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🧵 THREAD: What the leaked Alaska summit documents really reveal (excellent scoop by @NPR) 1/

NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.

Interested in different theories and conceptualization of #populism? Here are lectures by some of the leading scholars in the field, given in the context of our MSCA doctoral network @ideopop.bsky.social

Russia and Ukraine Are Both Still in This War for the Long Haul With Operation Spiderweb, Ukraine demonstrated it has a lot of fight left. All that means is that the war is set to rage on.

The return of 🧵s!

Each weekend during the summer, I'll post (exclusively on Bluesky) a 🧵 "lecture" that uses my @wpr.bsky.social column to teach about some international relations concept.

Let's start with what can learn in this week's column!

We argue for @wpr.bsky.social that India's 'new normal' vis-a-vis Pakistan is both imprudent and dangerous that raises the stakes of the conflict without proportional benefits.

#SouthAsia #IndiaPakistan
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My chart of subjective conflict risks in South Asia over the last 40 years or so.

🚨 New book out! 🎉
Thrilled to share Gender and Diplomacy: Critical Junctures, Innovations & Future Research Directions, co-edited with @EliseInTheWoods
Exploring how gender, race & power are reshaping diplomacy.
📖 t.co/09HVZquuCX

#Gender #Diplomacy #IR #FeministIR

NPP Sweeps Sri Lanka’s Local Elections, But Vote Share Plummets Different issues determine electoral choices in national and local government elections.

To understand the May 6 election results, one must examine how Sri Lankans vote in local polls.

Both sides have reached the sweet spot to claim victory and de-escalate the situation.

As India and China square up in Afghanistan, the Taliban is set to win In a meeting that signalled an upgrade in India’s dealings with the Taliban, India’s foreign secretary, Vikram Misri, met with Afghanistan’s acting foreign mini

As China increasingly engages the Taliban, it is creating pressures within New Delhi to formulate a viable Afghanistan policy for India that does not cede more space to China, write rishabhyadav.bsky.social and Muneeb Yousuf:

We now have:
- NYT citing an Indian official on three downed planes
- Reuters citing local gov't sources on three crashed jets, pilots in hospital
- The Hindu citing an Indian gov't official saying at least three crashed jets
These would represent heavy losses for the Indian air force.

Constructing State Identity and Changing Foreign Policy of the Maldives Toward India How does one explain the foreign policy behavior of South Asia’s small states? The conventional scholarship drawing from structural realism argues that the presence of China allows them to balance ...

#PublicationAlert: How do small states conduct foreign policy? In this article, I argue that #Maldives' foreign policy towards #India is rooted in contested ideas of identity and state-building processes.

#SmallStates #SouthAsia #China #SouthAsianSky

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

Like #China, #India’s primary objectives in #Afghanistan are driven by security. New Delhi wants a friendly government in Kabul that denies #Pakistan “strategic depth” in case of an India–Pakistan armed conflict, write Muneeb Yousuf and rishabhyadav.bsky.social

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As India and China square up in Afghanistan, the Taliban is set to win In a meeting that signalled an upgrade in India’s dealings with the Taliban, India’s foreign secretary, Vikram Misri, met with Afghanistan’s acting foreign mini

Muneeb and I write for @himalmag.bsky.social that India and China's engagement in #Afghanistan is becoming a geopolitical competition for influence and regional primacy, forcing New Delhi to calibrate its Afghan policy.

#southasia

www.himalmag.com/politics/afg...

As India and China square up in Afghanistan, the Taliban is set to win In a meeting that signalled an upgrade in India’s dealings with the Taliban, India’s foreign secretary, Vikram Misri, met with Afghanistan’s acting foreign mini

As China increasingly engages the Taliban, it is creating pressures within New Delhi to formulate a viable #Afghanistan policy for India that does not cede more space to China, write Muneeb Yousuf and rishabhyadav.bsky.social

In today’s @hindustan-times.bsky.social, a piece on the Supreme Court’s free speech judgment in the Imran Pratapgarhi case, and how it should inform the courts’ approach in other, ongoing free speech cases.

How the Supreme Court spoke out for free speech —

www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/how-...

Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.

Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

If you are an Indian national or NRI or OCI with some pull in Indian media and any degree of interest in protecting vulnerable Indian nationals in the US, please get in touch. We have work to do and I need to coordinate help.

The US is pushing hard for more agricultural imports in India. The problem is agriculture is a huge employer in India and it's not easy to imagine the already stressed Indian labor market finding new jobs for displaced farmers.

The wait for justice for Nimalarajan Mylvaganam, murdered Jaffna journalist The Sri Lankan Tamil journalist Nimalarajan Mylvaganam, called “the voice of Jaffna” and known for his critical reporting on government-linked paramilitary groups, was shot dead in his home in 2000.…

25 years later, Nimalarajan's sister Nimalarani Mylvaganam clings to hope that a new government will finally act to break the cycle of impunity for crimes against journalists. Saroj Pathirana on February 2025

State-sanctioned Demolitions In Palestine And India Despite different historical contexts and scales of demolitions by Israel and India, the similar nature of discriminatory and targeted demolitions mandates a comparison

A comparison between state-sanctioned demolition in Palestine and India.

#SouthAsia #India #Palestine #Southasiasky

www.thepolisproject.com/research/sta...

Front cover of Amar Bari, Tomar Bari, Naxalbari by Sumit Kumar

Back in stock in our webstore -- Sumit Kumar's fantastic Hinglish comic history of the Naxalite insurgency. Not quite like any other graphic novel we've ever read.

www.blaft.com/collections/...

"The removal or destruction of Muslim architecture, in this understanding, performs the dual role of righting perceived historical wrongs and removing the evidence of Muslim contributions and claims to Indian history" writes Bilal Ahmad.

#SouthAsiasky

frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/b...

KKK distributes flyers in Kentucky telling immigrants to ‘leave now’ Documents, including phone number and invitation to ‘join us’, distributed same day Trump took office

How far-right victories can normalize right-wing extremism, take 112874

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I review Avinash Paliwal's India's Near East: A New History for India Quarterly.

#southasiansky

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hindu Nationalists Were Not More Favourable to Ambedkar Than Congress, History Shows In fact, Hindu nationalists attacked Ambedkar repeatedly over his attempts to emancipate the Dalits from the caste system.

thewire.in/history/hind...

Interesting set of panel on Pakistan's music and fashion sensibilities at the first Annual Pakistan Conclave in Pondicherry University, India.
#southasiasky #Pakistan

At The Other Place, in February 2020, I wrote a thread about doing research in India. In my ten years on that platform, these were the tweets that received the most engagement. I want that thread to live on and continue helping folks.

#Research #ResearchIndia #ResearchSouthAsia #Skystorians