Harry Swinhoe
@harryswinhoe.bsky.social
Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Global Security Challenges https://css.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/harrison-swinhoe/ Co-Host of Insecure: A Security Studies Podcast https://t.co/SMlJtQ6wRS
#POLI1017 Update on recent events in the Russia-Ukraine war
Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.eu · 4d ago“The Vivaldi operation, said George Barros, a senior analyst at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, shows that when a military lays the necessary groundwork, mechanized movement remains possible even under dense drone surveillance”
#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Interesting on the interaction between narrative, identity, and geopolitics
Journal of Global Security Studies@journalofgss.bsky.social · 4d agoWhen do narratives become tools of geopolitical balancing? New #JOGSS article by Ryuta Ito introduces “narrative balancing” and three types - deceptive, institutional, and assertive - to explain how states use narratives to constrain rivals and strengthen alignments. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
#POLI2049 Interesting series of nested threads on the historical background to the ongoing civil war in Yemen.
Mae Nick Phra Khanong@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 5d agoMade this thread with excerpts from this very partisan take because I do think the Yemeni republican line gets lost in Western discourse dominated by Houthi agitprop There's a lot of history underlining the Yemen conflict. The Imamate. Revolution. The Southern Issue. It's important to know it.
#POLI2049 Relevant for our later discussions on the blurred lines between Civil Wars and Inter-state conflict
Abu Aardvark@abuaardvark.bsky.social · 5d ago“as wars in the Middle East and the Horn become inextricably linked, a single security sphere is coalescing…instability will continue to ricochet in both directions, and the overlapping conflicts and disputes will become harder to resolve.” Good piece www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...
#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Interesting as a way into ongoing discussions about the significance of Geo-Politics as a field and its importance for IR
Gerard Toal@critgeopolitics.bsky.social · 5d ago“Guess who’s back, back again” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b...
#POLI2049 Relevant for our later discussion in the module on Religion and International Politics, especially the extent to which religion offers alternative ways of understanding international politics and how it should be ordered.
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi@ajaltamimi.bsky.social · last wk.Translation and overview of the latest Islamic State editorial denouncing the United Nations. A useful example for understanding transnational jihadist opposition to the international system of nation states www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/islamic-st...
#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Interesting intervention on ontological security (relevant to our week's on Social Constructivism and Identity), Great Power politics, and Japan over the late 19th and throughout most of the 20th century.
Linus Hagström@linushagstrom.bsky.social · last wk.Very happy to see my article “Unravelling military aggression: Ontological insecurity, great power narcissism, and Japan’s international relations, 1868–1971” assigned to an issue of @risjnl.bsky.social It examines connections between great powers and aggression. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#POLI1017 An FT interview with President Zelensky with his perspective on the current course of the Russia-Ukraine war (you should be able to access FT articles using your UoN sign in details).
Christopher Miller@christopherjm.ft.com · last wk.NEW: Yesterday I interviewed President Zelenskyy. Speaking at a school that had just been hit by a Russian jet drone, he said Ukrainian spy agencies had obtained intel that Putin told his military to remove all constraints that governed earlier air campaigns. “He said there are no rules now.”
#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Useful when thinking about the interaction between gender, conflict, and peace processes.
Anna Marie Obermeier@amobermeier.bsky.social · 2w agoHow can Gender Provisions strengthen ceasefires? Siri Aas Rustad and I wrote a @prioresearch.bsky.social policy brief to provide examples & offer practical inspiration for policymakers and peace practitioners working to build more inclusive peace processes. Check it out: www.prio.org/publications...
#POLI2049 Relevant to this week's discussions on post-colonialism in international politics and later discussions in the module on changes in the international order over the course of the 20th century. Also potentially relevant for those working on the case analysis about the Non-Aligned Movement.
