GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social Prof, Foreign Policy and IR, OU. Writes on British defence, intel and foreign policy. Associate Fellow, Chatham House. Views my own.
Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe @sinemacikmese.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, Kadir Has University; #securitystudies #europe #transatlantic #turkishforeignpolicy
Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social Head (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
Brad Howard @bradhoward.bsky.social
usual caveat - views here are my own & off the clock
ESPOL-Lab @espol-lab.bsky.social Research Centre for European and International Politics at ESPOL, the European School of Political and Social Sciences in Lille (posts in EN and FR)
Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social I’m a Professor of International Relations at the University of Copenhagen. Diplomacy, Digital Technologies, Global Tech Policy, Geopolitics, European Union, International Political Sociology and Social Practice
Pierre Haski @pierrehaski.bsky.social Chroniqueur géopolitique dans la matinale de France Inter et à l’Obs. Président de Reporters sans frontières.
Chaine Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@LeMondedePierreHaski
Ambassador Luis G. Moreno (ret) @ambassadormoreno.bsky.social 🏴☠️Former Ambassador, career Foreign Service. Have opinions on foreign affairs, national security. Sometimes dogs, martinis and football. Made Obama laugh once. #Fella🇺🇦
Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social Fellow @epik-ukraine.bsky.social & Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @uisweden.bsky.social. Editor, book series SPPS & Ukrainian Voices: www.ibidem.eu/en/Series/Society-Politics/. Assoc. Prof., Kyiv-Mohyla Academy: orcid.org/0000-0001-7916-4646.
Adrian Florea @aflorea.bsky.social Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Glasgow. Indiana University PhD. Civil war. Separatism. De facto states. Rebel governance. War and state (un)making. Data. RT#endorsement. aflorea.weebly.com
Ignas Karvelis 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @karvelis.bsky.social Intelligence | Counterinsurgency | Hybrid war | LatAm | documentary photography | tacos | beer. Not necessarily in that order. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.
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
Mark Berlin @markberlin2.bsky.social Assistant Professor at American University. Previously a postdoc at Princeton SPIA. Political violence, civil wars, and Middle East politics. markberlin2.com
Sam de Bendern @samdebendern.bsky.social Russia-Ukraine War, Geopolitics, Defence and Security analyst, Paris based Brexiled Brit, Associate Fellow Chatham House and Political Commentator French television station LCI. All opinions my own
Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social Associate Prof of International Relations, Uni of Exeter. EUCU Vice President and Penryn campus rep. Researches participation, governance, knowledge production, Eurasia. Cyclist. Junglist. Tea obsessive. Constantly restless. Green 🌱
Heiko Borchert @heikoborchert.bsky.social Corporate Geoeconomics. Defense. Flow Control. GCC. Innovation. National Security. Technology. Owner BCR AG www.borchert.ch Co-Director @defenseaio.bsky.social www.defenseai.eu
Patrik Oksanen @patrikoksanen.bsky.social Defense and Security, associated with Stockholm Free World Forum and Swedish Defense University, columnist, writer and member of Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences and Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences.
Paul van Hooft @paulvanhooft.bsky.social Europe | US | grand strategy | deterrence | Research Leader RAND Europe | fmr Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow MIT | fmr Max Weber EUI | PhD.
Kyungmee Kim @kyungmekim.bsky.social Assistant Professor in political science @Swedish Defence University | Climate security| Water cooperation | Technology | Myanmar | 🇸🇪🇰🇷😺👧
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
News About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯➔ Founded by a small group of purged academics, http://newsaboutturkey.com offers critical news, views, reports & media commentary regarding #Turkey. Op-eds are welcomed.
➔ https://newsaboutturkey.com/submit-an-op-ed/
Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi Ambassador of #Finland to the #OECD and #Unesco. Interests include trade, economy and foreign policy. On the wallpaper Chateau de la Muette, home of the OECD in Paris.
