An Irishman talks v fast about libel lawyers lobbying against anti-SLAPP laws - and building an investigative newsroom from scratch. Great to chat to @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social on @prospectmagazine.co.uk 's Media Confidential www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

Very pleased to announce the publication of our recent special issue on "Citizenship in the global struggles for democracy", co-edited with Jelena Džankić and Szabolcs Pogonyi @scmrjems.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The special issue looks at how democratisation and democratic backsliding intersect with citizenship across a range of case studies in central and eastern Europe, the Caucasus, sub-Saharan Africa, East and South Asia, and the Middle East

The first article by @rameshg.bsky.social explores how the demos is redefined in Abkhazia as a tool of ethnodemographic security and whether and how this intersects with democratic backsliding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jing-Han Chen & Yi-Chen Huang explore changes in Taiwanese citizenship during decolonisation and the impact on indigenous rights www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to see this article published: Exploring the link between democratisation and citizenship: comparing Kosovo and Albania www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great to see our paper @cpsjournal.bsky.social out now!

As the "Ultras" phenomenon will be more central in the next iteration of my "Soccer and Politics" course, I ordered two more books on the topic. Am still looking for a clear definition of the phenomenon...

Des mois et des mois que je le répète à qui veut l'entendre: cette posture stratégique ne peut qu'échouer, et à force de vouloir "arrimer la Serbie à l'Europe", c'est l'Europe qui s'arrime non pas à la Serbie mais au régime de Vučić. J'ai fait un article important sur ce point bientôt publié. TBC

This is absolutely terrifying... and yet, the (potential) reality for many of us teaching in GOP-controlled states.

Last but not least in our themed section on #IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties, Avigail Eisenberg's article, "Integration Before Multiculturalism", compares multiculturaism with racial integration in the USA #earlyview #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley....#IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties,#earlyview#openaccess2

"Does ‘Super-Diversity’ Address Majority Anxieties?", asks Jan Willem Duyvendak in the next article in our themed section on #IdentityNationalismandIntegrationinDiverseSocieties - it's on #earlyview and #openaccess now at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Delighted to see this excellent and very timely piece by my PhD student Sarah Cheung now published. @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The world is failing the Palestinian people https://on.ft.com/4faO5L5 | opinion

The first and longest-lasting parliaments were created under conditions of homogeneity. Read "Religious Exclusion and the Origins of Democracy" by Şener Aktürk: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war.

📕📕📕NEW BOOK!! Supported by the EUI Widening Europe Programme and GGP - Southeastern Europe, the book is based on an exchange about democracy and geopolitics among scholars from the #WesternBalkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and EUI-based postdoctoral fellows. cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/...

Worrying developments in the US on upscaling of denaturalization proceedings. To see how this fits in the 🌎 picture, check out new @theguardian.com article discussion of two @globalcit.bsky.social studies on the rise of security-based citizenship deprivation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

JUST published (free access) Full article: Warrior ethos and the spirit of nationalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘All her characters know it, though Olga Tokarczuk herself can’t quite face up to it: the work to make the world more liveable can only start once the novel has been finished. Out there, with everybody else, in the actual world.’ Jenny Turner reads ‘The Empusium’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Israel wages war invoking “self-defence”.Nuclear armed Israel/US attack Iran to stop it making nuclear weapons it wasn’t making.Europeans call for diplomacy without condemning the attack that killed it.Russia opposes the violation of int law, while doing far worse in Ukraine.As Orwellian as it gets

@sinisamalesevic.bsky.social talking about National Henosis (nationalism’s magic side) at the @asenevents.bsky.social Summer School in Zadar

John Hutchinson’s talk on Nationalism and Borderlands (Ukraine’s case) at the @asenevents.bsky.social Summer School

Jonathan Hearn kicks off the 4th @asenevents.bsky.social annual summer school ‘Nationalism in the Contemporary World’

Fascinating/original study!

On June 5th, we head over the road to KCL, for a discussion on Pavan Mano's new book, 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘏𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮. 4/5

Join us here on Facebook or in person at Bush House. Full details, including sign-up for free tickets, are at asen.ac.uk/event/mano/. We hope to see lots of you at one or both, in person or virtually! 5/5

We have two events next week, both of which are in person and online but we can't fit them in one post, so read on to find out more! 👀 1/5

Our final monthly pick for May is "The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance" by Sara Kalm (@pollu.bsky.social‬). Be sure to give it a read! #OpenAccess #Citizenship #Governance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Honoured to welcome Sinisa Malesevic, one of the world’s most renowned scholars of nationalism. Come join us at CBEES, Södertörn University for a highly topical lecture! Also online webcasting. Register below. Please share! www.sh.se/kalender/kal...

I am looking forward to giving this lecture at the LSE on 5th June: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

A university in trouble and an appropriate leadership response. Imagine something like this happening in the UK. www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard...

Restriction of ius sanguinis quickly becoming reality in Italy.

🔴Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control Must read from Foxglove's Rosa Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...

The article “Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War” by @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social and Lea David in the Journal of Genocide Research has nearly 1000 views in five days

What Donald Trump did this week should terrify Benjamin Netanyahu. This is why | Jonathan Freedland

A 'contributions-based' citizenship model is not a citizenship model, but a form of selective club membership. news.sky.com/story/new-en...

Important reminder 👇 bsky.app/profile/tabo...

For more on the global market for citizenship, see the work of my @globalcit.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social colleague @jdzankic.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This will be worth a listen. 5pm today. 'Who funds Refuk?' With @seththevoz.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social open.substack.com/live-stream/...

📚 #ASN25 is almost here! 150+ panels, new books, and bold ideas—this is where scholarship meets momentum. 📖 Featured books on Thursday, May 22! 🔗 More at: asnconvention.com #AcademicTwitter #NewBooks

State-breaking as organized crime?

Across the #Globe, many #Democratic countries are reinterpreting their #Constitution to legitimize exclusionary #Policies. Watch Mariëtta van der Tol for a discussion on how #Governments in #Europe enact #Laws to target vulnerable religious #Minorities, Ethnic groups, & #LGBT rights:

With today's debacle of the Labour White Paper on Immigration keep in mind there is another way. Look at the courage of Germany's center-left gov last year to adopt not v popular citizenship reform, lowering residence req from eight to five years and accepting dual cit. www.dw.com/en/germanys-...

Absolutely abhorrent, morally, and counter-productive, politically. Center-left parties will never profit from "control immigration" policy as long as they buy into, and strengthen, the far-right "immigration is a threat" narrative. Decades of academic research don't lie!

Can’t wait to read this! Am chatting to Seth about ‘who funds Reform?’ on Democracy for Sale this Wednesday (May 14) at 1700 GMT. Should be fun! 🤩 open.substack.com/live-stream/...?

Spring 2025 issue preview! J. Mearsheimer < war & international politics> @stephenwalt.bsky.social <realism and China> Zach Burdette <space> N. Saiya & S. Manchanda <Buddhist violence> @doncasler.bsky.social & T. Jost <noisy negotiations> @intsecurity.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social