"The UAE has long denied supporting the RSF, which has been fighting Sudan's regular army for three years.
El-Fasher's fall was one of the most brutal chapters of the conflict, which has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis..."
The cover of the book
Now online! Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social (Fondazione 1563) reviews "Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie" (@editionspayot.bsky.social, 2025) by Sabine Dullin www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hopefully will be of interest -- there's so much to be said after all about the way in which citizenship evolves from the mediaeval into the modern period...
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The front page of the proofs for my forthcoming book on citizenship in the French Revolution, Citizens of a New Enlightened Age: The French Revolution and the Idea of Citizenship
Proofs now in: very pleased to be able to announce that my first book will come out this summer with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social! I argue that the French Revolution and the First Empire witnessed a depoliticisation of the concept of citizenship, and this still affects the way we understand it today
One of the the villages the IDF demolished is my friend's ancestral home, Taybeh. Not a house, not a commercial building, not a gas station, the whole ancient village that survived the Ottomans, colonialism, and every other Israeli occupation. Just obliterated in the name of collective punishment.
New article on French plans to electrify the economy, how they could present a big geopolitical opportunity, and why France probably will not make the most of that opportunity
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
Followed by this piece on the concept of dignity in modern political theory, which suggested it should be understood as a flexible, relational concept that facilitates negotiations over what we are due from others:
This is the last thing I'm going to have written on dignity for the foreseeable future. I began with this on dignity in the thought of Edmund Burke, arguing that for him it was a vital principle that served to regulate social and political conventions and create legitimacy for government:
New article in Hypatia: why we should see Mary Wollstonecraft, not Immanuel Kant, as the inventor of modern human dignity
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What this comes down to is a refusal to see people in the Middle East as political agents capable of maintaining various priorities simultaneously. A critic of the regime can still be -- most likely will still be -- a patriot.
On the left, we talk a lot about the questions of tactical voting and coalition-building. But the example of Nice is a reminder that the electorate tends to be quite effective at organising itself tactically around the most viable candidate for their bloc, be it left, right, or centre.
Cover of book 'Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815' by Morgan Golf-French
My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳
Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work.
In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the...
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Also contains a quick recap of the insane episode in 2022 where Ciotti tried to carry out a coup within Les Républicains by barricading himself inside his office and taking over the party's Facebook account
Essentially, the result is not just about the radicalisation of the French right, but also of its enduring pragmatism: right-wing voters are more and more willing to opt for far-right parties, but only if they think they will actually implement their policy preferences
I was in Nice last week, so I wrote about its swing to the far right in last month's local elections:
For @global-ih.bsky.social I reviewed Sabine Dullin's new book on the history of Russian despotism. I argue that she offers a valuable insight into the dynamics that produced the latest bout of Russian imperialism in Ukraine, but that we have to apply some of the same lessons to the West as well:
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Israel passed a law allowing the death penalty exclusively for Palestinians. It was written by the fascist Ben Gvir.
Israel is institutionalising genocide.
One underrated potential long-term consequence of the war on Iran: further shaking global faith in the dollar as reserve currency
Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"
A new archive of some of the Palestinian scholars in Gaza assassinated and killed by Israel
rememberinggazascholars.org/the-scholars...
I'm in the same boat: article fully accepted in August(!), but no sign of it, and the journal in question hasn't put anything online for two weeks now. It's really not fair on ECRs -- the job market is impossible for us at the moment and to be frank our research needs all the exposure it can get
I'll add that the profile, while interesting, feels somewhat hyperreal. I think the issue is that New Statesman writers are desperate to be like their journalistic heroes from a more noble age, but you can't have noble journalists without a noble politics, so they have to try to invent the latter
Very revealing that for years no-one in the British political class recognised what an opportunity renewables present in terms of comparative advantage, and then by some happy accident the one person who did miraculously became Energy Secretary, and so his own gvt immediately tried to destroy him
We also discovered that this spilled over into real life: a large number of enslaved people in the Caribbean were given the name "Zamor" in the 1780s.
