The cover of The Journal of Global Security Studies appears on the left. Along the bottom, the journal’s homepage (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) are displayed in white text against a navy-blue background. The main image features a greyscale photograph of people walking in protest on a city street, overlaid with the article title and author: “Navigating Violence Between Surface and Below: Effect of Protester Reaction to Violent Flanks on Mobilization” by Hansol Kwak.
🧐 How do nonviolent protesters’ reactions to violent groups affect mobilization in unarmed movements?
Hansol Kwak finds it depends on the gap between how united a movement appears from the outside and how cohesive it really is on the inside.
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
31.10.2025 13:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities 🌟https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPi1H_Ilps&t=2s
MJ Bosia ExDir Dr Skyler Hawkins Audie Klotz @julietdryden.bsky.social @chrisfeathers.bsky.social International Studies Association
27.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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⏳ One day left! ⏳ Register & confirm your participation today to remain on the #ISA2026 program. Visit buff.ly/x8FfSZ2 and complete yours today!
23.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 0 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)
Interview with James Pattison and Ulrich Petersohn | Journal of Global Security Studies
Watch the interview with #JOGSS editors @jamespattison.bsky.social & Ulrich Petersohn!
JOGSS welcomes novel research on global security
📝 No fixed reference style at submission
📚 Bibliography excluded from word count
⚡ Quick turnaround
🤝 Pre-submission exchange
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6oe...
09.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)
Interview with James Pattison and Ulrich Petersohn | Journal of Global Security Studies
Watch the interview with #JOGSS editors @jamespattison.bsky.social & Ulrich Petersohn!
JOGSS welcomes novel research on global security
📝 No fixed reference style at submission
📚 Bibliography excluded from word count
⚡ Quick turnaround
🤝 Pre-submission exchange
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6oe...
09.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
At the bottom of the image, the journal’s homepage URL (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and its Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) appear in white text against a navy-blue background. The main background features a photograph of the MONUSCO gate, framed by barbed wire and stone walls.A small image of the International Affairs journal cover is also included. Overlaid on the background are the article title “All Means Necessary? Local Legitimacy of Peacekeepers' Use of Force for Civilian Protection in Haiti and the DRC” and the author’s name, Birte Julia Gippert.
📰 New research from our editorial team!
How does peacekeepers’ use of force affect their local legitimacy?
@birtegippert.bsky.social finds that both the ends and the means of using force shape how local communities perceive peacekeepers.
📘 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
08.10.2025 11:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The preliminary program for #ISA2026 has been released. Visit buff.ly/JaoFN9h to check it out! Register by 10/24 to remain in the program.
06.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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⏰ #ISAVirtual2025 session recordings expire this Friday. Register today to access conference content before it's too late! buff.ly/KYo8qMp
06.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
At the bottom of the image, the journal’s homepage URL (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and its Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) are displayed in white text on a navy blue background. The main background shows Scrabble tiles spelling out the word war on a wooden table. A small image of Sage Research Methods also appears. Overlaid on the background are the article title, “The Use of Triadic Unit of Analysis in the Study of Cooperation Between States and Nonstate Armed Groups (NAGs),” and the author’s name, Belgin San-Akca.
🔍 Curious about the latest research from our editorial team?
Dive into Belgin San-Akca’s work exploring how the triadic unit of analysis uncover complex dynamics between Nonstate Armed Groups, their target states, and foreign supporters.
📘 Read more: methods.sagepub.com/case/triadic...
06.10.2025 11:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New article out by Stephen McLoughlin, @profbode.bsky.social and me 🎉
On the practice of early warning of mass atrocities by practitioners in the UN Secretariat and has important findings on the limitations of current early warning practices. This project was funded by the The British Academy.
01.10.2025 21:22 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
7/7 The Liminal Figure of the Civilian and the Necropolitics of Protection, by @mgdoucet.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
03.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
6/7 Failure through Consensus Building: Rethinking the Normative Status of the Responsibility to Protect in a Pluralist Global Order, by Samuel Jarvis
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
03.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
5/7 When Do States Repatriate Refugees? Evidence from the Middle East, by Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek and @tsourapas.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
03.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
4/7 What Happens to Peace When the Process is Stalled: Competing International Approaches to the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, 1996–2021, by Lior Lehrs, Dror K. Markus, @miodownik.bsky.social, Tamir Sheafer and Shaul R. Shenhav
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
03.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
3/7 Mediated Audience Costs: Jordan–Israeli Diplomacy before the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, by @matthewcebul.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
03.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
2/7 Tying the Hands of Militants: Civilian Targeting and Societal Pressures in the Provisional IRA and Palestinian Hamas, by @risabrooks12.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
03.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1/7 Annexation Attempts as a Two-Level Game: Israel and the West Bank in 1967 and 2020, by Rob Geist Pinfold and Ehud Eiran
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
03.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Here is a selected list of articles published in #JOGSS that may help you better understand the situation in #Gaza analytically:
03.10.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
On the left is the cover of The Journal of Global Security Studies. Along the bottom, the journal’s homepage (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) are shown in white text on a navy-blue background. The main image features the shadow of a hand holding a key on a wall, overlaid with the article title and author: “Strategies of Critique in Vernacular Security Discourse” by Lee Jarvis.
