Susan Hannah Allen
@ladyprofessor.bsky.social
"I ain't never worked for a lady professor before but you seem all right."
Professor of Political Science, University of Mississippi
Professor of Political Science, University of Mississippi
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🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?
My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).
A thread (1/n)
My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).
A thread (1/n)
July 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?
My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).
A thread (1/n)
My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).
A thread (1/n)
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Global Value Chains, structural theory, and cool methods? This paper by Juan Acevedo-Ossa has it all! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The indirect effects of structural power: Political diffusion in the global value chain network
In the past few years, scholars have focused on how states use Global Value Chains (GVCs) to weaponize economic and political interdependencies. However, the unintended political consequences stemm...
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August 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Global Value Chains, structural theory, and cool methods? This paper by Juan Acevedo-Ossa has it all! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Check out this article from our Afghanistan war symposium: Air Power International Organizations and Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan - Susan Allen, (@ladyprofessor.bsky.social) Sam Bell, Carla Martinez Machain (@carlammm.bsky.social) #OpenAccess #SpecialIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
July 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Check out this article from our Afghanistan war symposium: Air Power International Organizations and Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan - Susan Allen, (@ladyprofessor.bsky.social) Sam Bell, Carla Martinez Machain (@carlammm.bsky.social) #OpenAccess #SpecialIssue journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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In this new paper, Youngsang Lee shows how US presidential visits can slow the pursuit of nuclear proliferation.
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Leader visits and nuclear pursuit
How can nuclear pursuits be effectively reduced? Existing research primarily focuses on traditional policy instruments such as security guarantees and coercion, despite their inherent limitations. ...
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July 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
In this new paper, Youngsang Lee shows how US presidential visits can slow the pursuit of nuclear proliferation.
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Sick of all tariffs in the news? Tyler Coleman explores non-tariff barriers in his new paper and asks what impact do domestic politics have on the use of non-tariff barriers?
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Over the long horizon: Party institutionalization and antidumping trade remedies
International political economy scholarship has documented that non-traditional barriers to international trade have proliferated since the 1970s. Contemporary explanations attribute these trends t...
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July 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Sick of all tariffs in the news? Tyler Coleman explores non-tariff barriers in his new paper and asks what impact do domestic politics have on the use of non-tariff barriers?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Love the musical Grease and Sanctions? Well, if so this new paper by @peiyuwei.bsky.social on substitutability and multilateral sanctions will be the ONE that YOU WANT www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
You’re the one I want: Substitutability, policy preference divergence, and the cost of multilateral sanctions
Under what conditions do sanction-sending states choose to form coalitions? Do the same determinants that affect military sanction coalition formation affect how coercive economic coalitions are fo...
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July 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Love the musical Grease and Sanctions? Well, if so this new paper by @peiyuwei.bsky.social on substitutability and multilateral sanctions will be the ONE that YOU WANT www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is providing to be true...
Pretty sure this week will be my max productivity for the whole summer... Not sure whether to be impressed by past self or preemptively disappointed in my future self
July 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This is providing to be true...
Pretty sure all my co-authors should let me write bios for them. In print now: "His research interests include political methodology, economic sanctions, and Taylor Swift. In his spare time, he conducts endless unit root tests and ponders the nature of uncertainty." Guess who?
July 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Pretty sure all my co-authors should let me write bios for them. In print now: "His research interests include political methodology, economic sanctions, and Taylor Swift. In his spare time, he conducts endless unit root tests and ponders the nature of uncertainty." Guess who?
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Check out cool new work by @tobiasrisse.bsky.social on rivalries and arms control!
Out now @intlinteractions.bsky.social:
In my new article, I find that rivalries with major powers tend to decrease minor powers' support for arms control. Why? See abstract below 👇 or here for the full article: doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2025.2518394
#armscontrol
#conflictsky
#polisky 🗺
In my new article, I find that rivalries with major powers tend to decrease minor powers' support for arms control. Why? See abstract below 👇 or here for the full article: doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2025.2518394
#armscontrol
#conflictsky
#polisky 🗺
June 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Check out cool new work by @tobiasrisse.bsky.social on rivalries and arms control!
