Christina Cottiero

Christina Cottiero

@ccottiero.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. International organizations + international influences on autocracy/democracy. https://www.christinacottiero.com/ https://ucigcc.org/research/future-of-democracy/illiberal-regimes-and-glob

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Christina Cottiero
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🎉I'm excited to share my new article with @cjschneider.bsky.social, now online at International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social: “International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience.” Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S002... ✨🧵thread🧵✨

doi.orgInternational Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience | International Organization | Cambridge CoreInternational Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience

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Jeff Colgan
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Are you an IR prof feeling like the world's a hot mess and you're not quite sure how to teach global governance or international order? Well, ISQ has a new Special Section out, and my "Making Sense of Disrupted International Order" introduces it. Hope it's helpful!

academic.oup.comMaking Sense of Disrupted International OrderAbstract. The apparent turmoil in the US-led liberal international order has left international relations scholars without a settled framework for explaini
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For related blogs and working papers, and a new summer reading list of novels dealing with authoritarianism (fun), see our Illiberal Regimes in Global Governance project page here: ucigcc.org/research/fut... @ucigcc.bsky.social

ucigcc.orgIlliberal Regimes and Global Governance - IGCCThe rise of illiberal regimes is reshaping global and regional organizations and posing challenges to U.S. foreign policy. International organizations once firmly under the control of democracies are ...
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Exploratory Extension 2: Are Democratic IFIs Different? Here we do see divergent behavior. We see no consistent relationship between democratic IFIs' lending and domestic conflict in autocracies.

Christina Cottiero
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In sum, autocratic IFIs provide outside options of growing importance. Autocratic cooperation in global finance is an understudied phenomenon with real political consequences. We should pay more attention to these orgs, beyond just the AIIB.

Christina Cottiero
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What do we find re. how IFIs with autocratic principals target aid? We find that autocratic IFIs increase lending to autocratic governments when they face internal conflict or external democracy pressure. We also present two exploratory extensions.

Christina Cottiero
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Exploratory Extension 1: Do Autocratic IFIs Lend Differently to Democracies? It appears so. We find little evidence that autocratic IFIs direct loans to bolster political stability in democracies.

Christina Cottiero
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We introduce an original dataset covering 18 IFIs with predominantly autocratic members and track their lending across 143 recipient countries from 1967-2021. Some of these IFIs are not in AidData or OECD data. (We distinguish btwn hybrid orgs that are autocratic for part of their lifespan)

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We argue that autocratic IFIs' allocation strategy reflects shared interest among authoritarian members in reinforcing their own stability and that of like-minded autocracies by addressing key threats such as internal political conflicts and external threats such as democracy promotion.

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The Associated Press
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The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation.

bit.lyUS will exit dozens of international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperationThe Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations.
Christina Cottiero
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Helpful resource to share with graduate students! David Lake's guide to writing an academic political science article (I remember reading some version of this in the past) ucigcc.org/publication/... @ucigcc.bsky.social

ucigcc.orgHow to Write an Academic Article in Political Science - IGCCWhile each paper may be unique, the process of writing an academic paper is not (or does not have to be). In the hopes of helping to make the process more efficient and the final product more clear, c...

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Laurence H. Tribe
@tribelaw.bsky.social

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

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Charles Kenny
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State Department International Organizations Account, Outlays by Calendar Year Quarter ($m). International Atomic Energy Agency and the International Civil Aviation Organization doing OK. UN got about half of what it is owed. Other organizations do worse.

Christina Cottiero
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We'll also be posting a full professor/chair line, wide open field/research focus, soon 🎉 I can also chat about the full professor line at APSA Salt Lake City is a growing city right next to the mountains and we have a vibrant, research productive dept! I live 15 minutes from hiking and skiing ⛰️🚵‍♂️

Christina Cottiero
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New post summarizing the takeaways from the new book by @debremaria.bsky.social !

UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation@ucigcc.bsky.social

Multilateralism—once a tool for democratization—is now being used to cement authoritarian rule. For the IGCC blog, Maria Debre discusses how autocrats are banding together in “Dictators’ Clubs” to protect themselves from both internal and external threats: bit.ly/41H0f8L

bit.lyFive Questions on How Dictators’ Clubs are Defending Autocracy - IGCCAcross the world, authoritarian regimes are growing more assertive while democracies grapple with the challenge of backsliding. IGCC’s Stephan Haggard speaks with Maria Debre, professor for internatio...

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Jason "Red5" Lyall
@jaylyall.bsky.social

Hegemonic suicide, example #214. Trump fired all USIP employees (for a second time) in a dead-of-night email; USIP effectively dead once again

cnn.comUS Institute of Peace employees experience another round of mass firings following court ruling | CNN PoliticsEmployees at the United States Institute of Peace were terminated for a second time by the Trump administration, after a federal court ruling last month paved the way, according to multiple fired empl...
Christina Cottiero
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Utah drought management and water conservation policy is going great. Annual pray for rain day!

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com

Gov. Spencer Cox has asked Utahns, again, to join him in a "Day of Prayer and Fasting for Rain" as nearly all of Utah experiences drought conditions.

sltrib.comNearly all of Utah is in drought. Gov. Cox again asks Utahns to pray and fast for rain. Gov. Spencer Cox has asked Utahns, again, to join him in a "Day of Prayer and Fasting for Rain" as nearly all of Utah experiences drought conditions.
Christina Cottiero
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New 5 Questions piece on the Illiberal Regimes and Global Governance project page! On the super interesting new book by @alexdukalskis.bsky.social & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social ucigcc.org/research/fut... @ucigcc.bsky.social

ucigcc.orgIlliberal Regimes and Global Governance - IGCCThe rise of illiberal regimes is reshaping global and regional organizations and posing challenges to U.S. foreign policy. Organizations once firmly under the control of democracies are being forced t...
Alex Dukalskis@alexdukalskis.bsky.social

. @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and I answered 5 questions from @ccottiero.bsky.social for @ucigcc.bsky.social about our new book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics Check out answers here:

ucigcc.orgFive Questions on the Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics - IGCCAuthoritarian regimes are gaining ground—asserting influence in multilateral institutions and regional organizations, even those that are fundamentally democratic in character like the European Union ...