Christian Rau @christianrau.bsky.social Historian @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social
| East German & Eastern European History | History of Democracy | Protest History | Urban History| Gender History |
Und sonst so: Betriebsrat a.D., Demokrat, Schallplatten-Nerd
Hier ganz privat
Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com Political scientist and author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. Hosting The Next Best, a politics podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@DrMarcelDirsus
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Ian Kearns @ianpkearns.bsky.social Former Advisor to UK Parliament on National Security Strategy. Co-Founder, European Leadership Network. Author, Collapse: Europe After the European Union, published by @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social Find me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/iankearns1
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
Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social Engelsberg Ideas is home to great writing from leading thinkers on history, culture and geopolitics, featuring essays as well as regular podcasts.
https://engelsbergideas.com/
Jack Dickens @jackfdickens.bsky.social Historian and journalist. Literary Editor at Engelsberg Ideas | Email: jack@engelsbergideas.com
Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social Ast. Prof. of Gov't, Claremont McKenna College. Interested in political reform, public policy process, public administration, electoral institutions, and political behavior. Polling at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. 
The British Association of the Study of Ukraine @thebasuorg.bsky.social A multidisciplinary community for those who work on, study &/or want to learn more about Ukraine. For academics, policy makers, & practitioners.
Founded April 2024
www.TheBASU.org
Karim Jebari @karimjebari.bsky.social Philosopher and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm.
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
John Pollock @johnpollock.bsky.social Communications for Chatham House (@chathamhouse.org) | Writer @theworldtoday.org | Think tanks and higher education | Posts on international affairs/security | China | Views my own.
Joshua Tallis @doctallis.bsky.social Naval and maritime strategy | Director, Ally and Partner Security Affairs program @ CNA | Author of War for Muddy Waters: Pirates, Terrorists, Traffickers, and Maritime Insecurity
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social AFT President. Teacher. Unionist. Fighting for a better life for children, families & communities through educ & eco opportunity, fairness & freedom & democracy Wife of Sharon Kleinbaum.
Russland verstehen @russlandverstehen.eu Russland verstehen ist der Kanal des Russland-Programms des Zentrums Liberale Moderne @libmod.de. Wir wollen hier einen Beitrag zur Debatte um eine angemessene Russland-Politik leisten. Иногда на русском!
Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social Minnesotan and Political Scientist: American law, comparative and historical constitutionalism, architecture, and just curious about everything. Moot Court coach. Sports: Timberwolves, Gophers, Everton, John Higgins, and sadly, Twins & Vikings.
Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social Political scientist. IR. International security. RT=not endorsement. Author of award-winning book "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" from Cornell. She/her.
David J. Snyder @fractalpast9.bsky.social Historian, writer, editor. Author of "American Power in the Netherlands" (Bloomsbury, 2026). I blog about history and writing at fractalpast.com. Working on a biography of Pittsburgh's Daisy Lampkin.
For editing inquiries: www.fractalpast.com.
Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."
Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 from Berlin. Try my newsletter: noahbarkin.substack.com
Ivo Daalder @ivodaalder.bsky.social Former US Amb @NATO. Now Senior Fellow @BelferCenter. Host World Review Podcast. Author America Abroad Substack. Policy Wonk. Dog lover. Baseball fan. New Chicagoan. Old Dutchman.
JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social Christian, husband, dad. Vice President of the United States.
jdvance.com
Tony van der Togt @tonyphd.bsky.social Independent Russia expert; PhD candidate at Leiden University, Institute of History; retired Dutch diplomat; former Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Russia and Eastern Europe Center; views are my own.
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Yoeri Albrecht @yoerialbrecht.bsky.social Director at De Balie @debalie.bsky.social Amsterdam
Chair at Stichting Veronica
Philosophy & History at Leiden & Oxford
The Economist: De Balie, a cosily chic cultural venue on Amsterdam's Leidseplein, is the epicentre of Dutch liberal intellectual life.
