Sign in

Anna Stavrianakis

@annastavrianakis.bsky.social
689 followers 580 following 122 posts

Arms trade, militarism, global insecurities and global (dis)order @ Uni Sussex and Shadow World Investigations

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Professor Anna Stavrianakis ISRF Mid-Career Fellow 2027-28 Unfinished Business. Weapons, War And Empire In The 21st Century @annastavrianakis.bsky.social 
isrf.org
Anna Stavrianakis
ISRF Mid-Career Fellow 2027-28 - Unfinished Business. Weapons, War And Empire In The 21st Century
131
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Must-read, especially for @europeanisa.bsky.social members!
011
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fixed term post at Sussex to cover my first year IR and third year Arms Trade classes while I write a book - please share! jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/eda7691f...
jobs.sussex.ac.uk
Assistant Professor in International Relations (Education and Scholarship) Ref: 44064 (Fixed Term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
154
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This are the insights it turns out I was looking for in the obituaries of Gloria Steinem -
031
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are hosting the book Launch of Jill Gibbon's 'Gifts From the Arms Trade' on 17th Sept. at MayDay Rooms! Join us for a discussion with Simon Morris & @annastavrianakis.bsky.social about arm fairs, the normalisation of warfare & more
f.mtr.cool
Gifts from the Arms Trade | 17th September 2026
An in-person book launch and conversation supporting the publication of Dr Jill Gibbon's 'Gifts from the Arms Trade'.
112
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We’re excited to announce that #PEC2027 will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia! 🇸🇮 The destination was just announced at the #GeneralAssembly, and we can’t wait to meet you in Ljubljana in 2027! #EISA #PEC #Ljubljana #Slovenia
093
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🏆 Congratulations to our 2026 Award Winners! We are delighted to celebrate this year’s outstanding achievements: 🎓 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award 2026: Anne Lene Stein 📖 Best Article in EJIR 2026: Maïa Pal & Claire Vergerio A huge congratulations to all the award winners! 👏 #EISA #PEC2026
062
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
➡️ We’re excited to share that next year, EWIS 2027 will be taking place at Sciences Po Bordeaux! 🇫🇷 See you there!
041
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today would be a good day to pre-order your copy of Making A Killing www.versobooks.com/products/333...
versobooks.com
Making a Killing
An urgent work of investigative reporting, Making a Killing follows the deals, shadowy or brazen, connecting London, Washington, and European capitals to the violence and suffering in Yemen and Gaza. ...
020
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Deeply ashamed that, despite a sizeable majority of Greeks opposing the genocidal Apartheid state, we have allowed our ruling class to taint Greece through this despicable deal. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
jpost.com
Greece, Israel to sign $3.6 billion defense deal amid Turkey, Iran threats | The Jerusalem Post
The agreement, which has been under discussion for three years, will provide Athens with a multilayered air defense system against potential threats from Turkey and Iran.
1212851
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Ecocide in Iran Alongside death and destruction that has killed or wounded tens of thousands of Iranians, the U.S.–Israeli war has caused massive environmental devastation. theintercept.com/2026/08/31/i...
theintercept.com
Ecocide in Iran
The U.S.–Israeli war on Iran has caused massive environmental devastation, adding to the long history of American wars with toxic legacies.
27335
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📱 PEC 2026 attendees - the conference app is now available to download! ➡️ Find detailed instructions on how to use it here: bit.ly/46joNGQ 🔗 Download: bit.ly/46joNGQ
012
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Did you recently finish your PhD (or are about to do so) and have an interest in deterrence? Our @forsvarsakademiet.bsky.social colleagues from the Institute for Strategy and War Studies might have a job for you as Assistant Professor candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
0911
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is a really great episode - I learnt a lot!
154
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We don't talk about the fact that nuclear weapons harm people *before* they are fired enough.
44611
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Chris Bentley 🏎️🏍️⚽️🦅🔵🔴 @christopherb52.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Best ep of Bold Politics yet. Absolutely astounding stuff! So much to take in I’ve had to listen multiple times. Every voting person in the UK should know this stuff. The government is complicit in war crimes & due to their ridiculous policies the average ’terrorist’ in the UK is now a 60 y/o woman!
