Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Former soldier learning how to be a civvie. Accidental journalist. Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy.
Thoughts & feelings on defence and other things. Views my own.
Longer thoughts & feelings on substack:
https://crackingdefence.substack.com/
OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Legal Eagle @allthingscivil.bsky.social Hot takes on the law, the military, my dogs, and lunch • עם ישראל חי • я ненавижу коммунистов
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Senior @cipolicy.bsky.social Fellow. Former @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social comms for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social but this is my personal account.
Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Walter Croncat @mewscast.bsky.social 🐱 Most trusted mewsman on a perch.
📰 Sharp analysis + actual sources
Travis Reese (Against war with NATO) @ctreese2.bsky.social Small town kid. Joined the military. Stuck w/ it for 21 yrs. Stayed in defense. Planner & strategist. Inventor of the coffee egg cream & mocha coffee egg cream
Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social It doesn’t matter.
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
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan
Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/
Signal: https://tinyurl.com/kzmejtaw
Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social Comparative civil-military relations, defense manufacturing, political violence, electoral politics, and foreign policy. Regional foci on South Asia and Latin America, but also the "global south."
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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NK Finney @nathankfinney.com Soldier | Historian | Fellow, Duke Prgrm on American Grand Strategy, IPSI @AtlanticCouncil.bsky.social, & GNSI USF | Ed. @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social | Chair, Advisory Board @milwritersguild.bsky.social | “Orchestrating Power” (@cornellupress.bsky.social)
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Jan Marian @janmarian.bsky.social Permanent Representative of 🇨🇿 to the UN, OSCE and other International Organizations in Vienna | @CZMissionVienna | Private account, usual caveats apply.
Christine Samantha @samanthafitness.bsky.social Health is wealth; working out and proper dieting is the easiest way to build a healthy lifestyle. I’m sapiosexual. I love God. I’m an open book as well.
Richard Simonson @richardsimonson.bsky.social Occasional wandering staff officer. Older than I used to be.
Interested in air and missile defence, COIN, civil-military relations.
Avid podcast listener. Bibliophile. Lapsed reader.
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
Ben Friedman @benjaminfriedman.bsky.social Policy Director at Defense Priorities. Columbia Heights resident. Supporter of restraint in US foreign policy and the Boston Celtics.
Craig Joseph @craigjoseph.bsky.social
Gregg @gregg-apfsds.bsky.social Former tanker.
Constitutional Democracy fan.
Here because twitter is now xitter.
Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Indivisible
This account surrounds hate and forces it to surrender
Mick Duffy @themickduffy.bsky.social US Marine vet. Described as “mildly interesting and not entertaining” by my kids. Miami (OH), Ohio Univ. Followed only by bots.
Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social Keep trying to be a 'former' scholar of civilian-military relations ... Author of Our Army: Soldiers, Politics, and American Civil-Military Relations. Former Army infantry officer. Into bikes-beer-coffee.
Olivia Garard @teaandtactics.bsky.social
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 🇮🇹🇪🇺|
Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social I’m the founding executive editor of Heatmap News, a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times, and the cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
📍NYC
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social Europe editor of The Economist. Don’t let them kill me https://youtu.be/WnE15v4Gets- M Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/martin-sandbu
Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social Economist
Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social Chairman @EurasiaGroup. Board Director WWF. Climate, technology, and geopolitics. Priors: Principal Secretary to PM of Canada and Premier of Ontario, CEO WWF.
Adam Posen @adamposen.bsky.social President, PIIE. Globalist. Former central banker. Political economy with a policy purpose. Writes on macroeconomic policy, G7/China relations, globalization, and economies of US, UK, Germany, Japan, and PRC.
Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social Global Editor, Reuters Breakingviews. Usual disclaimers apply. My free weekly newsletter: https://www.reuters.com/newsletters/the-week-in-breakingviews/
Taylor Fravel @fravel.bsky.social Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social Faculty at Johns Hopkins SAIS & the Alperovitch Institute | former Wilson Center; Stanford CISAC | PhD from UC Berkeley | cyber and national security; semis; 5G; AI | usual disclaimers apply
Coordinates: melissakgriffith.com
Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com Associate Professor at Hopkins/SAIS. Former White House industrial strategy economist. Industrial policy, trade, climate, economic security. Views my own. DC | HNL. 🏳️🌈
Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social Associate Professor, Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University/ Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council/Scholarly research, writing, teaching, & policy analysis at the intersection of national security & international political economy/ CFIUS&Tech Controls
hal👾 @halhod.bsky.social Americas editor at The Economist
Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social New Yorker abroad. Adam Smith Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Economy at University of Glasgow studying governance by/of corporations. Sometimes journalist. Always feminist.
Gerard DiPippo @gdp1985.bsky.social Director, Global Macro at Eurasia Group. Former RAND China Research Center, Senior Geo-Economics Analyst at Bloomberg, CSIS, DNIO for Economic Issues at NIC, and CIA. All views my own.
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Mona Paulsen @monapaulsen.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Economic Law, LSE Law School. Specialisation in international trade law and economic security, in addition to research and teaching interests in international investment law, international development, and IPE.
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
Inu Manak @inumanak.bsky.social Senior Fellow @piie.com; PhD, Georgetown Government. Books Editor, World Trade Review. Associate Editor, IELP blog. TBT = technical barriers to trade. RT ≠ endorsements. Views my own.
Tobias Gehrke @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social Geoeconomics and economic security at European Council on Foreign Relations | PhD
Duncan Hollis @duncanhollis.bsky.social Laura H. Carnell Prof. of Law, Temple University; Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie
I study treaties, international organizations, and how to regulate state behavior in cyberspace (not always in that order)
Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social Economist; Professor @law.ucla.edu; senior fellow @piie.com; former tax DAS at Treasury; Author, Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital
Sabine Weyand @sabineweyand.bsky.social European Commission; avid reader, news junkie and foodie
Bethany Allen 貝書穎 @bethanyallen.bsky.social China, AI, technology, and authoritarianism. Currently ASPI. Was Axios, Foreign Policy, Yale, Johns Hopkins-Nanjing. Author BEIJING RULES, Financial Times Best Books of 2023. Robert Lewis Watchdog Award, Batten Medal for Courage in Journalism finalist
Tim Rühlig @ruehlig.bsky.social Senior Analyst, European Union Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social, Paris/Brussels. Formerly European Commission, DGAP, UI. China, digital technology, EU-China relations. More at www.timruhlig.eu
Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social Europe Director @openmarkets.bsky.social. Former UK Parliamentary adviser and tech policy consultant. Pro-tech, anti-monopoly.
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
Dr Maria Shagina @mshagina.bsky.social Diamond-Brown Senior Research Fellow for Economic Sanctions, Standards and Strategy, IISS | Ex @FIIA_fi and UniZurich | Economic statecraft, sanctions & energy.
Laurence Boone @lauboone.bsky.social Former French Minister of State for Europe. Geopolitics, Economics, European affairs, Democracy- F Doug Fuller @fudaoge.bsky.social assoc prof at Copenhagen Business School
Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
www.gppi.net
Graham Webster @gwbstr.com Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford
Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net
Basics: gwbstr.com
Also: #filmphotography
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
Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender, music lover, cricketer, gardener, supporter of mediocre football teams, who knows where the time goes?
Kristen Eichensehr @keichensehr.bsky.social Law professor. Editor @justsecurity.org. Working on foreign relations, cybersecurity, and national security.
Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.
Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 from Berlin. Try my newsletter: noahbarkin.substack.com
David Rennie @dsorennie.bsky.social Geopolitics Editor, author of The Telegram column, The Economist. Previously posted to Beijing, Washington, London, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Sydney.
Aleks Turobov, PhD @alturobov.bsky.social Political Scientist with a love for technology. Assistant Professor. Research lead AI & Geopolitics Project @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk, @cam.ac.uk.
AI | Security | Digital Sovereignty
Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social Chief Europe Correspondent at the South China Morning Post.
