Well actually, funny you should mention it… @ajawoods.bsky.social is visiting our Centre for the Study of Democracy in a few weeks to discuss this. It’s a great book, so I’m excited to be on the panel www.westminster.ac.uk/events/the-c...
Monster.
Please note my full stop as well.
This @versobooks.bsky.social book 👇 will be of wide interest - tracing the weird fixation on the Frankfurt School by the far right
I'm guessing @mattfluck.bsky.social will have views....
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
But also! Let's not cede ground to suggest that current conservative views are merely one view among many, all equally legitimate.
Viewpoint diversity on human rights?
Viewpoint diversity on international law and war crimes?
Values are also factual.
...structural imperatives of capitalism can't reach all the way down to explain specific design decisions, such as the gendered nature of technology.
Powerful actors non-economic shape how the pursuit of profit is materialized in technology. Tech expresses these values 2/2
Interview in Jacobin with Vivek Chibber on Technology and labour de-skilling, drawing on Braverman's (1974) classic insights 👇
A good piece, but w/ a caveat.... 1/2
jacobin.com/2026/03/work...
Planet of the Ape masks
This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.
Had an interesting thing happen yesterday: an anonymous stranger paid for my family's lunch at a cafe.
We have no idea why.
To that stranger: thank you!
You do have to laugh sometimes
Rolling Thunder II??
'The actor, best known for starring on film in the sex comedy Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and its sequel' - it's not even shade, just facts
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
Looking at Waltz's 1959 classic work for the first time in about a decade I wonder how different the discipline of IR would look if he'd followed the focus of the first couple of pages and titled the book Man, the State, and Peace.
Utopianists! New book by Duncan Bell and Douglas Mao is out with OUP - check it out 👇
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Trump Term II is also starting to hit Bush era rhetorical highs:
'When asked if Trump was “winding” down the war or “escalating” it, Bessent said: “They are not mutually exclusive. Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate.”'
That's going to be in an IR paper title within a year
With Trump's ultimatum all I can think of is:
Just came across this piece on astropolitics and colonization in RIS - very interesting!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This looks terrific - really great to see this work on methods of futuring in IOs, an important area of study
#polisky
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Reclaiming Utopia in IR: Problems and Prospects now has a cover 👇 which means it is almost a real thing
@mattfluck.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/reclaiming-u...
White letters "IO" on a purple background with the hashtag "OpenAccess" below.
"How does racism structure the patterns of cooperation and contestation in international relations?"
#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social -
Institutional Racism in International Relations - https://cup.org/4cpj5Yh
- @lipscy.bsky.social & @jiajia.bsky.social
#FirstView
JOB
Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
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Keep it coming! This is how you turn a guaranteed landslide into an ever-close Liberal majority government.
If Westphalia was a myth, as established by revisionist scholarship over the course of 25 years in IR, how can we be returning to a Westphalian international system?