Just finished reading the papers for this panel, and they are 💯. You won't want to miss this conversation! #AHA26 Panel 141: A New World Order? Latin America in the Post-Cold War Era, Friday 3:30-5pm in the Palmer House Hilton Price Room @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @elinevanommen.bsky.social

And for fans of Inter-American History, I gathered a group of some of the smartest people I know to talk about the state of the field! Join us Saturday 3:30-5 in Palmer House Salon 3! #AHA26 @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @elinevanommen.bsky.social @llchristyll.bsky.social @carmensoliz.bsky.social

Een stuk van mij over Trump en Venezuela in het FD (@fd.nl): De grove schending van de soevereiniteit van Venezuela en arrestatie van Maduro is zonder precedent – zelfs in de geschiedenis van Amerikaanse interventies in Latijns-Amerika. fd.nl/opinie/15827...

Incl chapters by @reyhuang.bsky.social on UNITA, @elinevanommen.bsky.social on the Sandinistas, Leila Seurat on Hamas, my own chapter "The Astonishingly Easy Path to International Legitimacy of Khalifa Haftar’s LAAF", and more. Fondly remember stimulating discussions at the two author workshops.

Glad to see this volume on "Armed Groups and the Politics of International Legitimation", edited by Klaus Schlichte and Stephan Hensell, is now out with @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/book/61785

Happy publication day! Out now with @faberbooks.bsky.social

Morning, #SHAFR2025 attendees! In addition to dropping by our booth to check out our History program, one of our acquisitions editors will be on hand to answer any questions about the UC Press program. Come by and say "hi!" A reminder that our SHAFR website is live: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...

Are you a PhD student/ECR working on contemporary European history? If so, consider submitting to the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize. Deadline 12 September. I strongly encourage submissions from those working on Central/Eastern Europe & the USSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great news! My book on transnational fair trade activism is out. It's been an unbelievably rewarding trek from starting this research in 2012 to today. I hope you will find it as worthwhile reading it! By way of a preview, I wrote about 5 insights from the book: cambridgeblog.org/2025/06/five...

Friends, my book is available for pre-order! It's really real! The official publication date is October 14, but if you order from the UNC Press website (uncpress.org/.../978146.....) you can get 30% off with the code 01SOCIAL30 and get your book 2-4 weeks early!

Middle of the year conference palooza is upon us! Hello, ‪@lasabluesky.bsky.social‬ and #LASA2025 attendees! Thrilled to once again be exhibiting and showing off our latest Latin American studies books. Visit our conference page to save 40% on select books: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/l...

And two Research Fellow posts at the University of Leeds on the 4-year project ‘The Soviet Union, the WHO and Global Health, 1957-91’, which looks superb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE369/r...

Sebastián Carassai and I are delighted to announce the publication of our book: Coups d'État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982. shorturl.at/nSvUk Thanks to B. Cowan, T. Field, P. Klarén, V. Markarian, C. Trumper, J. Gould, H. Vrana, V. Garrard, and B. Weinstein. @bw-historiadora.bsky.social

*PhD position klaxon* Vrije Universiteit Brussel is recruiting three PhD students for the ERC-financed AFROPRESS project led by Cedric Van Dijck. Focus on South-Africa (1948-68); Congo (1918-60) or Madagascar (1923-60). clic.research.vub.be/open-phd-pos... Apply by 30 May! More on the project 👇

A fantastic opportunity for postdocs working in Pacific History:

if the whole world population had emitted as per the richest 0.1% since 1990, the global temperature increase would have been 12.2C 😲

The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No one has ever really gotten to the bottom of it—until now. newrepublic.com/article/1935...

Strong editorial @theguardian.com - and thank you for the reference www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

2 new lecturer positions in the Middle East and Africa in the School of International Relations @standrewsir.bsky.social at the University of St Andrews: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Invitamos a leer el nuevo dossier “Izquierdas latinoamericanas en los años sesenta y setenta del siglo XX” de la revista Historia Mexicana de El Colegio de México. Ojalá pueda difundirse, leerse y debatirse.

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

What a great @h-diplo.bsky.social roundtable discussion of "Nicaragua Must Survive" by @elinevanommen.bsky.social! #history 🗃️ issforum.org/roundtables/...

Thrilled to see Nicaragua Must Survive discussed in a H-Diplo roundtable. Deeply grateful to @mollyavery.bsky.social , Michelle Chase, @tomlongphd.bsky.social & @sarahosten.bsky.social for their engagement and kind words. Thank you @emleake.bsky.social for organising! issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJI...

Hey! Spread the word, submit an abstract for a workshop on Cold War Cartography to be held in Ediburgh in May 2026 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

My heart goes out to everyone at the Wilson Center now put on leave and all the exceptional programs that are shutting down. I mean, who needs excellent and meaningful foreign policy research these days? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

Who wants to be official historian of UK policy in Northern Ireland during the Troubles? (Don’t all shout at once) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ310/e...

PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:

‘They’re using it now against the white people,’ O’Brien told me; ‘the Arab and Muslim communities have been getting it ten times worse.’ I wrote about the four Berlin activists set to be deported for Palestine activism, and Germany's descent into lawlessness in the name of its Staatsräson.

Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister

Just heard that #PresidentMusk /DOGE fired president and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Affairs in DC. I guess they had a problem with the website's call to "support fiercely nonpartisan policy analysis." Will share any confirmed details here www.wilsoncenter.org/leadership

🤦El expresidente de Costa Rica y Premio Nobel de la Paz 1987, Óscar Arias Sánchez, dijo este martes que desconoce las razones que tuvo Estados Unidos para cancelar su visa, pero afirmó que nada lo callará y que continuará criticando la política norteamericana. www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/mun...

This looks like a good opportunity: PhD position Latin America as an Alternative Starting Point www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3505...

Job Opportunity! Valparaiso University, Department of History Visiting Assistant Professor This two-year position begins in August, 2025. We encourage candidates with expertise in world history, specialization in Asia, Africa, or the Middle East preferred. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

Trump just signed an executive order ordering the closure and elimination of the world renowned Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, created by an act of Congress in 1968. @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov

We're hiring 2 new colleagues @historyatgalway.bsky.social - Lecturer A (.4FTE; 4-year post) in History (Ireland in Global Context) - Lecturer A (1FTE; 6-month post) in History (Irish Economy and Society, 1750-1900) Go here and click 'Academic Vacancies' www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/ 🗃️

Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery)- The National Archives - Research, Grants and Academic Engagement #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF251/c...

Solidarity with Dutch colleagues striking against dangerous higher education budget cuts ✊https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/bij-de-aftrap-van-de-estafettestaking-tegen-bezuinigingen-op-het-hoger-onderwijs-klinkt-overal-argwaan-kennis-is-macht-zijn-jullie-bang~bf7d09e3/

Postdoc Opportunity!

JOB! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMC677/l...

Het misverstand van onze tijd is dat de belangrijkste politieke kloof die tussen globalisten en nationalisten is. De Canadese historicus Quinn Slobodian ziet in plaats daarvan een krachtenbundeling van geradicaliseerde neoliberalen en uiterst rechts, ook buiten de VS. @koenhaegens.bsky.social

Very good reporting here on this awful story: direct language, full context, multiple perspectives. Many other journalists should be taking notes.

JOB: Lecturer in US Politics. Great job in a great department. You have to work with me but, besides that, there are lots of upsides. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Missed this published at the end of last year: My review of @elinevanommen.bsky.social award-winning, fabulous book, Nicaragua Must Survive! A must-read 🎉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The richest 1% of people now own nearly 45% of all wealth, while 44% of humanity are living below the World Bank poverty line of $6.85 per day, per Oxfam.

Honoured and grateful thay Nicaragua Must Survive was awarded the 2025 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award. 🥳📚 Thank you to the prize committee and to LASA! lasaweb.org/en/lasa2025/...

Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...

Fue un placer escribí para JLAS esta reseña del lindo libro de @elinevanommen.bsky.social "Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"New official figures showed the wealthiest 1 per cent of households held at least £3.1 million individually and collectively as many assets as the whole bottom half combined." @tom-clark.bsky.social on why Labour must tackle wealth inequality to uplift Britain's youth @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social