Kanishk Tharoor @kanishktharoor.bsky.social Author of "Swimmer Among the Stars" (FSG), presenter of "Museum of Lost Objects" (BBC), and Deputy Editor at Foreign Affairs. Pitch me at ktharoor@foreignaffairs.com.
Alan Kronstadt @alankronstadt.bsky.social Foreign affairs analyst (India, Pakistan)
@Library of Congress
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Joshua Eisenman / 马佳士 @joshuaeisenman.bsky.social Professor of Politics @NotreDame.bsky.social; Senior China Fellow @AFPC Au: #ChinasRelationsWithAfrica & Red China’s Green Revolution @cup.columbia.edu; 中国与非洲 @CUHKPress 练咏春 #lgm
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Aparna Pande @pandea.bsky.social Director India Initiative, Hudson Institute; Author #FromChanakyaToModi & #MakingIndiaGreat; Stephanian, Delhiite; Bostonian Red Sox Fan; PhD #BU #JNU #DU
Adrian Ang @auj-ang.bsky.social Research Fellow and Coordinator of the US Programme at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies | US Politics | US Foreign Policy. All views are my own.
Arvind Subramanian @arvind2011.bsky.social Senior Fellow Peterson Institute for International Economics; former Chief Economic Adviser, Govt. of India
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Paul Staniland @pstaniland.bsky.social UChicago political scientist, amateur bee photographer, Carnegie South Asia nonresident scholar, despairing Bulls fan, public school parent, etc. http://www.paulstaniland.com
Shruti Kapila @shrutikapila.bsky.social Politics/ India/ History/Ideas
Working at the University of Cambridge
Words in Financial Times, BBC, AL Jazeera, New Statesman. Columnist: ThePrint India
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-shruti-kapila
Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
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Andrew Small @ajwsmall.bsky.social Asia Director at ECFR. Formerly: European Commission, German Marshall Fund. Posting on China / US / Europe Books, articles: andrewsmall.org
Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social GET MY SUBSTACK https://fridainsight.substack.com
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Worked in 70+ countries.
Zachary Keck @zacharykeck.bsky.social Nuclear Weapons and Indo-Pacific. Former: DoD, Congress, Belfer Center, The Diplomat, others. Views mine and subject to change.
Jonathan Cristol @jonathancristol.bsky.social I teach Middle East Politics, International Security, International Law, WMD (and stuff like that) at YU. Write about East Asia and Middle East. Ex-think-tanker. Occasional contractor. New to this platform. Love a good parenthetical aside. NYC based.
Eyal Hanfling @eyalhanfling.com democracy / technology research
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Debak Das @debak.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver | PhD from Cornell | International Security, Nuclear Weapons, Foreign Policy | Affiliate at Stanford CISAC, Sciences Po (Paris)
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social Writer &c.
Joanne Wallis @joannewallis.bsky.social Professor of International Security at the University of Adelaide and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution interested in security and Australia's strategy in the Pacific Islands. Editor of @austjia.bsky.social. Opinions are my own
Janka Oertel @jankaoertel.bsky.social ECFR Asia Director. Personal views only. 
Francesca Ghiretti @fraghi.bsky.social Economic security and China
Research Leader China and Economic Security at Rand Europe; Non-resident Fellow at Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies @CSIS; host of the podcast Geoeconomic Competition. Former MERICS, IAI
Natan Sachs @natansachs.bsky.social Senior Fellow
Middle East Institute
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Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social Study China maritime strategy & int’l security policy
Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Book: China’s Law of the Sea yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256475/chinas-law-of-the-sea/
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.
Erik Brattberg @erikbrattberg.bsky.social Managing Partner Brzezinski Global Strategies & Senior Fellow @AtlanticCouncil. Focus on Europe, transatlantic relations, and geopolitics. Based in DC.
Alex Luck @alxluck.bsky.social Chinese Military. Bundeswehr/NATO. MA Pol Sci/History. Cats, dogs, motorcycles. Überbringer schlechter Nachrichten. Analysis@ NavalNews.com. Contributor@ hartpunkt.de. Previous articles at FPRI.org.
