Experience. Conflict. Commentary.
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Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
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Principal Investigator of PeaceRep Iraq programme, LSE Middle East Centre
Scholar of revolution, protest, Middle East
Assistant Professor at Georgetown SFS
Website: www.killianclarke.com
Seva Gunitsky, associate professor of political science, University of Toronto. http://individual.utoronto.ca/seva/. book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
est. 1967
#SHAFR2026 - The Ohio State University - June 25-27, 2026
PhD Student in Politics @Princeton
redatamtam.com
Incoming postdoc @ Stanford CDDRL| PhD candidate in Political Science at MSU | Predoc @ SNF Agora Institute, JHU | IPPSR Fellow | resistance to democratic erosion | Past: UChicago Visiting PhD student, Reichman University alum, EA @ JoP | benjaminyoel.com
Dedicated to advancing human progress and building a new generation of global leaders.
Part of the Pardee School, the Global Security Initiative to bring together and foster conversations about global security through events with scholars and practitioners about critical security issues.
The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is committed to conducting balanced and dispassionate research of the modern Middle East that meets the highest academic standards.
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Award-winning foreign correspondent. Former @washingtonpost.com staff writer. Now: London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. Email me: louisaloveluck@gmail.com.
Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
The first public workshop on autocracies. Hosted by @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social, @emisimison.bsky.social, @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social
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Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House. Research, analysis, and the occasional joke on the Middle East.
Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, Arab states' political economy. Views my own, not my employer's. Author "Citizen Hariri: Lebanon's neoliberal reconstruction". He/him
Defense | Diplomacy | Development
POLAD to the EUNAVFOR Aspides Operations Commander;
Former NATO Mission Iraq advisor on Human Security: Protection of Civilians in military operations.
MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
Prof Comparative Politics Nottingham. Researches (& loves) S Asia. India Pakistan Sri Lanka. CPEC, Federalism, Majoritarianisms, HE, EDI & SEN.
Mum and wife of Long Covid sufferer.
Cats 🐈⬛, Brompton 🚴, Gardening.
Views expressed my own
Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow | DEMED project @ERC_Research | Fellow of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social | Main interest: Democracy and Autocracy, Public Opinion, Civic Education, Higher Ed. #FirstGen
After teaching and writing about constitutional law for 50 yrs, it seemed time for me to reach beyond Harvard’s walls — to spread understanding and appreciation of the rule of law, of justice as fairness, and of a republic if we can keep it
War Studies, King’s College London. Researcher of war-to-peace transitions, civil wars, corruption, elite bargains, statebuilding, and UK foreign policy. Trustee at Conciliation Resources. Defender of democracy. Padel enthusiast.
Peer-reviewed journal of the American Political Science Association, cultivating a political science public sphere.
https://apsanet.org/publications/journals/perspectives-on-politics/
Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen
Website: www.jasonlyall.com
Stephen Robert Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. Representation and inclusion in democratic societies, mostly in Africa
Associate Prof. University of Colorado Boulder
MENA Politics & Computational Social Science
alexandra-siegel.com
Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton | Politics of Authoritarianism + Religion in the Middle East | www.elizabethnugent.com
Historian, author. Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS. Next: MUSKISM with Ben Tarnoff. Preorder here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 quinnslobodian.com
Looks like it’s time to lace up the old boots.
Defence Editor at The Economist.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
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
Professor of Middle East politics at Northwestern University. Author of "We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria" and "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora." https://sites.northwestern.edu/wendypearlman/
Mapping spatial creativity/displacement. Arts/Health research lead, AssocProfessor Spatial Practice UniPlymouth. Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Middle East Centre #SpatialJustice #CriticalSpatialPractice #CreativeDeepMapping #Displacement #Home
Chief Emerging Markets Economist at Bloomberg. Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Views are mine.
