Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social Law professor (personal account/views only). International law, foreign relations law, contracts, etc. Formerly DoJ, State Dep't, private practice.
Either joking or quite serious. Posts deleted due to age, typos, irrelevance.
Harlan G. Cohen @harlangcohen.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law School. Proprietor of "a cultural investigation agency... a kind of private eye of learning."
Priya Pillai @pillaipriy.bsky.social #InternationalLaw(yer)| PhD @GVAGrad_Law @nyulaw | Yale World Fellow I @asiajcoalition @opiniojuris | Ex @ifrc @ICTYnews |Astronomy.Books| Usual caveats
https://worldfellows.yale.edu/person/priya-pillai/
Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social Professor of Int’l & EU Law, Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Past: Prof., founding Director CIGAD at King's College London, specialist adviser House of Lords EU Select Committee, Référendaire CJEU 
Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social Professor of Global Security at Oxford, Co-director of ELAC (IHL, Law & Ethics of War, Attitudes toward Violence)
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com Director, Industrial Policy & Trade, @RooseveltInstitute.org, @RooseveltForward.org. Political scientist of economic transitions, administrative states, Bidenomics, Trumpnomics. PhD.
Julian Arato @aratojulian.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Michigan
International law, trade, investment, contracts, corporations, etc
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com My new book Liar’s Kingdom can be ordered here: https://linktr.ee/LiarsKingdomBook; NYU Law; MSNOW legal analyst & podcast cohost "Main Justice »;
Substack "Behind The Headlines" https://weissmann.substack.com
Offering legal analysis & opinion
Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social Law professor; author of Free to Move: Foot Voting Migration and Political Freedom; Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter; The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain; Volokh Conspiracy blogger.
David Cole @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social Professor, Georgetown Law; contributor to New York Review of Books; former National Legal Director, ACLU. Views expressed are my own. 
Mark Nevitt @marknevitt.bsky.social Associate Professor @Emory Law. Former aviator, Navy JAG. Climate change, environmental law, and security. https://law.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/nevitt-profile.html
Writing: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1916527
Scott Roehm @scott-roehm.bsky.social Chief Human Rights Strategy Officer, Amnesty International USA; adjunct professor, Georgetown Law School. Views mine alone.
Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social Publisher of The Bulwark. Host of the Focus Group Podcast. Co-host, The Next Level. Become a subscriber: http://TheBulwark.com/join
Corina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social Assistant prof., Tilburg Law School | Habilitation-ing at the University of Zurich | human rights law, climate change, vulnerability, courts | she/her
Weronika Galka @wgalka.bsky.social Bar Course student, incoming pupil barrister. Formerly @justicehq.bsky.social,@StJohnsOx and @spc_oxford. UK-based. All views my own, pronouns she/her.
Broderick James McDonald @broderickjames.bsky.social NatSec x Online Harms | Director at Oxford Advisory | Research Fellow at Kings College London XCEPT | The Alan Turing Institute CETaS Fellow | ex-GOV, UN
David Aaron @davidaaron.bsky.social National Security and Cyber Attorney. Former Department of Justice National Security Division prosecutor and former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney. Views my own.
Noah Chauvin @noahchauvin.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Studies free speech, surveillance, and the production of legal scholarship.
Andrew Cohen @justadcohen.bsky.social Dad, husband, horseman. Editor-at-large, TheMarshallProject; curator of TMP's "Opening Statement" newsletter. Keeping Pace columnist at Paulick Report. Formerly legal analyst and columnist @CBSNews and @BrennanCenter @TheAtlantic. 
Laura Thornton @laurathornton.bsky.social Democracy hack
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow at Stanford. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Alexandra Reeve Givens @alexreevegivens.bsky.social CEO at Center for Democracy & Technology, fighting to protect people’s rights & our democracy in the digital age.
Proud daughter & Board Member at Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
Dr. Donell Harvin @donell-harvin.bsky.social Homeland Security and Intelligence Analyst. 9/11 Responder #neverforget
DM tips/leads/to whistleblow
Rick Hills @rickhills.bsky.social William T Comfort III Professor of Law, NYU Law School, studying & teaching local gov’t, landuse regulation, const’l law, fed courts, admin law, legislation, and federalism. Forlorn hope: reduce stakes and polarization by decentralizing divisive decisions.
Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social McKnight Land-Grant Professor, Law and Political Science at U. of Minnesota. AdLaw, Admin. Capacity, and the Federal Workforce. Contributing Editor for Lawfare; Nonresident Fellow at Brookings. Signal: Nbednar.46
Opinions are my own; Not UMN.
