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IWM Vienna @iwm.at · Aug 16

‪Are we living through an unprecedented 'polycrisis' or have we seen this before?

🗺️ Join IR scholar @aysezarakol.bsky.social and @us.theguardian.com editor Betsy Reed at this year's Vienna Humanities Festival, as they examine whether history does indeed rhyme: humanitiesfestival.at/zarakol

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International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · Jul 31

#OpenAccess -

Reply to ‘How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder’ - cup.org/45b9yPh

- Michael Barnett & @aysezarakol.bsky.social

#FirstView

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Jun 12

Tomorrow

Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 26

Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Jun 9

We provide lunch and there’s a small reception after

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Jun 9

We have a few spaces left still. This Friday

Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 26

Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Jun 4

Reminder, next week!

Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 26

Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 27

Now available for pre-order from OUP, more musings by me and others about the 1990s...

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 26

Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 22

Haha

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 22

It's just a title, the article doesn't exist. I assume one or both of the citers has used AI for literature review (I could not access the publications) and this is what it coughed up as something I could have written. Now that it is cited twice Google Scholar is trying to give me credit for it.

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 19

Maybe. But there is also an undercurrent of fragmentation

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · May 8

Social media platform X has blocked the account of Ekrem İmamoğlu, a leader of Turkey's opposition movement and political nemesis of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Musk’s X blocks account of jailed Erdoğan rival

Musk’s platform is challenging the government order to block Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s account.

ow.ly

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 5

And how you stop your friends from editing them

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 5

All of them

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 5

Duncan, if you are not part of the solution…😉

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 5

Don’t give people ideas 🤣

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 5

Only if it is the last handbook ever!

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 3

I do have the card btw but if this was the level of service I was offering I would be ashamed to hassle people about anything

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 3

Getting hassled about my railcard for a tiny discount on an extremely overpriced journey on a train with no flat surfaces to work on, no wifi + half the way is a bus replacement 💁‍♀️

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 2

Yet another day of travelling to Oxford for an event and realising it is almost easier to travel internationally. It’s amazing we manage to collaborate at all

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 1

IO has just released a call for short essays on the future of IR, given all that is going on. Deadline June 15

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...?

Call for Submissions: Special Section on the Future of IR

Welcome to Cambridge Core

www.cambridge.org

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 1

Cambridge IR & History group hosted Julia Costa Lopez @jcostalopez.bsky.social today for her presentation on ‘Can women rule? A processual approach to legitimacy and international order through a 15th century succession dispute’. Looking forward to the book version of the project!

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Apr 17

Talking about global disorder with my academic fathers in Tokyo @davidleheny.bsky.social

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Apr 13

Amazing performance by the Cambridge teams today!

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing...

Boat Race 2025: Cambridge win men's & women's races

Cambridge continue their recent dominance over Oxford by winning the men's and women's Boat Races in London.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Apr 6

Talking about Trump and other strongmen

www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

How do Donald Trump’s policies change other countries’ politics?

Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, we examine how Trump is boosting the domestic popularity of some leaders abroad—and making life more difficult for others

www.economist.com

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Apr 2

Hard to pay attention to the academy these days but do check out Martin’s excellent article on elites & ontological security @campolis.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

What's the Deal with Elites? The Role of Political Elites in Identifying Critical Situations in Ontological Security Theory

Abstract. Traditionally, Ontological Security Studies (OSS) have focused on the anxieties and crises of unitary states. More recent scholarship, however, h

academic.oup.com

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Mar 31

Starmer’s silence criticised by Turkish opposition

www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkeys...

Turkey's opposition threatens to block UK Labour return to Socialist International

CHP leader Ozgur Ozel blasts Labour and Keir Starmer for silence over Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu's arrest, saying 'they will face consequences from me'

www.middleeasteye.net

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Mar 30

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Autocrats behaving badly: Donald Trump emboldens global strongmen

Autocrats behaving badly: Donald Trump emboldens global strongmen

From Turkey to Israel, leaders make the most of a world without US censure

giftarticle.ft.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Mar 29

Major and timely collection from @chathamhouse.org on competing visions of international order including a contribution on Turkey co-authored by @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow @aysezarakol.bsky.social
www.chathamhouse.org/2025/03/comp...

Competing visions of international order | 13 Envisioning the future international order

Responses to US power in a fracturing world

www.chathamhouse.org

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Mar 26

I thought I had cured myself of 'being too distracted by breaking developments to concentrate on work' but the last week has shown it was all hubris on my part

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