Tracking the shifting tectonic plates of global trade and geopolitics.
All posts should be heard in a Fermanagh accent.
Jeremy Springman @jrspringman.bsky.social Research Scientist at Meta studying AI. I run surveys, produce data, conduct experiments, and model stuff. Former Research Prof at UPenn. Duke postdoc, UPenn PhD, Pitt alum.
jrspringman.github.io
Kevin Allison @kevinallison.bsky.social Founder and President, Minerva Technology Futures, a geopolitical and policy advisory firm focused on #AI, #semiconductors, #data, #supplychains. #techpolicy
Ali Ahmadi @aliahmadi.bsky.social Geoeconomics and Sanctions Policy. Consultant. Executive Fellow Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Hanna Dohmen @hannadohmen.bsky.social Analyst @CSET & Nonresident Fellow @AtlanticCouncil | Part-time JD Candidate @GeorgetownLaw | Economic Security, US-China tech competition, Semiconductors | Views my own
Rosa Balfour @rosabalfour.bsky.social Director of Carnegie Europe, interested in Europe in the World.
Alberto Nardelli @albertonardelli.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg. In Europe, mostly. I have strong opinions about food and football. DM for Signal.
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://thepolycrisis.org/
Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social Acting Co-Director of Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie School Berlin| think-tanking on European economic policy | wwww.delorscentre.eu | www.nilsredeker.net
Guntram Wolff @guntramwolff.bsky.social Professor of economics at Free University Brussels (ULB) and Bruegel fellow. European integration, climate, defence- and geoeconomics, macro; Frmr Director @dgap.org & @bruegel.org
RT ≠ endorsement
Max Krahé @maxkrahe.bsky.social Co-founder & director Dezernat Zukunft. Democracy/capitalism, 1970s, now finding my way into geoeconomics. Previously postdoc at The New Institute (Hamburg), PhD (Political Science) Yale. Website: www.maxkrahe.com
Martin Chorzempa @chorzempa.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, focused on Finance, Tech, and Nat Sec related to China.
Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com Geoeconomics & tech @ecfr.eu • Prof. @collegeofeurope.bsky.social
Columnist @foreignpolicy.com • Author, Backfire @columbiaup.bsky.social
Global economy, trade wars, economic statecraft, geopolitics of AI
💌 agathe.demarais@ecfr.eu | 🖥️ agathedemarais.com
Martijn Rasser @martijnrasser.bsky.social Vice President at the Special Competitive Studies Project
Kim B. Olsen @kimbolsen.bsky.social Associate Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations | Sanctions, Geoeconomic Diplomacy, Economic Security |
Lucas Guttenberg @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social Director 🇪🇺, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Berlin
Ex-BMWK, Jacques Delors Centre, ECB
Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social Chief economist @ Centre for European Reform. Eurozone macroeconomic policies | Role of 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 in EU. Formerly @ECB, @IMF, @Worldbank.
Andrew Small @ajwsmall.bsky.social Asia Director at ECFR. Formerly: European Commission, German Marshall Fund. Posting on China / US / Europe Books, articles: andrewsmall.org
Peter Sparding @psparding.bsky.social SVP Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) in DC. Working on technological competition, economic security, and transatlantic relations. Previously fellow at GMF. Book “No Better Friend?” on US-German relations (Hurst and OUP).
Swati Srivastava @swatisrivastava.bsky.social Associate Professor, Government and Politics and AI Interdisciplinary Institute, University of Maryland. Faculty associate at Berkman Klein Center, Harvard.
Writes about global corporate power, sovereignty, Big Tech, AI
swatisrivastava.com
Mackenzie Hawkins @mackhawk.bsky.social I cover tech/geopolitics for @bloomberg.com & mostly write about chips. mhawkins71@bloomberg.net/mackhawk.71 on Signal
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social Cover tech and geopolitics for the New York Times. Email pmozur at nytimes.com. Check out my past work at https://www.nytimes.com/by/paul-mozur
Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism