Posts by George Lawson
Comfort Ero (Crisis Group CEO) joined us for our first Public Lecture of 2026 on multilateral peacemaking, why it's breaking down, & what might come next.
👀Read the transcript here: https://quicklink.anu.edu.au/0ql1
Join us next week as we commence the Revolution and World Politics series with Professor George Lawson @georgelawson.bsky.social. His talk, ‘Revolutions are Back!’, will be delivered online on Wednesday 18th at 10am Bangkok time.
3-year jobs in IR at @politicsoxford.bsky.social, including #HistIR 👇
Age of Revolutions seeks contributions on Venezuela’s revolutionary movements, ideas, and global impact.
🔗 Submit here ageofrevolutions.com/2026/01/06/c...
Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis but should be submitted by January 19, 2026.
Bring your research to the conversation!
This, with @claroche.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, was the most fun I’ve had writing a paper in years. A quick thread on what we do here. This paper argues IR theories tell stories, and stories get their meaning from their particular endings. /1
Thanks to a great team of contributors:
William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.
Delighted to welcome Prof Dominic O’Sullivan as this year’s guest speaker for our 2025 Annual Lecture on Indigenous Diplomacy!
Citizenship, Sovereignty & Self-Determination: UNDRIP & the Democratic State
📆: Thu 6 Nov, 5:30PM
🎟️: events.humanitix.com/2025-indigenous-diplomac...
What does it mean to think ethically in theory itself?
We're delighted to welcome Prof Kimberly Hutchings (@qmul.bsky.social) to present 'Critique & Complicity: Pluriversality & the Ethics of Theoretical Practice'.
Thurs 23 Oct, 5.30PM
🎟️: quicklink.anu.edu.au/tyos
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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
JOB!
Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Congrats to you both!
For IR folks interested in utopia and theory, @mattfluck.bsky.social and I are co-editing a volume, Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations, to be published by Bristol University Press (@brisunipress.bsky.social) next year
#polisky
Did you miss this year’s Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture?
Featuring Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge, the event explored the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics.
🎥 Watch the full recording here: bit.ly/3ZybKP3
Come along tonight to what will be a great Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture.
Speaker: George Lawson
Discussant: Jasmine Gani
Chair: Toby Dodge
www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
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Join us for the Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture 2024/25, where Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics.
🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4kh5uTy
Thanks Adam. That Karl guy isn’t too shabby either.
Trump's 100 days in 100 seconds.
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We hope the possibilities at our College inspired you.
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@georgelawson.bsky.social reflecting on 75 years of IR/area studies at the ANU. This intro to the special issue is a compelling set of reflections on Aussie IR from a UK expat. Main takeaway: the ANU is still a cracking place to do IR, and the future of IR, at the ANU at least, is in good hands. 🙌🏻
Today is our most favourite day of the year! When we welcome our 110+ new postgrad students embarking on their ANU masters in:
- Int'l Relations
- Strategic Studies
- Peace & Conflict Studies
- Diplomacy
- Int'l Law & Diplomacy
- Political Science
- Pacific Development
WELCOME to the Bell School!
🚨 A moment to take stock & identify public responsibilities of scholars? Read Lawson's introduction to our special section of latest edition. Free access to end of March only. ⬇️ @anubellschool.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations #AcademicSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ABSTRACT "The ethics panel held for the ANU IR Department’s 75th birthday asked panellists to respond to the theme of resistance, power, and the new global ethical order. Vasuki Nesiah, Lana Tatour, James Blackwell, George Carter and Bina D’Costa painted a rich picture of the very political nature of ethics and the contests for ethical leadership currently energising global politics, as well as our responsibilities as academics. Inspired by their comments, this article draws out the themes common across their presentations. First, we focus on the political, practical, and material nature of ethics, and the current ethical contestations and power shifts taking place in global politics. Second, we turn to the need to generate new ways of imagining just political futures and contesting existing hierarchies. Finally, we focus on the ways to tackle these challenges through going local, engaging with communities, and building solidarity". Keywords: Ethics; international order; Palestine; Indigenous rights; climate
🚨Troath and Ainley address "ethical contestations and power shifts taking place in global politics," and imagine just political futures in their contribution to 'Toward a different IR'. #openaccess #InternationalRelations #AcademicPublishing
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Been a long time coming but finally this paper on “Vision and Method in Global Historical Sociology” with @georgelawson.bsky.social is published: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Or ‘restoration revolution’? The term goes back to Gramsci and has been repurposed recently (including by me). I think it works quite well to refer to the actions, tactics and ideologies of some militant Salafists
'The Australian' newspaper has announced Bell School's A/Prof Marcus Mietzner as Australia's top researcher in Asian studies and history.
A huge congratulations to Marcus, from the Department of Political and Social Change and the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs! Wonderful achievement!