Erica De Bruin
@edebruin.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Hamilton College. Studying civil-military relations, civil war, policing. Author of HOW TO PREVENT COUPS (Cornell UP). www.ericadebruin.com.
A joyous protest in Utica today! My kid repurposed his Halloween costume 🐓
October 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A joyous protest in Utica today! My kid repurposed his Halloween costume 🐓
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This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
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📣 We are searching for a tenure-line assistant or associate professor with a focus on the intersection of technology and global and public affairs @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social — please share across your networks.
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs Apply by September 15.
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#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs Apply by September 15.
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Details - Assistant or Associate Professor, Global and Public Affairs - Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs | University of Denver
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August 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
📣 We are searching for a tenure-line assistant or associate professor with a focus on the intersection of technology and global and public affairs @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social — please share across your networks.
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs Apply by September 15.
jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs Apply by September 15.
jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
We are hiring in American Politics at Hamilton College this year! We're seeking a scholar of political institutions, broadly understood. Hamilton's been a wonderful place to work, & I'm happy to answer any questions about the position, department, life in upstate NY, etc. apply.interfolio.com/171832
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August 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We are hiring in American Politics at Hamilton College this year! We're seeking a scholar of political institutions, broadly understood. Hamilton's been a wonderful place to work, & I'm happy to answer any questions about the position, department, life in upstate NY, etc. apply.interfolio.com/171832
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Sharing my latest w/ the Conversation @africa.theconversation.com theconversation.com/coups-in-wes...
Coups in west Africa have five things in common: knowing what they are is key to defending democracy
Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.
theconversation.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Sharing my latest w/ the Conversation @africa.theconversation.com theconversation.com/coups-in-wes...
I’m currently building a dataset on police forces around the globe. No other country has a force quite like ICE (w/ broad enforcement powers, tactical gear, immigration focus); the most apt comparisons are to secret police in authoritarian regimes rather than border/immigration forces elsewhere.
@adamprz.bsky.social on ICE's authorities & operating procedures: "The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening."
WEEK 19
WEEK 19
adamprzeworski.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I’m currently building a dataset on police forces around the globe. No other country has a force quite like ICE (w/ broad enforcement powers, tactical gear, immigration focus); the most apt comparisons are to secret police in authoritarian regimes rather than border/immigration forces elsewhere.
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Thoughtful piece from @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social , who I believe is the only journalist I have spoken to (in my personal capacity as always) who had read my primer on US civ-mil www.vox.com/politics/416...
Trump’s military parade is a warning
Trump has caused a crisis in civil-military relations — one that could eventually threaten democracy’s foundations.
www.vox.com
June 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Thoughtful piece from @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social , who I believe is the only journalist I have spoken to (in my personal capacity as always) who had read my primer on US civ-mil www.vox.com/politics/416...
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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
I served on NSF review panels for 2 years, with incredible, dedicated colleagues who put immense effort into ensuring a rigorous review process. To see these grants terminated, and this careful work thrown out, is devastating. What a waste of time and talent. I am so sorry to everyone affected.
April 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I served on NSF review panels for 2 years, with incredible, dedicated colleagues who put immense effort into ensuring a rigorous review process. To see these grants terminated, and this careful work thrown out, is devastating. What a waste of time and talent. I am so sorry to everyone affected.
Oof, in a day filled with bad news on the NSF front, this one is particularly hard to take. Journeys has done so much to support and mentor women in international relations. Our whole field is worse off without financial support for it.
It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.
April 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Oof, in a day filled with bad news on the NSF front, this one is particularly hard to take. Journeys has done so much to support and mentor women in international relations. Our whole field is worse off without financial support for it.
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The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Elite civil society actors--universities, law firms, corporations--should take a look at the economic free-fall Trump has just caused and consider: is this someone who seems poised to consolidate further popular support? Is his power on the upswing, necessitating preemptive surrender?
April 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Elite civil society actors--universities, law firms, corporations--should take a look at the economic free-fall Trump has just caused and consider: is this someone who seems poised to consolidate further popular support? Is his power on the upswing, necessitating preemptive surrender?
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Join @stevelevitsky.bsky.social & me on April 3 at 4pm ET. We’ll catch up on the current state of backsliding and resistance in the US. Register below.