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social Ukrainian patriot. Advisor to Internal Affairs Minister (2021-2023). Support my team of volunteer translators: http://patreon.com/TwitterAG
@martinbue.bsky.social @martinbue.bsky.social 
Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social Filmmaker and radio producer. Director of "In the Rearview" - Oscar shortlist for Best Feature Documentary Film, currently screening on Mubi, PBS-POV, Canal VOD. Supporting 🇺🇦 war effort.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/in_the_rearview
Andrew Duff @andrewduffeu.bsky.social Former Member of the European Parliament. Federalist. epc.eu cambridge-connect.uk @volteuropa.org @libdems.org.uk
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.
Anand Tumurtogoo @ananddairtan.bsky.social Mongolia-based Journalist| KAS Media Asia Fellow
Sub to my substack at mongol.substack.com with some in-depth stories from Mongolia
Buy me coffee for our podcast: https://buymeacoffee.com/greatstatemural
Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.
Tim Dowse @timdowse.bsky.social Consultant, after 40 years with FCO, Cabinet Office, HM Treasury. Specialties: national security, defence, geopolitical analysis.
Gwendolyn Sasse @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social Director@zois.bsky.social, Prof @humboldtuni.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-res.Senior Fellow @carnegieeurope.bsky.social Author „Russia‘s War against Ukraine“ @politybooks.bsky.social @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social
Jana Kobzova @jkobzova.bsky.social Co-director, European Security Programme @ European Council on Foreign Relations @ecfr.eu, previously foreign policy advisor to Slovakia's President Caputova.
Wei-chieh Tsai @weictsai.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at National Chung Cheng University | Inner Asia, Central Eurasia, Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Tibet & Xinjiang | President of Taiwan Society for Inner Eurasian Studies
https://ccu-tw.academia.edu/WeichiehTsai
Stephen Badalyan Riegg @sbriegg.bsky.social Historian of Imperial Russia & Caucasus at Texas A&M.
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social Founder @conversationalist.org. Host of The Conversationalist podcast. Lapsed lawyer and historian. Writing on authoritarianism, rule of law, human rights, feminism. She/her.
@gulnazsharaf.bsky.social @gulnazsharaf.bsky.social 
M.Ken.Godwin @mkengodwin.bsky.social Writer & politcal theorist. Canadian lost in the Sussex Downs. Pub & cask ale enthusiast - splits time between the White Hart & the Henry House. Last man at last orders.
Simon Clark @simoninlondon.bsky.social Anglo-American in London busy with a bit of climate investing, challenging online disinformation and helping with dialogue to end conflicts.
Canada Declassified @canadadeclassified.bsky.social Canada Declassified shares government documents released under the Canadian Access to Information Act-WWII, the Cold War & the Global War on Terror. By Prof. Tim Sayle. Substack➡️ canadadeclassified.ca
Full archive➡️ https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/
Steffen Lüdke @stluedke.bsky.social Reporter @spiegelmagazin.bsky.social: Mostly: Migration, EU borders, Spain. 📩🖋️
Ben Lake @benlake.bsky.social AS Ceredigion Preseli MP
Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social International Correspondent German weekly DIE ZEIT (@zeit.de), Cold War kid, cyclist.
„It’s so easy to hate, it takes guts to be gentle and kind.“
Mein neues Buch zu deutschen Außenpolitik hier bestellen: https://shorturl.at/qf6Zw
Sarah Rainsford @sarahrainsfordbbc.bsky.social BBC Eastern Europe correspondent. Expelled from Moscow. Now in Warsaw. In Ukraine when I can. My book on all that & more is "Goodbye to Russia" (online & in good book shops). I may also be a little bit obsessed with a certain spaniel
Ann-Kathrin Benner @annkathrinb.bsky.social Project Coordinator @idz-jena | PhD Fellow @IFSHHamburg | PhD Candidate @unihh | Associate Doctoral Researcher @Centre Marc Bloch | Climate Engineering | Security Politics | Visual Practices | IPS
Benno Zogg @bennozogg.bsky.social Head of Strategy & Foresight, State Secretariat for Security Policy SEPOS, Swiss Ministry of Defence丨former think tanker @CSS_ETHZurich on European security, E. Europe
The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social 📺 The Rundown with @jeyantvo.bsky.social on @wearetvo.bsky.social
More: https://my.linkpod.site/therundown
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Andres Kasekamp @kasekamp.bsky.social Chair of Estonian Studies, U Toronto
Eilish Hart @eilishhart.bsky.social Writing, editing, and translating stories about Russia, Ukraine, and beyond. Former @meduza.io deputy editor, best known for The Beet. DM for 📧 or📱
Paul Sonne @paulsonne.bsky.social New York Times reporter focusing on Russia/Ukraine.
