Ned Dobos

🕊️ What risks undermining a state’s commitment to peace? In his #openaccess article, @Ned_Dobos explores 3 behaviours that erode peace before conflict erupts: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iia…

Some thoughts on recruiting older people into the military

In light of what is known about the average young adults’ undeveloped capacity for moral reasoning, it seems we are still allocating the task of killing and dying for the state to a vulnerable group.@Ned_Dobos #auspol #ADF johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08/s…

You can't put a price on national security

National security academics every grant season

answering the religion question on the next census

now that I'm on long service leave I can finally dedicate some time to my true calling: national security memes

@redunley Now do a survey on ADF members' attitudes towards the public

For anyone interested in public attitudes towards the ADF, the full report from the survey we conducted at UNSW Canberra is now out. unsw.edu.au/canberra/about…

📢JPN 3:1 now out. Includes articles on uncivil #obedience, unarmed civilian protection (#UCP), counter #misogyny, #German pacifism, & Martin Luther King (#MLK), plus 2 book reviews ➡️ brill.com/view/journals/…

@RNeilsen1 @CUNY w00t!

ELATED to be starting as an Assistant Professor in International Security at the Marxe School of Public & International Affairs, Baruch College @CUNY!! So very proud to be joining such a historic, social justice minded uni, & unbelievably thankful to all those who supported me 🗽

This is an excellent & important book @luke_glanville @jamespattison, congrats

📢New article just published with @BritJPIR mapping both tensions & overlaps betw #anarchism & #pacifism, including on effectiveness of #nonviolence, questionable compromises, censorship within movements, flirting with #violence, & radicalism: doi.org/10.1177/136914….

Paywalled, but WTAF?!!!

Order @osmastro's new book today to add to your summer reading list!

📰 Read Dr Ned Dobos' piece in The Conversation on the recent decision to allow citizens from New Zealand, the US, the UK and Canada to serve in the Australian Defence Force unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/…

Delighted to have this new article published: 'Before algorithmic Armageddon: anticipating immediate risks to restraint when AI infiltrates decisions to wage war'. I argue that reliance on AI-enabled... tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @ANUBellSchool, @ANUasiapacific, @LeverhulmeCFI 1/3

As policymakers face the challenge of simultaneously responding to multiple mass atrocities, where should states direct their attention & resources? @Luke_Glanville & @JamesPattison offer 3 suggestions for prioritizing where to protect in the @EIAJournal. carnegiecouncil.co/4bqYoI3

Another must read from @ccoyne1 & @Abigail_R_Hall

📰Paul Wilson reflects on origins & role of #martinlutherking's #nonviolent #personalism as a reason why he chose to avoid the 'backfire problem': doi.org/10.1163/277278…