Oren Samet
@realosamet
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Opposition parties, civil society, and authoritarianism in Southeast Asia and beyond. PhD candidate @UCBerkeley. Formerly @ASEANMP @Altsean @CarnegieDCG
Joined September 2012
đ¨ Excited to share new work just published in @AJPS_Editor! I look at opposition coalitions and electoral performance in authoritarian regimesâand show how near-victories can create problems for both oppositions and democratic prospects. Brief 𧾠on the findings; link below
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Time is a flat circle in Thai politics.
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And here we are again. 20 years after protesters rallied against PM Thaksin Shinawatra that ended in a military coup; 11 years after many of the same people rallied against Thaksin's sister Yinglick that also ended in another military coup; today thousands of Thais rallied
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Iâd wager few on the left have much empathy for Elon, so I think this statement is incorrect.
Elon Musk: "The fundamental moral flaw of the left is empathy for the criminals and not empathy for the victims."
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I got really great feedback at this workshop from @ginopauselli and others. Would highly recommend to others working on IOs and adjacent topics within IR!.
We had an amazing semester! A special thanks to all the discussants for their invaluable feedback and support to our speakers! .-- .@ginopauselli @sbrazys_ucd @Kentikelenis
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RT @politico: Exclusive: Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to gut the State Departmentâs human rights bureau as part of a sweeping reorgâŚ.
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There's more: plans include a deputy assistant secretary for âDemocracy and Western Valuesâ and an office of ânatural rightsâ that will âground the departmentâs values-based diplomacy in traditional Western conceptions of core freedomsâ. Sounds familiar!
The Trump administrationâs references to âshared values,â a call for partnership in promoting âfreedom,â and a commitment to standing up for âthe peopleâ bear striking similarities to prior U.S. foreign-policy pronouncements, @realosamet argues.
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New details on the Trump admin's plan to gut the State Dept's democracy and human rights bureau (DRL). 80 percent staffing cut, but also "calls for the creation of new positions that reflect the adminâs cultural lurch to the right in foreign policy".
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RT @ForeignPolicy: The Trump administrationâs references to âshared values,â a call for partnership in promoting âfreedom,â and a commitmenâŚ.
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Hereâs @SecRubio invoking âfree speech rightsâ and criticizing foreign governmentsâ domestic policies. classic example of the âvalues-basedâ foreign policy I talk about in my @ForeignPolicy piece below
Excited to share my new piece just out in @ForeignPolicy:. We keep hearing Trumpâs foreign policy abandoned âvaluesâ for raw interests. But thatâs not quite right. It still talks about âfreedomâ and âvaluesâ - just repurposed to serve a new agenda. 𧾠(Gift link in next tweet)
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Well this really drives my point home. Just hours after @ForeignPolicy published piece highlighting the ânew values-based foreign policyâ, the @StateDept puts out this. The rhetoric of values persists and is repurposed, even as we assume itâs all transactional âdealsâ
Excited to share my new piece just out in @ForeignPolicy:. We keep hearing Trumpâs foreign policy abandoned âvaluesâ for raw interests. But thatâs not quite right. It still talks about âfreedomâ and âvaluesâ - just repurposed to serve a new agenda. 𧾠(Gift link in next tweet)
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Excited to see this out in @ForeignPolicy today. We tend to think Trumpâs foreign policy is purely transactional. But the rhetoric of âfreedomâ and âshared valuesâ hasnât gone away. Itâs just been redirected toward a very different agenda. đ.
Itâs increasingly difficult to understand Trumpâs foreign policy without an ideological lens.
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RT @ForeignPolicy: Itâs increasingly difficult to understand Trumpâs foreign policy without an ideological lens.
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Check out the full piece here @ForeignPolicy:.Appreciate your shares, thoughts, and feedback. /END.
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Ultimately, you canât fully understand the Trump administrationâs foreign policy unless you see how deeply it still relies on the rhetoric of *values*.
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So no, Trumpâs foreign policy isnât just âAmerica Firstâ in a narrow, transactional sense. Itâs pushing a new moral order. One that just canât quit the language of freedom and shared values.
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The new approach is unapologetically moralistic. Often more so than the traditional "values-based" foreign policy we're used to. Itâs willing to intervene, name enemies, and define right and wrong across borders. Just ask Germany, South Africa, or the UK.
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To be clear: this isnât the only driver of Trump-era foreign policy. Plenty of decisions are still shaped by personal loyalty or economic interests. But this moral framing shows up more than many observers acknowledge - and it matters.
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You can see the shift in practice:.đżđŚ Aid cut to South Africa over land reform.âď¸ White South Africans prioritized for resettlement.â Criticism of EU privacy regulations and UK hate speech laws. All justified using language about "rights violations", "genocide," etc.
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The new values include:. - Free speech absolutism. - Anti-"woke" conservatism. - Defense of âWestern civilizationâ. Itâs not the end of values in U.S. foreign policy. Itâs a pivot to new ones while relying on familiar tropes. Echoing a "values-based" foreign policy of old.
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