Ryan D. Griffiths @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
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New Books: The Disunited States (Oxford UP, 2025) and Before Colonization (Columbia UP, 2025, with Charles Butcher)
David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social Host of the Cold War Channel in YouTube. Independent Historian 20th Century, military, and Soviet and Post-Soviet spaces. Lifetime Spurs sufferer/supporter. He/him
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com Central Asia wanderer 🇰🇿🇸🇱🇰🇬 | Cricket writer 🏏 | Also Norfolk, Eurasia and Ukraine 🇺🇦
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NaureenCFink @naureencfink.bsky.social Executive Director at GIFCT. Interests in counterterrorism, sanctions, tech, international affairs and global security. Cosmopolitan nomad and jewelry maker. All posts in my personal capacity; quotes not endorsements.
European Research Center for Social Development @social.npo.one We do Research and Policy Recommendation on the Future of Work, Sustainable Agriculture, Economic Development, and Sustainable Building
Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
Hugh Pope @hughpope.bsky.social Writer on deliberative democracy, Turkey, the Middle East & Central Asia. Love to review books.
Maryam Al-Khawaja @maryamalkhawaja.bsky.social Award winning Bahraini/Danish Human Rights Defender; consultant, trainer and public speaker. 2013 Nobel Prize nominee. #FreeAlKhawaja @freealkhawaja
Luiz H. S. Brandão @luizhsbrandao.bsky.social Intelligence Analyst and Strategic Studies Researcher focusing on Hybrid Threats & Cognitive Warfare | Coord. at @negisc.bsky.social.
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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social Reporter, The New York Times; author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America”
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
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Ayo Ra @irian26.bsky.social PhD International Relations (IR).
Margaret Coker @savmargaret.bsky.social Co-founder and Editor of The Current, Georgia's only nonprofit accountability news organization. News for Notlanta that is donor-driven and always free to access. Savannah strong, Georgia proud. Democracy is not a spectator sport, y'all.
Dr Andreas Krieg @andreaskrieg.bsky.social Author - Asso Prof King's College London / Royal College of Defence Studies (Global Strategy Program)
Fellow Institute of Middle Eastern Studies
Director MENA analytica Ltd
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Sic transit gloria mundi.
Keenan Chen @kcinbk.bsky.social - Data investigations for @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org
- Formerly First Draft News, brownpublichealth.bsky.social, Columbia Journalism Investigations
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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social We publish books on current affairs, history, conflict and religion in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. And much else besides.
Celestial Body @supercelestial.bsky.social Love & observe 👁️💗 ♒ “The most difficult thing is to know thyself, and the easiest, to give advice to others” Thales of Miletus
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Messages with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story.
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos.bsky.social Provincial drudge 
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Magnus Ranstorp @magnusranstorp.bsky.social Hizballah and Hamas expert since 1990s Vice Chair of Nordic Safe Cities. Columnist Svenska Dagbladet. Associate Professor. Strategic Advisor (CTSS) at Swedish Defence University. Member Swedish Royal Academy of War Sciences All views expressed are personal
Robin Mills @robinmills.bsky.social Middle East energy guru. CEO of Qamar Energy, fellow Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, author 'The Myth of the Oil Crisis' & 'Capturing Carbon'; columnist The National, weekly newsletter https://www.thenationalnews.com/newsletters/energy-this-week
Tommy Miles @tommymiles.bsky.social West African history enthusiast, socialist, football fan. Independent scholar, author, recovering academic. Reading history of Niger, Mali, & Glasgow Celtic.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social Journalist. Beat reporter covering the court, prison and other aspects of life at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay. Former Miami Herald Middle East correspondent.
maikl @mhikaric.bsky.social Now and currently. Ex fmr + previously. ≠.
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
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Max Fras @maxfras.bsky.social Researcher, international development consultant.
Europe, Caucasus, Middle East, Africa, bad puns.
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Not quite the master of understatement.
Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social Foreign correspondent, columnist, campaigner, co-founder Africa Express, citizen of the world and a bit more besides…
Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social Dictators are a cowardly and superstitious lot. | Head of Combating Kleptocracy Program at Human Rights Foundation | Author of AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY and FOREIGN AGENTS | Posts in personal capacity
Leah Farrall @allthingsct.bsky.social @allthingsct on Twitter | OSINT, counterterrorism, financial crime, cyber enabled crime, security | Author, http://goo.gl/9tTfsn | Views = personal | Likes for collation only | 
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
Derek Gatopoulos @dgatopoulos.bsky.social Print and Digital Media at Associated Press.
Inga Kristina Trauthig @ingakris.bsky.social Research prof at Florida International University
Focus on cybersecurity and national security
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Scott Shane @scottshanenyt.bsky.social Author and 40-year journalist, now retired (New York Times, Baltimore Sun). Books: FLEE NORTH (underground railroad and domestic slave trade), Objective Troy (American terrorist) and Dismantling Utopia (Soviet collapse). Baltimore.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
David Hartwell @davidhartwell.bsky.social Ex MoD/Jane’s now OSINT. Cornish and European. Music is life; Lifetime member of Jilted Generation; Spurs for life; views own; RT not endorsement.
James Ker-Lindsay @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social Academic and analyst | Former LSE and RUSI |
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Peter Lundberg @peterlundberg.bsky.social Executive Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) Lund, Sweden. Follow us at:
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Highlander 🇬🇪 🇲🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🌊 @highlander1984.bsky.social Rebellions Are Built on Hope
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social A Middle East-based journalist and geopolitical analyst in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by way of Egypt, Nigeria, Arkansas and elsewhere.
Bloomberg @bloomberglp.bsky.social Think Bigger.
Barry Malone @barrymalone.bsky.social Journalist and commentator. Past: EP The Stream / Digital Editor Al Jazeera English / Reuters in Africa and Middle East. Jackeen.
Nada Bakos @nadabakos.bsky.social Former CIA analyst and social media alum. Now I mainly focus on being outdoors.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
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Pieter Van Ostaeyen @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social Historian & Arabist
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James Waterhouse @jameswaterhouse.bsky.social BBC Paris Correspondent | was Ukraine |used to play rugby | UAL honorary fellow
John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social BBC lifer since 1966, international affairs editor since 1982. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on BBC Two, BBC World & World Service. Two daughters, one son, six grandchildren, a loving wife, lots of books, and an Irish terrier. Defender of the Oxford comma.
Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social contributing editor at Wired // contributing writer at NYT opinion // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // https://signal.me/#eu/3aA6cspNTXUEOtEYwaK6KOFIw8nf-7G1jQBd3MRqrDeUvZxfzp5Py61cKq4GbcNg
Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social I read a lot of court records because I like a good story. Won a Pulitzer a couple times. “A well-known PACER watcher” - Justice Department
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Associate fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
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