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Srinjoy Bose

@srinjoybose.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof @UNSW | Associate Editor @austjia.bsky.social‬ | Senior Fellow @cornellbtpi.bsky.social‬ | Political order & violence, rebel governance, statebuilding & peacebuilding, drones, Global South | www.unsw.edu.au/staff/srinjoy-bose

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Corinne Bara @corinnebara.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New publication in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social with @realmps.bsky.social. Do ceasefires live up to the hopes placed in them to stop civilian suffering? We find they can reduce civilian targeting. This, however, mostly happens when at least one side gets military support... doi.org/10.1093/jopr...
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s military." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The US now has access to more than half Australia’s military bases – could it drag the country unwillingly into war?
Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s milita...
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Sahana Ghosh on borderlands and bordering. Read the book; it's excellent. www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...
thedailystar.net
Beyond kaanta-taar: Rethinking life at the Bangladesh–India border
In conversation with Sahana Ghosh, author of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the India-Bangladesh Borderlands and assistant professor of Anthropology at the National University of S...
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Details of Ben Roberts-Smith arrest revealed by AFP commissioner - video
Ross Barnett, director of investigations at the Office of the Special Investigator, says there were many challenges which led to a long investigation timeline around Ben Roberts-Smith's case, noting t...
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
🚨 I’m hiring! 🚨 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). 1/4
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Dehumanization and Public Support for Drone Warfare
Drone warfare can dehumanize targets. Does this affect public support for drones, and if so, how? We address this question by administering a survey experiment
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 13/03/2026
Pankaj Mishra on the “rupture in historical memory” that has led India to forsake Iran go.nybooks.com/3NeesGr
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A Bitter Education | Pankaj Mishra
Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in The Discovery of India that “among the many people and races who have come in contact with Indians and influenced India’s life
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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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.
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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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:
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"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).
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Respecting international law depends on who breaks it: Why Canada backed the war against Iran
Mark Carney’s support for the U.S.-Israel war against Iran seems hypocritical, but it’s consistent with Canada’s longstanding support for a rules-based order that only applies when convenient.
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"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." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together
The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"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." substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Fantasy of Liberation by War
The current U.S.–Israel war on Iran is being celebrated in some quarters as a long-awaited rupture.
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
"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."
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Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026
The Indian author, film maker and peace activist responds to a recent attempt by jury membres at the festival to deflect from the violence inflicted by Israel on the Gaza strip.
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Is Chris Minns channeling Donald Trump? - Michael West
It took two Labor leaders to help produce Monday night's violence in Sydney, proving Labor is not immune to a touch of the Trumps.
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns' goons exposes the lie of 'social cohesion'
NSW Police's actions against protesters in in Sydney was about the powerful dictating the terms of free speech — through state-sanctioned violence if necessary.
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Repeatedly punching a prone civilian on the neck/head and rib cage. Thugs doing Minns' "social cohesion" work. Doubtful they will be held accountable.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 03/02/2026
"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.
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How dehumanizing language, video images, and human oversight affect public opinion on drone warfare
A survey of 1,500 Americans reveals how the public views the use of drones in war.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A friend of a friend aptly called this moment a call for a non-aligned movement of intermediate imperial powers.
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nicoblar.bsky.social @nicoblar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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/...
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ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026: Call for Proposals
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It’s all going to get so much worse www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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No signs of heat going out of Coalition's summer of discontent
The Liberals may have found brief unity in a feverish lust of blaming the government –but that unity was never going to hold.
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"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. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 05/01/2026
🧵 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.
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Indirect Rule by David A. Lake | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Indirect Rule examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics. Indirect rule has long characterized interstate relat...
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The Polis Project @thepolisproject.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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:
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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. 1/4
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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How the Bondi Beach attack is being weaponized to suppress the Palestine movement in Australia
The Australian government is using the Bondi Beach attack as a pretext to accelerate its repression of the Palestine movement. This response lays bare the state’s true interest: to protect and defend ...
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Joseph MacKay @lefteleven.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"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..."
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India’s electoral roll revision threatens democracy and Muslims, say critics
Opposition claims SIR process being used to disenfranchise minority groups to benefit Narendra Modi’s government
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told
Whistleblower says chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of children, after alarm was raised
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades. transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
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The Politics of Hunger in Sudan – Transition Magazine
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🚨 My article, with Jessica Wolfendale and Chris Elliott, is now available (open access) with @risjnl.bsky.social. We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read! cup.org/49gmlUi
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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How former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa ended up being welcomed to the White House
Ahmed al-Sharaa has become the first Syrian leader in history to be invited to the White House.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
New Yorker article very much worth reading: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
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Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign and the Radical Idea that Muslims are Human - The Rumpus
It is against this background of a country that has reduced Muslims into a dark, foreign, terrorist “other,” that Mamdani ran a campaign that centers the affordability of the city for all who live wit...
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Haha. Watching the frantic meltdown is entertaining. And, goat is delish!
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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/11/2025
genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires.... An entire history across Palestine of Israeli impunity and dominion, one of repetitive ethnic cleansing, military rule, expansion of settlements...is erased, again." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
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How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Adam Przeworski.
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
LMAO. Sums up Klein - his (feigned) intellect, gaslighting, and the deep rot at the centre of his worldview and politics.
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Mathieu Aikins on his 4-part series in the NYT today (totalling 25,000 words of investigative reporting) on crime and impunity in the US Special Forces and its domestic blowback now. He provides gift links for all four articles. mattaikins.substack.com/p/how-a-lawl...
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How a lawless war overseas came home to the US
Crime and Impunity in the Special Forces
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Honoured to have contributed 2 chapters - "Exiting Afghanistan: Presidential Narratives, US Exceptionalism, and 'Othering' Afghans" and "Statebuilding in Afghanistan: a State-Society Relational Approach" - to this volume, which features sharp analyses by some of the foremost experts on Afghanistan.
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Thrilled & honoured to join @austjia.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. I look forward to working w/ a stellar team led by @joannewallis.bsky.social & @timlegrand.bsky.social, & helping the journal cement its growing global reputation.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Absolutely shameful. Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation. We're talking upwards of 250k Afghans here.
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Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban
Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation.
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Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Excited to share a new open-access article with @benckrick.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social, "Civilian Harm & Military Legitimacy" www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... This project started in 2018 Mosul, Iraq’s 2nd largest city, in the aftermath of a 9-month battle … 1/7
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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Does higher state capacity go together with lower risk of democratic breakdown? Many political scientists certainly believe so! Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🚨New publication alert!🚨 Co-authored paper on Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico is out w/ @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social. Henry Nott & I trace the actions of the Zapatistas to changes in the behaviour of the EZLN (generating transformations in governance). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Understanding Change in Non-State Armed Group Behaviour: Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico
Unlike other studies of non-state armed groups (NSAGs) that draw significance from the perspective of the state or international security, this article focuses on the perspective and agency of the ...
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Harvard: *we hired you to absolve us, not to reveal the truth!* www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
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Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Iraq 2003, Iran 2025. The same playbook. And don't forget Netanyahu's role, back then, in encouraging G.W. Bush to invade either.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 17/06/2025
No better time than now to catch up on @profsaunders.bsky.social's sobering new essay on the imperial presidency and personalist rule, American-style
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Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
American foreign policy in an age of unrestrained executive power.
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Example of what happens when a mainstream economist discovers structural inequality (without 'discovering' the theories to explain it): very impressive empirical documentation of it + completely out-of-touch assumptions about how to fix it (taxation, cheap debt, human capital).
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Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Since the USIP website was taken down some months ago, many have requested access to a report my colleagues and I wrote on Youth Protest movements in Afghanistan. Now that the USIP is back (yay!), I'm posting the report here. www.usip.org/publications...
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Youth Protest Movements in Afghanistan
The youth-led protest movements that emerged after the 2014 Afghan presidential election added a new dynamic to Afghan politics. Motivated primarily by widespread perceptions of injustice, exclusion a...
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