Can we please hand this paper to all our main parties? ASAP!

📣 Book giveway to celebrate new academic year! “United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism” (2025) co-authored with Sarah Von Billerbeck (@uor-research.bsky.social), @birtegippert.bsky.social & @oisintansey.bsky.social out with @oxfordacademic.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bp83aum7

Please share: by Sept 1, we solicit nominations for @isanet.bsky.social Karl Deutsch Award to recognize 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝟰𝟱, 𝗼𝗿 ≤𝟭𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 who have made significant contribution to the study of #𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 & #𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 🔗 www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa... #IR

New article alert - with Theresa Squatrito. We show that negativity bias, a well-known principle of human cognition, shapes decisionmakers' choices in creating a new international institution. We illustrate this argument on the example of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. share.google/krRwYzuDqzNd...

Bosnia at a crossroads? My analysis in @theconversation.com on the recent secession threats by RS President Dodik: theconversation.com/bosnia-and-h...

Three lectureships in IR at Oxford - appointments are fixed for 5 years: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK960/d...

What a great experience presenting out book findings to FCDO and MoD with my amazing colleagues @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social, @oisintansey.bsky.social, and Sarah von Billerbeck.

🇪🇺 9 May = #EuropeDay. But do you know why? On 9 May 1950, 75 years ago, Robert Schuman proposed the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community – the first step towards today’s EU. A bold vision of peace and unity that changed Europe forever. 🔗 Learn more: europa.eu/!PV8b7c

Great to see our new book UN Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism has an OUP discount code - AUFLY30 (via global.oup.com/academic).

Not the time to read our new book, UN Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism? Here's the argument on a nutshell!

Here's a summary of our book, "United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism" (Oxford University Press, 2025), which we published last month with stellar colleagues Sarah von Billerbeck, @oisintansey.bsky.social & @birtegippert.bsky.social!

Still @ISA2025? Join us at 1.45pm for a Roundtable on Coercion in Peacebuilding. PDR 3, Hilton 3rd floor.

Not sure what #ISA2023 panel to attend this afternoon? Join us for Reflections on Peacebuilding at 13.45 in the Chicago Hilton room 4K!

Join us at #ISA2025 for two exciting Roundtables: - Reflections on Peacekeeping (SC43) - Use of Force in Peacekeeping (MB18)

Planning to be at #ISA2025? We’d love to see you at #JOGSS events! ✨ 🥂 Joint Reception 📅 2 March | 7:30 PM 📍 Waldorf, Hilton 📚 Meet the Editors Session 📅 3 March | 4:00–5:45 PM 📍 Room 4M, Hilton Join us for insightful conversations and a great time—see you there! 🎉

📌 We are now on BlueSky! 🌍✨ Stay tuned for the latest insights and cutting-edge research on global security. Follow us to keep up with the conversations shaping the future! #JOGSS

@jamespattison.bsky.social @birtegippert.bsky.social @drgholmes.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social

So excited to see our new book out - UN Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism with amazing colleagues @oisintansey.bsky.social, @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social, and Sarah von Billerbeck!

Excited to see the Journal of Global Security Studies migrating to Bluesky. Watch the space!

Delighted to join the new editorial team of Journal of Global Security Studies! Editors-in-Chief @jamespattison.bsky.social & Ulrich Petersohn. Associate Editors: (@birtegippert.bsky.social), Belgin San-Akca, Reed Wood and me. Find out more or submit an article: academic.oup.com/jogss?login=...

The Journal of Global Security Studies is under new editorship. Looking forward to working with my amazing colleagues for the next five years - @jamespattison.bsky.social, Ulrich Petersohn, Belgin San-Akca, @drgholmes.bsky.social, and Reed Wood. Please send your submissions!

🎉🎉🎉 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)

The timing could not be worse. A deepening security and humanitarian crisis in Haiti may lead to thousands of Haitians fleeing by boat to Florida just as the new Trump administration takes power in Washington. open.substack.com/pub/globaldi...

Politics at Liverpool is inviting applications for the UKRI-funded PhD or MA+PhD scholarships through the NWSSDTP. Open to UK and international students, fully funded, start date October 2025, application deadline 3rd February 2024. Seperate application for PhD in Politics at Liverpool needed!

UK dilemma: funding the national health service or the royal family... choices, choices...

