📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'No more Mr nice guy? A leadership trait analysis of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer' by @consuelothiers.bsky.social, Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery 🔗 buff.ly/zW78fKh @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Understanding the EU’s Global Gateway through the lens of role theory: Adjusting its role enactment to defend the liberal order' by Flávio Bastos da Silva 🔗 buff.ly/qk3s5GP @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'The power of disrespect: Overt impoliteness and hierarchy in leader-level diplomacy' by @abalci.bsky.social, Hüsna Taş Yetim & Müberra Dinler 🔗 buff.ly/H3KtdwT @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Why reassuring allies is harder than deterring adversaries in extended deterrence: Evidence from US extended deterrence for South Korea' by @doyoung-lee.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/hKd5ICi @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Is diplomatic rudeness a mistake—or a strategy? Our new article @bjpir.bsky.social shows how weaker states deploy "overt impoliteness" to challenge hierarchy and assert agency in leader-level diplomacy. doi.org/10.1177/1369...

New paper out with Benjamin Martill & Alan Convery in @bjpir.bsky.social We used Leadership Trait Analysis on UK PM Keir Starmer. Turns out he's much tougher than the "cautious technocrat" image suggests🧵 @edinburghpir.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1369...

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Why the Fed and ECB parted ways on climate change: The politics of divergence in the global central banking community' by @monicadileo.bsky.social, @glennrudebusch.bsky.social & @jvtk.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/hF3lr0B @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📝 Don't miss this article! 'A ‘Good Story’: Von der Leyen’s Narrative on the Ukrainian War' by Isabel Camisão & Ana Teresa Peixinho 🔗 buff.ly/60hom3K @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Global models and post-Brexit discourses: ‘Singapore on Thames’ or ‘Nordic Scotland’?' by Tero Erkkilä, Meng-Hsuan Chou & Juho Mölsä 🔗 buff.ly/OZ3WK3e @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Cutting through the noise: The legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights in the British press' by Ekaterina Balabanova & Gemma Horton 🔗 buff.ly/6xqhweq @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Between compliance and capitulation: Explaining the termination of member state suspensions by international organisations' by Lukas Grundsfeld 🔗 buff.ly/p3UROTm @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'International network analysis based on big data: The case of economic cooperation among the G20' by Hang Luo & Boxuan Li 🔗 buff.ly/zJ2c7OU @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that my article has been published @bjpir.bsky.social sky.social In this piece, I explain why reassuring allies is harder than deterring adversaries from invading those allies in the context of extended deterrence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... [1/10]

The #BJPIR team will be taking a break over this festive period. ⛄ We will be back from the 5th January and look forward to hearing from you in the New Year.

📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Vol. 27, Iss. 4 'State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions' by Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Irina Busygina, Jørn Holm-Hansen, Marthe Handå Myhre 🔗 buff.ly/RPY5bR5 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'New regulatory scaffolding for the United Kingdom: Brexit, devolution and the Windsor Framework' by Lisa Claire Whitten & @dphinnemore.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/lJ5Pxlf @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Will there be war over Taiwan? The article argues cross-Strait deterrence remains structurally stable. Reunification by force carries extreme risks for China, and its benefits from retaking Taiwan are tenuous.

📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2025) 'Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime' by Gábor Illés & Tamás László 🔗 buff.ly/0XlrkTJ @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2025) 'Enlargement as high politics: New insights on the integration of the German Democratic Republic into the European Community' by Alexander Klein 🔗 buff.ly/fwTP9p7 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📈 Trending article this week in #BJPIR: 'The erosion of democracy in an age of wealth inequality: Unravelling the impact of subjective socioeconomic stratification' by @hanseun02260787 🔗 buff.ly/CulVspf @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Have nationalists and unionists set Northern Ireland's cross-community Alliance Party up to fail by handing it the task of tackling a blue-green algae crisis at Lough Neagh? Read @tagarin.bsky.social, @lpcooley.bsky.social and Elliott Hill's analysis in this new #BJPIR article.

