This week we launched series 3 of the Air Power and International Security Podcast with an episode on Gen. Giulio Douhet ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/air… Prof. Thomas Hippler gives an excellent overview of Douhet’s ideas re. strategic bombing and targeting civilians from the skies.

This special issue of Secrecy and Society, edited by SPINster Clare_Stevens86, explores the potential of secrecy and ignorance in security and technologies. Read here: tinyurl.com/snwnp5ut Or find out more on our blog: tinyurl.com/3h9af3np

Clare Stevens (Clare_Stevens86) and Sam Forsythe («Sam•Forsythe») introduce this special issue of articles employing a diverse range of empirical cases which find that technologies and time mediate secrecy and disclosure, and vice versa: tinyurl.com/344yk4u2

In the first article, PhD researchers Becka Hudson (becka s hudson) and Tomas Percival engage with the potentials and limitations of transparency as a form of ‘accountability’ in carceral management and data gathering: tinyurl.com/bdzzxap7

Next, Agnes Villette (agnes villette) explores the nuclear secrecy regime implemented by the French government and its contractors through her paper on the management of nuclear waste at La Hague in northern France: tinyurl.com/yps4kka8

This special issue of Secrecy and Society, edited by SPINster Clare_Stevens86, explores the potential of secrecy and ignorance in security and technologies. Read here: tinyurl.com/snwnp5ut Or find out more on our blog: tinyurl.com/3h9af3np

Through their discussion of methodological challenges in studying topics like refugee governance in Germany, Lilly Muller @lillymuller.bsky.social and Natalie Welfens investigate how to deal with secrecy and limited access in ethnographically inspired research of security fields: tinyurl.com/2s3s2fm8

🚨new article alert Authoritarian states have long advocated the expansion of multilateral governance modalities for cybersecurity issues while major consolidated democracies have often opposed them. Why? Read Mark Raymond & Justin Sherman here 👉tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Already a while ago, Lilly Muller @lillymuller.bsky.social & I published this piece on secrecy + access in ethnographically inspired security research.We argue that instead of 'opening the black box', we can pertain to secrecy and limited access as research data in its own right 🧵tinyurl.com/mr335pfs

🚀new article out! How do we deal with secrecy in security research? In our new article we draw on empirical research in security settings and set out 3 steps of how to work with rather than against secrecy. Go read it here tinyurl.com/mr335pfs

Does anyone have a paper on nuclear politics they want to present at #BISA2024? Megan Dee & I are putting together a panel so get in touch ASAP if you have something you want to present! BISA - British International Studies Association BISA Global Nuclear Order

Anyone doing any exciting work on AI and critical security (broadly defined)? I’m looking for 2-3 roundtable participants for #BISA24 conference in Birmingham. Any focus from nukes to migration would fit. Please get in touch and share in your networks BISA - British International Studies Association BISA Global Nuclear Order

I write for the bindinghook.com (new media outlet from @europeancyber) on "Dalit perspectives and everyday cyber practices" bindinghook.com/articles-bindi…

Join @clare_Stevens86 and Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren #ucu for our next event on April 23rd at 3pm. Elspeth and Clare will discuss their new paper with @amhafel on ‘secrecy games’ and the ways in which secrecy is used, resisted and transformed through resistance. Details: wp.me/pb19Tu-PD

🚨New publication alert 🚨Forum on the practices and politics of cybersecurity expertise w. H-Diplo, with RJISSF out now! It's been an honour to have served as editor w. wonderful @rebeccamSlayton for these fantastic set of authors and topics issforum.org/policy-roundta… [A thread]:

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🎙️We are pleased to share a recording of SPIN’s recent talk: ‘Secrecy Games: Power and Resistance in Global Politics’, based on the newly published paper in RIS by @clare_Stevens86 Dr. Elspeth Van Veeren #ucu and Amaha Senu. Stream the talk here: wp.me/pb19Tu-Rw