🔍 Interest in vernacular security is on the rise, yet it remains under-theorised.
📚 @leejarvis.bsky.social addresses this gap with a new typology of critiques found in below-the-line commentary on extremism politics.
👉 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
30.09.2025 11:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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25.09.2025 18:03 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Featuring @jessgifkins.bsky.social, Stephen McLoughlin and @profbode.bsky.social
25.09.2025 11:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On the left, the cover of The Journal of Global Security Studies is displayed. Along the bottom, the journal’s homepage (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) appear in white text against a navy-blue background. The main image shows flags of countries in front of the United Nations Office at Geneva, overlaid with the article title and authors: ‘Never Again? Mass Atrocity Early Warning Practices in the UN Secretariat’ by Jess Gifkins, Stephen McLoughlin, and Ingvild Bode.
🤔 Why does the UN Secretariat struggle to act on early warnings?
A new #JOGSS article shows how diverging standards of ‘competent’ practices across different communities of practice (CoPs) create tensions and performance gaps
🔗 Available open access: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
25.09.2025 11:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
The cover of The Journal of Global Security Studies appears on the left. Along the bottom, the journal’s homepage (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) are displayed in white text against a navy-blue background. The main image features a close-up of a globe, overlaid with the article title and authors: “Has Globalization Reduced Worldwide Terrorist Attacks?” by Gary LaFree and Bo Jiang.
🚨 New Article Alert!
Has globalisation reduced worldwide terrorist attacks? New research by Gary LaFree & Bo Jiang says yes.
📊 Systematic analysis of 143 countries (1970–2018) shows high levels of globalization are linked with low rates of terrorist attacks.
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
19.09.2025 10:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of The Journal of Global Security Studies appears on the left. Along the bottom, the journal’s homepage (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) are shown in white text on a navy-blue background. The main image depicts a hand casting a vote, overlaid with the article title and author: “Voting for Violence: Security Vacuums and Armed Party Support” by Mary Beth Altier.
🗳️ How do armed groups win votes in democracies?
📖 @marybethaltier.bsky.social’s research shows they thrive in security vacuums – when people see the state as unable (or unwilling) to protect them, and turn instead to alternative sources of governance.
🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
17.09.2025 09:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🌍 Calling international scholars! #ISAGlobal runs March 4–6, 2026 - ahead of #ISA2026. This exclusive pre-conference opportunity is for scholars based outside the U.S. (Note: Domestic travelers not eligible.)
Expect dynamic conversations & global perspectives.. More info coming soon!
12.09.2025 18:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of The Journal of Global Security Studies appears on the left. Along the bottom, the journal’s homepage (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) are shown in white text on a navy-blue background. The main image depicts a hand casting a vote, overlaid with the article title and author: “Voting for Violence: Security Vacuums and Armed Party Support” by Mary Beth Altier.
🗳️ How do armed groups win votes in democracies?
📖 @marybethaltier.bsky.social’s research shows they thrive in security vacuums – when people see the state as unable (or unwilling) to protect them, and turn instead to alternative sources of governance.
🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
17.09.2025 09:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The cover image of The Journal of Global Security Studies appears on the left. At the bottom, the journal’s homepage URL (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) are displayed in white text against a navy-blue background. The rest of the image shows a grayscale photo of an explosion on the beach. Overlaid on this are the article title and author’s name: “Ready to Fire? Missile Tests and Crisis Involvement” by Cem Birol.
The possession of a sophisticated weapon does not automatically grant a country a military advantage over its enemy. 🚀
Cem Birol’s new research shows that what matters more is how often the weapon is test-fired.
🔓 Available open access: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
11.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The cover image of The Journal of Global Security Studies appears on the left. At the bottom, the journal’s homepage URL (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) are displayed in white text against a navy blue background. The rest of the image shows a plane in the blue sky. Overlaid on this are the article title and authors’ names: “Major Power Wannabe: Military Modernization, Status Signaling, and Indonesia’s Foreign Policy under Yudhoyono and Widodo” by Mohamad Rosyidin and Indra Kusumawardhana.
🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨
Check out Mohamad Rosyidin & Indra Kusumawardhana’s research on how status signalling and the drive to project major power status shape Indonesia’s military modernisation.
🔍 Available here: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
05.09.2025 12:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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