Kseniya Oksamytna
@kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social
Reader (Associate Prof), City St Georges, University of London. IOs, international inequalities, international security (including Russia's war against Ukraine), peacekeeping. http://kseniya-oksamytna.com
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Introducing the UNCIPPO (UN Civilian Posts in Peacekeeping Operations) Dataset
Abstract. This research note presents a dataset on budgeted civilian personnel posts in UN peacekeeping operations by mission, unit, rank, and staff catego
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📢 New dataset alert: “Introducing the UNCIPPO (UN Civilian Posts in Peacekeeping Operations) Dataset” is out in ISQ! With Jessica Di Salvatore and Katharina P. Coleman, we’ve mapped budgeted civilian personnel posts in UN peacekeeping operations by mission, unit, rank, and staff category, 1991-2020.
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🚨𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧🚨
Today, the United Nations is turning 8️⃣0️⃣ 🎂🎈🇺🇳
What better ways to celebrate a milestone in multialteral cooperation than reading 2 new think-pieces on 𝑀𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛:
A short 🧵
Today, the United Nations is turning 8️⃣0️⃣ 🎂🎈🇺🇳
What better ways to celebrate a milestone in multialteral cooperation than reading 2 new think-pieces on 𝑀𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛:
A short 🧵
International Organization and United Nations Studies Specialization (IOUNS)
multilateralism.sipa.columbia.edu
October 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
🚨𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧🚨
Today, the United Nations is turning 8️⃣0️⃣ 🎂🎈🇺🇳
What better ways to celebrate a milestone in multialteral cooperation than reading 2 new think-pieces on 𝑀𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛:
A short 🧵
Today, the United Nations is turning 8️⃣0️⃣ 🎂🎈🇺🇳
What better ways to celebrate a milestone in multialteral cooperation than reading 2 new think-pieces on 𝑀𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛:
A short 🧵
Pleased to share our article “Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Field Missions” co-authored with Katharina P. Coleman, Joshua Fawcett-Weiner, and Jessica Di Salvatore in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
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doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
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Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Field Missions
Abstract. Contemporary international organizations, including the UN, employ tens of thousands of staff outside of their headquarters in field offices arou
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October 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Pleased to share our article “Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Field Missions” co-authored with Katharina P. Coleman, Joshua Fawcett-Weiner, and Jessica Di Salvatore in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
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doi.org/10.1093/isq/...
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"Girlhood At War" is going on tour.
Details will follow soon along with new dates for other European cities.
The book is available across all European and American online platforms.
All proceeds from book sales go to the children’s section of the public library in my hometown, Gjilan (Kosovo).
Details will follow soon along with new dates for other European cities.
The book is available across all European and American online platforms.
All proceeds from book sales go to the children’s section of the public library in my hometown, Gjilan (Kosovo).
October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Girlhood At War" is going on tour.
Details will follow soon along with new dates for other European cities.
The book is available across all European and American online platforms.
All proceeds from book sales go to the children’s section of the public library in my hometown, Gjilan (Kosovo).
Details will follow soon along with new dates for other European cities.
The book is available across all European and American online platforms.
All proceeds from book sales go to the children’s section of the public library in my hometown, Gjilan (Kosovo).
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"The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" continues to come to life, and another character, described below, is already free.
It's absolutely surreal to talk on the phone to these people through eight years and the depths of Russian basements:
"Another serious case involved a man who...
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It's absolutely surreal to talk on the phone to these people through eight years and the depths of Russian basements:
"Another serious case involved a man who...
1/6
October 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" continues to come to life, and another character, described below, is already free.
It's absolutely surreal to talk on the phone to these people through eight years and the depths of Russian basements:
"Another serious case involved a man who...
1/6
It's absolutely surreal to talk on the phone to these people through eight years and the depths of Russian basements:
"Another serious case involved a man who...
1/6
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New paper 🚨 “Vicarious denial: war crimes & online deliberation in Serbia” 🇷🇸 with @denisakost.bsky.social
We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.
We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.
October 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
New paper 🚨 “Vicarious denial: war crimes & online deliberation in Serbia” 🇷🇸 with @denisakost.bsky.social
We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.
We scrape 4 news sites + reader comments and blend text-as-data (keywords; neg. binomial/logistic; BERTopic/SBERT) with critical discourse analysis to track on-topic debate & denial.
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The Russian military is not stupid: it "has become a military that is capable of both evolving during this war and readying itself for future, high-tech conflicts."
They are deadly serious about fighting in Ukraine and beyond. We should be too.
They are deadly serious about fighting in Ukraine and beyond. We should be too.
How Russia Recovered
What the Kremlin is learning from the war in Ukraine.
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The Russian military is not stupid: it "has become a military that is capable of both evolving during this war and readying itself for future, high-tech conflicts."
They are deadly serious about fighting in Ukraine and beyond. We should be too.
They are deadly serious about fighting in Ukraine and beyond. We should be too.