📣Job alert - interested in empirical research on IOs and global governance? #ECIB join us @unipotsdam for a 3-year post-doctoral research position (+max 3 years, 70% research)! Application deadline: 31/12/24. More information: tinyurl.com/e7py8brd

Going by the incredible increase in followers, the 'X Exodus' must be more considerable than I thought! That, or the bots are fleeing too... can't blame them!

👉 Come and work with me! Apply for the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition for October 2025 entry!!! 👉 The details and application paperwork can be found here: nwssdtp.ac.uk/pdf-scheme/

The SFB 138/Collaborative Research Centre "Dynamics of Security" still has a call open for visiting fellowships from the next winter term onwards, check it out, spread the word & apply 👇👇👇 (Deadline Saturday 15th of June) www.uni-marburg.de/de/sfb138/me...

Courageous and well worded response by German academics to the government's attempts to limit academic freedom. We need constructive, respectful, and open debate given current political developments, shocking to see a supposedly liberal democracy try to suppress these.

At #BISA2024? Come to our panel on The Politics of International Criminal Law, at 16.45pm today! I'll present a co-authored paper on the Kosovo Specialist Chambers.

#Polisky 👉 We are recruiting! Come and work with us at the Politics Department in Liverpool - 2 permanent lectureships (grade 7!) in Politics/IR. Deadline 21st June 2024. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHY234/l...

Job alert: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF151/l...

What a great team to join as new editors for the Journal of Global Security Studies! Looking forward to working with you all!

👉 Post-docs, come and work with us! Politics@Liverpool is inviting applications for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships. Contact us first directly, internal deadline 7th May 2024 for initial expressions of interest. Details see below: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

PhD position on protest movements in Afghanistan. See below.

If you're up early, come to our amazing ISA panel on IO Legitimation and Delegitimation!

📣Call for Papers out now! For our annual conference on “The Excessive Use of Force” (Oct 30 to Nov 1 in #Giessen) we look for contributions from #history, #SocialSciences, #PoliticalTheory, #InternationalRelations & #InternationalLaw. ⏰Deadline: May 15, 2024 www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

Join us at Liverpool for a Roundtable on Consequences and Legacies of Peacebuilding with excellent participants: • Prof Thorsten Bonacker • Dr Werner Distler • Dr Amanda Cahill-Ripley • Dr Obert Hodzi • Dr Chelsea Johnson • Dr Ben Murphey • Dr Ian Madison 25th April, 5-7pm, Rendall Building, Room 2

Thank you very much to my colleagues at PRIF, ISS, and KAIPTC for compiling the report on our author's workshop on “Coercion in Peacebuilding” that took place in Accra in November 2023. I am looking forward to our forthcoming book! For an initial overview: www.prif.org/fileadmin/HS...

We invite applications for ESRC funded DTP places for Politics pathway. Deadline 26th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFH410/e...

We are seeking candidates for the competitive ESRC-funded PhD or MA+PhD scholarships through the NWSSDTP. Open to UK and international students, fully funded from October 2024, deadline 26th February 2024. Apply here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr... . Details here: nwssdtp.ac.uk/how-to-apply/

And now work a working link... Our article with @Kseniya_Oksamyt, @otansey, @SvBillerbeck is out in International Studies Quarterly - ‘Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations’ academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

📢 Our article with @Kseniya_Oksamyt, @otansey, @SvBillerbeck is out in International Studies Quarterly - ‘Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations’ #UN #Peacekeeping Open access https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad (1/5)

Swedish Defence University advertises a tenure track position as Associate Senior Lecturer (“assistant professor”) in Political Science with a focus on Crisis Management and Security and specialization on Climate. Please help me spread this call! fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Day 2 of workshop on Coercion in Peacebuilding in Accra. Discussing regional actors and rising powers. All grist to the mills in my attempt to theorize coercion! Thanks to Kaiptc, IPSS and PRIF!

Politics at Liverpool is offering application to UKRI-funded, highly competitive PhD and MA+PhD scholarships. UK and international candidates, 3.5 years, deadline 26th February. Contact us with proposal template, CV, MA transcript. Please circulate info!

Thrilled to be back at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre hosting the workshop on Coercion in Peacekeeping by Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Institute for Peace and Security Studies Addis Ababa. Looking forward to 3 days of discussion!