Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR. Leading @warning_archive on Iraq wars. Research: accountability & violence; secrecy @research_spin; scandal; inquiries; FOI
In their new EJIR article, Faiz Sheikh and Owen David Thomas draw on Ibn Khaldun's political thought to rethink the crisis of liberal international order— not as a problem of technique, but as an unresolved and destructive tension between LIO's claim to universalism and its entrenched whiteness.
Read it here: https://t.co/jBs2Q4F2vc
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Check out our blog to read our new working paper, 'The limits of scrutiny: official inquiries and the past, present, and future of security'! The paper was presented by @owendavidthomas in January 2022 for the @guard_int conference.
https://t.co/Dj6w0cLLru
Exeter is hiring 1 year pos in Security Studies/IR. Please spread word and encourage applications. Happy to answer questions. (I prob won’t be on committee/panel, so can be super hiring candid.)
tldr: Exeter is a great place.
https://t.co/f6zcEHaQcE
Exeter is hiring in Security Studies/IR! Come join a great team of security scholars (@HeathershawJ, Stephane Baele, @blagden_david, @owendavidthomas, etc.). 1 year pos.; deadline is 30/06!
How do ideas of tragedy, scandal and crisis circulate in global politics?
What do they reveal about how international order is configured and contested?
A short thread on a new Open Access article published in @RISjnl w/@VmBasham & @owendavidthomas 🧵
https://t.co/HFQMEPVw2O
Our second panel, entitled 'The Limits and Possibilities of Accountability', interrogates scandals as ways of processing and responding to harm and violence.
Join Zeger Verleye, @owendavidthomas, Ana Flamind, and @RoisinRead as they help us make sense of scandal's functions...
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In spite of living through a so-called 'age of outrage', the discipline of IR has surprisingly little to say about the international politics of scandal.
@VmBasham, @owendavidthomas and I have brought together some scholars who seek to remedy that...
This week marks the start of the Iraq War some 19 years ago. Here @owendavidthomas assesses the ‘Chilcot’ Inquiry, warning against accountability in terms of intent and individual culpability such as questioning whether the government deceived the public
https://t.co/P6w1nxcftG
I spent over a year building this archive with the wonderful IT team at Exeter, @owendavidthomas, and a series of brilliant RAs (@GeorgiaMealings!!!).
It’s a huge resource for those working on war, Iraq, British politics, interventionism, militarism & more! #twitterstorians
Post-doc opportunity at Exeter for a Middle East/Syria specialist working with @GRVStansfield. Please help spread the word. I don't know details, but am happy to get answers if you have questions. https://t.co/P3Bp80prrj
📢JOB ALERT! My colleague Dr Sarah Bulmer is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate for a six-month project, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, analysing life history interview data from the Military Afterlives project. Please share. https://t.co/NKjUvFF4f0
Check out our team recommendations for this week 🤔From @FranHirsch's book 'Soviet Judgment in Nuremberg' to Marouf Hasian Jr's article on Emily Hobhouse, we've been asking ourselves: what is justice and who decides what a transgression is?
https://t.co/o5dMcH5NF1