Dov H. Levin
@dovlevin.bsky.social
Asso. Professor of IR, HKU. Foreign election interference (& interventions)|Strategic Public Diplomacy| FP preferences| US Foreign Policy| War & Peace. Book on foreign election interference "Meddling in the Ballot Box" at OUP. Opinions are mine only
Attending APSA 2025? Looking for interesting panels to attend on Friday and Saturday afternoon? Interested in public diplomacy? I will be presenting two papers on this topic at APSA (1 on whataboutism vs. shaming & 1 on symbolic public gift diplomacy) that may interest you!
September 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Attending APSA 2025? Looking for interesting panels to attend on Friday and Saturday afternoon? Interested in public diplomacy? I will be presenting two papers on this topic at APSA (1 on whataboutism vs. shaming & 1 on symbolic public gift diplomacy) that may interest you!
And the winner of the most stupid decision made by the US government in 2025 (so far) is...
August 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
And the winner of the most stupid decision made by the US government in 2025 (so far) is...
If this is what Sam Altman considers Ph.D level AI (an AI that does basic 8th grade math mistakes) I expect his ASI/Machine god when invented to have the intelligence of an average 100 IQ human at most...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
August 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
If this is what Sam Altman considers Ph.D level AI (an AI that does basic 8th grade math mistakes) I expect his ASI/Machine god when invented to have the intelligence of an average 100 IQ human at most...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Social media is full of ignorance, but the level of ignorance in Middle East history for this prominent commentator on US politics to write this particular tweet...
June 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Social media is full of ignorance, but the level of ignorance in Middle East history for this prominent commentator on US politics to write this particular tweet...
Prediction- if there is actually eventually a Trump visit to China this year it will be, at least in part, for the early September military parade the Chinese government is planning to do this year marking 80 years to the end of WW2 in the Pacific. Military parade fan Trump won't miss it
June 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Prediction- if there is actually eventually a Trump visit to China this year it will be, at least in part, for the early September military parade the Chinese government is planning to do this year marking 80 years to the end of WW2 in the Pacific. Military parade fan Trump won't miss it
David Brooks, an Iraq War supporter, argues in favor of a universalistic US national identity by claiming that being an American requires US FP to promote democracy abroad, continue Ukraine war forever & meddle in other countries politics. No wonder his neocon faction lost to Trump within GOP /1
May 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
David Brooks, an Iraq War supporter, argues in favor of a universalistic US national identity by claiming that being an American requires US FP to promote democracy abroad, continue Ukraine war forever & meddle in other countries politics. No wonder his neocon faction lost to Trump within GOP /1
Left out as an option by Vance: China correctly identified crypto as only good for scams & speculation & banned it to protect citizenry from it- as a smart, welfare enhancing government should
www.scmp.com/tech/blockch...
www.scmp.com/tech/blockch...
May 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Left out as an option by Vance: China correctly identified crypto as only good for scams & speculation & banned it to protect citizenry from it- as a smart, welfare enhancing government should
www.scmp.com/tech/blockch...
www.scmp.com/tech/blockch...
Vast majority of AI experts believe that key assumption of Biden & Trump Admins on AI- that we are about to develop soon AGI/humanlike AI- is very unlikely to happen soon & lack needed tech. A major US foreign policy is based, as usual, on inaccurate premises.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...
May 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Vast majority of AI experts believe that key assumption of Biden & Trump Admins on AI- that we are about to develop soon AGI/humanlike AI- is very unlikely to happen soon & lack needed tech. A major US foreign policy is based, as usual, on inaccurate premises.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...
