Final reminder! Political scientists in the southeast, submit your paper to SoWEPS to get great feedback and hang out in New Orleans on 11/7! We match you with a discussant and everyone reads ahead. Submissions due TOMORROW 9/19: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #polisky

Happy to share my new article, "Brokering #Localization: Country-based Pooled Funds in Humanitarian Assistance," out in @journalpad.bsky.social. If you're interested in #intermediaries, #PooledFunds, #localization or #brokerage read it open access here! doi.org/10.1002/pad.... 1/3

Book launch event! Please join me and Sigrid Quack on September 3 for a discussion of our edited volume, A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics (Oxford University Press). See the book here: academic.oup.com/book/59913?l... Event details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-relation...

Insightful and important piece on the rise and fall of NGOs by @sarahbush.bsky.social and @jenniferhadden.bsky.social. Sobering analysis of the factors that have led to the waning power of civil society worldwide.

“They bombed us. They shot many people. Some fled and others died.” In South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, civilians recount army airstrikes and mass displacement as a long-flawed peace deal collapses. ⬇️

✨ Finally out - thanks to Maryam and Sigrid! Great pleasure to be part of this collaborative project and see the edited volume "A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition" available open access ✨ My chapter: academic.oup.com/book/59913/c...

Will do a proper thread soon but thank you to @ninareiners.bsky.social @george3mitchell.bsky.social @hanspeterschmitz.bsky.social and so many others for their important contributions and for going with the flow as we worked on this volume together!

Happy to share that our book is out! A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition (OUP) theorizes NGOs through their relations to understand their power & effects in global politics. TY to all contributing authors! Open access! academic.oup.com/book/59913

Typically, the US would have deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) by now as it did in Syria/Turkey. This would include search & rescue teams, heavy machinery to remove rubble & emergency shelter & healthcare. China & India deployed SAR teams on Sat. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/w...

You might know him for his work on climate change but @busbyj2.bsky.social wrote the book on how PEPFAR became a life-saving reality.

We now have an issue "The Politics of Child and Youth Representation in Global Governance: Confronting International Institutions" tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/2... . Look at novel contributions on #youth as governance tool, #children's exclusion from politics and #activism strategies 👇

Bilan, dégâts, aide internationale : ce que l'on sait du séisme en Birmanie et Thaïlande

As the full extent of the damage and official casualty figures begin to emerge following the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar, Myanmar Red Cross teams are racing against time to provide critical support.

Noelle waves hi 👋 Still looking for an adopter (or even a new foster in the DC area)

Congratulations, Alvina! This is a terrific article that examines how personal and professional biographies shape the ability of these actors to connect, translate between, and lead in and across several professions. It offers important insights on how global governance is mobilized. #RelationalIR

Take a look at this opinion piece I just published with @apaczynska.bsky.social on the complexities of accountability for international cooperation and US foreign aid thehill.com/opinion/inte...

Are you a medical practitioner with at least two years of clinical work experience, anywhere in the world, interested in becoming a humanitarian aid worker? Admissions to MSF's Global Health & Humanitarian Medicine (GHHM) course are now open, until April 21, 2025. Course fees are lower for LMICs!

This is Turbo. He hopped everywhere as a puppy and still does as an adult. Because happy hops are not a phase, they are a lifestyle. 13/10 (IG: corgiturbopaws)

Humanitarian aid is under attack. But where are the attacks coming from? In this short piece, I argue that one should distinguish between two different critiques of humanitarian aid. Progressive (Marxist, decolonial, feminist..) critiques on the one hand, and far-right critiques on the other.

As scholars who study humanitarian aid, Korbel Prof @chenr.bsky.social and GW Prof @mzdeloffre.bsky.social, write that we are seeing not just a crisis of funding, but also one that jeopardizes the credibility of the entire global system that provides this lifesaving assistance.

