Sidita Kushi

Finally arrived at #APSA2025, and look what I found: a certain book in very good company and some glorious mountains. All before my 10 AM panel :) Then afterwards, I found the pièce de résistance: byrek.

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🔖My new book is officially out!✨Through statistical, archival, and content analysis approaches, it investigates the regional selectivity gap inherent in the humanitarian military intervention phenomenon in the post-Cold War era.

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"From Kosovo to Darfur" by Sidita Kushi is now available! Kushi explores the past, present, and future of military humanitarianism in this #OpenAccess title. Start reading: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

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Thrilled to see our article "Unipolarity and the increasing frequency of US military intervention" out in the latest issue of International Affairs today!

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With summer in full swing, we have launched our July issue today!☀️

🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific
🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more
💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance
📚 24 book reviews

Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4

It's the best time of year: UMP's Spring Sale! Get 50% off all of our books using code SPRING25 all month long. Start shopping here: press.umich.edu

Wait, there's now a 50% discount from the press by using the code: SPRING25. Happy Spring, everyone!

My book, From Kosovo to Darfur, comes out on July 7, 2025, with University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social

🌍Why do powerful global actors intervene under humanitarian mandates in some humanitarian crises but ignore others?

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Declaration of military alliance between Kosovo, Albania and Croatia signed Kosovo, Albania and Croatia will sign the Trilateral Declaration in Tirana on Tuesday with the aim of strengthening trilateral cooperation between the countries, while in

This trilateral declaration between Albania, Kosovo, and Croatia is an important step for the Balkans. Bulgaria has also been invited to join, it seems.

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R2P for Me but not for Thee The Fletcher Forum Podcast · Episode

If you'd like to learn more about the book's themes and arguments, check out this podcast episode via the Fletcher Forum where I discuss the tensions between sovereignty and human rights: open.spotify.com/episode/0tIF...

From Kosovo to Darfur Why are some violent crises more likely to prompt humanitarian military interventions than others? Conventional wisdom says that humanitarian military interventions occur due to national interests, sh...

My new book has a cover - a photo taken by a Kosovar journalist of sisters leisurely strolling by a Serbian war tank in post-conflict Kosovo.

Consider pre-ordering from the publisher's website or your favorite bookstore. From Kosovo to Darfur comes out in July 2025! press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...

Worth spelling out why these high-level US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia are a bad idea (though not clear who from RU will meet with Rubio et al). Thread: 🧵 1/

Screenshot from my backup ForeignAssistance dot gov site, with links to different USAID datasets

Screenshot from a live map that uses data from the backup API

Screenshot of foreign aid by country

The data at USAID's ForeignAssistance dot gov was removed over the weekend, but it seems to be back (for now). As a backup, I've uploaded the data both as static CSV files and a queryable API

- Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis...
- API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com

As someone from the Balkans I regret to inform you that the tolerance of the average public for being utterly brutalized by their government(s) for the most fantastical and asinine reasons is far greater than you may anticipate. Sectarianism is a hell of a drug, alas.

If only there were a word for cutting off and illegally replacing the head of executive authority in a regime.

Tracking federal expenditures in real time - The Hamilton Project This tool will update daily at 4 p.m. ET on weekdays, excluding federal holidays. Weekly data will update once the previous full week’s data are complete.  On January 27, the Trump administration orde...

The Hamilton Project at @brookings.edu has published a daily federal outlay tracker, showing whether agencies & federal projects are being funded. Something that in the past would have been overkill & in the weeds, but in the current moment feels essential. www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...

A reminder that on this site folks may be aware that Trump got basically nothing new or substantive from Mexico or Canada but over on the other place, and out in parts of the real world, the GOP are successfully and ruthlessly spinning these as wins. They are messaging masters, Dems aren’t. Sorry 🤷🏽‍♂️

Project 2025 Was Inside Us All Along “New year, new you,” they say. Well, Project 2025 is going to make what’s new actually really fucking old. Like listeria- and child labor-old. The ...

"We’re abandoning all pretense that society and government provide tangible benefits so you can be free to pick your favorite Hobbesian adjective and return to the animal state that best suits your solitary brutishness."

“The Albanians have been born to resist and disobey.” - Dursam Bey, the second siege of Kruja.

Here's to the thousands of years of Albanian resistance and disobedience that led us to this day. And to many thousands more, should the fates require it.

Happy Albanian Independence Day! 🇦🇱 🇽🇰 ❤

A rainy Saturday filled with grading deserves a little pastry magic 🪄 🧁

Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.

🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

types of IR paper

Anything missing? #IRsky

And a panel on military intervention on Saturday at noon. #APSA2024

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AI is just three trillion logistic regressions in a trench coat.

Grateful to be the 2024 Distinguished Faculty Research Award recipient. I'm so lucky to work alongside such innovative, kind, and productive scholars and educators at BSU:
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Grateful to be part of such an epic PoliSci department and ultra-supportive academic community at BSU! 😊