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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 2d

#Ethics people - get your 250 abstracts to Natasha and/or I asap for our January #BISA Ethics and World Politics online event in “Teaching Ethics in Dark Times.”

Details below!

BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 2d

🌟 Ethics and World Politics BISA call for papers 🌟

"Teaching ethics in dark times" exploring innovative approaches to ethics education 🎉

Deadline to submit - 15 October ⏰
Workshop date: 14 January

Find out more here 👉 https://ow.ly/7LOv50X6UGE

Seán Molloy Natasha Saunders

Call for papers: Teaching ethics in dark times- Ethics and World Politics | BISA

- Ethics and World Politics Working Group

ow.ly

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 18d

Ugh, one of those prima donna academic types.

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 18d

Never heard of him.

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 18d

Does anyone know of good recent pieces on Realist ethics in IR / IPT? Am giving a lecture on this in a few weeks and would be good to have a few up to date pieces.

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Sep 6

Pondering Rashomon to teach the benefits of the English School in IR.

Idea =

3 perspectives on international society > 1

B/c 3 allows discussion => more depth re Int Soc.

ES ≠ “answer” to Int Soc but more fruitful than any single theory.

But would students be too freaked out by Rashomon?

Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Jul 22

Machiavelli is unexpectedly proving to be every bit as tricky as Hegel. I need to find people to write about who aren’t so goddamn tricky!

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Jul 8

EISA in Bologna is uncommonly stacked with interesting panels. The Working with the Negative and the Realist Thought, Theory, and Analysis sections look particularly good.

eisa-net.org/event/pec-20...

PEC 2025 | EISA

eisa-net.org

Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Jul 1

Off to EWIS in Kraków to discuss Hegel and international law over the next couple of days.

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Jun 17

BISA gets off to a bizarre start with a weird, wheel bump the ground landing followed by an immediate take off again abd impromptu aerial tour of Belfast and environs. Landed the second time with no difficulty.

It’s going to be one of _those_ BISAs …

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Jun 13

Ultimately, portability will more than likely be granted because universities will want their new staff members’ outputs counted as part of their submission.

Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · Jun 13

Wait, is this the REF saying there is no clear definition or records relating to academic staff who have been made redundant? That is… not the case.

Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · Jun 13

I dunno, dude. If reality cannot be bent to your metric, maybe it's the metricisation that's wrong, not reality?

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Jun 11

This is how you do it, kids!

LuUuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · May 13

incredible Brian Wilson self-edit here:

BRIAN Wilson tells the story of how Don Henley once came backstage after a concert. The Eagles co-founder arrived clutching his copy of Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys' classic 1966 album, and told Wilson how much their music had inspired him when he was younger.
Keen to have Wilson autograph the album, he watched as Wilson picked up a Sharpie and wrote: "To Don - thanks for all the great songs." Henley turned to leave but Wilson called him back and, grabbing the record, crossed out "great" and replaced it with "good"

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Jun 3

More excellent work from the powerhouse that is @felixroesch.bsky.social!

Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨 New paper with @thorstenwojczewski.bsky.social in @cambridgecria.bsky.social: In "Theorizing populism in international relations: a classical realist perspective", we explore the prospects of IR theories, focusing on classical #realism, for studying #populism.

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

www.tandfonline.com

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · May 28

Looks fascinating, Andy.

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Andy Hom @therealisthom.bsky.social · May 27

Are you short of a listen or interested in the links b/t IR theory & political ideology? @risjnl.bsky.social has just the thing for you - a new pod on our recent editor's selection, featuring our @sebkaempf.bsky.social interviewing (also our) Ben Martill:
www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...

Editor's Selection: Theory/Ideology with Benjamin Martill - Review of International Studies – The podcast

Creating conversations across articles, identifying linkages, bringing together articles that speak to similar topics is the purpose of our editor's selections. In this episode, Dr Benjamin Martill, o...

www.buzzsprout.com

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · May 13

I don’t find John McCormick’s attempts to revise the role of Agathocles in Machiavelli’s
writings convincing but I’m glad he is out there arguing against the grain.

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · Apr 17

US to declare immediate 10% tariff on imports from K2-18b

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scientists find promising hints of life on distant planet K2-18b

Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Mar 26

Have Trump et al said anything at all about international law? I don’t think they have; I get the impression that it’s not on their radar _at all_. Can anyone point me to any official statements regarding the USA and international law?

Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Mar 24

Good to see the entry on Realism in the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations was in safe hands!

Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · Mar 24

📣 Great to see Beate Jahn's and Sebastian Schindler's Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations published with 179 (!) entries on all things #IR. 🚨 @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Find my chapter on #realism here:

www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Mar 19

One person I must look into more one day is R.N. Berki. Every so often I come into contact with his essays and they’re always impressive.

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Mar 5

Just witnessed the perfect encapsulation of the Boomer spirit: a very tiny, elderly lady with two powerful dogs meets another tiny, elderly lady with a powerful dog. Between the two tiny, elderly ladies there was one leash and not a hope of controlling any of the three dogs.

Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Mar 4

Excellent work - well done.

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Mar 3

Does #Thucydides have lessons to teach _beyond_ the strong doing what they will and the weak suffering what they must? A brief thought piece by me in Logos Magazine on the relevance of Thucydides to contemporary events in international politics.

logosjournal.com/between-the-...

Do the Strong Suffer When They Do What They Want? - Logos Journal

The early days of Donald Trump’s presidency have featured a series of clashes with allies and other states. The first real squall between Trump and an ally was the notably ‘fiery’ dialogue with the Da...

logosjournal.com

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Feb 28

My former PhD student, Carmen Chas’s forthcoming book. A groundbreaking study that combines International Law and Realist IR theory to excellent effect.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · Feb 27

*sings in Blondie*

Saw Vesuvius
And it was a gas
Soon turned out
I had a brain of glass

www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

How eruption of Vesuvius turned man’s brain to glass

Ferociously hot ash cloud from the volcano that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD79 created a phenomenon not seen at any other archaeological site

www.thetimes.com

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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · Feb 21

I have an alibi …

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