Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro
@btfazendeiro.bsky.social
IR lecturer, University of Coimbra, IR Theory, Central Asia
📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Cyclicality in reactionary internationalism: A genealogy of Realist, Spenglerian, and New Right theories of historical change' by Nicholas Michelsen & @pablodeorellana.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/Ukfu7gK @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Interview in Vogue about HIDING IN PLAIN sight, on sale for only $2.99: “Trump covers up crime with scandal and covers up malice with incompetence. His administration would like you to think that they’re inept, that they’re just stumbling into these situations.” www.vogue.com/article/sara...
Sarah Kendzior Predicted the Rise of Trump Years Ago—Here’s What She Thinks Now
“He doesn’t care if Americans live or die. And that might sound harsh and blunt, but that’s the truth of the matter.”
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NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279
Utopia
Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c
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@jheathershaw.bsky.social on the structural shift towards unaccountable managerialism in UK HE and the effects at Exeter. 👏🏻
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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"The empirical evidence of audience costs theory: a quasi-meta-analysis of case evidence based on Bayesian logic" by Shiping Tang has been published in EJIR and is now available online! You can read it here: t1p.de/g3lh8
The empirical evidence of audience costs theory: a quasi-meta-analysis of case evidence based on Bayesian logic - Shiping Tang, 2026
James Fearon’s “Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes” is arguably one of the most influential articles in International Rel...
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#Kyrgyzstan is the leader in #CentralAsia in making progress toward sustainable development goals, according to a #UN report.
UN report gives Kyrgyzstan and Armenia strong marks for sustainable development
Progress made, but targets won’t be met by 2030.
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By now you’ve heard that the Supreme Court shot down Trump’s executive order that attempted to eliminate birthright citizenship. SCOTUS did the right thing — but the fact that the decision was so close is alarming. It makes serious court reform all the more important.
Musk-promoted anti-immigrant propaganda film “Citizen Vigilante” (featuring the worst ever acting “comeback”) currently scoring absurdly highly on RottenTom www.rottentomatoes.com/m/citizen_vi...
Citizen Vigilante | Rotten Tomatoes
Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for Citizen Vigilante on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!
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Kazakhstan, Mining, Trump & sons. How to make money when a parent is head of the executive www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...
Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.
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Friends of Exeter, former students and alumni, can you please sign the petition below: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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My university is cutting almost a 1/4 of academics in humanities and the social sciences. Despite what managers say, it's not about the money. They are using a national crisis born of 15 yrs of govt neglect as a pretext to make ideological moves against HASS fields. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff
The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".
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In Trump's second term, Bezos has received... -Huge new tax cuts for himself and Amazon -$260M+ in new Blue Origin federal contracts -A slap-on-the wrist FTC settlement for Amazon -A gutted NLRB led by a union-busting corporate lawyer No wonder he's been singing Trump's praises.
Always worth reading Megoran's work (with Enikeeva): What Happens When Borders Reopen? Dematerialising the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What Happens When Borders Reopen? Dematerialising the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary
Border studies have recently been focussed on what happens when borders close, leaving the question of border reopenings both largely unexplored and unconceptualized. We argue here for a new focus ...
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"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA
50 years ago I began work at Chatham House on the future of British foreign policy. Very much enjoyed this conversation with Olivia O’Sullivan who is now also running a Uk foreign policy project at Chatham House.
Chatham House@chathamhouse.org · 2mo agoProfessor @ldfreedman.bsky.social (@warstudieskcl.bsky.social) joined @oliviaosullivan.bsky.social to discuss America’s foreign policy failures and the impact of Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan on his time at Chatham House. Read the full interview for @theworldtoday.org ⤵️
Meanwhile in Russia: one month ago, state TV host Vladimir Solovyov explained why the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra should be destroyed along with the rest of Kyiv. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh21...
Vladimir Solovyov said that Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra should be destroyed along with all of Kyiv
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
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📣 Experts in a Turbulent World – online version out now! 🌍 There's lots of talk of turbulence, disorder, polycrisis. One way in which int'l org.s seek to understand global problems in a complex world is to mobilise experts. But experts are specialists, not generalists. 1/5
Brutal takedown of the absolute cringeness the Trump administration has now become
Opinion | A Garish Spectacle of American Decline
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I think I'd be a bit more circumspect if I was intending to run for President soon. Plus I'd get my boss to put his name on the deal. PS. Where's Rubio?