Chief of Staff @geopolitics.csis.org and senior fellow @mideast.csis.org. Host of State of Play pod. Conflict, governance, and displacement in the MENA region. Views my own. https://www.csis.org/people/will-todman
Egyptian/Iraqi Brit. Political analyst and mediation specialist, working across MENA/Horn of Africa. Views here my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
PhD student at POLIS, Uni of Cambridge
Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
MENA Program Director @crisisgroup. Conflict mitigation, human rights, good food. Author of "The Resurrected," a novel (forthcoming 2025).
Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa, @HRW.org
Senior Fellow, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
Counsel to Human Rights & Privatization Project, NYU Law
Associate Prof, Head of Middle East Studies, Uni of Copenhagen // Iran, History, Sociology // Views my own // English, Danish, Persian
Associate Professor of Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism, migration, and the Middle East. https://www.scott-williamson.com
Associate Prof @ UCLA Sociology / author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran & The Social Question in the 21st Century. Likes: Numero Group playlists
I research the war-peace nexus, postwar cities (Beirut, Belfast, Mitrovica, Mostar, Nicosia), the socioeconomics of peace, and geocoded urban violence at Uppsala University.
I like mountains and tattoos.
US Naval War College - Dean & Professor, College of Distance Education. Political science, international relations, Latin American politics, Latin America-US relations, comparative politics, public health, edtech, multimodal learning, online education.
Polisci + IR professor + Associate Dean, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies @bupardeeschool.bsky.social, Jean Monnet Chair of European Security and Defense + Global Fellow @Wilson Center
all about citizenship | 🇳🇱 prof @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 co-director @globalcit.bsky.social 🌏 | resident of Braga 🇵🇹 | https://eui.eu/people?id=maarten-vink | #MigCitSky | https://go.bsky.app/5vLDGon | 🚲 cyclist in Florence ⚜️
Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
Political liberal, hoop reactionary.
VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and Professor at UCLA. My research and writing focus on Israel-Palestine, contemporary antisemitism, Jewish politics, US-Israel relations, Israeli politics, and Middle East politics.
Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies/ modern Turkey at the University of Copenhagen, but primarily employed by two little kids. Turkish law, STS, intellectual history.
Postdoc @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social | Authoritarianism, contentious politics, MENA region.
سلام السعدي
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Gray rhino guru, policy and risk governance educator and strategic advisor, best selling author of THE GRAY RHINO and YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK. Celiac. Chicago. #Econsky thegrayrhino.com
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.
Historian (Iraq + elsewhere), Assyrian, Seattle | author, City of Black Gold (sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/city-black-gold) | personal account | she/هي/ܗܝ
Prof at Notre Dame (alexanderkustov.org). Author of "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular" (http://tinyurl.com/4rwpr6dc). Writing at "Popular by Design" (http://tinyurl.com/b93bwr9j).
Associate Professor, Middle East Politics
Author: Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/middle-east-gov
www.rorymccarthy.com
Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Last book on HTS's rise to power in Syria, Transformed by the People
Troop deployments. Security cooperation. New Yorker in the Midwest. Semi-competent Bayesian stats enthusiast. Slowly becoming less bad at jiu jitsu. Impatient woodworker.
#polisky #rstats #dataviz
Scholar-practitioner, contemporary South Caucasus politics & regional dynamics | Armenian-Azerbaijani relations | associate fellow, Chatham House | co-editor-in-chief, Caucasus Survey
Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Educational developer | Senior fellow #Iraqi HE researcher | former Education, Peace & Politics & Nahrein network | #LTHEChat | mum to a Klementine🍊🥁 | Dabbling here since the Xodus
Head of Global Strategy, Policy & Engagement at The British Academy. Previously at the European Parliament and the UK House of Lords.
Professor. University of Costa Rica.
#Bioethics #STS #Feminism #Decolonial
Intelligence historian, former intelligence officer. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. University educator. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea.
A journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant @cbrl.bsky.social; https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ycol20. Looking for archaeology? That’ll be our sister journal, @levant-journal.bsky.social
Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; Executive Editor at Just Security; president-elect, American Society of International Law; former Special Counsel at U.S. Department of Defense. Website: oonahathaway.com.
