“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris. hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...

2025 was a terrible, depressingly relevant year to be a scholar of technology and corporate power. Some of us tried to make sense of WTF happened here (free to read): doi.org/10.1017/S026...

📝 What role do memories play in global politics, and what do they reveal about knowledge production in IR? Read the Intro to Vol. 53 Traversing Memories in Global Politics by Kinti Orellana Matute, @seowoohyeok.bsky.social & Pauline Zerla 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Throwback to our 2025 Symposium: Grateful to all speakers who presented their drafts and sparked thought-provoking discussions. Special thanks to our keynote, Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the special issue featuring the completed articles!

Palestinians say so-called 'yellow line' impossible to discern, as Israeli troops in Gaza continue to kill.

This concentration camp was opened at Fort Bliss, the site of a former Japanese internment camp. It also cost over $1B in private contracts to build in a place meant to hold 1000 people. So, basically it’s a fascist grift. shorturl.at/qhuSc

Dear search committees,

Dear search committees and HR, while we should be absolutely worried about this, please do not take this as fact and aniticipatorily screen out international candidates. That would only make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Check with your legal counsel.

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige - cup.org/44fCIh0 - @elifkalay.bsky.social #FirstView

Publication day! My article "World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige" is now available online, and it is also part of the special issue I am co-editing with Jelena Subotic ([email protected]) on global heritage politics. 1/

The season of Western multilateral summitry (G7, NATO) may be over, but the diplomatic show must go on. In this @ejir.bsky.social piece, I argue that summitry is a performance producing what I call the "social international," or the intl system of state persons journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

It's publication day! Take a look if you are curious about the narrative modes through which states pursue world heritage recognition

Wonderful wake up to a new Special Collection of @risjnl.bsky.social honoring Emma’s work on emotions and the influence it had on international relations scholarship. Big thanks to the editorial team. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So happy to have this piece in the volume! Thanks to @amozhor.bsky.social and @jittipm.bsky.social for the contribution!

Here it is: a tribute to Emma Hutchison, my amazing wife and research collaborator. I hope it does justice to the brilliant scholar and the remarkable person she was. Sorry it took me a while after Emma’s passing to gather enough strength to honour her. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...

We found it surprising at how little was written on Emotions and Global Governance, so @jittipm.bsky.social and I wrote this essay for the Oxford Handbook on Emotions and IR (edited by @simonkoschut.bsky.social & @andrewagross.bsky.social) :)

Come work with me! I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations. www.queensu.ca/research/res...

Happy to share that my essay “The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition” is now out in Ethics & International Affairs. In it I argue that racialisation in the international order means we need to take seriously global calls for abolition. doi.org/10.1017/S089...

My article on the political economy of anti-Chinese racism is out in the latest issue of the American Political Science Review (open access). The baton of Sinophobia that awaits the next US administration has a longer and more ambivalent history in British colonial capitalism in Southeast Asia. 👇

Thanks everyone for the generous interest in this starter pack. Very glad it's been useful 🙏. It's already reached its limit of 150 people (non-dormant accounts only) so I can't add more people to this one. But there are some other great starter packs with overlapping themes, linked below 🧵

Reasons why our struggles in Latin America are deeply entangled with Palestine's liberation/decolonization. Israel’s role in Indigenous/campesino genocide in Guatemala —technologies of violence imported from Israel are still used to repress the movements in Guatemala.🧵1/

Centre College is looking to hire a tenure-track Americanist (and for me, gaining a colleague) 🙂 apply.interfolio.com/152336 If you know any cool Americanists, pls share with them!

🚨New Article🚨 From our special issue The African Union, Pan-Africanism, and the Liberal World (Dis)Order: 'Exit from Nuremberg to the Hague: The Malabo Protocol and the Pan-African Road to Arusha' by Oumar Ba Read OPEN ACCESS here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Hello, we're looking to hire a (cool) Americanist at Centre College. I'm not on the search committee but happy to chat with people about the college and the job :) If you know a cool Americanist, please help share this with them!

The program is out for ISA–Northeast, the best conference in all the land. I'm stoked to be on a Saturday panel with good comrades @amozhor.bsky.social, Michael Murphy, and friends yet to be met while presenting part of my book manuscript.