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My comments on Xi Jinping’s (virtual) BRICS speech, the SCO, and the Global Governance Initiative for The Straits Times @cais-exeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...

👇 New article in @govandopp.bsky.social where Alfonso Casani, @fcolin.bsky.social and I bring together our theoretical and empirical work on foreign policy, opposition and authoritarianism through the extreme case of Morocco and Israel's wars on Gaza, and with material from field research since 2007

Excited to be offering our bespoke fieldwork methods course "Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts" with @xiananj.bsky.social for @komex.bsky.social next February, alongside a truly fantastic line-up of courses - with something for every methodological persuasion!

A cracker from my colleague John Heathershaw and his co-author Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. #Capitalismisthecrisis @jheathershaw.bsky.social

So this is what I'm up to this year - news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... Hugely grateful to @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this possible through an Innovation Fellowship award. @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social

Will Iran get Chinese weapons? Never say never. However, two other experts and I are quite skeptical at the moment. @cais-exeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk www.rferl.org/a/iran-china...

Congratulations, Andrea!

Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Congratulations to @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social from @cais-exeter.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva yesterday. Yazid explored legacies of colonial policing & migration in Europe & N.Africa Thanks to examiners @fionaadamson.bsky.social & Martin Thomas, and lead supervisor @irenefmolina.bsky.social

My comments for the South China Morning Post on China’s possible reaction to the Iran-Israel clash @exeter.ac.uk @cais-exeter.bsky.social amp.scmp.com/news/china/d...

I was quoted in this @thenewarab.bsky.social article on the presence of foreign fighters, especially Uyghurs, in the Syrian army, and China’s approach to them @cais-exeter.bsky.social www.newarab.com/analysis/reb...

My comments for Channel News Asia on China’s interests in and potential approach to the Israel-Iran conflict @cais-exeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/ch...

My comments on the mysterious cargo flights from China disappearing in Iran in this @telegraphnews.bsky.social article @exeter.ac.uk @cais-exeter.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

BISA, PSA and UACES Open letter to the UK Government: The future of International Studies and funding pressures in higher education

Delighted to report that our colleague Kevork Oskanian will be a permanent member of CAIS faculty from September! Congratulations, Kevork! @drkevorko.bsky.social experts.exeter.ac.uk/38375-kevork...

An absolute honour to host @petoandrea.bsky.social at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social for the launch of Exeter’s new Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies and hear her compelling and urgent talk on how anti-liberal actors use “gender” as symbolic glue to coordinate politics of hate

Fabulous discussion of a new benchmark text in the theory and methods of causal inquiry. Quizzed by data scientists, IR theorists, comparativists and policy-facing colleagues, Adam had compelling answers for us all. 👏🏻

Are you a Global Majority postgraduate researcher at a GW4 university? Applications are now open for the second GW4 Connect Peer Support Programme — a 10-month initiative offering coaching, peer support and space to explore identity, race and research culture. Apply by 9 July: lnkd.in/e5aAEugt

🚨 New paper out in European Journal of IR 🚨 Faiz Sheikh and I draw on Ibn Khaldun’s political thought to rethink the crisis of liberal international order—not as a problem of technique, but as an unresolved and destructive tension between LIO’s claim to universalism and its entrenched whiteness.

On 22 May we are launching @exeter.ac.uk 's new interdisciplinary Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, with a fantastic line-up of leading scholars of the region! More information about ECEEES here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen... @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social

Last week, the Indulging Kleptocracy tour went to Geneva to brief a special session of the UN on illicit finance and Paris to speak to the OCED on the book. Thanks to hosts and fellow speakers. unctad.org/meeting/spec... @tenaprelec.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social

It is today! Join us if you are interested in how large emerging economies like Brazil are trying to navigate the current political-economic instability.

It’s great to welcome Dr Shi Jing from the Institute of International and Area Studies to our department @hass-cornwall.bsky.social Shi Jing works on the international politics of the Caucasus region - looking forward to many interesting conversations! @xiananj.bsky.social

Happy to share my thoughts on the ongoing US-China trade war in this @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social article @cais-exeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...

