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Non-exhaustive list of (mostly) English-language books/articles related to Saudi Arabia:
Instagram:
@leberandrew
Tulane page:
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Let's see how Erick felt about "gay men and lesbians" this side of 2010.
Pride was never such a controversial thing when it was gay men and lesbians. Sure, there were issues, but no major public backlash till Pride also meant celebrating people with mental health disorders who bully those who disagree with them.
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I'm a professor
@Tulane
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I was present at the pro-Palestinian protest on campus.
I observed Tulane students engaging in peaceful & nonviolent demonstration.
Lift suspensions & drop charges.
We condemn the violent & disproportionate police response.
We stand with our students.
We stand with students and staff against the criminalization of speech and the militarization of campus.
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It is deeply telling that the Biden administration's only response to Akbar's detailed reporting is evasiveness and smear tactics.
20 hours after my deadline—now my story has been read by >150k people—WH has sent comment. Spox Adrienne Watson: "This story is not true. Quotes attributed to US officials are made up."
Watson played no role in my interviews.
My quotes are real. Biden team again echoing Trump.
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We stand with students and staff against the criminalization of speech and the militarization of campus.
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Ah yes, tell us more about "an illegitimate request made through force"
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.
@naimagreenriley
and I have a new paper out with
@SecStudies_Jrnl
entitled "Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad."
Available open-access - brief summary follows: (1)
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A shame that senior reporters
@peterbakernyt
and
@shearm
have no sense of solidarity with their colleagues.
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Excusing the shooting of three people holding a white flag is a shorter way of dismissing all civilian casualties as Hamas' fault.
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Leahy "sanctions" reflect the fact that the US will not provide equipment or training to the units named given their clear abuse of human rights in the West Bank (no comment on the Israeli military writ large).
Privileges revoked rather than punishment imposed.
Netzah Yehuda did bad things. Fullstop.
But did Israel sanction U.S. army battalions for war crimes in Iraq & Afghanistan?
And does USG sanction any other armies (Russia in Ukraine?!) that violate human rights?
Singling out Israel as election virtue-signal - Biden, we see you:
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@mikeduncan
On the other hand, easier and easier to explain to US students how the Iranian regime is governed in part by life-appointment, religious-inflected legal scholars.
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My hope is that top university administrators everywhere learn that pandering to bad-faith critics and against the principles of liberal education won't earn them any plaudits.
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Sometimes I find myself wanting to use this meme multiple times in the same day.
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@cd_hooks
People on here will tweet anything. 'Omar Bradley had hoes.' No he didn’t. That isn’t true.
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I eagerly away
@Tulane
's statement on
@WalterIsaacson
's conduct and how it will be addressed.
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Hopeful that we get to move on from 50 years of calling US political scandals "X-gate" to calling them "X-a-lago"
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.
@hashtagoras
has been a model example of a tenured faculty member standing on principle, showing up for students, and defending academic freedom in an increasingly hostile environment.
Prof. Davidai, on the other hand...
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Doesn't exactly inspire confidence that Brett McGurk's every understanding of the region is repeatedly proved wrong and yet the administration will lean on him all the more to lead on policy towards the MENA region.
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Couldn't agree more with my colleague
This language doesn’t represent the peaceful protests happening on campus.
Having mounted police charge at students setting up tents is unacceptable.
As a human right scholar, I support the right to peacefully protest and have been observing this evening.
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On the recently released Saudi Census 2022 and revisions to the 2010 Census contained therein.
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I've avoided commenting on this individual, but if you're calling for a "government takeover" of a private university (that isn't nationalization for the public good), maybe reconsider being in academia.
This what's happening at
@Columbia
right now.
I know it's confusing, so let me spell it out for you:
(a) Terrorism is an ideology.
(b) They are openly supporting terror.
(c) They are terrorists.
Terrorists have taken over Columbia University.
The government needs to take
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Threading some Iraqi perspectives on today's anniversary, starting with many of those (
@MarsinRA
@fanarhaddad
@SajadJiyad
) in
@CenturyIntl
's recent roundtable on the war's impact...
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Two great articles on Saudi Arabia and the OPEC+ cuts, from:
1)
@ProfessorKaren
on MBS’ Vision of a New Nonaligned Movement
2)
@kdiwaniya
on Saudi Arabia's New Nationalist Foreign Policy
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The new
#SaudiCensus2022
has a detailed breakdown of nationalities of those resident in the Kingdom (here showing every population with >100,000 residents reported).
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Maybe don't take policy guidance or moral cues from a professional dilettante and an amateur flasher.
Extraordinarily stupid and insulting to be arguing what kind of weapons or munitions Ukraine can use inside Ukraine to expel a foreign occupier. Grow up or shut up
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The existence of Michael Rubin's career should single-handedly kill any belief in a fully meritocratic US foreign policy expert community.
Written two years ago, while unlikely, this remains "nuclear option" if
#Pakistan
continues to support anti-US
#terrorism
, especially as US no longer needs Pak's assistance for
#Afghanistan
supply:
"Could Washington Support Balochistan Independence?"
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For another example of Noah being comically and astoundingly wrong due to his inability or unwillingness to research anything he says:
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.
