Now on #FirstView, from Jesse Johnson and @thescottwolford.bsky.social, "Unrest, Shifting Power, and Death-Watch War."
International Organization
@iojournal.bsky.social
International Organization is peer-reviewed journal, covering a wide range of topics in international relations and global politics. Editorial team: @bashleyleeds.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @peterrosendorff.bsky.social @aysezarakol.bsky.social
A new essay by @jonastallberg.bsky.social, @stefwalter.bsky.social and Michael Zürn discusses what we know about the patterns and causes of, and responses to, such contestation, as well as avenues for future research.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Have you ever wondered about what we know about the broad patterns, the causes, and the consequences of contestation of IOs?
We – @jonastallberg.bsky.social, Michael Zürn and I – did and therefore set out to take stock of the state of the art.
Our review is out now in @iojournal.bsky.social.
New from @mnagawa.bsky.social sky.social (@stanfordcddrl.bsky.social) examines how aid affects recipient governments. Using evidence from >600 officials in Uganda, she finds that better-funded donor projects divert bureaucratic effort away from core functions and leave departments more divided.
It is bellicist theory audited at the level of the ledger book using a design equal to the difficulty of its own data. The committee chose this article because it exposes a blind spot in a major theory of the state by asking, plainly and inconveniently, for whom.” Congrats!!! [4/4]
"Using newly digitized fiscal records and a name-based reconstruction of who actually died for France, they show that colonial subjects who bled in the same trenches as French settlers came home to communes that spent no more, often less, on the relief that mobilization was supposed to buy..."[3/4]
The award citation notes, “Historians of the welfare state have long told a story in which war is a great leveler. Mass mobilization begets citizenship, and citizenship begets social rights. Koehler-Derrick and Lee take that story to French Algeria and, commune by commune, watch it fail..."[2/4]
Congrats to Gabe Koehler-Derrick & Melissa Lee, winners of the @apsa.bsky.social French Politics group's 2026 Stanley Hoffman Award, given for the best article in French Politics for the years 2023-2024. [1/4]
New to #FirstView from Jeremy Bowles, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick & Michael Olson, on how variation in landowners’ group identity has important implications for the provision of local public goods.
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