Srinjoy Bose
@srinjoybose.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @UNSW | Associate Editor @austjia.bsky.social | Snr Fellow @cornellbtpi.bsky.social | Pol order & violence, rebel gov, statebuilding & peacebuilding, drones, Global South | https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-srinjoy-bose
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Srinjoy Bose
@srinjoybose.bsky.social
· May 26
Racial Bias and Public Support for US Drone Strikes
Critics argue that public support for US drone strikes is racially biased. We assess this claim by fielding two separate image-based survey experiments among representative samples of Americans. Th...
www.tandfonline.com
🚨New publication alert!🚨
Paul Lushenko, Keith Carter & I write about racial bias & public support for US drone strikes in Security Studies journal. 1/4
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paul Lushenko, Keith Carter & I write about racial bias & public support for US drone strikes in Security Studies journal. 1/4
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades.
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
The Politics of Hunger in Sudan – Transition Magazine
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades.
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
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🚨 My article, with Jessica Wolfendale and Chris Elliott, is now available (open access) with @risjnl.bsky.social.
We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read!
cup.org/49gmlUi
We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read!
cup.org/49gmlUi
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
🚨 My article, with Jessica Wolfendale and Chris Elliott, is now available (open access) with @risjnl.bsky.social.
We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read!
cup.org/49gmlUi
We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read!
cup.org/49gmlUi
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New Yorker article very much worth reading: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
New Yorker article very much worth reading: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
Haha. Watching the frantic meltdown is entertaining. And, goat is delish!
"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands."
hold up. tell me more about that
hold up. tell me more about that
This guy
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Haha. Watching the frantic meltdown is entertaining. And, goat is delish!
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genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
"And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires.... An entire history across Palestine of Israeli impunity and dominion, one of repetitive ethnic cleansing, military rule, expansion of settlements...is erased, again." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires.... An entire history across Palestine of Israeli impunity and dominion, one of repetitive ethnic cleansing, military rule, expansion of settlements...is erased, again." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Adam Przeworski.
www.dissentmagazine.org
September 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
LMAO. Sums up Klein - his (feigned) intellect, gaslighting, and the deep rot at the centre of his worldview and politics.
October 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
LMAO. Sums up Klein - his (feigned) intellect, gaslighting, and the deep rot at the centre of his worldview and politics.
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Mathieu Aikins on his 4-part series in the NYT today (totalling 25,000 words of investigative reporting) on crime and impunity in the US Special Forces and its domestic blowback now.
He provides gift links for all four articles.
mattaikins.substack.com/p/how-a-lawl...
He provides gift links for all four articles.
mattaikins.substack.com/p/how-a-lawl...
How a lawless war overseas came home to the US
Crime and Impunity in the Special Forces
mattaikins.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Mathieu Aikins on his 4-part series in the NYT today (totalling 25,000 words of investigative reporting) on crime and impunity in the US Special Forces and its domestic blowback now.
He provides gift links for all four articles.
mattaikins.substack.com/p/how-a-lawl...
He provides gift links for all four articles.
mattaikins.substack.com/p/how-a-lawl...
Honoured to have contributed 2 chapters - "Exiting Afghanistan: Presidential Narratives, US Exceptionalism, and 'Othering' Afghans" and "Statebuilding in Afghanistan: a State-Society Relational Approach" - to this volume, which features sharp analyses by some of the foremost experts on Afghanistan.
August 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Honoured to have contributed 2 chapters - "Exiting Afghanistan: Presidential Narratives, US Exceptionalism, and 'Othering' Afghans" and "Statebuilding in Afghanistan: a State-Society Relational Approach" - to this volume, which features sharp analyses by some of the foremost experts on Afghanistan.
Thrilled & honoured to join @austjia.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. I look forward to working w/ a stellar team led by @joannewallis.bsky.social & @timlegrand.bsky.social, & helping the journal cement its growing global reputation.
Delighted to have Assoc. Prof. Srinjoy Bose from UNSW as Assoc. Ed. Srinjoy works in Critical Peace/ Security Studies including, political order and violence, rebel governance, political economy of statebuilding & peacebuilding, & global governance of military technologies. /3
August 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Thrilled & honoured to join @austjia.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. I look forward to working w/ a stellar team led by @joannewallis.bsky.social & @timlegrand.bsky.social, & helping the journal cement its growing global reputation.
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Absolutely shameful.
Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban
Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation.
We're talking upwards of 250k Afghans here.
Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban
Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation.
We're talking upwards of 250k Afghans here.
Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban
Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Absolutely shameful.
Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban
Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation.
We're talking upwards of 250k Afghans here.
Afghans promised a home in U.S. may face repatriation — and the Taliban
Afghans who helped American forces are stuck in limbo as the Trump administration cuts the State Department office for Afghan relocation.
We're talking upwards of 250k Afghans here.
