Dr Thomas Eason
@thomaseason.bsky.social
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University. Does Interpretivist Research on Foreign Policy Analysis. Currently working on Political Myth in diplomacy and foreign policy.
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Oh turns out it’s on preorder.
Loving the blurbs from early readers:
“Often laugh out loud”;
“Monty Python meets le Carré”;
Fun, fascinating and absurd;
“Spy thrillers have nothing on Fakers”
Can’t wait to share it!
www.amazon.co.uk/Fakers-Top-S...
Loving the blurbs from early readers:
“Often laugh out loud”;
“Monty Python meets le Carré”;
Fun, fascinating and absurd;
“Spy thrillers have nothing on Fakers”
Can’t wait to share it!
www.amazon.co.uk/Fakers-Top-S...
Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line: Amazon.co.uk: Cormac, Rory: 9780198917007: Books
Buy Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line by Cormac, Rory (ISBN: 9780198917007) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligib...
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October 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Oh turns out it’s on preorder.
Loving the blurbs from early readers:
“Often laugh out loud”;
“Monty Python meets le Carré”;
Fun, fascinating and absurd;
“Spy thrillers have nothing on Fakers”
Can’t wait to share it!
www.amazon.co.uk/Fakers-Top-S...
Loving the blurbs from early readers:
“Often laugh out loud”;
“Monty Python meets le Carré”;
Fun, fascinating and absurd;
“Spy thrillers have nothing on Fakers”
Can’t wait to share it!
www.amazon.co.uk/Fakers-Top-S...
Had the pleasure of attending my second Graduation ceremony at Aston University yesterday with my wonderful colleagues.
As ever, big congratulations to our PIR graduates! Also a big thanks to my colleagues for being so kind, generous and supportive in my second year here. It is a very good job!
As ever, big congratulations to our PIR graduates! Also a big thanks to my colleagues for being so kind, generous and supportive in my second year here. It is a very good job!
July 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Had the pleasure of attending my second Graduation ceremony at Aston University yesterday with my wonderful colleagues.
As ever, big congratulations to our PIR graduates! Also a big thanks to my colleagues for being so kind, generous and supportive in my second year here. It is a very good job!
As ever, big congratulations to our PIR graduates! Also a big thanks to my colleagues for being so kind, generous and supportive in my second year here. It is a very good job!
In all clips of the young Reform Councillors they all do the little Farage bounce and string puppet arm movements while talking to camera. They’ve clearly watched no end of his videos and have tried to style their delivery on him. He’s their reference point of how to do political communication.
July 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In all clips of the young Reform Councillors they all do the little Farage bounce and string puppet arm movements while talking to camera. They’ve clearly watched no end of his videos and have tried to style their delivery on him. He’s their reference point of how to do political communication.
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Increasingly certain of my opinion that “democracy” and “algorithmic social media” cannot coexist in the long term
You’re all such Bluesky dweebs reading the MSM… the thing which, as an aside, that keeps popping up unprompted in entirely unrelated conversations is…. Keir Starmer’s plan to dim the sun.
May 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Increasingly certain of my opinion that “democracy” and “algorithmic social media” cannot coexist in the long term
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New Publication Alert! Myself and @lesliewehner.bsky.social present our new paper: Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine. Available in @irjournal.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine - Sean Garrett, Leslie Wehner, 2025
This paper establishes the nexus of roles and policy from the perspective of foreign policy role theory. This relationship has been usually assumed but rarely u...
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April 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
New Publication Alert! Myself and @lesliewehner.bsky.social present our new paper: Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine. Available in @irjournal.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
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More @nottspolitics.bsky.social jobs. We are seeking to appoint 3 Teaching Associates in Politics and International Relations. These full-time, fixed-term posts are available from 1 September 2025 until 30 June 2026.
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April 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
More @nottspolitics.bsky.social jobs. We are seeking to appoint 3 Teaching Associates in Politics and International Relations. These full-time, fixed-term posts are available from 1 September 2025 until 30 June 2026.
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📖 Congratulations to @nottspolitics.bsky.social' Dr Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social on the publication of his new co-edited book 'Intelligence, Security and the State: Reviewing the British Intelligence Community'
Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnkdas
@uonresearch.bsky.social
Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnkdas
@uonresearch.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
📖 Congratulations to @nottspolitics.bsky.social' Dr Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social on the publication of his new co-edited book 'Intelligence, Security and the State: Reviewing the British Intelligence Community'
Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnkdas
@uonresearch.bsky.social
Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnkdas
@uonresearch.bsky.social
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👀 @NottsPolitics are looking for a fixed term Teaching Associate in Security Studies.