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Out now @intlinteractions.bsky.social:
In my new article, I find that rivalries with major powers tend to decrease minor powers' support for arms control. Why? See abstract below 👇 or here for the full article: doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2025.2518394
#armscontrol
#conflictsky
#polisky 🗺
In my new article, I find that rivalries with major powers tend to decrease minor powers' support for arms control. Why? See abstract below 👇 or here for the full article: doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2025.2518394
#armscontrol
#conflictsky
#polisky 🗺
June 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Out now @intlinteractions.bsky.social:
In my new article, I find that rivalries with major powers tend to decrease minor powers' support for arms control. Why? See abstract below 👇 or here for the full article: doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2025.2518394
#armscontrol
#conflictsky
#polisky 🗺
In my new article, I find that rivalries with major powers tend to decrease minor powers' support for arms control. Why? See abstract below 👇 or here for the full article: doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2025.2518394
#armscontrol
#conflictsky
#polisky 🗺
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How do individuals respond to the threat of economic sanctions? Using a survey experiment in Turkiye, @efetokdemir.bsky.social, Menevis Cilizoglu, Omer Zarpli explore how targeted publics respond to sanctions threats.
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To punish or to reward? The effect of sanction threats on public opinion
How do individuals respond to the threat of economic sanctions? Under what conditions do the target population demand policy concessions, and when do they rally behind their beleaguered leader? We ...
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June 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
How do individuals respond to the threat of economic sanctions? Using a survey experiment in Turkiye, @efetokdemir.bsky.social, Menevis Cilizoglu, Omer Zarpli explore how targeted publics respond to sanctions threats.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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@intlinteractions.bsky.social Congrats!!!
🏆 Congratulations to Weidong Zhang for winning the 2025 Best Conference Paper Award for "The Importance of Money and Connections: Explaining International Status from UNGA Draft Sponsorship Networks," published in International Interactions @weidong.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
@intlinteractions.bsky.social Congrats!!!
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How do major geopolitical shocks shape state birth? A new article finds that great power shocks (like WWI, WWII, Cold War’s end) spark secessionist “bubbles”—many new bids for independence, few successes. @KyungwonSuh @RyeGriffiths & @SevaUT www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hegemonic shocks and patterns of secession
Studies of secession typically focus on domestic factors that produce independence movements, such as the role of ethnic divides or the concentration of material resources. But motivations for sece...
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June 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
How do major geopolitical shocks shape state birth? A new article finds that great power shocks (like WWI, WWII, Cold War’s end) spark secessionist “bubbles”—many new bids for independence, few successes. @KyungwonSuh @RyeGriffiths & @SevaUT www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Can we measure naming and shaming? @ghashiakiyani.bsky.social @yuanzhouir.bsky.social & Charles Crabtree show us how in www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Quantifying women’s rights naming and shaming: A novel text-as-data approach
This research note introduces a novel methodology for quantifying naming and shaming practices in the context of women’s rights, utilizing a corpus of 10,760 human rights reports from the US State ...
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June 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Can we measure naming and shaming? @ghashiakiyani.bsky.social @yuanzhouir.bsky.social & Charles Crabtree show us how in www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pretty sure this week will be my max productivity for the whole summer... Not sure whether to be impressed by past self or preemptively disappointed in my future self
May 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Pretty sure this week will be my max productivity for the whole summer... Not sure whether to be impressed by past self or preemptively disappointed in my future self
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How does a sudden increase in imports affect support for environmental policies? There is some evidence that an increase in import competition can lead to more pro-environmental votes in the US. Why? To find out more, check out new work by @rgpark.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Is trade the enemy of environment?: Congressional voting on environmental policies after the China shock
How does trade competition affect support for environmental protection? On the one hand, import shocks can dampen support for environmental protection, as international trade can lead to a race to ...
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May 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
How does a sudden increase in imports affect support for environmental policies? There is some evidence that an increase in import competition can lead to more pro-environmental votes in the US. Why? To find out more, check out new work by @rgpark.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Do female suicide terrorists choose different targets? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Women Suicide Terrorism: The Strategic and Tactical Logic of Civilian Killings
A growing body of research indicates that women are increasingly involved in suicide attacks. These studies suggest that women, due to their seemingly innocent appearance, can more effectively targ...
