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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Aug 20

For the nomination statement, please see below and the book can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Aug 20

Rita Abrahamsen @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social, Jean-François Drolet @jeanfrancoisdrolet.bsky.social, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic @srdj.bsky.social, Karin Narita, and Alexandra Gheciu received an honourable mention for "World of the Right. Radical Conservatism and Global Order"

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Aug 20

For the nomination statement, please see below and the book can be found here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are pleased to announce the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize winner and honourable mention.

The panel selected Patrick Quinton-Brown @pquintonbrown.bsky.social "Intervention before Interventionism. A Global Genealogy" for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize

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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · Jun 4

Reminder about the BISA - ISA workshop in Newcastle and our workshop on temporalities, improvisation and uncertainty.

Might be particularly interesting to scholars working on practice theory, emotions, and ontological security.

Further details👇👇👇

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Jun 3

📯 Our director @felixroesch.bsky.social has a new publication in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs @cambridgecria.bsky.social on populism and classical realism.

To access the paper, please follow the link below 👇

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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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · May 21

📢 New publication by CAIT director @felixroesch.bsky.social in International Political Sociology on "Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan"

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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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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · May 21

📢 New publication by CAIT member Faiz Sheikh and @drowendthomas.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social on "Dynastic International Relations: understanding race and the crisis of liberal order through Ibn Khaldun"

For the open access copy follow this link:

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

Dynastic International Relations: understanding race and the crisis of liberal order through Ibn Khaldun - Faiz Sheikh, Owen David Thomas, 2025

This paper offers insights into the Crisis of Liberal International Order by combining Ibn Khaldun’s theory of change with scholarship on liberalism and race. W...

journals.sagepub.com

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · May 19

Great talk by Ferran Perez Mena today on Chinese International Thought and Global IR.

Find more information about his book here:

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Contender States and Modern Chinese International Thought

This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature

link.springer.com

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · May 15

Join us Monday (19th May, 2-4pm, Arts C333) for the last CAIT talk this semester.

Ferran Perez Mena talks about Contender States and Modern Chinese International Thought: From the Republican era until the ‘Chinese School of International Relations.

Get in touch, if you want to join online.

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David Brenner @davidbrenner.bsky.social · May 13

Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) are key actors in Myanmar's revolutionary war. But their positioning towards the crisis has been far from clear. How do we make sense of their strategies?

I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047...

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Rebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring Revolution

Ethnic armed organisations or EAOs play a pivotal role in the revolutionary war against Myanmar’s junta. These ethno-national rebel movements have not only captured large swathes of territory, but ...

doi.org

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · May 6

📣 Join us this Friday (9th May), when we welcome Alistair Markland to talk about "Whose Age of Anxiety? Provincialising Ontological Insecurity".

If you are in Brighton, the talk will take place in Arts C333 from 1pm - 3pm. Get in touch if you want to join online.

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Apr 25

🚨 Last call for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Deadline for submissions is next Friday (2nd May 2025). Further details below 👇

Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Feb 26

📢 We invite submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Details below. Please share widely! 🚨 #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

@mybisa.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Apr 9

Great “Sussex International Theory Book Prize” lecture by Ajay Parasram on his book “Pluriversal sovereignty and the State”

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Apr 7

And a reminder that we still accept applications for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Book Prize. More information can be found here:

www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) : University of Sussex

www.sussex.ac.uk

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Apr 7

More about his book can be found here:

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526148407/

Manchester University Press - Pluriversal sovereignty and the state

Pluriversal sovereignty and the state - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Pluriversal sovereignty and the state by Ajay Parasram

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Apr 7

On Wednesday (9th April), we host our Sussex International Theory Book Prize Lecture. Ajay Parasram will talk about his book "Pluriversal sovereignty and the state", the 2024 winner.

If you are in Brighton, join us in Fulton A from 4pm - 6pm. If you want to join online, please get in touch.

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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · Apr 4

@support.bsky.team what would one need to do to get any reply from you guys whatsoever?

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Apr 4

Great talk yesterday by Jaakko Heiskanen about his new book "Ethnos of the Earth". Thank you very much for coming! Find more details about it here:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

Ethnos of the Earth

Cambridge Core - Global History - Ethnos of the Earth

www.cambridge.org

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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · Apr 1

This Thursday (3 April), CAIT welcomes Jaakko Heiskanen (QMUL) to talk about his book "Ethnos of the Earth. International Order and the Emergence of Ethnicity", currently shortlisted for the @mybisa.bsky.social L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Award. Join us in C333 (2-4pm) if you are in Brighton.

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚨 A reminder that we still welcome submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize until 2nd May. Further details below. #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Feb 26

📢 We invite submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Details below. Please share widely! 🚨 #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

@mybisa.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social

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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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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Mar 16

Next Tuesday (18th March, 1pm-3Pm), CAIT welcomes Aaron McKeil @lseideas.bsky.social to talk about his recent book "Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder".

If you want to join remotely, get in touch.

press.umich.edu/Books/C/Cosm...

Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder

While the idea of a cosmopolitan order embracing all humankind is ancient, after the Cold War it was widely believed to be an emerging future. As global interdependence and interaction through new tec...

press.umich.edu

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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · Feb 26

As @bsky.app thinks a book prize call is Spam....

📢 We invite submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Details below. Please share widely! 🚨 #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

@mybisa.bsky.social

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Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) @sussexcait.bsky.social · Feb 26

📢 We invite submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Details below. Please share widely! 🚨 #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

@mybisa.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social