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Bina D’Costa @binadcosta.bsky.social Professor, International Relations, ANU &
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Nicholas Chan @nickchan-pol.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @ANU. Cambridge POLIS Graduate. Ontological Security, Muslim Politics, Extremism, and Politics of Recognition.
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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social IR at ANU
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Ketian Vivian Zhang @vivianchang36.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Security @GMU Schar School. Faculty director of IRTF. Coercion, security & IPE, Chinese foreign policy & domestic politics.
Malcolm Davis @drmalcolmdavis.bsky.social Australian Defence and Space Policy Analyst based in Canberra with ASPI. Interested in space policy, defence and national security issues, strategic policy issues, international relations, and personal interests include astronomy and electronic music.
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Stacie Pettyjohn @spettyjohn.bsky.social Director of the defense program and senior fellow CNAS
Michael Mazza @michaelmazza.bsky.social The Project2049 Institute. The Global Taiwan Institute | Former AEI | China. Taiwan. Japan. Korea. SE Asia. Dog dad. People dad, too. Spy balloon appreciator.
Joanne Wallis @joannewallis.bsky.social Professor of International Security at the University of Adelaide and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution interested in security and Australia's strategy in the Pacific Islands. Editor of @austjia.bsky.social. Opinions are my own
Jesse Johnson @jljzen.bsky.social Covering defense and diplomacy for @japantimes.co.jp • Signal: jljzen.18 • views my own • Japan resident since 2002 • グリーン車 aficionado
Jacob Stokes @jacobstokes.bsky.social Senior Fellow & Deputy Director, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
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Adam P. Liff @adampliff.bsky.social Professor and Founding Director of 21JPSI @ Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School; Non-Resident Senior Fellow @ Brookings Institution; Japanese politics and foreign policy, East Asia security; Princeton Ph.D; Adampliff.com (photo: James Madison, 1822)
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Daniel Flitton @danielflitton.bsky.social Managing ed The Interpreter, by Lowy Institute. Like Tigers.
Zack Cooper @zackcooper.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
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Evan A. Laksmana @elaksmana.bsky.social Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Southeast Asian Security and Defence • Editor, Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment • International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
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Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
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Fiona Cunningham @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of “Under the Nuclear Shadow” (Princeton, 2025). China, nukes, cyber, space, international security. She/her. Personal website: www.fionascunningham.com
Matt Fuhrmann @mcfuhrmann.bsky.social Political science professor at Texas A&M. International relations, nuclear weapons, alliances, interstate conflict.
Mansoor Ahmed @mansoorahmed.bsky.social Hon. Lecturer SDSC, Australian National University | IR, nuclear weapons, fissile materials, South Asia, conventional deterrence | Formerly CISS Islamabad, Harvard’s Belfer Center, QAU | Author Pakistan’s Pathway to the Bomb | Views personal
Joel Petersson Ivre 유엘 @joelivre.bsky.social 🇸🇪 in 🇰🇷 | "Yoo-el" | Senior Policy Fellow at Asia-Pacific Leadership Network | Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament | Shilling for Big Disarma | views mine and not to be taken too seriously | same id on the Old Place
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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
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Hunter Marston @hmarston.bsky.social Director for Southeast Asia & Asia Power Index Lead @lowyinstitute.bsky.social. Nonresident @instglobalaffairs.bsky.social. Adjunct Fellow @seasia.csis.org. Associate @9Dashline.com. Ultra runner. Dad.
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social The class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter, http://Un-Diplomatic.com. Co-host, https://www.BangBangPod.com; https://www.undiplomaticpodcast.com. 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇳🇿. https://www.vanjackson.org
Bec Strating @becstrating.bsky.social Director, La Trobe Asia
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Troy Lee-Brown @drtlee-brown.bsky.social Research Fellow @ UWA Def & Sec Institute | Editor @ Black Swan Strategy Papers | Project Manager @ Blue Security Program | Maritime Security, India FP, Indian Ocean, Defence | avmo
Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social Journalist @FinancialReview covering wealthy families & their businesses. Fmr China correspondent and foreign affairs reporter primrose.riordan@afr.com.
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Benjamin Herscovitch 郝杰明 @bherscovitch.bsky.social 🇦🇺-🇨🇳 ties & 🇨🇳 FP. Ex 🇦🇺 gov.
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Darren Lim @limdarrenj.bsky.social ANU academic, host of Australia in the World podcast, main focus geoeconomics / economic security
Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social Taiwan, China, social theory, ideology, politics, foreign policy.