Jacob Stokes @jacobstokes.bsky.social Senior Fellow & Deputy Director, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
Previously White House & U.S. Congress. China, East Asian security, US foreign policy. Views mine.
Khushi پدما S. Rathore @chichoriktputli.bsky.social Witch & potential Firefly|PhD @CIPOD JNU| Associate Editor @The Hague Journal of Diplomacy | IR | Gender,Diplomacy & History|Women Diplomats|Indian Foreign Policy|Cold War|Feminist|
Rachel Rizzo @rachelrizzo.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ the Atlantic Council's Europe Center. Based in DC but often elsewhere. Utahn at heart.
Patrizia Cogo @patriziacogo.bsky.social Now at @eudiplomacy.bsky.social | Researcher focused on EU foreign policy and the Global South (India, China) | Into collective awareness, mental health, and bubble tea 🧋🧐 | https://indiawatchbriefing.substack.com/
Jeremy Shapiro @jyshapiro.bsky.social Director of Research and the US program @ECFR, Washington DC. Bio at https://ecfr.eu/profile/jeremy_shapiro/.
Elizabeth Threlkeld @ethrelkeld.bsky.social Senior Fellow and Director of the Stimson Center's South Asia Program
Bill Hayton @billhayton.bsky.social Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Prog at Chatham House; Editor of Asian Affairs; author of ‘Invention of China’, ‘South China Sea’, ‘Vietnam: Rising Dragon’ and ‘Brief History of Vietnam’
Tara Varma @taravarma.bsky.social Managing director at the @gmfus.bsky.social | Interested in geopolitics: Asian and European security, and women’s rights. Views my own.
Sarah Binder @sarahbinder.bsky.social Political scientist by day (and night). GWU and Brookings. Co-editor, https://goodauthority.org/
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Molly Reynolds @mollyereynolds.bsky.social Senior Fellow, @brookings.edu. Still not the Senate Parliamentarian.- D David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, Brookings Institution
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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social Director, Center for Climate and Security, DC
Former US Nat'l Intelligence Council
Wisconsinite at heart
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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social I am not a committee. Defense, pop-culture, Jayhawk propaganda. All opinions my own.
Co-host of Sirens: A Bombshell Production https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sirens-a-bombshell-production/id1195698408
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Deeply sourced expert in search of novel gustatory experiences. If you post/snipe, anonymously, expect to be blocked.
Caroline Baxter @ccbaxter.bsky.social Impact and leverage are not verbs. I am not your key stakeholder.
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."
Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social Professor at the University of Texas-Austin. Former Senior Climate Advisor DOD. Climate security, climate governance, clean energy, global health, US foreign policy. Author of States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge, 2022).
Jonathan Fulton @jonathanfulton.bsky.social Associate professor of political science at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council. Research focuses on China-Middle East relations. Host of The China-MENA Podcast, author of China-MENA Newsletter on Substack. 
Martijn Rasser @martijnrasser.bsky.social Vice President at the Special Competitive Studies Project
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Drew Stommes @drewstommes.bsky.social Quantitative social scientist.
Daniel Y. Chiu @dycinwdc.bsky.social Vice President & Director of Research, Joint Advanced Warfighting Division at IDA.org & former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy #OSD44 at www.Defense.gov
“si vis pacem, studium bellum”
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Naazneen Barma @naazneenbarma.bsky.social Scrivner Professor of Public Policy, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, and Director of the Scrivner Institute of Public Policy at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver | Principal, Bridging the Gap | 🏳️🌈
Constanze Stelzenmüller @constelz.bsky.social Director CUSE, Germany explainer etc. @ Brookings; FT contributing columnist; Wizards Fan (I know). When the going gets tough, the tough go blonde. Pic: Marc Darchinger. Views my own, people.
Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
Tobias Scholz @tobischolz.bsky.social South Asia researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin | @swp-asia.bsky.social & @swp-berlin.org
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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl China Team Brussels Office Head & China Projects Analyst @amo.cz @chinaobservers.eu. Studies China, Singapore, and Taiwan; party-state & international relations. | 何森璱
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Mercedes Page @mercedespage.bsky.social Geopolitics, tech, cyber, China and the Indo-Pacific | ex 🇦🇺 government, think tanker | 
Nicola Smith @niccijsmith.bsky.social Canberra Bureau Chief at the Australian Financial Review. Previously in 🇰🇷, 🇹🇼,🇮🇳for the Telegraph and Sunday Times
Troy Lee-Brown @drtlee-brown.bsky.social Research Fellow @ UWA Def & Sec Institute | Editor @ Black Swan Strategy Papers | Project Manager @ Blue Security Program | Maritime Security, India FP, Indian Ocean, Defence | avmo
Bec Strating @becstrating.bsky.social Director, La Trobe Asia
Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University 
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.)
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
Iskander Rehman @irehman.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UT Austin's Clement Center. Author of "Planning for Protraction" and "Iron Imperator." Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Applied history, defense strategy & Asian security.
Sarah Thelen @thelen.bsky.social teacher, historian, instructional designer, wanderer and noticer
Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social Senior Research Adviser, @apln.network
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Zack Cooper @zackcooper.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Lecturer at Princeton University
Partner at Armitage International
Former Pentagon and White House staffer
Wrangler of children
Gilles Verniers @gillesverniers.bsky.social Researcher at CERI, Sciences Po. Indian political data, politics.
Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social Publisher/editor with the great www.hurstpublishers.com
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Manohar Thyagaraj @mthyagaraj.bsky.social Royal College of Defence Studies. Asian security, international security. 
Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social Historian at Stanford University, author of "Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World" and "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion." It's good to have options.
Pushan Das @pushan3012.bsky.social 
Teesta Prakash @teepra.bsky.social Research Fellow, Australia India Institute
Sessional Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, India’s foreign policy, Indo-Pacific stuff, snakes when I find one. Usual caveats.
Bonnie Glaser @bglaser.bsky.social Managing Director, Indo-Pacific Program, German Marshall Fund @GMFAsia, China, Taiwan, Indo-Pac, Europe-China, RT≠ endorsement
Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
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Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list. Financial Times “Best Books.”
Sandra Destradi @sdestradi.bsky.social Prof of International Relations, @uni-freiburg.de + DAAD long-term visiting prof, Reichman University
IR | foreign policy | populism | Global South | emerging powers | India 
James Crabtree @jamescrabtree.bsky.social Analyst & writer. Billionaire Raj author. ecfr fellow. foreign policy columnist. Ex: IISS, FT, LKY School, UK Govt. LSE / Harvard. 
Dhruva Jaishankar @dhruvajaishankar.bsky.social Executive Director, ORF America, Washington DC | Read my book, explaining India and the World: https://www.amazon.com/Vishwa-Shastra-India-Dhruva-Jaishankar/dp/0670091057
@nicoblar.bsky.social @nicoblar.bsky.social Associate Professor at Polsci Leiden. Associate Editor at International Studies Review. Trained at Indiana University and Sciences-Po. IR, FPA, security, migration politics, India. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/nicolas-blarel#tab-1
Nadège Rolland @rollandnadege.bsky.social Distinguished Fellow, China Studies, National Bureau of Asian Research
| China’s grand strategy |
Current research project: https://strategicspace.nbr.org 
Stacie Pettyjohn @spettyjohn.bsky.social Director of the defense program and senior fellow CNAS
Evan A. Laksmana @elaksmana.bsky.social Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Southeast Asian Security and Defence • Editor, Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment • International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
evanlaksmana.com
Rohan Venkat @rohanvenkat.bsky.social Newsletter: India Inside Out || Non-Resident Visiting Scholar & Managing Editor, CASI, University of Pennsylvania || 📍Cairo, Egypt
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@markrice.bsky.social @markrice.bsky.social Anchorage, AK
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
Victor McFarland @vmcfarland.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Missouri. Studying energy history and U.S. foreign relations.
Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 from Berlin. Try my newsletter: noahbarkin.substack.com
Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social Senior advisor, Bridging the Gap; Research Affiliate, Stanford; Non-resident fellow, Kennan Institute. Was a professor for 35 years and a dean for six. Views are my own. www.jamesgoldgeier.com.
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Milan Vaishnav @milanv.bsky.social Senior Fellow + Director, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and host of the "Grand Tamasha" podcast (grandtamasha.com).
https://milanvaishnav.substack.com/