Owen D Thomas
@owendavidthomas
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR. Leading @warning_archive on Iraq wars. Research: accountability & violence; secrecy @research_spin; scandal; inquiries; FOI
University of Exeter, UK
Joined April 2011
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
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New article! A Radical Inquiry, Tamed: The Sebastopol Committee of 1855 - now online open access in Critical Military Studies.
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In January 1855, the British House of Commons appointed a Select Committee to investigate the parlous state of the British army then encamped before Sebastopol. Originally a radical project driven ...
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🚨 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. https://t.co/Dj6w0cLLru
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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. https://t.co/f6zcEHaQcE
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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!
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. https://t.co/f6zcEHaQcE
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SPIN now has a YouTube channel! Visit our channel to catch up on, revisit, and share talks, panel events and project videos, all related to the latest research and ideas about the power and politics of secrecy and ignorance.
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SPIN is a collaborative initiative between researchers based at the University of Bath, University of Bristol, Cardiff University, and the University of Exeter with members of the network across the...
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In this article, @owendavidthomas maps and critiques the justificatory strategies that were used by the UK to refuse to disclose secret material of the 2003 Iraq War, despite widespread accusations of hidden deception and illegality. See more here:
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State secrecy is incompatible with the values of liberal democracy if there is no publicly reasonable justification for the concealment. So how can a liberal de...
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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 🧵 https://t.co/HFQMEPVw2O
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Ordering disorder: The making of world politics - Volume 48 Issue 4
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At the end of a very long day, very long term, very long two years, this was shared with us today @research_SPIN from @wethecurious_ and it made our day. 😍 Imogen, we will 💯 see what we can do to bring the A-Z of Secrecy back! https://t.co/c8eIDwCIeM
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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...
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🚨 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...
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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 https://t.co/P6w1nxcftG
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The recent ‘Chilcot’ Inquiry judged that British participation in the 2003 Iraq War was neither right nor necessary. When reading the final report of over 2.6 m...
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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
Have you heard?! Our new archive launched this weekend and we're so excited to share it with you! To give you a taste of our unique archive we're going to be sharing a source with you every week! Explore the archive below: https://t.co/jqDpHlTXlJ
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We're excited to announce our upcoming online conference 'Intelligence, surveillance & oversight: tracing connections & contestations'! Register here: https://t.co/mdvFqANF5d
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And "Poppies, Para flags and the NHS" started life as a paper discussed in Groningen during the #EWIS2018 section on scandal put together by @jamcjo @VmBasham and @owendavidthomas
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Recent years have seen notable shifts in commemorative practices in Northern Ireland: first towards greater antagonism through the emblem of the Parachute Regiment, then towards shared symbolisatio...
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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.
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📢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. https://t.co/NKjUvFF4f0
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Join us for our upcoming SPIN panel ‘Twenty Years of the Global War on Terror: Looking back, looking forward’ on September 8th at 6pm where a range of experts on the war will reflect on its causes and its legacies. Link to details and sign up
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Check out our team recommendations for this week 🤔From @FranHirsch's book 'Soviet Judgment in Nuremberg' to Marouf Hasian Jr's article on Emily Hobhouse, we've been asking ourselves: what is justice and who decides what a transgression is? https://t.co/o5dMcH5NF1
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