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Jan Eijking
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International Relations Theory & History. MSCA postdoc at University of Antwerp. Following the technocrats. Currently working on luxury.

Former Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford.

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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 2d
My forthcoming book - The Technocratic International - appears in the catalogue now, so I guess it's happening! Out with OUP @academic.oup.com some time spring/early summer next year! More info 👇

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My forthcoming book - The Technocratic International - appears in the catalogue now, so I guess it's happening! Out with OUP @academic.oup.com some time spring/early summer next year! More info 👇

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December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The Review of International Studies has opened a call for special issue proposals 🌟

Inviting proposals to be published in a 2027 special edition 🎉
Deadline to submit: 3 Feb 2026 📚

Find out more information here 👉 https://ow.ly/JfzH50XGS1e

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Call for special issue proposals - Review of International Studies
The call for RIS special issue proposals is open. Find out more and submit yours by 24 February 2026
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December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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My forthcoming book - The Technocratic International - appears in the catalogue now, so I guess it's happening! Out with OUP @academic.oup.com some time spring/early summer next year! More info 👇

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December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Is it really *that* obvious when something is AI written? People seem super confident they can spot it, but the avg LinkedIn post in the era B.GPT. (RIP) was exactly like it: triplets, em dashes, “not X but Y” — (I swear I wrote this!) — now everything just sounds more like LinkedIn. Even LinkedIn.
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Reading.
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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ecpr.bsky.social
✨ Exciting opportunity to lead a world-class #IR journal ✨

📕 The Joint Management Committee of @ecprsgir.bsky.social & @europeanisa.bsky.social are seeking a NEW editorial team for @ejir.bsky.social

🔖 4-year term
🔖 Proposals up to 5,000 words
🔖 Deadline 31 Mar 2026

#IRSky #AcademicSky
Call for Editors, EJIR
We are looking for a new Editorial team to take over the running of the European Journal of International Relations (EJIR) from 1 January 2027.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Job: 2 years Post-Doc Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, on the history and sociology of USAID
December 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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This says so much about academia…
eurcorrespond.bsky.social The European Correspondent @eurcorrespond.bsky.social · 5d
If you ever wondered what it takes to win a Nobel prize, having a rich father is a good indicator that you're on the right track. The average Nobel laureate grew up in a household in the 87th–90th percentile.

A data story by Hanna Huld.
December 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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europeanisa.bsky.social European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 3d
📣 Abstract submission for #EISAPEC26 is now open!

🗓️ Deadline: 19 February 2026

🔗 Visit our website for detailed guidelines: buff.ly/3a7EqAz
1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.
December 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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🎧 Tune in tomorrow to #EISAVoices for episode 37, 'In Conversation with Daniel Quiroga-Villamarín', winner of EISA's Best Dissertation Award 2025

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In Conversation with Daniel Quiroga-Villamarín, winner of EISA's Best Dissertation Award 2025
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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IR job at Trinity College Dublin: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPU769/a...
Assistant Professor in International Politics at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in International Politics is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Starmer urges EU to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right. Because as we know, the way you beat the far right is to accede to all their demands and adopt racism as your central principle.
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
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December 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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#CfP Call for Papers

Organised by Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick:

Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today

Workshop: 26-27 June 2026, University of Warwick

Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026

Submit to [email protected]
Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today We invite papers for a workshop entitled “Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History Today”, to be held at the University of Warwick on 26-27 June 2026. This workshop will seek to bring together historians of labour to collectively reflect on a large historiographical shift that has taken place over the last two decades, from the social history of labour (in national contexts) to global and trans-national labour history. The social history of labour “from below” is a tradition initiated by E.P Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963), and extended over several decades by a robust tradition of politically engaged left-wing historical studies of the working classes: a tradition most powerfully entrenched in British historiography (but with many imprints elsewhere, ranging from the United States to Brazil to South Africa to India). The global history of labour, which revised and questioned many of the features of “Thompsonian” history-writing, has sought to overcome “methodological nationalism” in the writing of labour history, to investigate specific labour histories within a global frame, and to enable trans-national histories of workers and work. It has emerged as an increasingly dominant frame of reference for contemporary studies of labour around the world. This workshop seeks to place these two historiographical traditions in conversation with each other, to examine the stakes of the passage from the older, “Thompsonian” tradition to the “global turn”, and to think about the changed meanings of “doing labour history” today. Participants are urged to explicitly reflect on the methodological and conceptual issues at stake in the practice of labour history. We would like to invite submissions that address (but are not necessarily limited to) the following themes: 1. To what extent has the global labour history tradition that has flourished over the last 20 years drawn upon or rejected the methodological and conceptual approaches of Thompsonian social/labour history? What other methodologies and concepts have been deployed and proven fruitful? 2. How do we address the burgeoning critique of Thompsonian social/labour history as parochial and Anglocentric (Bressey, 2015; Satia, 2020), and how have historians responded to this challenge and reshaped British labour history accordingly? What can historians of British labour learn from broader global trajectories of workforce formation and labour movements? 3. How might integrating histories of consumption, environment, and reproduction enrich our understanding of labour and its global entanglements? 4. In what ways can collaboration between historians of Britain and the global south generate new analytical frameworks or unsettle established narratives of class, race, and empire? 5. What kinds of politically-engaged global social and labour history can best respond to the contemporary challenges of rising global inequality and the appropriation of class politics by some sections of the populist right? 6. The legitimacy of 'radical' forms of labour-history writing initially arose from politics, from the apparently established centrality of the industrial working class both in society and in projects of social emancipation. That centrality has now been in precipitous decline for a long time. In this context, how might we think about what the ‘politics of doing labour history’ actually implies today? 7. What has been gained and what has been lost in the shift from a labour history dominated by “history from below” to one dominated by global history? Please send abstracts to globalhistory@warwick.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Für das AufRuhr Magazin der @stiftungmercator.bsky.social habe ich mit @adriennegoldst.bsky.social und Julia Tréhu vom @gmfus.bsky.social über KI-Regulierung und transatlantische Beziehungen gesprochen: www.aufruhr-magazin.de/digitalisier...
KI-Regulierung: Bremse oder demokratische Leitplanke?
„Die Demokratien müssen das Wettrennen um KI gewinnen.“ Zwei Expertinnen von GMF Technology erklären, warum die EU und die USA enger zusammenarbeiten sollten.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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My article on Hans Kelsen and the world state is now published in open access on The Journal of Global History and you can check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S174....
Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s - Volume 20 Issue 3
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December 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
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December 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social):

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October 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Exciting new publication for anyone interested in the history of intellectual cooperation at the League 👇 #HistIR
martingrandjean.ch Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 10d
I am very pleased to announce the publication of a book that I had the privilege of editing with Daniel Laqua on the history of intellectual cooperation at the League of Nations!

🖥️ More about the book: www.martingrandjean.ch/intellectual...
📙 Read online: doi.org/10.18356/978...
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I am very pleased to announce the publication of a book that I had the privilege of editing with Daniel Laqua on the history of intellectual cooperation at the League of Nations!

🖥️ More about the book: www.martingrandjean.ch/intellectual...
📙 Read online: doi.org/10.18356/978...
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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This article on how 1930s Technocrats "formed part of the transnational impulse to invent a new abundancist economic paradigm" looks v interesting journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Paradigm of Plenty: The Global Technocratic Moment - Simon Dowsett, 2025
Although it has loosely come to mean government by experts, ‘technocracy’ entered the vernacular through its association with a specific movement of the 1930s. ...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global History.
Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise
Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global History.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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New @ejir.bsky.social special issue on "History and Theory in International Relations" #HistIR 🔽

Congrats to all contributors and the editorial team! 🥳

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European Journal of International Relations - Volume 31, Number 4
Table of contents for European Journal of International Relations, 31, 4
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December 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Final proofs! 🎉
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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“Man-Devil is exceptionally pleasant to read.” We're delighted to see @johnjocallanan.bsky.social reviewed in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social! Read more:
Sympathy for the devil
A society of industrious anthropomorphic bees spend their lives buzzing around a large and prosperous hive in a flurry of commerce, litigation, deception
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December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM