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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech NL/EN
Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Loughborough University. Books: Just Fodder (McGill-Queen's, 2022) and Food, Justice, and Animals (Oxford, 2023). Host of the podcast Knowing Animals. Website: https://josh-milburn.com
BISA War Studies @bisawarstudies.bsky.social BISA War Studies Working Group | The home of #WarStudies @mybisa.bsky.social | Co-convened by @jamespattonrogers.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social & Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe
Chatham House @chathamhouse.org The Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House. Independent thinking since 1920. Website🔗: chathamhouse.org Podcast🎙️: https://apple.co/45Bbbny Magazine: @theworldtoday.org Journal: @iajournal.bsky.social
James Patton Rogers @jamespattonrogers.bsky.social Executive Director of the Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University. War Historian, Author, Policy Advisor, & Broadcaster. I work on the history of drones, precision weapons, and the future of autonomous warfare. www.jamespattonrogers.com
Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary. Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
Ryan Evans @ryanevans.bsky.social Founder, War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com) and Bedrock Knowledge (thebedrock.co). Opinions are my own. I'm not a journalist so please don't mistake me for one.
Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social Strategist, Leader & Author | Retd Army Major General | Senior Fellow in Military Studies @LowyInstitute | @CSIS | Modern & Future war studies | Futura Doctrina substack | #BannedInRussia
Eliot A. Cohen @eliotacohen.bsky.social Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social Host C4N Fourcast Indicators pod, writing @Sunday Times, ex-BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime Newsnight presenter 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils, Tank & more!
Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social Marquette Prof studying U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, political violence & armed forces in democracies and non-democracies.
Justin Bronk @justin-br0nk.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow for Airpower and Military Technology at RUSI, London. Associate Professor II at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy. Pilot. Views are my own. RUSI biography and publications: https://t.co/wgeOUvRQdO
Prof David J Galbreath @djgalbreath.bsky.social Professor of War and Technology at the University of Bath. Working on digital battlefields. Occasional work on Ukraine.
Michael Horowitz @michaelhorowitz.bsky.social Geopolitical and security analyst, Views are my own.
Matthew Savill @mtsavill.bsky.social Director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute; recovering former civil servant; all views expressed here are my own.
Jonathan Caverley @jcaverley.bsky.social Political scientist who studies international security who is a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Opinion's are not my employer!
Australian Journal of International Affairs @austjia.bsky.social Flagship academic journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Publisher: Taylor & Francis Editors-in-Chief: Profs.Joanne Wallis & Tim Legrand (Adelaide University) Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/caji20/current
Intelligence and National Security @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social Intelligence and National Security is a leading journal focused on the role of intelligence and secretive agencies in international relations and politics. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fint20
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 https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
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
Dr Claire Yorke @claireyorke.bsky.social Author and academic | Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Canberra | Empathy, Emotions, Strategy, Security, Politics, Diplomacy, Asia-Pacific | 🇬🇧in 🇦🇺| https://claireyorke.me/
Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea. Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence. Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own. 🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social Associate Professor of Astropolitics | Space warfare | Own views Books: Original Sin http://bit.ly/3JYbcIe ; War in Space http://bit.ly/34Stplv 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 🚀🛰 Web: https://tinyurl.com/p9pt8n9n “He doesn’t see the stars - just the vast dark spaces in between.”
Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host on the New Books Network. Author of The Brush Contact Substack.
@patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social Reader (Snr Assoc Prof) in Warfare + Counter-Terrorism, University of Bath. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Fmr 1 Royal Irish and NATO PA.
Patrick Porter @patporter76.bsky.social Prof, Int Security, @unibirmingham. Contributing ed, @TheCriticMag. @RUSI_org. @CatoFP. @RANDEurope. The Case for Realism, Stanford UP. Book on Churchill w/Polity, on the way. 🇦🇺🇬🇧
Jeffrey H. Michaels @jmichael424.bsky.social Affiliated with King's College London, Oxford CCW, RAND Europe, and the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.
William D. James @wdjames.bsky.social Asst. Professor in Strategic Studies at NTU Singapore. Author of British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony (OUP, 2024). Research: Alliances, grand strategy, UK defence policy, European security & transatlantic relations. www.williamdjames.com
Ben Friedman @benjaminfriedman.bsky.social Policy Director at Defense Priorities. Columbia Heights resident. Supporter of restraint in US foreign policy and the Boston Celtics.
Ryan Grauer @ryangrauer.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Writes and thinks about war. Proud Chicago resident. Jayhawks and (Chicago) Sky fan.
Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social Harvard professor, realist, FP columnist. Tennis enthusiast, amateur musician, proud dad, & grateful husband. Troubled by the state of the world & looking for solutions. For speaking engagements contact John Bute at john@chartwellspeakers.com
Mike Mazarr @mikemazarr.bsky.social Senior national security researcher; think tanker, former Hill aide, War College, Pentagon, USNR. All opinions strictly mine
Samuel Charap @scharap.bsky.social
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/
Robert Ralston @robertralston.bsky.social Lecturer (assistant prof) at University of Birmingham. Grand Strategy; Politics of Decline/Declinism; Civil-Military Relations https://sites.google.com/view/robert-ralston/home
Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social International Relations and Foreign Policy. UChicago Prof. Chicago Council Fellow. WPReview Columnist. Primarily on LinkedIN. https://www.paulpoast.com/
Emma Ashford @emmamashford.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Stimson Center, Columnist at Foreign Policy, and Adjunct Prof at Georgetown CSS. Research on US grand strategy and energy security. Working on a book about US foreign policy in a multipolar world. All views mine!
Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Security, Dep. Political Science & Public Administration, @vuamsterdam.bsky.social, foreign policy, research methods, #QCA QCA: https://bit.ly/3NXzhTG, Handbook: http://bit.ly/3VLE4bS 🌐 https://patrickmello.com
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
Alexander Lanoszka @lanoszka.bsky.social Associate professor at the University of Waterloo (Canada); visiting professor at the College of Europe in Natolin (Poland); and author of Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century (Polity, 2022). www.alexlanoszka.com
Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
Andrew Payne @andypayne.bsky.social Lecturer in Foreign Policy and Security at City, University of London. Research Associate at Oxford University. Member of Council at Chatham House. Author of "War on the Ballot" (Columbia University Press, 2023).
Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
Jeff Meiser @jwmeiser.bsky.social Former war college professor NDU now UPortland. Posts on politics, IR, strategy, hip hop. Book: Power and Restraint. My views rep only me.
Mike Poznansky @mpoznansky.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Naval War College | CFR Term Member | Author of "In the Shadow of International Law" (OUP 2020) | Views my own.
Nick Kitchen @nickkitchen.bsky.social Associate Professor in International relations at University of Surrey. IR theory, great power politics and net assessment.
Sten Rynning @rynning.bsky.social Professor of War Studies, Director of Danish Institute of Advanced Study, history buff, AGF fan
Seb Kaempf @sebkaempf.bsky.social A/Prof in Peace and Conflict Studies at UQ: https://polsis.uq.edu.au/profile/1237/sebastian-kaempf Lover of good conversations, coffee, music, art, and seeing where life will take me.
European Journal of International Security @ejisbisa.bsky.social Publishing theoretical, methodological and empirical papers at the cutting-edge of research into international and global security challenges.
E-International Relations @e-international.bsky.social The world’s leading international relations website with daily publications of unique content aimed at academics, general interest readers, and students.
Emil Archambault @emilarchambault.bsky.social Associate Fellow, Center for Security & Defense / Zentrum für Sicherheit & Verteidigung, @dgap.org Postdoc, Durham University. Remote war, armed drones, OSINT / guerre à distance, drones armés, enquêtes OSINT. Personal account, EN/FR/DE
Michael C. Horowitz @mchorowitz.bsky.social Professor @Penn @perryworldhouse. Senior Fellow @CFR. Former DASD for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities. Defense, #AI, and innovation. Always Boston. Views my own.
David Ucko @ucko.bsky.social Head of Net Assessment @ NATO, author, and retired academic, writing in personal capacity.
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 @DAlperovitch elsewhere
Giulia Piccolino @giuliapiccolino.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR at Lboro University studying conflict, security and development, mum, would-be runner. Belatedly joining the Great Escape from X. https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/staff/giulia-piccolino
Mujdat E., PhD @mujdat-2025.bsky.social PhD in Politics & International Studies @UniofWarwick Interested in politics, intelligence and security studies, Northern Ireland 'Troubles', archival research, research support
Tom Waldman @tom-waldman.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University | War, Strategy, Security | Author of ‘Vicarious Warfare’ http://bit.ly/3jTF632
Daniel Belling @danielbelling.bsky.social Daheim in BaWü und Europa • Klimaschutz & Freiheit • Ökoliberal • Abgeordneter der Fraktion Grüne im Landtag • PhD (Uni Kent)
Kandida Purnell @kandidapurnell.bsky.social Head of Research and Professional Engagement/Associate Professor of International Relations @RichmondUniLdn | Author of/still busy ‘Rethinking the Body in Global Politics’ | kandidapurnell.me
Dr Lindsay Clark @lindsaycclark.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations @ University of Sussex, Researching and teaching: gender, war, technology, feminism and IR. Keeps a list of "Articles I wish I had Written" - send me yours!
@jawalton13.bsky.social @jawalton13.bsky.social
Louise Pears @louisepears.bsky.social Gender and security researcher, tea drinker, farm dweller, mother.
Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social Director Institute for Peace and Military Ethics (IFME), Saarländer.
Dr Daniel Dunleavy @drdunleavydan.bsky.social
Hree P. Samudra @hreepsamudra.bsky.social Nuclear verification & AI–NC3 researcher. Policy Fellow @apln.network. CTBTO Fellow & BASIC EVN consultant. Sometimes I talk about Indo‑Pacific security, defence procurement drama, and fake “strategic autonomy”.
