Headed to @ISA2026 #ISA2026 @isanet.bsky.social? Here's our lineup for the conference: Sunday, 22 March 1930-2100: Join us for the @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social drinks reception!

Enjoyed delivering this morning’s session on Lit Reviews and Theoretical Frameworks in journal articles with @jamesworrall.bsky.social in @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social contribution to the “International Writing Workshop Mindanao," supporting emerging scholars from Mindanao:

Rounding off a busy #CRS2025 @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social also held its second Roundtable at CRS with some great discussions about epistemology and methodology, thanks to the very engaged audience and panelists. Check out the write up of our ISA Roundtable here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Civil Wars ISA Roundtable 2025 Civil War and Intrastate Conflict: Reimagining a Field of Study

Published in Civil Wars (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2025)

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#CRS2025 also saw the launch of our latest @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social Special Issue on the Legacies of Rebel and Paramilitary Governance. Check out the SI here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fciv20/c... with @nielsterpstra.bsky.social

A great #CRS2025 at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Here are some photos from our @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social annual CRS drinks reception. It was great to catch up with friends old and new!

Attending the Conflict Research Society @thecrs.bsky.social conference in Canterbury this week? Come along to our drinks reception tomorrow (see conference programme for details)! Interested in pitching work to us? Get in touch with @jamesworrall.bsky.social to fix a coffee meeting!

Is there a “field” of civil wars research? How is the field evolving, and what challenges is it likely to face in future years? We discussed these questions and more in a fascinating roundtable discussion at @isanet.bsky.social in March, written up here: doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Civil Wars ISA Roundtable 2025 Civil War and Intrastate Conflict: Reimagining a Field of Study

Published in Civil Wars (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2025)

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We are keen to build on our excellent roundtable at #ISA2025 in Chicago this year (keep an eye out for a write-up in our next issue!) by reflecting specifically on epistemology and the diverse research approaches that make up our field of study

Pleased to see the second article from our Gerda Henkel Stiftung funded research project on counterinsurgency doctrine published online, plenty more to come. I’ll let @alexwaterman.bsky.social explain this one in his detailed thread!

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In this open-access article with @jamesworrall.bsky.social in the Journal of Strategic Studies, we theorise how specific elements of knowledge - in this case knowledge of insurgencies - are integrated, negotiated and codified into doctrine doi.org/10.1080/0140...

My new article got a bit lost in the excitement of #ISA2025 this week, such that I only noticed when trying to get through my inbox yesterday! Anyway, if you’re interested in #Oman #Israel the #AbrahamAccords or #SmallStates diplomacy, check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dissenting from the Inevitable? Understanding Omani Approaches to Israel and the Abraham Accords

In the months following the signature of the Abraham Accords in September 2020 there was considerable speculation about which countries would be next to join, Oman was a frequent subject of this sp...

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Thank you to our stellar roundtable panel for a fascinating discussion on the present and future of the field of civil wars research today! Lots of ideas and food for thought for both journal and field more broadly #ISA2025

Setting up the @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social drinks reception, starting in half an hour @isanet.bsky.social #ISA2025

Great start to the day in our workshop on Rebel Financing and Rebels’ Use of Economic Instruments for Rebel Governance! @ilyssa.bsky.social @jamesworrall.bsky.social @alexwaterman.bsky.social

I’ve got a bit of a packed #ISA2025 ahead! (Also have free wifi on an eight hour flight, so a mini thread). Starting with a workshop all day on Saturday…

Civil Wars is at #ISA2025 @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social do join us! 🧩Workshop on Rebel Finance and the Financialisation of Rebel Governance, Saturday @ 8am 🪁Roundtable on Reimagining the Field, Sunday @ 1.45pm 🥂Drinks Reception, Sunday @ 7.45pm Feel free to DM or email us to discuss projects!

To round out another busy year the final issue of Civil Wars in this volume (26,4) is now available. Check out our Editorial Introduction for a sneak peek at some of the exciting things we have planned for 2025! Happy New Year all! @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/fciv20/2...

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Volume 26, Issue 4 of Civil Wars

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With the scenes of liberation of prisoners in #Syria today and the fall of the #Asad regime, despite the uncertainty, let us hope that there can now be at least some measure of justice for the tens of thousands of victims of #torture at the hands of the #regime 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices

While the administrations of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad employed torture regularly as a tool of authoritarian governance, this usage changed dramatically in nature as the revolution moved from prote...

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