) @edinburghpir.bsky.social www.ir-journal.com/online-first...
📑My latest article—a systematic review—explores how leadership, ideology & domestic politics drive decisions. Now out in International Relations (open access) @edinburghpir.bsky.social www.ir-journal.com/online-first...
My latest on @uk.theconversation.com Keir Starmer’s mindset is unlike other PMs — and that could matter when facing Trump. 🧠 A political psychology perspective @edinburghpir.bsky.social #PoliticalPsychology #Starmer #Trump #leaders
Starmer shares some traits with other prime minister, but differs in several key ways.
Why Keir Starmer’s psychological profile is different from other prime ministers – and what it means for his dealings with Donald Trump
Starmer shares some traits with other prime minister, but differs in several key ways.
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April 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
My latest on @uk.theconversation.com Keir Starmer’s mindset is unlike other PMs — and that could matter when facing Trump. 🧠 A political psychology perspective @edinburghpir.bsky.social #PoliticalPsychology #Starmer #Trump #leaders
🚨 It’s time to put political psychology back at the center of global analysis. My new commentary out today with
@rusi.bsky.social : "Bringing the Leader Back In: The Case for Political Psychology in International Affairs"
Understanding who leads matters more than ever @edinburghpir.bsky.social
@rusi.bsky.social : "Bringing the Leader Back In: The Case for Political Psychology in International Affairs"
Understanding who leads matters more than ever @edinburghpir.bsky.social
Amid rising geopolitical tensions and the resurgence of personalist rule, how essential is it to recenter leaders in strategic analysis? Dr Consuelo Thiers explores this question further in the latest RUSI Commentary.
Bringing the Leader Back In: The Case for Political Psychology in International Affairs
Amid rising geopolitical tensions and the resurgence of personalist rule, where leaders increasingly shape global politics and challenge the international order, it is essential to bring the individua...
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April 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🚨 It’s time to put political psychology back at the center of global analysis. My new commentary out today with
@rusi.bsky.social : "Bringing the Leader Back In: The Case for Political Psychology in International Affairs"
Understanding who leads matters more than ever @edinburghpir.bsky.social
@rusi.bsky.social : "Bringing the Leader Back In: The Case for Political Psychology in International Affairs"
Understanding who leads matters more than ever @edinburghpir.bsky.social
Impressed by the quality of UG Politics & IR dissertations at
@edinburghpir.bsky.social; proof of what brilliant students & committed staff can achieve. This is exactly what job cuts & closures risk destroying. Senior management must reconsider before causing irreversible harm.
@edinburghpir.bsky.social; proof of what brilliant students & committed staff can achieve. This is exactly what job cuts & closures risk destroying. Senior management must reconsider before causing irreversible harm.
Cuts at this level are “tantamount to academic and economic vandalism” says @ucu.org.uk #SaveHE #StopTheCuts
Plans to cut jobs that would affect as many as 700 staff members at the University of Dundee will have a “catastrophic” impact, trade union representatives have said. @helenpacker.bsky.social reports
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April 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Impressed by the quality of UG Politics & IR dissertations at
@edinburghpir.bsky.social; proof of what brilliant students & committed staff can achieve. This is exactly what job cuts & closures risk destroying. Senior management must reconsider before causing irreversible harm.
@edinburghpir.bsky.social; proof of what brilliant students & committed staff can achieve. This is exactly what job cuts & closures risk destroying. Senior management must reconsider before causing irreversible harm.
New article alert 🚨
@juliacalvert.bsky.social & I argue the importance of leaders in International Political Economy, examining windfall profit taxation in Ecuador & Peru, in @ripejournal.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
New article alert 🚨
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Meet our newly elected FPA Section Executive Council! 🎉
🔹 President: Burcu Bayram
🔹 VP & Program Chair: Jordan Tama
🔹 At-large Officers: Consuelo Thiers, Jen Spindel, Adriana Boersner & Mariya Omelicheva
🔹 Past President: Falk Ostermann
Congrats to all! 🎊 #FPA
🔹 President: Burcu Bayram
🔹 VP & Program Chair: Jordan Tama
🔹 At-large Officers: Consuelo Thiers, Jen Spindel, Adriana Boersner & Mariya Omelicheva
🔹 Past President: Falk Ostermann
Congrats to all! 🎊 #FPA
March 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Meet our newly elected FPA Section Executive Council! 🎉
🔹 President: Burcu Bayram
🔹 VP & Program Chair: Jordan Tama
🔹 At-large Officers: Consuelo Thiers, Jen Spindel, Adriana Boersner & Mariya Omelicheva
🔹 Past President: Falk Ostermann
Congrats to all! 🎊 #FPA
🔹 President: Burcu Bayram
🔹 VP & Program Chair: Jordan Tama
🔹 At-large Officers: Consuelo Thiers, Jen Spindel, Adriana Boersner & Mariya Omelicheva
🔹 Past President: Falk Ostermann
Congrats to all! 🎊 #FPA
Tomorrow, we will have a great panel on leaders and foreign policy. Stephan Fouquet and I will present our work on Milei and foreign policy bureaucracies. If you are interested in the latest research on this topic, make sure to come! @edinburghpir.bsky.social #ISA2025 @fpa-isa.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Tomorrow, we will have a great panel on leaders and foreign policy. Stephan Fouquet and I will present our work on Milei and foreign policy bureaucracies. If you are interested in the latest research on this topic, make sure to come! @edinburghpir.bsky.social #ISA2025 @fpa-isa.bsky.social
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Happening now “Understanding foreign policy change: a role theoretical approach” with Anna Michalsky, @lesliewehner.bsky.social @cameronthies.bsky.social @sibeloktay.bsky.social Kai Oppermann, Stephan Klose & Damian Strycharz #ISA2025
March 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happening now “Understanding foreign policy change: a role theoretical approach” with Anna Michalsky, @lesliewehner.bsky.social @cameronthies.bsky.social @sibeloktay.bsky.social Kai Oppermann, Stephan Klose & Damian Strycharz #ISA2025
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Dear FPA members, remember we have our reception today at 20:00. Don’t miss out! #ISA2024 @isanet.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Dear FPA members, remember we have our reception today at 20:00. Don’t miss out! #ISA2024 @isanet.bsky.social
Happening now, roundtable “Connecting Global and Regional Dimensions in Foreign Policy” with great panelist #ISA2025 @fpa-isa.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Happening now, roundtable “Connecting Global and Regional Dimensions in Foreign Policy” with great panelist #ISA2025 @fpa-isa.bsky.social
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Congratulations to the winners of the Foreign Policy section awards! 🏆#ISA2025
📢🥁The envelope, please… 🏆✨
The winners of the Foreign Policy section awards are 2024-25:
🏆 Alexander George Award: Ryan Yu-Lin Liou
🏆 Distinguished Scholar Award: Dursun Peksen
🏆 Best Book in Foreign Policy: Elizabeth N. Saunders
Congratulations! #ISA2025
The winners of the Foreign Policy section awards are 2024-25:
🏆 Alexander George Award: Ryan Yu-Lin Liou
🏆 Distinguished Scholar Award: Dursun Peksen
🏆 Best Book in Foreign Policy: Elizabeth N. Saunders
Congratulations! #ISA2025
February 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Congratulations to the winners of the Foreign Policy section awards! 🏆#ISA2025