Delighted to announce that Fredrik Dybfest Hjorthen and I have secured an ARHC grant to work on "The Ethics of Responding to Rising Global Authoritarianism", for two years from Feb 2026.

🚨New Shepherd.com article by James Pattison article out now! 🚨 Exploring 'The best books to understand how the global order is changing' w/ Anne Applebaum, Lucia Rafanelli Henry Farrell Abe Newman and more! 🌟 Read more about his book and his picks here 👉 https://ow.ly/MMMW50XxyAS

. @jamespattison.bsky.social and I are organizing a section for the upcoming ECPR GC, this time in lovely Krakow (08-11 Sept. 2026). This year's theme is: A World in Crisis: Conflict and the Future of Global Justice. Please consider submitting panels or papers by January 5. ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Our book, Prioritizing Global Responsibilities, is now featured on Shepherd.com. For this feature, I highlight five best books that have helped me understand how the changing global order affects our understanding of global responsibilities. shepherd.com/best-books/u...

Watch the interview with #JOGSS editors @jamespattison.bsky.social & Ulrich Petersohn! JOGSS welcomes novel research on global security 📝 No fixed reference style at submission 📚 Bibliography excluded from word count ⚡ Quick turnaround 🤝 Pre-submission exchange 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6oe...

Important paper on the Tigray War. Key points: Death toll likely to be larger than 800k and Ethiopia obscured the crisis, creating 'zone of invisibility' to reduce calls for international action : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 #REF2029 update - Matthew Flinders and @ailsahenderson.bsky.social provide an update on REF2029 sub-panel 19 - Politics and IR: 🎉 Pause button pressed & Sub-panel members appointed: @usempire.bsky.social @rgwhitman.bsky.social @jamespattison.bsky.social @whitproject.bsky.social Read here 👉

By a factor of 10. And the number users who likely saw it in their feeds is higher over on Bluesky as well, which is remarkable. www.altmetric.com/details/1807...

With global health budgets collapsing, @lukeglanville.bsky.social and I have a short reply up at BMJ Global Health. We argue that states must resist the pull of self-interest and short-termism. Ethical prioritisation means focusing on effectiveness and the worst-off. 🔗 www.bmj.com/content/387/...

From 2025, #JoGSS is run by a new editorial team headed by Ulrich Petersohn & @jamespattison.bsky.social. Read their editorial to learn about the vision and goals shaping the journal's next chapter 👉 doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

A fight in a madhouse about who is Napoleon...

How do China and Russia employ economic coercion through subtle and less conspicuous means? 📘 @victoraferguson.bsky.social’s comparative study offers valuable insights into the mechanisms and strategic logic underpinning their sanctioning behaviour. 🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

Why do states implement certain cyber strategies, and why might they change over time? CMIST’s Nadiya Kostyuk together with Evan Perkoski and Michael Poznansky argue that bureaucratic politics is an important factor. Read their latest in @journalofgss.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...

My new paper, "The duty to confront global authoritarianism", is now out in the European Journal of Political Theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I've written a short blog about my paper on responding to backsliding, available here: ajps.org/2025/04/14/t...

Really delighted to see this out

New open access article in @journalofgss.bsky.social on how China and Russia (similarly!) use economic sanctions. Using new data, I disaggregate 53 CN and 50 RU cases from 2000-23 to look at ~300 separate sanctions, examining 6 mechanisms of implementation and their dynamics. doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

our new editorial team of the Journal of Global Security Studies at the ISA JOGSS's reception @journalofgss.bsky.social @drgholmes.bsky.social

Curious about the latest research from our editorial team? 📖 Read @dingbatacus.bsky.social's article exploring how electoral turbulence and violence lead to gendered outcomes — and how they impact women's representation in legislative bodies 🗳️ Available open access 👇 doi.org/10.1177/1065...

