William Nomikos
@wnomikos.bsky.social
peacebuilding, climate change and conflict, domestic politics and foreign policy || Assistant Professor of Political Science @UCSB || williamgnomikos.com || Previously @Yale @WashU
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William Nomikos
@wnomikos.bsky.social
· Jan 15
My book, "Local Peace, International Builders," is now OUT.
It examines the conditions under which international actors successfully bring order, peace, and stability to fragile settings.
To read more about each chapter and download the book OPEN ACCESS: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace
It examines the conditions under which international actors successfully bring order, peace, and stability to fragile settings.
To read more about each chapter and download the book OPEN ACCESS: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace
'Local Peace, International Builders - How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace from the Bottom Up' by @wnomikos.bsky.social.
Demonstrates how legacies of colonialism shape the effectiveness of international interventions, peacekeeping, and statebuilding in the 21st century.
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Demonstrates how legacies of colonialism shape the effectiveness of international interventions, peacekeeping, and statebuilding in the 21st century.
📚 cup.org/4jtWATl 📚
"Local Peace, International Builders" demonstrates how legacies of colonialism shape the effectiveness of international interventions, peacekeeping, and statebuilding in the 21st century.
A quick thread summarizing how I do this over the course of the chapters of the book 🧵
A quick thread summarizing how I do this over the course of the chapters of the book 🧵
I have no idea what’s going on with US foreign policy. What a dangerous disaster. Just total chaos. I can’t believe it’s just year 1.
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I have no idea what’s going on with US foreign policy. What a dangerous disaster. Just total chaos. I can’t believe it’s just year 1.
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You know #Geothermal has at last made the <> when @newyorker.com runs a long read!
Brilliant reporting by Rivka Galchen with quotes from @leahstokes.bsky.social @gwagner.com @timlatimer.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Brilliant reporting by Rivka Galchen with quotes from @leahstokes.bsky.social @gwagner.com @timlatimer.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy
It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution.
www.newyorker.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
You know #Geothermal has at last made the <> when @newyorker.com runs a long read!
Brilliant reporting by Rivka Galchen with quotes from @leahstokes.bsky.social @gwagner.com @timlatimer.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Brilliant reporting by Rivka Galchen with quotes from @leahstokes.bsky.social @gwagner.com @timlatimer.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Very clear to know what to do for next shutdown fight but, since GOP obviously won’t fund subsidies, Dems *should* pick the same fight and have as a goal for Republicans to nuke the filibuster. The problem is that even if that’s issued as a direct threat to GOP, Dems won’t have credibility.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Very clear to know what to do for next shutdown fight but, since GOP obviously won’t fund subsidies, Dems *should* pick the same fight and have as a goal for Republicans to nuke the filibuster. The problem is that even if that’s issued as a direct threat to GOP, Dems won’t have credibility.
Good luck with the dictatorship my guy. Doesn’t matter how corrupt or abusive you are if people have had enough and are willing to make those preference clear.
Keep it up everyone!
Keep it up everyone!
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Good luck with the dictatorship my guy. Doesn’t matter how corrupt or abusive you are if people have had enough and are willing to make those preference clear.
Keep it up everyone!
Keep it up everyone!
Gelman’s answer is essentially “no under most reasonable scenarios.” Worth the full read for the nuance.
If Cuomo had been able to run against Mamdani head-to-head, would he have won?
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If Cuomo had been able to run against Mamdani head-to-head, would he have won? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Gelman’s answer is essentially “no under most reasonable scenarios.” Worth the full read for the nuance.
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Unbelievable to be here, more than a decade later, and all of the efforts of the international community to prevent a West African Afghanistan in Mali might be for naught. All of the fighting—literal and metaphorical—that Malians have done for naught.
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Unbelievable to be here, more than a decade later, and all of the efforts of the international community to prevent a West African Afghanistan in Mali might be for naught. All of the fighting—literal and metaphorical—that Malians have done for naught.
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
Just casually dropping in people like Lina Khan as transition co-chair.
I think Mamdani isn’t listening to the people who said he can’t/won’t do the things he talked about.
Looks like he’ll try!
I think Mamdani isn’t listening to the people who said he can’t/won’t do the things he talked about.
Looks like he’ll try!
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Just casually dropping in people like Lina Khan as transition co-chair.
I think Mamdani isn’t listening to the people who said he can’t/won’t do the things he talked about.
Looks like he’ll try!
I think Mamdani isn’t listening to the people who said he can’t/won’t do the things he talked about.
Looks like he’ll try!
Unbelievable to be here, more than a decade later, and all of the efforts of the international community to prevent a West African Afghanistan in Mali might be for naught. All of the fighting—literal and metaphorical—that Malians have done for naught.
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Unbelievable to be here, more than a decade later, and all of the efforts of the international community to prevent a West African Afghanistan in Mali might be for naught. All of the fighting—literal and metaphorical—that Malians have done for naught.
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
I’ll write more soon but some thoughts: (1/5)
The big question for me is what percentage of Trump voters in 2024 did or did not vote for the Republican in this election. The question is more about non-voters who stayed home rather than voters that chose an alternative candidate. Does anyone have that data?
