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Victor Asal
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UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · Sep 8
shared this in a chat on X & I realized given the world Today I should share with everyone -
There are bad people and good people in every group. I teach my students - you can hate an individual, you can hate an organization or a movement but never hate an entire people

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Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamaggie.bsky.social · 3h
Sounds Great Steve! I feel Motivated now.

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 5h
Good idea

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 5h
Thank you for writing

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 5h
Thank you for sharing

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 5h
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 5h
True and now following you

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 5h
As the should

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 5h
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 5h
Great song!

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 10h
All on the Same Page? Comparing European Populist Radical Right Governments’ Foreign Policy towards China
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Lunting Wu

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All on the Same Page? Comparing European Populist Radical Right Governments’ Foreign Policy towards China
Abstract. Do European populist radical right (EPRR) governments converge in their engagement with China? If not, what explains their divergence? While prio
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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 10h
Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion and Containment
International Studies Review
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Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion and Containment
Abstract. Observers have long posited that military coups can spread across borders, yet empirical support for such contagion remains inconsistent. We argu
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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d
As you should be

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d
👍

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d
Sending you good thoughts. I hope 2026 is a MUCH better year for you

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d
To you as well!

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d
Good for her!

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d
Very nice

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d
Awful

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d
No Power, No Heat, No Water: Odesa’s Days of Hell Under Russian Fire

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No Power, No Heat, No Water: Odesa’s Days of Hell Under Russian Fire
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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 1d
On this day in 1951, Florida’ NAACP President Harry T Moore, and his wife, Harriet Moore, were killed on Christmas Day when their house was bombed by a racist terrorist.

The Moores were the first NAACP members to be killed for their civil rights activism.