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History@jich.bsky.social · 2w agoHot off the press! Check out 'Between Bandung, Suez, and Nehru's Feet: Singapore and Global South Solidarities in the Commonwealth' by Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
#POLI2049 A good overview of the civil war in Sudan and potential paths forward. Relevant for our discussion of Civil Wars later in the module.
Lawrence Freedman@ldfreedman.bsky.social · 2w agoLatest post considers the ‘forgotten war’ of Sudan. I consider the state of the fighting, the humanitarian crisis, and the logic of partition. This is another example of the difficulty of extracting a good peace from a bad war. (This one is free). samf.substack.com/p/the-sudan-...?
#POLI2049 Relevant to both last week's discussion of international orders and this week's discussion of whether the origins of IR have built Euro-centric assumptions into the discipline. (Also interesting for #POLI1017)
Shifting Sovereignties@shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 2w agoNew article by Nargis Nurulla-Khoja on "De-Westphalizing Central Asia: from Soviet biopolitics to a Silk Road mentality" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Relevant to discussions on gender, identity construction and how these shape interactions betwen domestic politics, foreign policy, and international politics.
Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 4w agoHow does masculinity shape the 2024 US presidential election and Trump’s foreign policy? If you are interested in this quesiton, read our new open access article with @veronicabarfucci.bsky.social and Deborah Faudoa Rodriguez in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Interesting for thinking about the relationship between domestic politics and both intra-state and inter-state conflict.
International Interactions@intlinteractions.bsky.social · last mo.How does political inequality among ethnic groups motivate governments to engage in international conflicts? Ngo explores this question in a new paper -- finding that it might be a motivator for diversionary behavior www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#POLI1017 #POLI2049 Relevant to thinking about Consctructivism, Identity, Social Psychology, and Political Violence. Suggests that traditional assumptions about the relationship between violence towards outgroups and ingroup identification may be faulty.
Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 3w agoDoes ingroup love lead to outgroup hate? I often tell people that identifying with ingroups does not always lead to outgroup discrimination. I call this the "Myth of tribalism". A new paper provides strong and robust evidence for a positive relationship between ingroup and outgroup prosociality.!
#POLI1017 #POLI2049 On state-centrism and conflict. Especially relevant for later when we are looking at Civil Wars, 'messy conflicts', hybrid wars and whether engaging with these is limited by state-centrism in our datasets.
Audrey Alejandro@audreyalejandro.bsky.social · last mo.How state-centric is conflict studies? In this new article in International Studies Perspectives 🎉, I systematically examine how 12 major conflict event datasets embed state-centrism through their inclusion criteria, classifications, and documentation. academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...
#POLI2049 Interesting on how ways of visualising international politics, shape how we think, and potentially policy behaviour. Relevant to this week's conversations about the legacies of colonial ways of thinking in international politics Also interesting for #POLI1017
Paul Poast@profpaulpoast.bsky.social · 3w agoIn the modern world of GPS, does the appearance of physical maps matter? Yes, because they play a crucial role in shaping how we (including policy makers) think about the world. I explain why in my latest for @wpr.bsky.social www.worldpoliticsreview.com/maps-geopoli...
#POLI1017 #POLI2049 An interesting intervention arguing that fragmentation and non-state actors of varying kinds suggest international politics is reverting to a pre-modern form of international politics. Links to a number of themes of the modules, including the role of state-centric IR theories.
Paul Poast@profpaulpoast.bsky.social · 3w agoIR Book of the Week! "Neomedievalism in International Relations" by @alexspalinska.bsky.social. What's old is new again. Drawing on the work of Hedley Bull, book argues that, from tech firms to militant groups, we could be entering a new, global "Middle Ages"
Delighted to see this article, co-authored with @profjackholland.bsky.social, is now out! 'Ontological Security beyond Binaries' makes original contributions to debates on Ontological Security and brOthering; moving beyond identity binaries in Genocide Studies; and theorising IS genocidal violence.
