End of an era. Martin's last regular column for the Grauniad.

A list of around sixty institutions/scholarships etc offering financial support for Palestinian students to study at undergraduate, MA and PhD level A tremendous compilation by Dr Tom Walsh & other academics docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A list of around sixty institutions/scholarships etc offering financial support for Palestinian students to study at undergraduate, MA and PhD level A tremendous compilation by Dr Tom Walsh & other academics docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A perpetrators peace with colonial terms and conditions

Latest article (open access) argues R2P norm death narrative is problematic for both critics and defenders of the norm academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

The U.S., reduces funding to the United Nations (UN). The UN scales down peacekeeping in countries such as the Central African Republic which undoubtedly increases the risk of mass violence If governments were genuinely committed to mass atrocity prevention they would plug the gaps left by the U.S.

Job: the University of Leeds is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Political Theory to a fixed-term position for 12 months. Closing date Friday 11 July It’s a warm, friendly, respectful working environment in a diverse & vibrant city. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

In one year, the number of Brits seeing the US as a threat to world peace has doubled

This is how you get distorted intelligence assessments, where dissenting analysis is deterred or suppressed. Hegseth: “anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the president and the successful mission” www.ft.com/content/023c...

If international law was a place, Trump would bomb it

Bombs #Gaza See the article “Organised Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War” by Sinisa Malesevic and Lea David in the Journal of Genocide Research, 2025, pp.1-25

Great read www.thefp.com/p/timothy-sn...

I missed this post last week as I was busy falling down & fracturing my arms & ankle (!) but pleased to finish Z before the accident Huge thanks to @mybisa.bsky.social for the support. I’ll add some comments from the public below, academics should def do these things more

A proud moment as one of my former phd students publishes a new open access article . .

The A-Z series in international politics (online for free) rumbles on to X for the X article youtube.com/shorts/5uAAs...

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

As Duterte was arrested last week, my former co-author @euanraffle.bsky.social wrote a thread. I posted a video about his arrest on TikTok & had around 70 angry messages from the public in the Philippines telling me Duterte is the best leader the country has ever had. Says a lot about populism.

Thank you to @mybisa.bsky.social for the on-going support. I think the series has had around 500,000 views across all platforms & I’d be happy to run a public engagement workshop for those interested.

Nothing to worry about, I'm sure.

Humbled. For those interested in the data. Q for Queer Theory generated 4,600 views on Instagram with 39 comments. FYI: I do include ‘books to read’ on Instagram but they aren’t on the YouTube videos shared by BISA because of YouTube’s copyright threshold.

On World Book Day, the first ever book from the Central African Republic translated into English Co-wives, Co-Widows reflects the struggle for justice that two women face when their husband dies. It would make a nice gift & one hopes, would help authors in the Central African Republic.

My latest article, 'Farewell the Responsibility to Protect? False death, grave crisis, future opportunities', is now out in International Affairs. Thank you to the team at IA, reviewers and those that offered comments along the way. May interest those at #ISA2025 academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...

i think everyone needs to stop framing whats going on as “bending the knee” and what’s really happening which is “they’re finally feel free to do what they’ve always wanted to do”

For those interested in academic-public engagement. The A-Z series on international politics is generating over 60,000 views per month on Instagram alone. The series is kindly promoted by @mybisa.bsky.social

As part of my A-Z series to foster public engagement with international relations, O for International Order. youtube.com/shorts/Qf4Fh...

“So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once.”

Forthcoming in International Affairs this March. . . .

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If any other academics are engaging with the public via social media, I’d love to chat sometime

Barely six weeks since the US were formalising military & legal relations with CAR . . . www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/15/c...

2025 marks 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. With this in mind, this week’s video in the A-Z series looks at N for Never Again. youtube.com/shorts/9cooQ...

Thanks! For those interested in the data behind the public engagement, at the halfway point (M for Money) the series has around 300,000 views and 3000+ followers across platforms.

Thanks again to @mybisa.bsky.social for promoting. It’s worth explaining that the intended audience is the general public. If you are an academic who’s written a book on any of these themes, feel free to condense your work into a 90 sec video for general consumption. It’s not easy!

call for papers Sociology in the Times of Genocide @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement... #sociologysky #conteniousky

L for Legitimacy which includes a brief discussion of Kosovo, the Taliban & Putin. This is the 12th video in the A-Z series on International Politics which sets out to foster public engagement. youtube.com/shorts/e7geF...

Amnesty Investigation concludes its Genocide in Gaza www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

@BISA is such a supportive organisation. I’m humbled.

I couldn't find a #FeministIR starter pack, so I took a first rather random stab at it. As I am bound to have missed relevant people (still struggling with the platform), so please let me know if you would like to be added. Apologies in advance. #gender #feminism #IR

🎉🎉🎉 Our new book 'United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism' with @oisintansey.bsky.social, @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social, and Sarah von Billerbeck is now available for pre-order and will be open access with Oxford University Press from February 2025 🎉🎉🎉 (1/5)

This image. On one hand, the UK Parliament is calling for submissions on how a ceasefire in Gaza can be achieved. On the other hand, the US inc arms sales to Isreal by $680 million.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center has announced a new Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Research Fellowship. These will provide support for policy-relevant research on the prevention or mitigation of mass atrocities. Apply by December 7. www.ushmm.org/genocide-pre...

J for Just War Theory which I use to analyse Isreal/Gaza The tenth video in my A-Z series on international politics aimed at fostering public engagement. For those interested in such data, its had around 80,000 views across all platforms (mainly Instagram). youtu.be/meYJRBnZZ0c?...

University of Leeds is offering scholarships for citizens of Gaza to study at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It is aimed at those who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region & are living in a different country (outside of the UK). www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

‘The permanency of mass atrocities & fallacy of never again?’, open access in @bjpir.bsky.social w/ Euan Raffle, Ben Willis & @rji95.bsky.social Through interdisciplinary research we explore the evolution of the term ‘never again’ & five real world problems journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pilot funding project on CAR & DRC. As @timglawion.bsky.social points out in the thread, @bsky.app seems to be full of academics but v little engagement. If people don’t see what each other is posting, what is the point?

As we flee Musk, does anyone know a way to bring our bookmarks with us? Feels like a lot of intellectual luggage to leave behind.

⭐️ To those that have just joined us from X: remember that there is no algoritm that populates your feed. So if you like something, repost it to help make it more visible.

Contesting the World: Norm Research Theory and Practice, @antjewiener.bsky.social and my edited book with Cambridge University Press is available here: cambridge.org/au/universit... (you can save 20% using the code CTTW2024)