The clown show that passes as immigration policy these days. Impulsive illegal policy change motivated by racism--> immediate backlash + furious lobbying by constituent parties --> piecemeal carve outs = utter confusion and fear.

Les pays reconnaissant l’État de Palestine représentent 89 % de la population et 56 % du PIB mondial legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...

In the data on drone and missile strikes by fascist Russia on democratic Ukraine since Trump took office, you can literally see Putin test Trump, gauge the reaction, and then test more - each time raising the intensity of his attacks.

Vidya Krishnan, journaliste : « Depuis cinq ans, les prisonniers politiques indiens font preuve d’un courage extraordinaire »

New publication (with Emidio Diodato) in @jcms-eu.bsky.social The Long‐Term Effects of #Populism on #ForeignPolicy: Berlusconi's Legacy and Its Impact on Italy's Approach to the #EU and International Politics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ideopop.bsky.social @pwunifreiburg.bsky.social

As we start discussing Constructivism this week in #IIRLeiden2025, sharing an interesting conversation with Martha Finnemore on the importance of norms in international affairs from the @goodauth.bsky.social podcast goodauthority.org/news/norms-r...

Dit is bij uitstek politiek, omdat het raakt aan de "authoritative allocation of values for a society" (Easton). Heinen wil niet dat extreem of radicaal rechtse politici aangesproken worden op dit geweld, maar dat maakt de zaak nog niet apolitiek.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Thanks @lseusablog.bsky.social for guesting a reflection of ours on the recent political violence in the USA (but not only). For those who want to read our open access special issue intro on political violence in democracies @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social : journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I was a bit surprised yesterday to see a billboard celebrating PM Modi’s birthday outside of India, and close to home, at Leiden central station! @nrc.nl has a pc on how this unfolded: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

So happy to see this excellent Special Issue out in The Hague Journal of Diplomacy @haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social on Caste & IR edited by @unileiden.bsky.social colleague Vineet Thakur, Pavan Kumar & @kalathmika.bsky.social after having learned so much from the workshop in Leiden a few years ago

"Expressing deep concern about the recent attacks in Doha and their impact on the security situation in the region, India unequivocally condemned the violation of the sovereignty of Qatar at an urgent debate at the UNHRC on the Israel military aggression" timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/...

Also related to our discussion on Liberalism in #IIRLeiden2025 and in light of the 80th UNGA happening this month, an important and worrying piece from Michael Williams on the crisis of the Liberal Order jacobin.com/2025/09/libe...

Also related to our discussion on Liberalism in #IIR2025 and in light of the 80th UNGA happening this month, an important and worrying piece from Michael Williams on the crisis of the Liberal Order jacobin.com/2025/09/libe...

Students of #IIRLeiden2025 :relevant to the lecture on Liberalism today, interesting set of articles from BBC on the Hanseatic League, making some comparisons with contemporary international & regional organizations. Also useful to understand Kant’s ideas! t.co/Z9kkvr7Keq

China criticizes Israel openly, Israel blames China's for its diplomatic isolation, but business ties continue: Chinese EV maker Xpeng launches ultra-fast charging network in Israel english.news.cn/20250915/983...

According to the “Global Terrorism Database (GTD)—arguably the most widely-used dataset in the study of political violence—anti-abortion activists constitute the single most common perpetrators of terrorist attacks in the United States.” Source: jkertzer.sites.fas.harvard.edu/Research_fil...

EU and Indonesia agree trade deal – FT: ‘plan to sign it next week as they accelerate efforts to reduce their dependence on China and the US.’ www.ft.com/content/5f18...

Most Jewish Americans oppose Trump's university funding cuts over antisemitism, poll shows

hey @nieuwsuur.nl waarom is Nederland zo gedaald in de Academic Freedom Index? niet de moeite waard om te noemen dat het volgens de makers daarvan met "academic exchange" en "freedom to research" weinig te maken heeft? of past dat niet goed genoeg in het sappige verhaal van Baudet?

This week we discuss Realism in #IIRLeiden2025 & the Security Dilemma. One has to start with Charles Glaser & his pc in @foreignaffairs.bsky.social t.co/a4huUhVYyL & his interview in the Power Problems podcast cato.org/multimedia/pow…

One more example to expand our understanding of sovereignty in theory and practice in contemporary world politics in #IIRLeiden2025

The strike in Doha and concerns about allies like the US’ defense guarantees can be interpreted as a classic lesson from Realism (self-help) which we will discuss today in #IIRLeiden2025

Last week in #IIRLeiden2025 we discussed states like Somaliland and the politics of recognition. Now, US senators suggest recognising Somaliland if it accepts Gazan refugees. Is this transactional use of recognition an example of neoliberal logic, where IO and IR are seen as tools? aje.io/hwoyie

Népal : Sushila Karki, l’ancienne cheffe de la Cour suprême, va être première ministre après la démission de « KP » Sharma Oli

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

As we were discussing in #IIRLeiden2025 the concepts of sovereignty and state recognition, an interesting new read on the case of Somaliland we mentioned in class foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/09/s...

