Salam Alsaadi
Postdoc @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social | Authoritarianism, contentious politics, MENA region.
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- Reposted by Salam AlsaadiHappy to see this out in the world! In a nutshell: people are more willing to support violence when they don't see readily available nonviolent alternatives.
- Very happy to see my paper, "Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies", finally out in the American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social Quick thread below🧵
- Reposted by Salam Alsaadi🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc
- Reposted by Salam AlsaadiA few further thoughts on Trump's Syria announcement. First, beyond the obvious benefit for Syrians, it might have a broader impact: it demonstrates, for the first time I can remember, that American sanctions aren't a one-way ratchet. They can be lifted if conditions change. 🧵
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- Personal news- I’ll be joining the University of Georgia’s Department of International Affairs as an Assistant Professor in 2026, after a postdoc at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center this year. I’m really excited for these next steps and deeply thankful to everyone who’s supported me along the way.
- New in @foreignaffairs.com: We explore why justice for Assad’s victims is essential for Syria’s stability, and why getting it right is no easy task.
- Reposted by Salam AlsaadiExcited to share my new article in the American Journal of Political Science (@ajpseditor.bsky.social)! "Endogenous Opposition: Identity and Ideology in Kuwaiti Electoral Politics" explores how authoritarian elections generate opposition to incumbent autocrats. Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ukrer...
- Reposted by Salam AlsaadiVery excited that our article about the redistribution of political power within precolonial institutions under indirect colonial rule is available on First View @apsrjournal.bsky.social @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- Reposted by Salam AlsaadiI'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
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- Reposted by Salam AlsaadiFunny that rulers-for-life buy fleets of super-expensive cars but stash them in giant garages where they collect dust b/c they can't take them out for joyrides. Not standard luxury cars accessible to bourgeois consumers but "halo" rides like Maybachs, Bentleys, etc. www.cnn.com/2024/12/10/w...
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- The speed at which loyalist Asadists, including journalists, politicians, and social media accounts, flipped sides is staggering. They abandoned 13 years of blind support as cowardly as Assad himself fled. This happens in all collapsing dictatorships, but the speed of it here is just unbelievable.
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- Reposted by Salam AlsaadiBasic background resources for those who not familiar with Saydnaya (also Sednaya/Seydnaya/Sadnaya) & other notorious Syrian prisons such as Tadmor (destroyed 2015), Mazzeh (Air Force Intelligence/Mazzeh Mil Airport), & Qism Falastin (Palestine Branch/Branch 235). The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6
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- It took 13 years of incredible revolution, war, displacement, and devastation, but the Assad family's 54-year brutal rule has finally ended today. 12 million displaced people and refugees can now return home, and thousands of prisoners have been freed. Truly extraordinary!
- Reposted by Salam AlsaadiTo all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you. Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.
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- "Under the guise of saving refugees, the UAE is running an elaborate covert operation to back one side in Sudan’s spiraling war—supplying powerful weapons and drones, treating injured fighters and airlifting the most serious cases to one of its military hospitals", according to many officials.
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- Reposted by Salam AlsaadiThe latest issue of MERIP is out: "Journalism and Activism in an Age of Transnational Repression." I had a blast editing this issue alongside an exceptional group of editors: Ayça Alemdaroğlu, Marc Owen Jones, and Kevin Schwartz.
- Reposted by Salam AlsaadiMenasky Polisky The APSA MENA organized section is migrating its social media presence to Bluesky. Scholars working on the region, please join, forward, and tell your networks.
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- Sharing my article in Comparative politics! I introduce “competitive involvement” as a specific type of international involvement during transitions: when multiple states intervene to support opposing sides. I develop this theory through a structured comparison of Egypt (mainly), Sudan &Myanmar. 1/5
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