Lars Berger
@larsberger.bsky.social
Professor, Federal University of Administrative Sciences/Berlin, Research and teaching on US foreign and counterterrorism policy, Islamist terrorism, MENA international politics, Views my own.
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📢 Job Opportunity in International Relations!
If you work in IR (broadly defined) and are searching for a permanent professorship, we have an opening you’ll want to see.
🗓 Deadline: 29 April
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#Polisky #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience
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If you work in IR (broadly defined) and are searching for a permanent professorship, we have an opening you’ll want to see.
🗓 Deadline: 29 April
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#Polisky #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (294884) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (294884), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Wednesday, April 29, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
February 12, 2026 at 9:06 AM
📢 Job Opportunity in International Relations!
If you work in IR (broadly defined) and are searching for a permanent professorship, we have an opening you’ll want to see.
🗓 Deadline: 29 April
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#Polisky #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
If you work in IR (broadly defined) and are searching for a permanent professorship, we have an opening you’ll want to see.
🗓 Deadline: 29 April
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#Polisky #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience
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Happy to share our new paper in Comparative Migration Studies, with @hcebolla.bsky.social , @borchgrevink.bsky.social , and Inmaculada Serrano, within @equalstrength.bsky.social, where we show that #Radical-Right electoral gains increase anti-Muslim #HateCrime across Europe.
shorturl.at/UDGh9
shorturl.at/UDGh9
The tipping point of intolerance: radical-right elections and terrorist attacks as catalysts for anti-Muslim hate crime in Europe - Comparative Migration Studies
Comparative Migration Studies - This paper provides a cross-country analysis of anti-Muslim hate crimes in Europe, using ODHIR-OSCE data for 30 countries between 2016 and 2022. We systematically...
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February 17, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Happy to share our new paper in Comparative Migration Studies, with @hcebolla.bsky.social , @borchgrevink.bsky.social , and Inmaculada Serrano, within @equalstrength.bsky.social, where we show that #Radical-Right electoral gains increase anti-Muslim #HateCrime across Europe.
shorturl.at/UDGh9
shorturl.at/UDGh9
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Check out this new paper by @ucdpolitics.bsky.social PhD candidate @linettelim.bsky.social on how and why Chinese authorities portray foreign media as a threat, and why it matters.
New paper out!
Using a text scaling approach on 17,000+ Chinese state media articles (2014–2023), I examine how authoritarian regimes portray international media as external threats - and when this hostility intensifies.
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
Free (first 50): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2MNPV...
Using a text scaling approach on 17,000+ Chinese state media articles (2014–2023), I examine how authoritarian regimes portray international media as external threats - and when this hostility intensifies.
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
Free (first 50): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2MNPV...
Friends and enemies: external threats and the delegitimization of foreign media in China
There is substantial scholarship examining how states use negative propaganda and threat framing of outgroups to various ends, including popular mobilisation, diversion and scapegoating, and to del...
www.tandfonline.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Check out this new paper by @ucdpolitics.bsky.social PhD candidate @linettelim.bsky.social on how and why Chinese authorities portray foreign media as a threat, and why it matters.
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My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
How do democracies weigh intelligence and counterterrorism cooperation with autocracies? My study with Stephan Lau of German views on ties with Egypt shows that reports of rights abuses and meddling reduce public support. First fifty copies free! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PublicOpinion
Public Opinion on Intelligence and Counterterrorism Cooperation between Democracies and Autocracies: The Case of German-Egyptian Relations
The literature on international intelligence and counterterrorism cooperation increasingly covers the strategic challenges and moral hazards that democracies face in their interactions with authori...
www.tandfonline.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:57 PM
How do democracies weigh intelligence and counterterrorism cooperation with autocracies? My study with Stephan Lau of German views on ties with Egypt shows that reports of rights abuses and meddling reduce public support. First fifty copies free! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PublicOpinion
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Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
February 10, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
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Really excellent point. A lot of political/influencer grift stems from blocked ambition. They couldn’t make it via the normie route, but feel they deserve more.