Mila Johns @milaficent.bsky.social Terrorism researcher/analyst, WACDTF clinic escort, recovering politician, displaced Baltimore gal, Mom to trans son. #Iran #Jewish #EDS #ActuallyAutistic #Deaf/HOH she/her
Senem Aydın-Düzgit @senemaydndzgit.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University; Director, Istanbul Policy Center; Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for European Policy Making at Bocconi University
Huda Mzioudet @hudamzioudet.bsky.social Conflict studies grad student @saint Paul university. Alum @University of Toronto . Ex: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Brookings Institution.Coauthor Libya's Displacement Crisis: https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Libyas-Displacement-Crisis
Taku Tamaki, PhD 🎌🇬🇧🌏🚄😷 @takutamaki.bsky.social Political Scientist at Loughborough University, specializing in International Relations of East Asia & Japan's foreign relations. Also exploring applying the ideas of Watsuji Tetsuro to IR theorizing. And a soft spot for railways.
Karim Émile Bitar @karimbitar.bsky.social 🇱🇧🇫🇷Professor of International Relations (USJ, Sciences Po Paris, ENS Lyon), US Foreign Policy & Middle East expert (IRIS, GCSP, MEI), Consultant, Writer, Former Dean of the Institute of Political Science at the Saint Joseph University of Beirut, News addict
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).
Karl Gustafsson @profgustafsson.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at Stockholm University. Recent joined the Swedish Defence University.
Rod Abouharb @rodabouharb.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Relations, University College London
Researches human rights, international political economy, World Bank, IMF https://www.rodabouharb.org/
Int Policy Digest @intpolicydigest.org International Policy Digest is a global community of informed citizen journalists edited by John Lyman based in the Netherlands.
Website: https://bit.ly/3Qyb0pk
Channtha So @channthaso.bsky.social Lecturer of Political Science & International Relations | Freelance Consultant in Campaign Strategies, Advocacy and Policy Analysis.
Billy Agwanda @nyaderaagwanda.bsky.social PhD. Carter School at GMU- Researching Conflict Analysis and Resolution | International Relations- Marmara Üniversitesi | African Studies- ICU | Orange Democratic Movement, Kenya.
Aras Lindh @araslindh.bsky.social Analyst at the Swedish Defence Research Agency. Interested in Middle Eastern, Turkish and European politics.
Konstantinos Zarras @kzarras.bsky.social IR, Middle East and North Africa, University of Macedonia
Mike Brunicardi @mikebrunicardi.bsky.social Irish Navy. Irish Defence Forces. Interested in Maritime Security & Defence. MA Leadership, Management & Def. Studies. MA Int. Policy & Diplomacy. Views my own.
Pavol Jakubec @pavoljakubec.bsky.social Historian of International Relations & Diplomacy.
Scandinavia, Central Europe, Middle East, 20th Century
PhD University of Gothenburg, @charlesuni.cuni.cz alumnus
CEJISS @cejiss.bsky.social Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS); peer-reviewed, Scopus; non-commercial #openaccess; www.cejiss.org
Agnieszka Legucka @alegucka.bsky.social Deputy Director Department Strategy Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland, prof. in security studies at AFiB @uczelniavistula,
Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.
Dimitris Bouris @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social Jean Monnet Chair. Associate Professor University of Amsterdam. Visiting Professor at College of Europe (Natolin). Associate Editor @europeansecurity.bsky.social Opinions personal. he/him 🍉
Brieg Powel @briegp.bsky.social Personal account. World politics, theory, conflict, hybrid threats, football coach (UEFA C), Exeter Uni academic, Swansea Jack, Cymraeg hefyd 🦢🏴
Marco Zamorano-Tóth @marcozt.bsky.social International politics and security studies guy. Avid TTRPG game master and player. Lover of cats and music.
Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social Former guest Prof Sciences Po, Sr Fellow CEPA, Sr civil servant
Blogger IR https://tenzerstrategics.substack.com/
Derniers livres : Fin de la politique des grandes puissances, Notre Guerre Ed. l'Observatoire
#HumanRights #InternationalAffairs #SlavaUkraini
Flávio Rocha @flaviorocha1.bsky.social Cientista Político. Professor da UFABC - Relações Internacionais. Eu me interesso por Política Internacional, Geopolítica, Estudos Estratégicos, Segurança Internacional e Ficção Científica.
