Sean Yom seanyom.bsky.social

@YomSean

Prof. @TUpolisci, Fellow @DAWNme. I write on Mideast politics, authoritarianism, & US foreign policy. More: seanyom.com

USA global.oup.com/academic/produ… Joined February 2021

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Sean Yom seanyom.bsky.social @YomSean Sep 1

My latest @ForeignPolicy: Israel is going to annex the West Bank, and this is the greatest threat to Jordan. 1/T

1) "Jordan is a buffer state" -- against what? Under Pax Israelica, every conventional threat against Israel is gone/reduced (Hamas, Hizbullah, Assad, Iraq, Iran)

Foreign Policy Verified account @ForeignPolicy Sep 1

In Jordan, the Gaza war and newer Israeli advances into Lebanon and Syria have ratcheted fears of annexation of the West Bank, Sean Yom writes.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/31/jor…
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Sean Yom seanyom.bsky.social @YomSean Aug 31

I write in @ForeignPolicy: Jordan's true external threat isn't Iranian missiles. It's Israeli formal annexation of the West Bank and the ethnic cleansing / population transfer that follows.

To help Jordan, the US must *restrain* Israel. Stop annexation.

foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/31/jor…

foreignpolicy.com Jordan Sees Bigger Threat From Israel Than Iran For Amman, Israeli annexation of the West Bank looms as an existential risk.

Sean Yom seanyom.bsky.social @YomSean Aug 26

An incredible new issue of @meriponline that shows the politics of art and aesthetics across Kuwait, Jordan, Iran, and other spaces!

MERIP @meriponline Aug 20

NEW ISSUE: Art at Work--People, Power and Cultural Production

Issue 319 of Middle East Report explores culture not as an escape from politics, but as a space where struggles over power, identity and belonging are continually negotiated.

READ NOW

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Sean Yom seanyom.bsky.social @YomSean May 8

Jordan--where the most existential threat to national security comes from a peace partner (Israel) and where US military forces invite, not deter, foreign attacks

My words in Arab Reform Initiative: arab-reform.net/publication/jo… via @ArabReform_ARI

Sean Yom seanyom.bsky.social @YomSean Apr 29

MERIP released its issue on campus politics & Palestine which @makrevis @lisahajjar Stephen Gasteyer and I oversaw!

Incredible essays on campus surveillance, activism, & crackdowns in US, MENA, & Germany.

Sobering roundtables with faculty & students on advocacy under duress.

MERIP @meriponline Apr 29

NEW ISSUE: Campus Politics--Palestine and the New University Order is out today!

The issue features articles reflecting on two years of student protests & struggles for academic freedom & against authoritarianism in the US, Europe and the Middle East.

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