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May 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Do female suicide terrorists choose different targets? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Do terrorist groups that actively claim credit for their violence thrive? @ilaydaonder.bsky.social and Nazli Avdan and Aaron Hoffman explore this question in a new paper in II! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Credit claims and the survival rates of terrorist organizations
This study investigates the relationship between terrorist credit claims and government counterterrorism efforts, focusing on the impact of claims on group survival. Using data from the Extended Da...
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May 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Do terrorist groups that actively claim credit for their violence thrive? @ilaydaonder.bsky.social and Nazli Avdan and Aaron Hoffman explore this question in a new paper in II! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How do we know when terror splinter groups will survive? 🐕🦺TOTOS🐕🦺 and Wendland have answers! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Introducing the tracking of terrorist organization splintering (totos) dataset
What explains why some splinter groups are highly violent, capable, and durable, while others are not? Although existing scholarship provides important insights into the causes and consequences of ...
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May 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
How do we know when terror splinter groups will survive? 🐕🦺TOTOS🐕🦺 and Wendland have answers! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Which cities become arenas for violent contestation after war? Me and @rokon-uddin.bsky.social study this question in a newly published article in @intlinteractions.bsky.social. A key takeaway: Postwar urban violence is not just a continuation of war. doi.org/10.1080/0305... (1/5)
Unpacking Urban (Dis)Continuities of Postwar Violence
Which cities become arenas for violent contestation after war? A growing literature has documented how conflict-related violence often continues after the formal end of armed conflict, and also tha...
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April 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Which cities become arenas for violent contestation after war? Me and @rokon-uddin.bsky.social study this question in a newly published article in @intlinteractions.bsky.social. A key takeaway: Postwar urban violence is not just a continuation of war. doi.org/10.1080/0305... (1/5)
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Does public demand for economic sanctions exist? If so, what factors shape this demand? Check out this new paper by @claywebb.bsky.social & Cora Caton www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A Public Demand Theory of Economic Sanctions
A number of theories about the effectiveness, design, and targeting of economic sanctions highlight public perceptions of economic sanctions as an important factor influencing foreign policy decisi...
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May 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Does public demand for economic sanctions exist? If so, what factors shape this demand? Check out this new paper by @claywebb.bsky.social & Cora Caton www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How low can you go?? Do warring countries gain anything from low credibility false flag operations? Dov Levin explores these ideas in a new article in International Interactions.
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How Low Can You Go? The Effects of Low Credibility False Flag Incidents on International and Domestic Approval for Interstate Wars1
What are the international and domestic effects of low credibility false flag incidents? One way in which wars occasionally start (as in the case of the 2022 Ukraine war) is with false flag inciden...
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April 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
How low can you go?? Do warring countries gain anything from low credibility false flag operations? Dov Levin explores these ideas in a new article in International Interactions.
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Are Foreign Firms Good for the Environment? Ana Carolina Garriga & Muzhou Zhang focus on protected areas to explore how FDI might affect biodiversity.
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Are Foreign Firms Good for the Environment? FDI and Protected Areas
Despite the coexistence of three trends—increased economic integration, a dramatic reduction in biodiversity, and the implementation of national policies to reduce extinction risks—we know little a...
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March 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Are Foreign Firms Good for the Environment? Ana Carolina Garriga & Muzhou Zhang focus on protected areas to explore how FDI might affect biodiversity.
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Does corruption within the police & military increase the likelihood that government security forces will be associated with sexual violence against civilians?Margaret Adelia Avera says YES! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Corruption Among Government Security Forces and Sexual Violence Against Civilians
Does corruption within the police and military increase the likelihood that government security forces will be associated with sexual violence against civilians? I conduct a cross-national analysis...
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March 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Does corruption within the police & military increase the likelihood that government security forces will be associated with sexual violence against civilians?Margaret Adelia Avera says YES! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"Columbia will remain the college of no king."
Drezner's World has never published anything not written by the hard-working staff. Until now. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond.
Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.
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March 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Columbia will remain the college of no king."