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Political science professor at UPenn, studying migration and forced displacement, human trafficking, and poor governance. Co-director of the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab). Website: https://guygrossman.com .. more

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 25d

Rob Blair (@robertblair.bsky.social), Anna Wilke (@awilke.bsky.social), and I have a new draft of our paper "Can Community Policing Improve Police-Community Relations in a Low-Income Country Setting?"

Comments are welcome:
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2h

Back to you. Thank you for engaging too. I wish I knew who you were. Feel free to DM me.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2h

I think it's a bit of a "Nixon goes to China" story where the AIPACs of the world would have gone bat shit crazy if Biden did what Trump did to Netanyahu (not just coercing a deal but also humilating him with a scripted photographed call to apologize to Qatar)

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2h

Chaim - I don't understand your position. Biden didn't pressure Israel because he cared about not being viewed as coercing Israel. Trump doesn't care that everyone in Israel knows he coerced Netanyahu to take a deal he opposed. He probably likes the idea that he showed him who's in charge.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2h

Not sure you have been reading my posts. I am 1000% aware of what Trump is, and I don't glorify him one bit. I don't care what his motivations are; he helped stop a war. I care a lot about stopping the war, even if this means Trump gets 5 minutes of PR that will be forgotten by the next scandal.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, we agree that Netanyahu wanted to screw Biden and help Trump, but we disagree on whether Biden could have coordinated with the Europeans to stop this madness much earlier. Who would Israel trade with exactly if the EU and the USA threaten Netanyahu the way Trump did?

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2h

I agree that the 2024 elections constrained Biden and Harris but that doesn’t mean that if they wanted , Trey couldn’t coerce Netanyahu.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2h

So how do you explain that when Trump threatened Netanyahu for real , he caved ?

Israel has no military without USA supplies and has no economy without USA and eu trade.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 4h

Hard to explain the elated feelings today in Israel, at least those who are not far right: the hostilities are back, and this damn war is so over.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 4h

The events of the last few days underscore how weak Biden was vis-à-vis Netanyahu and how he and his administration didn't understand who and what they were facing.

The dependency of Israel on the USA is complete, and not using this leverage for two years is a stain on the USA government, too.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 4h

A few days after 10/7, I participated in a public event @perryworldhouse.bsky.social and predicted that Israel's retaliation response won't last long because the Biden administration and the EU won't let Israel go all in for a lengthy period.

Obviously, I was very wrong.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 18h

Are you affiliated with UPenn (faculty, staff, student, alumni, or parent/guardian of a student)?

If so, please consider signing the petition calling on President Jameson to categorically reject the Compact for "Excellence in Higher Education."

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Just Say No to Trump's Compact for Academic Extortion

Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania was one of nine targets of the Trump Administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Through it, Trump asks once again for universitie...

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 19h

tripled... from 0.5m to 1.5m.

Amazing sports story.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 20h

In the meantime, in Israel, there's a crazy debate in all media channels on whether it's respectful and okay or not that 400,000 people booed loudly when Witkoff mentioned Netanyahu yesterday in his "hostages square" speech.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Think what you think about Trump, but eventually he decided to use the leverage he has over Netanyahu in way that Biden didn’t. Of course , Biden and Harris were constrained by upcoming elections , and yet …

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Today at the hostages square in Tel Aviv tens of thousands chant “thank you” Trump and booo every time Witkoff mentions Netanyahu.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Unprecedented = autocratic and anti democratic

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 1d

No concern of bias due to self reporting ?

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Some quick thoughts from some @perryworldhouse.bsky.social fellows (including myself) on the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

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Perry World House Q&A: The Middle East Ceasefire Agreement Between Israel and Hamas - Perry World House

At 12:00 p.m. local time—or 5:00 a.m. ET—a U.S.-drafted ceasefire agreement went into effect between Israel and Hamas. The agreement is intended to stop the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza and give Israel a...

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Michael - thanks a million from many of us across campus for choosing to continue fighting the good fight!

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2d

punditary is a form of expertise.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2d

not at all premature to make this bold assertion.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2d

That too, Stefanie. But I still maintain that the prestige that comes from being called a professor and being revered by society for devoting one's life to research plays a role.

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Motivation in academic life: A prestige economy

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2d

I think about this a bit differently. People seek specific careers for a combination of $$ and prestige. Acaemia was able to get some of the best minds, precisely because of warm glow. Once prestige is reduced we are more likely to lose the best minds to the private sector, which can outpay academia

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 2d

I don't disagree, Maya, but isn't prestige the currency of academia above all?

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Maria Corina Machado did not send troops to repress citizens, order assistantion with no trial of alleged drug traffickes, bomb Iran, nor demand the justice department prosecute her opponets on trumped up allegations -- so how on earth did dhe get the Noble Peace Prize?

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 3d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d

The two sides knowing how desperate Trump was to have the ceasefire announced before the Noble , must have extracted ridiculous promises from him which will be made known to us only in the coming months.

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Netanyahu just clarified that Marwan Barghouti -- convicted in planning an attack that killed 5 Israelis -- is not going to be released.

This is unfortunate. While releasing those with blood on their hand is a difficult decision, who doesn't have blood on their hand at this point on either side?

Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 4d

Arguably, the single most consequential prisoner Israel could release is Marwan Barghouti, who is best positioned to unite the different factions and succeed the irrelevant Mahmoud Abbas.

Israel has yet to confirm whether he is going to be released.

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 4d

I am not a political strategist, but if I were the democrats, I'd keep pumping all day, "What are they hiding about Trump's health?"

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

The signs are becoming more obvious.

Trump to Get Second ‘Yearly’ Health Screening in Months — TIME

When the President visits Walter Reed on Friday, he’ll do a “routine” annual check-up, the White House said—despite the fact he just did one in April.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

The signs are becoming more obvious.

Trump to Get Second ‘Yearly’ Health Screening in Months — TIME

When the President visits Walter Reed on Friday, he’ll do a “routine” annual check-up, the White House said—despite the fact he just did one in April.

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