Benjamin V. Allison
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Benjamin V. Allison
@benvallison.bsky.social
Christian. History PhD Candidate at UT-Austin. US relations w MENA and Russia since 1945. Nat sec, terries/insurgency, proxy war. My opinions. Spitballer.
At @aseees.bsky.social 2025? Come by Columbia 10 in the first session to hear papers from me, Alexey Chernyavskiy, Nikolaus Graf Vitzthum, and Svetlana Savranskaya, with commentary by the great, powerful, and virtual @radchenko.bsky.social!
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The purported route of a Soviet airlift to South Yemen and Ethiopia in October 1979, as reported in Newsweek.
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
How I source my dissertation on relations between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Steadfastness and Confrontation Front.
February 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Gonna be at @aseees.bsky.social on Thursday? Come to this panel on the USSR and the Middle East, featuring @radchenko.bsky.social, Robert Freedman, Margaret Peacock, Dmitry Asinovskiy, and me!*

* our final panelist, Vassily Klimentov, unfortunately can’t be with us this week
November 18, 2024 at 11:19 PM
So uh… didn’t realize I owned Zbigniew Brzezinski’s copy of this book.
November 12, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Look I just wanna know if anyone ever actually saw Sa'dun Hammadi and Neil Peart in the same room.
December 6, 2023 at 7:38 PM
Submitted proof corrections today!
October 28, 2023 at 1:28 AM
Wrote mine in 2018, first semester of my MA. Published spring of 2019 in Policing and Society. Second also published that spring in H-Nationalism.

I had a lot to say about each lol
October 17, 2023 at 8:34 PM