Srinjoy Bose

Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation.

Absolutely shameful.

Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban

Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation.

We're talking upwards of 250k Afghans here.

Excited to share a new open-access article with @benckrick.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social, "Civilian Harm & Military Legitimacy" www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... This project started in 2018 Mosul, Iraq’s 2nd largest city, in the aftermath of a 9-month battle … 1/7

Does higher state capacity go together with lower risk of democratic breakdown? Many political scientists certainly believe so!

Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.

Understanding Change in Non-State Armed Group Behaviour: Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico Unlike other studies of non-state armed groups (NSAGs) that draw significance from the perspective of the state or international security, this article focuses on the perspective and agency of the ...

🚨New publication alert!🚨

Co-authored paper on Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico is out w/ @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social. Henry Nott & I trace the actions of the Zapatistas to changes in the behaviour of the EZLN (generating transformations in governance).

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired

Harvard: *we hired you to absolve us, not to reveal the truth!*

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

Iraq 2003, Iran 2025. The same playbook. And don't forget Netanyahu's role, back then, in encouraging G.W. Bush to invade either.

Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad American foreign policy in an age of unrestrained executive power.

No better time than now to catch up on @profsaunders.bsky.social's sobering new essay on the imperial presidency and personalist rule, American-style

Example of what happens when a mainstream economist discovers structural inequality (without 'discovering' the theories to explain it): very impressive empirical documentation of it + completely out-of-touch assumptions about how to fix it (taxation, cheap debt, human capital).

Youth Protest Movements in Afghanistan The youth-led protest movements that emerged after the 2014 Afghan presidential election added a new dynamic to Afghan politics. Motivated primarily by widespread perceptions of injustice, exclusion a...

Since the USIP website was taken down some months ago, many have requested access to a report my colleagues and I wrote on Youth Protest movements in Afghanistan. Now that the USIP is back (yay!), I'm posting the report here. www.usip.org/publications...

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]

Informed by the findings and avenues for further research, in two follow-on studies, we examine (a) how sex, gender role, and race shape public perceptions of the legitimacy of drone strikes, and (b) dehumanization and public support for emerging technologies. 4/4

We found that Americans (a) may interpret location as a proxy for race, (b) w/ racist worldviews are more likely to support drone strikes regardless of skin colour & location, & (c) draw on many considerations in forming their attitudes of support for strikes, which aren't reducible to race. 3/4

We fielded a couple of image-based experiments to examine the effect of target's location & skin colour in shaping public preferences for strikes. 2/4

Racial Bias and Public Support for US Drone Strikes Critics argue that public support for US drone strikes is racially biased. We assess this claim by fielding two separate image-based survey experiments among representative samples of Americans. Th...

🚨New publication alert!🚨

Paul Lushenko, Keith Carter & I write about racial bias & public support for US drone strikes in Security Studies journal. 1/4

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Birth of Democracy in South America Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - The Birth of Democracy in South America

"One of the best books I've read on Latin America, and it is the best comparative analysis I've read of the origins of democracy"

The Birth of Democracy in South America by Raúl L. Madrid, coming soon in #OpenAccess

#Politics #BookSky #LatinAmericanPolitics

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From our new issue: "Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the 'Democratic' Peace in Public Opinion" by Brian Rathbun, Christopher Parker, and Caleb Pomeroy. #APSRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gen. Gwyn Jenkins rejected UK visa applications from Afghan commandos at a time when they could have been called as witnesses for an investigation into war crimes by UK troops.

"Some of those denied visas were subsequently tortured and killed by the Taliban".

DHS to end deportation protections for Afghanistan The protections were offered by the Biden administration after the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and deteriorating conditions under the Taliban.

Afrikaners are welcome, but Afghans are not:

Noem will revoke Afghans' temporary protected status on 12 July, saying that there are "notable improvements" in Afghanistan's security and economy (which is crazy)

9,000 Afghans will now be deported back into Taliban hands, just an absolute betrayal

Just published on APSR First View: "Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The 'Marxist Paradox'" by Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social and Stathis Kalyvas. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨#OCIS2025 prelim program is now published🚨

A stellar program of topics & speakers. ocis.org.au/program/

If you haven't registered yet, pls do! Registrations close 12 May.

A black and cream book cover for DAPAAN showing a sketched, black and white image of a Kashmiri neighbourhood featuring houses along a river.

Out now 🔖 Dapaan is a haunting and probing book by @psemolina3.bsky.social drawing on interviews with ordinary Kashmiris about the impact of insurgency & repression on their homes & communities. ‘A beautifully written elegy to Kashmir’ - Myra MacDonald
25% off w/code DAPAAN25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdfvwfzn

I'm excited to share that my book, Rebels in the Field, will be coming out with Oxford University Press this summer. The book focuses on the military processes involved in deploying force in substate conflicts.

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We find that civilian engagement forced the EZLN to refocus their initially violent goals and policies around indigenous preferences, especially autonomy from the state, introduce governance reforms, and change the level of political engagement with the Mexican government.

Understanding Change in Non-State Armed Group Behaviour: Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico Unlike other studies of non-state armed groups (NSAGs) that draw significance from the perspective of the state or international security, this article focuses on the perspective and agency of the ...

🚨New publication alert!🚨

Co-authored paper on Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico is out w/ @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social. Henry Nott & I trace the actions of the Zapatistas to changes in the behaviour of the EZLN (generating transformations in governance).

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trump administration ends temporary protected status for thousands of Afghans As soon as May 20, thousands of Afghans living in the U.S. will lose a protection that shielded them from deportation and allowed them to work.

Afghan women in the U.S. are going to be deported back into the arms of the Taliban. This is monstrous.

www.npr.org/2025/04/11/g...

Liberal candidate co-authored inquiry submission suggesting Hazaras not persecuted for ethnicity in Afghanistan Exclusive: Zahid Safi, who is running in Melbourne seat of Bruce, listed as last author on 2021 Senate submission which says victims of Afghanistan war ‘not based on ethnicity’

Sadly, such spurious & dubious views are common. Back in 2021, several Afghanistan experts offered more considered analysis of the dangers of politicide & genocide (of vulnerable groups) in Senate submissions & elsewhere (e.g., www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nB0...)

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

🚨#OCIS2025 early bird registrations extended🚨

If you're presenting / participating at #OCIS2025, early bird registrations have been extended to 12 May.

We also plan to release the program soon. Stay tuned!

ocis.org.au/registration/

IDF courts Australian universities amid anti-war protests - Michael West Hundreds of university staff and students in Melbourne and Sydney called on events to support Israel and its defence forces to be cancelled.

Australia's universities held IDF propaganda events in Melb and Sydney this week, shunned peace protestors
@wendybacon1.bsky.social & @yaakov-aharon.bsky.social report
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/idf-courts-a...

Millions of Afghans lose access to healthcare services as USAID cuts shut clinics Fears of surge in malnutrition, measles, malaria and polio as 206 World Health Organization facilities forced to close

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crime

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...