The far right label is not easily applied in China, yet xenophobia, militaristic nationalism, racism, and anti feminism are rising in online discourse and sometimes within the state. The global fight against fascism requires solidarity with grassroots resistance. www.tni.org/en/article/m...

Professor Bahar Baser published an article, co-authored with Professor Elise Feron titled "Neither from within nor from without: how states securitize diasporas" in Ethnic and Racial Studies. @sgiadurham.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💡Meet Professor @anoushehteshami.bsky.social from our @sgiadurham.bsky.social, a leading expert on the Middle East, North Africa & Asia. His research shapes global policy & helps governments navigate a rapid world changes.🌍 Read more in our latest Spotlight On feature 👉https://bit.ly/3OjBQlT

🚨New book alert 🚨 Anouk S. Rigterink and Mareike Schomerus's new book Research Design in Politics and International Relations is coming out soon. If you are looking for a methods textbook to make students enthusiastic for research, give this a look! us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/re...

Six 36-month postdoctoral positions @durham.ac.uk open for application now. Find more about the expertise of our academic staff members here www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... Our research centres www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

in this interview for TNI's State of Power report, I take a look at China and/in the global politics of the far right, convergence and mismatch, civilizationism and digital culture, and visions for transnational solidarity. www.tni.org/en/article/m... @tninstitute.bsky.social

We are delighted to be hosting a talk by Dr Jingyu Mao on the emotional politics of inequality in contemporary China: 📅 Thursday 19 February 2026 🕔 14:00 - 15:30 📍 CB-0020 (Confluence Building)

Join us for a discussion on Women, Peace and Security in Ukraine: The Role of NATO and Civil Society with expert speakers. Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wps-in-ukr...

There are three likely scenarios for Venezuela after intervention by the US, according to public policy expert Dr Omar Hammoud Gallego. 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... @omarhgallego.bsky.social @bigissue.com

Good news - I'm hiring at Durham University! 1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness. Details 👇👇👇

Our new MA Politics and International Relations of East Asia offers a research-led and policy-relevant approach to understanding East Asia’s role in a changing international order, with a distinctive focus on Europe–China relations. youtu.be/vfmHkhixs8k?... @durham.ac.uk

I was lucky to join @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and @philiproscoe.bsky.social's (not so virtual) kitchen to chat about Musk and founder ideology with @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social. My podcast's baptism of fire 🙈 - thanks for having me!

How can Hannah Arendt’s book The Origins of Totalitarianism help us understand this new age of far-right populism? @cjfinlay.bsky.social @sgiadurham.bsky.social takes a look 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...

come join us for the first guest lecture of the term!

Call for Papers Durham University – Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Conference Challenges to Democratic Resilience Dates: April 22-24, 2026 Location: Durham University, UK @sgiadurham.bsky.social

📣New Publication📣 My article in The Conversation on reading Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism 50 years after her death is available here: tinyurl.com/yeyp3yy8 #Populism #PoliticalTheory #Totalitarianism #HannahArendt #Democracy #TheConversation @sgiadurham.bsky.social @theconversation.com

Monday 15th December 2025 is the final closing date for submissions to our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026. Last-minute submissions are very welcome! files.taylorandfrancis.com/economy-and-...

in this new publication @ncrm.ac.uk, Adrian Millican, Fanni Toth (both SGIA researchers) and Andrew Hamilton, disability rights activist and one of our students in politics & IR, offer insights into teaching statistics to visually impaired students durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/49191...

Wondering what it’s like to study on SGIA’s MSc in Defence, Development and Diplomacy? Hear directly from recent graduate, John Loudon. durham-student.org/studying-def...

📢We have kicked off todays @astropoliticswg.bsky.social workshop at Durham University! ☄️We started the day with an introduction on the intersection between space and international politics from James Osborne, director of Durham's Space Research Centre (SPARC) 🪡Follow this thread for more

Ferran Perez Mena, our assistant professor in international relations of East Asia, joins BRI dialogue to discuss transnational elite connections between Chinese and Western non-state actors and their impact on world politics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Np...

We were honoured to host Former Ambassador James Watt for an insightful and engaging talk. Drawing on his distinguished diplomatic career, he offered a nuanced reflection on the challenges and opportunities shaping the Middle East’s political landscape. @sgiadurham.bsky.social

The 2025 Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture was held 12th Nov by @imeisdurham.bsky.social and BIPS who hosted her Former Majesty’s ambassador to Iran, Qatar and Yemen, Mr. Nicholas Hopton. The title: "A British Diplomatic Perspective on Iran’s Position & Policies in the Middle East Since 7 October 2023"

Join us on 1 December 2025 at 17:00 for the Annual Ambassadorial Lecture: “Kuwait’s Priorities in a Changing Middle East” delivered by His Excellency Bader A. Almunayekh, Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to the UK. Location: WB-2003, The Waterside Building, Durham. @sgiadurham.bsky.social

