Cool to publish my article connecting Oppenheimer to the Sarajevo assassination in NOVOSTI (Zagreb). Below are links for original English and BCS versions. drive.google.com/file/d/1Om7WGF… portalnovosti.com/augustovske-bo…

My response to Israeli historians attacking my Nov 10 NYT op-ed: Opinion | Massacre doesn't justify massacre: Israel, Gaza and war crimes haaretz.com/opinion/2023-1…

We are pleased to announce that we are co-organising the PGR conference "New Directions in the History of War" with University of Oxford. This will bring students from the two institutions together to share cutting-edge research on the history of war. Full details & CfP⬇️

My conversation with Harun Karčić on Al Jazeera Balkans Omer Bartov | Recite Al Jazeeri youtu.be/QBizqYMLgEo?si… via YouTube

As a realist, I recognize that sometimes there are tradeoffs between legitimate security interests and moral considerations. That said, I am finding it hard to understand how any senior U.S. foreign policy officials can look at themselves in the mirror today.

Look, I studied with the most conservative professor at Harvard. I was a fellow at AEI and Hudson. I was in a center right government in Portugal. If I tell you what’s happening in Gaza is monstrous, trust me. This is not about right and left. It’s about humanity

"It is ever so hard for people to wrap their minds around the idea that someone could have been the enemy of your enemy and yet not a benevolent force. A victim and also a perpetrator. Or vice versa." Great New Yorker piece by m. gessen newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

The Plight of the Elite University President, by David A. Bell open.substack.com/pub/davidabell…

Elise Stefanik, University Presidents, and the Politics of Distraction open.substack.com/pub/peterbeina…

Netanyahu’s one job was to prevent this catastrophe. Instead, he destroyed Israel as we know it forward.com/opinion/574131…

It is a little known fact that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was about to publicly support women commentating on football which is why Gavrilo Princip shot him.

Today is publication day for my first book and a package arrived LSE International History from Cambridge University Press containing my author copies of Making Sense of the Great War. There is a spare one. So, in true Twitter style, I will send it to someone who likes + RTs this in the next seven days.

Today marks the 110th anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination. I wrote about the lesser-known side of Princip and his motives. balkaninsight.com/2024/06/28/a-v…

Why the Sarajevo assassination and 9/11 make for a bad analogy, in today's edition of Oslobodjenje: English version: docs.google.com/document/d/16z… oslobodjenje.ba/dosjei/teme/uz…