Live at the #ProjectLab with @anahitaarian.bsky.social and Navnita Chadha Behera, diving into course design, teaching challenges, and strategies! 🎓✨ #EISAPEC25 #ECDgroup #Teaching @europeanisa.bsky.social

4/5 📝 Also happening on Aug 28, the ECD Project Lab on #CourseDesign. Experienced scholars will offer their strategies on course design 💡 followed by an open and informal conversation on pedagogy & teaching strategies. Bring your own course programmes 📖 to share! @anahitaarian.bsky.social

I look forward to facilitating this conversation on teaching & course design strategies at the upcoming #EISAPEC25 alongside @marionfoster.bsky.social for @ecdeisa.bsky.social If you are around, join us in person for insights by @anahitaarian.bsky.social and #NavnitaCBehera & following exchanges!

EU officials are playing their part as loyal members of the Axis of Genocide (Israel, US & the EU). There are only a handful of EU countries that oppose this travesty of justice openly & with clarity: Spain & Ireland, plus Norway as a EEA member. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

While the genocide of Palestinians continues, the EU also continues its trade deal with Israel at €16 billion a year. This is supposed to be based on respecting human rights, which are clearly being broken. Please sign the petition: sign.myvoice-mychoice.org/forms/stop_g...

This story on privatised ethnic cleansing in Gaza isn't getting the attention it deserves.

“Annihilate, smash, eradicate, erase, crush, shatter, burn, be cruel, punish, ruin, crush. Annihilate!” www.timesofisrael.com/likud-minist...

Gaza Doctors Under Attack: documenting Israel's genocide of doctors and medical staff in Gaza. The documentary that BBC didn't show because of its Zionist board member Robbie Gibb, who has damaged the BBC and it's credibility as a news media. zeteo.com/p/watch-now-...

Summer time reading & healing 📖😌

"Gaza must be eliminated" according to the only "democracy" in the Middle East with the most "moral" army in the world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hopeful 💗

Europe's humiliation reaches new depths: As if yesterday’s cringey texts weren’t enough, Mark Rutte just called Trump 'Daddy.'... www.youtube.com/shorts/Gi8ZE...

The purportedly ‘post-colonial’ (temporal shift) world organisation has forever been a cover for western colonial world order. The benefit collected by politicians, white supremacists, & white feminists alike. Bombing of Iran is totally unwarranted & unprovoked. US empire is a threat to the world.

MAD Theory and Iran's nuclear weapons

Much needed history lesson www.ft.com/content/d9e7...

'No war on Iran': New Yorkers rally against US and Israeli regime change plans - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-new-york-protest-israel-attacks-iran

Is Fordo really the most important thing about Iran’s nuclear program or is the focus on it designed to drag the US into the war? Since Fordo is the only target that needs US planes and bunker buster bombs.

Marco Rubio's grandfather was undocumented in the US

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Israel has a right to defend itself. Iran has a right to be attacked. This is the message we are being told by many European leaders, especially this shower of cretins at the German Embassy

This is a declaration of war and genocide on Iran and all Iranians. This is the same shit show as Bush W. for Iraq. There are no nuclear weapons in Iran as the IAEA has confirmed various times and the CIA. So this is about regime change with Iranian lives being expendable.

It is eerily quiet...where are the CONDEMNATIONS of Israel? Apart from the BS rhetoric of "de-escalation"? This de-escalation was never practiced by the US and the EU, since they have consistently supported Israel and its insanity and psychopathy. We know now more than ever who and what you are.

BUT DO YOU CONDEMN ISRAEL

One of the things I most resent about AI is the way it has inserted itself, unwelcomed, between me and my students, especially the ones I don't know all that well yet. I hate that every time I read a piece of student writing a small piece of me is thinking "is this a robot or a person?"

