Good news everyone: it's not even October and I already have you covered for Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza or whatever floats your boat presents because December this year, the second edition of "Populism and World Politics" is coming out, which I've co-edited with David B. MacDonald and Dirk Nabers.

Congratulations to HOPE not hate's CEO, @nicklowles.bsky.social on the release of his latest book, How to Defeat the Far Right. You can get it here: hopenothate.bigcartel.com

IN NEW ISSUE: What is the far-right’s foreign policy outlook? @thorstenwojczewski.bsky.social tests a proposed theoretical framework through a comparative analysis of two German right parties. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/NLJLIFU @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

There will be a Workshop in November on “Ungrounding the Political” at the University of Lisbon with an emphasis on my work. Thanks to Joao Rochate da Palma and Tamara Caraus for organizing. Feel free to share with whoever might be interested. cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/events/ungro...

🚨 New paper with @thorstenwojczewski.bsky.social in @cambridgecria.bsky.social: In "Theorizing populism in international relations: a classical realist perspective", we explore the prospects of IR theories, focusing on classical #realism, for studying #populism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology: #Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan Find the paper here (open-access): academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

The revelatory & urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass & far-right violence throughout the West—from an internationally recognized extremism expert & media commentator. Man Up by @milleridriss.bsky.social publishes on September 16. Preorder yours: hubs.ly/Q03jyDHx0

Finally out as online first - coauthored with @theseangarrett we explore the relationship policy and roles through the case of UK and Germany as faithfully allies of Ukraine. More details and link to the article in Sean’s thread ⬇️ @irjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0047...

A moment of serious concern for America’s Five Eyes partners: “The director of the powerful wiretapping and cyberespionage service, the National Security Agency, was fired Thursday…The firings were advocated for by far-right activist Laura Loomer” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Preorder info for Man Up! May it make a difference: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

📣 Great to see Beate Jahn's and Sebastian Schindler's Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations published with 179 (!) entries on all things #IR. 🚨 @elgarpublishing.bsky.social Find my chapter on #realism here: www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

“I consider this mass migration into Europe as a threat to the daily life in Europe” This quote is from “Social Democrat”Mette Frederiksen, not JD Vance, but who can still tell the difference between the extreme right and mainstream on immigration these days. 🤷‍♂️

This years @hopenothate.org.uk yearly report included a long read on the strange radicalisation of Matthew Goodwin. It's a fascinating case of how a sad desperation for recognition can make some people do and say anything. hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...

“Article 360” is propaganda camouflaged as a big budget action movie. Pretending to be historically accurate, while also including a disclaimer, it uses all nativist tropes. But particularly the way Modi is presented as a wise sphinx at the end is just gross. 🇮🇳 ⭐️⭐️

NEW 🚨 The #Pravdanetwork—a Russia-linked disinformation operation—has infiltrated #Wikipedia, AI chatbots, and #X, spreading pro-Kremlin narratives globally. @vchatelet.bsky.social & @checkfirst.network reveal the scale of this content pollution: bit.ly/3R6XW9l

Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth. His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.

Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos are working with Trump for one very simple reason: They understand that Trump's policies are designed to make the wealthiest Americans even richer. These three men have become $232 billion richer since November. Not bad in a couple of months time!

With <4 weeks until election day, how strong is #Germany's #farright #AfD? I have compiled 19 months of polling data so that you don't have to. Several major scandals have done no lasting damage to their support. And the events & debates of the last 12 weeks have been a boon for them.

#India 🇮🇳 is beginning the 75th anniversary of its #constitution, of which B.R. #Ambedkar was a key architect. Praharsh Prasoon draws attention to one of Ambedkar's less discussed work on the empowerment of #workers in colonial India @lsesouthasia.bsky.social

📣 Attention #Zeitenwende nerds: I'm happy to announce that my co-authored article (w/ Dirk Nabers) "Crisis and change in post-Zeitenwende German security policy" has been published *open access*.

My new book, Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy will be published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social in early Feb! Pre-order at a discount 👇(South Asia edition following soon)

📝 Don't miss this new BJPIR article! '‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people' by @alexyates2000.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.bsky.social 🔓 Find the full article in #OpenAccess here:

New article with Sebastián Ronderos in the Journal of Language and Politics on how we can use discourse theory to study affect. If you can’t access it, let me know. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Emma Hutchison’s work on emotions and international relations defined and informed a generation of scholarship. We have put together a special collection honoring the legacy of Emma's work, including her RIS article and 8 others which have built on it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ICYMI: A neo-Nazi called Andrew McIntyre helped incite Britain's riots last summer. His role in the unrest was identified thanks to research by @hopenothate.org.uk Last week, Elon Musk criticized his sentencing. Megan Specia reports: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/w...

What is the far-right’s foreign policy outlook? @thorstenwojczewski.bsky.social tests a proposed theoretical framework through a comparative analysis of two German right parties. In @polstudies.bsky.social: https://buff.ly/40yvuTA (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

💥 New: How the normalisation of the radical right has fuelled their electoral success ✍️ @valentimvicente.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

❌ Elon Musk is amplifying far-right figures, spreading harmful disinformation, and meddling in UK politics. If we stay silent, he wins. But together, we can push back and demand stronger laws to protect our democracy. Join us and make your voice heard: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/163807/...

Jean-Marie Le Pen died knowing his far-right politics have been successfully mainstreamed in France A few thoughts on mainstreaming and the need to look beyond the Le Pen if we are to understand and address the resurgence of reactionary politics theconversation.com/jean-marie-l...

Interested in 'Europe as ideological resource: European integration and far-right legitimation’? Join the online book talk with @mlorimer.bsky.social / @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social Discussants: Giada Lagana & Thorsten Wojczewski Wed, 29 Jan, 4pm Registration: www.iaces.ie/events/book-...

Like Bernie et al? Some interesting literature out there, e.g., academic.oup.com/ia/article/1... I find this one interesting... looks how left & right represent "the people" differently: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Noch einmal zur Erinnerung: Donald Trump wurde in einem Zivilprozess der Vergewaltigung und Verleumdung für schuldig gesprochen, viermal angeklagt (u.a. für einen Putschversuch), er ist im Wahlkampf durch immer rassistischere und faschistische Rhetorik aufgefallen (nannte Leute "Ungeziefer", sagte,

'Even critical appraisals of mainstreaming – which generally implicate not only the far right, but the mainstream as well – can work to ontologize the far right and mainstream as distinct, separable entities' Excellent article by @liamgillespie.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bernie Sanders Says Defeating Oligarchy Now Most Urgent Issue www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Last week, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party accused the U.S. State Department of involvement in a conspiracy—aligned with “deep state” actors in the U.S. and the political opposition in India—to malign and destabilize New Delhi, Michael Kugelman writes.

Latest Research: What is the far right’s foreign policy outlook? The article proposes a theoretical framework and tests it through a comparative analysis of AfD and NPD. Read open access in @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....