William Nomikos
@wnomikos.bsky.social
peacebuilding, climate change and conflict, domestic politics and foreign policy || Assistant Professor of Political Science @UCSB || williamgnomikos.com || Previously @Yale @WashU
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William Nomikos
@wnomikos.bsky.social
· Jan 15
My book, "Local Peace, International Builders," is now OUT.
It examines the conditions under which international actors successfully bring order, peace, and stability to fragile settings.
To read more about each chapter and download the book OPEN ACCESS: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace
It examines the conditions under which international actors successfully bring order, peace, and stability to fragile settings.
To read more about each chapter and download the book OPEN ACCESS: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace
'Local Peace, International Builders - How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace from the Bottom Up' by @wnomikos.bsky.social.
Demonstrates how legacies of colonialism shape the effectiveness of international interventions, peacekeeping, and statebuilding in the 21st century.
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Demonstrates how legacies of colonialism shape the effectiveness of international interventions, peacekeeping, and statebuilding in the 21st century.
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"Local Peace, International Builders" demonstrates how legacies of colonialism shape the effectiveness of international interventions, peacekeeping, and statebuilding in the 21st century.
A quick thread summarizing how I do this over the course of the chapters of the book 🧵
A quick thread summarizing how I do this over the course of the chapters of the book 🧵
Good luck with the dictatorship my guy. Doesn’t matter how corrupt or abusive you are if people have had enough and are willing to make those preference clear.
Keep it up everyone!
Keep it up everyone!
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Good luck with the dictatorship my guy. Doesn’t matter how corrupt or abusive you are if people have had enough and are willing to make those preference clear.
Keep it up everyone!
Keep it up everyone!
Gelman’s answer is essentially “no under most reasonable scenarios.” Worth the full read for the nuance.
If Cuomo had been able to run against Mamdani head-to-head, would he have won?
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If Cuomo had been able to run against Mamdani head-to-head, would he have won? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Gelman’s answer is essentially “no under most reasonable scenarios.” Worth the full read for the nuance.
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Unbelievable to be here, more than a decade later, and all of the efforts of the international community to prevent a West African Afghanistan in Mali might be for naught. All of the fighting—literal and metaphorical—that Malians have done for naught.
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Unbelievable to be here, more than a decade later, and all of the efforts of the international community to prevent a West African Afghanistan in Mali might be for naught. All of the fighting—literal and metaphorical—that Malians have done for naught.
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
Just casually dropping in people like Lina Khan as transition co-chair.
I think Mamdani isn’t listening to the people who said he can’t/won’t do the things he talked about.
Looks like he’ll try!
I think Mamdani isn’t listening to the people who said he can’t/won’t do the things he talked about.
Looks like he’ll try!
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Just casually dropping in people like Lina Khan as transition co-chair.
I think Mamdani isn’t listening to the people who said he can’t/won’t do the things he talked about.
Looks like he’ll try!
I think Mamdani isn’t listening to the people who said he can’t/won’t do the things he talked about.
Looks like he’ll try!
Unbelievable to be here, more than a decade later, and all of the efforts of the international community to prevent a West African Afghanistan in Mali might be for naught. All of the fighting—literal and metaphorical—that Malians have done for naught.
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Unbelievable to be here, more than a decade later, and all of the efforts of the international community to prevent a West African Afghanistan in Mali might be for naught. All of the fighting—literal and metaphorical—that Malians have done for naught.
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
The big question for me is what percentage of Trump voters in 2024 did or did not vote for the Republican in this election. The question is more about non-voters who stayed home rather than voters that chose an alternative candidate. Does anyone have that data?
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The big question for me is what percentage of Trump voters in 2024 did or did not vote for the Republican in this election. The question is more about non-voters who stayed home rather than voters that chose an alternative candidate. Does anyone have that data?
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
I’m just so happy to see so many different Americans in the greatest city in the world being so excited about politics. POLITICS!!
A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I’m just so happy to see so many different Americans in the greatest city in the world being so excited about politics. POLITICS!!
McPherson does a good job contextualizing Trump/Venezuela but headline writer should probably not use “unprecedented.”
From the piece itself: “From 1915 to 1934, for example, the U.S. invaded and then occupied Haiti and may have killed as many as 11,500 people.”
And that’s just one example!
From the piece itself: “From 1915 to 1934, for example, the U.S. invaded and then occupied Haiti and may have killed as many as 11,500 people.”
And that’s just one example!
Trump’s squeeze of Venezuela goes beyond ‘Monroe doctrine’ – in ideology, intent and scale, it’s unprecedented
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Alan McPherson
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Alan McPherson
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Trump’s squeeze of Venezuela goes beyond ‘Monroe doctrine’ – in ideology, intent and scale, it’s unprecedented
A US military buildup in the Caribbean after weeks of naval strikes is both the latest case of intervention in Latin America and uniquely aggressive in key ways.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
McPherson does a good job contextualizing Trump/Venezuela but headline writer should probably not use “unprecedented.”
