The new year is off to a good start with a new affiliation. I am delighted to join The Forum for Regional Cooperation at @DayanCenter @TelAvivUni as a non-resident fellow. @UConnGlobal @UConn menacoop.org/

New diagram alert: It was a pleasure to visualize Birol Yeşilada and his colleagues' data-rich & prescient book “Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union” (2018) for the Visual International Relations Project (VIRP) led by Pat James. visualinternationalrelations…

2. I visited my alma mater @izmirekonomiuni @IEU_SBUI for 2 events: a career talk with grad students; a book talk to students & faculty. It was a full circle moment for me as I engaged with bright young minds & the excellent faculty/colleagues @Fbaskan35 @SerhunAl @AdisonmezUC

Last week in (academic) review: 1. I gave a book talk at Çukurova University’s PSIR Department in beautiful Adana. It was a well-attended and productive event as students and faculty asked terrific, at times piercing 🤓, questions. H/T @arikan_harun @brcsr_ @asliilgit.

Thrilled to be quoted in @UConn Today about our inaugural “Entrepreneurship through an Abrahamic Lens” course that brought together 45 students from the US, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Israel, Palestine, & Syria.@UConnGlobal @UConnCLAS @bengurionu @MENA_2050 today.uconn.edu/2025/08/ucon…

Happy to present our new research “Power Transition Theory: The View from Systemism” (w/ Yuzhu Zeng & Patrick James) at the TransResearch Consortium’s (TRC) 26th annual convention in Providence, RI. My first, & surely not the last, TRC experience. Terrific crowd & scholarship.

Happy to be quoted in this recent @UConn Today piece on our Abrahamic Hackathon, which brought together 42 participants from Israel, Palestine, Morocco, Bahrain, the US, and the UAE. @UConnGlobal @UConnCLAS Link: today.uconn.edu/2025/06/abra…

We, ⁦@UConnGlobal, were delighted⁩ to co-lead the inaugural Abrahamic Hackathon on water consumption with @TelAvivUni & many participating institutions from MENA. Double delighted to be quoted in this joint TAU-UConn press release. @UConn @UConnCLAS international.tau.ac.il/ucon…

ICYMI, our book talk, as the first installment of @isanet Foreign Policy Book Talk Series, "Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa" is now available on @YouTube. @OzgurOzdamar, @JKaarbo, @sarahwdorr, Pat James, Steve Walker @UConnGlobal @UConnCLAS youtu.be/b-pwbzoZqfU?si=hT5w…

Two @UConn POLS Profs, @sbdyson & Jeff Dudas, and a Guest Prof Farley @drfarls (with no extra charge 💰) React to #Andor (Season 2, Eps. 7–9) – Truth and Discipline youtu.be/K4G5AEsPt_s?si=YR4Z…… via @YouTube @UConnCLAS

We, @UConnGlobal & @UConn Political Science, are delighted to host Prof. @WajnerD this week. Looking forward to his talk on patterns and effects of global populism. @HebrewU @IAJournal_CH @UConnCLAS

This is how “ending with a bang” looks like in real life. Delighted to partake in this roundtable at #ISA2025 to discuss foreign policy-making under autocratization with great scholars and friends. @LiselHintz @SenemAydnDzgit and X-less others. 👏🏼@isanet @UConnGlobal @UConnCLAS

Please see my latest @MLInstitute policy paper on Syria: "Western nations must remain vigilant about the new Syrian government, which is led by a group, HTS, that adheres to Salafi jihadism. It will be best to take a “wait-and-see approach..." 3/1 macdonaldlaurier.ca/syrias-u…

Caveat: this post includes a personal story in lieu of academic one. 🤓Happy to be quoted in this timely @axios story on the sensibilities of international scholars on the eve of the 2nd Trump admin. t.ly/mdiH2 H/T @astridgalvan @isanet @UConnGlobal @UConn @UConnCLAS