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A timely collection of great articles on the UN, including my piece with @lisadellmuth.bsky.social on the legitimacy of the UN.
Review of International Studies #freetoread articles for the UN's 80th anniversary! 🎉
Exploring all aspects of the UN from its creation to it's failures to measure up to its ideals and values 📚
Read here: https://ow.ly/P2FJ50X7NPZ
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR Jonas Tallberg
Exploring all aspects of the UN from its creation to it's failures to measure up to its ideals and values 📚
Read here: https://ow.ly/P2FJ50X7NPZ
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR Jonas Tallberg
October 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A timely collection of great articles on the UN, including my piece with @lisadellmuth.bsky.social on the legitimacy of the UN.
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My co-authored article with Iepke Rijcken and Kyoko Shinozaki, “Embodied experiences in motion: integrating the senses in research and teaching” has just been published in
@ersjournal.com as part of the Special Issue: Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies.
@ersjournal.com as part of the Special Issue: Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies.
October 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My co-authored article with Iepke Rijcken and Kyoko Shinozaki, “Embodied experiences in motion: integrating the senses in research and teaching” has just been published in
@ersjournal.com as part of the Special Issue: Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies.
@ersjournal.com as part of the Special Issue: Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies.
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The “Putin wants peace” crowd, especially the “poor persecuted Russia just has some reasonable security requests” variety, really need to reckon with <gestures at all of Russia’s behavior for years>.
Peace-seekers don’t go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.
Peace-seekers don’t go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.
Russia is suspected of jamming navigation on EU leader’s plane above Bulgaria, an official says
A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation.
apnews.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The “Putin wants peace” crowd, especially the “poor persecuted Russia just has some reasonable security requests” variety, really need to reckon with <gestures at all of Russia’s behavior for years>.
Peace-seekers don’t go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.
Peace-seekers don’t go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.
📣 Book giveway to celebrate new academic year!
“United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism” (2025) co-authored with Sarah Von Billerbeck (@uor-research.bsky.social), @birtegippert.bsky.social & @oisintansey.bsky.social out with @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/bp83aum7
“United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism” (2025) co-authored with Sarah Von Billerbeck (@uor-research.bsky.social), @birtegippert.bsky.social & @oisintansey.bsky.social out with @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/bp83aum7
September 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
📣 Book giveway to celebrate new academic year!
“United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism” (2025) co-authored with Sarah Von Billerbeck (@uor-research.bsky.social), @birtegippert.bsky.social & @oisintansey.bsky.social out with @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/bp83aum7
“United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism” (2025) co-authored with Sarah Von Billerbeck (@uor-research.bsky.social), @birtegippert.bsky.social & @oisintansey.bsky.social out with @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/bp83aum7
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Given the haunting anniversary of the Soviet-Nazi Pact, let’s bring back our insightful @associationruta.bsky.social webinar with Kseniya Oksamytna, Terrell Starr & Mart Kuldkepp about today’s reincarnations of molotovs and ribbentrops and the key lessons (to be) learned
youtu.be/vtLiT79imU0?...
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History is not an accident: the return of molotovs and ribbentrops? (March 7, 2025)
YouTube video by The Ruta Association
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August 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Given the haunting anniversary of the Soviet-Nazi Pact, let’s bring back our insightful @associationruta.bsky.social webinar with Kseniya Oksamytna, Terrell Starr & Mart Kuldkepp about today’s reincarnations of molotovs and ribbentrops and the key lessons (to be) learned
youtu.be/vtLiT79imU0?...
youtu.be/vtLiT79imU0?...
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The sad and fundamental truth is that neither the Obama administration nor the Clinton campaign took Russian electoral interference seriously, meaning that now, a decade on, Russia’s man keeps trying to prove that he’s not.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows
www.nytimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The sad and fundamental truth is that neither the Obama administration nor the Clinton campaign took Russian electoral interference seriously, meaning that now, a decade on, Russia’s man keeps trying to prove that he’s not.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
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Dear Faculty ITC University Twente;
How can you ask Ukrainian citizens who were born in the 1980s to register as “born in Russia”?
This is unbelievable, especially in 2025! Even if you require “Soviet Union,” the Soviet Union was not the same as Russia. This is unacceptable. #RussianImperialism
How can you ask Ukrainian citizens who were born in the 1980s to register as “born in Russia”?
This is unbelievable, especially in 2025! Even if you require “Soviet Union,” the Soviet Union was not the same as Russia. This is unacceptable. #RussianImperialism
July 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Dear Faculty ITC University Twente;
How can you ask Ukrainian citizens who were born in the 1980s to register as “born in Russia”?
This is unbelievable, especially in 2025! Even if you require “Soviet Union,” the Soviet Union was not the same as Russia. This is unacceptable. #RussianImperialism
How can you ask Ukrainian citizens who were born in the 1980s to register as “born in Russia”?
