In a field in England

"Even the most advanced systems make small mistakes or slightly misunderstand directions, requiring a human to carefully review their work and make changes where needed." Sounds a lot like working with student assistants... www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

"‘Baleful influence’: a conceptual analysis of militarism" by Bryan Mabee and Srdjan Vucetic is out now in EJIR and available online. You can read it here: t1p.de/4s6sq

Nice to see @wzb.bsky.social research making headlines

This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

The Department of Politics and IR (together with the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and St Antony’s College) has opened an Associate Professor position in Latin America politics 🌎 Apply and become my departmental *and* college colleague:

The new normal under the tyrant king www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Part of the decline of global governance is a relocation of governance from formal to informal institutions, where rules and accountability are lower. A short piece by @stevebmann.bsky.social and myself

Lesenswert!

"konkrete Prognosen, insbesondere mit Verweis auf Jahreszahlen, seien in solchen Zusammenhängen grundsätzlich kaum seriös zu treffen."

tired: Great Man theory of history wired: Broken Man theory of history

DJT going strong to win the Muamar Gaddafi Cup for most deranged General Assembly address 🏆👏

Disappointed that New Zealand did not join in with this move, but hopefully it will come during the UN General Assembly meetings in the coming days 🇳🇿🇵🇸

The Trump regime is seeking "regime change in Europe" former Chatham House director Robin Niblet tells the New York Times. This American-led global far right movement is turning into the Comintern of our times, warns Dutch historian @luukvmiddelaar.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w...

I am calling for a moratorium on new tote bags. We all have more than enough tote bags already. Stop giving me tote bags at conferences. I do not want or need any more tote bags.

„There will be no Palestinian state,” declared Netanyahu last week. “This place is ours.” It‘s getting harder to explain why this is so fundamentally categorically different from Putin‘s „There should be no Ukraine. This place is ours“. www.ft.com/content/9b90...

No, China isn't an existential threat to the international order Steven Langendonk and I weigh in on China's goals for global governance and plea for sobriety thediplomat.com/2025/09/what...

1/2 There’s nothing like a good dose of long term historical perspective to put white supremacist Great Replacement ideas & Christian Nationalists in their place. ‘Huge sections of global populations’ were only sealed off from each other 11,500 years ago after the last ice age.

Reliably excellent analysis of the Israeli attack on Qatar from @jricole.bsky.social. I've been following Juan's work for over 20 years now, and this is why. www.juancole.com/2025/09/reas...

Norms and laws against the use of force and also genocide are good actually

This is how norms die (in this case the prohibition on the use of force)

First Politico, now Euractiv comparing Europe's current plight to China's "century of humiliation"

Please join us for the launch of our E&IA Roundtable: 'Global Governance in Hard Times.' Presentations: Faude+Karlsrud; @yoramhaftel.bsky.social & @stephofmann.bsky.social; @ninareiners.bsky.social; Julia Morse; @mstephen.bsky.social. Comments: @hbirk.bsky.social; @tsommerer.bsky.social. Details:

New, somewhat bleak, piece from me on the decline of global governance: doi.org/10.1017/S089... Part of a Roundtable on Global Governance in Hard Times with @benjaminfaude.bsky.social, @ninareiners.bsky.social, @yoramhaftel.bsky.social, @stephofmann.bsky.social, John Karlsrud, & Julia Morse

New Roundtable "Global Governance in Hard Times" in Ethics & International Affairs. We are interested in whether the ‘drift’ of FIGOs and the proliferation of LCIs indicate the decline of global governance, or its adaptation to a significantly altered environment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs - The Diffusion of Global Power and the Decline of Global Governance - https://cup.org/4oVcZCH - @mstephen.bsky.social‬ #FirstView

On advance access: "The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 1830" by @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social‬ and Erik de Lange (‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Twice www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The Sustainable Development Goals at 10: Celebration or Commiseration? Please join us for a half-day special section launch event marking the tenth anniversary of the UN’s 2030 Agenda on Friday 12th September, 14:00 – 17:00 (BST), Bishop’s Dining Suite, Durham Castle & Online. Details here:

Together with my brilliant colleagues Stacie E Goddard, Ronald R Krebs, and Berthold Rittberger, we published a piece in #ForeignAffairsMagazine: "Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order"! www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

"This tragedy must end now – immediately and decisively. Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war." Rare to see an @icrc.org statement like this.

"I'm afraid I can't do that Dave."

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

Nothing‘s really happening in the world right now, is it? @uni-hamburg.de was tasked by the Hamburg senate to save a substantial amount of money. Now, one solution is to cut an IR professorship. I‘m teaching IR at UHH myself, and we're doing our best to fulfil the students' massive demand...

I'm beginning a week-long research stay at Hitotsubashi University's Institute for Advanced Study. Thanks to @danielleflonk.bsky.social for the warm welcome.

Something banal about this picture

Young women ftw

#Imperial practices

We have written a thing about the source of the violation of the anti-conquest norm @nilsgilman.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-new-poli...

remember when bigballz used chatgpt to tariff the penguins....innocent days

They went all that way just to find more Australia

Sad news: Joe Nye has passed away. www.belfercenter.org/collection/r...

The feudalism in German academia is simply absurd - people outside of Germany usually are in a mild state of shock after hearing about it for the first time

Almost done another semester of Intro to IR, which means an updated Definitive (?) IR Playlist. The world order's a *&#% mess, but it's got a great soundtrack. New songs from The Cure, Billie Eilish, & more, & of course, much R.E.M. Spotify 👇& songs by topic: www.markcopelovitch.com/_files/ugd/8...

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections". Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x) #CivMilSky

I'll admit going back to Navigation Act style mercantilism wasn't on my bingo card for 2025 edition.cnn.com/2025/04/18/b...