Stéphanie Martel
@smartel.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Political Studies (IR), Queen's University | IR; Southeast Asia; ASEAN; WPS; diplomacy; global governance; narratives. Mom of 2 (4YO & 1YO). Hobbies include (not being particularly good at) ballet & embroidery. She/Elle.
"C’est la poutre dans l’œil de ceux qui ont excusé le trumpisme par l’économie. Si la peur d’être financièrement précaire justifie le populisme autocrate, voire la violence politique, pourquoi les femmes afro-américaines ne sont-elles pas les premières à succomber à la tentation fascisante ?"
Déclassement
C’est un «ordre des choses» sous attaque qui alimente le mouvement MAGA, pas l’économie.
www.ledevoir.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:34 PM
"C’est la poutre dans l’œil de ceux qui ont excusé le trumpisme par l’économie. Si la peur d’être financièrement précaire justifie le populisme autocrate, voire la violence politique, pourquoi les femmes afro-américaines ne sont-elles pas les premières à succomber à la tentation fascisante ?"
ICE is terrorizing Americans — Canada must not be complicit: ricochet.media/justice/poli...
ICE is terrorizing Americans — Canada must not be complicit
From shutting down ICE offices to cancelling corporate contracts, Canadians have real power to stand in solidarity with those targeted by Trump’s secret police
ricochet.media
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
ICE is terrorizing Americans — Canada must not be complicit: ricochet.media/justice/poli...
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This is an important point.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project.
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
February 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
This is an important point.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
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📣 ISA Asia-Pacific announces its 2026 Conference at JNU, New Delhi!
Theme: “From the Margins to the Helm: The Global South and the Future of the Asia-Pacific Regional Order.”
📅 Nov 28–30, 2026
📝 Submissions due Apr 30, 2026
More info: buff.ly/tJEmR08
Theme: “From the Margins to the Helm: The Global South and the Future of the Asia-Pacific Regional Order.”
📅 Nov 28–30, 2026
📝 Submissions due Apr 30, 2026
More info: buff.ly/tJEmR08
February 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
📣 ISA Asia-Pacific announces its 2026 Conference at JNU, New Delhi!
Theme: “From the Margins to the Helm: The Global South and the Future of the Asia-Pacific Regional Order.”
📅 Nov 28–30, 2026
📝 Submissions due Apr 30, 2026
More info: buff.ly/tJEmR08
Theme: “From the Margins to the Helm: The Global South and the Future of the Asia-Pacific Regional Order.”
📅 Nov 28–30, 2026
📝 Submissions due Apr 30, 2026
More info: buff.ly/tJEmR08
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Someone remind me what Greek sources had to say about people living in the north and west of Europe.
Charles Murray, famous racist, is very mad that Lupita Nyong’o is going to play Helen of Troy.
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
February 5, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Someone remind me what Greek sources had to say about people living in the north and west of Europe.
And here I thought #notallmen. Which one is it? I'm confused...
"This is how men behave" is his excuse. Wow.
Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind."
This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
And here I thought #notallmen. Which one is it? I'm confused...
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WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 PM
WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...
M'kay.
Trump: “Dear Prime Minister Carney:
Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
January 23, 2026 at 4:39 AM
M'kay.
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Carney said what critical voices - and most of the non-West - have being saying for years: the rules-based order is structurally unjust and unequal - and is decaying as a result.
Carney didn't say anything new. But he has granted the mainstream the ability to voice & accept this reality.
Carney didn't say anything new. But he has granted the mainstream the ability to voice & accept this reality.
Me, on Carney's landmark speech yesterday. theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
Mark Carney’s Davos speech marks a major departure from Canada’s usual approach to the U.S.
Mark Carney clearly hopes a new global world order may emerge that’s not only more resilient to diverse and unpredictable threats, but is more honest and just.
theconversation.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Carney said what critical voices - and most of the non-West - have being saying for years: the rules-based order is structurally unjust and unequal - and is decaying as a result.
