The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Solidarity with @lufappul.bsky.social as they wrap up a third week on the picket lines in the Sudbury cold! Solidarité avec l’APPUL alors qui terminent une troisième semaine de piquetage dans le froid de Sudbury!

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

Join us on Saturday, February 14, for PeaceRep Iraq's final conference, 'Reframing Iraq: Power, Politics, and Paths to Inclusion'. @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social @peacerep.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk//middle-east...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

We're organising an @ipsa.org Research Committees Colloquium in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026, to be hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social. We welcome papers on all aspects of politics of and in ethnically plural societies. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...

Some thoughts on what Trump has done in Venezuela and what it might mean for US national security. Caveat: not a Latin America scholar so this is focused on US policy. Clearly huge consequences for Venezuela that others can address. First, despite the buildup, I didn't think Trump would do it. 1/

Even if Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro somehow led to a positive impact on Venezuela’s future, it would not make these actions by the United States legal, moral or wise. Normalising and legitimising this behaviour endangers all countries - democracies and dictatorships alike.

Bowing to reality, the French government has abandoned plans to hold a referendum on 15 March for a new political statute for New Caledonia. My report for Islands Business looks at shifting French policy, which has divided legislatures in Paris and Noumea. islandsbusiness.com/news-break/f...

‘No water, no life’: Iraq’s Tigris River in danger of disappearing

may I recommend writing a book review? it's fast, it's useful, it's a good thing to do. if it's an academic review, just look up the book review editor for a journal where you'd like to publish and pitch a review of a book that came out in the last few years or is forthcoming

Our book now has a cover and a preorder link! In it, @drsiobhanbyrne.bsky.social and I trace the rise of the WPS agenda & power-sharing as conflict resolution norms, chart their intersections, and reckon with the possible decline of both norms utpdistribution.com/978104980435...

📌𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘁! 📌 🇱🇧 🇮🇶 Under what conditions are 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿-𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 established, and when are they effective? 🔓 Read the #openaccess article by @allimcculloch.bsky.social Soeren Keil, Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif and Sahar Ammar here 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1359... #power #agreement #Lebanon #Iraq

Thrilled to publish this exceptional collection on Syria a year after Assad pomeps.org/pomeps-studi...

Today, we honour the lives of those murdered at Polytechnique Montreal in 1989 and all people impacted by gender-based violence. CAUT remembers them and reaffirms its commitment to fight gender-based violence, hatred and misogyny. Read our full statement: www.caut.ca/news/caut-ma...

@inclusivepeaceora.bsky.social colleagues were among those who gave evidence to the NI Affairs Committee on the gov’s approach to Legacy reform. committees.parliament.uk/publications... @feargalc.bsky.social @neophytosloizides.bsky.social @aimeejaysmith.bsky.social @warwickpais.bsky.social

In honour of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, I'm sharing my new op-ed for The Conversation on the harms of online misogyny targeting women in public life, especially when amplified by political leaders. #polisky #gendersky theconversation.com/quiet-piggy-...

We've just launched a new policy brief series, evaluating the Dayton Agreement at 30. A partnership between @inclusivepeaceora.bsky.social and the Forum of Federations, our first brief examines public opinions on constitutional reform options in BiH. Read it here: www.forumfed.org/collection/f...

A Brandon University panel discussion on bail reform will give people a chance to hear directly from experts who are working in or studying the system, BU chair and professor of political science Kelly Saunders says. www.brandonsun.com/local/2025/1... #bdnmb

This issue includes articles by our colleague, Dr Dawn Walsh @dawnwalsh.bsky.social , and our former PhD student, Dr Emma Murphy @emmamurphy.bsky.social , including: "Gender quota adoption for commissions in post-conflict societies" by Dawn Walsh and Emma Murphy journals.sagepub.com/toc/ipsa/46/5

Bosnia’s Serb entity names an interim president after separatist Milorad Dodik is barred from politics by a state court.

