Iran war tests Xi Jinping’s plan to build China’s stockpiles Beijing has driven major increase in reserves of oil and other strategic commodities but their scale remains secret

Thanks to Ed White for including my comments in this @financialtimes.com article on China and Iran

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Five Things I Learnt From a Week in Ukraine War is devastating but also transformative. The Ukrainian church is building peace amidst the ruins. The global church must continue to stand with them.

Some thoughts from an extraordinary week in Ukraine.
johnheathershaw.substack.com/p/five-thing...

Kleptocracy has gone global - our laws haven’t John Heathershaw argues that we need a legal conception of kleptocracy fit for the kind of transnational inter-elite relations and illicit activity that we see in the era of Epstein, Putin, and Gulf m...

📣 New #GIACE blog!

@jheathershaw.bsky.social argues we need a legal conception of kleptocracy fit our current era of personalist global politics where transnational inter-elite relations and illicit activity have been revealed to span Epstein, Putin, and Gulf monarchies.

Young Israeli teens burning draft letters they received. A perfect example of noncompliance that people can participate in to fight back against fighting a foreign war. This is similar to how veterans here in the US are encouraging soldiers to refuse to carry out unlawful orders.
#Israel #Gaza

Overton - Find, evidence and grow your policy impact Get a global view of the policy landscape, with the tools to study it in depth. Overton helps you create, find and evidence policy impact using a single suite of tools.

Ever wondered if your academic research gets picked up in policy circles? I gotta say I was surprised to see mine cited in House of Lords reports on the ‘future governance of the UK’ and I suspect many others might be surprised too.

See here: app.overton.io

Great double session on republican political economy and the problems with liberal representative democracy at the Centre of Political Thought yesterday. @spspa-uofexeter.bsky.social
With Ruth Kinna, Stuart White and Clementina Fusillo. The chat at dinner was 🔥!! Thanks @bingshuz.bsky.social for 📸

Constitutionalising Anarchy Cambridge Core - Political Theory - Constitutionalising Anarchy

We have a webpage! A HUGE thank you to Mark Bray, Gary Chartier, Patricia Owens, Tomas Ibañez, John McCormick, Manjeet Ramgotra, James Tully, and Antje Weiner for your endorsements. They're humbling.
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Investors and Trump Face an Iran Dilemma

Very happy to be cited in this @nytimes.com DealBook article on China and the war in the Middle East!

@exeter.ac.uk @cais-exeter.bsky.social @spspa-uofexeter.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/b...

My latest article with Xuan Qin at Fudan Uni is online at The China Journal! Our research evidences the lasting transformations in China's grassroots bureaucracy wrought by 3 years of zero-COVID, in which biosecurity enhanced & deepened political security.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

✨ New publication alert ✨
@ripejournal.bsky.social just gave me the best birthday present!
My paper, co-authored with Samuele Bibi and Nicole Cerpa Vielma, discusses how Latin America's integration into international trade and global finance has influenced political cycles.

Subordinated integration and political waves in the 21st century Latin America In the 2000s and early 2010s, Brazil, Peru, and Chile experienced leftist electoral victories, reflecting the regional trend known as the Pink Tide. However, in the mid-2010s, the erosion of the po...

With a focus on Brazil, Chile, and Peru, we argue that the deepening of productive and financial subordination is one of the reasons why the recent wave of left-wing governments has fallen short of the inclusionary impact of the 2000s Pink Tide.

Check the #OA paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0969...

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See you next week!

We are launching a new Undergraduate Network for IR and Foreign Policy with British Foreign Policy Group 🎉

For undergrads across the UK interested in IR, diplomacy, and foreign policy 🌟

Join our first meeting to find out more about the network 👉 https://ow.ly/4nNu50X8uR7

The Future of Sino-Middle Eastern Relations | ChinaPower Project In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Dr. Mohammed Alsudairi and Dr. Andrea Ghiselli join us to discuss their newly released book Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures. They challenge prevail...

Many thanks to Bonny Lin for having Mohammed Alsudairi and me on her ChinaPower podcast to present our CUP Element book on Sino-Middle Eastern relations, and discuss how China and regional powers look at each other.

@cais-exeter.bsky.social

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Looking forward to tomorrow’s gig on Citizen Marx by @brunoleipold.com. @cais-exeter.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

China-Middle East Cooperation: In the Eye of the Beholder Insights from Mohammed Alsudairi and Andrea Ghiselli.

@thediplomat.com has just published an interview with Mohammed Alsudairi and me discussing the findings of our CUP Element on Sino-Middle Eastern relations.

@cais-exeter.bsky.social @spspa-uofexeter.bsky.social

thediplomat.com/2025/10/chin...

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The transition to the new academic year was so hectic that I forgot to report that @kovarek.bsky.social and I have been awarded a @britishacademy.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk Small Research Grant. Focusing on #Hungary, we will explore how populist frames shape the support for financial nationalism.

Students discussing at the 2024 climate summit simulation

Call for #climatesim expressions of interest open NOW! 🌟

We are looking for institutions to take part in our annual climate negotiation simulation event - once again partnering with @chathamhouse.org 🎉

Deadline to apply is 19 October #climatesim 🌳

Info 👉 buff.ly/zPti35m
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I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

Delighted to be co-hosting Professor Owens today with the Centre for Political
Thought.

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China doubles down on Brics to defend free trade, but grouping’s divisions remain Brics leaders had to walk a tightrope between criticising US tariffs while avoiding a confrontation with Mr Trump. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

My comments on Xi Jinping’s (virtual) BRICS speech, the SCO, and the Global Governance Initiative for The Straits Times

@cais-exeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...

👇 New article in @govandopp.bsky.social where Alfonso Casani, @fcolin.bsky.social and I bring together our theoretical and empirical work on foreign policy, opposition and authoritarianism through the extreme case of Morocco and Israel's wars on Gaza, and with material from field research since 2007

Excited to be offering our bespoke fieldwork methods course "Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts" with @xiananj.bsky.social for @komex.bsky.social next February, alongside a truly fantastic line-up of courses - with something for every methodological persuasion!

‘Come meet us in Dubai’: the new offshoring of grand corruption Sensitive business is moving towards more permissive jurisdictions in response to tighter regulations and greater media attention.

A cracker from my colleague John Heathershaw and his co-author
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. #Capitalismisthecrisis

@jheathershaw.bsky.social

New research will analyse the spread of misinformation in Africa and the continent’s growing digital divides Major new research will help experts to counter the spread of misinformation in Africa and understand the causes and consequences of the continent’s growing digital divides. The project, by researcher...

So this is what I'm up to this year - news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Hugely grateful to @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this possible through an Innovation Fellowship award.

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Iran Pivots Toward China, But Is Beijing Ready To Play Ball? After a devastating war with Israel exposed the weakness of its air force, Iran is reportedly turning to China for advanced military hardware. But Beijing’s reluctance -- and Moscow’s inaction -- high...

Will Iran get Chinese weapons? Never say never. However, two other experts and I are quite skeptical at the moment.

@cais-exeter.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

www.rferl.org/a/iran-china...

Congratulations, Andrea!

Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices Abstract. Despite its sophistication, most of the literature on the securitization of migration remains presentist in the sense that it has not yet truly i

Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out:
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