Geopolitical Imaginations and Global Histories of International Thought: Adventures in Time and Space1 Abstract. Much is said today of geopolitics, but little is understood about its global intellectual history. Introducing this special issue, we map out an

Thrilled to share our open-access 'Geopolitical Imaginations and the History of International Thought', co-authored with @lucianashworth.bsky.social, and introducing our special forum with @gsqjournal.bsky.social

Geopolitics is dead. Long live geopolitics.

academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

!New publication Alert!

How African Decolonization Challenged the Notion of Cold War Polarity: The End of Empire, Modernization, and International Relations Theory in the 1950s and 1960s

IN Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2026

doi.org/10.1093/isag...

Global Divisions: The Spatial Imagination of Barbara Ward Abstract. The article examines the international thought of the British economist Barbara Ward (1914–1981) through her spatial imagination. It argues that

My new article on Barbara Ward's global thought is out open access. It's part of a fascinating special issue on geographical imaginaries edited by Antonio Ferraz and Luke Ashworth @gsqjournal.bsky.social
Global Divisions: The Spatial Imagination of Barbara Ward
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A Spatial Conversion? The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and Japanese Imperial Geopolitics Abstract. In contemporary contexts, geopolitics is generally understood as great-power rivalry. Historically, however, a crucial aspect of geopolitics, und

Spatial Conversion? The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and Japanese Imperial Geopolitics by Atsuko Watanabe. Part of a very interesting looking special forum by @antoniofdo.bsky.social and Luke Ashworth. url: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Our fantastic contibutors are Yusra Koops-Abdullahi, Atsuko Watanabe, Atul Mishra, Maarten Meijer @orrosenboim.bsky.social, Bill Figueroa, Jacob Mundy, Alex Manby, Sveinn M. Jóhannesson, @frankgerits.bsky.social and Xavier Guillaume.

Geopolitical Imaginations and Global Histories of International Thought: Adventures in Time and Space1 Abstract. Much is said today of geopolitics, but little is understood about its global intellectual history. Introducing this special issue, we map out an

Thrilled to share our open-access 'Geopolitical Imaginations and the History of International Thought', co-authored with @lucianashworth.bsky.social, and introducing our special forum with @gsqjournal.bsky.social

Geopolitics is dead. Long live geopolitics.

academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Great to see this out - and congrats Or!

(more on this special forum soon)

ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel...

Did agronomists dream of soilless geopolitics? In their new EJIR article, @antoniofdo.bsky.social and Maarten Meijer excavate the international history of hydroponic geopolitics in the mid-twentieth century.

You can read it here: t1p.de/kpt02

Delighted to share this EJIR paper, co-authored with my brilliant friend Maarten Meijer.

We track the story of how hydroponics triggered connected geopolitical fantasies before and after 1945, from the Pacific to Israel and Bengal.

Hope it's a good read!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Delighted to share this EJIR paper, co-authored with my brilliant friend Maarten Meijer.

We track the story of how hydroponics triggered connected geopolitical fantasies before and after 1945, from the Pacific to Israel and Bengal.

Hope it's a good read!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Happy to share our term card for the KCL Geopolitics series (@KCLGeography).

Lots to look forward to as we think through the geopolitics of Venezuela, Greenland, 'Donroe' and more, with fantastic guest speakers!

@bolshierowbot.bsky.social, @klausdodds.bsky.social,

Happy to share our term card for the KCL Geopolitics series (@KCLGeography).

Lots to look forward to as we think through the geopolitics of Venezuela, Greenland, 'Donroe' and more, with fantastic guest speakers!

The great betrayal: the struggle for freedom and democracy in the Middle East Fawaz Gerges's latest book might be his lifetime masterpiece. It has all the ingredients to become the reference point for the study of the Arab world and

“Fawaz Gerges's latest book might be his lifetime masterpiece,” writes Dr Silvia Colombo.

Read the full review of Professor Fawaz Gerges' new book, The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the #MiddleEast.

🔗 bit.ly/3NqkmEb
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PoliSky

Anytime, map fiends. Anytime.

@jcostalopez.bsky.social @bherborth.bsky.social @berytia.bsky.social @renatasumma.bsky.social @candrae.bsky.social @luislobo-guerrero.bsky.social

Happy to share this term-card for History and Theory of IR colloquium (org by G. Marques Pedro and A. Nohr, @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social).

Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!

Happy to share the news that Catastrophic Diplomacy won the 2025 Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award (for the best monograph in the history of U.S. foreign relations, immigration history, or military history) from the PCB-AHA.

many congratulations!

Assistant Professor - Modern European History All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

The LSU History Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History (excluding Britain). Please spread the word! More details at the link below: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0224...

Lea Ypi: In conversation with Hannah Dawson at Hoxton Hall | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Lea Ypi: In conversation with Hannah Dawson at Hoxton Hall today.

Dear friends, INDIGNITY is coming out tomorrow and I will be discussing it with the brilliant Hannah Dawson. If you know anyone who wants to celebrate with us, hear the discussion & maybe a bit of reading, feel free to spread the word - still some tickets left!

www.waterstones.com/events/lea-y...

Happy to share today I started my new position as a Lecturer in Geopolitics @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.

I am thankful to colleagues for their very warm welcome and looking forward to learning the ropes and trying new challenges!

Adam Phillips · On Resistance Resistance is at once recognition and a fantasy of catastrophe; indeed, in resisting one has always leaped forward to...

‘The resistance story about ourselves is really a fear story about ourselves; it suggests that self-protection is our paramount consideration, and that vulnerability is our primary preoccupation.’

Adam Phillips on why we resist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Happy to see my early work on Kropotkin featured in the 10th anniversary of Global Intellectual History.

GIH is a fantastic journal, with truly international reflections on so many traveling ideas across our shared history. I always read it with pleasure and recommend it to colleagues!

“Aggression in Felt Slippers:” Bahr, Kissinger, and the Geopolitics of Ostpolitik, 1962–2022 Abstract. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine plunged Germany's Ostpolitik (Eastern Policy) into crisis. Whereas Ostpolitik had commonly been seen to have

🚨New Article🚨

“‘Aggression in Felt Slippers:’ Bahr, Kissinger, and the Geopolitics of Ostpolitik, 1962–2022” By Ian Klinke

Read OPEN ACCESS here:
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Vol. 88, Special Issue: ‘Archives as Worldmaking’

‘Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States’, by @jakehodder.bsky.social

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.003

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🌡️ Parts of Earth could soon be too hot to live.

A recent study warned that if we hit 2°C warming, the uninhabitable zone could triple in size.

🎧 Listen to the latest WORLD: we got this podcast:
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#ClimateCrisis #Heatwaves #GlobalWarming #TooHotToLive #Sustainability #ClimateAction

Happy to share my latest article on “Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956, with Modern Intellectual History.

Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.

thanks Jonathan!