Trump is eliminating ⁦The Wilson Center⁩, a stellar US foreign policy study establishment. Along with it goes the ⁦Kennan Institute⁩ - one of the best Russia study institutions. I was fortunate to be a Kennan Fellow in 2017. Such a loss whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

Ordem e progresso 🇧🇷 nytimes.com/2025/03/26/wor…

How is this not a complete and utter waste of our time?

"Designing a Quality In-depth Interview Study: How Many Interviews Are Enough?" - In the field considerations do not rely on saturation but the quality of IDI completions as evaluated by these 8 reflective questions bit.ly/HowManyIDIs #totalqualityframework #qualitative

Looking forward to presenting at this “International Workshop on Technology Justice For/From the Global South” tomorrow, at PUC-Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Will be speaking about genealogies of (critical) terrorism studies and how it intersects with disinformation studies.

Our paper with Marie Santini and Débora Salles NetLab UFRJ Law and Gov DCU is trending in Communication. #OpenAccess The Extraction Ideology: Brazilian pro-agribusiness propaganda in times of climate emergency Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New (Open Access) work! Wrote about how a "sacred geography" is shaped through sites, routes and neighbourhoods, and how one can read the recent outreach by Kerala BJP leaders to the Christian community. Thanks Sudhir Selvaraj Kenneth Bo Nielsen Andrew Wyatt tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My piece “Brazil’s Precarious Counterterrorism Project” is published today, in Português, in Outras Palavras (Other Words), as part of ongoing collaboration with NetLab UFRJ: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Law and Gov DCU Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences @ DCU outraspalavras.net/direita-assanh…

Piketty has just discovered dependency theory ;)

The Onion never misses

I’m published today in Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil’s paper of record. I argue against the motion that organised crime in Brazil be re-classified as ‘terrorism’. In the other ‘corner’, Cláudio Castro, the Governor of Rio de Janeiro, argues for the motion. Law and Gov DCU NetLab UFRJ UFRJ Dublin City University

Good question 😂! #NoKingsDay

Democracy in Latin America Raul Madrid's new book on the origins of democracy in South America has just been published - and we're lucky that it's open access. A highly recommended read. Open access: cambridge.org/core/services/…

Hi everyone. Reactivating twitter to share this I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA at the end of last week because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne on Sat 6am and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

My third of three pieces on the potential (re-)classification of organised crime as terrorism in Brazil. Published today in The Conversation. Law and Gov DCU NetLab UFRJ UFRJ Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences @ DCU Dublin City University theconversation.com/brazils-danger…

Brazilian lawmakers are debating a bill that would expand the definition of terrorism to include the activities of organised crime. Piece by Dr James Fitzgerald James Fitzgerald, Associate Prof of Security Studies Law and Gov DCU, for The Conversation. Read here: launch.dcu.ie/3GbJdIu

Yes, indeed.

DCU's International Master in Security, Intelligence, and Strategic Studies (IMSISS) secures €4.6m in funding, this is the third iteration of the programme and will see it run from 2026 to 2032: dcu.ie/humanities-and…