Academics & Experts on Geopolitics, IR & Security.
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@steeljawscribe.bsky.social
Retired Naval Officer & Hawkeye NFO; Navy, naval aviation, nuclear, IAMD, & history. Avid scale modeler Retweets =/= endorsements.
@zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social
Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
@irsem.bsky.social
Institut de recherche stratégique de l'Ecole militaire (ministère des Armées, France) | Institute for Strategic Research (Ministry for Armed Forces, France)
@dilanokcuoglu.bsky.social
Kurdish. UKRI/Marie-curie Postdoc. Fellow in IR Sussex University, School of Global Studies; Affiliated w the Center for Global (In)Security Research; https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p648193-dilan-okcuoglu
@cais-exeter.bsky.social
This account posts updates from the Centre of Advanced International Studies at the University of Exeter.
@kadritastan.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @gmfus.bsky.social Brussels | Former @CATS_Network - @SWPBerlin | Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, Climate and Energy (EU, Turkey, Mediterranean, Middle East and beyond).
@spenserawarren.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology and Security, UC IGCC | PhD, Indiana University | Michigan State Alum | Work on nuclear weapons, emerging tech, Russia, international security | Post way too much about sports and Star Wars
@dstroikos.bsky.social
Head of the LSE IDEAS Space Policy Project. Editor of Space Policy. My research interests cover the global politics of outer space activities, with a particular focus on China and India, Asian Security, and Europe-China relations.
@risabrooks12.bsky.social
Marquette Prof studying U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, political violence & armed forces in democracies and non-democracies.
@sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
Cornell Assistant Professor specializing in security sector reform, policing, peacekeeping, and gender. Director of the Gender and Security Sector Lab sabrinamkarim.com
@hamishmcdnz.bsky.social
Executive Director of @nziia.bsky.social | historian | comms pro
@eprc-eu.bsky.social
Leading research on economic development policies since 1978. Based at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
@ecfrberlin.bsky.social
Hier schreibt das Berliner Büro des European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.bsky.social). Besuchen Sie uns auch auf http://ecfr.eu/berlin
@nziia.bsky.social
NZIIA fosters expert discussion and understanding of international affairs affecting Aotearoa New Zealand. This is the account of our National Office. www.nziia.org.nz
@ceciliebanke.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, PhD. Head of Foreign Policy & Diplomacy @diis.dk. European history and politics.
@diis.dk
DIIS is an independent public research institute. We conduct research on foreign, security and development policy. 📩 www.diis.dk/newsletter-en 🌐 www.diis.dk
@joannewallis.bsky.social
Professor of International Security at the University of Adelaide and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution interested in security and Australia's strategy in the Pacific Islands. Editor of @austjia.bsky.social. Opinions are my own
@marcusjpower.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
@grantwyeth.bsky.social
Writer | Analyst at Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy and Defence Dialogue | Columnist for The Diplomat | Weekly newsletter and periodic essays: https://www.grantwyeth.com
@thomasdiez.bsky.social
University of Tübingen professor interested in EU, Cyprus, Turkey, climate change, security, discourse, and all things IR. Love travel, nice hotels and good food.
@clemhoffmann.bsky.social
SL International Politics, Geo-Political Ecology, Historical Sociology
@miriamjanderson.bsky.social
Associate Prof of IR | Toronto Metropolitan University | Visiting Fellow, Centre for Women, Peace, Security, LSE | Editorial Board, WPS Series, de Gruyter press | Books - Windows of Opportunity (OUP 2016) Trnsn’l Actors in War&Peace (GUP 2017)
@marketao.bsky.social
Researching security and military-society interaction at @ifzo.bsky.social, Greifswald Uni | Israel/Palestine and Baltic Sea | PhD from @tcddublin.bsky.social | #FirstGen | photographer, yogi, knitter 🌐 https://marketao.github.io 📸 Jerusalem
@polviolencepapers.bsky.social
Sharing new publications and working papers on political violence: armed conflict, civil war, insurgency, terrorism, extremism, post-conflict state/society. Tag @polviolencepapers.bsky.social to get reposted. Currently managed by @ilaydaonder.bsky.social
@aliahmadi.bsky.social
Director of Geoeconomics & Sanctions at ReshapeRisks | Executive Fellow Geneva Centre for Security Policy | ali.ahmadi@reshaperisks.com
@interpolaber.bsky.social
Highlighting the research, teaching and community activities of staff and students at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, on the west coast of Wales.
