Ilan Berman has 1,913 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 8 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 9.
Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 1,913
- read Oct 31
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 1.6K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- none shown
- Recommended by
- 8
- +1 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 9
- Bestsellers rank
- not on a board
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1,913 | 1.6K+ |
Leaderboard positions
Not on a category leaderboard right now
Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.
Recommendations
8 publications recommend Ilan Berman; 1 started in the last 30 days. Ilan Berman recommends 9, and 1 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 3 |
| 2026-10 | 2 |
Recommended by
- moussastarted Oct 27, 2026new
- The Hard Fork by Marvin Liaostarted Oct 5, 2026
- Checks and Rhetoricsstarted Jul 26, 2026
- Gregg's Substackstarted Jul 17, 2026
- Decisive Libertystarted Jul 15, 2026
- claude josephstarted Jun 23, 2026
- The French Spy started Jun 19, 2026
- Central Asia-Caucasus Institute's Substackstarted Apr 7, 2026 · mutual
Recommends
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Michael Oren35k followers · started Jun 9, 2026
John Schindler12k followers · started Apr 7, 2026
هالی دگرس/Holly Dagres11k followers · started Apr 7, 2026- The Jamestown Foundationstarted Jun 9, 2026
- Beyond the Ideological started Apr 8, 2026
- Central Asia-Caucasus Institute's Substackstarted Apr 7, 2026 · mutual
- The China-MENA Newsletterstarted Apr 7, 2026
- Discourse Power started Apr 7, 2026
Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
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- 2 shared
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Who recommends writers like this one
Publications that recommend at least two other International writers with 1,000 to 5,000 followers (83 writers in that group), but not Ilan Berman.
- recommends 25 of themThe Intellectual Investor
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- recommends 4 of themColin’s Substack
- recommends 3 of them
Claire Berlinski@claireberlinski - recommends 3 of themThe Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey
- recommends 3 of themThe Tribal Dream-Stackers
- recommends 3 of themWe're Moving to Europe
- recommends 3 of themScenarica
- recommends 2 of them
Michael Spencer@aisupremacy - recommends 2 of them
Kaiser Y Kuo@kaiserykuo
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