So happy that a paper from the special issue I edited on "Grappling with the climate crisis in IR" won the journal's best article award! Check it out!👇

☺️@paulinesophieh.bsky.social and I won a prize for this article: www.ceeol.com/search/artic... Thanks to @michelpoiccard.bsky.social and the editorial team! Are you seeing actors use bad faith, for what, and do they get away with it?

Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative

This European Citizen Initiative on the "suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement in view of Israel's violation of human rights" is nearing 1 mio signatures. 👀 Check it out if you haven't already 👇

citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

So much AI propaganda about “saving time” is capitalist propaganda. You need to do things faster so you can make more money because work has been devalued and full-time jobs are harder to come by. But AI isn’t going to make YOU rich. It’s already devaluing the work and the jobs even more

All ten of our articles are freely available now: @ejisbisa.bsky.social. All new work on politicized captivity from @toddhall.bsky.social @daniellegilbert.bsky.social @minseonku.bsky.social @rogerpetersen1.bsky.social @profgustafsson.bsky.social Jade McGlynn, Simon Koschut, Barak Kushner,

The Czech Journal of International Relations is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue titled Small States in Turbulent Times, which is scheduled for publication in August 2027.
For more information please visit: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

Ritual Wartiming in Russia’s Three-day Special Military Operation, 2022-2025: “Everyone Must Feel Mobilized” Abstract. How did a three-day “special military operation” become four years and counting of near-total war? Analyses emphasize a number of factors prolong

How did Russia's 3-day “special military operation” become 4 yrs+ of near-total war, & how did time symbols contribute?

Just published OA @gsqjournal.bsky.social in special forum on ritual action, ed. by Maria Mälksoo

doi.org/10.1093/isag...

@isatheory.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social

🎧 Reminder: RIS has a podcast! 🎧

We now have EIGHT episodes of the Review of International Studies podcast - well worth a listen, friends!

buff.ly/CJdduct

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

...see if I ever said anything negative about Trump. I don't want to risk being in that situation at the border.

Beyond that, I think some members might have boycotted ISA because they are unhappy with its response to the genocide in Gaza. So there might be reasons unrelated to US politics.

While I appreciate you taking up the issue of attending conferences in the US, I feel this conversation missed the mark a bit. A major factor for not attending for me at least is the (perceived?) change in immigration rules, where officers could theoretically ask for access to my social media to...

🚀🇷🇺 "Capturing the minds: The role of child deportation in maintaining Russian authority over Ukraine’s occupied territories" by @drjademcglynn.bsky.social & Anastasiia Romaniuk is our article of the month!

📚👉 Read, for free, here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for special issue contributions on the theme of "Small states in turbulent times" - see below 👇

Stellungnahme zur deutschen Außenpolitik im Zuge der Angriffe der USA und Israels auf den Iran

A world with #international #law is by no means perfect. But a world in which those who can do ignore international law is even worse. I am grateful to colleagues for initiating this open letter to the German government. verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm...

Imperialism, war and violence are connected to climate change. But analysis needs to go deeper than just making an argument for detaching from fossil fuels.

This endless violence is about who and what is valued, it's about US militarism, it's about white christian supremacy.

The 8th article from our special issue on captivity passions is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social! Jade McGlynn and Anastasiia Romanyuk show how Russia's child deportations seek to pressure local families, disrupt Ukrainian identity and facilitate demographic restructuring. doi.org/10.1017/eis....

The 7th article in our special issue ‘Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security’ is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social. Barak Kushner explores how authoritarian states in 20th-century East Asia sought to reeducate captives for security reasons. doi.org/10.1017/eis....

Interesting. Did he do it as an experiment or to make some kind of point?

Also point 4: 'We haven't managed to improve the quality of regular journal submissions by humans, so let's compound the problem by adding low-qualitty submissions from AI. Not doing so is an absurd double standard.' ?!?!?
🤮

if you think this or are acting upon it you don’t deserve an academic job. people who boast publicly about how they’re too lazy to do their own research and writing and by extension make it harder for anyone else to do it properly are scabs and should be shunned by any serious researchers

I only made it to the second paragraph before getting triggered 😅

Academics Need to Wake Up on AI Ten theses for folks who haven't noticed the ground shifting under their feet

"Users will skim AI summaries. The real science is the question, the pre-analysis plan, and the analysis."

I'm sorry but don't you do your THINKING while READING and WRITING? Research questions don't appear out of nowhere!!!

alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/academics-...

Four more weeks to submit your proposals for this amazing conference!👇

Thank you! 🙏You possibly encountered a very early version of the dignity argument at the online version of 2022 ISA Northeast. Am I remembering that correctly..?

The emotional politics of sovereignty: On dignity, state personhood, and kidnappings

My co-authored article with @nckc.bsky.social is published in @ejisbisa.bsky.social with #openaccess!
We theorize captivity/kidnapping as a sovereignty violation, and states respond with emotional performativity to protect their dignity, constructing personhood.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's publication day!🎊🤗

One of the best analyses of Israel's post-Oct 7 actions I have come across. Highly recommend!👇

Devolution, delegation, and digitisation: Accountability gaps in fragmented border regimes Contemporary borders are increasingly fragmented and dispersed, variously through externalisation practices and inwardly through everyday bordering ch…

New paper!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Where does accountability lie in contemporary border regimes?

Call for Papers, Contesting Imperialism(s), CEEISA Annual Conference, Sarajevo 17-19 June 2026. Submit your papers or panels until March 2026!

Program chairs: Aida Hozić and Dženeta Karabegović

ceeisa2026.com

I’m very excited to share that my co-authored article with Todd Hall is now published in the @ejisbisa.bsky.social !
Many thanks to @profgustafsson.bsky.social and @rjsamuels.bsky.social for organising the special issue and for their guidance throughout the process.
doi.org/10.1017/eis....