@emoncada.bsky.social
Crime, violence and resistance in Latin America. Associate Prof @Barnard College @Columbia University
@akilnawan.bsky.social
Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent
@joshchin.bsky.social
Senior global correspondent for WSJ covering collisions of geopolitics, tech, and power. 15+ yrs in Asia, mostly China. Co-author of SURVEILLANCE STATE: https://www.josh-chin.com/books Signal: joshchin.86. Also: josh.l.chin@protonmail.com
@samueljsdv.bsky.social
Director of European Neighbourhood Council | Author of Security Threats along EU’s 🇪🇺 Eastern Flanks (Palgrave: London) | #CentralAsia #Caucasus #Türkiye #MENA | Independence | Danish 🇩🇰🇪🇺 & Italian 🇮🇹🇪🇺|
@nikki-ikani.bsky.social
Assistant Prof Intel & Security ISGA | writer | NWO Veni Laureate | Research Fellow KCL | Snr Fellow NATO Defence College | researching warning | editor Poets Reading the News | @Kortschrijvers | she/her
@iraklisirbiladze.bsky.social
IRer researching Georgia, the EU and Eurasia; GMF's ReThink.CEE Fellow 2023; QMUL graduate.
@mzinkanell.bsky.social
Director @aies.at - one of Austria's leading thinks tank in European foreign, security, and defence policy
@drewerydyke.bsky.social
Middle East, governance, human rights; not keen on asymmetric power structures; more so justice. Wannabe sociologist. Senior Fellow @FPCThinkTank; Salam for Democracy and Human Rights. From Winnipeg 🇨🇦; now in Hackney 🇬🇧.Banner - the family 🐈, Herbert.
@ronanmainprize.bsky.social
Ax:son Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication Researching intelligence, statecraft, and strategy • Writing a book on Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Global Cold War • University of Warwick PhD
@historyandpolicy.bsky.social
We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
@marksimner.bsky.social
Author and Magazine Feature Writer of British Military History | MHM Book of the Year Nominee | Book Reviewer | Militaria Collector | BA (Hons) MSc
@landofrob.bsky.social
Retired teacher, History, particularly military history. Master of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Researching. Learning to grow food. Dog lover. Proud Dad and Pop. Anti fascist Anti Rascist
@falo2.bsky.social
War Studies PhD KCL, MA War in the Modern World, African Leadership Centre King's College London and Nairobi & consultant on governance of security. German and French citizen, resident in Spain.
@hugomundy.bsky.social
Russia, Eastern Europe, and foreign policy researcher and commentator | EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy | UCL SSEES
@christopherallbritton.com
Founder of Back-to-Iraq.com, OG crowdfunded war correspondent, former Time Magazine reporter in Iraq and Reuters Bureau Chief in Pakistan and lover of cats (and dogs). https://www.linkedin.com/in/callbritton/
@alexwaterman.bsky.social
Order in Civil Wars, Counterinsurgency, Ceasefires, NE India, Co-Editor of Civil Wars Journal. Lecturer in Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford. Guitars, Leeds United FC
@lmarkarian.bsky.social
PhD in IR, Research & Policymaking, Gov of Armenia. Democratization, Security Studies, Iran. Lover of gym, beer, and coffee.
@briandrohan.bsky.social
US Army officer and historian of war, humanitarianism, human rights, and the United Nations at the US Military Academy - West Point. Author of *Brutality in an Age of Human Rights* (Cornell UP ‘18).
@cyberpeace1.bsky.social
Reflecting the militarisation of #AI and #Cyberspace and how #ArmsControl & #PeaceBuilding can prevent escalations. Researcher at @cntrarmscontrol.org by @prif.org Former X/Twitter: x.com/CyberPeace1 Former Mastodon: mastodon.online/@cyberpeace1
@darren.africandefence.net
Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence) Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa. Email: dolivier@africandefence.net Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/9yYQ7ONQJ8KYa71byz4avvZuSICtMLWim0AlDOYqYwwZhOSZaVpGKLUzYPBqrJAM
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Researcher on Yemen, MENA, Maritime Domain | Posts about MENA, Appalachia, Rivers | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, 100 Days in Appalachia | DM for media inquiries | Check out @waterways-project.bsky.social | he/him
@policysciences.bsky.social
With an interdisciplinary and international focus, Policy Sciences encourages a diversity of perspectives. The editors especially welcome conceptual and empirical innovation, together with the potential richness and insight of comparative orientation.
@sedefaslitopal.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Ripon College, studying conflict processes, rebel group behavior and the Middle East and African Politics.
