Now officially ✨coauthors✨ w @stephofmann.bsky.social & @raffaelemstr.bsky.social because our ad hoc coalitions paper is out in open access in @risjnl.bsky.social Read Raffa’s thread about the article ⬇️

Raffaele Mastrorocco@raffaelemstr.bsky.social · 4w ago

The debate over the "demise of multilateralism" often treats these flexible coalitions as evidence that international order is unravelling. @stephofmann.bsky.social @anaprokhorov.bsky.social and I did some archival digging and found that AHCs have always been part of the global governance toolkit.

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Ad hoc coalitions across time: Shaping international cooperation amid political rivalry - https://cup.org/4wuc6nI - Stephanie C. Hofmann, @raffaelemstr.bsky.social & @anaprokhorov.bsky.social #FirstView

Happy to have been part of #EWIS2026 workshop in Izmir, with some unique participants joining my presentation 🐈

European International Studies Association (EISA)@europeanisa.bsky.social · 7mo ago

✅ WS Q - The Exceptional Everyday: Fracturing the International through Space-Making? 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE

In New York for the Protection of Civilians Week #POCweek2026 which has just started today. Happy to catch up and connect with protection practitioners and researchers to exchange on the current state and the future of POC in and beyond peace operations.

Just finished recording the first episode of the new podcast ‘Major Revisions’ by Aurora Hamm from @eui-history.bsky.social with whom we opened up about failures and missed opportunities of the academic life and what we can hopefully learn from them. Scheduled to air in January, so stay tuned 🎧

Four years in Italy and I am speaking with my hands 🙌🏻

EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences@eui-sps.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌍SPS welcomed Cecilia Lynch from @ucirvine.bsky.social for the Swiss Chair Seminar Series. Her talk on "From Decolonisation to Recolonisation?" challenged us to rethink humanitarianism, religion & power in today’s world. Inspiring exchange & lively debate! Grateful for the insights shared! ✨

it’s this thursday-friday at the eui: 50 speakers on ‘law & revolution: prefiguration or abolition?’ we’re very excited!!

Martijn Hesselink@martijnhesselink.bsky.social · last yr.

Join our fantastic confirmed speakers Amna Akbar, Rob Knox, Ruth Kinna and Daniel Lock, and come present at our conference: ‘Law & Revolution: Prefiguration or Abolition?’ at the EUI in Florence: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Buongiorno #EISAPEC2025! Hope everyone arriving by train managed to emerge from the depths of Bologna AV to see the surface :)

I look forward to joining @simonetholens.bsky.social and @diegobadell.bsky.social, who are both authors of a chapter in the volume, as well as Lorraine Klimowich from @springernature.com. Looking forward to the conversations ahead and to meeting many of you there!

Very much looking forward to #EISAPEC25 and our standing section ‘International Practices’ organized together with @profbode.bsky.social Come and join us for nine wonderful panels and roundtables—all happening at Palazzo Hercolani! 🏛️👇 @europeanisa.bsky.social

Attending #BISA2025 and working on security, peacekeeping or military training? Come by our panel w. @moapeldan.bsky.social chaired by @mghacademic.bsky.social to discuss the politics of UN peace ops around reporting civilian harm, undoing war, training and speaking protection language (TH 1:15pm)

Kicking off #MyfirstBISA in Belfast with attending Prof Cynthia Enloe’s lecture and meeting fellow researchers from the Postgraduate network 🍻 Looking forward to three more days of exploring our shared curiosities

It's @mybisa.bsky.social's 50th anniversary this year! We want to hear about your first BISA. The RIS team will be telling you about our experiences as well 👇 #MyFirstBISA #BISA2025

I couldn't find a #FeministIR starter pack, so I took a first rather random stab at it. As I am bound to have missed relevant people (still struggling with the platform), so please let me know if you would like to be added. Apologies in advance. #gender #feminism #IR

🚀 Join the 2nd episode of #EUIConversations! 📖 As global outrage intensifies over the ongoing devastation in Gaza, anthropologist Didier Fassin will be joined by EUI scholars Revital Madar & Nicolas Guilhot for a timely discussion on the topic. 📆 28 May 📍 EUI & online More info 👉 buff.ly/6GPwX0c

Meeting friends and heroes at the EUI workshop “Shifting Powers, Shifting Roles: The Present and Future of International Institutions”. Brilliant keynote discussions by @monicahakimi.bsky.social, Tony Anghie, @sarahnou.bsky.social. Also a great setting to discuss de-dollarisation and int’l law!