Read Christopher Whyte's research to explore the "subversion aversion paradox" in cyber-enabled influence operations (CEIOs). While CEIOs favour subtle tactics, states are more likely to adopt performative actions when chances of subversive success diminish. 🔍 Learn more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

My paper on “The Ethics of Responding to Democratic Backsliding Abroad” is now out in AJPS (open access). It defends “a responsibility-based approach” that emphasises the challenges that backsliding poses to the fulfilment of global responsibilities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interesting -- makes a lot of sense (even if not the right strategy)

Yesterday, Germany decided to increase borrowing to fund defence. In my paper on borrowing, I argue this approach is wrongheaded for intergenerational justice. TDLR: young and future generations will have much to handle, given climate change and rising authoritarianism—this is unfair on them.

I wouldn't normally repost The Sun, but this headline is excellent

Russia is now hitting Kyiv with drones. Trump looks like a naive idiot to the world.

A very good summary of where we are after the Trump-Putin call from @politico.com Jamie Dettmer. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

📢Join my wonderful department! ✅ The Politics department at the University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy. ⏱️Apply by 23rd April. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🔍 How do ‘deviant’ states come to see themselves as victims in the international system? Aniruddha Saha’s research examines Iran-US nuclear politics to reflect the dichotomy of good/normal and bad/deviant states. 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

Thrilled to share that my PhD work on China’s contestation of the Protection of Civilians principle is now published in @intpeacekeeping.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @jamespattison.bsky.social, @jessgifkins.bsky.social, and Laura McLeod for their guidance! Open Access 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1353...

The general trend is crazy. Here is Twitter vs Bluesky volumes for the last week. On some days they are equal in volume.

Get off of X. You are handing a member of the Trump administration data directly. When (not if) they coerce advertisers back onto the platform, you will be giving those ads pageviews at minimum, which will help the platform game their performance stats. And you're helping train Grok.

Is wading through treacle. Bloody jetlag!

our new editorial team of the Journal of Global Security Studies at the ISA JOGSS's reception @journalofgss.bsky.social @drgholmes.bsky.social

5/ JoGSS is launching a pre-submission exchange program! 📝 Check it out here: academic.oup.com/jogss/pages/...

If you can’t make it to the two JOGSS events, why not meet our editors at the sessions where they’ll be presenting or participating? #ISA2025 Find out more 1/3 @jamespattison.bsky.social

"The reason Putin might finally be ready to negotiate seems to be remarkably simple: He wants to avoid a humiliating bankruptcy" Trump has rescued him www.politico.eu/article/vlad...

Curious about the latest research from our editorial team? 📖 Read @drgholmes.bsky.social's article to explore how technology and digitality shape gender and race power relations in UN peacekeeping. Find out more here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Breaking news: U.S. sides with Russia to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow for the Ukraine war. Washington’s dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with the Kremlin.

How does recruiting foreign nationals into the armed forces impact mutiny risk? 🤔 The answer isn’t simple! 💡Read the research by Abel Escribà-Folch, Christopher Faulkner, and @mehrl.bsky.social to uncover the complex dynamics at play. 🔍 Read their open-access article here: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

Some exciting news coming soon from the Journal of Global Security Studies about our submission processes. Hopefully this will make it easier for colleagues. We will announce once it's all formalised! @jogss.bsky.social

Please come an meet us at ISA!

🚨 Just 3 weeks until #ISA2025! 🚨 Are you an early career researcher or looking to publish with #JOGSS? Don’t miss our Meet the Editor session! Join our own Ulrich Petersohn and editors from other #ISA journals for insights on getting published 📖 📅 Mon 3rd March | 4:00–5:45 PM 📍 Room 4M, Hilton

This is spot on

Want to know more about the research done by our editorial team? 📖 Read Ulrich Petersohn’s latest article to explore how commercial military actors influence conflict termination. Find out here 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jogs... #Mercenaries #CivilWar

The Journal of Global Security Studies is now on BlueSky!

How, why, and when does nuclear deterrence actually work? 🤔 Stuart Kaufman’s nuclear heuristics theory unpacks the key factor behind its success. #NuclearDeterrence 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

Remember when norms were a thing and we all thought they mattered. Good times.

The Journal of Global Security Studies will be coming to BlueSky soon. Watch this space!

Once upon a time in America.