New piece "Russia’s war against Ukraine is no longer a foreign policy question for Europeans. It has become a domestic political battleground. This security–collaboration divide structures public opinion, reshapes party competition, and increasingly decides elections. In our research...
What are walls for? To keep people out, or in? The Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Congratulations to Lorenz Lüthi! share.google/1wLOhhtmI3Ni...
What are walls for? To keep people out, or in? The Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Congratulations to Lorenz Lüthi! share.google/1wLOhhtmI3Ni...
www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...
Pls share & circulate to junior political theorists & scientists.
CFP Political Theory In/And/As Political Science (PTPS) panels at the annual meeting of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society (PPE). Deadline April 10.
#poliski #poltheory
Inés Valdez’s response concludes this CRISPP book symposium, focusing on the role of class in her theoretical analysis; competing conceptualizations of popular sovereignty; and the implications of her analysis for contemporary politics, regressive and progressive.
Will Roberts @marxinhell.bsky.social views Valdez’s book as ‘a welcome respite from nostalgia for democracy lost,’ but suggests that the new politics and language we need must conceptualize freedom beyond popular sovereignty and collective self-determination: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
William Tilleczek grapples with the implications of Valdez’s book for diagnosing what has gone wrong with the left in Western democracies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ryoa Chung @ryoa.bsky.social draws attention to the strength of Valdez’s analysis in integrating Marxist analysis of class struggle with the history and configuration of modern political bodies formed by the logics of ‘social, racialized and gendered exclusion’: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Robin Celikates's contribution to the Valdez symposium explores radical visions of popular sovereignty that ‘do not fit the dominant imperial register and subvert it from its margins and from below': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to Yves Winter @why-winter.bsky.social for organizing the publication of this symposium. His commentary focuses on implications of Valdez's insistence that an adequate account of the relationship between freedom and empire requires a theory of capitalism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Delighted to have this published: Symposium on Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism. The contributions are based on a Lin Centre roundtable held at McGill University in spring of 2024. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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@tomginsburg.bsky.social at @mcgillumedia.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social
🌟 The CIPSS Winter 2026 Speaker Series is here! 🌟
We are excited to welcome a distinguished lineup of scholars who will present their research on a wide range of topics in international security.
🗓️ Mark your calendars and join us—don’t miss out!
Reading about PRC President Xi Jinping's speech vowing to realize his 'one China' plan - 'The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable' - brought this to my mind. Stay sane in 2026!
'The superior man brings the good things of others to completion and does not bring the bad things of others to completion. The inferior man does just the opposite.'
Confucius
'He who assists the ruler with Tao does not dominate the world with force.
The use of force usually brings requital.
Wherever armies are stationed, briers and thorns grow.'
Lao Tzu
Reading about PRC President Xi Jinping's speech vowing to realize his 'one China' plan - 'The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable' - brought this to my mind. Stay sane in 2026!
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social explaining how current US(Russia) 'peace talks' lead to the peace of the graveyard for Ukraine and Ukrainians.
Honestly, I’m furious. Sandy Hook should have been the end of this. Yet on its anniversary more children are dead, injured, and traumatized. It is a horror that is entirely preventable. And we should prevent it. It is not impossible. No matter what the received wisdom has become.
Thanks, Ryan!
Excellent, can’t wait to watch/listen. Obviously I recommend it to you all.
A wide-ranging video podcast in which I answer questions about why & how we should argue, the importance of thinking clearly & academic freedom, what to think about historic, structural and global justice, who broke international order & how did we get here. Happy 10th Anniversary to the Lin Centre!
See you tonight!
If you missed last week’s "Climate at a Crossroads," the recordings are now up! Hosted by The Walrus, the Max Bell School and the Centre for MTD, expert panels examined how climate disinformation crosses borders and shapes global action.
Watch the recordings below.
Congratulations, Manon! Can't wait to read.
Hi anglo friends!
Living with men came out in the UK this weekend! I went to talk about it on BBC Woman’s Hour (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...) and on ABC Late night if you want to listen, otherwise you can read this wonderful interview ⬇️
I hope it’ll make you want to read the book!
Today and tomorrow! Learning about democracy and design from Black feminist perspectives, at the Lin Centre conference at McGill University. @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social @gripp-montreal.bsky.social @lecre.bsky.social
Hello APSA folks, please come and join me Catherine Lu, Arturo Change, Matt Longo, and Niklas Plaetzer for an author-meets-critics roundtable on my new book, Contested Territory (OUP 2025) on Thursday morning at 10am!
Thu Sept 11 10am Vancouver Convention Centre, East Ballroom C