Excited to see this out in the world, now available open access

Thank you to @allimcculloch.bsky.social and @jonathanarlow.bsky.social for joining me on the @psaireland.bsky.social panel today! #APSA2025 (Side note: one person using she/her pronouns, one using they/them, and one using he/him—do we get some kind of award for absolutely nailing gender balance?)

September 14 deadline is approaching 🚨

EDITORIAL: The BDO final report should be of serious concern to Minister Cable, incoming university president Dr. Christine Cnossen and the current members of the Brandon University Board of Governors. www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2025... #bdnmb #mbpoli

Friends who study all things demonic: For the CHA this coming June at UPEI, my colleagues and I are arranging sessions that explore aspects of devil belief & their consequences in any historical period, w/ any geographical focus. Please get in touch with @devilprof.bsky.social if you have questions!

Join us for the online launch of a special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension.' Expertly edited by @giudifontana.bsky.social with some great articles by @elisabethking.bsky.social @laiabalcells.bsky.social and many others! 4 Sept, 9am EST

📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR 27(3) 'Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems' by Allison McCulloch. 🔗: buff.ly/tLIXZEz @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Announcing a call for applications for the Spring 2026 POMEPS Virtual Research Workshops! The deadline to apply is October 15, 2025. For more information on how to apply, visit: pomeps.org/call-for-app...

This Labour Day, the CAUT Journal is proud to release its newest issue, Seeing Equity as Labour Justice. As stated in its introduction: “As our academic union struggles have repeatedly shown, equity gains are collective gains, benefiting all of us in the long run.” Read more: journal.caut.ca

In his recent article, just attributed to the latest issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, PhD candidate Alexandre Raffoul explores conceptual issues in the typology of ethnic power-sharing – and proposes ways to "reassemble" the framework more productively: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity of @ipsa.org will be organising a colloquium hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026. See the RC14 website for further details. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...

L'APPUSB a déjà récolté plus de 200 signatures.  Avez-vous envoyé votre lettre ? Deux minutes suffisent:  https://f.mtr.cool/qgadwknnxc –––– ––– –––  APPUSB has collected over 200 signatures.  Have you sent your letter? It only takes two minutes:  https://f.mtr.cool/qynsahohxd

On 4 September, join @giudifontana.bsky.social and some of the authors of articles from the new special issue of @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension' for an online event launching the issue. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gove...

Dalhousie faculty association facing imminent lockout. “Academic staff from across the country are watching closely and will be fully supporting the @dalfaculty.bsky.social and its members.” Read more: www.caut.ca/news/dalhous...

Professors are calling on Manitoba’s only French-language university to take their input on campus issues more seriously, and put that pledge in writing.

As of today, 19,892 square kms of Manitoba has burned this wildfire season. That’s 3.6% of Manitoba’s land mass. For context, that area is equivalent to burning the entire land mass of New Jersey.

With Syria's minorities allying to demand decentralisation, tensions continue over how to balance local autonomy with the need to preserve national unity 👇

I think a lot of people continue to operate in, theorize and conduct analysis about a world that no longer exists.

As of today, 3% of Manitoba’s land mass has burned this fire season. The total burn this wildfire season in this province is 16,735 square kilometres. That’s equivalent to three Prince Edward Islands.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Starvation is also being used as a weapon of war in Sudan. Famine and death is on the rise and largely absent from the media. news.un.org/en/story/202...

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

BREAKING: The number of Palestinians who have died from Israeli-induced starvation in Gaza has risen to 147 people, including 88 children, says Gaza's health ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ym2wr7

BREAKING: Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip says five people in Gaza have died due to famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/610v30

“Demonism served not just as a useful frame for the assimilation and comprehension of difference, it was the filter through which to process their observations and experience.” A brilliant book.

BBC NEWS / AFP / BBC NEWS / REUTERS JOINT STATEMENT: “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. "They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "

The International Court of Justice -- the UN's top court -- on Wednesday described climate change as an "urgent and existential threat", as it handed down a landmark ruling on the legal obligations of countries to prevent it ➡️ u.afp.com/Sg55