A children’s hospital & a maternity hospital miles apart don’t get bombed in the same day by accident. This is a premeditated war crime. Russia is targeting women & children in Ukraine, not military facilities or government infrastructure - they are targeting women & children.

The new MOOC designed and delivered by Department of Politics and International Relations begins on Monday! The course is open to all and it is fantastic that we have already had hundreds of people sign-up to participate.

Hi all! I was apprehended today as a witness in the Bahruz Samadov case. Since the investigation is still going on, all I can say is I am safe and wasn't harmed. I have been awake since 3 a.m., and now I am going home to rest. Thanks for the tweets!

Interrupting maternity leave momentarily to share that my first book, Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia Cornell University Press, which was awarded APSA Charles Taylor Book Award & @ASEEEStudies Davis Center Book Prize, is now out in paperback 🥳 /1

On stage of #CyprusForum by Department of Politics and International Relations “Turkish Cypriot Community’s Views on Türkiye’s Role and the prospects of Peace” with Sinem Arslan, Prof Nina Caspersen, Ahmet Sözen, Dr Nikolaos Stelgias.

We have published a new set of Open Research in Practice case studies, each providing a different perspective into open research practices and principles from staff, PGRs and students at University of York 🧑‍💻 🧑‍🔬 🧑‍🎓 🧑‍⚕️

🎉Many congratulations to York Alumni Daron Acemoglu

Congratulations to José Ciro Martínez who has been awarded a prestigious research prize by the The Leverhulme Trust. José's research explores the politics of food, welfare, contention & state formation in the Middle East and North Africa. Find out more: leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2024PLP

🇧🇦🇺🇸 Citizens of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered in the entity’s capital to celebrate Donald Trump’s victory. "Donald Trump’s victory is significant for Republika Srpska" said Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, wearing a MAGA hat as he addressed the crowd,

BREAKING: Protesters storm the parliament of Georgia's Abkhazia region over investment deal with Russia

"‘No longer what you used to be’: Renegotiating relations between de facto states and their patrons", an article that I had the immense pride and pleasure to co-author with Prof Nina Caspersen in EJIR (European Journal of International Relations) is now out, and what is more, in open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

In their new EJIR article, Nina Caspersen and Sophie Gueudet examine the dynamics of relationships between de facto states and their patrons. You can read the full version here: t1p.de/q7673

🧵🚨 HTS and its governance model: 1- One of my biggest regrets is not turning my PhD thesis on HTS and its governance model into a book. The topic remains critical for understanding how HTS has reached its current position and how it will likely act moving forward.

In a pivotal year of elections around the world, we explore how the simple act of hoping has become a collective and political force to build a better world. 🌍 Read our #BigQuestions feature: features.york.ac.uk/big-questions/…

I wrote a blog post about an intriguing episode right after the April 2016 escalation, which was recently confirmed by Serzh Sargsyan himself. In this post, I share insights that I had previously written only in Armenian on another social media platform. buymeacoffee.com/tigartsakh/ins…

Georgian university accepts, then expels student from Nagorno-Karabakh Anush Petrosyan, a displaced student from Nagorno-Karabakh, has been denied the opportunity to continue her education at a Georgian university due to her diploma. Anush was forced to flee Nagorno-Karabakh in

This is mind-boggling. In what sense is Denmark "not doing its job"? In what sense is it "not being a good ally"? The US, on the other hand, is quite clearly not being a good ally! Take "more territorial interest in Greenland"!? This is taking a leaf out of Putin's playbook.

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A timely, if often somber, episode of BBC Radio 4 BBC Free Thinking with Matthew Sweet & experienced guests discussing *peace* & the pursuit, maintenance & periodic illusions of it. David Runciman, Prof Nina Caspersen, Gabrielle Rifkind, Ash Percival-Borley 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her/they) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…