Cristian Canțâr @cristiancantir.bsky.social Associate Professor, Oakland University. Foreign policy analysis, paradiplomacy/sub-state diplomacy, role theory, Romania, Moldova, fiction, and TV. Academic work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Vvx23r4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubda
Precious Chatterje-Doody @preciouschatd.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @OUPolitics.bsky.social. SFHEA. Russian foreign & security policy, soft power, narratives, ID, religion & disinfo, conspiracy theories. Associate editor, International Affairs. UK Young Academy member. Mum of 3.
Ludmila Quirós @ludmilaquiros.bsky.social Political Science, IR and Criminology. I study organized crime, illegal markets, crime, violence and security in Latin America and Europe. Member of @GI_TOC, REDESDAL and ECPR_SGOC. Researcher at @EULAT_crime project. Based in Italy, from Buenos Aires
Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social London Academic- Tracking the American Empire’s foreign policy establishment and its forging through wars and imperial international system building, and its crises; role of Trump and Trumpism in US and globally
Erik Beuck @charlesbeuck.bsky.social PhD in Political Science Comparative, IR, IPE, Asia, Conflict, Territory, International Law, Tech, Methods. #Firstgen Teacher, Writer, Artist. RT =/= endorse.
João @euroconcern.bsky.social International relations with an EU angle, videogames, space and other musings. Posts in EN, PT, FR, plus other languages if I feel brave enough.
Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social @LSEEcon @Yale @UniofOxford @Harvard | Books: Modern intelligence - security community, utopia or reality | TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION - TRUTH AND DECEPTIONS | Russia - From a Failed to a Rogue State | POWER OF PERCEPTION - When Reality Loses the Battle
Yusuf Ozkan @yozkan.bsky.social Working at Imperial College London & doing data stuff | PhD researcher at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social War Studies in intelligence history | Member @kcsi.uk | Founder @intelarchive.io | Love🚴♂️
https://linktr.ee/yusufozkan
Lisa Dellmuth @lisadellmuth.bsky.social International Relations Prof @stockholm-uni.bsky.social | Co-director Stockholm Center on Global Governance | lisadellmuth.se | Leads ERC-funded project PROTECT, explaining how local conditions affect public support for protectionism: tinyurl.com/rncy6s76
Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.- L Lenka Bustikova @lenkabustikova.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida
Director of the Center for European Studies
Editor of East European Politics
Editor of Cambridge Elements on Politics and Society from Central Europe to Central Asia
www.lenkabustikova.com
Becca Lucas @beccalpaine.bsky.social PhD candidate at KCL studying defence industry through the manufacture of UAVs. Turkish policy wonk in my spare time. Formerly of RAND Europe and RUSI. All opinions my own.
Valerie Morkevičius @vmorkevicius.bsky.social Assoc Prof Political Science @ColgateUniv. Author of Realist Ethics: https://bit.ly/RealistEthics Ramblings here from a just war perspective on #security & #infowar. Personal views only.
Ranjita Weiss-Wendt 🦉📚🗺️🔍 @ranjita.bsky.social Researcher & Eternal Student | Critical Threat /Arctic /China/ IndoPacific/ Geopolitics | ☸️Tibet | Alum-Mphil @sciencespo |
| #DemocracyisNonNegotiable | #AbandonOneChinaPolicy| Looking for a job in Oslo, 🇳🇴 |
Oslo, Norway
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Michael Horowitz @michaelhorowitz.bsky.social Geopolitical and security analyst, Views are my own.
Richard Ojeda @airborne1970.bsky.social Retired US Army, former WV State Senator, traveller, husband and father. Co-Founder of the Turn Left PAC!
