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Joseph MacKay
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Canadian in Oz. IR academic. History of international ordering, history of international thought. He/him. Book, "The Counterinsurgent Imagination." https://bit.ly/3h86v4Y
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My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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gasping for air here oh my god
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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✨ 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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November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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We are hiring! Please share!
Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South
careers.mun.ca/hss/api/care...
@memorialu.bsky.social

Note we are working with a very tight deadline
careers.mun.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I'm a few weeks late to this, but Paul Musgrave is excellent on whether or not to get a PhD. slate.com/life/2025/10...
Harvard’s Dismal Grad School News Is Just the Tip of a Very Bad Iceberg
Grad school's been grim for years. But it's always possible for things to get worse.
slate.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This looks excellent.
Ever wondered why some countries get recognition while others struggle to be seen?

My book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 is finally out in the world!

📘 academic.oup.com/book/61560
The Making of International Status
Abstract. With great power rivalry on the rise again, many worry that struggles for status among states could lead to war. As a growing consensus indicates
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November 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Ever wondered why some countries get recognition while others struggle to be seen?

My book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 is finally out in the world!

📘 academic.oup.com/book/61560
The Making of International Status
Abstract. With great power rivalry on the rise again, many worry that struggles for status among states could lead to war. As a growing consensus indicates
academic.oup.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🚨Special issue on Global Politics of Cultural Heritage edited by @elifkalay.bsky.social and yours truly for @risjnl.bsky.social is now fully out! The project is about placing cultural heritage at the core of IR. Here is the intro, individual articles in thread👇
Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics
www.cambridge.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Deleting a post (about the Bosnian “sniper tourism” story) that could probably have been worded more cautiously. I’m not sure I can tell what’s going on there.
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
America is, in fact, a land of contrasts
Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
October 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The new Office for Mac icons are a special kind of early 00's ugly.
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
So will the reveal at the end of The Diplomat be that they all go to jail?
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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breaking into the louvre and just stealing napoleonic and second-empire jewellery is proof that 'money can't buy you taste' also applies to thieves
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Nemiscam, Alberta
October 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Say what you will about these folks, they’re considerably more interesting than Thiel is.
October 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...
Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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The epigraph to Neil Postman’s “Technopoly”
October 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Series of stained glass windows at St Louis U celebrating the evolution of textuality from Scroll to Manuscript to Printing Press to Computer
October 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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“Herein lies the question: if not to sustain ANU’s once diverse range of courses and degrees, and if not to retain the knowledge and skills of its academics, then what is that $232.4 million revenue for?”

www.woroni.com.au/news/austral...
WoroniAustralia Institute Analyses ANU Budget Reports—No Deficit Found - Woroni
The Australia Institute has released its audited analysis of ANU’s 2023 and 2024 budget. ANU’s unaudited deficit was reported at $142.5 million, while its audited revenue showed a surplus of $89.9 mil...
www.woroni.com.au
October 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Additional to this being generally excellent, I’m cheered that the homunculus theory of mind lives on in folk psychology.
I think about the tiny OSHA guy inside of me at least once a day, but today he's basically all I can think about.
September 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM