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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

📣 Don't miss this #openaccess #BJPIR article! 'Invoking Churchill: Zelenskyy’s use of myth diplomacy in the United Kingdom' by @thomaseason.bsky.social & Artur Nadiiev 🔗 buff.ly/EUPIFw8 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Invoking Churchill: Zelenskyy’s use of myth diplomacy in the United Kingdom' by @thomaseason.bsky.social & Artur Nadiiev 🔗 buff.ly/EUPIFw8 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🚨[Open access] publication alert🚨 Pleased to share my latest article, Invoking Churchill: Zelenskyy’s Use of Myth Diplomacy in the United Kingdom, authored with @arturnadiiev.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1369...

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If you’re interested in UK-Ukraine relations, political myth, or diplomatic communication, take a look 👀

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In the article, we introduce the concept of ‘myth diplomacy’ and examine Zelenskyy’s use of Churchill and WIII myths in his diplomatic speeches to UK audiences. The research is based on a discourse analysis of Zelenskyy’s speeches and an interview with a member of his team.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📣 Fully funded PhD at Aston University in Intelligence Studies & Forensic Linguistics 📣 Study how UK governments make accusations of espionage & covert action without revealing evidence, and how credibility is built through language. More info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Earlier this week I took two of our amazing @astonpress.bsky.social students to a model COP climate negotiation organised by @mybisa.bsky.social at Chatham House. They did a great job representing the EU in the simulation, and learnt a great deal about international diplomacy and COP. #ClimateSim

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Oh turns out it’s on preorder. Loving the blurbs from early readers: “Often laugh out loud”; “Monty Python meets le Carré”; Fun, fascinating and absurd; “Spy thrillers have nothing on Fakers” Can’t wait to share it! www.amazon.co.uk/Fakers-Top-S...

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Had the pleasure of attending my second Graduation ceremony at Aston University yesterday with my wonderful colleagues. As ever, big congratulations to our PIR graduates! Also a big thanks to my colleagues for being so kind, generous and supportive in my second year here. It is a very good job!

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

In all clips of the young Reform Councillors they all do the little Farage bounce and string puppet arm movements while talking to camera. They’ve clearly watched no end of his videos and have tried to style their delivery on him. He’s their reference point of how to do political communication.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Increasingly certain of my opinion that “democracy” and “algorithmic social media” cannot coexist in the long term

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

More @nottspolitics.bsky.social jobs. We are seeking to appoint 3 Teaching Associates in Politics and International Relations. These full-time, fixed-term posts are available from 1 September 2025 until 30 June 2026. 1/2

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Had a very similar experience with LNER last year coming back from an event with @adefty.bsky.social. Used to enjoy train travel, now dread it!

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nottspolitics.bsky.social @nottspolitics.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

📖 Congratulations to @nottspolitics.bsky.social' Dr Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social on the publication of his new co-edited book 'Intelligence, Security and the State: Reviewing the British Intelligence Community' Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnkdas @uonresearch.bsky.social

Poster which states 'new publication from Dan Lomas' with book cover

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Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

👀 @NottsPolitics are looking for a fixed term Teaching Associate in Security Studies. Fancy joining us? Applications close on 28th April 2025. More details here ⏬️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN031/t...

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Finally hit the big time and got a review back that accused me of not engaging enough with my own work, or understanding what it did.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Not only is this crass, it is highly significant. Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe. And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk. They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Tax rises will be unpopular, but I will keep arguing to the hilt that if you were going to do it, DO IT NOW. Trump dragging the US into appeasement and kleptocracy; Ukraine being abandoned, Europe on the edge. The case for tax rises and even radical reform is now, whilse these are at the forefront.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A lot of people are going to have to get used to the reality that America is no longer our closest ally.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Let’s start a bottom up movement on this - if you’re asked to be a discussant, either decline and say the panel will be better without it, or agree but then just go to Q&A on the day. No one wants to listen to what the discussant thinks about every paper on the already overrunning panel.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Also seems foolish for others to believe the US cares enough about the mineral deal to defend Ukraine militarily for it.

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If this isn’t a humiliation for Britain and its decision to send troops and “stand shoulder to shoulder” with the United States in every war they’ve fought since 1990 then I don’t know what is.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Petition to scrap discussants from conference panels, just eats onto Q&A.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

He was a very strange choice for this job

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Laura Southgate @lsouthgate.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Come and join my research team at Aston University! We are hiring a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant for a new ESRC funded project on ‘Disaster Impact, Risk Reduction and Regime Type in Southeast Asia’. More details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV236/p...

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Had a great time presenting our paper ‘Myth Diplomacy: Ukraine’s use of myth as a diplomatic tool following the Russian invasion’ at #ISA2025. Very happy it went down so well with the Public Diplomacy scholars. Will be around all week so if you see me do come over for a chat or drop me a message.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

That said, for reasons you’ve all said, especially for other parts of the world, it does seem like intelligence cooperation is less likely to have the rug pulled under it than other areas of security cooperation, like procurement, where some unpicking is now in our interest.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I guess trust is where my concerns lie, 1) to what extent will bureaucratic changed impact those lower down the chain and break connections and relationships? 2) what happens when the leadership are pro Russian and interests no longer align? We probably don’t know enough on this yet.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/03/2025

Yeah... I'm not sure the US is going to scramble F-35's and the 101st Airborne to defend their partial ownership stake in an as yet hypothetical Lithium mine that won't generate any minerals for at least a decade.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

It is helping me understand why there is such little resistance to issues Europe considers existential. BBC reports on the problems of far right politics on the US with much more urgency and gravitas than I’m seeing here.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Currently in the US and struck by how little Fox, CNN and MSNBC are talking about what happened. It is there, but just one of many other news stories, no real gravity attached. Also struck by how much they all platform the view Zelenskyy was at fault and/or should apologise and sign the mineral deal

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The US does seem to be in a very different place to Europe on how they talk about these issues. Fox is what you’d expect, but even CNN just had a talking head argue that Zelenskyy should apologise and sign the mineral deal. No reflection anywhere on the damage to the US image internationally.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

In Chicago for #ISA2025 and struck by two things: 1) While there is plenty of coverage, different news channels are not reporting on what happened between Zelenskyy and Trump as much as expected. 2) Different news channels all regularly platform the narrative that Zelenskyy was at fault.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I doubt we appreciated the emotional impact the film would have on people overseas facing an actual invasion when it came out - we complained about historical accuracy and felt a little uncomfortable with the overt nationalistic pride.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Did an interview with a close member of Zelenskyy’s team recently and this film came up as having a big impact on him, struck me just how much the image of our history, and in this specific case the way film portrays it, can have bigger impacts than we always appreciate.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

What are your thoughts of the impact of this re UK-US intelligence partnerships? I know this stuff runs deeper than leaders, but reliability and motives of those at the top, plus Trump’s appointments to leadership positions and bureaucratic changes probably matter, no?

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Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

That sound you can hear is a state visit being booted hard and, one would hope, very far into the long grass.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The idea the US would be a backstop to a European tripe wire in Ukraine was always a non starter, events in the Oval Office show that Europe cannot rely on the US for defence. The US is not a reliable ally and any policy that is built on different assumptions is for a different word.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Agreed. Yesterday shows us the gulf between the US and Europe on Europe’s biggest security threat, there really is no way to bridge this. Starmer will need to drop this idea and start pushing narratives in favour of European integration as a national security issue. This is not 2016 or 2020.

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Dr Thomas Eason @thomaseason.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Maybe narratives about us now moving into a pre war state, about this now being a fight to defend freedom from fascism can cut through, because I can’t see any other ways to sell the unpopular policies and tax rises to come.

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