‘Palantir’s name comes from the indestructible crystal balls in ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Saruman’s misplaced faith in this uncertain technology, which provides only a partial view of events, eventually leads to his downfall.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on military tech: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Come work with us! We have two new Assistant Professor positions at the Institute of Political Science. Submission deadline is 15 June 2025. Start date: 1 November 2025. www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

There is no better word than what the Swedes have described Trumpist letters to go full fascist on diversity elsewhere: "bizarre"! The word of the day! Thank you Sweden 🇸🇪🇸🇪 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Congratulations to Stella Maris, Rector of St Andrews, who has won her appeal against dismissal from the governing body: a vindication of her, and anyone's, right to condemn genocide and apartheid. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

I am excited that my new book, Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History will be out in late spring. It is comprehensive examination of how Iran sees its national security and interests and why it adopts particular strategies to achieve them. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory ed. by J. Frueh, J. Ala, M. Murphy & P.F. Diehl is now available online! Pleased to have contributed to it with a chapter on Teaching Global South Theories through an Ethics of Understanding. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Columbia University, once the academic home of Edward Said, has chosen to become the canary in the mine of neofascist, zionist, Trumpist bullying. In so doing, Columbia has ceased to be a university. Goodnight Columbia. No amount of luck can save you now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A collection of images from today's #MarchForOurConstitution at the Federal Building in Los Angeles. Only the L.A. Times carried the story.

Michigan is protesting. A LOT. Medicaid cuts.Voter suppression. Solidarity with our allies. Attacks on the postal service. We’re on overpasses, in town halls, on the street—every week. But the media? Pretending it’s not happening. 👀 Read the story they won’t cover: open.substack.com/pub/distills...

Among those killed in Israeli air strikes last night: 174 children 89 women 32 elderly

Are you attending #EISAPEC25? If you have a paper on historical inter-polity relations/diplomacy (esp non-Western), please consider submitting it as part of the panel @anahitaarian.bsky.social and I are putting together. Still looking for chair/discussant and at least one more paper. #HistIR

So, my first photoblog is up. There will be more to come, including political ones. For now, though, this was an obvious start but not an easy one. www.rolandbleiker.com/photography/...

For the EISA PEC 2025 in Bologna (25-29 August 2025), I am organizing a panel on Women, Gender and Sex in the History of International Relations and welcome submissions of paper abstracts. Deadline 17 March 2025. For more see: www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Please sign and share this petition! The ISA is way out of bounds here and has started a smearing campaign against Dr Catherine Charrett 😡

On Int’l Women’s Day: Women’s Equality: What will it Take, What will it Yield?

My thoughts go out to Ukraine & Ukrainians ❤️ Absolutely shocking & nerve wrecking to see how Trump humiliated president Zelensky in the White House & broke every possible rule of diplomatic protocol 🤯 while difficult talks are often held in backrooms in dipmacy, this is a another level.

"Democracy Dies in WaPo" If anyone still had doubts that Bezos has made WaPo into a lapdog of Trump 2.0, this should do the trick. Unsubscribe if you believe in independent media.

"We are witnessing the convergence of three strains of politics : the Wall Street–Silicon Valley nexus of distressed debt and startup culture; anti–New Deal conservative think tanks; and the extremely online world of anarchocapitalism and right-wing accelerationism." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/

While we are witnessing the rise of authoritarianism across the political spectrum in the West, the International Studies Association - the biggest scientific organization for International Relations scholars - has apparently also decided to join the anti-democratic tide. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...

Yasmina Price recommends the “elegant and expansive” writings of Beatriz Nascimento in The Dialectic Is in the Sea for @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

My decision to cancel the ISA is again reaffirmed as the right call. The Governing Council's censureship, intimidation, bullying, and discrimination of some of its members whilst condoning the genocide of Palestinians is not worthy of anyone's time, money and resources.

Ugly manoeuvring at the International Studies Association Governing Council, not shared on Bluesky yet so far as I can see so reposting FYIs.

In this light, the American military industrial complex's involvement in funding, policing and setting the research agenda of universities, as illustrated by Princeton, is not surprising, but very alarming. It further erodes academic freedom and integrity.

That many American universities have succumbed to the oligarchs money and their policing of research agendas, thought and speech on campuses is no surprise. Ralph Wilson & Isaac Kamola's brilliant scholarship has covered this topic carefully and comprehensively. www.plutobooks.com/978074534301...