This comedic skit (in English) by a Chinese comedian who is also a good trump impersonator, does a pretty good job of describing humorously Trump's dumb logic regarding international trade
April 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This comedic skit (in English) by a Chinese comedian who is also a good trump impersonator, does a pretty good job of describing humorously Trump's dumb logic regarding international trade
IR scholar BDM famously claimed that rulers in some authoritarian regimes give key supporters selective benefits to maintain their support. Trump's sudden shift on tariffs sure seems to have such a selective benefit via advance info to key supporters so they can recoup losses & even make some gains
April 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
IR scholar BDM famously claimed that rulers in some authoritarian regimes give key supporters selective benefits to maintain their support. Trump's sudden shift on tariffs sure seems to have such a selective benefit via advance info to key supporters so they can recoup losses & even make some gains
When I read this list of options by a senior WH aide (Miran) yesterday it reminded me of Thucydides description in the Peloponnesian wars of how Athens turned the Delian league from a voluntary defensive alliance into a defacto extractive empire /1 www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
April 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
When I read this list of options by a senior WH aide (Miran) yesterday it reminded me of Thucydides description in the Peloponnesian wars of how Athens turned the Delian league from a voluntary defensive alliance into a defacto extractive empire /1 www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
Are you a graduate student planning to present a paper at the 2025 APSA conference on an IR/Foreign Policy topic? Need some funds to cover costs of attending? APSA's Foreign Policy section travel grant is there just for you- Apply Now!
April 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Are you a graduate student planning to present a paper at the 2025 APSA conference on an IR/Foreign Policy topic? Need some funds to cover costs of attending? APSA's Foreign Policy section travel grant is there just for you- Apply Now!
New talking point by Trump Admin: US (also) imposed high tariffs on Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in Asia w/17 million ppl, because Cambodia supposedly stole trillions of dollars from American workers. The level of shamelessness is simply out of the roof... /1 x.com/RapidRespons...
April 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
New talking point by Trump Admin: US (also) imposed high tariffs on Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in Asia w/17 million ppl, because Cambodia supposedly stole trillions of dollars from American workers. The level of shamelessness is simply out of the roof... /1 x.com/RapidRespons...
The Department of Politics & Public Admin at HKU
is hosting an empirical research conference May 16-17. We aim to bring together scholars doing exciting, cutting-edge research in Asia & beyond.
PPA will cover transport & accommodation for nonlocal presenters.Details attached & link in tweet below:
is hosting an empirical research conference May 16-17. We aim to bring together scholars doing exciting, cutting-edge research in Asia & beyond.
PPA will cover transport & accommodation for nonlocal presenters.Details attached & link in tweet below:
April 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The Department of Politics & Public Admin at HKU
is hosting an empirical research conference May 16-17. We aim to bring together scholars doing exciting, cutting-edge research in Asia & beyond.
PPA will cover transport & accommodation for nonlocal presenters.Details attached & link in tweet below:
is hosting an empirical research conference May 16-17. We aim to bring together scholars doing exciting, cutting-edge research in Asia & beyond.
PPA will cover transport & accommodation for nonlocal presenters.Details attached & link in tweet below:
The hypocrisy of the Trump Administration in sanctioning any foreign officials whatsoever for corruption while in office* is truly out of this world...
*(irregardless of whether claims are true or not...)
*(irregardless of whether claims are true or not...)
March 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The hypocrisy of the Trump Administration in sanctioning any foreign officials whatsoever for corruption while in office* is truly out of this world...
*(irregardless of whether claims are true or not...)
*(irregardless of whether claims are true or not...)
A headline I didn't expect to see in my lifetime in a mainstream BRITISH newspaper- the 20th century is truly and definitely over... www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
March 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A headline I didn't expect to see in my lifetime in a mainstream BRITISH newspaper- the 20th century is truly and definitely over... www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
One of the nicest things at #ISA2025 was getting at @fpa-isa.bsky.social reception for my reviewing of some articles for the @fpajrnl.bsky.social journal a free t-shirt by FPA editor Brian Lai. some more nice gestures like that by academic journals & they will find it much easier to get reviewers.
March 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One of the nicest things at #ISA2025 was getting at @fpa-isa.bsky.social reception for my reviewing of some articles for the @fpajrnl.bsky.social journal a free t-shirt by FPA editor Brian Lai. some more nice gestures like that by academic journals & they will find it much easier to get reviewers.
