1/6 Paul Bacon and I have a new paper out in The Pacific Review. We tackled a puzzle: how do you analyze something like the "Indo-Pacific" using Regional Security Complex Theory when it's way too big to be a normal region? 🧩 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NYX5Q...

🚨New online! Kelly and Doidge: "Aotearoa New Zealand, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere: navigating security identity amidst geostrategic change. Part of an upcoming special edn. on the "Anglosphere". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️ #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #InternationalRelations #AUKUS

I'm thinking how Zhang Yimou's 2002 film Hero, visually stunning as it is, prefigured the later rise of tianxia-ism and civilizationism under Xi. His Beijing Olympics opening ceremony is another landmark production in Chinese civilizational discourse

🚨New Article🚨 “Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's “Independent” Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens” by Nicholas Ross Smith Read OPEN ACCESS here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

🧵 I have a new paper out in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: "Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's 'Independent' Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens" academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... TL;DR: NZ's "independent" foreign policy depends heavily on regional geopolitics. (1/8)

🧵 I have a new paper out in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: "Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's 'Independent' Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens" academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... TL;DR: NZ's "independent" foreign policy depends heavily on regional geopolitics. (1/8)

1/6 Paul Bacon and I have a new paper out in The Pacific Review. We tackled a puzzle: how do you analyze something like the "Indo-Pacific" using Regional Security Complex Theory when it's way too big to be a normal region? 🧩 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NYX5Q...