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Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social · Aug 20

This year the Standing Section on World Politics Beyond the State System (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social) has 12 sessions, including two RTs! Panels cover heterarchy, societal multiplicity, the New Cold War, private and substate actors, and insurgency!

See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25

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Stephanie Christine Winkler @scwinkler.bsky.social · Aug 20

My new article on “Conceptual Entrapment” is out online-first with @EuroJournIR!
Proud of this one: critical concept studies, autoethnography & soft power all come together to reflect on the researcher–concept relationship.

Take a look here!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social · Aug 20

To explore other sessions in our section, please check out the conference programme! Each year we have more 😃😎
@europeanisa.bsky.social

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Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social · Aug 20

The second RT, organised and chaired by Justin Rosenberg, will address the problem of "Thinking the International" with Sebastian Schindler, Pinar Bilgin, Oliver Kessler, and Rob B. J. Walker! Thursday, 28 August, at 11.00-12.30.

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Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social · Aug 20

We would like to highlight the RTs: first, we will discuss the "Spaces, Relations and Struggles of Ukrainians in International Theory" with Bohdana Kurylo, Cornelia Baciu, Olena Snigyr, Mateusz Filary Szczepanik, Victoria Vdovychenko, Jochen Kleinshmidt, and me. Wednesday, 27 August at 11.00-12.30.

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Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social · Aug 20

This year the Standing Section on World Politics Beyond the State System (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social) has 12 sessions, including two RTs! Panels cover heterarchy, societal multiplicity, the New Cold War, private and substate actors, and insurgency!

See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25

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Jola Q🐕🐈🐈‍⬛🐈☸️ @jolakk.bsky.social · Aug 5

Mam gdzieś obu prezydentów i tego byłego i tym bardziej przyszłego . Za to wieczór dzisiaj był cudny

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International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social · Jul 30

☀️ The wait is over: our summer reading list 2025 is here!

Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...

The International Affairs summer reading list 2025

There is nothing quite like spending the summer lost within the pages of a great book — or ten. Every year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana…

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Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social · Jul 4

No bigger concepts than "Great Power" and "multipolarity". This piece highlights how the two intersect...to disastrous results

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-trump-rus...

Welcome to the Era of Great Power Stupidity

The U.S. is throwing out all its goodwill while Russia and China seem determined to shoot themselves in the foot. The reason why is simple: stupidity.

www.worldpoliticsreview.com

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Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social · Jul 4

Great Power stupidity might be unavoidable, simply because the international system is complex. Even when it is "rational", it can still not result in "smart" decisions.

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/foreign-poli...

In Foreign Policy, Being Smart Is a Pretty High Bar

The idea of “smart power” seems especially relevant today. But foreign policy choices usually don’t boil down to obvious outcomes.

www.worldpoliticsreview.com

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Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social · Jul 4

With the holiday, no new column this week.

Instead, here's a 🧵 highlighting some of the @wpr.bsky.social pieces I've written so far this year and how they can be used to teach International Relations concepts.

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · Jun 24

Looking forward to hearing you, indeed on a powerful panel on planting, eating and resisting together with Mariia Banko speaking on cooking, solidarity and resistance, Saltanat Shoshanova on the queeering of traditional food rituals and Maya Hayda on artistic engagements with seeds and displacement

Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social · Jun 24

Delighted to say that at the upcoming RUTA Conference
(@associationruta.bsky.social)I will present my poetry project, "A Song of Sunrise and Blood: Cartographies of Terror, Endurance and Revival"! It covers my poems on Ukraine, mapping wartime terrors, grief, and resilience through verse. See you!

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · May 30

New book on #infrastructure and #international_relations out now - including my reflections on how infrastructural development has enabled (re)formations of #international_society. Check it out! @iratut.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Transnational Infrastructures and the Transformation of Global Orders

This book offers a multidisciplinary insight into the significance of infrastructural change for global orders.

link.springer.com

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Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social · Jun 24

Delighted to say that at the upcoming RUTA Conference
(@associationruta.bsky.social)I will present my poetry project, "A Song of Sunrise and Blood: Cartographies of Terror, Endurance and Revival"! It covers my poems on Ukraine, mapping wartime terrors, grief, and resilience through verse. See you!

