Those interested in the historiography of IR/its continued salience see Sean Molloy on debate btw Normal Angell & Thayer Mahan 👇 My exposure to Angell was via @lucianashworth.bsky.social founder of the 'Limerick School' - big impact on a wide # of IR scholars journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Nice review of Erased in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-a...

🚨 2025 HIST prize details Our ISA section website will be updated shortly. In the meantime, have a look at this thread for all up-to-date information about our prizes 👇 Note that *all nominations* are due August 1st and should be sent (by email) to the respective committee chair. 🧵

‘When asked if he'd consider using military force to annex Canada, Trump said he thinks "we're not gonna ever get to that point" but "something could happen with Greenland" — the autonomous Danish territory which he's also mentioned absorbing.’ www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Ruling through fear www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

As the guardrails of free speech & the rule of law buckle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Someone who can’t take a hint. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ain't Going to Play Sun City www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

'Digital fossils' theconversation.com/a-weird-phra...

Callous… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Pub day tomorrow, last chance to preorder, after that it will just be boring ordering!

It's only April, but it looks like JD Vance has the World's Worst Diplomat 2025 award in the bag. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is the basic problem. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/there-are-...

Video obtained by @nytimes.com confirms the IDF fired on and killed clearly identified Red Crescent medics in Gaza. 15 were killed. Satellite pics analyzed by @ckoettl.bsky.social & @sanjanamv.bsky.social show the IDF then buried the medics andambulances. Story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

In sum, the US is fucked. Geopolitical suicide and economic self-immolation, both at the same time. ⛔

While the Trump Administration strives to liberate itself from reality... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Now they are just having a laugh... www.reuters.com/world/us-off...

I have uploaded the introductory chapter to my book, 'No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech' to ResearchGate and Academia dot Edu. www.researchgate.net/publication/... www.academia.edu/44497710/No_...

World's Worst Diplomat. I would use James Der Derian's concept of anti-diplomacy, but that might be giving a solid meaning to an approach that has more in common with a badly made blancmange. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

... and now coming after UNCLOS III www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Where we are www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=H400...

Right. Visitors risk detention if they express certain opinions.

Billy No-Mates

Tomorrow!

“[Climate breakdown] is a recipe for permanent recession,” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trying to break the last guardrails... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's the pettiness... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Prosecutor: Now, Mr. Hoffman, what were you wondering when you wrote this passage? Hoffman: Does wondering mean dreaming? P: Yes, that's right. H: I've never been on trial for my dreams before... - Abby Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🚨Department of Political Science Presents🚨 As part of #MemorialU100 @memorialu.bsky.social Thursday, 27th March at 7pm-9pm The ALT Hotel moderated by CBC's Adam Walsh "A Century of Politics & the Next 100 Years" Register for the event at: eventbrite.com/e/a-century-...

Creating their own reality www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

JOB Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present, University of Cambridge (this is a permanent/tenured position, open to those with a specialism in any period since 1700) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50242/

"...any pretence of a special relationship between Canada and the United States is dead." Asa McKercher on Canada and Trump 2.0

US foreign policy, AD 2025... "Trump insists ‘everybody loves’ his plan for US to ‘take over’ Gaza amid global condemnation" - Guardian online headline.

In the face of increased laws to criminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people, and increased incidents of hate speech and violence, I and my colleagues stand against these laws and this hate.

So much for United States leadership (not to mention 'the art of the deal').

Pretty much...

I remember the claims, at the beginnings of NAFTA, that North America now had a free trade regime that surpassed the EU. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

Trumponomics

Climate change and food supply. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...

‘Horrendous’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Well deserved...

I’m giving a talk Wednesday, Feb. 5 @ 2pm in IIC-2014 at MUNL

Student numbers tend to go up as the crisis deepens...

@quinnslobodian.com on the new oligarchy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Now, on that 'costs of net zero' discussion... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@berytia.bsky.social writing for Aeon: "Our culture is cosmopolitan because we are a cosmopolitan species... What has allowed us to thrive, physically and culturally, is not our rootedness but our mobility. Without it, we would already be extinct." aeon.co/essays/there...

@sashaetkind.bsky.social on oil and catastrophic learning. www.theideasletter.org/essay/oil-as...

The limits of the edgelord www.theguardian.com/technology/2...