Fancy joining us? Applications close on 28th April 2025.
More details here ⏬️
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN031/t...
Fancy joining us? Applications close on 28th April 2025.
More details here ⏬️
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN031/t...
Teaching Associate in Political Science at University of Nottingham
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April 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
👀 @NottsPolitics are looking for a fixed term Teaching Associate in Security Studies.
Fancy joining us? Applications close on 28th April 2025.
More details here ⏬️
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN031/t...
Fancy joining us? Applications close on 28th April 2025.
More details here ⏬️
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN031/t...
Finally hit the big time and got a review back that accused me of not engaging enough with my own work, or understanding what it did.
March 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Finally hit the big time and got a review back that accused me of not engaging enough with my own work, or understanding what it did.
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Not only is this crass, it is highly significant.
Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe.
And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk.
They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.
Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe.
And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk.
They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.
March 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Not only is this crass, it is highly significant.
Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe.
And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk.
They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.
Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe.
And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk.
They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.
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Tax rises will be unpopular, but I will keep arguing to the hilt that if you were going to do it, DO IT NOW.
Trump dragging the US into appeasement and kleptocracy; Ukraine being abandoned, Europe on the edge. The case for tax rises and even radical reform is now, whilse these are at the forefront.
Trump dragging the US into appeasement and kleptocracy; Ukraine being abandoned, Europe on the edge. The case for tax rises and even radical reform is now, whilse these are at the forefront.
Urgent need for European leaders to communicate realities of Trump 2.0 era to citizens:
- US is a different sort of power now
- old taboos will need to be broken
- there will be trade-offs
- challenges are big, not insurmountable
Macron's address represents the 1st major intervention in that vein.
- US is a different sort of power now
- old taboos will need to be broken
- there will be trade-offs
- challenges are big, not insurmountable
Macron's address represents the 1st major intervention in that vein.
Macron tonight:
- We are entering a new era
- Our security is menaced
- The Russian menace is here; Russian aggressiveness knows no borders
- Who can think today's Russia will stop at Ukraine's borders?
- We may need to deploy European troops in Ukraine, once peace is signed
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- We are entering a new era
- Our security is menaced
- The Russian menace is here; Russian aggressiveness knows no borders
- Who can think today's Russia will stop at Ukraine's borders?
- We may need to deploy European troops in Ukraine, once peace is signed
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March 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Tax rises will be unpopular, but I will keep arguing to the hilt that if you were going to do it, DO IT NOW.
Trump dragging the US into appeasement and kleptocracy; Ukraine being abandoned, Europe on the edge. The case for tax rises and even radical reform is now, whilse these are at the forefront.
Trump dragging the US into appeasement and kleptocracy; Ukraine being abandoned, Europe on the edge. The case for tax rises and even radical reform is now, whilse these are at the forefront.
The US has a fascist government.
Trudeau: He has said repeatedly, what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy. Because that will make it easier to annex us. First of all, that's never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state.
March 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The US has a fascist government.
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A lot of people are going to have to get used to the reality that America is no longer our closest ally.
March 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A lot of people are going to have to get used to the reality that America is no longer our closest ally.
Let’s start a bottom up movement on this - if you’re asked to be a discussant, either decline and say the panel will be better without it, or agree but then just go to Q&A on the day.
No one wants to listen to what the discussant thinks about every paper on the already overrunning panel.
No one wants to listen to what the discussant thinks about every paper on the already overrunning panel.
Petition to scrap discussants from conference panels, just eats onto Q&A.
March 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Let’s start a bottom up movement on this - if you’re asked to be a discussant, either decline and say the panel will be better without it, or agree but then just go to Q&A on the day.
No one wants to listen to what the discussant thinks about every paper on the already overrunning panel.
No one wants to listen to what the discussant thinks about every paper on the already overrunning panel.
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If this isn’t a humiliation for Britain and its decision to send troops and “stand shoulder to shoulder” with the United States in every war they’ve fought since 1990 then I don’t know what is.
NEW: JD Vance describes UK & French troops in Ukraine as “20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.
Spits in the face of UK & EU troops that died supporting the US in Iraq & Afghanistan.
So revealing. The Atlantic alliance & “special relationship” is dead.
