Podcast: What Can We Learn from Genghis Khan, Ayşe Zarakol? Are we witnessing a new 17th century, and what can previous world orders tell us about the current geopolitical moment?

Was können wir von Genghis Khan lernen, @aysezarakol.bsky.social?

In dieser Folge „Future Discontinuous“, unserem Podcast gemeinsam mit dem @iwm.at, diskutieren @mishaglenny.bsky.social und @evakonzett.bsky.social gemeinsam mit der Wissenschaftlerin über die globale Ordnung.
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🎙️New podcast episode out!

Did global order really begin in Europe—and are we now entering a long age of disorder?
Listen to the latest FD episode with IR scholar @aysezarakol.bsky.social on empires, strongmen, and what might come after the nation state: buff.ly/QSFpsSD

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Non-Western Visions of International Order The scholarship on the concept of order has been expanding within international relations. The continuous upheaval of world politics first triggered a broad debate on the resilience of the liberal int...

We’ve surveyed ‘Non-Western Visions of International Order’ for Annual Review of Political Science vol 29

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Our online special issue, The Future of Global Governance and World Order, is out!

It features 15 short essays plus the editors' introduction, all #OpenAccess.

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Is the LSE guaranteeing the same audience as in the photo? 🙂

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

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Always a pleasure to talk to David, this time about the book I am writing now - A world history of strongmen

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

Quite appalling. U of Chicago’s management has achieved the impossible feat of making the UK universities seem well-run in comparison www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

‪Are we living through an unprecedented 'polycrisis' or have we seen this before?

🗺️ Join IR scholar @aysezarakol.bsky.social and @us.theguardian.com editor Betsy Reed at this year's Vienna Humanities Festival, as they examine whether history does indeed rhyme: humanitiesfestival.at/zarakol

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#OpenAccess -

Reply to ‘How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder’ - cup.org/45b9yPh

- Michael Barnett & @aysezarakol.bsky.social

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Tomorrow

We provide lunch and there’s a small reception after

We have a few spaces left still. This Friday

Reminder, next week!

Now available for pre-order from OUP, more musings by me and others about the 1990s...

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Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam

Haha

It's just a title, the article doesn't exist. I assume one or both of the citers has used AI for literature review (I could not access the publications) and this is what it coughed up as something I could have written. Now that it is cited twice Google Scholar is trying to give me credit for it.

An article I could have written but have not written has mysteriously appeared on my Google Scholar page with two citations (now hidden). It has a journal name, volume, page numbers what have you. Pretty good journal too. Thanks ChatGPT, I guess? 🤔

Maybe. But there is also an undercurrent of fragmentation

Certainty and Strange Thoughts - The Ideas Letter Zarakol reflects on the collapse of the post–Cold War liberal international order and contrasts today's disorientation with the bold, definitive visions offered by thinkers like Fukuyama, Huntington, ...

Why do we have such difficulty making sense of our current moment? I brainstorm some possible answers

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Sharlin Memorial Book Prize | Social Sciences History Association Allen exemplified the finest traditions of social science history. His training and scholarship were broadly interdisciplinary and he used both quantitative and more traditional methodologies.

Submissions for SSHA's Sharlin Memorial Book Prize are now open for any social science history book published in 2024. I am chairing the committee this year.

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Musk’s X blocks account of jailed Erdoğan rival Musk’s platform is challenging the government order to block Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s account.

Social media platform X has blocked the account of Ekrem İmamoğlu, a leader of Turkey's opposition movement and political nemesis of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

And how you stop your friends from editing them

All of them

Duncan, if you are not part of the solution…😉

Don’t give people ideas 🤣

Only if it is the last handbook ever!

Can we have a ten year moratorium on handbooks please 🙏