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Jennifer Mitzen

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Pol Sci Prof @OhioState | IR theory, ontological sec'ty, diplomacy, int'l history | author, _Power in Concert_ | co-editor, _Ontolog (in)Security in the EU_

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Jennifer Mitzen @jennifermitzen.bsky.social · Jul 21

Please share widely!
IR Theory Colloquium (IRTC)
2025-2026
Call for applications / Due July 31
IRTC is a monthly, 90-minute Zoom workshop for early career researchers, aimed at improving theoretical arguments and expanding the IR Theory community.
More info below:

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · Jul 4

The season of Western multilateral summitry (G7, NATO) may be over, but the diplomatic show must go on.
In this @ejir.bsky.social piece, I argue that summitry is a performance producing what I call the "social international," or the intl system of state persons

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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · Feb 19

“‘…the legislative justification for the Chase Center — that teaching and research at Ohio State is ideologically biased rather than evidence-based — is based on fundamentally false premises,’ said University Senate Faculty Council Chair Sara Watson, an associate professor of political science.”

Ohio State Trustees approve state-mandated 'intellectual diversity' center

A 2023 state law required OSU to create an "independent academic unit" to teach and research the U.S. Constitution.

www.wosu.org

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · Feb 10

📈Trending in RIS 📈

Check out @minseonku.bsky.social and Brian Finch's article on ontological security and audience agency! It's one of our top trending articles for the last few months, and it's #OpenAccess 👇

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · Dec 16

New article with @briantfinch.bsky.social is now available online with OA at @risjnl.bsky.social

We argue for broadening the scope of audience agency theorized in securitization by bringing in the ontological security lens, centering the importance of routines. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Routines die hard: Ontological security and audience agency in securitisation | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Routines die hard: Ontological security and audience agency in securitisation

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Dec 10

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Now with a volume, issue and page numbers in Millennium. @chrsjcksn.bsky.social and I wrote about the craziness of Skopje's faux neoclassical revamp, a huge statue of Alexander the Great, copy of Arc de Triomphe and things that are supposed to look like... Venice? It's a riot. Pics 👇

The Ontological Security-Seeking Paradox: Domestic and International Effects of Public Architecture in North Macedonia’s ‘Skopje 2014’ Project - Christopher M. Jackson, Jelena Subotic, 2024

This article theorises the relationship between material environment and state ontological security by analysing how public architecture is used to defend, asse...

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Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social · Nov 20

Happy to announce the birth of a new book! How/why did empires relentlessly expand - and worked together? Not competition but transaction and cooperation was key to the Age of Empires in the long 19th century. With brilliant colleagues Erik de Lange & Ozan Ozavci: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/securing-...

Securing Empire

This volume explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the structures, hierarchies and dynamics of int…

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · Dec 3

IMHO the coup botched not because it was not well thought out. Yoon lacks political allies. His only ally is the military, supporting his rhetoric of freedom/liberalism targeted at so-called pro-North Korea anti-state forces. He has no political allies within the ruling party.

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Karl Gustafsson @profgustafsson.bsky.social · Nov 29

I have an issue. Or, more specifically, this article I published together with Linus Hagström now has an issue! It is now out (open access) in the latest issue of European Political Science.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The insecurity of doing research and the ‘so what question’ in political science: how to develop more compelling research problems by facing anxiety - European Political Science

Research problems are crucial in the sense that they provide new research with purpose and justification. So why, despite the abundance of guidance available from an extensive methods literature, do g...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Nov 27

NEW ISSUE from Ethics & International Affairs -

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Includes a roundtable: The Problem with International Order

Papers by @trineflockhart.bsky.social, @aysezarakol.bsky.social, @linabenabdallah.bsky.social, @jennifermitzen.bsky.social, @ncrenic.bsky.social, and more

Ethics & International Affairs new issue graphic

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