2025:
“Bored Citizens, Ambitious Leaders: Cosmopolitan Moral Entrepreneurship in Strong Democracies and Weak States.” Paper presented for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago. 3-6 April.
“Digital Diplomacy in Crisis: Tracing Official Twitter in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.” Paper prepared for the Annual Meeing of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Vancouver, BC. 11-14 September.
2024:
“Social Media and Disinformation during the 2022 Canadian ‘Freedom’ Convoy.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia. 5 September.
2022:
“Digital Diplomacy in Wartimes: Tracing Official Twitter Activity during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Northeast (ISA-NE), Baltimore. 4 November.
“Do People Really Read the Tweets? Understanding the Efficacy of Digital Diplomacy through Twitter Replies.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), Nashville. 29 March.
2021:
“Going Down in the Mentions: Understanding the Efficacy of Political Party Outreach Campaigns through Twitter Replies.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Northeast (ISA-NE), Virtual. 6 November.
“Exploring Populist Communication & Performances Online: A Multi-Method Approach.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Virtual. 30 September.
2020:
“Diplomat or Troll? The Case against Digital Diplomacy.” Coauthored with Tobias Lemke. Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), Honolulu (cancelled).
2019:
“What do Populists Tweet? Interrogating Competing Frames in the #Chemnitz Protest.” Coauthored with Tobias Lemke. Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington, DC. 30 August.
“Social Media and Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Euro-Skepticism Among AfD-Affiliated and Non-Affiliated Twitter Users in Germany.” Coauthored with Tobias Lemke. Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), Toronto, Ontario. 29 March.
“‘We, the Pepes’: Trolling and Owning on Social Media and the Diffusion of Political Agency Across Borders.” Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA) Toronto, Ontario. 28 March.
“I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag Emoji: Performing Populism Online in France, Germany and the U.S.” Coauthored with Tobias Lemke. Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-Northeast Region (ISA-NE), Providence, Rhode Island. 8 November.
2018:
“Disrupter in Chief: Twitter Diplomacy and Trolling Practices in the Age of Trump.” Coauthored with Tobias Lemke. Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-Northeast Region (ISA-NE), Baltimore. 2 November.
“Retweeting Populism: Mass Media, Social Networks & Adversarial Hybrid Diplomacy.” Coauthored with Tobias Lemke. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (ISA), Boston. 31 August.
“Retweeting Populism: Right Wing Social Networks and Adversarial Hybrid Diplomacy.” Coauthored with Tobias Lemke. Paper presented at the Conference “Democracy in Decline? The Challenge of Global Populism,” University of Delaware. 3 May.
“Disruptive Networks: Digitally-Mediated Practices, Social Media, and the Hybridization of Diplomacy.” Coauthored with Tobias Lemke. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco. 5 April.
2017:
“Russia Did It: Adversarial Hybrid Diplomacy and the Changing Pathways for Transnational Contention.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-Northeast Region (ISA-NE), Providence, Rhode Island. 3 November.
“‘We the Sharers’? Subjectivity, the Public Sphere, and Everyday Practices.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), San Francisco. 31 August.
“Global-Digital Communication Networks: A Primary Institution of World Society?” Coauthored with Tobias Lemke. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), Baltimore, Maryland. 23 February. The paper was also presented at the Graduate Student Forum, University of Delaware. 13 April.
“‘Why is the Iranian Government Monitoring Kim Khardashian’s Instagram Account?’ Transnationalism, Everyday Practices, and Change in World Politics.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), Baltimore. 25 February.
2016:
“Liberal Means, Illiberal Ends? Re-Imagining Democratic Subjectivity through ISIL.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-Northeast Region (ISA-NE), Baltimore. 5 November.
“Tweets Against the State: The Role of Everyday Practices in Transnationalizing Contention and Cooperation.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), Atlanta, as part of the Junior Scholars Symposium. 18 March.
2015:
“Walking the Boundless Digital City: Countering Officializing Strategies and Forming New Subjectivities.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association-Northeast Region (ISA-NE), Providence, Rhode Island. 7 November.
“The Institutional Structure of Regional Cooperation: Formality and Informality in Europe and (South) East Asia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), New Orleans. 20 February.
“‘Like’, ‘Dislike’, or ‘Ignore’? Examining Popular and Scholarly Discourses on the Political and Social Meaning of the Internet.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association (WPSA), Las Vegas. 3 April.
“Facebook Lies and Social Ties across Boundaries: Forming Political Communities through Global Communication Practices.” Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference (MPSA), Chicago. 17 April.
2014:
“Transnational Argumentation and Deliberation: the Contribution of Identity to Conceptions of Order.” Paper presented at the International Studies Association Northeast Annual Conference (ISA-NE), Baltimore. 7 November.
“The Balance of Non-State Power: The Pope, the Empire, and Competition in the High Middle Ages European System.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), Toronto, Ontario. 20 March.
“#WorldSociety: English School Theory and Global Political Communication: A Master Institution of World Society?”, with Tobias Lemke. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), Toronto, Ontario. 22 March.
2013:
“Escaping European International Society? The Critical Deployment of the Expansion Narrative: Toward a Critical English School.” Paper presented at the International Studies Association Northeast Annual Conference (ISA-NE), Providence, Rhode Island. 8 November.
“#WorldSociety: English School Theory and Global Political Communication: A Master Institution of World Society?”, with Tobias Lemke. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Northeast Annual Conference (ISA-NE), Providence, Rhode Island. 9 November.
“Escaping Historical Bias: Toward a Critical English School.” Paper presented at the 2013 mini-conference on critical IR theory, University of Delaware. 26 April.
Mike Habegger, Ph.D. 