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Excited to share a new open-access article with @benckrick.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social, "Civilian Harm & Military Legitimacy" www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... This project started in 2018 Mosul, Iraq’s 2nd largest city, in the aftermath of a 9-month battle … 1/7
July 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Excited to share a new open-access article with @benckrick.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social, "Civilian Harm & Military Legitimacy" www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... This project started in 2018 Mosul, Iraq’s 2nd largest city, in the aftermath of a 9-month battle … 1/7
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Does higher state capacity go together with lower risk of democratic breakdown? Many political scientists certainly believe so!
Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Does higher state capacity go together with lower risk of democratic breakdown? Many political scientists certainly believe so!
Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
Yet, in an article just published in @polstudies.bsky.social , David Andersen, @skaaning.bsky.social and I highlight important nuances to this general relationship.
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🚨New publication alert!🚨
Co-authored paper on Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico is out w/ @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social. Henry Nott & I trace the actions of the Zapatistas to changes in the behaviour of the EZLN (generating transformations in governance).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Co-authored paper on Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico is out w/ @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social. Henry Nott & I trace the actions of the Zapatistas to changes in the behaviour of the EZLN (generating transformations in governance).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Understanding Change in Non-State Armed Group Behaviour: Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico
Unlike other studies of non-state armed groups (NSAGs) that draw significance from the perspective of the state or international security, this article focuses on the perspective and agency of the ...
www.tandfonline.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🚨New publication alert!🚨
Co-authored paper on Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico is out w/ @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social. Henry Nott & I trace the actions of the Zapatistas to changes in the behaviour of the EZLN (generating transformations in governance).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Co-authored paper on Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico is out w/ @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social. Henry Nott & I trace the actions of the Zapatistas to changes in the behaviour of the EZLN (generating transformations in governance).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Iraq 2003, Iran 2025. The same playbook. And don't forget Netanyahu's role, back then, in encouraging G.W. Bush to invade either.
June 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Iraq 2003, Iran 2025. The same playbook. And don't forget Netanyahu's role, back then, in encouraging G.W. Bush to invade either.
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No better time than now to catch up on @profsaunders.bsky.social's sobering new essay on the imperial presidency and personalist rule, American-style
Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
American foreign policy in an age of unrestrained executive power.
www.foreignaffairs.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
No better time than now to catch up on @profsaunders.bsky.social's sobering new essay on the imperial presidency and personalist rule, American-style
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Example of what happens when a mainstream economist discovers structural inequality (without 'discovering' the theories to explain it): very impressive empirical documentation of it + completely out-of-touch assumptions about how to fix it (taxation, cheap debt, human capital).
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
June 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Example of what happens when a mainstream economist discovers structural inequality (without 'discovering' the theories to explain it): very impressive empirical documentation of it + completely out-of-touch assumptions about how to fix it (taxation, cheap debt, human capital).
Since the USIP website was taken down some months ago, many have requested access to a report my colleagues and I wrote on Youth Protest movements in Afghanistan. Now that the USIP is back (yay!), I'm posting the report here. www.usip.org/publications...
Youth Protest Movements in Afghanistan
The youth-led protest movements that emerged after the 2014 Afghan presidential election added a new dynamic to Afghan politics. Motivated primarily by widespread perceptions of injustice, exclusion a...
www.usip.org
June 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Since the USIP website was taken down some months ago, many have requested access to a report my colleagues and I wrote on Youth Protest movements in Afghanistan. Now that the USIP is back (yay!), I'm posting the report here. www.usip.org/publications...
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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database
In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.
wid.world
June 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
🚨New publication alert!🚨
Paul Lushenko, Keith Carter & I write about racial bias & public support for US drone strikes in Security Studies journal. 1/4
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paul Lushenko, Keith Carter & I write about racial bias & public support for US drone strikes in Security Studies journal. 1/4
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Racial Bias and Public Support for US Drone Strikes
Critics argue that public support for US drone strikes is racially biased. We assess this claim by fielding two separate image-based survey experiments among representative samples of Americans. Th...
www.tandfonline.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🚨New publication alert!🚨
Paul Lushenko, Keith Carter & I write about racial bias & public support for US drone strikes in Security Studies journal. 1/4
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paul Lushenko, Keith Carter & I write about racial bias & public support for US drone strikes in Security Studies journal. 1/4
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"One of the best books I've read on Latin America, and it is the best comparative analysis I've read of the origins of democracy"
The Birth of Democracy in South America by Raúl L. Madrid, coming soon in #OpenAccess
#Politics #BookSky #LatinAmericanPolitics
cup.org/4kfxMhu
The Birth of Democracy in South America by Raúl L. Madrid, coming soon in #OpenAccess
#Politics #BookSky #LatinAmericanPolitics
cup.org/4kfxMhu
The Birth of Democracy in South America
Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - The Birth of Democracy in South America
cup.org
May 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"One of the best books I've read on Latin America, and it is the best comparative analysis I've read of the origins of democracy"
The Birth of Democracy in South America by Raúl L. Madrid, coming soon in #OpenAccess
#Politics #BookSky #LatinAmericanPolitics
cup.org/4kfxMhu
The Birth of Democracy in South America by Raúl L. Madrid, coming soon in #OpenAccess
#Politics #BookSky #LatinAmericanPolitics
cup.org/4kfxMhu