China hopes Nepal can restore social order and stability soon, foreign ministry spokesperson says – Xinhua

Weird. A political system capable of holding individuals accountable for their ties to Epstein. What a strange idea.

Thanks to @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social for giving us the possibility to guest edit a special issue on "Political violence in democracies". Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social and I wrote an open access introduction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks to all authors of 14 articles!

🚨 How & why do nuclear delivery vehicles proliferate? My article on the spread of delivery vehicles is out at Security Studies! #OpenAccess It explains: - Why the NPT allows nuclear delivery vehicles to spread - How did India acquire its #nuclear delivery technology tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How did a Nazi end up working for the Jawaharlal Nehru-led Ministry of External Affairs? indiasworld.in/a-nazi-in-po...

As we discuss Westphalia, sovereignty, & international & global orders within & beyond the West this week in #IIRLeiden2025 I highly recommend this ISR podcast w @aysezarakol.bsky.social (interview by @hbanai.bsky.social ) on her excellent "Before the West" book isrb.podbean.com/e/in-convers...

First #IIRLeiden2025 post: as we discuss History of IR & esp. legacies of Westphalia, sharing a great reading from Claire Vergerio on how states have been mythologized as the natural unit of political order (& hints on how we can think beyond them) www.bostonreview.net/articles/bey...

Most people in Mexico and Canada say the United States is their country's greatest threat. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

And it’s not even correct. It was the Umayyad general Tariq ibn Ziyad who famously burned his boats, on landing in Spain in 711. And Cortes scuttled his ships in 1520 when he landed in Mexico.

I don’t usually pay much attention to this indicator, but Dutch general confidence in politics has declined from 30% a year ago to 19% 6 months ago to 4% now. That looks like it’s pointing at something real and a bit scary

China’s wind turbine makers boost production in India's growing market – Nikkei Asia

“Pakistan is like Israel, an ideological state. Take out the Judaism from Israel, and it will fall like a house of cards. Take Islam out of Pakistan and make it a secular state; it would collapse” read this pc to see which Pakistani president made this analogy: indiasworld.in/growing-apar...

These various historical examples highlight a complex relationship that requires understanding the historical and contemporary drivers of Islamabad’s approach to Israel —> indiasworld.in/growing-apar...

“President Pervez Musharraf indicated a willingness to recognise Israel if certain preconditions were fulfilled & famously stated in 2003: “Should we be … more pious than the Pope or more Palestinian than the Palestinians themselves?”

“From the 1950s, both adopted pro-Western and pro-American positions on sensitive Middle Eastern issues. For instance, Pakistan’s opposition to Egypt’s decision to nationalise and block the Suez Canal in the 1950s…Pakistan also occasionally authorised back-channel intelligence cooperation w Israel”

“Israel & Pakistan became states within a year, following the undoing of the British Empire..thru bloody partitions, both manifested an understanding of the nation-state that had built into it the idea of religious difference:a Muslim Homeland & a Jewish National Home” indiasworld.in/growing-apar...

How do international organizations change as the consequence of autocratization? A new article in @coco-journal.bsky.social with @debremaria.bsky.social explores how regime transformations affect IO membership composition. Are non-democracies taking over? ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Economic crises tend to favour the right. Voters tend to assign greater importance to issues owned by the right. When center-right parties preside over a crisis, voters often drift further rightward to nationalist parties rather than defect to the left onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Breaking news: The Trump administration illegally withheld billions from Harvard University for alleged violations of rules against antisemitism, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Rajesh Basrur and I weigh into the great Indian multialignment debate in India's World ($). tl;dr - I argue the problem is not India's strategy but the failure of India's political and diplomatic elites to grasp the nature of Trump 2.0. indiasworld.in/debate-does-...

Deteriorating US-India ties seem to affect other voting alignments? After June Rebuff, India Backs SCO Statement Condemning Israeli, US Strikes on Iran m.thewire.in/article/dipl...

“After years of dormancy,the case for the re-emergence of the RIC has surfaced against the backdrop of India-China normalisation & the India-US spat over Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Indian exports”but”the long-term viability of this format remains questionable” www.orfonline.org/expert-speak...

India's PM will not attend the military parade in Beijing on 3 Sept. He will leave immediately after the SCO summit in Tianjin. Balancing and signalling to friends (like Japan) and rivals alike. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence...