Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded The Eyes of Texas Excellence Award for 2026! This honor recognizes outstanding contributions faculty have made to students' lives at UT Austin. This award is a very pleasant surprise and I look forward to continuing to support the Longhorns!
I'm excited to share that our new book with the talented Adam Hanzel, "Ladders of Escalation: Flexible Modeling in Comparative Cases of the State-Sponsored Targeted Killings," is now available for pre-order on Springer Nature's and Amazon's websites!
www.amazon.com/Ladders-Esca...
https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487548926
https://www.rienner.com/title/Killing_in_the_Name_of_the_State_State_Sponsored_Assassination_in_International_Politics
We've got some great new intel books available for review here at JPICT, including books by @chekistmonitor.bsky.social, @lucatrenta.bsky.social & @avramovok.bsky.social. Please get in touch with @melaniebrand.bsky.social if you're interested in writing a review for us. 1/3
Yay!
Interested in the use of chemical and biological weapons in assassination and how to investigate it? May I recommend two excellent chapters (by Glenn Cross and Richard Beedham, and by @dankaszeta.bsky.social) in the volume I co-edited with @avramovok.bsky.social.
www.rienner.com/title/Killin....
I'm thrilled to share that our paper with Jan Černý (Prague University of Economics and Business) and Liladhar Pendse (University of California, Berkeley) is published. A multi-stage, agentic LLM workflow built for the complexity of the CIA FOIA Reading Room: www.emerald.com/el/article-a...
My copy has finally arrived. I'm told contributors' copies are on the way. Thanks again to @avramovok.bsky.social, all the contributors, and @lynneriennerpub.bsky.social.
Thanks @dankaszeta.bsky.social. @avramovok.bsky.social and I are grateful to have you on board.
Coming soon and we can't wait. Congratulations, @lucatrenta.bsky.social and @avramovok.bsky.social!
Alright, alright, alright! The Christmas presents have arrived early this year!
New! How do governments approach, understand, & even justify assassination? What methods have been used historically, and how do they differ from current practice? Dig into these questions and more with Killing in the Name of the State by @lucatrenta.bsky.social and Kiril Avramov! shorturl.at/Ma0N8
The book @avramovok.bsky.social and I co-edited is finally available. For the UK, you can purchase here: www.scriptbooks.co.uk/57544/killin...
It's out! Truly a wonderful book, full of useful new insights. A groundbreaking contribution to the field of Intelligence Studies by so many of our favorite scholars. www.amazon.com/Covert-Actio...
How cool - it is also available as an Audible Audiobook! It certainly will be a new experience to listen to my own chapter being read by a professional narrator 🙂
www.amazon.com/Covert-Actio...
@lucatrenta.bsky.social and @avramovok.bsky.social's upcoming book, "Killing in the Name of the State," is available for pre-order on Amazon. This looks absolutely fascinating!
www.amazon.com/Killing-Name...
We are really looking forward to this December 2025 release by our own @avramovok.bsky.social and @lucatrenta.bsky.social . Well done to you both!
Thinking of Christmas shopping already? Let me help you. New edited volume with @avramovok.bsky.social is out in December with Lynne Rienner.
www.rienner.com/title/Killin...
Forthcoming December 2025/325 pages, with @lucatrenta.bsky.social !
‘The UK government should build expertise surrounding assassinations; a process that is emerging in academia, but needs to be better connected to government and society.’
Latest for @rusi.bsky.social with @avramovok.bsky.social and @mattlevitt.bsky.social.
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
'The regime will likely seek to avenge the death of the many senior leaders killed and the damage done to its nuclear and ballistic missile programs' write @avramovok.bsky.social, @mattlevitt.bsky.social sky.social and @lucatrenta.bsky.social in the latest RUSI Commentary.
Cool results & insights from our new "forensic reading" method for extracting unclassified intelligence files and spy fiction using a combination of NLP and AI methods are coming soon! Exciting!
What a fantastic, creative buzz within my research group (DH Research Group #1 | AI Safety and Security in Digital Humanities) this summer! I look forward to publishing some of our new research results soon. Kudos to Thorsten Ries, Steph Buongiorno, PhD, Adam Hanzel, and Hiba Farouqi!
In fact, I am grateful to @markstout.bsky.social for his patience in editing my chapter, as he did an incredible job, while pushing me to constantly improve. A fact!
Thanks @markstout.bsky.social !
Thanks. Actually, if you think about the cases of Russia and say Mexico, then we do deal with that too.
I'm excited that the fruit of our joint endeavor with @lucatrenta.bsky.social and a select number of very talented researchers is in its final phase. Pre-order, or ask your library to get a copy here: tinyurl.com/4p9u83ap
Call for Papers: The University of Texas at Austin Announces the 2025 “Bobby R. Inman Award” for Student Scholarship on Intelligence: tinyurl.com/3c2tfs2e
@rorycormac.bsky.social @dvanp.bsky.social @markstout.bsky.social Gen Lester and I are super grateful to our amazing group of contributors working with us on this project - 20 substantive chapters!! We learned so much about #covertaction outside of the anglosphere! Coming out in
December 🎄🎉