@zhaoalexhuang.bsky.social
Maître de Conférences en #SIC (#AssocProf of Com’) @univeiffel.bsky.social: Com' #politique #PR #digital #PublicDiplomacy Co-Editor in chief-Journal of Public Diplomacy; Assoc. ed. - Communication and the Public
@evamichaels.bsky.social
Asst Prof in Intelligence & Security Uni Leiden & Senior Fellow @ibei.org | European foreign & security policy | warning intelligence | realist constructivism | background in Political Science, International Relations, War Studies
@gnobisa.bsky.social
Dedicated to promoting and disseminating multidisciplinary research on the politics, culture and history of the nuclear age. https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/gno
@hcicek.bsky.social
Priv.-Doz. in Political & Religious Studies | Visiting Prof @SFU | Senior Research Fellow @UniWien | Senior Fellow @CASSIS_Bonn | Former Fellow @aia_nrw | Former Lecturer @UniFAU | Researching Alevism, Turkey, Terrorism, Geopolitics & Extremism
@vahidyucesoy.bsky.social
PhD in political science from Université de Montréal. Turkish and Iranian politics. News junkie. Tennis 🎾 fan.
@jnilssonwright.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Japanese Politics & IR, Cambridge; Head, Japan and Koreas Programme, @CamGeopolitics , University of Cambridge
@sonjaschiffers.bsky.social
Director of @boell.de South Caucasus Office, based in Tbilisi. German & EU foreign policy | Wider Europe | democracy & autocracy | peace & security | feminism. PhD from FU Berlin. FirstGen. All views personal.
@tolgademiryol.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science @Altinbas University; Former Fung Global Fellow @Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; PhD @University of Virginia Defense, energy, and technology.
@mariarusca.bsky.social
Scholar @GlobalDevInst I Water politics, climate extremes, disaster justice I Political ecology I Interdisciplinarity I Research-documentary filmmaker
@martami.bsky.social
Lecturer in European Politics at University of Malta, cook, swimmer, traveler
@fredleept.bsky.social
Political Science & Asian/Asian American Studies, UConn, studying Asian American political thought & East Asian science fiction. https://linktr.ee/fredleept
@alexramosc.bsky.social
Diplomático 🇲🇽 en 🇧🇷 | Encargado de Negocios a. i., Embajada de México en Brasil | Serví en 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🇩🇪 🇳🇿 | Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales, CIDE | Periodismo Político, Escuela Carlos Septién | Asociado COMEXI | #DigitalDiplomacy
@robertmuller.bsky.social
On Kaurna Land, Adelaide, South Australia. PhD Thesis Editor; Sociologist; Founding Board Member TruthBombSocial: https://www.truthbombsocial.org/; Research on grey zone warfare, democratic & community resilience, disinformation. https://drrobmuller.com
@stevenhyde.bsky.social
Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP. https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
@cosovschi.bsky.social
Historian of Southeast Europe and the global Cold War. Postdoctoral researcher at the École française d'Athènes. Editor at the Programming Historian. Language nerd. 📍Athens/Paris https://acosovschi.com/
@gokceny.bsky.social
Academic, European Politics, Italian Politics, Intellectual History, Painting
@nikolamikovic.bsky.social
Analyst/journalist/columnist. Focus: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Balkans, energy, among other topics Posts in English, српски & по-русски http://muckrack.com/nikola-mikovic
@tzifakis.bsky.social
Jean Monnet Chair @jmc-eufp-wb.bsky.social, Prof. at University of the Peloponnese. Project Coordinator @geopower-eu.bsky.social Visiting Prof. @collegeofeurope. Research Assoc. @MartensCentre. Member @biepag.bsky.social. Interests: #IR #Balkans #EU.
@andrewramsaygray.bsky.social
European Affairs Editor at Reuters, covering EU & NATO from Brussels. Previously: Lanark, London, Germany, Geneva, Balkans, Iraq, West Africa & Washington. Ex-Politico editor/podcaster.
@allimcculloch.bsky.social
Political Science, travel, dogs. Not in that order. Editor-in-chief, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics; President, Manitoba Organization of Faculty Associations
@ajboekestijn.bsky.social
Podcastmaker, Boekestijn en de Wijk, Europa Draait Door. Associate Professor International Relations, UCU
@ygursoy.bsky.social
Professor of European Politics & Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) European Institute. Posts in English and Turkish
@okgaby.bsky.social
Political Science Lecturer | PhD from UNT Political Science | Comparative Politics & International Relations | #COYG | RTs ≠ endorsements | she/her/hers
@hagaysobol.bsky.social
Prof Médecine Moyen-Orient & terrorisme Pdt Hon Centre FLEG Élu @CFDT @LeHuffPost @atlantico_fr @Destimed @LeDiplomateOFF Photographe http://Instagram.com/hagaysobol
@petraramsauer.bsky.social
knows 1 thing or 2 about the Middle East. Was a crisis reporter, is a psychotherapist (in Fachausbildung unter Supervision) will always be a political scientist. focus on war, conflict, trauma, angst & panic. European from Austria. Cat herder, dog mum.