Serbest Görüş @serbestgorus.bsky.social Serbest Görüş (SG) sessiz çoğunluğun, zulme, haksızlığa, adaletsizliğe ve ayrımcılığa maruz kalanın sesi! Demokratik, adil, “çiçekler içinde” bir #Türkiye için YAZ, gönder yayınlansın: https://serbestgorus.com/gorus-analiz-gonder/
Daniel Hegedus @danielhegedus.bsky.social International Relations, European Union & Democracy. Thinker & Doer.
Deputy Director at @iep-berlin.de.
Views are personal. Metal & Bluegrass fan.
Substack: https://ballhausplatz.substack.com/
Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social Retired professor, unretired ethnographer, polyglot, part-time climate activist, occasional contrarian. Taiwan, China, and Whatcom County--Post mostly plants, mountains, energy transition. Occasionally political snark.
Menna Rawlings @mennarawlings.bsky.social President, Queens’ College, Cambridge.
Former British Ambassador to France and Monaco, and High Commissioner to Australia. Diplomat, traveller, Mum.
Petra Ramsauer @petraramsauer.bsky.social knows 1 thing or 2 about the Middle East. Was a crisis reporter, is a psychotherapist (in Fachausbildung unter Supervision)
will always be a political scientist.
focus on war, conflict, trauma, angst & panic.
European from Austria. Cat herder, dog mum.
Hagay Sobol @hagaysobol.bsky.social Prof Médecine Moyen-Orient & terrorisme Pdt Hon Centre FLEG Élu @CFDT @LeHuffPost @atlantico_fr @Destimed @LeDiplomateOFF Photographe http://Instagram.com/hagaysobol
Gabriela Okundaye Santos, Ph.D. @okgaby.bsky.social Political Science Lecturer | UNT PhD | Comparative Politics & International Relations | #COYG | RTs ≠ endorsements | she/her/hers
Yaprak Gürsoy @ygursoy.bsky.social Professor of European Politics & Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) European Institute. Posts in English and Turkish
Arend Jan Boekestijn @ajboekestijn.bsky.social Podcastmaker, Boekestijn en de Wijk, Europa Draait Door. Associate Professor International Relations, UCU
Allison McCulloch @allimcculloch.bsky.social Political Science, travel, dogs. Not in that order.
Editor-in-chief, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics
Andrew Gray @andrewramsaygray.bsky.social European Affairs Editor at Reuters, covering EU & NATO from Brussels. Previously: Lanark, London, Germany, Geneva, Balkans, Iraq, West Africa & Washington. Ex-Politico editor/podcaster.
Nikolaos Tzifakis @tzifakis.bsky.social Jean Monnet Chair @jmc-eufp-wb.bsky.social, Prof. at University of the Peloponnese. Project Coordinator @geopower-eu.bsky.social Visiting Prof. @collegeofeurope. Research Assoc. @MartensCentre. Member @biepag.bsky.social. Interests: #IR #Balkans #EU.
Никола Миковић / Nikola Mikovic @nikolamikovic.bsky.social Analyst/journalist/columnist. Focus: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Balkans, energy, among other topics
Posts in English, српски & по-русски
http://muckrack.com/nikola-mikovic
Gökçen Yavaş @gokceny.bsky.social Academic, European Politics, Italian Politics, Intellectual History, Painting
Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social Historian of Southeast Europe and the global Cold War. Researcher at the Institute of contemporary history in Ljubljana. Editor at the Programming Historian. Language nerd.
