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Because the #ISA2025 programme is too much, share your panels here (pls)! Sun 1600: Chairing @tom-gregory.bsky.social 'Weaponising Civilian Protection' book launch RT Mon 1030: Co-chairing 'Corporeal Connections: Land, Flesh, & the Embodiment of Global Politics' RT w/@laurenbwilcox.bsky.social

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🚨📖My book Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan is now available on the OUP website 🚨📖 For a 30% discount, please use the code ASFLYQ6. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Google has dropped a pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in its updated ethics policy on the powerful technology.

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🚨 The official release date for Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan is not until 15 February, but you can now get a sneak peek inside on Google Books 🚨 books.google.co.nz/books?id=YdE...

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Kia ora koutou! There is still time to register for our "Publishing with the Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics Series" event on 30 Jan at 8 am (UK time). bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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I’m completely out of action with a “slipped” (ha, who are they kidding) disc in my spine. Feel so out of the world. So it is lovely to get books in the post. How could I refuse @jennyedkins.bsky.social @tom-gregory.bsky.social & Maja Zehfuss when asked me to address “what does AI do to politics?” 1

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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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Inquiry told closure of SAS investigation into Afghan war crimes was premature aoav.org.uk/2025/inquiry...

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Not only is this immensely cruel, why would anyone help the US ever again

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Coupled with the defunding of the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, I fear for civilians around the world

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The left after Trump In an age of rampant inequality and oligarchic government, two leading thinkers ask: can democratic socialism survive? www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...

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Delighted to receive - and remain on - the new 4th ed of this innovative textbook by @jennyedkins.bsky.social, Maja Zehfuss & @tom-gregory.bsky.social. All contributions revolve around key political questions. Our chapter, now with David Shim, looks at Korea and asks “can we move beyond conflict?

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Important article from Erin Bijl on the key takeaways for Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response from the Russia-Ukraine War. www.justsecurity.org/106576/key-t...

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"The Royal Air Force (RAF) has declined to disclose how many individuals – civilian or otherwise – were killed or injured during its airstrikes in Yemen in 2024, citing security concerns and the sensitivity of targeting processes". aoav.org.uk/2025/raf-ref...

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Just unboxed the latest edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction. Thanks to all the contributors for writing such wonderful chapters and to @jennyedkins.bsky.social and Maja Zehfuss for inviting me to join the editorial team. More details here: www.routledge.com/Global-Polit....

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Curious about the role of VC influence in defence but no time to read my full research artice? I have a shorter version of the @finandsoc.bsky.social article on VC and military AI up now with @theconversation.com. Check it out! theconversation.com/the-silicon-...

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Emma Hutchison’s work on emotions and international relations defined and informed a generation of scholarship. We have put together a special collection honoring the legacy of Emma's work, including her RIS article and 8 others which have built on it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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"Israeli military action accounted for 55% of the total number of civilians recorded as killed or wounded during the year at 33,910, while Russian attacks in Ukraine were the second highest cause of death or injury at 19% (11,693)". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by around 40% in the first nine months of the war as the Gaza Strip's healthcare infrastructure unravelled, according to a study published on Thursday. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Meanwhile in the U.S.-enabled military campaign in Gaza. U.S. weapons and taxpayer dollars at work. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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A new edition of the amazing Global Politics: An Introduction is out later this month! Edited by Emeritus Professor @jennyedkins.bsky.social, Maja Zehfus and @tom-gregory.bsky.social, it has been thoroughly updated and includes 6 new chapters. ⬇️ www.routledge.com/Global-Polit...

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SAS had golden pass to get away with murder, Haddon-Cave inquiry told - driven by kill counts even one member of the Afghanistan officer took out his gun to protest SAS murders www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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N1799 told his superiors at the time that he believed the SAS had a policy in Afghanistan to “kill all males on target whether they posed a threat or not” – but in his evidence to the inquiry he said what he had heard in person was “more graphic”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Shields and the Genocide in Gaza

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"Mid-ranking officers had never been given so much leeway to attack so many targets, many of which had lower military significance, at such a high potential civilian cost". Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

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Our new VF story analyzes satellite Imagery alongside witness accounts to show how Israel is establishing a new corridor in North Gaza, fortifying military positions, demolishing huge swathes of Jabalya and Beit Lahia, and forcing civilians out. wapo.st/4gFoSrO

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‘Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods. It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’

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Alongside accountability processes like the Brereton & Haddon-Cave inquiries, it’s paramount we figure out how best to incorporate their findings into our military histories and museums. Both for the victims of war crimes, and future generations of service personnel. www.smh.com.au/national/lea...

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I'm excited to share the print sales page of my book, Queering Governance and International Law, available in hardcover 31 March 2025! Preorder the hardcover version here: global.oup.com/academic/pro... An electronic version of the book will be published in January 2025.

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NEW: Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones. Kherson’s residents have been, since midsummer, the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted campaign to empty a city by stalking its population with drones. Free to read: on.ft.com/3Vohxoa

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Shocked at this announcement. A Marsden Fast Start Award funded the research for my forthcoming book on civilian casualties, which also enabled me to contribute to MoD and NZDF working groups on reducing and responding to civilian harm. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...

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It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.

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"This conflict will not eradicate the heritage of Gaza. These buildings have been repeatedly restored and rebuilt over more than a century since the area was first devastated by modern warfare." theconversation.com/gazas-cultur...

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I spent the last few months reporting across the northern parts of the West Bank, where Palestinians in camps gave extensive accounts of the Israeli military increasingly deploying Gaza’s war tactics, including the IDF using civilians as human shields: nyti.ms/4fZLmTV

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Excited to announce that I have joined the editorial team for the fourth edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction, which the publisher has just sent to the printer. More details here: www.routledge.com/Global-Polit...

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