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The big question for me is what percentage of Trump voters in 2024 did or did not vote for the Republican in this election. The question is more about non-voters who stayed home rather than voters that chose an alternative candidate. Does anyone have that data?
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
I’m just so happy to see so many different Americans in the greatest city in the world being so excited about politics. POLITICS!!
A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I’m just so happy to see so many different Americans in the greatest city in the world being so excited about politics. POLITICS!!
McPherson does a good job contextualizing Trump/Venezuela but headline writer should probably not use “unprecedented.”
From the piece itself: “From 1915 to 1934, for example, the U.S. invaded and then occupied Haiti and may have killed as many as 11,500 people.”
And that’s just one example!
From the piece itself: “From 1915 to 1934, for example, the U.S. invaded and then occupied Haiti and may have killed as many as 11,500 people.”
And that’s just one example!
Trump’s squeeze of Venezuela goes beyond ‘Monroe doctrine’ – in ideology, intent and scale, it’s unprecedented
@us.theconversation.com
Alan McPherson
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Alan McPherson
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Trump’s squeeze of Venezuela goes beyond ‘Monroe doctrine’ – in ideology, intent and scale, it’s unprecedented
A US military buildup in the Caribbean after weeks of naval strikes is both the latest case of intervention in Latin America and uniquely aggressive in key ways.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
McPherson does a good job contextualizing Trump/Venezuela but headline writer should probably not use “unprecedented.”
From the piece itself: “From 1915 to 1934, for example, the U.S. invaded and then occupied Haiti and may have killed as many as 11,500 people.”
And that’s just one example!
From the piece itself: “From 1915 to 1934, for example, the U.S. invaded and then occupied Haiti and may have killed as many as 11,500 people.”
And that’s just one example!
Ultimately the difference between Dems and GOP is that when the Dems got power in the 21st century, they passed huge and important policy bills instead of making institutional changes that would lock them in power for the next quarter century. Probably a little short-sighted in retrospect.
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ultimately the difference between Dems and GOP is that when the Dems got power in the 21st century, they passed huge and important policy bills instead of making institutional changes that would lock them in power for the next quarter century. Probably a little short-sighted in retrospect.
Wait what’s happening?
Trump says he's instructing the Department of Defense to prepare for military action against Nigeria
November 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Wait what’s happening?
For all my Santa Barbara-based connections: here is a great place to go this week to donate, volunteer, and just help out as the Federal government chooses to cut SNAP benefits:
foodbanksbc.org
foodbanksbc.org
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foodbanksbc.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For all my Santa Barbara-based connections: here is a great place to go this week to donate, volunteer, and just help out as the Federal government chooses to cut SNAP benefits:
foodbanksbc.org
foodbanksbc.org
They just don't care about democracy or accountability or anything like it.
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?
MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
They just don't care about democracy or accountability or anything like it.
This is an open call for starting a civil war. It’s a little weird he is on TV saying this, as if there isn’t an internal mechanism by which he can inform ICE.
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is an open call for starting a civil war. It’s a little weird he is on TV saying this, as if there isn’t an internal mechanism by which he can inform ICE.
I think that’s right—Trump has shown that the constitution has failed in one of its critical goals: restraining a would-be king. The judicial and legislative branches and states seem relatively powerless against the power of a determined executive. Not sure what else is left.
Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I think that’s right—Trump has shown that the constitution has failed in one of its critical goals: restraining a would-be king. The judicial and legislative branches and states seem relatively powerless against the power of a determined executive. Not sure what else is left.
Lost in the gold: Trump, donors, and friends (?!) paying for ballroom. What?
Between this and suing the Justice Department, we are entering into some wild levels of corruption here.
Between this and suing the Justice Department, we are entering into some wild levels of corruption here.
Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Lost in the gold: Trump, donors, and friends (?!) paying for ballroom. What?
Between this and suing the Justice Department, we are entering into some wild levels of corruption here.
Between this and suing the Justice Department, we are entering into some wild levels of corruption here.
It’s a new international system. I hope we like it—this is what’s now there.
Sahel convos shifting quickly to the "day after" scenarios. After the fall of Bamako. Not a silly possibility anymore. Western capitals visibly don't care
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It’s a new international system. I hope we like it—this is what’s now there.
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Sahel convos shifting quickly to the "day after" scenarios. After the fall of Bamako. Not a silly possibility anymore. Western capitals visibly don't care
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Sahel convos shifting quickly to the "day after" scenarios. After the fall of Bamako. Not a silly possibility anymore. Western capitals visibly don't care
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Big lead for Prop 50 in a new CBS/YouGov poll: 62% yes, 38% no. www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
October 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Big lead for Prop 50 in a new CBS/YouGov poll: 62% yes, 38% no. www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
I know time travel is technically impossible but pretty sure I just went back to 2010 after hearing the Björk/Dirty Projectors at the top of this excellent 60 songs episode on Vampire Weekend @harvilla.bsky.social
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“A-Punk”—Vampire Weekend
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October 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I know time travel is technically impossible but pretty sure I just went back to 2010 after hearing the Björk/Dirty Projectors at the top of this excellent 60 songs episode on Vampire Weekend @harvilla.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/4aaX...
open.spotify.com/episode/4aaX...