For more on the history of federal government shutdowns (8 in Reagan's two terms alone! and 14 total since 1981), their duration, and government control by party, see this excellent graphic and @cnn.com article🗃️ www.cnn.com/politics/lon...
02.10.2025 21:22 — 👍 17 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Ahmed Jibril on the Islamic Revolution in Iran:
"... we recognized its victory was a gift from heaven. Our tranquil gift and compensation for Egypt which Sadat took into the Israeli and American embrace."
Jibril, Muthakaraat, 288.
30.09.2025 01:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
…my Lenten break was longer than anticipated
20.09.2025 03:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blessed Lent. See y’all later.
06.03.2025 03:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How I source my dissertation on relations between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Steadfastness and Confrontation Front.
08.02.2025 02:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Immediately told my wife “he just got fined”
07.12.2024 23:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gonna be at @aseees.bsky.social on Thursday? Come to this panel on the USSR and the Middle East, featuring @radchenko.bsky.social, Robert Freedman, Margaret Peacock, Dmitry Asinovskiy, and me!*
* our final panelist, Vassily Klimentov, unfortunately can’t be with us this week
18.11.2024 23:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This may be overly-optimistic, but it seems entirely possible that Trump is torching all of his political capital before he even enters office. This could hamstring him moving forward.
13.11.2024 20:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So uh… didn’t realize I owned Zbigniew Brzezinski’s copy of this book.
12.11.2024 19:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I regret to inform y’all that I am back.
11.11.2024 23:05 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Extremist Ideology Is Hard to Pin Down
Many extremists—including Trump’s would-be assassins—adhere to ideologies that defy easy definitions.
While many people have rushed to assign blame for the recent assassination attempts targeting Trump, the perpetrators’ ideologies defy easy categorization. That’s not uncommon, writes @benvallison.bsky.social in this week’s Foreign Policy Essay.
07.10.2024 13:26 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
It is nearly impossible to overstate how dependent on one another we are as scholars. No wo/man is an island, shoulders of giants, it takes a village, and other such platitudes exist for good reason.
24.01.2024 03:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Look I just wanna know if anyone ever actually saw Sa'dun Hammadi and Neil Peart in the same room.
06.12.2023 19:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If I looked as much like Saddam as Maduro does I would simply not invite comparison in any other respect.
06.12.2023 03:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
You can imagine my shock at the thought of the Red Cross mercing a head of state 😂
30.11.2023 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When you say “civilian orgs,” do you mean nonstate actors?
30.11.2023 00:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Just found his Academia profile. Have you tried calling him? 😅 independent.academia.edu/StevenCooley1
27.11.2023 18:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bizarre. Now I’m curious!!!
27.11.2023 18:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
No contact info on the articles?
27.11.2023 18:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hezbollah’s Precision Threat to Israel
The Lebanese militant group's increasingly advanced arsenal could cause severe damage in Israel if the current conflict escalates.
Hezbollah’s increasingly advanced arsenal of precision-guided weapons could pose a severe risk to Israel if the current conflict escalates, writes @benvallison.bsky.social in this week’s Foreign Policy Essay.
31.10.2023 14:24 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Submitted proof corrections today!
28.10.2023 01:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wrote mine in 2018, first semester of my MA. Published spring of 2019 in Policing and Society. Second also published that spring in H-Nationalism.
I had a lot to say about each lol
17.10.2023 20:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This place is like the oops all nerds social network and yet so many people on here apparently never learned the distinction bw jus ad bellum and jus in bello
08.10.2023 05:03 — 👍 44 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Toward an Ecumenical Antimilitarism
Congress has the “power of the purse” when it comes to the defense budget, it does not make use of that power.
My latest for Inkstick! I'm somewhat skeptical of arguments for shrinking the defense budget, so I devised what I think is an argument for it that can attract folks from across the political spectrum.
05.10.2023 07:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Russia's foreign & security policy | Middle East | Director for Eurasia
@JamesMartinCNS & Snr. Associate @CSIS | PhD Oxford Uni. | Berlin-based | Currently writing a book on Russia for W. W. Norton & Co. | Personal views
she/her | Climate Change Investigator @nsarchive.bsky.social | #FOIA | views own
Author of A World of Enemies & America’s Dream Palace, Ed. of United States Relations with China and Iran, Prof. of History at Syracuse, Chair, IR Program
Domestic Extremism Correspondent at NPR.
Director, Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism & Intelligence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University
Extremism researcher at the START center, University of Maryland.
Distinguished University Professor of psychology who studies terrorism, school safety, and a few other things📍Atlanta, GA. Recipient of the 2024 FBI Director's Community Leadership Award. This is a personal account. Author of TERRORIST MINDS.
Russian Prof @ Pilecki Institute, Warsaw/Fellow @ Centre for International and Defence Policy, Ontario | FrHistS | Author of "Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth” - get it @ http://linktr.ee/igarner | 🇨🇦
Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Emory University. I study how violent economic actors, like organized criminal groups and armed corporations, govern under contested authority. Colorado native.
https://adee-weller.com/
The Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism is an international forum for new research and analysis of contemporary security issues. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpic20
Ph.D. Student, Technology and Governance (TaG) @ethz.ch
"Securing Urban Peace" Project, SNSF Doc.CH Grant: https://bit.ly/SecuringUrbanPeace
Communications Officer @jird-jour.bsky.social
Junior Organiser @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com
Historian/lecturer at UCD and Maynooth University. Previously IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Book project on Carter, Brzezinski, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/44/2/237/56992
Associate Prof/SL in Intelligence Studies @warstudies @kcl.ac.uk www.KCSI.uk
Interests: #ColdWar #intelligence #covertops, #terrorism, USSR/Russia, CEE, #MiddleEast
Author of 📙 #WatchingTheJackals
👉 https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Watching-the-Jackals
Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Collaborative program between the Departments of History and Political Science at Western University
internationalrelations.uwo.ca
MA Communication Science @ RuG
MSc Criminology @ EUR & UGent
Attorney & advisor on industry, investment, and war. DC and NYC based.
Formerly OSC, JSOC, NCTC, and 101st Airborne. Hoya, Eli, Orange. Life long New Yorker.
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world”
Writer, Educator, DEI Practitioner. Lecturer at CSU Long Beach. Author of Reproductive Citizens & A Just Future w/Cornell University Press. Co-President of Coordinating Council for Women in History. Rogue scholar. Rage writer.