So they grift.
So they grift.
”What turns people into radical jihadist clerics? A new book suggests thwarted career ambitions. A subset of Muslim clerics who advocate for jihad started out as mainstream clerics looking for state-sponsored jobs…only to become unemployed, disenchanted, and radicalized” news.mit.edu/2017/why-som...
February 8, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Really excellent point. A lot of political/influencer grift stems from blocked ambition. They couldn’t make it via the normie route, but feel they deserve more.
So they grift.
So they grift.
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🎉 I am excited and grateful to share that the second chapter of my dissertation is now forthcoming in the @thejop.bsky.social.
it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
1/9
it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
1/9
Religious Elites, (Non)Politicization, and Intergroup Attitudes among Muslim Immigrants in Germany | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
February 2, 2026 at 4:14 PM
🎉 I am excited and grateful to share that the second chapter of my dissertation is now forthcoming in the @thejop.bsky.social.
it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
1/9
it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
1/9
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Plagiarism detection on 500k publicized Chinese dissertations uncovers widespread hidden misconduct that predicts adverse political selection and poorer civil service performance, from Zhuang Liu, Wenwei Peng, and Shaoda Wang www.nber.org/papers/w34747
January 31, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Plagiarism detection on 500k publicized Chinese dissertations uncovers widespread hidden misconduct that predicts adverse political selection and poorer civil service performance, from Zhuang Liu, Wenwei Peng, and Shaoda Wang www.nber.org/papers/w34747
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Ever scrolled through a social media debate and felt like someone was pulling the strings? Dozens of different profiles, different tones, different identities — all converging on the same narrative, as if it were self-evident.
Some of this noise can now be generated by AI swarms.
1/7
Some of this noise can now be generated by AI swarms.
1/7
AI Swarms and the New Front of Cognitive Warfare
Multi-agent systems are reshaping the information ecosystem to undermine liberal democracies
civiceconomist.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Ever scrolled through a social media debate and felt like someone was pulling the strings? Dozens of different profiles, different tones, different identities — all converging on the same narrative, as if it were self-evident.
Some of this noise can now be generated by AI swarms.
1/7
Some of this noise can now be generated by AI swarms.
1/7
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Authoritarian regimes have increased their share of global CO2 emissions and now account for >60%, with implications for climate governance
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 27, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Authoritarian regimes have increased their share of global CO2 emissions and now account for >60%, with implications for climate governance
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Im Sommer werden wieder zwei Gedenkstättenfahrten angeboten. Alle Infos und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung findet ihr hier: www.bvb.de/de/de/aktuel...
Anmeldungen für Gedenkstättenfahrten nach Auschwitz und Lublin
Borussia Dortmund bietet im Sommer 2026 zwei Gedenkstättenfahrten auf den Spuren der deportierten Jüdinnen und Juden aus Dortmund an. Interessierte können sich bis zum 3. März für die Bildungsreisen a...
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January 23, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Im Sommer werden wieder zwei Gedenkstättenfahrten angeboten. Alle Infos und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung findet ihr hier: www.bvb.de/de/de/aktuel...
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📢 We’re hiring: Research Fellow – Financial Crime Policy
RUSI is seeking an experienced Research Fellow to lead our work on financial crime policy, tackling issues from money laundering and fraud to terrorist and proliferation financing.
Apply by 9 February: https://bit.ly/4odf9fA
RUSI is seeking an experienced Research Fellow to lead our work on financial crime policy, tackling issues from money laundering and fraud to terrorist and proliferation financing.
Apply by 9 February: https://bit.ly/4odf9fA
January 21, 2026 at 9:57 AM
📢 We’re hiring: Research Fellow – Financial Crime Policy
RUSI is seeking an experienced Research Fellow to lead our work on financial crime policy, tackling issues from money laundering and fraud to terrorist and proliferation financing.
Apply by 9 February: https://bit.ly/4odf9fA
RUSI is seeking an experienced Research Fellow to lead our work on financial crime policy, tackling issues from money laundering and fraud to terrorist and proliferation financing.
