🇹🇳Tunisian authorities have escalated their clampdown by targeting groups working on migration, asylum and racial justice, and again journalists and lawyers as part of a broader effort to dismantle #Tunisia 's civic space. Human Rights Watch
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J. Walsh, Beth Elise Whitaker, M. Ewers & I are hiring a new postdoc to join our growing team working on collective shocks and migration starting this summer.

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Wow - first public resignation of a US military officer over Biden's 'unconditional support' for Israel, which he says 'has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians.'

Major Harrison Mann:
nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/…

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'The international community must recognize that a self-coup presents a fundamentally different challenge than a conventional coup: The danger is a military that is overly obedient to a civilian, not one that flouts civilian control.'
Sharan Grewal
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'It is the powerful and politicized militaries that most often mount their own coups, while relatively weaker and apolitical militaries tend to facilitate self-coups.'

Read our latest #onlineexclusive by Sharan Grewal:
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“ If you want to understand why generals support a presidential power grab, then you need to understand the logic that motivates them. Why they leave the barracks — and what we must do to get them to stand down.” Insightful as ever, Sharan Grewal
#Tunisia #coup

Presidents often try to drag their militaries into their self-coups. Why do militaries sometimes obey and other times refuse?

Some initial thoughts for Journal of Democracy, extending the findings of my book:
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Tunis police raid sees refugees abandoned near the border with Algeria aje.io/ka7wdc via Al Jazeera English #Tunisia

Yuree Noh, Sharan Grewal, & M. Tahir Kilavuz find that gender quotas in autocracies are seen through a political lens, creating a potential backlash against women's empowerment.
#APSRNewIssue
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Sharan Grewal shows that military restraint during the Hirak protests of 2019-2020 emanated from the protesters' use of nonviolence & fraternization. However, experimental evidence suggests the military's willingness to repress is situational.
#APSRNewIssue
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“While Israel cannot afford to devote its full attention to Iran while it remains mired in Gaza, it has incentives to gradually escalate the conflict with Tehran,” writes Sharan Grewal. brookings.edu/articles/the-i…

.Sharan Grewal: 'Biden has urged Israel not to retaliate & warned that the [US] will not take part in any offensive operations against Iran. But Israel has snubbed US presidents before...Indeed, Israel’s incentives today may very well be to escalate'

An array of perspectives on the impact of Iran’s attack on Israel, by colleagues across Brookings Foreign Policy w/help from a few friends in Brookings Econ & Brookings Governance

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My reaction:
'In the short term, Israel may be able to drag Biden into begrudgingly supporting an escalation. But in the long-term, doing so could also accelerate the generational shift viewing Israel as a strategic liability for the United States.'
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I told The Brookings Institution that the US must suspend military aid to Israel.

Biden's “blank check in support of Israel’s campaign has tarnished America’s image worldwide and has emboldened Israel to act with impunity.”
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As the war in Gaza approaches its 6 month mark, Brookings Foreign Policy experts take stock. Perspectives from Natan Sachs Sharan Grewal Vanda Felbab-Brown Steven Heydemann Marvin Kalb Patricia M. Kim Tanvi Madan Valerie Wirtschafter + Jeff Feltman Bruce Riedel & more brookings.edu/articles/six-m…

Nearly six months after Hamas’ surprise attack on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent invasion of the Gaza Strip, Brookings experts reflect on the conflict and humanitarian crisis.
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Minutes after Biden finally indicated a willingness to condition aid. Don’t ever tell me we don’t have leverage.