04323
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Join us at MayDay Rooms on 17th September for the launch of Jill Gibbon's 'Gifts from the Arms Trade'. With Simon Morris & @annastavrianakis.bsky.social, we will discuss the massive arms fairs which combine lethal weapons with cute promotional gifts isrf.org/events/gifts-from-the-arms…
022
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Red to Green 🌿 @redtogreen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Brilliant #BoldPolitics this wk @zackpolanski.bsky.social interviews @annastavrianakis.bsky.social: • UK Complicity in genocide • Flouting international law • Arms dealers' dodgy dinners for MPs • Where we really rank on arms spending AKA why war never goes out of fashion youtu.be/nxOZUUagC_o?...
youtu.be
How Defence Spending Has Changed
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
23513
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What do we actually mean when we talk about our national security? Where does Palantir sit within the UK’s military industrial complex? How do we define defence and security? My conversation with international security expert @annastavrianakis.bsky.social youtu.be/nxOZUUagC_o?...
youtu.be
How Brutal Is Our Future?
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
6410138
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This will be a good conversation, @annastavrianakis.bsky.social is a mensch and really knows her stuff.
26321
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
📅 18 September 2026: The Environmental Politics of War Join SGR’s Dr Nico Edwards and others in a full day workshop exploring how conflict and militarism are destroying the ecosystems and climate that enable life on earth, and what we can do about it. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-enviro...
eventbrite.co.uk
The Environmental Politics of War
This workshop will foster critical discussions around the environmental politics of war and conflict.
035
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 11/07/2026
This gets to my suspicion of Burnham’s expression of mild regret around Gaza. You’re the party who dragged Britain into Iraq. If you want to show you’re serious about ‘mistakes’ over Gaza then tell me who’s facing arrest or which Israeli arms manufacturers you’re going to kick off British soil.
617448
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Coming soon! The @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social team have chronicled the way the west has armed the wars in Yemen and Gaza. Book launch and tour coming end of the year - watch this space
1125
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🚨 NEW: Our new analysis has found that the funding settlement issued with the Defence Investment Plan will lead to a net loss in jobs in the UK. 📑 Buying the Dip: The Defence Investment Plan Will Produce Domestic Unemployment Our key findings 🧵👇
2910
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Thanks to @politicalquarterly.bsky.social for the opportunity to review Peter Oborne’s excellent “Complicit” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Arming Genocide: Defending the Indefensible
Click on the article title to read more.
032
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
The India Forum @theindiaforum.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Mapping the world’s largest military-industrial complexes, their relationships to one another, and their overlapping structures of corporate ownership suggests that their expansion is subtended by the violent functions of statecraft. @annastavrianakis.bsky.social www.theindiaforum.in/internationa...
theindiaforum.in
Arms Markets across the World
Mapping the world’s largest military-industrial complexes, their relationships to one another, and their overlapping structures of corporate ownership suggests that their expansion is, in the final es...
024
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Taylor Barnes @tkbarnes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Examples are piling up of how the $1 trillion Pentagon budget is enabling unpopular data centers across the country. Elon Musk's xAI in Memphis + Mississippi (www.democracynow.org/2026/6/17/he...), the Box Elder data center in Utah, and one in Ypsilanti for the Los Alamos nuclear lab.
apnews.com
In boost to Musk, Justice Department seeks to dismiss air pollution lawsuit against xAI data center
The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in ...
32818
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It's a full "Week in Arms Trade Publications" newsletter... check it out for recent works and upcoming events @explosiveweapon.bsky.social @minemonitor.bsky.social @iainoverton.bsky.social @brankamarijan.bsky.social @rcw4disarmament.bsky.social + many others mailchi.mp/forumarmstra...
043
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 11/06/2026
"In a deeply interconnected global arms industry, where divisions between the private and public sector are structurally obscured, alliances and responsibilities become blurred." @annastavrianakis.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/arm...
0169
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 04/06/2026
*person studying civil rights movement* I don’t get it, what’s so important about eating lunch at this one place.