Apply by 9 February: https://bit.ly/4odf9fA
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Good news - I'm hiring at Durham University!
1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness.
Details 👇👇👇
1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness.
Details 👇👇👇
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Space Security
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
January 20, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Good news - I'm hiring at Durham University!
1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness.
Details 👇👇👇
1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness.
Details 👇👇👇
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“Figures compiled by staff in 8 major eye hospitals and 16 emergency departments across [Iran] reveal that at least 16,500-18,000 people have been killed and 330,000 to 360,000 injured…At least 700 to 1,000 people have lost an eye.”
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
www.thetimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:24 AM
“Figures compiled by staff in 8 major eye hospitals and 16 emergency departments across [Iran] reveal that at least 16,500-18,000 people have been killed and 330,000 to 360,000 injured…At least 700 to 1,000 people have lost an eye.”
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
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Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
January 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
“We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.”
(Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)
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🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
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🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science
⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026
🙋♀️ Any questions, please reach out
👇
⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026
🙋♀️ Any questions, please reach out
👇
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
December 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science
⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026
🙋♀️ Any questions, please reach out
👇
⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026
🙋♀️ Any questions, please reach out
👇
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Join us! Wir bieten eine volle Promotionsstelle für drei Jahre @powimz.bsky.social - Verlängerung um weitere drei Jahre möglich. Alle Details hier 👇
FB 02 – Innenpolitik und Politische Soziologie
Wir forschen und lehren zu Themen der (deutschen) Innenpolitik und der Politischen Soziologie. Dazu gehören vor allem die Wahl-, Einstellungs- und Parteienforschung. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt unserer Abteilung sind die Gebiete Rechtsextremismus, Rechtsradikalismus und Rechtspopulismus.
innen.politik.uni-mainz.de
December 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Join us! Wir bieten eine volle Promotionsstelle für drei Jahre @powimz.bsky.social - Verlängerung um weitere drei Jahre möglich. Alle Details hier 👇
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There's been much speculation about the 1,000 tons of #yellowcake removed by convoys from Arlit #Niger since late November. This article suggests they have been airlifted by a Russian military Antonov in several flights, via the al-Khadim airbase in eastern #Libya and Turkish airspace, to Russia.
Inside Russia's Air Route for Transporting Uranium from Niger via Libya and Syria
Aboard an Antonov, from Niamey to Moscow: the long journey of yellowcake extracted in Arlit and purchased by Rosatom. Stopovers in Libya and Syria, and the decoy of a cargo ship waiting in Lomé
www.ilfoglio.it
December 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
There's been much speculation about the 1,000 tons of #yellowcake removed by convoys from Arlit #Niger since late November. This article suggests they have been airlifted by a Russian military Antonov in several flights, via the al-Khadim airbase in eastern #Libya and Turkish airspace, to Russia.
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🫵WE WANT YOU 🎓
Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes?
Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas
Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes?
Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas
Vacancy — Postdoc: "Role of Social Norms and Norms Transgression in the Acceptance of Negative Campaigning"
<p><span>Are you passionate about political communication, election campaigns, and quantitative empirical research? The Amsterdam School of Communication Research is seeking a highly motivated Postdoc for the research project<em> ‘That’s (not) appropriate’– Role of Social Norms and Norm Transgression in Voters’ Acceptance of Negative Campaigning, </em></span><span>led by Dr. Corinna Oschatz.</span></p>
werkenbij.uva.nl
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🫵WE WANT YOU 🎓
Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes?
Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas
Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes?
Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas
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PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/
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📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de!
Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher
3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026
Please share widely 🙏
Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher
3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026
Please share widely 🙏
Postdoctoral Research Position
Deadline: 15.12.2025
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November 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
📣 We're hiring a postdoc in political science for our ReJust project @uni-konstanz.de!
Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher
3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026
Please share widely 🙏
Project with Dirk Leuffen @leuffen.bsky.social and Urs Fischbacher
3-year position | Deadline: Dec. 15, 2025 | Start: April 2026
Please share widely 🙏
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🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....