From the piece itself: “From 1915 to 1934, for example, the U.S. invaded and then occupied Haiti and may have killed as many as 11,500 people.”
And that’s just one example!
From the piece itself: “From 1915 to 1934, for example, the U.S. invaded and then occupied Haiti and may have killed as many as 11,500 people.”
And that’s just one example!
Ultimately the difference between Dems and GOP is that when the Dems got power in the 21st century, they passed huge and important policy bills instead of making institutional changes that would lock them in power for the next quarter century. Probably a little short-sighted in retrospect.
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ultimately the difference between Dems and GOP is that when the Dems got power in the 21st century, they passed huge and important policy bills instead of making institutional changes that would lock them in power for the next quarter century. Probably a little short-sighted in retrospect.
Wait what’s happening?
Trump says he's instructing the Department of Defense to prepare for military action against Nigeria
November 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Wait what’s happening?
For all my Santa Barbara-based connections: here is a great place to go this week to donate, volunteer, and just help out as the Federal government chooses to cut SNAP benefits:
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November 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For all my Santa Barbara-based connections: here is a great place to go this week to donate, volunteer, and just help out as the Federal government chooses to cut SNAP benefits:
foodbanksbc.org
foodbanksbc.org
They just don't care about democracy or accountability or anything like it.
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?
MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
They just don't care about democracy or accountability or anything like it.
This is an open call for starting a civil war. It’s a little weird he is on TV saying this, as if there isn’t an internal mechanism by which he can inform ICE.
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is an open call for starting a civil war. It’s a little weird he is on TV saying this, as if there isn’t an internal mechanism by which he can inform ICE.
I think that’s right—Trump has shown that the constitution has failed in one of its critical goals: restraining a would-be king. The judicial and legislative branches and states seem relatively powerless against the power of a determined executive. Not sure what else is left.
Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I think that’s right—Trump has shown that the constitution has failed in one of its critical goals: restraining a would-be king. The judicial and legislative branches and states seem relatively powerless against the power of a determined executive. Not sure what else is left.
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It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.
Lost in the gold: Trump, donors, and friends (?!) paying for ballroom. What?
Between this and suing the Justice Department, we are entering into some wild levels of corruption here.
Between this and suing the Justice Department, we are entering into some wild levels of corruption here.
Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Lost in the gold: Trump, donors, and friends (?!) paying for ballroom. What?
Between this and suing the Justice Department, we are entering into some wild levels of corruption here.
Between this and suing the Justice Department, we are entering into some wild levels of corruption here.
It’s a new international system. I hope we like it—this is what’s now there.
Sahel convos shifting quickly to the "day after" scenarios. After the fall of Bamako. Not a silly possibility anymore. Western capitals visibly don't care
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It’s a new international system. I hope we like it—this is what’s now there.
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Sahel convos shifting quickly to the "day after" scenarios. After the fall of Bamako. Not a silly possibility anymore. Western capitals visibly don't care
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Sahel convos shifting quickly to the "day after" scenarios. After the fall of Bamako. Not a silly possibility anymore. Western capitals visibly don't care
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Big lead for Prop 50 in a new CBS/YouGov poll: 62% yes, 38% no. www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
October 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Big lead for Prop 50 in a new CBS/YouGov poll: 62% yes, 38% no. www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
I know time travel is technically impossible but pretty sure I just went back to 2010 after hearing the Björk/Dirty Projectors at the top of this excellent 60 songs episode on Vampire Weekend @harvilla.bsky.social
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“A-Punk”—Vampire Weekend
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October 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I know time travel is technically impossible but pretty sure I just went back to 2010 after hearing the Björk/Dirty Projectors at the top of this excellent 60 songs episode on Vampire Weekend @harvilla.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/4aaX...
open.spotify.com/episode/4aaX...
The end of American democracy as we knew it is already here. It’s about clawing it back now.
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The end of American democracy as we knew it is already here. It’s about clawing it back now.
It’s just not fair at this stage. Wow Zohran.
Cuomo’s desperate final act is bankrolled by the very billionaires who brought us Donald Trump and the broken status quo.
New Yorkers are ready for change.
New Yorkers are ready for change.
October 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It’s just not fair at this stage. Wow Zohran.
Combined with growth in targeted violence from paramilitaries, our current moment beginning to look a lot like the end of the 19th century.
white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
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October 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Combined with growth in targeted violence from paramilitaries, our current moment beginning to look a lot like the end of the 19th century.
Excited to talk about peacebuilding today. If you're around come join. If not, there is a Zoom option I believe.
Next week: "Local Peace, International Builders: How the UN Builds Peace from the Bottom Up" with @wnomikos.bsky.social.
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Local Peace, International Builders: How the UN Builds Peace from the
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October 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Excited to talk about peacebuilding today. If you're around come join. If not, there is a Zoom option I believe.