Srinjoy Bose
@srinjoybose.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @UNSW | Associate Editor @austjia.bsky.social | Senior Fellow @cornellbtpi.bsky.social | Political order & violence, rebel governance, statebuilding & peacebuilding, drones, Global South | https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/srinjoy-bose
Sahana Ghosh on borderlands and bordering. Read the book; it's excellent. www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...
Beyond kaanta-taar: Rethinking life at the Bangladesh–India border
In conversation with Sahana Ghosh, author of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the India-Bangladesh Borderlands and assistant professor of Anthropology at the National University of S...
thedailystar.net
As I have stated before, the OSI have been slowly working towards this for a long time (compiling evidence painstakingly, which has taken longer due to the fall of Kabul in 2021). His arrest signals the OSI and AFP have a very, very strong case. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Details of Ben Roberts-Smith arrest revealed by AFP commissioner - video
Ross Barnett, director of investigations at the Office of the Special Investigator, says there were many challenges which led to a long investigation timeline around Ben Roberts-Smith's case, noting t...
theguardian.com
🚨 I’m hiring! 🚨 Australia-based Political Science (Comparative Politics, IR) PhD scholars and ECRs: I'm recruiting a Casual Research Assistant to work with me, @rumelas.bsky.social and #KeshabGiri on a *rebel governance* project (with a focus on South Asia). 1/4
How do various forms of dehumanization shape public support for drone warfare? We address this question by articulating an original typology of dehumanized warfare (forms of dehumanization + types of drones, which informs our survey design). @cornellbtpi.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Dehumanization and Public Support for Drone Warfare
Drone warfare can dehumanize targets. Does this affect public support for drones, and if so, how? We address this question by administering a survey experiment
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Pankaj Mishra on the “rupture in historical memory” that has led India to forsake Iran https://go.nybooks.com/3NeesGr
A Bitter Education | Pankaj Mishra
Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in The Discovery of India that “among the many people and races who have come in contact with Indians and influenced India’s life
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American Presidents invariably claim that the use of U.S. military force abroad benefits the local population. U.S. Presidents often explicitly or implicitly claim that "the intervened population" therefore welcomes U.S. military intervention - a powerful moral claim.
International Security@intsecurity.bsky.social · 5mo ago3) “A Matter of Principle: How Local Consent Affects U.S. Support for Military Interventions,” by @janinadill.bsky.social, Emily Myers, and Livia I. Schubiger doi.org/10.1162/ISEC...
The NYT Investigative team (and other news outlets) have reported in detail on the attack against the Elementary School in Minab, Iran. I had the opportunity to comment, but the law is not the story so there is more to be said. Allow me to elaborate:
"So it came as a shock when Carney offered immediate support to an illegal U.S.-Israel war of aggression against Iran." NOT a shock if you didn't buy Carney's Davos BS in the 1st place. Or, to be more generous, recognised the limits of his avowal (as Jeremy argues).
Respecting international law depends on who breaks it: Why Canada backed the war against Iran
Mark Carney’s support for the U.S.-Israel war against Iran seems hypocritical, but it’s consistent with Canada’s longstanding support for a rules-based order that only applies when convenient.
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"Those who loathe the clerical establishment may still recoil at the spectacle of foreign jets in Iranian skies and the explicit declaration that their state is to be dismantled." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together
The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...
lrb.co.uk
"In a revolutionary regime with entrenched coercive institutions and mobilized loyalist networks, external war is more likely to reinforce defensive cohesion than to trigger collapse." substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Fantasy of Liberation by War
The current U.S.–Israel war on Iran is being celebrated in some quarters as a long-awaited rupture.
substack.com
"To hear them say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping. It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time – when artists, writers and film makers should be doing everything in their power to stop it."
Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026
The Indian author, film maker and peace activist responds to a recent attempt by jury membres at the festival to deflect from the violence inflicted by Israel on the Gaza strip.
thewire.in
www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/10/s...
Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns' goons exposes the lie of 'social cohesion'
NSW Police's actions against protesters in in Sydney was about the powerful dictating the terms of free speech — through state-sanctioned violence if necessary.
crikey.com.au
Repeatedly punching a prone civilian on the neck/head and rib cage. Thugs doing Minns' "social cohesion" work. Doubtful they will be held accountable.
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 6mo agoVideo shows a man pinned to the ground as Australian police strike him repeatedly during an arrest. The man appears already subdued as blows continue. The incident occurred at protests in Sydney against Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)
"The pairing of fully autonomous drone strikes and dehumanizing imagery could undermine public support for military action, even in cases when action is needed," write Paul Lushenko and Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social.
How dehumanizing language, video images, and human oversight affect public opinion on drone warfare
A survey of 1,500 Americans reveals how the public views the use of drones in war.
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A friend of a friend aptly called this moment a call for a non-aligned movement of intermediate imperial powers.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 7mo ago“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy… The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending.” — Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026: Call for Proposals
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"let’s be quite clear, the routine invocation of “safety” is code for “I don’t want to hear your opinion”. In this instance, it appears to apply only to a Palestinian invitee." 100%. The ever-articulate and indomitable Louise Adler. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
theguardian.com
🧵 All the academics who are smarter than I am are doing "explainer" threads. I'll just provide some readings on indirect rule that might be increasingly relevant over the next few years. 1. David Lake's work on indirect rule and U.S. foreign policy.
Indirect Rule by David A. Lake | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Indirect Rule examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics. Indirect rule has long characterized interstate relat...
cornellpress.cornell.edu
In Episode 4 of our podcast, Technologies of Genocide, host Suchitra Vijayan is in conversation with activist, writer, and poet Abduweli Ayup on the Uyghur genocide. She reflects:
This is an incredible photo shoot. The photographer knew exactly what they were doing. This is social photography (critique) at its finest. Consider: Wiles, wide-eyed (caught in the headlights), is made to look small against a larger back-drop, w/ cropped out sofa and painting. 1/4
Vanity Fair@vanityfair.com · 8mo agoNewsstands 1.20.26 vanityfair.com/subscribe
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How the Bondi Beach attack is being weaponized to suppress the Palestine movement in Australia
The Australian government is using the Bondi Beach attack as a pretext to accelerate its repression of the Palestine movement. This response lays bare the state’s true interest: to protect and defend ...
mondoweiss.net
This, with @claroche.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, was the most fun I’ve had writing a paper in years. A quick thread on what we do here. This paper argues IR theories tell stories, and stories get their meaning from their particular endings. /1
EJIR@ejir.bsky.social · 8mo agoStories derive much of their meaning from how they end. Joseph MacKay and Christoph LaRoche‘s article in EJIR asks how endings shape the historical narratives at the heart of IR theories. Read the full paper here: t1p.de/voqhz @lefteleven.bsky.social @claroche.bsky.social
"The opposition has alleged SIR is being used as a covert national register of citizens (NRC), similar to what took place in the north Indian state of Assam a few years ago. There, NRC led to hundreds of thousands, primarily Muslims, being rounded up and detained in detention centres..."
India’s electoral roll revision threatens democracy and Muslims, say critics
Opposition claims SIR process being used to disenfranchise minority groups to benefit Narendra Modi’s government
theguardian.com
I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades. transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
The Politics of Hunger in Sudan – Transition Magazine
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🚨 My article, with Jessica Wolfendale and Chris Elliott, is now available (open access) with @risjnl.bsky.social. We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read! cup.org/49gmlUi
