🆕 Together with @krishogl.bsky.social, I’m excited to share several new outputs from our joint research project on the actors of electoral violence. 🧵 A thread...

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The paper is open access here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very grateful to the many colleagues and collaborators who supported this work!

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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this ar...

Happy to share that my new article on #Syria is now published by the peer-reviewed Middle East Policy: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#MiddleEast #politics #academiclife #research #IR #conflictsky #polisky #womenalsoknow #peacestudies #governance #federalism

Research Ethics and the Study of Civil War Podcast Episode · Stories from the Field · 02/04/2026 · 58m

The special issue includes 11 articles from 21 researchers who explore issues of participant trauma, how IRBs should be used effectively, and the importance of reflexivity in research on armed actors. Please listen and spread the word! #polisky #conflictsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Doing Research as a Native

Please check out these and other episodes on Apple, Spotify, or wherever else you listen. New episodes will drop each Wednesday in February and March. @columbiaup.bsky.social #polisky #conflictsky

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3Nky9sI...

Killing like a state: explaining the edge cases of rebel perpetration of wartime genocidal violence Genocide scholarship overwhelmingly identifies states as the primary perpetrators of genocidal violence. While non-state armed groups, particularly pro-government militias, have been implicated in ...

Indispensable work by @captcheng.bsky.social on rebel-perpetrated wartime genocidal violence, with a focus on ISIS targeting of Yazidis. #polisky #conflictsky

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Grateful for the chance to present some early-stage work with @vipworkshop.bsky.social! Thanks to MP Broache (@mbroache.bsky.social) and all the participants for such constructive and generous feedback!
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#polisky, #conflictsky, and #polrel folks, check out this excellent review by Nilay Saiya of Güneş Murat Tezcür's outstanding new book from 2024, Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies.

Our VIP format involves reading the papers in advance and focusing workshop time on discussion. See our website to read the papers and for details about this and future sessions: vip-workshop.github.io #polisky #conflictsky

From austerity and deflation to Zeitenwende: Europe’s defense build-out echoes interwar Germany’s hard-money→rearmament arc. History rhymes – the EU still has to choose. Original MerionWest essay, now republished on my Substack: tinyurl.com/eymuvb8u.

#longread #Zeitenwende #EUeconomy #conflictsky

Watch this space for further details about this and future sessions, or check our website: vip-workshop.github.io

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Now with an issue number: Check out our article (w/ D. Finke) @psrm.bsky.social on states‘ positions in UNGA 1st Comm. speeches: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Using a new combination of 3 methods, we find 2 latent conflicts: one on conventional arms, one on WMD.
#armscontrol
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🚨 My department @westernu.ca is hiring up to two TT Assistant Professors in International Politics (IR/CP).

I’m not on the search committee, but I’ll be at APSA next week — happy to chat & answer questions!

Application info: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

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Gravity’s Rainbow Under Today’s Hypersonic Skies In our era of awe-inspiring hypersonic weaponry, we turn to Thomas Pynchon, who warns in Gravity’s Rainbow that the Rocket is never mere hardware; it is a nihilistic creed whose liturgy is speed.

ICYMI: Originally appeared at @popmatters.com; republished in my 𝐙𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 Substack newsletter. My take on how #GravitysRainbow by #ThomasPynchon illuminates today’s #hypersonics arms race; and what it means for us now.

ioannismademlis.substack.com/p/gravitys-r...

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@mlandauwells.bsky.social's summary of her award-winning article:

What can neuroscience do for IR? Using data from 500+ fMRI studies, I show how brain data improves our understanding of threat perception & offers new insights into its effects on conflict & coercion. #polisci #polisky #conflictsky

Rebels With Too Many Causes: Diverse Recruitment Appeals and the Intractability of Civil Conflicts - Michael J. Soules, 2025 Do rebel groups benefit from attempting to appeal to larger segments of society by mobilizing around more diverse ideologies? Prior work has examined a variety ...

