Christopher Blair
Assistant Prof at Princeton Politics | Ph.D. at UPenn| Alum at UVA | Borders, Militancy, Forced Displacement, Climate Change, Foreign Policy
http://www.chriswblair.com
- Reposted by Christopher Blair🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc
- A new Trump administration policy offers cash to migrants undertaking "self-deportation." It was a pleasure to speak with @bloomberg.com on some of the potential pitfalls of this approach, building on my research on a cash-for-repatriation scheme in Pakistan www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Christopher BlairThis dataset is truly awesome. Check out this example map (especially Latin America) from their report introducing the dataset. Thanks to the authors & contributors! @chriswblair.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christopher BlairThe most revolting Oval Office presser since Feb. 28 (the Zelensky one). Even just hitting a few of the lowlights of this will leave you sickened and dismayed. BUT it's also clarifying. Anyone who has been talking about "the road to authoritarianism" can stop that now. The road is behind us.
- on.ft.com/42gQ4HA How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
- Reposted by Christopher BlairAs my colleagues and I wrote in the Daily Princetonian last week, we all have to stand up for our science, and not accept this attack on universities. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
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- Reposted by Christopher BlairWatching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.
- 🚨🚨🚨🚨 New WP (with @benckrick.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social) available at the ESOC working paper series: esoc.princeton.edu/wp39
- Reposted by Christopher Blair1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
- Reposted by Christopher BlairDraw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.
- Reposted by Christopher Blair@harvardlil.bsky.social is working on this at lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...
- Scholars across many fields are frantically grabbing government data that’s disappearing from the public domain. Is there any forum for sharing access - like an open source, central repository - that all of us who archived data could contribute to for purposes of scholarship and public interest?
- The new Gitmo plan is horrifying. As a research aside, I’ve got FOIA’ed data on every migrant and drug interdiction by the USCG from 1997-2017 - haven’t had much time to work with it, but I will say they patrol a huge area as far south as the Galapagos and the Colombian coast.
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- 🚨🚨 Thrilled that my work with @sabrinabarias.bsky.social in @apsrjournal.bsky.social is featured on the cover of the latest issue. 🚨🚨 Article available Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
- These have to be some of the bleakest sentences ever written.