Jack Holland@profjackholland.bsky.social · 5mo agoA second new article published this week: Ontological Security beyond Binaries: Islamic State’s brOthering of Jihadist Competitors through Genocide published in ISQ, with Harry Swinhoe academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
Great to see this piece written with Lewis Eves, Gilsun Jeong, and Nandor Revesz is now out. Our focus groups produced some really interesting findings on overlooked factors driving students' AI use and how this relates to broader societal and institutional trends.
Wonkhe@wonkhe.bsky.social · 5mo agoNEW on Wonkhe: Lewis Eves, Gilsun Jeong, Nandor Revesz and Harrison Swinhoe found that if you ask students why they rely on AI, their answers often point to anxieties about engaging with their tutors buff.ly/fnv5v5K
Just before Xmas, Laura C and I had career firsts: 2 PhD students successfully defended their theses on the same day, passing their vivas. Very many congrats to Dr Laura Rose Brown and Dr Charles Gray! And very many thanks to the internals (Louise and Olaf) and externals (Catherine and Kyle)
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A recording of my lecture is now available here. In the missing first 5m, Professor Berry tells the potted history of my rise from 2Cs and a D at A Level, to a Desmond from Nottingham Trent, then from Wollongong (MA) to toil at Aberystwyth, to finally graduating with a PhD from Loughborough in 2008.
Alex Prichard's Inaugural lecture: 'Constitutionalising Anarchy in World Politics'
YouTube video by University of Exeter
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Alex Prichard@profalexp.bsky.social · 11mo agoThank you to my friends, family and colleagues who came to tonight’s inaugural lecture! And thanks to @polneuro.bsky.social for the photos! #anarchy
Out now! New edited book “New Directions in Vernacular Security” with Palgrave. Great working with @leejarvis.bsky.social & @akinoyawale.bsky.social to bring it together. Great contributions-from Rohingya refugee camps, to military self help books & more in between link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
New Directions in Vernacular Security Research
This book provides a fresh perspective on vernacular security, featuring diverse case studies and unique sources to enrich your understanding.
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#POLI3097 A discussions with Dan about the US and intelligence liaison.
@nottspolitics.bsky.social · 11mo ago🗣️What the U.S. loses when our allies stop sharing intelligence 🎧Listen back to @nottspolitics.bsky.social's UK intelligence expert Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social on the On Point show on @npr.org ⬇️ www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
BISA at 50: Take a look back at our first ever BISA conference with Professor Jack Holland 🌟 What notable events were taking place on the world stage at that time? And are they still relevant in IR today? 🎉 Read here now 👉 https://ow.ly/RqvL50Xqolq @julietdryden.bsky.social
BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – The new dimensions of foreign policy (1975!)
Professor Jack Holland looks back at the themes of the first BISA conference, which took place in 1975.
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#POLI3097 Very Relevant to this week's discussions on Intelligence Liaison
##POLI1017 Relevant to our discussions about the role of NGOs, institutions, and norms
Peter Henne@pehenne.bsky.social · 11mo agoassigning this in my IR class today on NGOs, and it argues some of the apparent importance of NGOs was an artifact of the 90s. I wonder how much of IR--namely its liberal & constructivist variants--is the same www.foreignaffairs.com/world/end-ag...
#POLI1017 Relevant for our future discussions on gender and the Syrian Civil War
Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 12mo agoFull article: Rhetoric or Reality? An Analysis of the PYD as a Gendered Insurgent Organization from 2011 to 2018 Studies in Conflict & Terrorism @alexphelan.bsky.social Christina Schmid www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#POLI1017 For an update on events in Syria since the fall of Assad and the nature of recent clashes - relevant to some of the discussions we had this week.
Alexander McKeever@akmckeever.bsky.social · 12mo agoI spoke to @hanrahan.tv @popularfront.co about a range of 2025 Syria topics including recent al-Sheikh Maqsoud clashes, DAANES curriculum controversy, July al-Suwayda' events... open.spotify.com/episode/7j7m... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... pocketcasts.com/podcast/popu...