@Max_Fisher
's final Interpreter column looks at the latest political science and historical research around the decision to invade Iraq, ft.
@ProfSaunders
&
@Madison_Schramm
+ articles by
@joestieb
,
@ahsanib
,
@JeffDColgan
& David Lake
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The challenge is that senior Middle East policy advisors have exactly one idea: get a deal with Saudi Arabia ironed out to force Netanyahu to moderate or break his coalition.
Not effort to update since Oct. 7, just keep running the same Hail Mary play from 15 yards, 30, 45...
NEW: A planned trip by Jake Sullivan, Brett McGurk & Amos Hochstein to Saudi Arabia—which I broke news of Monday afternoon—has been postponed indefinitely, per a US official. The Biden aides wanted to push forward a US-Saudi-Israel deal; suspect this has to do with Isr tensions.
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For some people it's all a little punditry game, for some people it's a war that destroyed the social fabric of the nation and left 100,000 dead.
Reading this article made me vomit uncontrollably, causing me to choke on my own vomit, and was rushed to a hospital unconscious, until I awoke, happened to see the same author's byline in a magazine by my bed, at which point I slipped into a rage coma
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What is it with these people
Great meeting with
@Columbia
professor and star economist Jeffrey Sachs. He shares my concerns about the war in 🇺🇦, we must avoid further escalation before it’s too late. Thank you for the visit, Professor!
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"In a sign of China’s growing influence, all parties agreed not to use English in the negotiations, with speeches and documents conducted in Arabic, Farsi or Mandarin."
@summer_said
@stephenkalin
@benoitfaucon
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"Retaliatory strikes would also increase the likelihood that the Israel-Hamas war will expand across the region and that the civil war in Yemen will resume." -
@AlexMStark
for
@ForeignAffairs
Don’t Bomb the Houthis
Careful diplomacy can stop the attacks in the Red Sea.
www.foreignaffairs.com
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For anybody teaching on "status anxiety" in IR the British press is generating a representative article a minute over Biden's Ireland trip.
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Is anybody interested in organizing a sidebar discussion at MESA about feasibility of fieldwork? Elizabeth Tsurkov's kidnapping, following several detentions & Giulio Regini's murder, suggests a need for transparent discussion about risks, precautions, oversight & advising.
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Would love for the wholesale destruction/ideological re-engineering of entire states' higher education system's to get 1/10 the national coverage of a single Ivy League department.
All faculty hiring will be done by the university board or president—who *may not delegate* any aspect of any hiring decision or any hiring authority to any group of faculty however constituted. They are “not required to consider recommendations or opinions of faculty.” 5/
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Bret Stephens is saying the quiet part out loud: it was easier to people like him to destroy an entire country than imagine an alternative to war.
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Pretty sure this site has hit the iceberg, please collect your valuables & keepsakes and eye the path to the lifeboats.
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Maybe this time is different, but this headline has run about 1-2 times a year for 10 years now.
The Iranian attack marks perhaps the most dangerous moment in the Middle East in recent years.
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A suggestion/plea to foreground the impact of the U.S. invasion of Iraq on Iraqis in any IR discussions tomorrow, please. We can stress the importance of theory & inquiry without sidestepping discussions of concequences & morality.
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Might be worth thinking through the 3rd-order implications for the US-Saudi relationship if the Democratic Party assumes Florida is a lost cause vote-wise.
Venezuela’s Maduro goes from being on US wanted list in 2020 ( $15 million reward for his capture), to shaking hands with John Kerry in 2022. Video from Egypt today at
#COP27
:
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@naimagreenriley
and I wrote up our recent
@SecStudies_Jrnl
article for
@ForeignAffairs
, updated with interesting polling from
@ChrisShell95
&
@CEIPStatecraft
+ the
@ChicagoCouncil
team including (incl.
@DeborahAvant1
,
@ckafura
,
@CandaceRondeaux
):
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Can't help but feel that this
@zackbeauchamp
article would have worked better as an explicit opinion piece arguing for what Zack wants to see in Israel, rather than cherry picked data points masquerading as holistic analysis.
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@MatthewSitman
For some reason covering up decades of child abuse comes across as a lot more offensive.
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Every trope some boomer policy Mandarin has said about the Middle East & North Africa for the entirety of my career in one convenient place.
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It's been sad to watch a good chunk of the Middle East Institute's output amount to little more than sponsored content for the military-industrial complex. Like what even is this?
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Pleased to announce that
@Tulane
's MENA Studies program will host
@vanish_forever
&
@RoulaSeg
on Dec. 1 (12noon CST) for an online discussion of developments in Qatar's labor laws/situation against the backdrop of
#WorldCup2022
RSVP here:
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A central conceit of the Biden administration is that they think they're out-maneuvering Netanyahu, when in fact they're being played again and again.
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"Tim Martin, owner of the popular low-cost pub chain Wetherspoons, was among the hardest campaigners for Brexit. Now, as he shuts 32 of his pubs, he is urging the government to increase EU migration. It’s beyond irony and into farce."
@liz_cookman
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Social media really lets you view how political leaders' cynical calculations become ironclad maxims in the worldview of their followers.