This year we’re adding an exciting new MA in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy to our suite of IR programmes at Exeter. It will be led by the amazing @andreaghiselli.bsky.social and supported by an imminent new hire! Check out our MAs in IR, Security Studies, and Conflict and Development too!

Happy to join many respected colleagues with my comments on the recent joint Sino-Egyptian exercise in this article of the South China Morning Post @cais-exeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk amp.scmp.com/news/china/m...

Looking forward to speaking at @unctad.bsky.social next week about kleptocratic enterprises and professional enabling. I'll present research to which @tenaprelec.bsky.social @marianizzero.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social and others have contributed. Great lineup. unctad.org/meeting/spec...

Bringing hot takes on China, Trump and tariffs to the Australian people for 3 seconds in this @abcnewsbot.bsky.social video. @cais-exeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfEV...

CAIS member Cat Owen charting a new path in the study of regimes. Congratulations!

Delighted to share my latest article, entitled "What is a Regime? Three Definitions and their Implications for the Future of Regime Studies", co-authored with Licia Cianetti and Gianni Del Panta, published open access today in @democratization.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are hiring one Lecturer in IR (research & teaching, permanent contract) @exeter.ac.uk @cais-exeter.bsky.social jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

We’re #hiring! Come join a top #IR cluster in a convivial department with really outstanding students. Applications welcome from scholars working in any area of IR. Email me if you want to chat about the role and department. @cais-exeter.bsky.social @spspa-uofexeter.bsky.social

I guess I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. Fuck decorum. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/american-f...

VERY excited to go to Leiden to give this talk 👇 Hope to see you there or online 👋 @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social

1/ 📢 New research! How do societies make sense of violent events? In a new paper with @politicsandspace.bsky.social, Victoria Basham, @rhyscrilley.bsky.social and I explore how the London Bridge attack & Grenfell Tower fire were understood in media & public discourse—and why this matters. 🧵👇

Of all the scholarly associations fucking up right now, the International Studies Association is fucking up the most. Mass resignations from the academic freedom committee, section chairs gagged, executive overreach, mass email gaslighting, zero accountability. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...

Follow and support the fantastic group of IR theorists at Sussex! 💪🏻

In two weeks, @tenaprelec.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social Tom Mayne and I are hitting the USA for the Indulging Kleptocracy (Oxford, 2025) book tour. We start in Boston at Harvard on 26 Feb hosted by @nargiskassenova.bsky.social. 1/5 daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/indul...

Great to hang out with the great IR/politics group at Exeter, with special thanks to @profalexp.bsky.social for inviting me

Delighted to host Professor Ayşe Zarakol at Exeter today! A great turnout for a thought provoking talk on whether today’s poly crisis is unprecedented? The answer? Yes and no, but the 17th century is a better historical analogy than 19th or 20th @aysezarakol.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social

Thirty hours on the train to/from Bayreuth. But it was worth it.

📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣 ✅ (WS U) The Maghreb in World Politics and IR: From Scholarly Liminality to Centring the In-Between

EWIS workshop to be led by two Exeter CAIS colleagues @irenefmolina.bsky.social @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social

And, we might add, Exeter is, of course, one of the best places to study Politics and IR in the UK too!

A great talk and excellent discussion. Thanks to @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social and Weeda Mehran for organising, and to Mike and Jean-François for sharing their research with us.

Thrilled to be hosting this timely and important book launch @cais-exeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk "The World of the Right: Conservatism and Global Order" Rita Abramsen, Michael Williams and Jean-Francoise Drolet With our own @profalexp.bsky.social and Bice Maiguashca discussing

Politics and international relations graduates earn higher median salaries than the average graduate at 3, 5, and 10 years after graduation.

Our latest ‘state of the discipline’ report has lots of interesting findings on politics and international relations subjects in HE. In 2018/19, female students surpassed their male counterparts to become the majority among first degree students www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-rep...