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William Nomikos

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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

"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 🧵

William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · Jan 14

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

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Jan 14

'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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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 1d

lol they’ve got nothing in response to Pritzker, Johnson, and Chicago people power

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

DHS Fascism Barbie Tricia McLaughlin in response to a video of Pritzker literally walking the streets of Chicago: "Get out of your mansion. Go walk around Chicago. Go see the rampant crime."

William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 2d

I’m honestly less concerned about the military than the paramilitary/military forces Trump is sending into our cities and using to attack civilians around the country.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“Senior military leaders should have stepped in to prevent Trump from turning addresses at Fort Bragg and Norfolk into political rallies; the silence of the Army and Navy secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and some top generals and admirals is appalling…”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes somebody just has to come out and cut through the bs and just be super clear about what’s happening here.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 2d

Trump wants to jail IL gov Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Johnson and they both basically say “let him try.”

Just a horrifying abuse of Federal power. So empowering to see powerful public officials call it out and confront it.

Wow.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

For Trump, the ‘Enemy From Within’ Keeps Getting Bigger

www.nytimes.com

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 2d

Sidenote for my wonderful Chicago people: you know people hate this administration for them to come out to downtown Chicago at night…

William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 2d

Goosebumps watching this. Chicagoans fighting for this country. Mass collective action is the only thing that can keep fascism away.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not sure I have enough words for how awful this is.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 3d

Really excited to talk about my book next week at @stanfordcisac.bsky.social!

If you are around, come join!

To read the book (open access): www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

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Stanford CISAC @stanfordcisac.bsky.social · 3d

Next week: "Local Peace, International Builders: How the UN Builds Peace from the Bottom Up" with @wnomikos.bsky.social.

RSVP here⤵️
cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/local...

Local Peace, International Builders: How the UN Builds Peace from the

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 3d

I’m extremely worried about ICE or national guard employing what looks like counterinsurgency tactics in American cities. This is exactly the type of military use that turns deadly. Undertrained forces doing this in places like West Africa quickly resort to indiscriminate violence against civilians.

William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 5d

It’s amazing and frightening how quickly things can go from “feels a bit 1960” to “feels a bit 1860.”

At some point, something will give. You have to hope it’s the Republican governors or maybe the military itself?

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 7d

Wow. They’ve got nothing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Lee Zeldin: "By Democrats continuing this shutdown, not only are the sombreros gonna grow 10 feet higher on President Trump's social media accounts, but the power of these agency heads administering the president's agenda and directives, it only gets easier."

William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 7d

This is top-notch political messaging. First, the interruption to call out a lie. Second, rebutting the entire argument on the merits, adding the tidbit about the Reagan-signed law requiring hospitals to provide care (independent of whatever happens here). @mehdirhasan.bsky.social would be proud.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--

ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 9d

Thinking about @mcopelov.bsky.social Dennis Green theory of politics here

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 12d

Bouie totally right here. The only thing to add is that 2024 GOP win relied also on the structure of American electoral politics at the Presidential, House, and Senate levels that have long favored Republican politics and demographics.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

i have said this before but i think that ones view of the current political situation is fundamentally shaped by how you view the outcome of the 2024 election. was it a definitive affirmation of the MAGA worldview or a narrow, extremely contingent result?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 17d

"... reshapes our understanding of southern politics, democratic backsliding, and American political development."

Stolen Representation by Michael P. Olson, Coming Soon

Explore the first title in the Cambridge Studies in American Legislatures series

#LawSky #BookSky 🗺️ 🗃️

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 18d

Incredible stuff—can’t think of a way this could have gone worse for Trump. Great for Kimmel!

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18d

Breaking news: Jimmy Kimmel will return to television Tuesday, nearly one week after ABC took his show off the air under pressure from the Trump administration, station owners and critics over comments he made after the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Disney brings back Jimmy Kimmel, sidelined after Charlie Kirk comments

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on ABC was taken off air following backlash from President Donald Trump, FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Nexstar, Sinclair and a bevy of conservative critics.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18d

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 29d

Truly an honor and dream come true to see my book, Local Peace, International Builders, with the other Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org award winners at @apsa.bsky.social APSA 2025!

www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please share: @alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are running a Jan '26 course at @gesis.org Cologne on

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🕵️Process tracing + Bayesian inference + graphical causal models

All in two heady days.

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GESIS Training Courses

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 19d

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

The Democrats' Path Forward: Become the Anti-Corruption Party

But to reform the system they first need to reform the Democratic Party.

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 19d

I really like this as a general strategy for Dems but not sure about general claim abt corruption in comparative context.
Empirically, Putin's Russia, Bibi's Israel, PRC, among many others, prove corruption can work. Theoretically, selectorate logic also suggests corruption helps regimes last.

William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 19d

My mother had to flee the Greek dictatorship in the early 70s (to Sweden) and one of the things she would always talk about that I never understood was the regime collaborators. I see now of course, living with Trump, how easy and mainstream collaboration becomes. Wow!

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