Genevieve Bates

New working paper w/ @hannafolsz.bsky.social In 2025, Trump targeted US law firms for their political opposition Some firms resisted by suing Trump. Others folded by agreeing to support the administration w/ pro bono work Resisting firms took a short term financial hit but improved reputations

The International Criminal Court has unsealed arrest warrants against four senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of the crime against humanity of gender persecution against women, girls and members of the LGBTQI+ community in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power in 2021.

📢 Call for Papers! We will host MidWEPS-XIII on November 20th, 2026 at UW-Madison. Submit your papers on the political economy of the developing world. Application Link: forms.gle/xM6q65Js84Hj... MidWEPS Website: sites.google.com/view/mweps/h...

🚨🚨Reminder that today is the deadline to submit your paper for the ISA Human Rights Section best grad paper award! If you’re a #polisky or #humanrights grad student who presented at #ISA2026, this is your chance! Self-nominations encouraged.

As a reminder for all #polisky grad students: if you presented at #ISA2026, the Human Rights Section has a best grad paper award. Deadline is AUGUST 15. For more info see: isanet.org/Programs-Res...

As a reminder for all #polisky grad students: if you presented at #ISA2026, the Human Rights Section has a best grad paper award. Deadline is AUGUST 15. For more info see: isanet.org/Programs-Res...

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

My book, Taming the Careerists, will be published by Cambridge University Press this September! There is growing debate over whether federal employees should be easier to dismiss in order to make them more responsive to presidential directives. What would be the consequences of such a change?

Re-upping this now that we're almost a month out. Deadline is August 15th! #polisky #ISA2026 #humanrights

Re-upping this now that we're almost a month out. Deadline is August 15th! #polisky #ISA2026 #humanrights

...ICC members need to operate on the assumption that the US is fundamentally opposed to ideas of international justice and accountability. And that opposition is robust, across time and (hate to say it) often across parties. Maybe 2028 goes great and everything is fine. But that's a fools bet

Very excited to welcome these new fellows to @goodauth.bsky.social! goodauthority.org/news/new-voi...

Encode/Decode: Allison Carnegie, @rickyclark.bsky.social, @noahzucker.com use new #data to prove their theory that #populist #leadership helps to explain whether a state provides accurate information to #IOs. #anti-elitism #science #environment #PublicHealth doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

🚨 🚨Calling all #polisky grad students who presented at #ISA2026: I'm chairing the committee for the Human Rights Section’s Steven C Poe best grad student paper award. We are currently accepting nominations, including self-nominations, and all you have to do is email your paper to me!

DEADLINE IS AUGUST 15. For more information, see here: isanet.org/Programs-Res...

My department is hiring an assistant professor in political theory with a focus on American political thought and/or American constitutionalism jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!),…

New article: Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones meets James Scott’s legibility It’s actually about how states tapped archaeologists for early intelligence capabilities Check it out! “History, archeology, and espionage as improvised legibility” in @ejir.bsky.social coauthored with @asaxton.bsky.social

Orban has conceded!

Just Security is hiring an Editorial Assistant! Ready to bring your skills to a small, collegial team, supporting work that elevates the public conversation on law and policy? Learn more and apply!

From February 2026 - The Unequal Challenge of Learning from Under-Informative News - https://cup.org/461vHAT "findings shed light on the importance of considering heterogeneous preferences along ethnicities within the same racial ‘in-group’" - @atrexler.com #OpenAccess

Innovations in Human Rights Edited by @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social and Francesca Parente Contributors incude: @genbates.bsky.social @ajullmann.bsky.social @andrew.heiss.phd @aperezli.bsky.social @rjschoner.bsky.social Free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

Grateful for the support from RSF and @j-palna.bsky.social and excited to work on this project with @genevavalerie.bsky.social!

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Recontextualizing #Whiteness: Understanding White Identity in the Era of #Black #Lives #Matter By @genevavalerie.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran are either false or unproven. Here's a fact-check. nyti.ms/46tj8P5

It is sickening to think about what might happen next. Thinking of the people in the path of this folly, and of the people of Ukraine, who could have really used those munitions in year 5 of their brave resistance to Russian aggression. 9/9

“Trump’s use of the military and federal security forces to consolidate his domestic authority will, in the long run, undermine American power,” argue @dandrezner.bsky.social and @profsaunders.bsky.social.

🧵 New paper out in AJPS! "Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state" With @lbp2106.bsky.social, @wilsonprichard.bsky.social, @cdsamii.bsky.social, and Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra. doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 1/11

Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."

The #ICJ will hear the case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya from January 12-29, the first time the ICJ considers a genocide in a decade & one that will set precedents for South Africa’s case against Israel over the war in Gaza: www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Americans oppose the change to 'Department of War' and it's not especially close. @robertralston.bsky.social and I found that relatively few think the change will make America safer, focus the department's mission, or make it more lethal.