Claire Q Smith

Snr Lecturer/Assoc Prof @uniyorkpolitics Illiberal peace, mass atrocities/resistance, ethnoreligious conflict, SE Asia, Indonesia, Myanmar. R/t for info.

[Claire Q Smith @claireqsmith]

Wonderful to have @AlpOzerdem at York for the annual YCCS lecture - speaking on why IC so prone to failure in peace processes, but reminding us how vital it is too 🕊️

[Claire Q Smith @claireqsmith]

Excellent discussion today w/host @PetraAlderman on "Pathways to Peace in Myanmar" for the 'People, Power, Politics' podcast w/Birmingham. Recording to be released early 2025, along w/project findings via the York YCCS. More soon! 🕊️ @uniyorkpolitics

https://t.co/sGLEbUuQX9

[International Affairs @IAJournal_CH]

🖋‘Looking at multiplexity allows one to include a broader array of state and non-state actors in the understanding of the world order’.

Read @AmitavAcharya (@AU_SIS), @EstevadeordalA and Louis W. Goodman’s blog to learn more 👇
https://t.co/FY0okPBpCs

[Claire Q Smith @claireqsmith]

Fantastic event organised by @CHAsiaPacific @benjaminbland with SEA and China experts sharing insights on key regional issues, with a big focus on US/China rivalry & regional security. Thank you for the invitation and looking forward to continuing the dialogue 🙏🇺🇸🇨🇳

[Ben Bland @benjaminbland]

I've been trying to organise this Dialogue for a couple of years because I believe there's much we can learn from sharing perspectives with Southeast Asian colleagues about China and other regional issues. Thanks everyone for coming. It was fun!

[Chatham House Asia-Pacific @CHAsiaPacific]

The economy will be the key issue for voters in Sri Lanka’s upcoming presidential election, set against a backdrop of geopolitical rivalry, writes @Chietigj in his latest @ChathamHouse expert comment.
https://t.co/DlM9Y7MyWH

[Yu Jie @Yu_JieC]

My latest @ProSyn "Regardless of who wins the next US Presidential election, 🇨🇳's responses to the 🇺🇸 is always a product of balanced deliberation that accounts for the state of international affairs and weighs the country’s own needs" @ChathamHouse https://t.co/s7yInoJd5F

[Chatham House @ChathamHouse]

China has shifted its economic paradigm away from chasing growth at any cost to building an economy that can cope with protracted geopolitical tensions, warns @Yu_JieC (@CHAsiaPacific) for @ProSyn. https://t.co/q6hRDPreCt

[Department of Politics and International Relations @uniyorkpolitics]

Senior lecturer @claireqsmith took part in @ChathamHouse Track 2 Policy Dialogue on China and Southeast Asia this week. Claire is pictures second row from bottom far right of the photo

[Yazda @YazdaOrg]

Yazda, together with Sinjar Academy and Free Yezidi Foundation has published a Policy Paper that dives deep into the ongoing challenges faced by the Yazidi community.
This isn’t just a document but a manifesto for action!

1/4

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Dear Donald, please continue to attack VP Harris for the way she laughs. This is a brilliant strategy to win the election.

[Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis]

I am a big fan of informal department writing retreats. Cater if you're organised, or just book a room & you're done.

This schedule works well:
9:25 Discuss aims for the day
9:30-11 Write!
11-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Write!
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Write!
(+ Opt session)

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

New in 'Transactions @RoyalHistSoc': 'Decolonising the History of Internationalism: Transnational Activism across the South', by @sulinlewis https://t.co/x11FMW2xfU

What does internationalism look like when seen from the viewpoint of the decolonising South?

#twitterstorians

[Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis]

Looking forward to this - very soon!

[Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis]

Very useful thread on events since Myanmar since the 2021 military coup

[Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis]

Speaking on #Myanmar at this at lunchtime today & legacies of colonialism. It's shocking how much it has fallen out of the global spotlight, despite thousands of deaths, almost 20,000 in prison, and 2.4 million displaced from home

[Matthias Goldmann @MattHGoldmann]

The presidential race in the US is a great occasion to revisit the impressive scholarly work of Donald J. Harris, a heterodox development economist at Stanford. I want to flag this 1975 article on "The black ghetto as a colony" (Rev. of Black Pol Econ) 1/ https://t.co/t8436J0eqV

[Brian Turner @briankturner101]

1/ A thread about James C. Scott and rivers.

It seems (?) Scott had been preparing another polymath magnum opus about rivers over the last 20 years, in addition to research on Burma.

I hope he left enough notes and drafts that his protégés & students can write something up.

[Claire Q Smith @claireqsmith]

Whatever we might think of Harris as a politician/legislator, we should be super cognisant of what she’s up against… #disinformation #democracy #womeninpolitics
https://t.co/FoOsfqV7GG

[Majella O'Dea @MajellaODea]

Democracy has gotten stronger and deeper in Ireland says @theresareidy we are now ranked in top 10 democracies in the world. @MacGillSchool #MacGill24

[MacGill Summer School @MacGillSchool]

“The vicious cycle that might emerge for Europe from this… you could see a vicious cycle of disunity, a vicious cycle where Europe is not able to handle this” from @BrigidLaffan about the effects of a second Trump term in Europe

#MacGill24

@NDIrishStudies
@UL
@NanovicND

[Poppy McPherson @poppymcp]

“Remarkably, the Myanmar crisis is a top priority for only 2 percent… only 9 percent believe Thailand should prioritize helping Myanmar citizens fleeing civil war.”

Striking TAF study - strange to see such apparent disinterest in the conflict next door. https://t.co/FS3rLHDTN4