Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age By Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge and Apolline Taillandier, Newnham College Inspired by…

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

Reorienting #Climate litigation in a time of backlash, shrinking civic space & challenges to judicial independence Here's our take in Nature w/ Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social Great collaboration! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📌The special issue "Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations" is now published as Vol. 20 Issue 2 in RIO! @the-peio.bsky.social link.springer.com/journal/1155... Summary thread with each piece-- 🧵

Extremely excited for this, and what a beautiful poster design! I’ll be speaking on the United Nations panel with amazing speakers, including @drmargottudor.bsky.social ❤️

Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Submit by Dec 15👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please spread the word 🙏

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

A new, forthcoming article on the law of armed conflict, or IHL, and US and UK nuclear policy change. (It’s always exciting to get work published; a personal reaction of this type, by a diplomat with such experience, is surreal)

How did the US become what it has become? Serious answers only.

Apply for a 4 year postdoc (JRF) @christscollegecam.bsky.social Politics and International Studies is one of the eligible fields. Details below. Deadline 16 September 2025 noon UK time. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-...

Apply for a 4 year postdoc (JRF) @christscollegecam.bsky.social Politics and International Studies is one of the eligible fields. Details below. Deadline 16 September 2025 noon UK time. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-...

Truly delighted that our (co-edited with Ralf Emmers) @austjia.bsky.social Special Issue on ‘Coalition-Building and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in the Indo-Pacific’ is now out (Vol 79, Issue 4), with many articles Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/toc/caji20/7...

Upon the public announcement of one embarrassing British international legal position today, here’s another, historical (1964) one I just retrieved from the UK national archives. So-when did the position change, re UNSC resolutions’ binding character? Or am I missing some lawyerly nuance?

Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say, and likely only set it back "months" (while also possibly empowering hardliners and radicalizing the regime and sparking a rally-around-the-flag effect and)

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"The [] rise of authoritarianism at home is precipitating a kind of international authoritarianism, in which the American president can unleash the most powerful military the world has ever known on a whim."

observer.co.uk/news/interna... 👉🏻“The rules of international law have not changed since Iraq. (They allow military force …) in two circumstances: if authorised by the Security Council (…) or in “exercise of the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs” .

The NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said the United States strikes on Iran are not against international law. He is completely wrong. No Security Council authorisation. No actual or imminent armed attack triggering self-defence under the UN Charter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWa...

This @justsecurity.org post on the illegality of Israel's attack on Iran by @adhaque.bsky.social is brilliant. It dismantles the 2 arguments for Israel's position that have created the false appearance of a legal debate, where none is apposite. Israel launched an illegal aggression.

"The question is not whether starving people should receive aid from GHF or be left to die. That binary is the product manufactured by Israel's famine & dire humanitarian crisis, in which existing rights-based aid infrastructures were deliberately obstructed." www.ejiltalk.org/privatizing-...

Israel has submitted something like an Article 51 letter to the UN for its attack on Iran. The letter both alludes to self-defense and an ongoing armed conflict with Iran. Claims it is responding to an "imminent threat" from Iran. US response to Israel's 1981 attack on Osirak is instructive:

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!

🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same? @patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵 osf.io/rtymv

Assistant Professor in Islamic Art (ca. 1500-ca. 1700) of the Safavid and/or Mughal Empires0- University of Cambridge - Department of History of Art #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND932/a...

Israel’s serial blockades of Gaza—and the justifications it has offered for imposing them—have become a major test for international law, writes @boydvandijk.bsky.social.

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 publication alert! A new article from @smetanamichal.bsky.social and @profonderco.bsky.social found that despite Kremlin’s belligerent rhetoric and calls for nuclear strikes, public support for using nuclear weapons against NATO has remained unchanged post-invasion. @journalofgss.bsky.social

Thanks to @maddow.msnbc.com for highlighting the takeover of the US Institute of Peace on her show last night. It's not a govt agency, the building isn't a govt building, the employees aren't govt employees, and Trump can't fire the board and install a new acting CEO. www.npr.org/2025/03/18/g...

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Á propos of things happening these days: "Why the USA and the United Kingdom Joined the 1949 Geneva Conventions", European Journal of International Law, Volume 28, Issue 2, May 2017, Pages 483–511". academic.oup.com/ejil/article... @icrclawpolicy.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social #IHL #LOAC

Coming to Bologna for EISA? Let me know! DM if you're interested in being on a panel on far-right and Global Environmental Politics/IOs I'm looking for other papers! @ninareiners.bsky.social @stephofmann.bsky.social @raffaelemstr.bsky.social Pls spread the word! eisa-net.org/pec-2025/

Today, we launch our new guide for civil servants to use AI more effectively & responsibly. It provides a practical framework for informed decision-making, responsible deployment, risk management, & building institutional capacity for LLM adoption. www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications...

👇 London friends: this event is tomorrow 👇

The NASA office of technology, policy and strategy as well as the office of the chief scientist are both being shut down, and its overall science budget may be slashed by as much as 50%.

hanse-ias.de/en/fellowshi... 🥁🥁 Apply for a Fellowship You may apply for any of the following academic fellowships for individual scientists and scholars as well as artistic residencies to artists with a keen interest in the sciences 👇🏻👇🏻 Highly recommended IAS in the beautiful north of 🇩🇪!

Recent chapter co-authored w @caschulz.bsky.social: "The Turn to the History of International Law in the Field of International Relations. In: Lesaffer R, Peters A, eds. The Cambridge History of International Law. The Cambridge History of International Law. Cambridge University Press; 2024:136-161."

🎉We are excited to share that the first Subscribe to Open issue of Humanity has now been published online and will be Open Access in perpetuity: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53496 Please celebrate with us by reading these incredible articles in Issue 15.3! 🎊

Like @shafrhistorians.bsky.social, Passport is now on BlueSky! The January issue of Passport is still delayed due to a technical issue. We are working diligently to get it to you asap

So well deserved! Huge congratulations 🫂🍾🥳

"Is there any ambiguity in international law about depriving a civilian population of the basics of life ...?" "No." youtu.be/2J04Lay3dyE?...

Terrible decision. Pentagon moves to gut operations focused on reducing civilian harm Officials at the Defense Department’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, which seeks to limit collateral damage from military strikes against enemy combatants, were told to accept a buyout or be fired.

My new article ‘Mission Impossible? Humanitarian Actors and the Civilizational Logic of International Aid Delivery during the “Congo Crisis,” 1960–1964’ is now open access with Humanity. Worth checking out for the photos, if nothing else. Here is (most of) the abstract. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... This “article asks a question about the state we are in w regard to the international order as an order that is not just a ‘rule-based order’ but also more substantially a ‘legal order’ based on the rule of law.” #ISA2025 @globcon.bsky.social @cenunihh.bsky.social

Conceived at Baltimore 2016, it's fitting that our special issue Status Symbols in World Politics is out in time for #ISA2025! The intro makes case for why status symbols warrant sustained attention in IR & develops a framework for studying them 🧵 1/: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

For those historians keeping track, esp #milhist folks, “history” is now a flagged word bc of its apparent connection to #DEI. Canary in a coal mine, indeed. @smh-historians.bsky.social 🗃️ www.tpr.org/military-vet...

People deciding to call their IR theory “realism” and getting away with it was the biggest PR masterstroke in the history of political science. We all take it for granted, but if someone at ISA was like “what up bitches, this is my new theory, it’s called Correctism,” we’d all laugh him out.