@mennarawlings.bsky.social
Diplomat. Current British Ambassador to France and Monaco. Posting in French and English. London Welsh. Sports fan. Diplomum of three.
@martinselsoe.bsky.social
Journo based in Copenhagen. Currently: TV 2. Previously: New York Times, Washington Post, DR, Politiken, Information - and Istanbul 🇹🇷 // martinselsoe+gmail.com
@steveharrell.bsky.social
Retired professor, unretired ethnographer, polyglot, nature lover, part-time climate activist, occasional contrarian. Taiwan, China, and Whatcom County--adoptive 'Hamster. Would like to be wittier than I am.
@danielhegedus.bsky.social
International Relations & Democracy. Thinker & Doer. Regional Director for Central Europe at @gmfus.bsky.social. Views are personal. Metal & Bluegrass fan.
@serbestgorus.bsky.social
Serbest Görüş (SG) sessiz çoğunluğun, zulme, haksızlığa, adaletsizliğe ve ayrımcılığa maruz kalanın sesi! Demokratik, adil, “çiçekler içinde” bir #Türkiye için YAZ, gönder yayınlansın: https://serbestgorus.com/gorus-analiz-gonder/
@airborne1970.bsky.social
Retired US Army, former WV State Senator, traveller, husband and father. Co-Founder of the Turn Left PAC!
@michaelhorowitz.bsky.social
Geopolitical and security analyst, Head of Intel at Le Beck International. Views are my own.
@ranjita.bsky.social
Researcher & Eternal Student | Critical Threat /Arctic /China/ IndoPacific/ Geopolitics | ☸️Tibet | Alum-Mphil @sciencespo | | #DemocracyisNonNegotiable | #AbandonOneChinaPolicy| Looking for a job in Oslo, 🇳🇴 | Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇳🇧🇹🇮🇱
@vmorkevicius.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Political Science @ColgateUniv. Phd from @UChicago. Author of Realist Ethics. #Security & #infowar from a just war perspective. Personal views only.
@beccalpaine.bsky.social
Senior Analyst at RAND Europe focusing on defence industrial policy and part-time PhD candidate at KCL studying design and production of UAVs. Turkish policy wonk in my spare time. All opinions my own.
@lenkabustikova.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida Director of the Center for European Studies Editor of East European Politics Editor of Cambridge Elements on Politics and Society from Central Europe to Central Asia www.lenkabustikova.com
@spaceforpeace.bsky.social
Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof at Kent State (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.
@lisadellmuth.bsky.social
https://www.lisadellmuth.se. Prof of International Relations, Stockholm University. Book: "Legitimacy Politics"; Short review: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/legitimacy-politics-elite-communication-and-public-opinion-global-governance 🏳️🌈
@yozkan.bsky.social
Working at Imperial College London & doing data stuff | PhD researcher at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social War Studies in intelligence history | Member @kcsi.uk | Founder @intelarchive.io | Love🚴♂️ https://linktr.ee/yusufozkan
@odragas.bsky.social
@LSEEcon @Yale @UniofOxford @Harvard | Books: Modern intelligence - security community, utopia or reality | TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION - TRUTH AND DECEPTIONS | The End of the Russian World | Russia - From a Failed to a Rogue State |
@euroconcern.bsky.social
International relations with an EU angle, videogames, space and other musings. Posts in EN, PT, FR, plus other languages if I feel brave enough.
@charlesbeuck.bsky.social
PhD in Political Science Comparative, IR, IPE, Asia, Conflict, Territory, International Law, Tech, Methods. #Firstgen Teacher, Writer, Artist. RT =/= endorse.
@usempire.bsky.social
London Academic- Tracking the American Empire’s foreign policy establishment and its forging through wars and imperial international system building, and its crises; role of Trump and Trumpism in US and globally
@ludmilaquiros.bsky.social
Political Science, IR and Criminology. I study organized crime, illegal markets, informal economies, crime, violence and security in Latin America and Europe. Researcher at @EULAT_crime @GI_TOC @ECPR_SGOC Based in Italy, from Buenos Aires.