Eliav Lieblich @eliavl.bsky.social Professor, Tel Aviv U Law, International Law. Visiting prof at U of Cologne. Editor, Yearbook of IHL; Coeditor, Elgar Handbook on IL Theory and War; Editoral Board, Just Security
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1346165
Chiraag Bains @chiraagbains.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer • Democracy Fund • Brookings • Fmr Deputy Director, Biden White House Domestic Policy Council | DOJ under Obama | Demos. https://www.brookings.edu/people/chiraag-bains/
John Lewis @jtlew3.bsky.social Admin law and anti-Trump litigation. Now: Deputy Legal Director, Governing for Impact. Then: DOJ’s Federal Programs Branch; Democracy Forward. Views my own etc.
Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social Senior Counsel, Governing for Impact. Thinking and writing about administrative law. 🍂🐈⬛🧄
Lisa L. Ouellette @patentscholar.bsky.social Prof at @StanfordLaw.bsky.social, Senior Fellow at @SIEPR.bsky.social, physics PhD. Researching IP & innovation. Coauthor of free patent casebook: patentcasebook.org
Stephen Spaulding @stevespaulding.bsky.social Brennan Center at NYU Law | Used-to-be: Policy Director for Senator Amy Klobuchar + the Senate Rules Committee | VP @ Common Cause | Sr. Counsel to Representative Zoe Lofgren + House Admin Committee Dems | Special Counsel at the FEC | opinions are my own 🏳️🌈
Abigail Bellows @abigailbellows.bsky.social I do repair work on the Social Contract. Currently Senior Policy Director @CommonCause.org. Former civil servant and NSC Director for Anti-Corruption. Lifelong Community organizer.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Dr. Gudrun Wacker @gudrun-wacker.bsky.social Research Division Asia, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
trying to make sense of China and the Indo-Pacific or life, the universe and everything
Defence Today @defencetoday.com Defence Today is an online publication covering global defence and security. Military platforms and systems. C4ISR and cyber security. Strategic intelligence and emerging threats. Published in Ayrshire, Scotland. Editor: @neilritchie.bsky.social
Jim Townsend @jteurope.bsky.social Podcaster, think tanker, educator and consultant on all things Europe/NATO. Recovering Pentagon Druid!! @jteurope on that other platform.
Kathleen J. McInnis @kjmcinnis1.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Defense & Security Department & Director, SWSP @CSIS. Priors: Capitol Hill, Pentagon, Chatham House, Kings College London. PhD War Studies. Author. Mom. Herder of cats. NATO nerd.
Joshua White @joshuatwhite.bsky.social Professor of Practice, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Nonresident Fellow, Brookings. Former White House and Pentagon official. Asianist. (Views are my own.)
Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
Holly Dagres @hdagres.bsky.social Iranian-American • Atlantic Council editor + senior fellow, Iran focus • 15 years in MENA • Newsletter: http://theiranist.com (Shares ≠ endorsement)
Julian E. Barnes @julianbarnes.bsky.social New York Times intelligence reporter. 
Kian Sharifi @kiansharifi.bsky.social Iran & Middle East Feature Writer at RFE/RL| @KianSharifi on Twitter
Frédéric Mérand @fredericmerand.bsky.social Directeur @sciencepo-UdeM.bsky.social
www.fredericmerand.com
Digest of Middle East Studies @domesjournal.bsky.social A peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to publishing original research on domestic and international policy issues in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. 
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Shabnam Shabani @shabnamshabani.bsky.social Journalist | BBC
Studying International Affairs with a focus on Strategic Studies | King’s College London 
Ali Ahmadi @aliahmadi.bsky.social Geoeconomics and Sanctions Policy. Consultant. Executive Fellow Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Alex Langlois @langloisajl.bsky.social Senior Editor - @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social's Democracy in Exile Journal | Michigander in Colorado | Writing Words | MA AU-SIS | West Asia/Al-Sham/US Politics | Progressive Realism/Military Restraint/Civilian Protection | shares/likes≠endorsement
Rachel Ziemba @reziemba.bsky.social Geo-economics, EM, Energy/Resources. Obsessed by sanctions, sovereign wealth, debt, supply chains, trade. Ziemba Insights CNAS Horizon Engage NYU 🇨🇦 wine economist (dipWSET). NYC mostly, YVR often https://rziemba.substack.com
Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social I run an organisation that designs policy and campaigns on foreign policy, gender, health and rights. Used to work in two Parliaments. Mancunian in Canada
Stuart Benson @lefthandstu.bsky.social Reporter http://HillTimes.com; Canadian Press Pedant; He/Him; “wannabe Jake Gyllenhaal cosplayer” | Send me your tips: sbenson@hilltimes.com
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
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
Interests: MENA, Gulf, Network-centric statecraft
Julien Barnes-Dacey @jbdacey.bsky.social MENA programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Europe-based, once upon a time in Syria and Egypt
Murtaza Hussain @mazmhussain.bsky.social Writing @dropsitenews. Interested in books, tech, history, global affairs, and language. فارسی/اردو/TR/EN
Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social US and Arab-Israel-Palestine, protests in US, politics
(he/him)
Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
Dan Stanton @danstanton.bsky.social A writer and recovering spy.
Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social Middle East/geopolitics/diplomacy analyst. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. More info here: https://www.daliadassakaye.net/.
Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com Global Head of Intelligence @ big European corporation, Adjunct Prof in Intelligence at Sciences Po Paris. Author on private intel. Podcasting on dangerous stuff and writing about geopolitics @ EncyclopediaGeopolitica.com
Damien Van Puyvelde @dvanp.bsky.social Associate Professor | Head of Intelligence & Security Research Group @unileiden.bsky.social
Magda Long @magslong.bsky.social Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Andrew Coyne @acoyne.bsky.social Explorer, founder of Lachine, seigneur of Cataracoui, discoverer of the mouths of the Mississippi.
FPA Journal @fpajrnl.bsky.social Foreign Policy Analysis - An International Studies Association (ISA) Journal
Editors-in-Chief: Brian Lai & Lisbeth Aggestam
Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social Academic. Writing/complaining mostly about women’s inequality in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia!
Guy Burton @guyburton.net Recovering academic. Taught politics. Written some books. Occasional commentator. Now making podcasts. Looking for opportunities in Brussels.
www.guyburton.net
Dr Aviva Guttmann @guttmannaviva.bsky.social Lecturer at Aberystwyth University, research and teaching in intelligence, strategy, history, IR, terrorism & CT
Golnaz Esfandiari @gesfandiari.bsky.social Journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Farda. Iran watcher, foreign affairs, Middle East, dogs and books.
Mark N. Katz @marknkatz.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, George Mason U. Schar School of Policy and Government; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council. Russian foreign policy; great power competition.
Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
DOJinExile.com @dojinexile.bsky.social This is the Bluesky account of the future DOJ-in-Exile. Our home in waiting is at DOJinExile.com.
Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social Former CIA attorney, addressing all things relating to national security, secrecy, classification, FOIA, climate change, and bird law.
Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut '25
Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social Professor of International Relations and Political Science. Interests: international order, energy, climate change, historical IR 
Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca Information Ecologist exploring the information environment | Senior Fellow at @carnegieendowment.org and Director of @ieproject.bsky.social | PhD from KCL War Studies | Visiting Researcher @uniofbath.bsky.social | Author of The Information Animal 🇨🇦
Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.com Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books and the Devils. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a jaded literary sewer etc. etc.
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Substack: substack.com/@dmitryopines
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Jonathan Turner @thegrendel.bsky.social Old enough to know better. 
Clint Watts @clintwatts.bsky.social Current: Microsoft
Former: US Army, FBI
Clintwatts.substack.com
Paul McGarr @paulmcgarr.bsky.social Intelligence History | Published first book on Cold War South Asia, published another on Spying in India, writing a third on Indira Gandhi & Margaret Thatcher
Greg Miller @gregpmiller.bsky.social International Investigations for The Washington Post. Based in London. Author of The Apprentice, Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy. greg.miller@washpost.com; signal/whatsapp: +1 202-494-1545.
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Sabena Siddiqui @sabenasiddiqi.bsky.social Foreign affairs journalist, analyst and researcher.
Contributing to publications in the U.S., UK, Hong Kong, China and the Middle East.
Al Monitor, The New Arab, South China Morning Post, TRT World etc
Khalil Sayegh @khalilsayegh.bsky.social Political analyst | Palestinian politics |Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Co-founder & President of Agora (ἀγορά) Initiative
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم @emile-hokayem.bsky.social Geopolitics and Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Just because you have an opinion does not mean you should express it.
@rmslim.bsky.social @rmslim.bsky.social Lebanese-American; Non-Resident Senior Fellow @SAISHopkins FPI @FPI_SAIS
Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social Egyptian/Iraqi Brit. Political analyst and mediation specialist, working across MENA/Horn of Africa. Views here my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian.bsky.social Times Of Israel military correspondent | BGU alum | hmu: mannie@timesofisrael.com | http://mann.ie
Waleed Hazbun @whazbun.bsky.social IR and Middle East Studies Prof. at the University of Alabama. Mid East & East Med geopolitics, US foreign policy, Tourism & ✈️ Visiting Scholar, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2024-25).
Jerome Drevon @jeromed.bsky.social Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Last book on HTS's rise to power in Syria, Transformed by the People
Ilan Goldenberg @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social Chief Policy Officer, J Street. Former Mideast Advisor to Vice President Harris and Director of Jewish Outreach on the Harris-Walz campaign.
Yesar Al-Maleki يَسار @yesar.bsky.social Energy, Climate & MENA Economics. Gulf Analyst MEES, PhDc Uni of Exeter IAIS, Non Res Scholar Middle East Institute, R. Fellow AUIS-IRIS.
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.