Srinjoy Bose

Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told Whistleblower says chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of children, after alarm was raised

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I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades.

transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

🚨 My article, with Jessica Wolfendale and Chris Elliott, is now available (open access) with @risjnl.bsky.social.

We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read!
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How former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa ended up being welcomed to the White House Ahmed al-Sharaa has become the first Syrian leader in history to be invited to the White House.

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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

New Yorker article very much worth reading: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?

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Haha. Watching the frantic meltdown is entertaining. And, goat is delish!

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

"And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires.... An entire history across Palestine of Israeli impunity and dominion, one of repetitive ethnic cleansing, military rule, expansion of settlements...is erased, again." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine An interview with Adam Przeworski.

It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

LMAO. Sums up Klein - his (feigned) intellect, gaslighting, and the deep rot at the centre of his worldview and politics.

How a lawless war overseas came home to the US Crime and Impunity in the Special Forces

Mathieu Aikins on his 4-part series in the NYT today (totalling 25,000 words of investigative reporting) on crime and impunity in the US Special Forces and its domestic blowback now.

He provides gift links for all four articles.

mattaikins.substack.com/p/how-a-lawl...

Honoured to have contributed 2 chapters - "Exiting Afghanistan: Presidential Narratives, US Exceptionalism, and 'Othering' Afghans" and "Statebuilding in Afghanistan: a State-Society Relational Approach" - to this volume, which features sharp analyses by some of the foremost experts on Afghanistan.

Thrilled & honoured to join @austjia.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. I look forward to working w/ a stellar team led by @joannewallis.bsky.social & @timlegrand.bsky.social, & helping the journal cement its growing global reputation.

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
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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

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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...