Alexander Sorg
Postdoc, Harvard University | European security, nuclear umbrellas
- Reposted by Alexander Sorg⏳ 1 week to go! Don’t miss this fascinating research talk. 👉 Register here: lnkd.in/dise8SeE
- Incredible energy (derogatory)
- Oh no! Anyways, here is my take on what the second paragraph on page 23 of the US National Security Strategy means for the future of transatlantic relations 🤗 ..1/28
- It is largely useless to infer anything from official foreign policy documents under this 🇺🇸 administration. Europe is suppossed to take the lead on Ukraine? Well, only until Trump decides to have another half baked peace proposal drafted over night that forces Ukraine to disarm of course etc etc
- ✨✨trademark bargaining strategy✨✨
- Watch out ICELAND 🙂
- Reposted by Alexander SorgRussland nimmt den Menschen in der Ukraine Licht und Wärme. Die Folge für alle, die hier leben: es ist dunkel und kalt. Auf der Arbeit, draußen, zu Hause. Ich habe versucht, das in einem kurzen Video für euch festzuhalten.
- It would be an ironic turn in Alfred Nobel's legacy if we are about to be hit by "The Great Nobel War"
- Make America Obese Again ✨
- Just to note: the number of people who tolerate a website designed to promote racist and fascist content, and which allows child abuse, just to engage in self-promotion is actually insane
- Many are just waking up to the Grok-nonconsensual images story as these pictures began flooding X over the holidays, but here’s our piece from Jan 2 featuring a victim, Julie Yukari, who was brave enough to speak on the record and on camera: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
- Reposted by Alexander Sorgmusk could livestream himself shooting someone and journalists, technologists businessmen, and politicians using x would barely bat an eye
- Reposted by Alexander Sorg🚨 Calling nuclear security scholars! 🚨 The Hertie School Centre for International Security is now accepting paper proposals for its Nuclear Security Workshop 2026, taking place 25 – 26 June 2026 at the Hertie School in Berlin. Find out more: www.hertie-school.org/en/news/allc...
- I frequently have conversations with officials (and sometimes experts) from various European NATO countries who insist that the US wants Europe to shoulder more of the burden, but that otherwise nothing has changed. When Pete Hegseth came to Europe he was actually ✨really nice✨. Great 😊
- Reposted by Alexander SorgCongressional Democrats have implored members of the military to reject any illegal orders they may receive. President Trump has responded with Truth Social posts reading "HANG THEM" and “punishable by DEATH.” Weary voters just want both sides to turn down the temperature.
- Reposted by Alexander SorgSorry to be obnoxious about this but all the criticisms of Grok's blatant pro-Musk tuning ring just absurdly hollow if no one is actually willing to give up directly contributing to Elon Musk's website and in doing so, creating the conditions that make millions of people use the fucking chatbot
- Reposted by Alexander SorgIn DIE ZEIT, our postdoc researcher Christian Gläßel & Adam Scharpf draw troubling parallels between ICE’s raids, rapid hiring & loyalty incentives and past authoritarian regimes, showing the importance of personnel decisions in driving repression. 📖 Read more: lnkd.in/d4vvTHyq
- Reposted by Alexander SorgThe Stanton Foundation awards a new major grant to @hertieschool.bsky.social's Centre for International Security, funding annual Stanton Fellowships & the Frank Stanton Distinguished Visiting Chair to grow nuclear security research & transatlantic collaboration. Read More → lnkd.in/dNega9gP
- Just found this fascinating 2019 poll conducted by Pew Research. Unfortunately, this question does not appear to have been repeated since then.
- Reposted by Alexander Sorgi now believe in the Chinese century
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- Reposted by Alexander SorgNEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
- Reposted by Alexander SorgThis might be the clearest example ever of media false equivalence ever where literally the entire leadership of the Republican Party, which currently controls every branch of the Federal government, insists Donald Trump was cheated in 2020 vs like four podcasters in a trenchcoat doing 2024 BlueAnon
- Reposted by Alexander SorgThese four types of political violence are all unacceptable. The right can’t frame this as a left-wing issue. It’s an American problem—one that affects all sides, but hits harder on the right
- Reposted by Alexander SorgAvailable evidence suggests that Russia’s nuclear deployment to Belarus was primarily motivated by extended deterrence, but also by power projection to intimidate NATO & by desire for future arms control leverage - less by assurances, argues @alexsorg.bsky.social in The Nonproliferation Review 6/10
- Thanks @lanoszka.bsky.social for the kind words, and for reminding me to engage in SELF PROMOTION ☝️ Russian ☢️-deployments to Belarus are driven by 🇷🇺 interests: preventing interference in 🇧🇾 and using them as a lever against NATO. At least, that is what I deduce from the limited evidence available.
- A timely new article by @alexsorg.bsky.social looks at the reasons for why Russia might have positioned nuclear weapons in Belarus. As he puts it, it is "potentially the first new foreign nuclear-weapons deployment by any state since 1974." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Alexander SorgIt's not a big leap from the govt sending people to a death prison for having the wrong tattoo to blowing up 11 people that may or may not have had drugs on their boat.
