Sidita Kushi
@siditak.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @MountHolyokeCollege | former Research Director, Fellow @CSSFletcherSchool Military Intervention Project | PhD @Northeastern | Studying humanitarian military interventions, US foreign policy, economic crises, Western Balkans 🇦🇱 🇺🇸 🇽🇰
Finally arrived at #APSA2025, and look what I found: a certain book in very good company and some glorious mountains. All before my 10 AM panel :) Then afterwards, I found the pièce de résistance: byrek.
September 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Finally arrived at #APSA2025, and look what I found: a certain book in very good company and some glorious mountains. All before my 10 AM panel :) Then afterwards, I found the pièce de résistance: byrek.
🔖My new book is officially out!✨Through statistical, archival, and content analysis approaches, it investigates the regional selectivity gap inherent in the humanitarian military intervention phenomenon in the post-Cold War era.
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July 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🔖My new book is officially out!✨Through statistical, archival, and content analysis approaches, it investigates the regional selectivity gap inherent in the humanitarian military intervention phenomenon in the post-Cold War era.
Get 30% off with UMWEB30: press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...
Get 30% off with UMWEB30: press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...
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"From Kosovo to Darfur" by Sidita Kushi is now available! Kushi explores the past, present, and future of military humanitarianism in this #OpenAccess title. Start reading: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
July 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"From Kosovo to Darfur" by Sidita Kushi is now available! Kushi explores the past, present, and future of military humanitarianism in this #OpenAccess title. Start reading: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Thrilled to see our article "Unipolarity and the increasing frequency of US military intervention" out in the latest issue of International Affairs today!
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
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July 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thrilled to see our article "Unipolarity and the increasing frequency of US military intervention" out in the latest issue of International Affairs today!
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
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With summer in full swing, we have launched our July issue today!☀️
🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific
🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more
💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance
📚 24 book reviews
Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4
🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific
🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more
💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance
📚 24 book reviews
Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4
July 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
With summer in full swing, we have launched our July issue today!☀️
🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific
🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more
💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance
📚 24 book reviews
Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4
🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific
🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more
💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance
📚 24 book reviews
Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4
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It's the best time of year: UMP's Spring Sale! Get 50% off all of our books using code SPRING25 all month long. Start shopping here: press.umich.edu
May 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It's the best time of year: UMP's Spring Sale! Get 50% off all of our books using code SPRING25 all month long. Start shopping here: press.umich.edu
My book, From Kosovo to Darfur, comes out on July 7, 2025, with University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social
🌍Why do powerful global actors intervene under humanitarian mandates in some humanitarian crises but ignore others?
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🌍Why do powerful global actors intervene under humanitarian mandates in some humanitarian crises but ignore others?
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April 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My book, From Kosovo to Darfur, comes out on July 7, 2025, with University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social
🌍Why do powerful global actors intervene under humanitarian mandates in some humanitarian crises but ignore others?
✨Use code PREORDERS25 for 40% off press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...
🌍Why do powerful global actors intervene under humanitarian mandates in some humanitarian crises but ignore others?
✨Use code PREORDERS25 for 40% off press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...
This trilateral declaration between Albania, Kosovo, and Croatia is an important step for the Balkans. Bulgaria has also been invited to join, it seems.
www.koha.net/en/index.php...
www.koha.net/en/index.php...
Declaration of military alliance between Kosovo, Albania and Croatia signed
Kosovo, Albania and Croatia will sign the Trilateral Declaration in Tirana on Tuesday with the aim of strengthening trilateral cooperation between the countries, while in
www.koha.net
March 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This trilateral declaration between Albania, Kosovo, and Croatia is an important step for the Balkans. Bulgaria has also been invited to join, it seems.
www.koha.net/en/index.php...
www.koha.net/en/index.php...
My new book has a cover - a photo taken by a Kosovar journalist of sisters leisurely strolling by a Serbian war tank in post-conflict Kosovo.
Consider pre-ordering from the publisher's website or your favorite bookstore. From Kosovo to Darfur comes out in July 2025! press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...
Consider pre-ordering from the publisher's website or your favorite bookstore. From Kosovo to Darfur comes out in July 2025! press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...
From Kosovo to Darfur
Why are some violent crises more likely to prompt humanitarian military interventions than others? Conventional wisdom says that humanitarian military interventions occur due to national interests, sh...
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March 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My new book has a cover - a photo taken by a Kosovar journalist of sisters leisurely strolling by a Serbian war tank in post-conflict Kosovo.
Consider pre-ordering from the publisher's website or your favorite bookstore. From Kosovo to Darfur comes out in July 2025! press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...
Consider pre-ordering from the publisher's website or your favorite bookstore. From Kosovo to Darfur comes out in July 2025! press.umich.edu/Books/F/From...
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Worth spelling out why these high-level US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia are a bad idea (though not clear who from RU will meet with Rubio et al). Thread: 🧵 1/
Russian and U.S. officials are slated to meet in Saudi Arabia shortly to discuss ending the war.
Ukraine was not invited to the talks and will not engage with Russia without consulting their strategic partners, according to Zelenskyy.
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
Ukraine was not invited to the talks and will not engage with Russia without consulting their strategic partners, according to Zelenskyy.