The ADHOCISM dataset is out! 📣 So happy to share that our article on military ad hoc coalitons (AHCs) has found a home in International Peacekeeping Journal. The article is open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Military Ad Hoc Coalitions and Their Role in International Conflict Management: Insights from the ADHOCISM Dataset

Against the background of a crisis of United Nations (UN) peace operations, military ad hoc coalitions (AHCs) have increasingly gained a foothold as conflict management tools. This article provides...

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Kudos to @jemtseva.bsky.social, @maxlesch.bsky.social and others at @eui-eu.bsky.social for organizing this fantastic interdisciplinary workshop on the present and future of int’l institutions & bringing together critical legal and IR scholars.

The event "Shifting power, shifting roles: The present and future of international institutions" is taking place next Monday. Looking forward to seeing some of you in person at the @eui-eu.bsky.social or online. The updated program & registration link can be found here: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Julia Emtseva@jemtseva.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us in person @eui-eu.bsky.social or online on May 19 for an event, focusing on the changing global order and the role of international institutions in these turbulent times. 3 panels, a keynote and a roundtable will address the pressing ?s of what we do now, when the world we knew crumbles

In this fourth SI article, @anaprokhorov.bsky.social analyses peacekeeping and the changing nature of peacekeepers’ protection duties through the lens of norm contestation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping

Protection, uncommon in peacekeeping before the 1990s, has become the norm. This article takes issue with this normative shift and explores how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and Protection of...

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Privileged to have been part of this Special Issue connecting peace operations & peacebuilding with the shifts in the global order. Many thanks to @sarahellmuller.bsky.social and @fannybadache.bsky.social for their guidance along the way and @cspjournal.bsky.social for their editorial support.

Contemporary Security Policy journal@cspjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Our second issue of the year is out! Vol 46(2) features the Special Issue "Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations". Special Issue editors: @sarahellmuller.bsky.social & @fannybadache.bsky.social 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcsp20/4... A 🧵

Long wanted to do a short thread on my research journey so far and this seems like the right time, so here goes:

Kicking off today: the 3rd Joint EUI-IHEID PhD Workshop, convened by Prof. Guzzini and @cmparreira.bsky.social. Two days of in-depth discussion, cross-institutional exchange with @gvagrad.bsky.social, and cutting-edge research at the SPS Department. #EUI #IHEID #PhDWorkshop #AcademicExchange

📚 Top 10 Books: International Women’s Day 2025 Book Reviews Editor Mariana Vieira has curated a selection of outstanding books written by women that have been reviewed in our journal over the past year. Dive into the list 👇 medium.com/internationa...

Top 10 Books: International Women’s Day 2025

To mark International Women’s Day this year, the official celebratory website asks us to ‘Imagine a gender equal world … A world where…

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Congratulations and thank YOU! We couldn’t have done it without the strong support and recognition from the community of friends, colleagues, students and mentees (former and present)

Stephanie Hofmann@stephofmann.bsky.social · last yr.

Incredibly moved that @anaprokhorov.bsky.social and @raffaelemstr.bsky.social secretly orchestrated my nomination for ISA’s J. Ann Tickner award. Warm thanks to all of you who supported the nomination. I still can’t believe it. @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social

📚 Book launch this Friday, join us! @nkortendiek.bsky.social presents her new "Global Governance on the Ground"(OUP) @stephofmann.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social akentikelenis.bsky.social @ckreudersonnen.bsky.social 📍EUI & Zoom. Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

What a treat it was to spend two days in Copenhagen debating the future of human protection in the changing global order. A discussion led by @chiara-defranco.bsky.social and @ligelot.bsky.social with plenty of strong and diverse contributions.

Hello academic @bsky.app! I’m a PhD researcher at @eui-sps.bsky.social. I read and write on international relations, order(ing), security, intervention, peacekeeping and protection. Also following discussions on research ethics and qualitative methods.

Since there are more of us here on BlueSky, I'll try to share again this starter pack with IR scholars working in/on/from Italy. Happy to add anyone who feels should belong to this list! go.bsky.app/3u8bu21

Are starter packs still a thing? With all the European University Institute newcomers today I made a list of institutional and personal accounts I found so far. (Happy to update with new suggestions) Reply, share, and like to facilitate connections! 🙏 go.bsky.app/KGSw4gL