- Reposted by Alexander SorgIn the context of debates on military capacities, this small research note uses the exact date of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an unexpected event during a survey to corroborate that willingness to fight rises with proximity to conflict (cf. doi.org/10.1017/eis.2025.12) Any feedback is welcome!
- A Threat Next Door? Causal Evidence that Russia's Invasion Increased Willingness to Fight in the Czech Republic but Not in Uruguay: osf.io/p6xf4
- Reposted by Alexander SorgIsrael is assassinating journalists
- Reposted by Alexander SorgThis is one of those moments when the hollowness of our democratic systems becomes visible to the public. Facts are verified, but deliberation is pure performance, and accountability is nowhere. The system absorbs truth without ever acting on it.
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- @gtconway.bsky.social So much for holding firm.
- Reposted by Alexander Sorg@gtconway.bsky.social So much for holding firm.
- Reposted by Alexander SorgDie #rechtsextremen Minister der #israelischen Regierung werden in den deutschen Medien oft erwähnt, aber selten zitiert. So hört sich das an. Und es sag bitte keiner hinterher, dass man ja nichts wusste. Es ist bekannt und veröffentlicht, denn sie halten ja mit nichts hinter'm Berg. #Staatsräson
- Reposted by Alexander SorgEs ist peinlich, dass die Union jetzt Macron kritisiert, statt endlich Druck gegenüber der israelischen Regierung aufzubauen. Erinnert mich daran, wie man jahrelang Macron kritisierte, weil er die strategische Autonomie Europas forderte, aus Angst, die USA zu verprellen.
- Reposted by Alexander Sorg"Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israel Defence Forces, without a doubt. "Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.” youtube.com/watch?v=72aZ...
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- Reposted by Alexander SorgJust an all timer that captures this era of journalism. Imagine it applied to any other example of war crimes or ethnic cleansing in history.
- Reposted by Alexander Sorgthe regularity of this makes it brutally clear it's the result of deliberate policy, something confirmed by Haaretz reporting - www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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- Reposted by Alexander SorgThe conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
- I spoke with Deutsche Welle about 🇪🇺 willingness to fight. Two caveats: 1) What people say in surveys does not necessarily reflect how they would act 🪖 2) Many participants support defending their state if attacked - but do not support military missions abroad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqK0...
- Happy Graduation 🎉🎉
- Ciao Kakao as we say in Germany 👋
Donald Trump eskaliert weiter gegen Harvard. Ohne internationale Studierende verlieren US-Universitäten eins ihrer Fundamente. Hätte ich nicht die Chance gehabt, ein Jahr an der Ohio University zu verbringen, wären die USA wohl nie zu meiner zweiten Heimat geworden. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
- Unpopular opinion: Wenn zwei Atommächte sich in einen Krieg eskalieren sollte das mehr Aufmerksamkeit bekommen
- "Konflikt zwischen Atommächten: Indien greift mehrere Ziele in Pakistan an Indien hat nach Angaben des Verteidigungsministeriums in Neu Delhi mehrere Ziele in Pakistan angegriffen. Bei den Zielen handele es sich um "terroristische Infrastruktur", so das Ministerium" www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asie...
- There are - to be fair - plenty of better ways to spend your day than reading our article. But since most of you are just doomscrolling Bluesky anyway, you might as well give it a read ⬇️
- Name a better way to spend today than reading "Fighting for their country: How proximate conflict shapes citizens’ attitudes" from @alexsorg.bsky.social, @wolfgangwagner.bsky.social, and @profonderco.bsky.social. Freshly published and open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- More than happy to see this published. If you are interested in trends in citizens’ willingness to fight 🪖 and why they might occur: read below ⬇️
- Together with @alexsorg.bsky.social and @wolfgangwagner.bsky.social , we have a new paper out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social in which we argue that proximate conflicts increase individual willingness to fight for one's country. Read now in Open Access www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- This article from 2000 entails a pretty decent description of current developments www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Alexander SorgVery fortunate to be able to attend a fantastic panel including my amazing MTA colleague @rabsaa.bsky.social on “Limited Nuclear War” at the @carnegieendowment.org’s annual nuclear conference.
- Heading to Carnegie’s #nukecon If anyone is around and wants to meet up, let me know ✌️
- Reposted by Alexander SorgWith long-standing alliances under strain, France’s nuclear capabilities are back in focus. warontherocks.com/episode/the-...
- NYT outdoing itself once again
- Have not heard from Attac in a while
- The Heritage Foundation is correct here though. Time to bring back the Davy Crockett
- Reposted by Alexander SorgThe percentage of U.S. voters over the years who consider Canada and the EU to be ‘unfriendly’ or ‘an enemy’. It is very surprising that in less than a year so many Americans suddenly realized that Canadians and Europeans are their enemies.
- Reposted by Alexander SorgThe president of Princeton is standing up for academic freedom in the face of this onslaught: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... The president of Harvard is not. Good for Princeton and its leadership. A bad day for Harvard, on many levels.
- Shared responsibility? Read my latest on how 🇪🇺 nuclear use decisions could be coordinated in a Signal group chat ⬇️ warontherocks.com/2025/03/forc...