Associate professor of political science, Virginia Commonwealth University. Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy. Assoc. Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies. Formerly The Guardian & Latin America advisor, Bernie Sanders. 교포
michaelpaarlberg.org
Lecturer in Political Geography at Newcastle University. Interested in war, aesthetics, 'the Middle East'
Political Scientist @GIGA Hamburg working on authoritarianism, repression and legitimation, mainly in Middle East & North Africa
MECAM Publication Manager
She/her
No Covid. Mom. Cyclist. For future
Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Political Science, travel, dogs. Not in that order.
Editor-in-chief, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics
PhD Candidate in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University I Power-sharing, ethnic conflict, climate crisis.
Professor in International Relations, University of St Andrews. Researches on religion, migration, diaspora and minorities
political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
Human, Learner, Voyager, Citizen. Polisci research on the state, development, and conflict. Assistant Professor @ LSE Department of Government. Previously Oxford and ETH Zurich. https://carlmueller-crepon.org
Professor/Chair Politics & IR, Roger Williams University. Spec. in MENA, social movements, political communication, ethnic conflict, games/simulations, & pedagogy. Views my own/RPs ≠ endorsement. He/Him/His
Thinks a lot about governance, rule of law, justice & peace processes. Consequently depressing at parties. Independent political development expert, comics scriptwriter, & Senior Advisor @PAEMA. Opinions my own. Author of RE:CONSTITUTIONS, WHY THE PEOPLE.
IR theory / historical IR / Pedagogy / Maine / Dogs. Views=mine. Trying to practice kindness here. Also here to remind everyone that Thucydides never said that.
https://sites.google.com/view/timrubackme/
Political Science | VAP at Colgate University | Thinking too much about EU integration and identity (and the fast and furious franchise) | EuropeNow | ALPSblog
Assistant professor at Georgia State University, formerly at BYU. 6 kids. Study NGOs, human rights, #PublicPolicy, #Nonprofits, #Dataviz, #CausalInference.
#rstats forever.
andrewheiss.com
Signal: andrewheiss.01
Political theory and philosophy, democracy, trust, pop culture, cats, typos
Are you contingent faculty (adjuncts, lecturers, anyone not TT) at Columbia? Talk to me or visit https://cfcu-uaw.org.
Views my own, not reflective of my employer, etc.
Poli Sci and IR prof at BU. Posts on Africa, human rights, US politics, LGBTQ+, religion & politics. Progressive, Christian, proud gay dad.
2 books on Rwanda. Currently writing book on church and state across Africa and another on LGBTQ backlash in Africa
I teach and do social science, and direct a social science research lab @WestPoint. Personal account; I'm in the Army but don't speak for it here! @CSDS Brussels; IHEDN Chaire ECODEF
https://www.westpoint.edu/social-sciences/profile/jordan_becker
Law/society, religion/politics, authoritarian ‘rule by law’; Middle East/Egypt; politics of knowledge production. https://tamirmoustafa.com/books
migration, diplomacy, and overanalyzing everything ∙ 🇬🇷 professor @unibirmingham.bsky.social ∙ editor-in-chief @migrationjrnl.bsky.social ∙ FAcSS SFHEA ∙ 🏃🏻♂️🌍
Professor of Political Science, Appalachian State University. IR. Middle East politics. Music fanatic. A bit too obsessed with Jordan and with Arab and Middle East alliances and politics.
Section Chair, APSA Middle East and North African Politics section.
Investigative Reporter, The New York Times | Birch Professor at Columbia Journalism School & Director of the Li Center for Global Journalism
Washington Post investigations reporter
Co-host of Schlock and Awe: https://schlockandawe.substack.com/
Executive Council, Washington-Baltimore News Guild
Deputy Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social
Analyst, Student, Professor, and Professional Cynic
Study and teach at @uab.cat in Barcelona
#RefugeesWelcome He/Him
📍Barcelona
Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University | Non-Resident Fellow at USAFA Institute for Future Conflict | Visiting Lecturer in Political Science at Westfield State University | Former Wilson Center Global Fellow
Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