Join us on 4 December at 17:00 for a talk by James Watt, former ambassador and now partner at Ambassador Partnership LLP: “Two Years on from 7 October: What Future Awaits the Middle East?” All welcome. Hosted by Durham Diplomatic Society and IMEIS, Durham University. @sgiadurham.bsky.social

Join us for a guest lecture by @kevinyangmx.bsky.social on the grassroots Marxists in the 1978-81 Chinese democracy movement! 📅 Thursday 11 December 2025 🕔 11:00 - 12:30 📍 TLC039 (Teaching and Learning Centre)

Dipping back into my academic identity for the @sochistorywar.bsky.social conference at the ZMSBw in Potsdam. As far as conference premises go, this is quite a nice one! I’m looking forward to presenting tomorrow on Giulio Douhet and Future War - apt for a history conference! @sgiadurham.bsky.social

Happy to share this piece on ethnography in political science: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies (IMEIS) Wednesday 26th November 2025 4 – 5pm, Online “Islam in Russia: Formations of Tolerance”

Our final monthly pick for November is the #OpenAccess article "Counter-Conduct and the Everyday: Anthropological Engagements with Philosophy" by @olgademetriou.bsky.social (@sgiadurham.bsky.social). Be sure to give it a read! #CounterConduct #Greece #Cyprus www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨new open-access article!🚨 what do drastically different representations of the Paris Olympic opening ceremony on Chinese social media tell us about competing narratives of civilization & transversal alignment in digital reactionary politics? academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

🚨In this PiRM Episode: @pmkuhn.bsky.social is joined by @cjfinlay.bsky.social, who draws on his essay "Beware the Boomerang Effect" to dissect the profound legal and ethical challenges posed by "assassination as policy". open.spotify.com/episode/3BRc...

🎙️In this episode, @omarhgallego.bsky.social discusses public opinion and perceptions of migration, the recent migration policies of UK parties, and the politics behind them. open.spotify.com/episode/4NwR...

Read the latest review of Jessica Begon's book, Disability Through the Lens of Justice (OUP 2023), by Sara Purinton. "Begon’s theory marks a significant contribution to the philosophical literature on disability and to political philosophy. ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/disa... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Another banger! Carla studies the most depraved neoliberal writings so you don't have to. This is a must read.

Dr William Plowright from our @sgiadurham.bsky.social reflects on Ahmed al-Sharaa’s remarkable transformation from former jihadist to political leader welcomed at the White House. Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... @uk.theconversation.com #Syria

✨PHD FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AT DURHAM UNI✨ Funding is available from NINE DTP, China Scholarship Council, and Transformative Humanities. For more info visit our website: www.durham.ac.uk/.../research... Join the Information session on 28th Nov, 12-1pm here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Congratulations to Adam Lovett, an assistant professor in political theory at SGIA, for being shortlisted for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's book prize in interdisciplinary philosophy! @triphilosophy.bsky.social

In this new paper, Renu Singh, an assistant professor in comparative politics at SGIA, and co-authors Pengyu Zhu, Zining Wang, and Xinying Tan investigate how China's multi-level EV policies enabled "technology leapfrogging" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨NEW PiRM Episode: @pmkuhn.bsky.social is joined by is joined by Prof. Ilan Baron, Professor in International Political Theory at SGIA, for a conversation on anti-Semitism, Israel, and the problem of proxy representation open.spotify.com/episode/2HCj...

My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality

it was a great pleasure to host @alybatt.bsky.social at Durham yesterday - thank you to everyone who came! And go buy a copy of Free Gifts 📘

Thanks so much to @lordsukspacecom.parliament.uk for inviting me to share my expertise in person on UK space policy and strategy - their report "The Space Economy: Act Now or Lose Out" is now available: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld... @sgiadurham.bsky.social Some thoughts below:

we had a full room attendance for today's lecture by @alybatt.bsky.social on her @princetonupress.bsky.social book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. thanks all for coming! @jackcopley.bsky.social

Apply for a PhD in Politics at Durham University! 📚🌍 For information on areas of supervision visit our PGR website: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... And please attend our Information Session on Tuesday 4th November, 2- 3 p.m.: durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/9324280697... We hope to see you there 👋

happening today!

in this op-ed with @globalpolicy.bsky.social, Jutta Bakonyi and Anne Flaspöler from SGIA introduce two papers exploring the experiences of civilians and peacekeepers in #Somalia and the #DRC. #peacekeeping www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/30/10/2...

🚨NEW PiRM Episode: @pmkuhn.bsky.social is joined by @aliceellafinden.bsky.social, who draws on her research to discuss the political implications of deploying the concepts 'terrorism' and 'counterterrorism' in the context of the Gaza conflict and UK domestic politics

Coming up in Vienna: Professor John C. Williams from SGIA will give a public lecture at the Diplomatische Akademie Wien on Algorithms and Accountability: AI, War, and the Politics of Immunity. 🗓 Monday 10 November 🕓 18:30 📍 Human Rights Space www.da-vienna.ac.at/en/Events