Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What is “defence” spending for? This is the sort of public intervention we desperately need, from the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social 062
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisIndependent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Professor Anna Stavrianakis ISRF Mid-Career Fellow 2027-28 Unfinished Business. Weapons, War And Empire In The 21st Century @annastavrianakis.bsky.social isrf.orgAnna StavrianakisISRF Mid-Career Fellow 2027-28 - Unfinished Business. Weapons, War And Empire In The 21st Century 131
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Must-read, especially for @europeanisa.bsky.social members! 011
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Yes it includes all those things. Details in the job spec. It’s an Education and Scholarship contract. 000
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Fixed 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.ukAssistant Professor in International Relations (Education and Scholarship) Ref: 44064 (Fixed Term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search 154
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This are the insights it turns out I was looking for in the obituaries of Gloria Steinem - 031
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisIndependent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026We 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.coolGifts from the Arms Trade | 17th September 2026An in-person book launch and conversation supporting the publication of Dr Jill Gibbon's 'Gifts from the Arms Trade'. 112
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisEuropean International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026We’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 0103
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisEuropean 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 StavrianakisEuropean 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 · 01/09/2026Today would be a good day to pre-order your copy of Making A Killing www.versobooks.com/products/333...versobooks.comMaking a KillingAn 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 StavrianakisYanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Deeply 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.comGreece, Israel to sign $3.6 billion defense deal amid Turkey, Iran threats | The Jerusalem PostThe 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 StavrianakisNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026EXCLUSIVE: 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.comEcocide in IranThe U.S.–Israeli war on Iran has caused massive environmental devastation, adding to the long history of American wars with toxic legacies. 27235
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisEuropean 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 StavrianakisChristoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Did 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 · 21/08/2026This is a really great episode - I learnt a lot! 154
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisBold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We don't talk about the fact that nuclear weapons harm people *before* they are fired enough. 44511
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisChris Bentley 🏎️🏍️⚽️🦅🔵🔴 @christopherb52.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Best 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 StavrianakisIndependent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Join 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 StavrianakisRed to Green 🌿 @redtogreen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Brilliant #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.beHow Defence Spending Has ChangedYouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski 23513
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026What 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.beHow Brutal Is Our Future?YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski 6410138
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This will be a good conversation, @annastavrianakis.bsky.social is a mensch and really knows her stuff. 26321
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisScientists 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.ukThe Environmental Politics of WarThis workshop will foster critical discussions around the environmental politics of war and conflict. 035
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026And every family WhatsApp group “what is going on with Robbie Williams’ hair?” 120
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 11/07/2026This 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@ruth4peace.bsky.social @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social 020
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Coming 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 StavrianakisTransition 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 · 03/07/2026Thanks to @politicalquarterly.bsky.social for the opportunity to review Peter Oborne’s excellent “Complicit” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comArming Genocide: Defending the IndefensibleClick on the article title to read more. 032
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisThe India Forum @theindiaforum.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Mapping 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.inArms Markets across the WorldMapping 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 StavrianakisTaylor Barnes @tkbarnes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Examples 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.comIn boost to Musk, Justice Department seeks to dismiss air pollution lawsuit against xAI data centerThe 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 StavrianakisForum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 12/06/2026It'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 StavrianakisYusuf @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
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Photographic evidence! It definitely happened! So happy that 12 brave souls came out in the wind to run-chat ahead of a day of seated thinking and discussing @mybisa.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisFrank 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.orgArms Markets | Anna StavrianakisA look at the world’s largest military industries 065
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 13/05/2026As 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 StavrianakisDeclassified 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 · 01/04/2026www.declassifieduk.org/uk-arms-trad...declassifieduk.orgUK arms trade: A trifecta of everything that's wrongDeclassified’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 StavrianakisFranziska Müller - DECT 6097 @squirrelista.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Come 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.socialjobs.univie.ac.atTenure-Track Professorship in Development EconomicsTenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics 34147
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisElke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Brilliant opportunity 032
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Thank you James and Sam and the @lrb.co.uk for a stimulating conversation! 262
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisThe 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. 524469
Reposted by Anna StavrianakisDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 13/02/2026BREAKING - 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 StavrianakisJanet Abou Elias @janetabouelias.bsky.social · 09/02/2026The 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.comThe Pentagon's AI Surge is a Reckless, Unviable Defense StrategyThe 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 StavrianakisThe Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026We 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 StavrianakisPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Morgan 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 StavrianakisBISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Ilan 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/qhIf50Y4lfYow.lyIlan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentreThe #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe. 31415
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Nor are we surprised that many male colleagues will continue to insist that sex, gender and race are irrelevant to politics 051