📣 Yet another SI for you, folks! Delighted to announce the publication of a @gepjournal.bsky.social special issue on “Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene”, co-edited with my dear colleague Bruna Bosi-Moreira. 👉 direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree... The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.

"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people." Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

We’re c.2004 in the crypto-banking nexus. Everyone thinks they’re a stable genius & society is hailing them as such. But eventually the tide will go out & the inevitable Buffett moment will be incredibly ugly & costly. It always is. Over & over & over again. We keep forgetting what we’ve learned.

🐳 🥳 Happy news to share! My book - The Grammar of Status Competition - has been awarded the Jeffrey Friedman Best Book Award: The APSA's Knowledge, Ideas and Politics section book prize. This is the first - and perhaps last! - academic award I have ever received, so it means a lot. 1/4

📢 The volume "Governing Nature and the Making of World Order", edited by the great team of @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social, is out now. And it's OA. 👇 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...

An excellent combination Matt! I would just add that the book is very flexible: pairs well with all known liquids. Thanks for your outstanding contribution! It is consistent with your much appreciated dedication to the project that you have gotten ahead of the editors on the promotion! :)

If climate finance only flows to what’s bankable, how do we fund what's actually necessary? My research contributes to the boon in evidence showing how derisking locks governments into private finance-oriented & ineffective transitions - leaving essential but unbankable sectors behind

🎯 Open research positions! We’re hiring three Postdoctoral candidates/Senior Researchers for Navigator – an ERC-funded project exploring how country performance indicators shape global governance. 📍Oslo | 🕐 Initial 2-year contract Apply here: www.nupi.no/en/about-nup...

Those crazy hippies at the Financial Times are at it again. Why are our governments so afraid to face reality? who are they actually being led by? certainly not their voters.

Very happy to see my piece "The power of recognition: rethinking the instrumentality of status in world politics" being published in @iajournal.bsky.social Read the full OA-article here: academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...

25% tariff on Johnny in the basement 24% on mixing up the medicine 37% on the pavement 66% on thinking about the government 45% the man in the trench coat 31% on badge out, laid off 61% on her bad cough Look out kid It’s somethin’ you did God knows when But you’re doin’ it again

#Britain’s populist surge isn’t born of rage, but neglect. What #ReformUK reaps in the local elections is not rebellion, but inheritance—from towns where policy forgot to tread and hope was for long left to rot. doi.org/10.1093/cjre... doi.org/10.1080/0013...

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

Very informative chart from Washington Post

DREZNER: The people leading this are unserious, unknowing dotards. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/there-are-...

i first called this "a public choice theory of recent developments in international trade" but I am weak so went for the clickbait

Your tariff is the number of times you have walked into a room and instantly forgotten why you went there multiplied by the love for your workplace and divided by the weight of Capital Volume 3.

Great thread: excellent sketch of the potential explanations for why business and markets have so far proved relatively sanguine regarding Trump II breach with economic orthodoxy and indeed most heterodoxy.

Trump's attacks on Canada and the EU are drastically shifting public opinion both in the US and abroad. Per Economist + YouGov www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Heads up IR friends: you have five days left to submit your abstract to NUPI'a inaugural theory conference! 250-500€ travel reimbursements, plus (most) food will be provided. www.nupi.no/en/events/20...

Heads up IR friends: you have five days left to submit your abstract to NUPI'a inaugural theory conference! 250-500€ travel reimbursements, plus (most) food will be provided. www.nupi.no/en/events/20...

"The analytics-industrial complex has effectively achieved a form of regulatory capture over global higher education." ihe.bc.edu/pub/j49thy96...

What @abenewman.bsky.social and I said back in 2019, right as stuff was beginning to kick off direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Incredibly moved that @anaprokhorov.bsky.social and @raffaelemstr.bsky.social secretly orchestrated my nomination for ISA’s J. Ann Tickner award. Warm thanks to all of you who supported the nomination. I still can’t believe it. @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social

Got 5m to kill at #ISA2025? Check out this bumper thread discussing every contribution to our new special issue: "Status symbols in World Politics" in @coco-journal.bsky.social

Life, and research on status in IR, goes on. So, you IR scholars who study role of status, check this out!

🚨 New Special Issue! 🚨 1/ What do opera houses, NATO troops & climate rankings have in common? Mine and @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social's special issue in @coco-journal.bsky.social answers just that: They are all status symbols 📖 Read the full issue (open access!) 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/toc/caca/60/1

Thrilled to announce that our special issue on status symbols in world politics is now out in the wild (and for a limited time free to read as well!) Read about our intro piece in @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social's thread below. Thread on each article in the SI coming very soon!

Conceived at Baltimore 2016, it's fitting that our special issue Status Symbols in World Politics is out in time for #ISA2025! The intro makes case for why status symbols warrant sustained attention in IR & develops a framework for studying them 🧵 1/: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

Essential, if in that way that yields reams of new questions. For all their bloviating about state death, right accelerationists seem rather dependent on its coercive power. The contradictory fantasies that flourish precisely when entombed in a stumbling hegemon. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Here is my third weekly dispatch, imagining how the US media *should* be covering the Musk coup if it was clear-eyed about the threat to our democracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

Really good article on why Elon Musk is vulnerable to a sustained boycott of Tesla. They worked against apartheid. Surely they could work against one South African. slate.com/business/202...

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

📢 Call for papers 📢 Workshop "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" that I organise with colleague @dandekadt.bsky.social at LSE in November 2025. Anyone interested please send us a 250-word abstract by 26 March 2025 ! Learn more➡️ buff.ly/3CCijaY @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Publication alert! It was a joy & an honour to write the conclusion to this forum on "writing for reflexivity" (ft. Felix Anderl, Audrey Alejandro, & Carmina Yu Untalan), which I suspect may have permanently transformed what I consider "good academic writing" to be, and what it can aspire to do. 1/

In an important paper following pieces published in 5.1, @audreyalejandro.bsky.social explores writing practices and their role in reflexivity, focusing notably on the denial of non-western agency. brill.com/view/journal...

Following @audreyalejandro.bsky.social's piece, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social provides reflections on writing practices and their effects on readers. brill.com/view/journal...

🔥 New forum: "Decentring Agency in World Politics: Writing for Reflexivity as a Collective Experiment" @journalpariss.bsky.social We explore writing practices that foster reflexivity within readers. We focus on one reflexive process: decentring & one problem: the denial of non-Western agency 🤓

One of the less-noticed but more entertaining political subplots of this parliament is Labour MP Polly Billington writing repeatedly to Claire Coutinho to ask her why she is condemning green policies that she introduced herself while in government.

“What can be, unburdened by what has been”

Here are the most appalling clichés of modern political economy writing, that it's possible to read everywhere all the time. 1. Inequality is always getting worse and we never talk about it 1/

I made a gingerbread panopticon