Carney didn't say anything new. But he has granted the mainstream the ability to voice & accept this reality.
Carney didn't say anything new. But he has granted the mainstream the ability to voice & accept this reality.
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If I were a PM who had delivered a seminal speech on the global rupture and the need for new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t send hundreds of layoff notices to my foreign affairs department the next day
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
Tracking job cuts in the federal public service
Workforce adjustment notifications have hit thousands of employees across dozens of government departments and agencies.
www.hilltimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:46 PM
If I were a PM who had delivered a seminal speech on the global rupture and the need for new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t send hundreds of layoff notices to my foreign affairs department the next day
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
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🔴Peacock Post-Doctoral Fellowship
🔴Skelton-Clark Post-Doctoral Fellowship
⏰Jan 31 2026
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@raulpachecovega.bsky.social
#polisci
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January 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM
JOB ADVERTISEMENT-POSSIBILITÉ D’EMPLOI
#CPSA_ACSPJobs
🔴Buchanan Post-Doctoral Fellowship
🔴Peacock Post-Doctoral Fellowship
🔴Skelton-Clark Post-Doctoral Fellowship
⏰Jan 31 2026
👉 conta.cc/4b5BYPr
@raulpachecovega.bsky.social
#polisci
@csnrec.bsky.social
#cdnpoli
#PoliSciTwitter
#CPSA_ACSPJobs
🔴Buchanan Post-Doctoral Fellowship
🔴Peacock Post-Doctoral Fellowship
🔴Skelton-Clark Post-Doctoral Fellowship
⏰Jan 31 2026
👉 conta.cc/4b5BYPr
@raulpachecovega.bsky.social
#polisci
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"Stop making everything about gender."
Trump on NATO: "Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy."
(He means Greenland.)
(He means Greenland.)
January 21, 2026 at 4:14 PM
"Stop making everything about gender."
Damn, that's a good speech.
I've got a lot of thoughts to sort out about this, as I prepare to give a talk on the crisis of international order at @queenspols.bsky.social next week - my inaugural lecture as the Hardy Chair of Political Science.
I *might* come back here and share some later.
I've got a lot of thoughts to sort out about this, as I prepare to give a talk on the crisis of international order at @queenspols.bsky.social next week - my inaugural lecture as the Hardy Chair of Political Science.
I *might* come back here and share some later.
This is one of the sharpest analyses of international affairs that I've heard from a Canadian leader - or any national leader - in a long time. And I suspect he wrote the main bits himself. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Damn, that's a good speech.
I've got a lot of thoughts to sort out about this, as I prepare to give a talk on the crisis of international order at @queenspols.bsky.social next week - my inaugural lecture as the Hardy Chair of Political Science.
I *might* come back here and share some later.
I've got a lot of thoughts to sort out about this, as I prepare to give a talk on the crisis of international order at @queenspols.bsky.social next week - my inaugural lecture as the Hardy Chair of Political Science.
I *might* come back here and share some later.
Excellente chronique d'Élizabeth Vallet (Chaire Raoul-Dandurand/CMR Saint-Jean) dans Le Devoir ajd: www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...
Égopolitique
Le président états-unien est entouré d’une coque décisionnelle qui donne corps à ses idées fantasques.
www.ledevoir.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Excellente chronique d'Élizabeth Vallet (Chaire Raoul-Dandurand/CMR Saint-Jean) dans Le Devoir ajd: www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...
"Greenland isn’t only a treasure trove for [...] oligarchic forces to mine or to extract. It’s also a place for experimentation [...] in how to create a world in which all of these oligarchic figures’ utopian (or dystopian, for the rest of us) fantasies can come true."
The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland
Trump’s fixation on filching the island territory from Denmark may seem like the demented ravings of a mad king. But to a cohort of plutocrat weirdos, it makes perfect sense.
newrepublic.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 PM
"Greenland isn’t only a treasure trove for [...] oligarchic forces to mine or to extract. It’s also a place for experimentation [...] in how to create a world in which all of these oligarchic figures’ utopian (or dystopian, for the rest of us) fantasies can come true."