Katrina Manson @katrinamanson.bsky.social Author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare https://wwnorton.com/books/project-maven
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Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social Pokémon Content Daily Turn on Post Notifications 📢
Flavia Lucenti, PhD @flavialucenti.bsky.social 📚 Global Resentment: Chinese and Russian Narratives of International Order Postdoc at LUISS University for EU Horizon REMIT | Previously University of Bologna & University of Oxford | IR theory, China, Russia, Norms, Technology. Mom of a wonderful kid 🌙
Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
Chiara Boldrini @cboldrini.bsky.social IR, international security, foreign policy
HuMach @humach.bsky.social HuMach is an international research project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) and hosted by the Center for War Studies (CWS) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). https://humach.eu/
Adrian Gallagher @adriangallagher.bsky.social Professor in Global Security and Mass Atrocity Prevention, University of Leeds. Currently fleeing Musk & writing a book on the Central African Republic. I make music and art in my spare time.
Linus Hagström @linushagstrom.bsky.social I have opinions & hobbies too, but here I’m a Professor of Political Science a the Swedish Defence University. I study security, power, identity, narrative & emotion in international politics, esp East Asia. 日本語大丈夫! https://t.ly/1-z2c https://t.ly/FG0TI
Jason Ralph @jasonralph.bsky.social Prof International Relations. Author of On Global Learning. Pragmatic Constructivism, International Practice and the Challenge of Global Governance, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Dr Harriet Thew @harrietthew.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK specialising in climate change education, climate politics and climate justice. She/her
@guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social
Dr Morgan Rees @morgan-t-rees.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Policy and Politics at QUT. IR theory, ont sec, US foreign policy. Terrible chess player - exceptionally average runner.
Sabine Mokry @drmokry.bsky.social IR & China | Researcher at IFSH, previously Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program | PhD from Leiden University | passionate about teaching IR and foreign policy | academic mom of 2
Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
Yf Reykers @yfreykers.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Relations at Maastricht University | Research on European security and defence | Co-Editor 'Contemporary Security Policy' @cspjournal.bsky.social | Wish I had more bikes
Cooperation and Conflict @coco-journal.bsky.social Cooperation and Conflict (CoCo) is a Nordic peer-reviewed IR journal publishing articles on a broad range of topics. Editors in Chief: @bdecarvalho.bsky.social & @kristinhaugevik.bsky.social Editors: @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @oyvinds.bsky.social
Matt McDonald @mattuq.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, mostly researching climate & security. https://polsis.uq.edu.au/profile/1174/matt-mcdonald
Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of Technology and Governance @ethz.ch ¦ PI @curateproject.bsky.social ¦ Editor-in-chief @jird-jour.bsky.social https://matthiasleese.com
Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social Not going to be invited to a UN xmas party any time soon Senior Lecturer in foreign policy & security at City St George’s, UoL. Historian of UN peacekeeping and humanitarianism. Author of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: http://shorturl.at/aoxzM. she/her
Dimitrios Stroikos @dstroikos.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bologna. Head of the LSE IDEAS Space Policy Project.
Sam Jarvis @samjarvis.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations @YorkStJohn Research on United Nations/Mass Atrocity Prevention/Peace & Security
Rhys Crilley @rhyscrilley.bsky.social 🌍 Lecturer in International Relations 📝 Writing about politics & culture ☢️ Author of Unparalleled Catastrophe
Sofia Ribeiro-Lemos @sofialsribeiro.bsky.social Phd Candidate Political Science & International Relations at University of Minho, PT • Research interests in East Asia; the US presence in the region; Memory, Identity, and Narrative analysis; with a dash of Portuguese politics • PT+EN
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com Director, Industrial Policy & Trade, @RooseveltInstitute.org, @RooseveltForward.org. Political scientist of economic transitions, administrative states, Bidenomics, Trumpnomics. PhD.
Ty Solomon @tsolomon.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at @glasgow.ac.uk. But mostly hiking, cycling, and running around Scotland.
Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Elena B. Stavrevska @ebstavrevska.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at Uni of Bristol | Feminist peace scholar | Member of the Yugoslawomen+ Collective | she/таа
Lauren Sukin @laurensukin.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Nuffield College, University of Oxford | Nuclear Weapons | Alliance Politics | Emerging Technology | Contact: lauren.sukin@politics.ox.ac.uk |
Richard Maass @richardmaass.bsky.social International Relations prof @ODU @GPIS_ODU US Foreign Policy, Security, Int'l Law, etc. Books: 🦅 The Picky Eagle 🦅 🇺🇸 The US + International Law 🌐
Maximilian Mayer @maximilianiras.bsky.social #China #Asia #International Relations, Political Science, (Geo)Politics of Technology, Infrastructure, CASSIS, University of Bonn #CovidIsNotOver #wehrhafteDemokratie Hier privat