Thrilled to join the Stanford-Göttingen "The Civilizationism Project" network. By way of introduction I was asked to share some brief reflections, here are my thoughts on civilizationism as critique and alternative vision of world order: thecivilizationismproject.stanford.edu/people/grego...

they use "western heritage" six times here, zombie huntington is so back

H-Diplo Roundtable on Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

We are accepting a new round of book proposals for this new Routledge series on "Identity, Ideology, and Worldviews in Global Politics" that Stephane Baele (UCLouvain), Beverley Loke (Australian National University), and I edit. #IR Send us your great ideas!

Why do we have such difficulty making sense of our current moment? I brainstorm some possible answers www.theideasletter.org/essay/certai...

DEADLINE: June 15, 2025 Call for Submissions from @iojournal.bsky.social - Special Section on the Future of IR cup.org/4iGlq0B In fall 2025, IO will publish a supplemental, online-only issue of the journal, focused on the Future of Global Governance and World Order.

Just arrived! Honored to be part of this "Oxford Handbook of Illiberalism" edited by the intrepid Marlene Laruelle @illsp.bsky.social which includes so many colleagues I admire. My chapter focuses on the illiberal global politics of religion and civilizations: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Transparent corruption. @dandrezner.bsky.social describes it well. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Funded workshop at Southampton on the topic of "Public Opinion, Identity, and Security in Europe"! Workshop will be held on June 16. Please submit your proposals/abstract by May 21. (Please help circulate widely!) Kamil Zwolski, John Denham, and I are the coordinators of this event.

Very interesting project, international network of scholars, and reading resources on "Civilizationism" #IR thecivilizationismproject.stanford.edu

we all fail rather frequently in different aspects of academic work - but we rarely talk about it check out this🔥@ispjournal.bsky.social forum on understanding, reflecting, and coping with failure @meibauir.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social @jrodehaun.bsky.social academic.oup.com/isp/article/...

Despite its ambiguous nature Nye's concept of SOFT POWER captures in unique ways the importance of ideas and beliefs in generating consent, attraction, and legitimacy. In this OUP edited volume by P. Mandaville we explore its applicability to the religious field: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The Princeton University Press team is thrilled to congratulate Benjamin Nathans, whose book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement is the winner of 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction! 🎉 www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...

Attention Higher Education, which has much more in common with Starbucks than it would like to acknowledge: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Happy May Day!! 😍🌹 youtu.be/15Nht-_smm8?...

2 new lecturer positions in the Middle East and Africa in the School of International Relations @standrewsir.bsky.social at the University of St Andrews: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

In this TRIUM CONNECTS podcast, I talk to Matt Mulford about my new book 'The Market in Global International Society' (with Barry Buzan, OUP) & why the global market norm has proved so volatile over its 200-year history. Esp now during Trump's anti-globalist battle. shows.acast.com/trium-connec...

Short but incisive reflections by @dhnexon.bsky.social on one of the sexy concepts of the moment, "great power competition" #IR #HistIR So much for “Great Power Competition”, The Duck of Minerva www.duckofminerva.com/2025/03/so-m...

Happy to be ISA HIST Communications Officer for the next two years! If you don't yet, make sure to follow @hist-isanet.bsky.social for any and all Historical IR updates. Check out the section website here: www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections... 1/3

Terrific new handbook on International Political Sociology, a what's what and who's who in the field: "The Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology" eds. Stacie E. Goddard, George Lawson, and Ole Jacob Sending global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Check out this new @ejir.bsky.social article by Zikun Yang, who's writing richer histories and theory abt China's performance across key areas of multilateralism @campolis.bsky.social based on primary research in multiple countries and languages. She's on the academic job market too - hire her!

New piece! Sam Hamad on the relationship between the Global War on Terror and the transnational illiberalism of today. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

This semester, I am organizing weekly International Office Hours that are open to everyone. Wanna talk about your research? Have questions about European politics, about the far right, or about soccer and politics? Sign up now or a next time! 👇

"Elegantly written and logically constructed, it is a must-read for anyone interested in the dynamics of regime change, democratization and revolution." Return of Tyranny by Killian Clarke, Coming September 2025 cup.org/42QxbvA

Looking forward to reading this new article by Stacey Goddard: "The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition: Trump’s New Spheres of Influence" Stacie E. Goddard @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Since everyone has got interested in succession of religious leaders you might find this of interest economist.com/1843/2023/07...

Submitted the final version of my next book on AI, Big Tech, and the geopolitical struggles over them. Now hopefully nothing important happens on those topics before it comes out... Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...

What a sad and dangerous state of affairs in the US and so many other parts of the world "Why Authoritarians Attack Universities First" Foreign Poicy foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/16/t...

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A friend sent me this. 😂

“Today the idea that free trade brings peace looks like bygone naïveté at best and neoliberal apologism at worst. At a time when it can be hard to remember why anyone ever thought otherwise […] Palen has excavated a history of those who believed that free trade and peace went together.”

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

I thought this @poltheoryother.bsky.social episode w/ @quinnslobodian.com was excellent, highly recommended! It starts by stating something obvious, but often overlooked: We need to understand the politics of the capitalist class as structured both by shared interests, and by internal conflict

What sort of animal would you prefer to receive as a gift if you were a state leader? Panda, platypus, puppy? Yours truly with the story (via BBC):

The @economist.com recommends 4 books 'to read to understand tariffs' in advance of today, Trump's 'Liberation Day', meaning a new round of US tariffs. Honored to find Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World included w/@douglasirwin.bsky.social's excellent Clashing Over Commerce. 👇

Very sad to see this www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

The forthcoming Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology, edited by Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social, and @olejacobsending.bsky.social, looks great. Including some exciting #HistIR contributions 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We are pleased to announce that @qbruneau.bsky.social 's STATES AND THE MASTERS OF CAPITAL is the Winner of the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations from the @hist-isanet.bsky.social‬ section of the International Studies Association. buff.ly/A3KP6vj

I can hear the tectonic plates shifting as every pundit, textbook, and article begins to drop the word 'globalization' replacing it with 'geopolitics' "Conquest Is Back: A Peace Deal in Ukraine Could Further Normalize What Was Once Taboo" Tanisha Fazal 2025 www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/conqu...

Congrats to Cecelia Lynch, @ucirvine.bsky.social political science professor, who has been named the 2025 Distinguished Scholar of the Religion and International Relations (REL) Section of @isanet.bsky.social for her pathbreaking contributions to the field! @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

New original article on civilizational standards in world politics: "Short-haired modern girls: colonial Korean women’s fashion as the standards of civilization". Kwon, M. (2025) @ejir.bsky.social #IR #HistIR journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Terrific piece unpacking the (multiple) geopolitical and civilizational imaginaries of the European New Right: "International relations and the revolutionary geopolitics of the European New Right" Drolet J.F. , & Williams, M. C. (2025) @ejir.bsky.social #IR journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I guess I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. Fuck decorum. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/american-f...

Wondering why the libertarian to alt-right pipeline is a thing? Wonder no more.

powerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Some personal reflections by the great Michael Cox on BISA at 50 BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - Michael Cox @mybisa.bsky.social #IR www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/bis...

The 2026 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities CANCELLED because of "increased political pressure on academic institutions... we will not be able to find a host... in time...". Appalling.

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