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Emotional protesters: Protest out of anger or stay home in fear?' by Deren Onursal 🔗 buff.ly/7SlpeUP @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Beyond the meadows and uplands: The Leave campaign’s vision of the post-Brexit future' by Mike Bolt 🔗 buff.ly/slEKUcT @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Will there be war over Taiwan? Structural stability and policy pitfalls in cross-Strait deterrence' by Brandon K Yoder 🔗 buff.ly/ozN4anl @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @anu-asiapacific.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'An uneasy union: The moral and ideological divides of territorial identification in post-Brexit Scotland' by Constantine G Kyritsopoulos, Adam Moore & Laura Cram 🔗 buff.ly/EA06Lme @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Conspiracy theories and India’s transnational authoritarian populism: NGOs, Khalistanis and Soros' by Priya Chacko 🔗 buff.ly/YBYUMNs @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Why have Northern Ireland's political parties found it difficult to agree on an approach to tackling the ecological crisis at Lough Neagh, despite apparent rhetorical consensus on the lough's importance? @tagarin.bsky.social, @lpcooley.bsky.social and Elliott Hill's #BJPIR article explains.

I enjoyed a rare privilege today: seeing one of my new journal articles in print.

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories' by @beatrizlbuarque.bsky.social & Nick Lewis 🔗 buff.ly/1tw9h7S

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'The environment as a second policy dimension in a deeply divided society: The politics of Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh crisis' by @tagarin.bsky.social, @lpcooley.bsky.social & Elliott Hill 🔗 buff.ly/qq0JKZc @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'The masculine threat: Hegemonic masculinity and gendercide in communal warfare' by Tobias Tseer & Promise Frank Ejiofor 🔗 buff.ly/F96DSd6 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

This article is now out in @bjpir.bsky.social! In it, we explain why government action to tackle the ecological crisis at Lough Neagh has lagged behind the apparent rhetorical consensus about its importance. Has Muir been set up to fail? #LoughNeagh #openaccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 My co-authored paper presenting some key insights from the research project on AI and the far-right riots in the UK has just been published in the @bjpir.bsky.social and is open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #AI #democracy #racism #GenAI #conspiracytheories

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'International relations theory and US–China competition: A theoretical exploration' by Kai He & Huiyun Feng 🔗 buff.ly/O1iqayA @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

We know that China ran a domestic propaganda campaign supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—but did it work? This article explores how effective the campaign was in persuading the Chinese public and which segments of the population were more vulnerable to its influence.

📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR 'Enforcement of international human rights law: A comparative exploration of alternative public opinion channels' by A Burcu Bayram, Eric Keels & @efetokdemir.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/I2r6aXM @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR 'Historicising Mauritian self-determination at the International Court of Justice' by Zaki Nahaboo 🔗 buff.ly/Th0nIKg @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'The enemy behind the scenes: How China’s propaganda shores up support for Russia’s war in Ukraine' by @taomanchester.bsky.social & Han-yu Hsu 🔗 buff.ly/PSXsnkT @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'The suspect citizen: Institutional Islamophobia, prevent, and the British Muslim experience' by Judith Bruchhaus & Tahir Abbas 🔗 buff.ly/eEKNSnq @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR 'Prudence from the left: Economic restraint and UK social democracy since 1945' by Colm Murphy & Patrick Diamond 🔗 buff.ly/HopijKB @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

This paper was in development for two years before DeepSeek's arrival. It's a challenge to keep pace with the breakneck speed of AI, but fortunately, the key argument has stood the test of time and is even supported by the latest tech. Thrilled to finally share it.

📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR 'Reframing centre-left neoliberalism: New Keynesian theory, Third Way ideology, and the construction of an elite consensus in the US, Britain, and Australia' by Brent Toye & @dillonwamsley.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/62G4GAB

📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2025) 'Why do parties (not) support Universal Basic Income? The case of the UK Liberal Democrats' by @pjsloman.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/roRneC3 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR 'Reframing internationalism and patriotism: The Labour Party and the Ukraine–Russia war' by Jasper Miles 🔗 buff.ly/tLlMJeC @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'ChatGPT as a security threat: US–China security dilemma in the generative AI race' by @jinghanzeng.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/WOjeJW8 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Identity, cyber-sovereignty, and Ukraine: Towards an ontological security theory of cyberwarfare' by Roman Kolodii. 🔗 buff.ly/jFLDR45 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2025) '“Technology” in UK Conservative Party rhetoric, 1979–2019: An integrative dual-method conceptual and ideological analysis' by David Threlfall 🔗 buff.ly/WxmKZtG @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR 'Carving up the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and blaming the European Union for it: The United Kingdom’s narration of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading status' by Paul Copeland & @marzmac.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/wkD4n6A

📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2025) 'Bureaucratic burdens and bureaucratic injustice' by Johann Go 🔗 buff.ly/xpvEjcb @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2025) 'The political effects of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone' by Andrew McNeil & Frieder Mitsch 🔗 buff.ly/Bs57KqQ @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social