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Congrats to @michaeljsoules.bsky.social on a really interesting new study, demonstrating that rebel groups that employ multiple recruitment appeals are involved in more intractable disputes with less favorable outcomes (to rebels anyhow).
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Out now @intlinteractions.bsky.social:
In my new article, I find that rivalries with major powers tend to decrease minor powers' support for arms control. Why? See abstract below 👇 or here for the full article: doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2025.2518394

#armscontrol
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#polisky 🗺

okay #conflictsky folks: I'm looking for resources on the relationship between conflict intensity, unit cohesion, and socialization in armed groups. State or non-state armed groups works. I feel like I have to be missing a big literature.

#conflictsky #polisky #academicsky

Thrilled to see that my op-ed on #Syria was published in #SSRN's "#Conflict Studies:Intra-state Conflict e-journal" vol 11. No 36 alongside other prominent work on conflict from a #comparative/IR view #academicsky #conflictsky #polsci #polisky #Rojava (More pieces are on the way thanks to @ukri.org)

Kashmir and Kurds: Parallel Struggles, Divided Lands Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria in Damascus, the centre of attention has now shifted to north-eastern Syria. This region borders Ira

" Kashmir and Kurds"; some food for thought #academicsky #conflictsky #policsky #polsci
kashmirtimes.com/opinion/essa...

The other #political #theory + #philosophy paper is also on my #SSRN account. This's about the #limits of #cosmopolitanism #egalitarianism & #state #coercion for the (re)distribution of resources+why #political #community matters!: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/... #academisky #conflictsky #politics

Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe Cambridge Core - Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy - Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe

Suddenly need to know about Hungarians in Transcarpathia / Zakarpattya Ukraine? Chapters 3, 6 and 7. #Polisky #Conflictsky
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

State-building and the recognition of a right to statehood: international involvement in post-1999 Kosovo Informed by a novel conceptualization of the recognition of a right to statehood and its relation to state-building, this study explores under what conditions international organizations contribute...

Delighted to share my new article. I explore the relationship between state recognition & state-building through a study of #UN & #EU involvement in #Kosovo to better grasp how states are built/recognised in conflict-affected areas.

Free to access!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #conflictsky

📢 Call for Papers
Symposium on Crisis Early Warning: The Potential of Data, AI & Interdisciplinary Analysis in Situational Awareness & Decision Making
📅 September 17–18, 2025
📍 Berlin
🏛️ Hosted by CCEW & GFFO
📅 Deadline: June 30, 2025
📄 More information: tinyurl.com/5n6fesfm
#ConflictSky #ViolenceSky

Excellent new piece by @mhnagh.bsky.social at @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social examining how success of Islamist mobilization in Somalia hinged on failure of preexisting institutions, comparing differing outcomes in Somaliland, Puntland, and Mogadishu/rest of Somalia.
#polisky #polrel #conflictsky

Interested in Threats: Exploring How Emotional Interest Shapes Security Studies Scholarship Abstract. Security studies scholars are, by definition, interested in threats. But how does interest shape their knowledge production? We draw on contempor

Advanced Article Alert! @samzil.bsky.social & Dagmar Ludackova explain how emotional interest shapes the landscape of security studies scholarship.

#poliscisky #academicsky #securitysky #conflictsky

academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...

Pleased to share that I’ve secured an advanced contract from a prestigious university press in the US for my book project, alongside other ongoing writing commitments. Those who've witnessed my Ph.D. and know what I've gone through are also happy; it's time to celebrate! 🌻🎉 #academicsky #conflictsky

Foundations of Kosovo’s parallel state - Besnik Pula Personal and economic context for Yugoslavia’s collapse.

Finally got round reading these excellent Kosovo 2.0 series of articles on 90s Kosovo.

The piece by Besnik Pula is particularly interesting for Kosovo's statehood efforts before the 2008 declaration of independence.

kosovotwopointzero.com/en/foundatio... #conflictsky

I'm happy to see this on @apsa-preprints.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/apsa... #polisky #conflictsky #academiclife