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Reuters: Two European officials assess U.S. military intervention is likely—possibly within 24 hours. An Israeli official says Trump appears to have decided to intervene, though scope and timing remain unclear.
NYT: U.S. Moves Some Personnel From Key Air Base as Tensions Mount With Iran
Nonessential personnel are being removed from Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the main U.S. air operations hub in the region, as President Trump weighs a military response to Iran’s crackdown on protests.
Nonessential personnel are being removed from Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the main U.S. air operations hub in the region, as President Trump weighs a military response to Iran’s crackdown on protests.
January 14, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Reuters: Two European officials assess U.S. military intervention is likely—possibly within 24 hours. An Israeli official says Trump appears to have decided to intervene, though scope and timing remain unclear.
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I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
PM doesn't know how much this kind of public diplomacy is working on my unrepresentative sample of 4 YO girls (n=1).
Then again she was already sold last election due to red being her favourite colour that day (she still brags about "her" victory).
Then again she was already sold last election due to red being her favourite colour that day (she still brags about "her" victory).
En fin de semaine dernière, c’était le temps de bâtir (avec des blocs LEGO).
Merci à l’ambassadeur Harris pour ce cadeau. Nous sommes solidaires du Danemark. 🇨🇦🇩🇰
Merci à l’ambassadeur Harris pour ce cadeau. Nous sommes solidaires du Danemark. 🇨🇦🇩🇰
January 13, 2026 at 3:07 AM
PM doesn't know how much this kind of public diplomacy is working on my unrepresentative sample of 4 YO girls (n=1).
Then again she was already sold last election due to red being her favourite colour that day (she still brags about "her" victory).
Then again she was already sold last election due to red being her favourite colour that day (she still brags about "her" victory).
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"The business model of most consumer technology is to identify some thick desire, find the part of it that produces a neurological reward, and then deliver that reward without the rest of the package."
«The person who bakes bread isn't trying to fix the world.
They're not making any attempt to either dent or undent the universe.
They're trying to spend a Sunday afternoon in a way that doesn't leave them feeling emptied out.»
They're not making any attempt to either dent or undent the universe.
They're trying to spend a Sunday afternoon in a way that doesn't leave them feeling emptied out.»
Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.
We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.
We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies.
We're hungry and we don'...
www.joanwestenberg.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:46 AM
"The business model of most consumer technology is to identify some thick desire, find the part of it that produces a neurological reward, and then deliver that reward without the rest of the package."
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If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
January 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
I just wrote "absolutement" in a (too) quick reply email to a Francophone student, on top of the additional, more "standard" code-switching. 💀
I'm not sure how I feel about it. Or should I say: Je ne suis pas certaine de comment je me sens par rapport à ça.
Apart from LMAO, obv.
I'm not sure how I feel about it. Or should I say: Je ne suis pas certaine de comment je me sens par rapport à ça.
Apart from LMAO, obv.
December 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I just wrote "absolutement" in a (too) quick reply email to a Francophone student, on top of the additional, more "standard" code-switching. 💀
I'm not sure how I feel about it. Or should I say: Je ne suis pas certaine de comment je me sens par rapport à ça.
Apart from LMAO, obv.
I'm not sure how I feel about it. Or should I say: Je ne suis pas certaine de comment je me sens par rapport à ça.
Apart from LMAO, obv.
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📢 @RSIS_NTU @NTUsg is hiring tenure-track positions in Strategic Studies, Asian Studies, IR, and IPE. Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Please RT & share with anyone on the market!
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Assistant / Associate Professor in Asian Studies / International Relations (Tenure-Track / Tenured) [RSIS]
The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, is seeking to appoint an Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure-Track/Tenured) in Asian Studies ...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
📢 @RSIS_NTU @NTUsg is hiring tenure-track positions in Strategic Studies, Asian Studies, IR, and IPE. Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Please RT & share with anyone on the market!
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