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Posts by Martin Bayly

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Guest Editor’s Introduction: Domestic Change and Foreign Policy in Contemporary India India has experienced over a decade of rule under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This special issue examines how domestic political change during this period has...

📣 Dr @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social has edited a special issue of the journal Indian Politics & Policy.

He also authored the issue’s introduction, “Domestic Change and Foreign Policy in Contemporary #India,” available here: bit.ly/4tQ0OZO

🔗 Explore the full special issue here: bit.ly/41xbtwo
#PoliSky

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Millennium's Call for Papers, full information can be found via the link included.

Millennium's Call for Papers, full information can be found via the link included.

📣 The call is open! Millennium's 2026 Symposium explores "The Global Politics of Liminality" — and we want to hear from you. Scholars from across the discipline (and beyond) are encouraged to submit.
🔗 Full details here: millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...

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Very glad to see this article out in the world. In it, I argue for a critical reading of realism's political history, in terms of exile and how realists historically experienced it. /1

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Picture showing the title page of a publication in the Journal of the History of Ideas on elite Indian intellectual thought on race c.1920-50

Picture showing the title page of a publication in the Journal of the History of Ideas on elite Indian intellectual thought on race c.1920-50

I’m pleased to share my new article out in the Journal of the History of Ideas (@jhideas.bsky.social) 📝✨

In this article, I (dis)locate ideas of “race” in the intellectual thought of elite Indian political thinkers in the early to mid twentieth century.

Link to article and outline of arguments ⬇️

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University Assistant Professor in Political Theory Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor (Grade 9) in political theory, to be based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. The post will be

JOB

Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

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Text: ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026
"South Asia in a Changing International Order"
6-8 August 2026
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Submission Deadline: 2 March
Image: photo of Colombo, ISA logo

Text: ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026 "South Asia in a Changing International Order" 6-8 August 2026 Colombo, Sri Lanka Submission Deadline: 2 March Image: photo of Colombo, ISA logo

Reminder: Proposals for the ISA‑SAWP 2026 Conference, South Asia in a Changing International Order, are due 2 March.
The conference meets 6–8 August at the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo.
Details: buff.ly/k96ewHT

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ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026: Call for Proposals

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

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International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
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International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

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Assistant Professor (f/m/d) Assistant Professor (f/m/d)

My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions.

careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

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The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution Join Jelena Subotić for her book launch

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-of...

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On Wednesday evening we're hosting @jelenasubotic.bsky.social at @lseir.bsky.social to talk about her fantastic new book 'The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution'. It's free to attend, but registration is necessary. Please come along! Details below...

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Traversing Memories in Global Politics - Kinti Orellana Matute, Woohyeok Seo, Pauline Zerla, 2025

🎉I am very pleased to share the publication of our @millennjournal.bsky.social Vol. 53 Special Issue: Traversing Memories in Global Politics.

You can read our Introduction, co-authored with Kinti Orellana Matute and Pauline Zerla, here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...

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The new special issue of EJIR is a wonderful and diverse look at "History and Theory in International Relations". The issue includes my article with @caschulz.bsky.social on critical junctures in IR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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@ejir.bsky.social @warwickpais.bsky.social

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This, we argue, created the conditions for certain policy choices to become imaginable in the first place. @lseir.bsky.social @drkmillar.bsky.social @dryunahan.bsky.social @isq-jrnl.bsky.social

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In light of yesterday's news on the COVID inquiry in relation to political decision-making, I'm re-posting our recent ISQ article. We show how political elites in the UK, Italy, and Germany varied in the ways they communicated the inevitability of mass death during the onset of the pandemic. 🧵...

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Exciting to see my recent article about #disinformation, whole-of-society resistance, and #Taiwan with @ejir.bsky.social was trending in IR according to OOIR.

👉The article: shorturl.at/0DCPz

👉OOIR's post: x.com/ObserveIR/st...

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College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics Applications are invited for appointment to a College Lectureship in Modern History and Politics, together with a Fellowship, tenable for five years in the first instance, with the possibility of…

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College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge

[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]

www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...

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The changing geopolitics of Northern Europe 6.30pm Thurs 30 Oct | Iver B Neumann, Federica Bicchi, Jennifer Jackson-Preece | Free public event at LSE

Please join us this evening for an LSE guest lecture from Iver Neumann, with Federica Bicchi and Jennifer Jackson-Preece, on 'The Changing Geopolitics of Northern Europe'. Covering the Arctic, the Nordics, and the Baltics. Free to all. No registration necessary www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

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Happening tonight, 6.30pm. Free entry. Join us!

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🚨New First View Article🚨

"Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs" by Nikhil Kalyanpur is now available #OpenAccess!

Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/1rgOv0s

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Yes. Exactly the same, but even more laughter and ponderous chin scratching.

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From Frontiers to Borders: How colonial technicians created modern territoriality 6.30pm Weds 29 Oct | Kerry Goettlich, Eddie Keene, Joanne Yao, Ayşe Zarakol | Free public event at LSE

Please join us next week for the LSE launch of Kerry Goettlich's terrific new book, 'From Frontiers to Borders', with an all-star panel of @aysezarakol.bsky.social, Joanne Yao, and Edward Keene. Weds 29 Oct. 6.30pm. No registration necessary. All welcome. Details below

www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

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CAIS Public Lecture Series | Severing Colonial Relationality: Towards an Islamicate Theory of Autonomy and Refusal | Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies In this paper I seek to bring to the fore the theological sources of everyday resistance in the Islamicate, focusing specifically on emancipatory detachment. In doing so, I think with anti-colonial th...

This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome).

📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social

cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...

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Lecturer in International Relations at Queen's University Belfast Apply now for the Lecturer in International Relations role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR845/lecturer-in-international-relations and jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR850/l...
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social Deadline is 13 October 2025

#InternationalRelations #PublicPolicy

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Call For Applications: Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition 2025-26 | Toynbee Prize Foundation

This call for applications for a First Book Workshop from @toynbeeprize.bsky.social looks like a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars working on "global, imperial, comparative, world, or transnational history": toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f.... Deadline is November 2, 2025.

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The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line This article develops ‘the imperial gaze’ concept to explore how maps not only represent the world, but also do things in geopolitics, even provoking mass demonstrations. It examines China’s early-...

Hey all, my article "The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line" is published in _Geopolitics_ today: it's OA, so please click and download, for free!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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What have we got in the bank?

1) Roundtables on the practice turn, ontological security, and historical international relation.

2) An unreleased recording of a "live taping" a few years back at the LSE.

3) An episode on @profptj.bsky.social's favorite "hate read," the Clash of Civilizations.

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Was it just #US withdrawal & #Taliban capture that ended the #Republic in #Afghanistan in 2021? Basir Arian @ids.ac.uk @cheveningfcdo.bsky.social summarises the wider malaise & crisis of legitimacy.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...

@lseir.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social

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The Inter-National

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Abstract of an International Theory article discussing the need for reevaluating agency and resistance in the context of empire and colonisation, mentioning specific historical examples such as the Black Loyalists and Indigenous colonists of New Granada.

Abstract of an International Theory article discussing the need for reevaluating agency and resistance in the context of empire and colonisation, mentioning specific historical examples such as the Black Loyalists and Indigenous colonists of New Granada.

#OpenAccess from our new issue -

Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN

- @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social

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