Kieran Williams
Comparative political scientist. Author of books on the 1968 "Prague Spring", intelligence services, electoral systems, Václav Havel.
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- Reposted by Kieran WilliamsA UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before. More > tcnv.link/q09MFqr
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- Reposted by Kieran WilliamsNew from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
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- Reposted by Kieran WilliamsPlease chip in for winter warmth for the students at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv Uni! gofund.me/eba202aac
- How a 1993 pseudo-documentary predicted (sort of) our current crisis kdwilliams7.medium.com/how-a-1993-p...
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- Reposted by Kieran Williams“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris. hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
- Reposted by Kieran WilliamsI'm moved to see Mark Carney take his inspiration from Václav Havel in his superb speech at Davos. Well worth reading the entire speech: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
- Reposted by Kieran WilliamsIn a decision that could invite a deluge of lawsuits over certifying results, SCOTUS allowed federal candidates to challenge the election laws. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson warned the ruling would only further politicize the courts.
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- Reposted by Kieran WilliamsArticle with @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social "NATO Did Not Cause Putin’s Imperial War” is now available for free @twqgw.bsky.social website: twq.elliott.gwu.edu See 🧵below for preview.
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- Reposted by Kieran WilliamsRight let's breakdown this new poll for Wales because there is a lot going on below the headline figures. [Thread]
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- For the arrival of November, some thoughts on George Smiley, Horace Rumpole, and flabby liberalism. kdwilliams7.medium.com/smiley-rumpo...
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- Reposted by Kieran WilliamsWith her extraordinary work—in collaboration with her husband, Peter—no one has done more to promote Slovak literature in the anglophone world than @juliasherwood.bsky.social And this latest translation of powerful short stories about the atrocity and violence of the Second World War is a triumph.
- On International Translation Day, we are delighted to introduce our collaborator in the Modern Slovak Classics series, the London-based @juliasherwood.bsky.social. She is not only active as a translator but also as a tireless promoter of Slovak and Czech literature abroad.
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- Reposted by Kieran WilliamsIn the data on drone and missile strikes by fascist Russia on democratic Ukraine since Trump took office, you can literally see Putin test Trump, gauge the reaction, and then test more - each time raising the intensity of his attacks.
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- Reposted by Kieran WilliamsMatching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman nber.org/papers/w34170
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