Order in Civil Wars, Counterinsurgency, (@COIN_Doctrines), Ceasefires, NE India. Co-Ed @JournalofCW. @BDPeaceAndDev. Guitars. LUFC. @alexwaterman.bsky.social
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Early Christmas present! Very excited to have signed a contract with Oxford University Press to publish "Managing Insurgency: Counterinsurgency and Order Negotiation in Northeast India."
Watch this space in 2026!
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I think a lot of Premier League fans will disconnect from following football on a weekly basis if the sanctions aren’t in line with the seriousness of the charges. It’s a dangerous path. We cant be expected to watch a fraudulent league for decades
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If Man City don’t receive strong enough sanctions all other Premier League clubs should just pull rank and refuse to play them.
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Unless it has been determined that this wasn’t what it initially looked like, I’m at a loss for words here.
Five men arrested near RAF Fairford to be released on bail, head of UK counter-terror police says bbc.in/4yue09h
Fascinating work on the functioning of armed orders and rebel economic participation as part of our @JournalofCW special issue on rebel financing and the financialisation of rebel governance (coedited by Ilyssa Yahmi and @irwintanya)
I’m really happy to share that “It’s Not About the Money”: Rebel Group Participation in the Formal Economy as Credible Commitment” is available online at @JournalofCW. A quick 🧵 of highlights 1/7:
doi.org/10.1080/13698249.202…
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This is part of the SI “Rebel and Armed Group Financing and the Financialisation of Rebel
Governance,” featuring path-breaking articles on civil war economies. Big, big thank you to @ilyssa_y, @irwintanya,@PolViolence,@_AlexWaterman for organising the SI! 6/7
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My first sole-authored article, “Comparing Sunni and Shi’a Rebel Financing in Iraq: Case Studies of ISIS and Kata’ib Hezbollah,” published in Civil Wars.
@journalofCW @irwintanya @_AlexWaterman @polviolence @ilyssa_y #rebelfinance #civilwarsjournal
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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#RebelFinance research just took a major step forward, thanks to the efforts of @journalofCW @irwintanya @_AlexWaterman @polviolence and @ilyssa_y.
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The exact opposite of what Labour heavyweight, Denis Healey, said in 1969:
“Once we cut defence expenditure to the extent where our security is imperilled, we have no houses, we have no hospitals, we have no schools. We have a heap of cinders.”
🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham suggests he won't cut benefits to pay for defence spending
"National security cannot come at the expense of social security"
#PMQs
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The only sensible choice. Moscow understands that we must protect the Triple Lock through at least one more election cycle (and will surely honour it as the ballistic missiles fall on UK comms infrastructure etc).
Healey to shelve his own defence spending target of 3% of GDP by 2030 ft.trib.al/5HUNGS9
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So happy that the UK government uses the same alert system which tells you if you’re about to get nuked to ask you to please not have a bbq
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Just in case you missed it - this is the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff failing to confirm that the British Army could deploy 1000 troops to the continent of Europe.
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"Oh shit, we're f****d."
If you can pull yourself away from bloody Iran & read just one article on Ukraine, please let it be this one, by the consistently right @edwardlucas:
“We are on a collision course with a fast rearming Russia”
General Sir Roland Walker, head of 🇬🇧 army.
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Obviously we laugh at and mock these people, but in all seriousness I do find it very concerning how through nothing more than social media conspiracy slop, Russia has been able to turn a small but significant portion of British society into literal fifth columnists.
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Me & @_AlexWaterman write @SAVoices .Major Takeaways:
– Security must come before development in Manipur.
– Violence keeps stalling growth & connectivity projects.
– Bodoland shows unified security > fragmented ceasefires.
@avasudeva_87
@andrewjgordan @PMOIndia @manipurmygov
Development cannot precede security in India's Northeast, argue @_AlexWaterman and @gaurav15_isk in their engaging analysis of Modi's Ashtalakshmi vision amid enduring challenges in Manipur. southasianvoices.org/pol-m-o…
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Development cannot precede security in India's Northeast, argue @_AlexWaterman and @gaurav15_isk in their engaging analysis of Modi's Ashtalakshmi vision amid enduring challenges in Manipur. southasianvoices.org/pol-m-o…