📍Ljubljana/Belgrade/Paris
digitalkosovski.github.io- S Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Dr Robert Muller @robertmuller.bsky.social On Kaurna Land, Adelaide, South Australia. PhD Thesis Editor; Sociologist; Founding Board Member TruthBombSocial: https://www.truthbombsocial.org/; Research on grey zone warfare, democratic & community resilience, disinformation. https://drrobmuller.com
Alejandro Ramos Cardoso @alexramosc.bsky.social Diplomático 🇲🇽 en 🇧🇷 | Jefe adjunto de Misión, Embajada de México en Brasil | Serví en 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🇩🇪 🇳🇿 | Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales, CIDE | Periodismo Político, Escuela Carlos Septién | Asociado COMEXI | #DigitalDiplomacy
fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social Political Science & Asian/Asian American Studies, UConn, studying Asian American political thought & East Asian science fiction. https://linktr.ee/fredleept
Alexander Dubowy @dubowy.bsky.social Policy Analyst | Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Russia and the CIS
Marta Migliorati @martami.bsky.social Lecturer in European Politics at University of Malta, cook, swimmer, traveler
Maria Rusca @mariarusca.bsky.social Scholar @GlobalDevInst I Water politics, climate extremes, disaster justice I Political ecology I Interdisciplinarity I Research-documentary filmmaker
Tolga Demiryol @tolgademiryol.bsky.social Professor of Political Science @Altinbas University; Former Fung Global Fellow @Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; PhD @University of Virginia
Defense, energy, and technology.
Sonja Schiffers @sonjaschiffers.bsky.social Director of @boell.de South Caucasus Office, based in Tbilisi.
German & EU foreign policy | Wider Europe | democracy & autocracy | peace & security | feminism. PhD from FU Berlin. FirstGen. All views personal.
John Nilsson-Wright @jnilssonwright.bsky.social Fuji Bank Professor of Japanese Politics & the International Relations of East Asia, Cambridge; Head, Japan and Koreas Programme,
@CamGeopolitics , University of Cambridge; Vice-Master, Darwin College, Cambridge
Vahid وحید 🇨🇦, PhD @vahidyucesoy.bsky.social PhD in political science from Université de Montréal. Turkish and Iranian politics. News junkie. Tennis 🎾 fan.
Hüseyin Çiçek @hcicek.bsky.social Priv.-Doz. in Political & Religious Studies | Visiting Prof @SFU | Senior Research Fellow @UniWien | Senior Fellow @CASSIS_Bonn | Former Fellow @aia_nrw | Former Lecturer @UniFAU | Researching Alevism, Turkey, Terrorism, Geopolitics & Extremism
Global Nuclear Order BISA Working Group @gnobisa.bsky.social Dedicated to promoting and disseminating multidisciplinary research on the politics, culture and history of the nuclear age.
https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/gno
Eva Michaels @evamichaels.bsky.social Asst Prof in Intelligence & Security Uni Leiden & Senior Fellow @ibei.org | European foreign & security policy | warning intelligence | realist constructivism | background in Political Science, International Relations, War Studies
Sidsel Nyholm @sidselnyholm.bsky.social Foreign Editor, Kristeligt Dagblad - Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. Zhao Alexandre Huang @zhaoalexhuang.bsky.social Maître de Conférences en #SIC (#AssocProf of Com’) @univeiffel.bsky.social: Com' #politique #PR #digital #PublicDiplomacy Co-Editor in chief-Journal of Public Diplomacy; Assoc. ed. - Communication and the Public
Sedef Asli Topal @sedefaslitopal.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Ripon College, studying conflict processes, rebel group behavior and the Middle East and African Politics.
Policy Sciences Journal @policysciences.bsky.social With an interdisciplinary and international focus, Policy Sciences encourages a diversity of perspectives. The editors especially welcome conceptual and empirical innovation, together with the potential richness and insight of comparative orientation.
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13
Dr. Thomas Reinhold / @cyberpeace1 @cyberpeace1.bsky.social Reflecting the militarisation of #AI and #Cyberspace and how #ArmsControl & #PeaceBuilding can prevent escalations.
Researcher at @cntrarmscontrol.org by @prif.org
Former X/Twitter: x.com/CyberPeace1
Former Mastodon: mastodon.online/@cyberpeace1
Brian Drohan @briandrohan.bsky.social US Army officer and historian of war, humanitarianism, human rights, and the United Nations at the US Military Academy - West Point. Author of *Brutality in an Age of Human Rights* (Cornell UP ‘18).