Spits in the face of UK & EU troops that died supporting the US in Iraq & Afghanistan.
So revealing. The Atlantic alliance & “special relationship” is dead.
March 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
If this isn’t a humiliation for Britain and its decision to send troops and “stand shoulder to shoulder” with the United States in every war they’ve fought since 1990 then I don’t know what is.
Petition to scrap discussants from conference panels, just eats onto Q&A.
March 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Petition to scrap discussants from conference panels, just eats onto Q&A.
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Come and join my research team at Aston University! We are hiring a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant for a new ESRC funded project on ‘Disaster Impact, Risk Reduction and Regime Type in Southeast Asia’. More details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV236/p...
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant/Associate at Aston University
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February 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Come and join my research team at Aston University! We are hiring a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant for a new ESRC funded project on ‘Disaster Impact, Risk Reduction and Regime Type in Southeast Asia’. More details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV236/p...
Had a great time presenting our paper ‘Myth Diplomacy: Ukraine’s use of myth as a diplomatic tool following the Russian invasion’ at #ISA2025. Very happy it went down so well with the Public Diplomacy scholars.
Will be around all week so if you see me do come over for a chat or drop me a message.
Will be around all week so if you see me do come over for a chat or drop me a message.
March 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Had a great time presenting our paper ‘Myth Diplomacy: Ukraine’s use of myth as a diplomatic tool following the Russian invasion’ at #ISA2025. Very happy it went down so well with the Public Diplomacy scholars.
Will be around all week so if you see me do come over for a chat or drop me a message.
Will be around all week so if you see me do come over for a chat or drop me a message.
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Yeah...
I'm not sure the US is going to scramble F-35's and the 101st Airborne to defend their partial ownership stake in an as yet hypothetical Lithium mine that won't generate any minerals for at least a decade.
I'm not sure the US is going to scramble F-35's and the 101st Airborne to defend their partial ownership stake in an as yet hypothetical Lithium mine that won't generate any minerals for at least a decade.
It's incredible how quickly many people seem to be coming round to the idea that selling off Ukrainian natural resources to the US represents a sensible way of ensuring US engagement and thus Ukrainian security.
March 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Yeah...
I'm not sure the US is going to scramble F-35's and the 101st Airborne to defend their partial ownership stake in an as yet hypothetical Lithium mine that won't generate any minerals for at least a decade.
I'm not sure the US is going to scramble F-35's and the 101st Airborne to defend their partial ownership stake in an as yet hypothetical Lithium mine that won't generate any minerals for at least a decade.
In Chicago for #ISA2025 and struck by two things:
1) While there is plenty of coverage, different news channels are not reporting on what happened between Zelenskyy and Trump as much as expected.
2) Different news channels all regularly platform the narrative that Zelenskyy was at fault.
1) While there is plenty of coverage, different news channels are not reporting on what happened between Zelenskyy and Trump as much as expected.
2) Different news channels all regularly platform the narrative that Zelenskyy was at fault.
March 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In Chicago for #ISA2025 and struck by two things:
1) While there is plenty of coverage, different news channels are not reporting on what happened between Zelenskyy and Trump as much as expected.
2) Different news channels all regularly platform the narrative that Zelenskyy was at fault.
1) While there is plenty of coverage, different news channels are not reporting on what happened between Zelenskyy and Trump as much as expected.
2) Different news channels all regularly platform the narrative that Zelenskyy was at fault.
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A French nuclear deterrent for Europe (preferably with UK assistance) while Europe actually commits to rearmament, reindustrialization and a reduction in foreign dependence would be the best case scenario.
March 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A French nuclear deterrent for Europe (preferably with UK assistance) while Europe actually commits to rearmament, reindustrialization and a reduction in foreign dependence would be the best case scenario.
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That sound you can hear is a state visit being booted hard and, one would hope, very far into the long grass.
February 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
That sound you can hear is a state visit being booted hard and, one would hope, very far into the long grass.
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The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
war.ukraine.ua
February 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
The idea the US would be a backstop to a European tripe wire in Ukraine was always a non starter, events in the Oval Office show that Europe cannot rely on the US for defence. The US is not a reliable ally and any policy that is built on different assumptions is for a different word.
March 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The idea the US would be a backstop to a European tripe wire in Ukraine was always a non starter, events in the Oval Office show that Europe cannot rely on the US for defence. The US is not a reliable ally and any policy that is built on different assumptions is for a different word.