Owen D Thomas

Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR. Leading @warning_archive on Iraq wars. Research: accountability & violence; secrecy @research_spin; scandal; inquiries; FOI

[EJIR (European Journal of International Relations) @EuroJournIR]

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

[Dr James Strong @dr_james_strong]

New article! A Radical Inquiry, Tamed: The Sebastopol Committee of 1855 - now online open access in Critical Military Studies.
https://t.co/eeRlISQQQF

[Owen D Thomas @owendavidthomas]

@MargotTudor @jamcjo @bleddb @SteveCooke @DrHDexter @DrKellyStaples @AlexWaddan @VmBasham I’ve not recovered from the last time

[Warnings from the Archive @warning_archive]

🚨 New post 🚨

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

[Jason Reifler @JasonReifler]

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

[Gabriel Katz @gabiloncho_katz]

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!

[Owen D Thomas @owendavidthomas]

@ClareStevens86 @VmBasham @jamcjo Thank you, Clare! Looking forward to catching up at a @research_SPIN meeting soon.

[Owen D Thomas @owendavidthomas]

@GBettiza @RISjnl @exeterpolitics @VmBasham Thank you, Gregorio!

[Jamie Johnson @jamcjo]

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

[Jamie Johnson @jamcjo]

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...

[Jamie Johnson @jamcjo]

🚨 ISA PANEL NEWS 🚨

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...

[Politics @JournalPolitics]

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

[Dr Margot Tudor @MargotTudor]

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

[Owen D Thomas @owendavidthomas]

@FurtadoHt I forgot the caveat ‘on a good day…’

[Owen D Thomas @owendavidthomas]

@FurtadoHt I second Duplo. Also Brio trains and magnetic tiles seem to occupy our 2.5 yr old.

[GUARDINT: Who guards the guardians? @guard_int]

We're excited to announce our upcoming online conference 'Intelligence, surveillance & oversight: tracing connections & contestations'! Register here: https://t.co/mdvFqANF5d

[Jason Reifler @JasonReifler]

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

[Owen D Thomas @owendavidthomas]

📢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

[Warnings from the Archive @warning_archive]

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