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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 2d

Its out in the world!

Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 2d

Big delivery in the mail @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social

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Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · 15d

seeing the recognition of Palestinian statehood dismissed as 'performative' (US State Dept) makes me wonder how the meaning of the word 'performative' has gone from words that do things (Austin, Butler) to words that do nothing

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 17d

With Western states’ impeding recognition of the state of Palestine, it‘s imperative to think about the politics of statehood and recognition. Join us this Thursday as we discuss with @shahdhm.bsky.social, Lana Tatour and Adil Hasan Khan

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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 20d

The gaze is up-close Indian & South Asian but the arguments are discipline facing and will hopefully shape conversations in IR broadly, especially since (globalized) caste vocabularies pervade world politics – from "outcastes" and "pariahs" to brahmins and pundits.

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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 20d

Many cracking reads in this Special Issue – from the diabolical politics of the category of "pariah states," and a scathing indictment of Indian secularism in its effacement of caste politics, to sensitive portraits of dalit and anti-caste figures like Ambedkar, KR Narayanan, and Kanshi Ram.

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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 20d

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy's Special Issue on Caste in Indian Diplomacy & IR is out. Edited by Vineet Thakur, Pavan Kumar & Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social @haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social

brill.com/view/journal...

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Dr Claire Yorke @claireyorke.bsky.social · Aug 18

At a time when politics feels bleak and frustrating, I wrote a book on empathy and politics to inject much needed hope into the conversation and offer some ideas for change.

Out soon with @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social and available for preorder now 📚

#Empathy #Politics #Leadership

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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · Sep 6

Congrats, Claire! Look forward to reading.

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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · Aug 13

Talk by @quahsayjye.bsky.social next week for the ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series. It's online. This pic of Lee Kuan Yew and Samuel Huntington from 1970 is a nice teaser of Quah's argument and his wider project on global intellectual history.
events.humanitix.com/the-singapor...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 10

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

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Alvina Hoffmann @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social · Aug 6

Absolutely mind-blown! 🤯 What an honour to receive this prize. Enormous thanks to the prize committee, everyone who helped sharpen the argument & my incredible interlocutors in Crimea for whom the struggle for human rights continues.

European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · Aug 6

🏆 We are pleased to announce @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social as the author of the Best Article in the European Journal of International Relations. Congratulations!

👏 Honorable mention to Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira

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Best article in EJIR 2025. Congratulations to Alvina Hoffmann for the article 'What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea'.

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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · Aug 6

IR Colleagues, please consider signing. It's been two years of petitioning and protesting, but ISA's Executive Leadership remains blind and mute to Israel's campaign of scholasticide.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Letter to ISA Executive Leadership to take action against the genocide and mass starvation in Gaza

Dear fellow ISA member, The genocide in Gaza, Palestine is reaching a new threshold of catastrophe with exponentially growing numbers of Palestinians being killed through a premeditated calculus of ma...

docs.google.com

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Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social · Jul 28

Fred Cooper tackling the concepts of decolonization and decoloniality in new Comparative Studies in Society & History article: "Decolonizing Decolonization."

Decolonizing Decolonization | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core

Decolonizing Decolonization

www.cambridge.org

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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · Jun 25

From Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding to Zohran Mamdani – Mira Nair is a gift that keeps giving.

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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · Jun 18

Excellent commentary by @drbeezee.bsky.social

Ben Zala @drbeezee.bsky.social · Jun 18

I'm the guest for today's episode of the ABC News Daily podcast with Samantha Hawley on "Was Iran Really About to Build a Nuclear Bomb?": www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Was Iran really about to build a nuclear bomb? - ABC listen

Israel has been ramping up pressure on Donald Trump for the US to join its strikes on Iran. It’s believed that only the US has the bombs that could destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities hidden deep under...

www.abc.net.au

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · Jun 12

These "hunger games" being played by Israel and the US are so disgusting. The humiliation and terrorizing and murdering of Palestinians via inhumanitarian aid is further evidence of how dehumanized Israel and the US are.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians seeking food in Gaza, health officials say

Dozens more wounded as crowds approached food distribution centres run by Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

www.theguardian.com

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Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social · May 31

SecDef Hegseth's Shangri-La Dialogue speech repeated conventional wisdom that's already eroded. No longer a functional division of getting security from US, prosperity from China. China's emerged as a global security provider, as @ibkardon.bsky.social and I show in @intsecurity.bsky.social:

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Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann.bsky.social · May 30

For a supposedly ‘international’ organisation, the email sent by the ISA President basically begging and browbeating scholars to make the trip to Columbus, Ohio is just amazingly tone deaf. Attending is couched in smorgasbord of hyperbolic rhetoric, WW2(!), the Cold War(!), Gandhi (!) without so

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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · May 30

If I read this correctly, I should not let my pithy self-interest in not getting deported to El Salvador allow me to evade my moral responsibility to hang out in some Hilton hallway (and pay conference fees).

Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann.bsky.social · May 30

I can’t put a finger on it, but somehow I get the impression that submissions for #ISA2026 are dropping off a cliff.

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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · May 20

🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology:

#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan

Find the paper here (open-access):

academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan

academic.oup.com

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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · May 21

Cheers. This looks great- congrats!

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LSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · May 16

Join us for the Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture 2024/25, where Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics.

🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4kh5uTy

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Joseph MacKay @lefteleven.bsky.social · May 5

My article with Jamie Levin, on nuclear strategy, firearms analogies, and settler colonialism, is now out at Security Dialogue. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · Apr 22

The editors Matthew Phillips & Naoko Shimazu (neither of whom are on Bluesky) have asked me to share news of this new book: A visual history of diplomacy in Cold War Asia. I'm very pleased to have contributed a chapter #HistIR @ndh-network.bsky.social #diplomacy @cambridgeup.bsky.social

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Apr 3

Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 1

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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