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Fun little campus-wide reminder from my institution today.
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Once again, there is a dire need for greater NYT/prestige pundit coverage of the wholesale destruction of entire STATES' public higher ed vs the personalities on a handful of Ivy league campuses.
the bill not only requires “schools to publish online syllabuses for all their classes” and specifies they be “searchable by keywords or phrases,” it says syllabi must include “a general description…of each lecture” and “Biographical information on the instructor”
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Happy to read over poli sci job-market school materials, provide my own from 2021, and offer general (if heavily caveated) advice for anybody on the market this year. aleber-at-tulane-dot-edu.
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I think the single most radicalizing experience of grad school was an interaction with a senior (v senior) faculty member in my field (but not institution) that made me realize just how out of touch some senior academic are with the job market and the job in general.
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"The Dayton accords and the program of privatization, and the political and economic problems they caused, emerged from the view that Bosnia needed to be saved by the West, but the promises the West made were never going to be fulfilled."
@thencarolsaid
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Rod "didn’t know that in an autocratic country like Orbán’s Hungary, friendly agents in the media... are not allowed to write down and publish exactly what they heard if it goes against the interests of their politicians/employers."
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Galen Jackson and I wrote for
@WarOnTheRocks
(some time in the making) about the strategic case for the Biden administration seriously pursuing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal (vs just going through the motions).
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Has anybody in, say, the American Political Development space written about the origins and implications of the federal government's vast contractor workforce (especially in the foreign policy realm)?
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.
@joshua_craze
for
@NewLeftReview
on the political machinations, international interests, and coalitional politics that led to the present conflict in Sudan.
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On 2 decades of U.S. policy towards Yemen...never managing to be about Yemen:
👇
My book has a cover!!!!
The Yemen Model looks at the U.S. approach to Yemen over the past two decades, and why it has failed.
It’s out in April, but you can pre-order it here or from your favorite bookstore:
@yalepress
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Tfw your legal and pr team have definitely earned their payday
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Event on
@AlexMStark
's amazing new book "The Yemen Model" - addressing years of failed U.S. policies in the MENA region through its policies towards Yemen - live in 1 hour with
@NewAmericaISP
. RSVP here for online attendance!
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"A one-state arrangement is not a future possibility; it already exists, no matter what anyone thinks." M Barnett, Nathan Brown,
@abuaardvark
@ShibleyTelhami
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Some final Cambridge-area pictures from around the time of my defense. Fuji Superia 400 film.
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The main theme of semester
#4
has been that academia doesn't leave me with the time or energy to do much of anything I valued about it.
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Feels like we need a theory of contrarianism ie why do folks (mostly dudes) sacrifice any credibility for being "edgy"
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The thing that gets me is they printed... Mardi-Gras-color shirts to make the point that "God Hates Mardi Gras"?
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"There will be many continuities [vs] changes in Saudi-Iranian relations.
However, the importance of the deal in building mutual trust and paving the way... toward regional integration cannot be underestimated."
@Divsallar
&
@HeshamAlghannam
@CairoReview
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It doesn't matter how many disclaimers you post about the independence of research outputs, if those outputs grow indistinguishable from the interests of donors then it undercuts the credibility of rest of the research
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The site is owned by an anti-Semite whose brain is rotting as we watch under the volume of posts he's scrolling through.
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@mierkezat
@fbizzarroneto
@MeredithDost
@KChriswell9
@HarryOppy
@justinpottle
@AvishayBSG
@briittavs_
@JacobHoerger
@YonSooPark1
@hannohilbig
@Reva__D
@SoubhikBarari
@naimagreenriley
@cantstopkevin
@alice_z_xu
@owoldemik
Adding this pic of Sean Ashley because I can't help myself.
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Much solidarity and thoughts for colleagues and students over at UVA.
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Thread on the Saudi census authority revising past population estimates, indicating that the 2010 census over-counted Saudi citizens by about 4 million.
بحسب مؤتمر الهيئة فإن عدد السعوديين كان 14 مليون في 2010 وهو رقم مخالف لعدد التعداد السكاني في ذلك العام والذي بنيت عليه كل تنبؤات النمو في اخر عقد زمني! بل مخالف لآخر مسح سكاني (لم اطلع بعد ع كامل التقرير)
-
وهذا يعني أن معدل الولادة تقريبا 24 لكل 1000 سعودي، ويعد رقماً عاليا!
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@7yhy
It's what you get if you search Getty images for "khalid salman" and do 0 additional research for your story.
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Tulane Political Science is seeking to hire an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Democracies.
Deadline: Sept. 15
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If you were due to present at APSA, focus on anything remotely in my expertise, and are now reconsidering (or otherwise can't make it), please DM or email and I'll work to either give you feedback or find somebody who can (as time permits).
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The situation cries out for comparative analysis of universities as political systems with variation in attributes and actions rather than as a monolith.
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They haven't learned a thing.
"The Iraq War was a national undertaking. Its broad domestic support owed in large measure to its advancement of the vital interests of state, as those were understood in relation to America’s stake in a decent and durable global order."
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A "values-based foreign policy"... but not the shared values you think!
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