Are you at the #ISA2025? Curious about what does the Russian (& UK) publics think about interference by their governments in foreign elections elsewhere in the world? Today at 1:45 (MC72) you will have an opportunity to find out!
March 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Are you at the #ISA2025? Curious about what does the Russian (& UK) publics think about interference by their governments in foreign elections elsewhere in the world? Today at 1:45 (MC72) you will have an opportunity to find out!
Revenge is a dish best served cold- Greece edition
February 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Revenge is a dish best served cold- Greece edition
Lots of good reasons to oppose Musk & team's actions in US government-but after 2024 complaints of US becoming a gerontocracy, framing issue w/Musk's team as being young dumb. Do Democrats want, post Tiktok debacle, further alienate genZ by implying unworthy of significant involvement in politics?
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Lots of good reasons to oppose Musk & team's actions in US government-but after 2024 complaints of US becoming a gerontocracy, framing issue w/Musk's team as being young dumb. Do Democrats want, post Tiktok debacle, further alienate genZ by implying unworthy of significant involvement in politics?
This Kirk quote on why US should take Greenland sounds like its taken verbatim from a historians book on US fighting Spanish-American war b/c of masculinity issues. change "low testosterone" language to older equivalent term "femininized male" and this could be say a 1897 quote by Henry Cabot Lodge😮
January 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This Kirk quote on why US should take Greenland sounds like its taken verbatim from a historians book on US fighting Spanish-American war b/c of masculinity issues. change "low testosterone" language to older equivalent term "femininized male" and this could be say a 1897 quote by Henry Cabot Lodge😮
In my MA in mid 2000s I wrote thesis on what led US to expand territorially in North America in 19th cen. & what led N.America to become peaceful & eventually published part of it in II. Never thought that my research on this topic would be so DIRECTLY relevant
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
December 26, 2024 at 12:49 PM
In my MA in mid 2000s I wrote thesis on what led US to expand territorially in North America in 19th cen. & what led N.America to become peaceful & eventually published part of it in II. Never thought that my research on this topic would be so DIRECTLY relevant
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Good news- majority of Americans oppose killing of CEOs of legal yet controversial businesses
Bad news- among 45 & under (e.g. most future US electorate) pro-CEO killing side only 10% behind anti murder side- on par w/unpopular but mainstream opinions such as restrictions on 2nd trimester abortions🧵
Bad news- among 45 & under (e.g. most future US electorate) pro-CEO killing side only 10% behind anti murder side- on par w/unpopular but mainstream opinions such as restrictions on 2nd trimester abortions🧵
December 14, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Good news- majority of Americans oppose killing of CEOs of legal yet controversial businesses
Bad news- among 45 & under (e.g. most future US electorate) pro-CEO killing side only 10% behind anti murder side- on par w/unpopular but mainstream opinions such as restrictions on 2nd trimester abortions🧵
Bad news- among 45 & under (e.g. most future US electorate) pro-CEO killing side only 10% behind anti murder side- on par w/unpopular but mainstream opinions such as restrictions on 2nd trimester abortions🧵
If Trump is reelected we should prepare, in the health sphere, for the American version of Lysenko being in charge of US public health infrastructure...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
November 4, 2024 at 3:10 AM
If Trump is reelected we should prepare, in the health sphere, for the American version of Lysenko being in charge of US public health infrastructure...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
For class on US politics, I went through Americanists predictions of 2024 US Election results (fresh at PS) using various traditional fundamentals models.Their models also expecting race to be very close predictions all over place. Political Science justifies the nail eating this time #AcademicSky 🗺️
October 30, 2024 at 11:43 AM
For class on US politics, I went through Americanists predictions of 2024 US Election results (fresh at PS) using various traditional fundamentals models.Their models also expecting race to be very close predictions all over place. Political Science justifies the nail eating this time #AcademicSky 🗺️