My fabulous colleague’s new book!

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.) This is an atrocity.

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

Re-reading about IR’s “Great Debates” in preparation for my PhD seminar on IR theory this semester

The US blockade on oil shipments to Cuba is collective punishment; creating a full-blown humanitarian collapse. Healthcare, food systems, electricity, and public services are deteriorating rapidly and simultaneously. It’s the elderly and children suffering. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

Hey there #polisky does anyone have a good article recommendation about the formation of the liberal order after WW2 and its impending (?) collapse? Teaching a masters seminar this semester, and looking for something good to assign. Can be academic or more policy forward!

So thank your lucky stars you got protection. Walk the line and never mind the cost. don't wonder who them lawmen was protectin', when they nailed the savior to the cross. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/trumps-bor...

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

My new article in Third World Quarterly is out! “El estado es un macho violador: Reconsidering the state as a site for peacebuilding.” It argues that the state reproduces patriarchal & colonial violence — and that peacebuilding must center feminist, decolonial practices of care & resistance.

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #International #Relations #Scholars, the #Media, & the #Dilemma of #Consensus By Irene Entringer García Blanes, @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social, Susan Peterson, @rmpowers.bsky.social & Michael J. Tierney doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Just out in Perspectives on Politics! 🎉 My co-authored article: “International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus.” We dig into how IR scholars navigate media engagement and balance consensus with debate—especially urgent in an era of growing backlash against experts.

Frente a una ola de presiones en su contra, el EMC está en modo de guerra. Generar miedo a través de ataques terroristas es, a la vez, una muestra de fortaleza, pero también de debilidad. Les contamos👇 @latam.crisisgroup.org @lasillavacia.bsky.social www.lasillavacia.com/red-de-exper...

Also, good news comes in spades! Very exciting to see this new article with former TRIP colleagues our about how gender impacts the way that political opinion is expressed, in both the public and in experts. Check it out ⬇️

Exciting news article “Grammar of Threat” with co-author extraordinaire @phillegitimate.bsky.social just won the 2025 Lee Ann Fujii Best Article Award from @apsa.bsky.social ’s Interpretive Methods group! 🎉

Y en español: La COP30 asume que los Estados controlan sus territorios, pero la realidad es mucho más compleja. Las industrias extractivas, grupos armados y élites políticas suelen tener más poder que los gobiernos nacionales. Lee mi artículo en openDemocracy: www.opendemocracy.net/es/crisis-cl...

COP30 assumes states control their territories—but in Latin America, the reality is far more complex. Extractive industries, armed groups, and political elites often hold more power than national governments. Read my latest for openDemocracy: www.opendemocracy.net/en/climate-c...

We are now receiving applications for one fully funded PhD position in peace and conflict research, with a focus on political violence in democratic countries. Read more 👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Applications are also open for our general PhD position👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #PhD #Democracy

The situation now in Tibú, Colombia: sources inside tell me that the army is bombarding ELN and FARC dissident guerrilla forces, who are pinned down. Residents in the urban sector have been told to shelter in place and fear clashes will reach them. #colombia #catatumbo #tibu #ELN #FARC

My website has recently undergone a major overall, thanks to dear friend and very talented UX designer Marc Robinson. To keep up with my ongoing research and articles, including a book manuscript that is under contract and almost done (!), check it out: shaunangillooly.com

Musk/DOGE cuts are (1) wildly unpopular, (2) plainly illegal, and (3) utterly incompetent, and yet the DC political establishment is unwilling or unable to stop it. They are bowing to a regime of government by billionaire fiat.

🧵 Here's what @stephrschwartz.bsky.social and I have been fretting about: Crackdowns on immigrants, mass deportation, and internment camps (and the suffering they cause) are recurrent in US history. But this time, it's also one of the Trump admin's power grabs. 1/ www.politico.com/news/magazin...

🤩 Now available for purchase! 📚 Brave Women: Fighting for Justice in the 21st Century 🌎 Chapters by activists & academics from 🇲🇽🇨🇴🇵🇪🇧🇷🇺🇬🇧🇮🇿🇦🇬🇪🇲🇲🇺🇸🇦🇫 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

As promised: Tinto keeping me in good company as I slog through final edits on my ¡book! manuscript due next month

You guys!!! I’m back! Sorry for my long absence on here, but I’ve decided to return considering the total hellscape Twitter is now. Thank you for all the love and follows while I was away! Watch this space for more frequent work on peacebuilding, political violence, and cat pictures!

Whipped cream bandit

1,036 juicy words on my last empirical book chapter this fine morning!

My books are here!!! My books are here!!!

Dartmouth's Dickey Center is now accepting applications for the 24-25 Postdoctoral fellowships in U.S. foreign policy and international security. Fellows can expect intellectual engagement, policy-oriented visitors/workshops, and time for research. Apply! dickey.dartmouth.edu/programs/sec...

Santiago showing out tonight 😍

A wonderful breakdown of why trying nationalize the regionalism of Colombia, even for the sake of a particular political party is so complex/ a bad idea!

El domingo fueron elecciones locales en Colombia.🇨🇴 Este análisis de @juanalbarracind.bsky.social y JP Milanese explica algo que Petro no ha entendido: es un error nacionalizar la estrategia (y el análisis) de las elecciones subnacionales. #latinsky latinoamerica21.com/es/petro-y-e...

Struggling to write my next chapter, and what do I find but a beautiful background and context document I wrote about it last year floating around in my Drive. THANK YOU past me!!!

Another article out the door! Thanks to @phillegitimate.bsky.social for the wee kick in the ass I needed to finish it today

Mood

4 hours of writing today = 700 words 🫠

Sounds like a scam

Sobre las primarias de la oposición en Venezuela. 💯 Por Maryhen Jiménez, @antuliorosales.bsky.social y JM Trak. www.nuso.org/articulo/ven...

We! fixed! acid! rain! And we can fix climate change 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Update: if you email ISA you can sign up to volunteer now and have your registration fee and 1-year membership covered. I'm glad to have the opportunity so early and be able to stay on the program! Thanks @devoncantwell.bsky.social for inspiring this option.

Out today with @ECPR_TheLoop: my analysis on how new forms of violence in Chile are being driven by a reconfiguration of the international trafficking scene

You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! 🙄 Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

There is a list for all the academic feeds here run by @markrubin.bsky.social docs.google.com/spreadsheets... @profruback.bsky.social and I run a spreadsheet for all the political science/affairs (broadly constructed) related subfeeds docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Uno de mis estudiantes doctorales quiere formar un panel para esta conferencia— si tiene interés, avísame y puedo ponerles en contacto!

Some deep sea corals can live for at least several thousand years

Don’t you just LOVE when governments have their data all neat and tidy and downloadable and publicly accessible?? 😍

Deadline extended! Apply to the LAPSS Conference When: Jan 18-19, 2024 Host: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) New deadline: October 15th No fee! Application, info and past programs: www.eafit.edu.co/lapss

Young, fun profe energy

This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...