As I have stated before, the OSI have been slowly working towards this for a long time (compiling evidence painstakingly, which has taken longer due to the fall of Kabul in 2021). His arrest signals the OSI and AFP have a very, very strong case.
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For more info on the project, position description, and UNSW Casual contracts and pay rates, please DM me or email me at s.bose@unsw.edu.au.
@binadcosta.bsky.social, @alexphelan.bsky.social, please share within your networks. Thanks!
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We’re a fantastic bunch to work with, are invested in your professional development, and centre care, reciprocity, and collective flourishing in our practice.
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Knowledge of rebel organisations, rebel governance literature essential. Qual skills essential. Survey design (& coding) skills desirable. Prior experience supporting a research project a bonus (but not essential). Remote work options available, flexible start date, but must be based in Aus.
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Australia-based Political Science (Comparative Politics, IR) PhD scholars and ECRs: I'm recruiting a Casual Research Assistant to work with me, @rumelas.bsky.social and #KeshabGiri on a *rebel governance* project (with a focus on South Asia).
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How do various forms of dehumanization shape public support for drone warfare? We address this question by articulating an original typology of dehumanized warfare (forms of dehumanization + types of drones, which informs our survey design). @cornellbtpi.bsky.social
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Pankaj Mishra on the “rupture in historical memory” that has led India to forsake Iran https://go.nybooks.com/3NeesGr
American Presidents invariably claim that the use of U.S. military force abroad benefits the local population. U.S. Presidents often explicitly or implicitly claim that "the intervened population" therefore welcomes U.S. military intervention - a powerful moral claim.
The NYT Investigative team (and other news outlets) have reported in detail on the attack against the Elementary School in Minab, Iran. I had the opportunity to comment, but the law is not the story so there is more to be said.
Allow me to elaborate:
"So it came as a shock when Carney offered immediate support to an illegal U.S.-Israel war of aggression against Iran."
NOT a shock if you didn't buy Carney's Davos BS in the 1st place. Or, to be more generous, recognised the limits of his avowal (as Jeremy argues).
"Those who loathe the clerical establishment may still recoil at the spectacle of foreign jets in Iranian skies and the explicit declaration that their state is to be dismantled."
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"In a revolutionary regime with entrenched coercive institutions and mobilized loyalist networks, external war is more likely to reinforce defensive cohesion than to trigger collapse."
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"To hear them say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping. It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time – when artists, writers and film makers should be doing everything in their power to stop it."
Repeatedly punching a prone civilian on the neck/head and rib cage. Thugs doing Minns' "social cohesion" work. Doubtful they will be held accountable.
"The pairing of fully autonomous drone strikes and dehumanizing imagery could undermine public support for military action, even in cases when action is needed," write Paul Lushenko and Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social.
A friend of a friend aptly called this moment a call for a non-aligned movement of intermediate imperial powers.
Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
"let’s be quite clear, the routine invocation of “safety” is code for “I don’t want to hear your opinion”. In this instance, it appears to apply only to a Palestinian invitee."
100%. The ever-articulate and indomitable Louise Adler.
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🧵 All the academics who are smarter than I am are doing "explainer" threads.
I'll just provide some readings on indirect rule that might be increasingly relevant over the next few years.
1. David Lake's work on indirect rule and U.S. foreign policy.
In Episode 4 of our podcast, Technologies of Genocide, host Suchitra Vijayan is in conversation with activist, writer, and poet Abduweli Ayup on the Uyghur genocide. She reflects:
Leavitt, also w/ an unflattering close-up of lip-fillers, orange nose (Pam Bondi's brown nose from South Park, anyone?), and a crinkled flag and asymmetrical lamps. Metaphors, ahoy! Rubio's Trump-like stance, head bowed, a puppet.
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Miller, sinister as always. Is he Nosferatu or Palpatine? Placing him underneath a painting of indigenous Americans is genius. And what is Scavino looking at? Confused, what's out there, he wonders. Shambles.
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Vance, w/ an unflattering close-up, thinks he's in a GQ shoot (the shadows of the flag and his own self are awkward). He's even cropped out of the centrefold. Lol.
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This is an incredible photo shoot. The photographer knew exactly what they were doing. This is social photography (critique) at its finest. Consider: Wiles, wide-eyed (caught in the headlights), is made to look small against a larger back-drop, w/ cropped out sofa and painting.
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This, with @claroche.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, was the most fun I’ve had writing a paper in years. A quick thread on what we do here. This paper argues IR theories tell stories, and stories get their meaning from their particular endings. /1
"The opposition has alleged SIR is being used as a covert national register of citizens (NRC), similar to what took place in the north Indian state of Assam a few years ago. There, NRC led to hundreds of thousands, primarily Muslims, being rounded up and detained in detention centres..."
