How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Saint-Simon est oublié, mais son idée reste opérante dans le contexte de polycrise — où l’ancien pèse sur le nouveau de tout son poids.” Very interesting piece by @picharbonnier.bsky.social on the “neo-Saint-Simonians”👇 legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/1...

Remplacer la démocratie par un système politique où trônent les ingénieurs ? C'est l'idée commune aux deux super-puissances rivales, les USA et la Chine. Pour Le Grand Continent j'analyse cette réinvention de Saint Simon : le dogme de l'efficacité. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/1...

Petition to save Ghent‘s best arthouse cinema, Studio Skoop 👇 petitie.be/petitions/st...

📚 Have you read an outstanding book on International Relations recently? 🏆 Nominate it for our 2026 Hedley Bull Prize! #ECPRPrizes 💰 £1,750 award fund 🗳️ Open to nominations from ECPR Member affiliates buff.ly/ncZrXp7 ⏳ Nominate by 9 Jan 👉

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order - https://cup.org/3KZzRly - @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, @sethschindler.bsky.social#OpenAccess Sarah Logan et al

📣 One week Left! 📣 We still accepting submissions for the Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars 2026, which is a collaboration between RIS and the BISA CPD working group! Find out more ⤵️ buff.ly/3TsqMig

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Settler imperial ordering: Settler colonialism and the production of hierarchical sovereignties" by Federica Caso is now available #OpenAccess! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/4h9qUla

Very well-deserved number one album www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

Also out earlier in Dutch www.boekenlev.nl/978904455195...

My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions. careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

A nice collection of @timeshighered.bsky.social essays all in one place about the value of the arts and the humanities www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/makin...

Stories derive much of their meaning from how they end. Joseph MacKay and Christoph LaRoche‘s article in EJIR asks how endings shape the historical narratives at the heart of IR theories. Read the full paper here: t1p.de/voqhz @lefteleven.bsky.social @claroche.bsky.social

ICYMI: Our Call For Special Issue Proposals is now LIVE 🎉 🎉 We'll be accepting proposals for the next special issue (Volume 53) until the beginning of February. Check out the guidelines and submit here 👇 buff.ly/U8yZDVF

My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Review of International Studies has opened a call for special issue proposals 🌟 Inviting proposals to be published in a 2027 special edition 🎉 Deadline to submit: 3 Feb 2026 📚 Find out more information here 👉 https://ow.ly/JfzH50XGS1e Seb Kaempf Andy Hom Dahlia Simangan

My forthcoming book - The Technocratic International - appears in the catalogue now, so I guess it's happening! Out with OUP @academic.oup.com some time spring/early summer next year! More info 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Is it really *that* obvious when something is AI written? People seem super confident they can spot it, but the avg LinkedIn post in the era B.GPT. (RIP) was exactly like it: triplets, em dashes, “not X but Y” — (I swear I wrote this!) — now everything just sounds more like LinkedIn. Even LinkedIn.

Reading.

✨ Exciting opportunity to lead a world-class #IR journal ✨ 📕 The Joint Management Committee of @ecprsgir.bsky.social & @europeanisa.bsky.social are seeking a NEW editorial team for @ejir.bsky.social 🔖 4-year term 🔖 Proposals up to 5,000 words 🔖 Deadline 31 Mar 2026 #IRSky #AcademicSky

Job: 2 years Post-Doc Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, on the history and sociology of USAID

This says so much about academia…

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🎧 Tune in tomorrow to #EISAVoices for episode 37, 'In Conversation with Daniel Quiroga-Villamarín', winner of EISA's Best Dissertation Award 2025 🔗 Subscribe here: buff.ly/ymZM067

IR job at Trinity College Dublin: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPU769/a...

Starmer urges EU to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right. Because as we know, the way you beat the far right is to accede to all their demands and adopt racism as your central principle.

#CfP Call for Papers Organised by Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick: Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today Workshop: 26-27 June 2026, University of Warwick Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026 Submit to [email protected]

Für das AufRuhr Magazin der @stiftungmercator.bsky.social habe ich mit @adriennegoldst.bsky.social und Julia Tréhu vom @gmfus.bsky.social über KI-Regulierung und transatlantische Beziehungen gesprochen: www.aufruhr-magazin.de/digitalisier...

My article on Hans Kelsen and the world state is now published in open access on The Journal of Global History and you can check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S174....

I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...

Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps... @the-peio.bsky.social @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social

Exciting new publication for anyone interested in the history of intellectual cooperation at the League 👇 #HistIR

I am very pleased to announce the publication of a book that I had the privilege of editing with Daniel Laqua on the history of intellectual cooperation at the League of Nations! 🖥️ More about the book: www.martingrandjean.ch/intellectual... 📙 Read online: doi.org/10.18356/978...

Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social

This article on how 1930s Technocrats "formed part of the transnational impulse to invent a new abundancist economic paradigm" looks v interesting journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global History.

New @ejir.bsky.social special issue on "History and Theory in International Relations" #HistIR 🔽 Congrats to all contributors and the editorial team! 🥳 journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJT/curr...

Final proofs! 🎉 @princetonupress.bsky.social

“Man-Devil is exceptionally pleasant to read.” We're delighted to see @johnjocallanan.bsky.social reviewed in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social! Read more:

“For decades, companies in the global north, backed by western intellectual property laws, have attempted to control or commercialise food terms and ingredients from the global south.” 👇

The new @ejir.bsky.social special issue on "History and Theory in IR" looks really great 👇 #HistIR journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJT/curr...

3-year postdoc in the history of capitalism at VUB: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR338/p...

The Society currently invites applications for its 'Workshop Grants' programme 2026: bit.ly/3MlbX46 Grants provide funding for groups of historians to come together for a day event to work collaboratively on a shared project. Closing date for applications: Friday 23 January 2026 #Skystorians

No, you can’t shoot survivors hanging on for dear life to boat debris. And no, you can’t shoot suspected drug smugglers, either. This entire operation is illegal. Here’s why. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!

• in der modernen Kolonialgeschichte des British Empire/Commonwealth (auch in postkolonialer und globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive). 📅 Bewerbungsschluss ist der 5. Januar 2026. 🔗Für nähere Informationen: karriere.maxwebersti... 2/3