@owendavidthomas

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
socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/politics/staff/thomas/
Joined April 2011
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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
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New article! A Radical Inquiry, Tamed: The Sebastopol Committee of 1855 - now online open access in Critical Military Studies. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A radical inquiry, tamed: the Sebastopol Committee of 1855

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. warningsfromthearchive.exete…
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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. jobs.ac.uk/job/CQG011/lectur…
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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!
Jason Reifler@JasonReifler31 May 2022
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/lectur…
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Jamie Johnson@jamcjo25 Apr 2022
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/…

Ordering disorder: The making of world politics | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Ordering disorder: The making of world politics - Volume 48 Issue 4

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Jamie Johnson@jamcjo28 Mar 2022
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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Jamie Johnson@jamcjo28 Mar 2022
🚨 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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Politics@JournalPolitics22 Mar 2022
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/10.1177/026339571668…

Good faith and (dis)honest mistakes? Learning from Britain’s Iraq War Inquiry - Owen D Thomas, 2017

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
Warnings from the Archive@warning_archive21 Mar 2022
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: warningsfromthearchive.exete…
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We're excited to announce our upcoming online conference 'Intelligence, surveillance & oversight: tracing connections & contestations'! Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/intellige…
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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. jobs.ac.uk/job/CJC135/postdo…
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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. tinyurl.com/4rtj8vjm
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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? warningsfromthearchive.exete…
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We've just published the team's weekly recommendations on the website. From @jonwalczak's podcast 'Missing on 9/11' to @jamcjo, we've had a lot to think about! Make sure you let us know what you've been reading/listening to this week. warningsfromthearchive.exete…
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🎙️What are the ethics of playing video games set in historical conflicts, especially those in living memory? WFTA research assistant, @GeorgiaMealings explores this topic in a new blog post about the controversial new game, Battle of Fallujah. 🎮 warningsfromthearchive.exete…
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“as one of the older members of ‘generation 2003’, does Rumsfeld’s death indicate the start of the process of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 shifting from living memory to cultural memory?” Thought-provoking stuff from @teachlearnwar on the @warning_archive blog.
Warnings from the Archive@warning_archive6 Jul 2021
🤔What can #DonaldRumsfeld's passing teach us about war and memory? @teachlearnwar has written a blog post reflecting on how the 2003 Iraq war has impacted researching and teaching conflict studies. Check out the link below: warningsfromthearchive.exete…
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On 17th June, the US House of Representatives voted to revoke the 2002 Authorisation for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Iraq. Check out our Research Intern @GeorgiaMealings's piece on what this vote might mean for future US & UK interventions: warningsfromthearchive.exete…
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Concise and clear breakdown on how ‘institutional corruption’ was understood. Some parallels and departures from the emphasis on ‘unwitting beliefs’ in Macpherson’s institutional racism definition. @warning_archive @MargotTudor @teachlearnwar
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