2808
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Frank Slijper @frankslijper.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#MustRead by @annastavrianakis.bsky.social: Arms markets: a look at the world’s largest military industries phenomenalworld.org/analysis/arm...
phenomenalworld.org
Arms Markets | Anna Stavrianakis
A look at the world’s largest military industries
065
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
As of *a month ago*, the US has lost 39 aircrafts in their war on Iran (this is Rep Ed Case speaking to the Pentagon CFO):
11811
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 01/04/2026
👉 NEW — ‘I had heard rumours about MOD waste. What I saw was jarring’ By former defence contractor The failed Watchkeeper drone programme isn’t an abnormality, but typical of the incompetence I saw for years as a defence contractor www.declassifieduk.org/i-had-heard-...
declassifieduk.org
‘I had heard rumours about MOD waste. What I saw was jarring’
The failed Watchkeeper drone programme isn’t an abnormality, but typical of the incompetence I saw for years as a defence contractor
03519
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-arms-trad...
declassifieduk.org
UK arms trade: A trifecta of everything that's wrong
Declassified’s latest investigation into UK arms exports to Israel left me shaking my head and shouting at the screen. Here’s why.
032
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Franziska Müller - DECT 6097 @squirrelista.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social
jobs.univie.ac.at
Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics
Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics
34147
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Brilliant opportunity
032
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Thank you James and Sam and the @lrb.co.uk for a stimulating conversation!
262
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: The High Court has just ruled the ban on Palestine Action to be UNLAWFUL. Turns out opposing genocide ISN'T terrorism.
524569
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
BREAKING - WE HAVE WON! Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 ‘terror’ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.
9278129
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Janet Abou Elias @janetabouelias.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The Pentagon says AI is the future of U.S. military dominance. History says otherwise. In a new piece at @inkstickmedia.com, William Hartung and I unpack the rush to roll out military AI at “wartime speed,” and why sidelining oversight should worry us all. 🔗 inkstickmedia.com/the-pentagon...
inkstickmedia.com
The Pentagon's AI Surge is a Reckless, Unviable Defense Strategy
The US Pentagon has gone all in on artificial intelligence as AI takes a more central role in Washington's defense planning.
054
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We have put together three recent issues, which we consider to be essential reading for strengthening our readers’ understanding of and commitment to the global anticolonial struggles. Three issues at a special discount, accompanied with a complimentary tote! thefunambulist.net/shop/anticol...
045
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Morgan McSweeney has resigned Lots of reasons for it but among them is our revelation on Thursday evening that McSweeney’s think tank paid a PR firm to investigate journalists. McSweeney was across that decision. Still so many questions to answer about it
15440166
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉 ‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍 Space is limited so register now! 👉 ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY
ow.ly
Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentre
The #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe.
31415
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Nor are we surprised that many male colleagues will continue to insist that sex, gender and race are irrelevant to politics
051
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The fabulous @declassifieduk.org team in action! Great to hear them talk first hand about their work
1135
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Two postdocs and a graduate research assistant position at Sussex with @lindsaycclark.bsky.social on "Technology and the (future) Human in War"! Postdoc: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/36e1adc2...; RA: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/b62df692... - apply by 11 Feb!
011
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Alex Beatty @alexbeatty.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
👇 Come and do my job at Spotlight! It's a fantastic opportunity to work with brilliant people tackling an important issue that affects us all. #anticorruption @charitycomms.bsky.social
005
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Colleagues overseas, check this out:
044
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
@tkbarnes.bsky.social is a superb journalist: and I love this latest post of revealing tidbits. I agree that "every day is a day to report on and read about the people and places tied up in the $1 trillion Pentagon budget"! inkstick.substack.com/p/the-reveal...
inkstick.substack.com
The Revealing Tidbits Buried in Defense Contractors' Local Records
Here’s some gems about Northrop Grumman's fire equipment, RTX's ethics and Anduril's wildlife challenges I discovered in public records last year.
141
Reposted by Anna Stavrianakis
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
UK Business Secretary Peter Kyle indicated that the government could resume arms sales with Israel and restart trade talks if it enters the second phase of the ceasefire 👇
newarab.com
Rights groups slam UK pledge to resume Israel arms sales
Business Secretary Peter Kyle indicated that the government could resume arms sales and restart trade talks if it enters the second phase of the ceasefire.
021