Finally arrived at #APSA2025, and look what I found: a certain book in very good company and some glorious mountains. All before my 10 AM panel :) Then afterwards, I found the pièce de résistance: byrek.

🔖My new book is officially out!✨Through statistical, archival, and content analysis approaches, it investigates the regional selectivity gap inherent in the humanitarian military intervention phenomenon in the post-Cold War era. Get 30% off with UMWEB30: press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...

"From Kosovo to Darfur" by Sidita Kushi is now available! Kushi explores the past, present, and future of military humanitarianism in this #OpenAccess title. Start reading: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

Thrilled to see our article "Unipolarity and the increasing frequency of US military intervention" out in the latest issue of International Affairs today! doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...

With summer in full swing, we have launched our July issue today!☀️ 🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific 🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more 💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance 📚 24 book reviews Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4

It's the best time of year: UMP's Spring Sale! Get 50% off all of our books using code SPRING25 all month long. Start shopping here: press.umich.edu

My book, From Kosovo to Darfur, comes out on July 7, 2025, with University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social 🌍Why do powerful global actors intervene under humanitarian mandates in some humanitarian crises but ignore others? ✨Use code PREORDERS25 for 40% off press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...

This trilateral declaration between Albania, Kosovo, and Croatia is an important step for the Balkans. Bulgaria has also been invited to join, it seems. www.koha.net/en/index.php...

My new book has a cover - a photo taken by a Kosovar journalist of sisters leisurely strolling by a Serbian war tank in post-conflict Kosovo. Consider pre-ordering from the publisher's website or your favorite bookstore. From Kosovo to Darfur comes out in July 2025! press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...

Worth spelling out why these high-level US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia are a bad idea (though not clear who from RU will meet with Rubio et al). Thread: 🧵 1/

The data at USAID's ForeignAssistance dot gov was removed over the weekend, but it seems to be back (for now). As a backup, I've uploaded the data both as static CSV files and a queryable API - Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis... - API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com

As someone from the Balkans I regret to inform you that the tolerance of the average public for being utterly brutalized by their government(s) for the most fantastical and asinine reasons is far greater than you may anticipate. Sectarianism is a hell of a drug, alas.

If only there were a word for cutting off and illegally replacing the head of executive authority in a regime.

The Hamilton Project at @brookings.edu has published a daily federal outlay tracker, showing whether agencies & federal projects are being funded. Something that in the past would have been overkill & in the weeds, but in the current moment feels essential. www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...

A reminder that on this site folks may be aware that Trump got basically nothing new or substantive from Mexico or Canada but over on the other place, and out in parts of the real world, the GOP are successfully and ruthlessly spinning these as wins. They are messaging masters, Dems aren’t. Sorry 🤷🏽‍♂️

"We’re abandoning all pretense that society and government provide tangible benefits so you can be free to pick your favorite Hobbesian adjective and return to the animal state that best suits your solitary brutishness."

“The Albanians have been born to resist and disobey.” - Dursam Bey, the second siege of Kruja. Here's to the thousands of years of Albanian resistance and disobedience that led us to this day. And to many thousands more, should the fates require it. Happy Albanian Independence Day! 🇦🇱 🇽🇰 ❤

A rainy Saturday filled with grading deserves a little pastry magic 🪄 🧁

🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance. Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

Anything missing? #IRsky

And a panel on military intervention on Saturday at noon. #APSA2024 tinyurl.com/26acvdvy

AI is just three trillion logistic regressions in a trench coat.

Grateful to be the 2024 Distinguished Faculty Research Award recipient. I'm so lucky to work alongside such innovative, kind, and productive scholars and educators at BSU: www.bridgew.edu/news-events/...

Grateful to be part of such an epic PoliSci department and ultra-supportive academic community at BSU! 😊

The BSU crew 🤓🥳🥂

Happy Independence Day, our dear Kosova! Gezuar Pavaresine e shtrejte moj Kosova jone!

The edited book Teaching Social Equity in Public Administration A Cross-Curricular Guide for Faculty and Programs will be available for pre-order soon! My BSU colleagues & I contributed a chapter on Using Research Methods to Teach Social Equity. Excited to finally see this project out in the world!

🌟 Publication Day! 🌟 The new issue of International Security is now available, including my article, "Racialization and International Security," ungated thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social! Read 📄 Download ⬇️ Share 🚀 here: direct.mit.edu/isec/article... Summary 🧵 to follow:

Our book Dying by the Sword is on this list! www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-b...

Just sent off the full book manuscript to my editor! Right before the grading rush. I'm both nervous and relieved, somehow.

Our book Dying by the Sword made it onto the War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List this year! warontherocks.com/2023/12/the-...

Last class of the semester is behind me, and lots of grading ahead of me. 🥲

Very thankful for great presentations, sharp audience, and super staff for this Year Ahead conference we held yesterday saideman.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-...

The Year Ahead conference was an amazing experience! So glad to have met such an impressive group of academics and practitioners in Ottawa today!

Just a reminder: • Jus ad bellum: when is it legitimate to use force? • Jus in bello: how is it legitimate to use force? • Jus ex tyrannos: the belief that the right to wage war justifies any and all immoral acts of violence.

Sometimes a rally-'round-the-flag effect takes immediate hold and stifles domestic dissent. And sometimes this is Ha'aretz' editorial.

I want to try something. I am thinking of more topics to discuss on my newsletter about LGBTQIA+ issues so here is a link where you can ask me anything anonymously. Is there anything you have ever wanted to know? Here is the time to ask: ngl.link/sethjmeyer

I badgered my husband to go see My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 with me this evening. It was not good. I let the nostalgia train steer me so wrong.

Bringing this article back today because the underlying drivers of the escalating Serbian-sponsored violence in Kosovo remain the same, for the most part. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Listen, it’s not my fault. They hit us with rulers in Albania if we didn’t do well in school. I merely took that trauma and made lemonade with it once in the States 😂

Attending West coast conferences = paying international travel costs without meeting international travel funding requirements for us East coast folks. In other words, there’s no way I have the funds to attend another Cali conference in the near future. No ISA for me this round 😞

Tuli and Griffin’s debut on Blue Sky! IR can wait.