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · May 28

📚 New 👉 "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and Ukrainian civil society in wartime"

@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social‬ draws on a four-year study (2018–22) of civic engagement in wartime Ukraine, examining through a vernacular security lens

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

photo of a protest, one poster reads 'stand with ukraine'

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Dr Bohdana Kurylo @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social · Jun 12

Happy to share my chapter on Zelenskyy's populist aesthetics of security in the Routledge Handbook of #Populism and #ForeignPolicy. Many thanks to editors @davidcadier.bsky.social, @achryssogelos.bsky.social & @sdestradi.bsky.social

@lsemethodology.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

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Dr Leandra Bias 💙💛 @openlybiased.bsky.social · Jun 20

Photographer: „do you want the BISA banner?“ - Me/ :
„no we‘re enough“ (because, look who’s next to me!)

What an honour to finally meet this absolutely brilliant mind I‘ve been admiring for over two years now @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social

@mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Jun 13

🎉 Congratulations to our winners of the Loop Best Blog prize 2024, @priscyll.bsky.social and Lida Ahmad!
🥇 Read their winning article selected by our jury Benjamin Carver, @alexspalinska.bsky.social and 2023 prize winner, Brandon Mack.
#SupportAfghanWomen
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UN collusion with the Taliban is betraying Afghan women

Once again, the world has failed Afghan women and girls. 15 August 2024 marks three years of devastating attacks on women's rights, and freedom of movement under the gender-apartheid Taliban regime. L...

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Alexander Schilin @aschilin.bsky.social · May 9

Publication Alert 📝

New article with @lucasschramm91.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social

It contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of differentiation in the EU. Case studies from EMU & Schengen show how issue-specific incentives lead to atypical integration patterns.

WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · May 8

Online first: "Insider, outsider, or both? Explaining discrepancies within differentiation in the European Union" by @aschilin.bsky.social & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Abstract of the article "Insider, outsider, or both? Explaining discrepancies within differentiation in the European Union" by Alexander Schilin and Lucas Schramm. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 1, displaying the interaction between the explanatory factors for individual member states and their implications for discrepancies between primary and secondary differentiation at EU level.

Figure 2, displaying the empirical variation of the explanatory factors in the analysed cases.

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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · Mar 13

The very presence of Crimean Tatars on their ancestral land is an act of resistance. How will the next generation, born and raised under occupation, define its reality, and what is the most desirable future for Crimea? Join us for a webinar with Emine Ziyatdin, Maria Shynkarenko and Suleiman Mamutov

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · Mar 10

The lack of expertise on East-Central Europe - or perhaps more precisely the lack of recognition that expertise is actually needed - across sectors, from the media to arts to academia, is often breathtaking… including the too often terrible pronunciation of people’s names once it gets to spoken word

Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Mar 10

Lost in translation .... @politico.com article on Romanian election and the banning of far-right candidate Călin Georgescu from running in the presidential election becomes a German-language WELT article on "former Soviet Republic" Romania.... Setzen, sechs, WELT! www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

Rumänien: „Moskau will gefürchtet werden. Und das wird bald erreicht sein“ – Rumänien in Aufruhr - WELT

In Rumänien weitet sich der Streit über einen Präsidentschaftskandidaten zu einer internationalen Krise aus. Nachdem der russlandfreundliche Kandidat Georgescu auch bei der Wahlwiederholung nicht antr...

www.welt.de

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Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social · Mar 12

We're still looking forward to seeing your abstracts! Deadline: 20th March. #EISAPEC25

See you in Bologna! 😃

@europeanisa.bsky.social

Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social · Jan 23

Our Standing Section at EISA conference (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social)explores non-state and societal dimensions of world politics: non-state actors, limited statehood, channels for foreign influence, policies and practices at the intersection of hierarchy and anarchy. #EISAPEC25 1/4

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Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social · Jan 23

Our Standing Section at EISA conference (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social)explores non-state and societal dimensions of world politics: non-state actors, limited statehood, channels for foreign influence, policies and practices at the intersection of hierarchy and anarchy. #EISAPEC25 1/4

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · Mar 7

🎓 Check out @alexspalinska.bsky.social's review of Terje Rasmussen's "The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change" in International Affairs
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...

The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change

Sovereignty is a crucial and contested concept in International Relations (IR). As Terje Rasmussen's book shows, it is also dynamic and constantly evolving

doi.org

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Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social · Feb 22

Thank you! Unfortunately, it's not available at this moment. Currently I'm working on the book based on my dissertation. Hopefully, it will be published next year.

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