Carl LeVan
@Dev4Security
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Professor/author: Nigeria, dictatorship + democracy, politics of pandemic mistrust, Boko Haram, constitution-making. Follow me at @democracyprofdc.bsky.soci
American University in DC
Joined January 2013
Dear friends - I am no longer active on Twitter / X. Please follow me on Blue Sky at @DemocracyProfDC
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OK. Let's be honest. Who is thinking about leaving Twitter for Threads? And who is planning on just trying to do both, on top of all the other media?
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Apply - Interfolio AU SPA has two methods positions and one comp pol (pol institutions)
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We are everywhere! Great to see @AU_SIS @phd_sis alumna Ela Rosmiller here at #CES2023 @CES_Europe in #Iceland. Lots of debates here on populism and its links to authoritarianism, especially in Poland.
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H.E. Guoni Th. Johannesson, President of #Iceland at @CES_Europe #CES2023 - humor is necessary in political discourse. Humor is fine when you make fun of people in power. It's a sign of confidence. It's very different when your jokes target those who can't defend themselves.
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H.E. Guoni Th. Johannesson, President of #Iceland at @CES_Europe #CES2023 How did Iceland prevail over UK in dispute over fishing rights? conservation, cynicism, commitment, global compassion, and cold war (leveraging history of close alliance with US), intl law
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H.E. Guoni Th. Johannesson, President of #Iceland at @CES_Europe #CES2023 on "Presidents and Academics, Nationalism and Objectivity"
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Excited to be attending my first #CES2023 conference at @uni_iceland! Join me on Wednesday for panel "European and American Responses to Post-Truth Populism" at 11 am in Askja w/Max Conrad et. al
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Congratulations to our Veronica Limeberry for winning an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! The project is "Measuring Impacts of Community Seed Banks on Nutrition, Food Security, and Food Sovereignty in Underserved Regions of the US Southeast and Southwest"
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Attending my first #CES2023. Would love to tweetup after panels on Tuesday about democratic backsliding, polarization and identity, and social mobilization etc.
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Excited to be attending my first #CES2023 conference at @uni_iceland! Join me on Wednesday for panel "European and American Responses to Post-Truth Populism" at 11 am in Askja w/Max Conrad et. al
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Congratulations to fantastic colleagues Andrew and Shahryar and thank you to my department and everyone who made this possible! Looks like I made it to the other side of tenure alive.
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In 1990, I was at a protest in front of the White House and I asked someone what the Gulf of Tonkin was. It was Daniel Ellsberg. He schooled me and went on to become an active member of Marc Raskin's national security seminar at GWU. Rest in Power. https://t.co/qfGYJfjfyC
washingtonpost.com
Disillusioned by the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg leaked a top-secret history of the conflict, the Pentagon Papers. It led to a landmark Supreme Court case.
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Note to self: add to syllabus for discussion of rational choice theory. "Cash-strapped Taliban selling tickets to ruins of Buddhas it blew up" https://t.co/Og6rYHr2q2
washingtonpost.com
Embracing the Bamian site is not only a gesture to archaeologists, Taliban officials suggest, but also a sign the regime is more pragmatic than during its first rule.
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NEW: U.S. lawmakers have asked the White House to punish South Africa because of intelligence suggesting that South Africa provided arms to Russia for the Ukraine war. They are asking the administration to move an important trade forum out of South Africa.
nytimes.com
South Africa is accused of helping supply Russia with weapons for the Ukraine war, a charge that South Africa denies.
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Remembering 30 years since June 12. Honouring #NigeriaDemocracyDay and the hard work of @CDDWestAfrica CLO, CRP, NADECO and many others whose sacrifices brought Nigerian political life closer to dignity and democracy
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"Tensions Mount in #Senegal" as Pres Sall cracks down on opponents and contemplates a 3rd term... https://t.co/PdDt9BokAh via @CFR_org
cfr.org
Last week, protests erupted in Senegal following a court decision that found opposition leader Ousmane Sonko guilty of “corrupting youth.” Sonko was sentenced to two years in prison, disqualifying a...
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SIS professor Sumitra Badrinathan @KhariBiskut weighs in on the dangers of health misinformation and health fads in developing countries in an article from @dailydot.
dailydot.com
The science is thin, but the hype is real.
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