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Kseniya Oksamytna

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Reader (Associate Prof), City St Georges, University of London. IOs, international inequalities, international security (including Russia's war against Ukraine), peacekeeping. http://kseniya-oksamytna.com

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Kseniya Oksamytna @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social · Apr 2

📢 New dataset alert: “Introducing the UNCIPPO (UN Civilian Posts in Peacekeeping Operations) Dataset” is out in ISQ! With Jessica Di Salvatore and Katharina P. Coleman, we’ve mapped budgeted civilian personnel posts in UN peacekeeping operations by mission, unit, rank, and staff category, 1991-2020.

Introducing the UNCIPPO (UN Civilian Posts in Peacekeeping Operations) Dataset

Abstract. This research note presents a dataset on budgeted civilian personnel posts in UN peacekeeping operations by mission, unit, rank, and staff catego

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Dženeta Karabegović @dzenetakarabeg.bsky.social · 6d

My co-authored article with Iepke Rijcken and Kyoko Shinozaki, “Embodied experiences in motion: integrating the senses in research and teaching” has just been published in
@ersjournal.com as part of the Special Issue: Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 1

The “Putin wants peace” crowd, especially the “poor persecuted Russia just has some reasonable security requests” variety, really need to reckon with <gestures at all of Russia’s behavior for years>.

Peace-seekers don’t go after the bureaucrats and diplomats.

Russia is suspected of jamming navigation on EU leader’s plane above Bulgaria, an official says

A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation.

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Kseniya Oksamytna @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you’re a non-tenured scholar (PhD student, postdoc, VAP, etc.) and would like a free copy, drop me a short message outlining how it's relevant to your research

Kseniya Oksamytna @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social · Sep 1

📣 Book giveway to celebrate new academic year!

“United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism” (2025) co-authored with Sarah Von Billerbeck (@uor-research.bsky.social), @birtegippert.bsky.social & @oisintansey.bsky.social out with @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · Aug 25

Given the haunting anniversary of the Soviet-Nazi Pact, let’s bring back our insightful @associationruta.bsky.social webinar with Kseniya Oksamytna, Terrell Starr & Mart Kuldkepp about today’s reincarnations of molotovs and ribbentrops and the key lessons (to be) learned

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History is not an accident: the return of molotovs and ribbentrops? (March 7, 2025)

YouTube video by The Ruta Association

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Aug 2

The sad and fundamental truth is that neither the Obama administration nor the Clinton campaign took Russian electoral interference seriously, meaning that now, a decade on, Russia’s man keeps trying to prove that he’s not.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows

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Dietmar Pichler @dietmarpichler.bsky.social · Jul 28

Dear Faculty ITC University Twente;

How can you ask Ukrainian citizens who were born in the 1980s to register as “born in Russia”?

This is unbelievable, especially in 2025! Even if you require “Soviet Union,” the Soviet Union was not the same as Russia. This is unacceptable. #RussianImperialism

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Niklas Balbon @balnik.bsky.social · Jul 20

Feminist foreign policies talk equality, but local feminist peacebuilders still face donor scepticism, unstable funding & political pushback.

Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve.

📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...

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Uilleam Blacker @uilleamblacker.bsky.social · Jul 21

Very much looking forward to being in conversation with Dame Melinda Simmons today at #iccees2025, hosted at @uclssees.bsky.social. We'll be talking Ukraine, Poland, the Russian threat, and more www.iccees2025.org/keynote-spea...

Keynote speakers – XI ICCEES World Congress

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · Jul 21

Russia’s “swarm” tactics against Ukraine are increasingly cutting through Ukraine’s defences, with drones striking targets at three times the typical rate in recent months, according to official data.
www.ft.com/content/1a19... via @financialtimes.com

Russia’s drone swarms pierce Ukraine’s defences at record rate

Proportion of Shaheds hitting targets tripled in recent months, according to analysis of official data

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Oleksandr Shepotylo @shepotylo.bsky.social · Jul 21

Not being able to win at the battlefields of Eastern Ukraine, Russia decided to terrorise civilians in the hope of breaking the will of Ukrainians.

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Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · Jul 21

Join us! 10 days to get your job applications in to join our team of academic historians in Warsaw.

Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨 Academic job alert!

We are hiring 12 people at graduate, assistant professor, and full prof level in the 20th century history of Central/Eastern Europe.

Our institute is growing, Warsaw is brilliant, and we want young and enthusiastic people. Join us!

Join the team of the Center for Totalitarian Studies! - Instytut Pileckiego

The Center for Totalitarian Studies has announced competitions for positions in the humanities. We are looking for professors, adjuncts and assistants.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Jul 2

A total and tragic policy failure: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 2

President Trump has issued no new restrictions on Russia this year, in effect allowing Moscow to acquire the money and materials it needs in its conflict with Ukraine.

Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Russia to Replenish Its War Chest

President Trump has issued no new restrictions on Russia this year, in effect allowing Moscow to acquire the money and materials it needs in its conflict with Ukraine.

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · Jun 15

Job Opportunity!

Lecturer in Public History
Keele University - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - School of Humanities

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL407/l...

Lecturer in Public History at Keele University

An academic position as a Lecturer in Public History is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · Jun 11

Why Ukraine fights back and will keep on doing so: Ukraine has no other choice shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/why-ukrain...

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · Jun 9

When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jun 9

Great to see research recently published in HWJ by @ankahajkova.bsky.social and Oksana Dudko referenced in Swedish newspapers.

Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches
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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our new IMR paper on the great replacement theory is now open-access. We find that about 20% (!) of German adults believe that white majorities are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants in a secretive attempt by malevolent elites to undermine their own country.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Jun 9

Kherson is now pummelled constantly by Russian forces and yet a spirit of defiance remains.

Proud that Bylines are publishing my friend, Caolan Robertson, who is out there. ✊🇺🇦

Kherson a city under siege, but still unbroken

Kherson once a proud port city near the Black Sea in south-west Ukraine is pummelled constantly by Russian forces and yet a spirit of defiance remains

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 9

🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 7

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · Jun 9

Kind of insane how in 2025 a big European country is just living through The Blitz every week while the rest of us Europeans mostly carry on like normal.

Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Jun 9

We’ve become basically desensitised to successive record breaking air attacks by Russia against Ukraine. “Russia launched almost 500 drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian forces said on Monday.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/w...

Russia Launches Biggest Drone Assault of the War, Ukraine Says

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Terrell Jermaine Starr @terrelljstarr.bsky.social · Jun 9

It’s 02:29 in Kyiv. This is what it sounds like to have a Shahed drone fly over your apartment building.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 9

Kyiv is under air attack again…
Putin can’t win on the battlefield, so he tries to kill civilians and hit civilian objects. The barbarian tactic of the army that pretends to be strong, but it is weak and can fight only with families and children.

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Ilona Solohub @ilonasolohub.bsky.social · Jun 5

In 2022, HIMARS artillery was a game changer. Now it is much less effective. Piecemeal provision of weapons to Ukraine acted like immunization - it allowed Russians to find counteractions and thus made Russia stronger. This shows one more time: appeasement leads to escalation 1/2

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.bsky.social · May 21

Excited to have a new article out in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social with BlueSky-less Tim Lynam and Catherine Baillie Abidi, providing new global data and analysis on the recruitment and use of child soldiers from 2010 to 2022, available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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