Today at 10:45am #BISA2024 BISA - British International Studies Association! Come on over! We’ll talk legacies of rebellion with Phil Martin, Tessa Devereaux, and Victor Bouemar Dinocheau!

📢 Our 2024-2025 Fellowship Scheme is now open to researchers in academia & beyond! Fellows will have access to an exciting network of Civil War Paths scholars. They will engage with our blog, seminar series & other events. Apply here by June 25 👇 civilwarpaths.org/fellowship-sch…

Fantastic BISA - British International Studies Association panel on the legacies of rebellion w/Philip Martin, Tessa Devereaux and Romain Malejacq afghanopoly.bsky.social. We talked about legacies of rebel recruitment, insurgent gender governance, and rebel military organizations. Amazing research, inspiring feedback 🙏

1/ I’m an Israeli historian. My community is still too silent about the horrible war in Gaza. Over 8 months I’ve closely followed the war, reading >1000 articles and viewing >1000 videos/images of the war from all sides. My summary conclusions & full report are in the 🧵:

Call for papers now open for next academic year's CAS conference in Edinburgh in April 2025. Theme is ‘Climate Dynamics and the Politics of a Post-Carbon Africa.’ Deadline to submit abstracts: 30th August 2024.

We are pleased to announce the 2024-2025 cohort of Civil War Paths Fellows - Welcome! This year Fellows’ have diverse methodological backgrounds & regional expertise that spans Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East & North Africa, South & Southeast Asia & Latin America /1

Calling all graduate students! We know that summers can be financially challenging for you. That's why we're extending the application period for our Support Fund to July 17th! More information and the application link here: connect.apsanet.org/graduate/gradu…

⛓️ To give you a sense of how horrifying and brutal these prison sentences for #JustStopOil activists are: Average sentence for violent crime = 1.7 years. Average sentence for the JSO activists = 4.3 years.

The GSS lab is remembering Nicolas van de Walle, who passed earlier this month. A giant in his field of Comparative Politics, his work on African Politics was foundational. Lab members knew him as a generous, humorous, and caring mentor. We will miss him.

A NEW Sabrina Karim book is coming your way! Her book with Daniel W. Hill, Jr. will be #published on September 13th! The book examines how gender and women’s status affect global political violence and encourages its academic inclusion. Learn more ⬇️ global.oup.com/academic/produ…"

🚨Postdoc position🚨 In the coming weeks I’ll be recruiting a postdoc to work w. me on my “Rebel Victory & State Building in #Taliban-controlled #Afghanistan” project. Looking for someone w. in-depth knowledge of Afghan politics & fluent in English + (ideally) Dari &/or Pashto!!

🚨Job alert🚨   Come work in Cornell University’s fantastic #GovernmentDepartment! The Department is searching for multiple positions across all ranks in International Relations. Our Director, Professor Karim (Sabrina Karim) is on the search committee: members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJobs/…

🚨🚨Postdoc position🚨🚨You have in-depth knowledge of Afghan politics, speak Dari and/or Pashto (non-mandatory) & want to work with me on “Rebel Victory & State Building in #Taliban-controlled #Afghanistan”? Apply here: ru.nl/en/working-at/… CICAM @RadboudPol Radboud Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen

Have you read the TIME Op-Ed co-authored by our very own Dr. Sabrina Karim (Sabrina Karim) and Dr. Muhib Rahman (Muhibbur Rahman)? Click the link to read about their ideas for #reform in #Bangladesh in the wake of the student uprisings.🇧🇩 time.com/7014316/bangla…

Thrilled and relieved to have successfully defended my PhD last week. So grateful for the support of Sabrina Karim, @TomPepinsky, Rachel Beatty Riedl Alexandra Blackman and of course the much missed Nic van de Walle over the years. Looking forward to my postdoc New College, Oxford University of Oxford

📣Attention those in the #Ithaca area!📣 GSS's own @KrinerMike is giving a talk as part of the Cornell Government PSAC series this Friday! The topic will be autocratic contributions to UN peace operations and civilian protection. We hope you can join 12:15-1:30PM in White Hall 106!

UK exit polls: bing bong, here’s the prime minister US exit polls: is it better to be loved or feared? Give your answer to the nearest cubit

The call for the UCL Conflict & Change PhD Workshop is out! ECRs working on IR, conflict and contentious politics are invited to apply by 8 December. London 24-25 February, 2025. Apply here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2025

new year, new ways to help graduate students! :) during graduate school, I found grant/fellowship applications overwhelming & it was hard to know where to start. Hopefully having access to some successful examples can help: angietorresbeltran.com/service