Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of International Relations at @UniStrathclyde. He/him.

Glasgow, Scotland
Joined April 2008
Peekaboo culture is so toxic. This dude just straight up disappeared behind his hands mid conversation and then shows up again like it’s no big deal? And yeah I’m giggling and it’s funny as fuck. But that does NOT make this kind of behavior okay
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@VandyPoliSci congratulates Prof. & @VUDataScience affiliate Cassy Dorff (& @gallopmax & Shahyar Minhas) on winning 2023 Political Ties Award from @PolNetworks for @BJPolS article "Network Competition and Civilian Targeting during Civil Conflict." Congratulations!!
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The password game is out now! Good luck 👹 > neal.fun/password-game/
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We're pleased to announce that Cassy Dorff, @gallopmax, and Shahryar Minhas have won this year's Political Ties Award for “Network Competition and Civilian Targeting during Civil Conflict.” Congratulations!
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@VandyPoliSci congratulates Prof. & @VUDataScience affiliate Cassy Dorff (& @gallopmax & Shahryar Minhas) on winning @PolNetworks 2023 Best Paper on Political Networks Award for @BJPolS publication "Network Competition and Civilian Targeting During Civil Conflict."
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Max Gallop retweeted
I have no idea why but for some reason I tried to imagine Darth Vader asking Kendall Roy to brainstorm ideas post Death Star destruction
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#OpenAccess from our new issue - Network Competition and Civilian Targeting during Civil Conflict - cup.org/42K8IpJ - Cassy Dorff (@VandyPoliSci), @gallopmax & Shahryar Minhas (@MSU_poli_sci)
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Also want too mention @gallopmax (who was Co-author and joint winner was @zacdgreene), @amysarahking, @gizemarikan and @MatteoCasiraghi who was also Co-authors on the shortlist but were unable to attend #psa2023. Some really fantastic articles!
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Replying to @BritJPIR
@BritJPIR @Richard_Hayton Last panel of the conference was the John Peterson Award winning article panel. The winners who attended were @zacdgreene with the excellent short listed authors @defnegunay3 @clift_ben @_SeanMcDaniel and Rosemary Foot. Fantastic panel #PSA2023
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Can’t believe you forgot Milwaukee.
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Max Gallop retweeted
There's "how to lie with graphs" and then there is "how tell huge George Santos style whoppers with graphs." This is this is the second thing.
An analysis looks at how defense spending among the nations with the highest expenditures has changed since 1992 and what may have driven the changes ow.ly/MyOx50MwEyF
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While this information is correct, the graph is poorly formatted, with a separate Y-axis on the right-hand side which only applies to the US budget. This may make it seem like China has a higher military budget than the US, when the reverse is true. data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.M…
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Buying twitter for $44 billion to make it worthless in the span of 2 weeks is the closest elon musk will get to donating money
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Promised thread: The reason we wrote this paper is because, while there are great articles exploring the strategic logic of killing civilians, they generally assume a dyadic conflict between government and opposition. (1/10)
Thrilled to see this article in print. Maybe my favorite article, thread on it later today.
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We also found that the effect of network competition on victimization is not just statistically significant int he direction our theory predicted, it also has a large substantive effect (9/10)
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So again: a conflict where you have many groups all fighting each other is likely more dangerous for civilians than an equally violent conflict where many groups are fighting a common target, or a conflict that is polarized between two blocs. (10/10)
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