Thank you Konstantin Sonin !

Today, according to #Russian news, several Islamist inmates (members of prison jamaat) tried to attack #prison authorities and escape. They were stopped. Prison jamaats are a big problem that I investigated in depth several years ago in my book 👇

Attending WarsawSecurityForum if you are around and want to connect.

Thank you, academia ! Just got not one but two R&Rs (top subfield journals I did not publish in before) having coffee on the boardwalk in the south of France. Now after I reached my first academic goal (3 books+25 papers by usual tenure time) I set up a new goal for myself (in

I am looking forward to attending Paris Peace Forum next month. Please let me know if you are around and want to meet for coffee.

Last semester I was a visiting fellow at Science Po in Paris and absolutely loved my time there! In the spring when I decided against moving to UK permanently (great place and awesome people but was not ready yet to relocate to UK) and as a result did not have any teaching

The best academic present for New Year… in January my two academic papers got finally accepted by top journals (Journal of Conflict Resolution and Comparative Political Studies). It was not an easy journey but it is done !

Our new paper “Legacies of Past and Present Violence: Evidence From Mosul, Iraq” is now published by Journal of Conflict Resolution. I want to thank reviewers for a very quick and helpful reviews!

Today #protest in Philadelphia PA (more than 20K people easy- the whole center was blocked)