Owen D Thomas

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: t1p.de/pgzmo

New article! A Radical Inquiry, Tamed: The Sebastopol Committee of 1855 - now online open access in Critical Military Studies. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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

@jamcjo @bleddb @SteveCooke @DrHDexter @DrKellyStaples @AlexWaddan @VmBasham @owendavidthomas oh GOD

Can someone please explain the appeal of sparkling water to me? Is it the whole punishingly grown-up aesthetic? Like, if you’re going fizzy, have you heard of Dr Pepper?

🚨 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. warningsfromthearchive.exeter.ac.uk/2022/08/12/wft…

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. jobs.ac.uk/job/CQG011/lec…

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!

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

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

Ordering disorder: The making of world politics @RISjnl Very interesting piece by my brilliant @exeterpolitics colleague @owendavidthomas co-authored with @VmBasham and Jamie Johnson bit.ly/37M7VOr

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 🧵 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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...

🚨 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...

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 doi.org/10.1177/026339…

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

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

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

We're excited to announce our upcoming online conference 'Intelligence, surveillance & oversight: tracing connections & contestations'! Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/intelligence…

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. jobs.ac.uk/job/CJC135/pos…

📢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. tinyurl.com/4rtj8vjm