Backsliding and Resistance in the United States – Ash Center
In this webinar, Professors Erica Chenoweth and Steven Levitsky will discuss what can be learned from mobilization and opposition to autocracy in the United States based on historical examples, and wi...
ash.harvard.edu
March 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Join @stevelevitsky.bsky.social & me on April 3 at 4pm ET. We’ll catch up on the current state of backsliding and resistance in the US. Register below.
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They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues
Trump administration freezes $175 million in federal funding to Penn
According to a White House tweet, Wednesday's decision is a result of Penn's
www.thedp.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues
I can't access the USIP website anymore 😬
March 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I can't access the USIP website anymore 😬
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Friends, colleagues, everyone: This is a statement affirming the value of U.S. higher education in the face of Trump's attacks. Nearly 400 people have already signed. Please join us: Sign and share. Thank you! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education
Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...
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March 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Friends, colleagues, everyone: This is a statement affirming the value of U.S. higher education in the face of Trump's attacks. Nearly 400 people have already signed. Please join us: Sign and share. Thank you! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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From our new issue: "I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Help: Public Perceptions of Coercive State Power" by Jessica Blankshain, Lindsay Cohn, and Danielle Lupton. #APSRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From our new issue: "I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Help: Public Perceptions of Coercive State Power" by Jessica Blankshain, Lindsay Cohn, and Danielle Lupton. #APSRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It was a delightful surprise to hear political scientist Adom Getachew narrating the tour of Project a Black Planet, an exhibition on Pan-Africanism at the Art Institute of Chicago today. Turns out she was one of the curators. If you’re in town for #ISA2025, go check it out!
March 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It was a delightful surprise to hear political scientist Adom Getachew narrating the tour of Project a Black Planet, an exhibition on Pan-Africanism at the Art Institute of Chicago today. Turns out she was one of the curators. If you’re in town for #ISA2025, go check it out!
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I wrote angry about the purging of the US military. saideman.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-...
February 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I wrote angry about the purging of the US military. saideman.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-...
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If you're just learning about the Bolsonaro news, I strongly recommend reading @hsulli.bsky.social & @edebruin.bsky.social's piece in @goodauth.bsky.social that details the steps Bolsonaro and his allies took to prepare for losing the 2022 presidential election. goodauthority.org/news/brazil-...
February 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If you're just learning about the Bolsonaro news, I strongly recommend reading @hsulli.bsky.social & @edebruin.bsky.social's piece in @goodauth.bsky.social that details the steps Bolsonaro and his allies took to prepare for losing the 2022 presidential election. goodauthority.org/news/brazil-...
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“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.”
Everybody should read this. Talk about coups and the like is not helping, and in fact may give Trump what he wants. What does help is when you laugh at the foolishness of this strategy. He's setting himself up for a reckoning when things fall apart.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him (Gift Article)
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.”
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Psyched about the final proofs for this paper (w/ @edebruin.bsky.social @gabriellalevy2.bsky.social & Livia Schubiger).
As soon as the manuscript is up on the @apsrjournal.bsky.social website, I will do a thread describing the paper!
As soon as the manuscript is up on the @apsrjournal.bsky.social website, I will do a thread describing the paper!
January 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Psyched about the final proofs for this paper (w/ @edebruin.bsky.social @gabriellalevy2.bsky.social & Livia Schubiger).
As soon as the manuscript is up on the @apsrjournal.bsky.social website, I will do a thread describing the paper!
As soon as the manuscript is up on the @apsrjournal.bsky.social website, I will do a thread describing the paper!
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On the anniversary of the attempted coup in Brazil, @edebruin.bsky.social and I wrote about the coup plot, the continuing efforts to bring transparency and accountability, and how Brazil compares to countries across the globe. @goodauth.bsky.social
The investigation into Brazil's coup plot continues.
Brazil's election coup plot was well planned by Jair Bolsonaro and his allies, a police report finds. Was Brazil's democracy at risk?
goodauthority.org
January 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
On the anniversary of the attempted coup in Brazil, @edebruin.bsky.social and I wrote about the coup plot, the continuing efforts to bring transparency and accountability, and how Brazil compares to countries across the globe. @goodauth.bsky.social