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Mariah Thornton (宋妍嫵)

@mariahtthornton.bsky.social
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Doctoral candidate studying Taiwan at the LSE, researcher at LSE IDEAS. Former press & comms advisor at the Taipei Representative Office UK. Oxford & SOAS alum of Chinese Studies. www.lse.ac.uk/international-relatio…

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Millennium: Journal of International Studies @millennjournal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Next up, @kazimier.bsky.social, PhD candidate at @LSE @lseir.bsky.social Kazimier's research focuses on international aviation politics, where he explores how the scientific discovery of powered flight fundamentally altered the ways international politics is imagined, conceptualised, and practised.
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Mariah Thornton (宋妍嫵) @mariahtthornton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My 1st TV appearance on @connectedtwplus.bsky.social alongside Taiwan Digital Diplomacy Association's Sam Straw. We discussed #China's #disinformation & cognitive warfare towards #Taiwan, and Taiwanese resistance. Thanks Sam for great insights & Billy S for producing www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jc1...
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China's AI Cognitive Warfare: Manipulating Taiwan's Reality? | CONNECTED Power and Principles
YouTube video by CONNECTED on TaiwanPlus
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Mariah Thornton (宋妍嫵) @mariahtthornton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Interested to learn more about how #Taiwan resists #disinformation & propaganda from #China? Next Tues 10 March 17:00 I will be presenting at @soastaiwanstudies.bsky.social about my PhD research on Taiwan's whole-of-society resistance. 👉 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... @lseir.bsky.social
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Resisting disinformation: theorising whole-of-society and sociotechnical resistance through the Taiwan case
Mariah Thornton gives a talk on Taiwan’s whole-of-society resistance to transnational disinformation and its democratic innovations.
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Mariah Thornton (宋妍嫵) @mariahtthornton.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I recently had the privilege of discussing my research on political warfare in #Taiwan with the indomitable Ben Sando from the Global Taiwan Institute. Check it out: globaltaiwan.org/podcasts/gti... The interview builds on my 2023 report with @lseideas.bsky.social: www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/public...
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Global Taiwan Insights | Global Taiwan Institute
Home / Podcasts / Global Taiwan Insights An audio podcast produced and hosted by the staff of GTI, Global Taiwan Insights (formerly GTI Insights) consists of brief, timely interviews with a wide range...
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Mariah Thornton (宋妍嫵) @mariahtthornton.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Excellent & timely theoretical work from Nitasha Kaul and Barry Buzan on the concept of protofascism, how it differs from authoritarian populism. Protofascism need not be bound by Eurocentric contexts, it can be applied to Hindutva, for example. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Trump’s new America and the question of fascism - Nitasha Kaul, Barry Buzan, 2026
The United States is undergoing a revolutionary transformation. In this article, we offer a novel and original early analysis of New America (Trump 2.0) as a co...
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Mariah Thornton (宋妍嫵) @mariahtthornton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Exciting to see my recent article about #disinformation, whole-of-society resistance, and #Taiwan with @ejir.bsky.social was trending in IR according to OOIR. 👉The article: shorturl.at/0DCPz 👉OOIR's post: x.com/ObserveIR/st...
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Mariah Thornton (宋妍嫵) @mariahtthornton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
My article about state resistance to transnational #disinformation is out now in @ejir.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1177/1354... Taking #Taiwan's resistance to #China's disinformation as its empirical focus, the article offers 4 contributions to #InternationalRelations: (1/5)
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 22/04/2025
Reinstating trust in the era of #AI. New paper on recent elections in #Africa, growing mistrust of emerging technologies and platforms, and how policymakers can regulate technology to protect democratic integrity - cup.org/42Litpy - Fola Adeleke #OpenAccess from Data & Policy.
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We (or rather our authors!) are trending over in the other place! Check out this fantastic article by Nitasha Kaul & Mariah Thornton. It's #OpenAccess now 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Mariah Thornton (宋妍嫵) @mariahtthornton.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Exciting to see my co-authored paper with Prof Nitasha Kaul in @risjnl.bsky.social is trending in #InternationalRelations, according to OOIR. The paper explores #India & #China's control of cartographic imaginaries of #Kashmir & #Taiwan. The paper👉 tinyurl.com/5n85pjwb
OOIR trending publications in IR (source: https://x.com/ObserveIR/status/1912401566507684210)
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New @RISjnl article and video extract by Dr Nitasha Kaul and @mariahtthornton.bsky.social out now! 🌎 'Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan' @CUP_PoliSci video and summary - buff.ly/OZtIa4Y full article - buff.ly/s9jKMc7 @lseir.bsky.social @lseideas.bsky.social
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Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan
Nitasha Kaul and Mariah Thornton discuss their new RIS article along with the video abstract.
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LSE Ideas @lseideas.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📰Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan | @risjnl.bsky.social Discover @mariahtthornton.bsky.social's paper (co-written w/Nitasha Kaul) on cartographic imaginaries of #Kashmir & #Taiwan. ⬇️Read Here www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan
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