I was targeted by media in Estonia, #Delfi, for speaking out about Palestine. Linkedin post, including TL;DR: shorturl.at/sskZd My long response: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

❗Our Call for Papers (Abstracts) is officially out! 1/2 👉Please follow the link below and click on the 'Call for Papers Open until 1 July 2025' hyperlink to fill out the information and upload your abstracts. ✨Call for Papers link: securityhub.ee/news/announc...

🙌We are so proud of our students! ✨Our MA student, Hans Kristjan, wrote a post "A soldier’s reflection: What if we focused on humanity, instead of national interests?" for #CEEShub, reflecting on the politics of security as a soldier in the #EstonianDefenceForces. securityhub.ee/blog/a-soldi...

Folks interested in critical relational thinking, de-colonial and post-colonial studies, and much more, will benefit from attending this! Organized by the amazing @benjaminklasche.bsky.social and @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social and Tim Anderson. Guaranteed nerd talk and lots of fun (even a sauna!).

As Israel continues with its genocide should be the title

✨Our team has been very busy this March. 🙌 @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social, @benjaminklasche.bsky.social, and @tonicerkez.bsky.social have all been traveling, both virtually and physically, across Europe to deliver fantastic talks at #Striling and #Nicosia. Info here: www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...

This is an incredibly significant article that vividly exposes the horrors of russian occupation. I deeply admire these women's immense courage in sharing their stories. May they find their way to healing. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/w...

Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now. Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government. What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising. 🇷🇸

I am very proud of Momodou Taal and other students on F-1 visas for suing Trump for his executive orders. A true show of bravery at a time when so many folks are cowering.

Columbia announced mass suspensions, expulsions, and degree revocations the same day it received a letter from the Trump administration telling them to do just that if they wanted to keep getting funding

We at @BDSatISA stand in full solidarity with our brilliant colleague @Helyeh_Doutaghi in the face of punitive treatment at Yale on the basis of AI smears. Please read Helyeh's brilliant statement & take a stand in solidarity! x.com/Helyeh_Douta...

Here's a beautiful edit of one of our actions at ISA! #EndScholasticide #EndGenocide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress

No conferencing as usual during genocide! #EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress

No conferencing as usual during genocide! #EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress

International Studies people, please sign & share this open letter in support of our colleague: docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...

Really feel abandoned by @isanet.bsky.social leadership on this. It is embarrassing that our own organization ignores so much evidence suggesting Israeli war crimes and genocide. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...

Last year, the Ambassador gave a speech at the opening of the "Unissued Diplomas" exhibition at the European Gallery of Tallinn University. ✨We are incredibly grateful to the Ambassador and the Ukrainian Embassy in Estonia for contributing their vital insights on this issue. 4/4

“We simply have not and were not able to stop this genocide.” Mohammed El-Kurd on Palestine and the complexities of resilience and victimhood.

Their vision is depicted as a triangular graph (©️Dr Liiri Oja). 3/4 The graph elaborates how peacetime violence sets the stage for wartime violence.

This week, we are thrilled to introduce our new Associate Editor, @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social! She is an Associate Professor of International Relations and co-director of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub (@securityhub.ee) at Tallinn University.

✨ We are so happy to be able to announce this and support the applicants! #TallinnUniversity invites outstanding researchers to apply for a fully funded grant-writing workshop designed to help secure the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) PF. www.tlu.ee/en/yti/resea...

“You’re going to need somebody who is willing to break the stranglehold of the two-party system.... What we need is someone who can coalesce the energies in this country ... into another party which can respond to the needs of the people. The Democratic Party cannot do it.” —James Baldwin, 1968

🍉On 13th February, the ISA council will be voting on a motion against #scholasticide & for #BDS. ISA members: please urge your section & caucus chairs to vote in favour of the motion🍉 #BDSatISA

Academia is increasingly affected by politics and war. The Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (CEEISA) stands in solidarity with colleagues and students facing violent attacks and restrictions on academic freedoms worldwide. Read our full statement: www.ceeisa.net/news

Hello 👋👋 We are the Journal of International Relations and Development, and we are happy to be here! Please follow, retweet, and stay tuned to meet our new editors and learn more about the journal over the coming weeks ▶️ www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/4...

✨We are so excited to have Professor Berit Bliesemann de Guevara of @interpolaber.bsky.social come and give an open lecture on her research titled Creating Safer Space: Exploring unarmed, civilian-to-civilian protection amidst violent conflict. She will be with us in #Tallinn on February 12th. 1/5

Standing for Palestine with the Yugoslawomenplus Collective & friends in Rijeka 💪🏾

I am not sure people understand the magnitude of the horror that has been inflicted on Gaza for now 14 months.

Our co-directors @benjaminklasche.bsky.social @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social and @tonicerkez.bsky.social reflected on the position of the #EstonianArtsAcademy to cut cooperating with the Shenkar University in Israel. The position caused an uproar in #Estonia 1/2 epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/120...

✨New blog post on our site. Inspired by the #pluriversal perspectives on peace and security advocated by the Central Eastern European Security Hub (CEEShub), we propose examining these issues through a different lens: the perspective of #Taiwan’s #Indigenous Peoples. securityhub.ee/blog/taiwan-...

"Syria after Assad" - On the coexistence of relief, uncertainty & fear, and Israel's (re)invasion of Syria. jasminekgani.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/s...

Indeed, together with my thought companions we pondered the role of scholar-activists: how & with whom should we respond to the wounds of our worlds? Patricia H Collins: ‘intellectual activism… the myriad ways that people place the power of their ideas in service to social justice’

NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.

Launching #ceeshub run by @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social and @benjaminklasche.bsky.social #TallinnIR

And another starter pack, this time on Relational IR. Please share to reach more people. To join, reply below and I'll add you! go.bsky.app/QXtXhPA

Estonia's FM is skeptical that #ICC warrant against #Bibi will contribute to peace. What a ridiculous and potentially dangerous statement. ICC is about responsibility, not peace. One could be skeptical about Putin too, by the way! news.err.ee/1609528477/e...

Have not seen much on here on Sudan, so I'm amplifying this horrific report that shows the number who are killed is higher than previously estimated. Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵

A new (E10/Algeria) draft Security Council resolution is reportedly being considered by Council members since Friday. As drafted, it would include:

⭐️Big professional news⭐️ From January 2025 onwards, Dagmar Vorlicek and I will take over JIRD - the flagship IR journal of CEEISA - as editors-in-chief. We will be supported by a great editorial team of Monika Meislova, Michal Kolmas, Michal Onderco, Birgit Poopuu, Marko Lovec, and Florian Weiler.