Dov H. Levin

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Assistant Professor at HKU. New book on foreign election interference "Meddling in the Ballot Box" at OUP https://www.amazon.com/Meddling-Ballot-Box-Electoral-Interventions/dp/0197519881. Opinions are mine only.
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ORCID IDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7209-9810
Dov H. LevinMar 7, 2023
Are you a graduate student planning to present a paper at the 2023 APSA conference on an IR/Foreign Policy topic? Need some funds to cover costs of attending? APSA's Foreign Policy section travel grant is there just for you- now w/revised requirements (see attached). Apply Now! @politicalscience @academicchatter
Dov H. LevinJan 25, 2023
In other non German tank news the whole secret U.S. no fly list was just leaked after being posted by mistake on an unsecure server. To no ones surprise a very large share of it are obvious Muslim/Arab names. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/no-fly-list-us-tsa-unprotected-server-commuteair/
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. airline accidentally exposes ‘No Fly List’ on unsecured server

Leaked TSA No Fly List: CommuteAir, a regional carrier, left a copy of the U.S. No Fly List on an unsecured server.

The Daily Dot
Dov H. LevinJan 15, 2023
I understand that some ppl remember fall of USSR- but Russia is a much more nationally coherent state (71% Russians) then USSR was (~50% Russian) & separatist sentiment among minorities limited to Chechnya & Tatarstan- both v.small minorities. Breakup of Russia accordingly very unlikely
https://www.politico.eu/article/opinion-russia-benefits-disintegration/
The benefits of Russia’s coming disintegration

The West made a grave mistake when it assumed the collapse of Soviet communism meant the end of Russian imperialism.

POLITICO
Dov H. LevinJan 13, 2023
Did you publish a good academic book on a Foreign Policy/IR topic in 2021 or 2022? Want your book to get the recognition it deserves? APSA's Foreign Policy section has the book award for you! Deadline March 15-see description attached. Self nominations welcome. @politicalscience @academicchatter
Show threadDov H. LevinJan 13, 2023
@profmusgrave Yup way too much tech (esp. educational tech) of last few decades is like the self checkouts in supermarkets- promises better life & in practice transfers to you extra work. Hard to think of any new edu tech since early 90s that made teaching easier overall
Show threadDov H. LevinJan 9, 2023
irregardless of any effects (if any) of the social media part of the Russian intervention in 2016 /2 https://www.amazon.com/Meddling-Ballot-Box-Electoral-Interventions/dp/0197519881
Amazon.com

Dov H. LevinJan 9, 2023
Interesting new study finds that social media campaign aspect of the 2016 Russian intervention was ineffective. As usual in these studies however it ignores other key aspect of the Russian intervention-the hack & dump of docs from Clinton campaign/DNC. As I find in chapter on 2016 Russian intervention in my book on partisan electoral interventions, hack & dump of docs by Russia via wikileaks gave Trump key boost that swung to him election in the electoral college /1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9
Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior - Nature Communications

Here, using longitudinal survey and Twitter data, the authors examine the relationship between exposure to Russian Internet Research Agency activities on Twitter and voting behavior and attitudes in the 2016 US election.

Nature
Dov H. LevinJan 6, 2023
A great new piece on the effects of partisan electoral interventions/foreign election interference on alliance relations with 3rd parties by
Ben Goldsmith & Yusaku Horiuchi
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13540661221143214#.Y7ZqYC3ojmk.twitter
Dov H. LevinJan 4, 2023
I have a half sabbatical coming up at HKU- so I’m happy to announce that I’ll be a Visiting Associate Research Scholar at the Department of Political Science at Columbia in the first half of 2023 (from start of January). Hopefully it'll be productive & go well.
Dov H. LevinJan 1, 2023
Happy 2023!!! Hopefully a decent year for once in this otherwise rather miserable decade so far.