The second honourable mention is "Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder" by @acmckeil.bsky.social Aaron Mckeil Find more information about his book here: press.umich.edu/Books/C/Cosm...

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

Deeply honoured to be giving the Martin Wight Memorial Lecture at LSE, on Monday, 9 June 2025, on “Economic Nationalism and Global (Dis)Order.” Based on my book (with Barry Buzan) “The Market in Global International Society” (OUP, 2025), I explore the rise of economic nationalism worldwide...

Amidst all the awfulness, it’s good to see two new books published on my Configurations series!

'International Order Stategies, Past and Present' This collected report brings an historical perspective to current strategies for international order. I'm delighted to share this and am grateful to the brilliant contributors! www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/public...

International Order Strategies: Past and Present

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'International Order Stategies, Past and Present' This collected report brings an historical perspective to current strategies for international order. I'm delighted to share this and am grateful to the brilliant contributors! www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/public...

International Order Strategies: Past and Present

research report

lse.ac.uk

CFP now out for the LSE-Tufts seminar in Contemporary International History including historical IR. This is the 2nd year in this format. Convened online & at Tufts/LSE it's a great interdisciplinary space. If you're post-PhD please consider submitting an abstract! Deadline 23 Aug. #histIR #polisky

Visiting the great writer (1778-1830). Dusting off his 20 volume complete works. Thanks for all the essays, Hazlitt.

Video of the 2024 Annual Lecture of the Yan P. Lin Centre @mcgillu.bsky.social - ‘Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?’ given by @aysezarakol.bsky.social on March 27, 2024. Thanks to Ayşe Zarakol for her stimulating talk on her latest book and exciting new research on the decline of orders!

Lin Centre Annual Lecture 2024: Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge), Is the Disorder of Our Time Unprecedented?

Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge) delivered the Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds Annual Lecture,

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One day left to apply for this workshop. Big thanks to the exciting proposals already received.

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Research workshop call: 'International Order Strategies, Past and Present': www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/Assets...

One more week to submit participation proposals, 'International Order Strategies, Past and Present'.

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Research workshop call: 'International Order Strategies, Past and Present': www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/Assets...

And here is the workshop flier! A great group of IR scholars and historians will be discussing disorder and order in the 19th century… #HistIR

The crisis in Myanmar is evolving rapidly. But the main paradigm with which we understand of it (democracy vs authoritarianism) is insufficient. It also renders drivers, dynamics & potential solutions invisible. My new articles argues that we need to focus on the problem of the nation-state instead.

Misunderstanding Myanmar through the lens of democracy

Understanding Myanmar through a focus on the political system is insufficient for explaining political processes, including war and revolution against the milit

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Research workshop call: 'International Order Strategies, Past and Present': www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/Assets...

Huge thanks to G. John Ikenberry, Ayse Zarakol, Leslie Vinjamuri, Rohan Mukherjee, and the great and good Mick Cox for joining in this LSE event last week, 'The Three Worlds: Does the Liberal Order Have a Future?' Recording now available: www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/podcas...

Research workshop call: 'International Order Strategies, Past and Present': www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/Assets...

For anyone interested in going beyond the myopic polarisations of the present. Why not go for the big picture instead and think about how global order was reshaped in the “long 20th century”? Might put 2024 in perspective. Just a thought… www.e-ir.info/2023/08/11/t...

The article I wrote with Michael Barnett and Alex Vandermaas-Peeler is now up open access in the Review of International Studies. We trace how victimhood because a status position in world politics, using cases from, welp, Israel, DRC and Bosnia.

Immensely grateful that this book has been published, collecting Martin Wight's writings on foreign policy and security strategy. academic.oup.com/book/51702

Assigned and read this piece with students this week, and in a workshop recently. In my view it is worth taking seriously and grasps some of the more important and interesting aspects of the emerging disorder. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...