John Delury @johndelury.bsky.social Living in Seoul... writing on empire, China, and America... watching the two Koreas... reminiscing about Rome
Derk Sauer @derksauer.bsky.social Founder The Moscow Times
The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com Independent news from Russia since 1992.
https://linktr.ee/moscowtimes
Photo: Alexander Avilov / Moskva News Agency
José Ramón García Gandía @welfus.bsky.social Historiador
Phd/Doctor #Historia
Profesor de Historia Contemporánea y Relaciones Internaciones
Universidad de Alicante INAPH - IUESAL
Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social Assoc Prof of International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington; Cold War international history and geoeconomics; Book--Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2024); Stanford baseball alum
@msnegovaya.bsky.social @msnegovaya.bsky.social 
European Leadership Network (ELN) @theeln.bsky.social The ELN is an independent, pan-European network of over 450 past, present, and future European leaders working to provide practical solutions to political and security challenges.
🌐 https://europeanleadershipnetwork.org/
📩 http://eepurl.com/doN0-L
Kingston Reif @kingstonareif.bsky.social Senior International/Defense researcher at the RAND Corporation. Former DASD for Threat Reduction and Arms Control + Arms Control Association. Wisconsin sports fanatic. Personal account.
Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social 🎙️ Co-Host @sicherheitspod.de
🤓 Head of Research @metis.unibw.de
🐦 https://twitter.com/drfranksauer/ 👈 inactive
🦣 http://mastodontech.de/@drfranksauer 👈 bridged
Recycle Mike @recyclemike.bsky.social Lover of learning; Can’t resist a good argument. Still takes notes on pen & paper
Co-Host of Elevated Thoughts Podcast
A bipartisan podcast interviewing experts & making more informed citizens
New Episode Wednesdays! (https://linktr.ee/elevatedthoughts)
Nargis Kassenova @nargiskassenova.bsky.social A Central Asian/Central Asianist currently living in Cambridge, MA.
Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social Director of the Europe, Russia, Eurasia Program at CSIS. Podcasts EuroFile and Russian Roulette. Fmr State Department official. DC sports, Tottenham
Radosław Sikorski @radek-sikorski.bsky.social Minister Spraw Zagranicznych 🇵🇱🇪🇺
PONARS Eurasia @ponarseurasia.bsky.social New approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia & Eurasia. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of George Washington University
https://www.ponarseurasia.org/
IERES @ GWU
Torbjørn Kveberg @tkveberg.bsky.social Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at NTNU. Cyber and influence. These are my own not very thought through views.
Hope M. Harrison @hopemharrison.bsky.social Professor of History & International Affairs, George Washington University/lover of nature, Berlin, swimming and democracy
Zach Fredman @zachfredman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History and Division Chair of Arts and Humanities at Duke Kunshan University. US foreign relations and modern China. Author of "The Tormented Alliance." 
Gabriele Woidelko @woidelko.bsky.social Former Head of Department History and Politics at Körber-Stiftung, Hamburg
Historian, some humble expertise on Central and Eastern Europe. Interested in the connection between (geo)politics, strategy and historical thinking.
Neil Hauer @neilphauer.bsky.social Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Chechnya), Russia, Ukraine, Syria, heavy metal. Stories @CNN, @CBC, @NYMag, @guardian etc. 🇨🇦 neil.hauer@gmail.com. Eng/рус/հայ.
James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social Stanford economist:
Professor of Political Economy; Business & Sustainability.
GSB, SDSS, NBER, CEPR, UiO, TSE, 3ERCs, REStud editor for R&Rs only :)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/bard-harstad
Kateryna Pishchikova @kpishchikova.bsky.social Associate Prof of PoliSci & IR, Associate Research Fellow ISPI, Milan, Italy 
Prof. Gregory S. Gordon @profgsgordon.bsky.social Peking University STL, international criminal law (ICL) expert, biographer of Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, leading authority on atrocity speech/incitement law, consultant on ICL speech-related crimes arising from Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine
James Crabtree @jamescrabtree.bsky.social Analyst & writer. Billionaire Raj author. ecfr fellow. foreign policy columnist. Ex: IISS, FT, LKY School, UK Govt. LSE / Harvard. 
Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos @dimitrakopoulos.bsky.social Professor; new Jean #Monnet Chair in Democratic Governance in the EU @ #Panteion University in #Athens | #EU institutions, other European stuff in 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪 | Own views https://shorturl.at/P8nak
Also on @jmchairpanteion.bsky.social
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery @alizia1992.bsky.social Deputy Director, Center for Security, Strategy and Policy Research. Associate Editor, Pakistan Politico. Former VF, Stimson Center. Alum: Wilson Center and CNS. Bylines: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, National Interest, The Diplomat, Atlantic Council
Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social I study animal and environmental history of Mongolia. Ph.D. he/him.
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social Green Party member of the UK House of Lords. Party leader 2012-2016.
There are enough resources on this planet to look after people and nature, if we share fairly.
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
Europe-Asia Studies @europe-asia.bsky.social Since 1949, the principal academic journal in the world focusing on history + current political-social-economic affairs in Russia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia.
Susan Grunewald @susangrunewald.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History @SNHU. Historian of German POWs in the USSR. Digital Humanities and GIS mapping. Car nut. https://susangrunewald.com/
Philip Shetler-Jones @shelter-jones.bsky.social RUSI Senior Research Fellow, Indo-Pacific 
Molly T. Blasing @mtblasing.bsky.social Associate Professor of Russian Studies, University of Kentucky | literary studies, poetry and poetics, theatre and performance, history of censorship, language pedagogy, environmental humanities, limits of ai for language and literature research
Trisha Craig @trishacraig.bsky.social Executive Director at Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. I love travel, cooking, dogs, and talking and writing about geopolitics. After 12 years in Singapore, have landed back in the US in New Jersey.
Samuel Doveri Vesterbye @samueljsdv.bsky.social Director of European Neighbourhood Council | Author of Security Threats along EU’s 🇪🇺 Eastern Flanks (Palgrave: London) | #CentralAsia #Caucasus #Türkiye #MENA | Independence | Danish 🇩🇰🇪🇺 & Italian 🇮🇹🇪🇺|
mariamartisiute.bsky.social @mariamartisiute.bsky.social Analyst at European Policy Centre (EPC) Brussels; Career Advisor #YPFP; ex #NATO, #EU, #OxfordUni, #KentUni, #UAM, #VilniusLyceum-IB
Maaike van Koldam @mcvankoldam.bsky.social 🇳🇱 Netherlands Ambassador to Ireland 🇮🇪
Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social Professor of European Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland.
Posts on EU, Balkans and International Politics.
Author: The Eastern Enlargement of the EU.
Director, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/europe
方舟子 @fangshimin.bsky.social 方舟子，本名方是民，作家，新语丝网站 http://xys.org YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgTxdmY7L0I5MKWrrf0Ejtg 电报群 https://t.me/fangshimin
Erik R. Scott @erikrscott.bsky.social Historian of Russia, the Caucasus, and the world during the Cold War and after. Editor of The Russian Review. Author of Defectors. 
Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social Unsuccessfully retired ex-prez, ex-MEP, ex-foreign minister, ex-ambassador, ex-director of RFE-RL Estonian service, etc, ex cetera.
Except for @darthputinkgb.bsky.social, I take seriously only those who post here under his or her own name.
Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social Believer | Happy husband and dad | Associate Professor of History & Director of African Studies, University of Washington | Chosen Peoples (Duke UP), Bounds of Blackness (Cornell UP)
UW bio: https://history.washington.edu/people/christopher-tounsel
Lion Hirth @lionhirth.bsky.social Hertie School and Neon. Energy markets and power systems. Known for analysis, not diplomacy.
Avinash Paliwal @paliwalavi.bsky.social Reader in IR @soaspolitics | Security | History | South Asia | Author: India's Near East: A New History (Hurst, 2024); My Enemy's Enemy (Hurst, 2017)
@akendalltaylor.bsky.social @akendalltaylor.bsky.social