This is unbelievable, especially in 2025! Even if you require “Soviet Union,” the Soviet Union was not the same as Russia. This is unacceptable. #RussianImperialism
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Feminist foreign policies talk equality, but local feminist peacebuilders still face donor scepticism, unstable funding & political pushback.
Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve.
📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve.
📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...
doi.org
July 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Feminist foreign policies talk equality, but local feminist peacebuilders still face donor scepticism, unstable funding & political pushback.
Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve.
📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve.
📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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Very much looking forward to being in conversation with Dame Melinda Simmons today at #iccees2025, hosted at @uclssees.bsky.social. We'll be talking Ukraine, Poland, the Russian threat, and more www.iccees2025.org/keynote-spea...
Keynote speakers – XI ICCEES World Congress
www.iccees2025.org
July 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Very much looking forward to being in conversation with Dame Melinda Simmons today at #iccees2025, hosted at @uclssees.bsky.social. We'll be talking Ukraine, Poland, the Russian threat, and more www.iccees2025.org/keynote-spea...
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Russia’s “swarm” tactics against Ukraine are increasingly cutting through Ukraine’s defences, with drones striking targets at three times the typical rate in recent months, according to official data.
www.ft.com/content/1a19... via @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/1a19... via @financialtimes.com
Russia’s drone swarms pierce Ukraine’s defences at record rate
Proportion of Shaheds hitting targets tripled in recent months, according to analysis of official data
www.ft.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Russia’s “swarm” tactics against Ukraine are increasingly cutting through Ukraine’s defences, with drones striking targets at three times the typical rate in recent months, according to official data.
www.ft.com/content/1a19... via @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/1a19... via @financialtimes.com
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Not being able to win at the battlefields of Eastern Ukraine, Russia decided to terrorise civilians in the hope of breaking the will of Ukrainians.
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July 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Not being able to win at the battlefields of Eastern Ukraine, Russia decided to terrorise civilians in the hope of breaking the will of Ukrainians.
on.ft.com/46PjS1S
on.ft.com/46PjS1S
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Join us! 10 days to get your job applications in to join our team of academic historians in Warsaw.
🚨 Academic job alert!
We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.
Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.
Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!
Join the team of the Center for Totalitarian Studies! - Instytut Pileckiego
The Center for Totalitarian Studies has announced competitions for positions in the humanities. We are looking for professors, adjuncts and assistants.
instytutpileckiego.pl
July 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Join us! 10 days to get your job applications in to join our team of academic historians in Warsaw.
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A total and tragic policy failure: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
President Trump has issued no new restrictions on Russia this year, in effect allowing Moscow to acquire the money and materials it needs in its conflict with Ukraine.
Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Russia to Replenish Its War Chest
President Trump has issued no new restrictions on Russia this year, in effect allowing Moscow to acquire the money and materials it needs in its conflict with Ukraine.
trib.al
July 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
A total and tragic policy failure: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Job Opportunity!
Lecturer in Public History
Keele University - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - School of Humanities
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL407/l...
Lecturer in Public History
Keele University - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - School of Humanities
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL407/l...
Lecturer in Public History at Keele University
An academic position as a Lecturer in Public History is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
June 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Job Opportunity!
Lecturer in Public History
Keele University - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - School of Humanities
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL407/l...
Lecturer in Public History
Keele University - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - School of Humanities
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL407/l...
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Why Ukraine fights back and will keep on doing so: Ukraine has no other choice shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/why-ukrain...
June 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Why Ukraine fights back and will keep on doing so: Ukraine has no other choice shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/why-ukrain...
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When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
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Great to see research recently published in HWJ by @ankahajkova.bsky.social and Oksana Dudko referenced in Swedish newspapers.
Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches
doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches
doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
June 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Great to see research recently published in HWJ by @ankahajkova.bsky.social and Oksana Dudko referenced in Swedish newspapers.
Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches
doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches
doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
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Our new IMR paper on the great replacement theory is now open-access. We find that about 20% (!) of German adults believe that white majorities are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants in a secretive attempt by malevolent elites to undermine their own country.
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
June 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Our new IMR paper on the great replacement theory is now open-access. We find that about 20% (!) of German adults believe that white majorities are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants in a secretive attempt by malevolent elites to undermine their own country.
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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Kherson is now pummelled constantly by Russian forces and yet a spirit of defiance remains.
Proud that Bylines are publishing my friend, Caolan Robertson, who is out there. ✊🇺🇦
Proud that Bylines are publishing my friend, Caolan Robertson, who is out there. ✊🇺🇦
Kherson a city under siege, but still unbroken
Kherson once a proud port city near the Black Sea in south-west Ukraine is pummelled constantly by Russian forces and yet a spirit of defiance remains
bylines.scot
June 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Kherson is now pummelled constantly by Russian forces and yet a spirit of defiance remains.
Proud that Bylines are publishing my friend, Caolan Robertson, who is out there. ✊🇺🇦
Proud that Bylines are publishing my friend, Caolan Robertson, who is out there. ✊🇺🇦