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
Trump team to start Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia
Zelenskiy wants a U.S.-Europe joint strategy before any meeting with Putin and Trump.
www.reuters.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Worth spelling out why these high-level US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia are a bad idea (though not clear who from RU will meet with Rubio et al). Thread: 🧵 1/
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The data at USAID's ForeignAssistance dot gov was removed over the weekend, but it seems to be back (for now). As a backup, I've uploaded the data both as static CSV files and a queryable API
- Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis...
- API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com
- Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis...
- API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The data at USAID's ForeignAssistance dot gov was removed over the weekend, but it seems to be back (for now). As a backup, I've uploaded the data both as static CSV files and a queryable API
- Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis...
- API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com
- Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis...
- API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com
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As someone from the Balkans I regret to inform you that the tolerance of the average public for being utterly brutalized by their government(s) for the most fantastical and asinine reasons is far greater than you may anticipate. Sectarianism is a hell of a drug, alas.
January 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
As someone from the Balkans I regret to inform you that the tolerance of the average public for being utterly brutalized by their government(s) for the most fantastical and asinine reasons is far greater than you may anticipate. Sectarianism is a hell of a drug, alas.
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If only there were a word for cutting off and illegally replacing the head of executive authority in a regime.
Not one American voted for the person who is laying waste to the federal government and hijacking the secure data of US citizens.
I just wanted to lay it out: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I just wanted to lay it out: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
February 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If only there were a word for cutting off and illegally replacing the head of executive authority in a regime.
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The Hamilton Project at @brookings.edu has published a daily federal outlay tracker, showing whether agencies & federal projects are being funded. Something that in the past would have been overkill & in the weeds, but in the current moment feels essential. www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
Tracking federal expenditures in real time - The Hamilton Project
This tool will update daily at 4 p.m. ET on weekdays, excluding federal holidays. Weekly data will update once the previous full week’s data are complete. On January 27, the Trump administration orde...
www.hamiltonproject.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Hamilton Project at @brookings.edu has published a daily federal outlay tracker, showing whether agencies & federal projects are being funded. Something that in the past would have been overkill & in the weeds, but in the current moment feels essential. www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
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A reminder that on this site folks may be aware that Trump got basically nothing new or substantive from Mexico or Canada but over on the other place, and out in parts of the real world, the GOP are successfully and ruthlessly spinning these as wins. They are messaging masters, Dems aren’t. Sorry 🤷🏽♂️
February 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
A reminder that on this site folks may be aware that Trump got basically nothing new or substantive from Mexico or Canada but over on the other place, and out in parts of the real world, the GOP are successfully and ruthlessly spinning these as wins. They are messaging masters, Dems aren’t. Sorry 🤷🏽♂️
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"We’re abandoning all pretense that society and government provide tangible benefits so you can be free to pick your favorite Hobbesian adjective and return to the animal state that best suits your solitary brutishness."
Project 2025 Was Inside Us All Along
“New year, new you,” they say. Well, Project 2025 is going to make what’s new actually really fucking old. Like listeria- and child labor-old. The ...
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January 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"We’re abandoning all pretense that society and government provide tangible benefits so you can be free to pick your favorite Hobbesian adjective and return to the animal state that best suits your solitary brutishness."
“The Albanians have been born to resist and disobey.” - Dursam Bey, the second siege of Kruja.
Here's to the thousands of years of Albanian resistance and disobedience that led us to this day. And to many thousands more, should the fates require it.
Happy Albanian Independence Day! 🇦🇱 🇽🇰 ❤
Here's to the thousands of years of Albanian resistance and disobedience that led us to this day. And to many thousands more, should the fates require it.
Happy Albanian Independence Day! 🇦🇱 🇽🇰 ❤
November 28, 2024 at 5:35 PM
“The Albanians have been born to resist and disobey.” - Dursam Bey, the second siege of Kruja.
Here's to the thousands of years of Albanian resistance and disobedience that led us to this day. And to many thousands more, should the fates require it.
Happy Albanian Independence Day! 🇦🇱 🇽🇰 ❤
Here's to the thousands of years of Albanian resistance and disobedience that led us to this day. And to many thousands more, should the fates require it.
Happy Albanian Independence Day! 🇦🇱 🇽🇰 ❤
A rainy Saturday filled with grading deserves a little pastry magic 🪄 🧁
November 23, 2024 at 9:35 PM
A rainy Saturday filled with grading deserves a little pastry magic 🪄 🧁
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🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy
Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.
mikeyoungacademy.dk
November 14, 2024 at 1:46 PM
🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
November 23, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
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AI is just three trillion logistic regressions in a trench coat.
May 2, 2024 at 4:40 PM
AI is just three trillion logistic regressions in a trench coat.
Grateful to be the 2024 Distinguished Faculty Research Award recipient. I'm so lucky to work alongside such innovative, kind, and productive scholars and educators at BSU:
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May 2, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Grateful to be the 2024 Distinguished Faculty Research Award recipient. I'm so lucky to work alongside such innovative, kind, and productive scholars and educators at BSU:
www.bridgew.edu/news-events/...
www.bridgew.edu/news-events/...