Informative analysis of the structural issues in the humanitarian sector & why the UN & big NGOs shouldn't dominate reforms. IMO the main pathway to reform is "Establish an independent functional review of the system" a system wide, joint eval post-Rwanda is what led to major reforms in the 90s. 🧵

BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

This is Elly. She was wondering if that lap was taken, and if she could perhaps sit on it. Promises she won't take up too much space. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: elly___1206)

Informative piece that covers a number of important points about humanitarian aid. The links show the human consequences of the US' drastic cuts as well as the broader context, which includes many European donors also cutting aid.

@mzdeloffre.bsky.social (GWU) and Chen Reis (University of Denver) published, Defending humanitarian aid in terms of national security obscures its real purpose, in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/defending-hu...

Chen Reis and I argue in this article that the humanitarian sector is facing both a crisis of funding and of credibility. In adopting economic and national security arguments to justify aid, humanitarians weaken the moral rationale for aid-saving lives is enough. theconversation.com/defending-hu...

The world's worst humanitarian crisis today is in Sudan, facing famine and atrocities that the US has already concluded are genocide. Sudanese refugees crossing the border told me what's happening--and meanwhile, the US is aggravating the crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...

Cuts to French higher ed? They're on strike.

« Chômage technique » à l’Ecole de science politique de la #Sorbonne

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

This is Dixie. She's only sticking her tongue out to give you a convenient place to put treats. It's called being considerate. 12/10

This is Beau. He figured out how to rock back and forth all by himself. No human required. 14/10 a self-sufficient king

This is Bodhi. He's just gonna give you his car keys right now. 12/10 (IG: bodhi__boyy)

"UN aid agencies believe the questionnaire misunderstands their core principles of neutrality & impartiality-that people suffering b/c of war or natural disaster should be helped regardless of political beliefs & aid should not be used as a tool to strengthen one nation." www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is a devastating read

This is truly heartbreaking.

@justsand.bsky.social and I try to answer the question: how many lives saved by US foreign assistance each year. Best estimate: 3.3 million. www.cgdev.org/blog/how-man...

Nick Kristof travelled to South Sudan to see if people are dying because of the US' cuts to foreign aid. They are. He tells their stories. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Dems still haven't figured out why they lose elections. They'll keep losing until they figure out it's not about elections.

🗣️ Famine warning, needs assessments, health data: Humanitarian action will be groping in the dark if vital data sources are allowed to crumble.

Laura Sjoberg and I are honoured to be hosting the brilliant @hmkinsella.bsky.social as Oxford's Astor Lecturer in @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Tickets for Kinsella's Astor Lecture on the United States and Civilian Harm on May 2 available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-mer...

Choosing to find joy today. Our book is out in a month & has a cover! A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics, OUP The shock to civil society brought on by funding freezes makes our approach to understanding relational power & its effects more relevant global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Definitely need this 🐶🐾

Achievement (?) unlocked…

You have to admit, it takes a lot of skill to get the Quakers, Jesuits, and Canadians mad at you.

Vous vous rappelez à Calais, quand des gens prenaient 135€ d’amende pour distribution illégale d’eau et de nourriture ? Et bien l’Etat a été condamné, et c’est une excellente nouvelle. Je racontais ces verbalisations ubuesques dans les ASH. www.ash.tm.fr/societe/cala...

In discussions of the impact of USAID's destruction, something I haven't seen mentioned is the chilling effect on civil society working on politically sensitive topics in aid-receiving countries. In the past, USAID's partners enjoyed an umbrella of protection. That's now done... (1/n)

And because everything feels relevant and timely, I was lucky enough to attend a conversation on the new ICRC report on challenges for IHL. You can download it for free here: shop.icrc.org/internationa... a few key points from the presentation -

There is way more protest happening than is easy to observe because media are totally preoccupied with WH. Many are sounding alarms. But the establishment is generally unwilling to acknowledge & absorb that backsliding is happening. They think his policies will fail and they have faith in midterms.