“China sees utility in Myanmar’s fractured political landscape.” Read Amara Thiha on how Beijing is engaging with both the military junta and local armed groups in Myanmar to formalize “a system built on permanent fragmentation”:
In Iraq, Martin Tamm Andersen sat beside a dying Danish soldier who had stepped on an IED fighting America's war.
Now Trump threatens to take Greenland and Vance calls Denmark a bad ally.
"You feel betrayed. It’s extremely uncomfortable."
My story from Copenhagen
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Saudi Arabia has finally had enough with the UAE building bases, ports and allied militias in the region and is, rather belatedly, stepping up efforts to rollback Abu Dhabi's presence in Yemen, Somalia and Sudan. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Had an incredible time at the Oxford Generative AI Summit last week. Thanks to my fellow panellists Sara Wahedi, Daisy McGregor, Amy Harland, and Robert Trager for a great discussion
More: www.oxgensummit.org/speakers2025...
Recent work: cetas.turing.ac.uk/about/our-te...
Look forward to speaking about the Geopolitics of AI at the Oxford Generative AI Summit later this week. Come say hi if you're in Oxford on Oct 16-17!
Agenda: oxgensummit.org
About: oxgensummit.org/speakers2025...
We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞
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MIT rejects federal compact:
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MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
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I recently spoke to The International Risk Podcast about Syria and the opportunities & challenges ahead. Listen below:
Full episode:
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Guest profile: Broderick McDonald — The International Risk Podcast
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The #Syrian government announced an agreement with #Jordan and the US this week that seeks to restore calm in Suweida following sectarian violence which killed over 2,000 people. The agreement comes with a UN investigation into the nature of the clashes.
Syrian officials sent 47 French nationals suspected of being Islamic State members to Iraq for prosecution two months ago, Iraqi officials reported Thursday. The individuals had been held in Kurdish-run state prisons in Northeast Syria since their arrest.
**Call for contributors to the Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law**
@jessieblackbourn.bsky.social, @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social and I are compiling a new Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law, to be published by Edward Elgar. So far we have commissioned over 100 entries with a fantastic
After breaking into the US Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday, DOGE members immediately got to work taking down signs to erase the independent agency.
Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
Tunisia has forcefully descended into a new dictatorship, staging mass trials of political prisoners that echo Ben Ali's kangaroo courts of the 1990s.
Kais Saied's rule by fiat makes a mockery of Tunisia's democratic decade (2011-21). And a great many people are being crushed under its wheels.
Hello @vox-pol.bsky.social ! Great to see you here. Anyone interested in cutting edge online extremism research, do give them a follow! 💻
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(WSJ) - The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans to impose steep tariffs on imports, a senior official at the International Chamber of Commerce warned.
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That was their goal.
People are going to die because of this.
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Ukraine reels from ‘worst-case scenario’ suspension of US foreign aid
Trump is dismantling USAID—its website has been disrupted, funding frozen for most foreign aid programs, and vital aid efforts are being scaled back. It’s an attempt to silence humanitarian efforts and consolidate power. Lives are at risk.
This. The president is violating the constitution, firing the civil servants who keep us safe on airplanes, defunding research into cancer and Alzheimer’s, and even cutting foreign aid that will result in child deaths.
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FEWS NET, which detects famine outbreaks, has shut down per Trump’s freeze on all foreign aid.
USAID website goes offline amid Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid
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Trump just cut your family’s purchasing power by $3500.
A reminder that the last time Trump imposed tariffs it caused a slowdown in the US economy…
