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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · 6d

Four years in Italy and I am speaking with my hands 🙌🏻

EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · 6d

🌍SPS welcomed Cecilia Lynch from @ucirvine.bsky.social for the Swiss Chair Seminar Series.

Her talk on "From Decolonisation to Recolonisation?" challenged us to rethink humanitarianism, religion & power in today’s world. Inspiring exchange & lively debate!

Grateful for the insights shared! ✨

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Martijn Hesselink @martijnhesselink.bsky.social · Sep 1

it’s this thursday-friday at the eui: 50 speakers on ‘law & revolution: prefiguration or abolition?’ we’re very excited!!

Martijn Hesselink @martijnhesselink.bsky.social · Apr 8

Join our fantastic confirmed speakers Amna Akbar, Rob Knox, Ruth Kinna and Daniel Lock, and come present at our conference: ‘Law & Revolution: Prefiguration or Abolition?’ at the EUI in Florence: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Law & Revolution: Prefiguration or Abolition?

This event explores the complex and contested role of law in revolutionary politics, asking whether law can prefigure the future we seek - or whether it must be abolished to make it possible. Drawing ...

www.eui.eu

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · Aug 27

Buongiorno #EISAPEC2025! Hope everyone arriving by train managed to emerge from the depths of Bologna AV to see the surface :)

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Flavia Lucenti, PhD @flavialucenti.bsky.social · Aug 26

I look forward to joining @simonetholens.bsky.social and @diegobadell.bsky.social, who are both authors of a chapter in the volume, as well as Lorraine Klimowich from @springernature.com.
Looking forward to the conversations ahead and to meeting many of you there!

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Max Lesch @maxlesch.bsky.social · Aug 26

Very much looking forward to #EISAPEC25 and our standing section ‘International Practices’ organized together with @profbode.bsky.social
Come and join us for nine wonderful panels and roundtables—all happening at Palazzo Hercolani! 🏛️👇

@europeanisa.bsky.social

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · Jun 18

To be continued w. David Curran at the roundtable on researching training for international deployments (FR 10:45am) #BISA2025

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · Jun 18

Attending #BISA2025 and working on security, peacekeeping or military training? Come by our panel w. @moapeldan.bsky.social chaired by @mghacademic.bsky.social to discuss the politics of UN peace ops around reporting civilian harm, undoing war, training and speaking protection language (TH 1:15pm)

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · Jun 17

Kicking off #MyfirstBISA in Belfast with attending Prof Cynthia Enloe’s lecture and meeting fellow researchers from the Postgraduate network 🍻 Looking forward to three more days of exploring our shared curiosities

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · Jun 9

It's @mybisa.bsky.social's 50th anniversary this year! We want to hear about your first BISA. The RIS team will be telling you about our experiences as well 👇 #MyFirstBISA #BISA2025

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.bsky.social · Nov 29

I couldn't find a #FeministIR starter pack, so I took a first rather random stab at it. As I am bound to have missed relevant people (still struggling with the platform), so please let me know if you would like to be added. Apologies in advance.

#gender #feminism #IR

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · May 23

🚀 Join the 2nd episode of #EUIConversations!

📖 As global outrage intensifies over the ongoing devastation in Gaza, anthropologist Didier Fassin will be joined by EUI scholars Revital Madar & Nicolas Guilhot for a timely discussion on the topic.

📆 28 May
📍 EUI & online

More info 👉 buff.ly/6GPwX0c

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Francisco J. Quintana @fjquintana.com · May 21

Meeting friends and heroes at the EUI workshop “Shifting Powers, Shifting Roles:
The Present and Future of International Institutions”.

Brilliant keynote discussions by @monicahakimi.bsky.social, Tony Anghie, @sarahnou.bsky.social.

Also a great setting to discuss de-dollarisation and int’l law!

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · May 20

@eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-law.bsky.social @uribejuanita.bsky.social @ckreudersonnen.bsky.social @tim-lindgren.bsky.social @justinauriburu.bsky.social @kanadbagchi.bsky.social @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social @fjquintana.com @lawprofpuig.bsky.social

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Cristiana Maglia @crismaglia.bsky.social · Jan 23

The ADHOCISM dataset is out! 📣 So happy to share that our article on military ad hoc coalitons (AHCs) has found a home in International Peacekeeping Journal. The article is open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Military Ad Hoc Coalitions and Their Role in International Conflict Management: Insights from the ADHOCISM Dataset

Against the background of a crisis of United Nations (UN) peace operations, military ad hoc coalitions (AHCs) have increasingly gained a foothold as conflict management tools. This article provides...

www.tandfonline.com

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · May 20

Grateful for the opportunity to present our draft w. @stephofmann.bsky.social & @raffaelemstr.bsky.social on ad hoc coalitions #AHCs in and across time. More food for thought on the politics of ADHOCISM and other alternative forms of global governance 💭

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · May 20

Kudos to @jemtseva.bsky.social, @maxlesch.bsky.social and others at @eui-eu.bsky.social for organizing this fantastic interdisciplinary workshop on the present and future of int’l institutions & bringing together critical legal and IR scholars.

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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · May 16

The event "Shifting power, shifting roles: The present and future of international institutions" is taking place next Monday. Looking forward to seeing some of you in person at the @eui-eu.bsky.social or online.

The updated program & registration link can be found here: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

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Contemporary Security Policy journal @cspjournal.bsky.social · Mar 24

In this fourth SI article, @anaprokhorov.bsky.social analyses peacekeeping and the changing nature of peacekeepers’ protection duties through the lens of norm contestation.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping

Protection, uncommon in peacekeeping before the 1990s, has become the norm. This article takes issue with this normative shift and explores how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and Protection of...

www.tandfonline.com

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · Mar 29

Privileged to have been part of this Special Issue connecting peace operations & peacebuilding with the shifts in the global order. Many thanks to @sarahellmuller.bsky.social and @fannybadache.bsky.social for their guidance along the way and @cspjournal.bsky.social for their editorial support.

Contemporary Security Policy journal @cspjournal.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢 Our second issue of the year is out!

Vol 46(2) features the Special Issue "Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations".

Special Issue editors: @sarahellmuller.bsky.social & @fannybadache.bsky.social

👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcsp20/4...

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Contemporary Security Policy

Children of their Time: The Impact of World Politics on United Nations Peace Missions. Volume 46, Issue 2 of Contemporary Security Policy

www.tandfonline.com

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · Mar 29

It is instrumental to distinguish between cosmopolitan and state-centric R2P, when it comes to norm contestation, and between militarised protectors of individual bodies and police protectors of order and stability, when it comes to peace operations.

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · Mar 29

📝 in my latest article in CSP I investigate how norms like POC and R2P normalized particular images of protectors in UN peace operations. I develop the concept of productive contestation to highlight the political and normalising work of norms: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · Mar 29

Building on the feminist critique of the liberal framework centering a sovereign state/individual, we propose to rethink protection as relational, communal and two-sided.

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · Mar 29

📝 in our collective intervention for CSoS on the politics of protection, @louiseridden.bsky.social and I contributed a short piece troubling what the ‘self’ stands for in self-protection: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · Mar 29

Drawing on ideas around ‘performance’ I analyzed how special advisers to the SG can reshape norms like R2P in their public statements becoming more of ‘performative leaders’ than conventional norm entrepreneurs.

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Anastasia Prokhorova @anaprokhorov.bsky.social · Mar 29

📝 in my (first ever) paper in GR2P I explored how individual agency can matter in rigid and bureaucratic organizations like the UN: brill.com/view/journal...

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