Including yours truly!

International Relations@irjournal.bsky.social · 3w ago

The September issue of International Relations is out! #IR #Theory #Realism #Neoclassical #EHCarr #Niebuhr #Angell #Neutrality #WW1 #Emotion #Global #Health ⤵️⤵️⤵️ journals.sagepub.com/toc/IRE/curr...

My book review of Shannon Brincat’s excellent Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations has just been published in Critical Sociology. An ambitious and erudite book, make sure you get this book for yourself or order it for your library. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Book review: Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations, by Shannon Brincat - Seán Molloy, 2026

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NEW PAPER Duncan Bell, "Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain" (2026) Forthcoming in Duncan Bell & Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My latest article ‘Angell versus Mahan: Revisiting International Relations on the Eve of World War I,’ has just been published open access in International Relations 40 (3), 2026, pp. 375-398. Link to article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Realism, ideology, and exile - https://cup.org/3OnrUbp "This article reconceptualizes the realist relationship with ideology in terms of a recurring experience of ideological exile" - @lefteleven.bsky.social

youtu.be/-d8hrtvqa4g Existential courage, as per Paul Tillich.

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It was an honour and a privilege to act as a keynote speaker at this year’s Graduate International Political Theory conference at St.Andrew. Many thanks to the organisers @standrewsipt.bsky.social for inviting me to participate.

St Andrews IPT Conference@standrewsipt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Keynote One from the 14th Annual Graduate Conference in International Political Theory @standrewsir.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social by Dr. Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social - Ethics in Dark Times: Machiavelli, Carr and the Problem of Human History.

This and not understanding that Labour did not so much win a landslide as Tory fatigue created the conditions in which a rout was inevitable.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 3mo ago

This basically. Labour has relentlessly increased the salience of the issues Reform prioritises, whilst winning over basically no Reform voters, and simultaneously alienating their own base. It's just terrible politics.

CALL FOR PAPERS! International Politics/(Un)Ethical Worlds: Morality, Power, Resistance and the Aesthetics of Politics in Dark Times. 20th-21st July 2026 │In-Person│@standrewsir.bsky.social Keynotes: - Dr. Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social - Dr. James Souter Call closes: 20th APRIL 2026

Well deserved recognition for a great article!

Felix Rösch@felixroesch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thank you @hist-isanet.bsky.social! 🙏 @harokarkour.bsky.social and my paper on racial justice and the national interest in classical #realism won the Merze Tate Prize for the Best Article in Historical IR @sussexfss.bsky.social Find the article here (OA) 👇 academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

It is an excellent idea to expand on one of the more important ways of thinking about IR.

Aleksandra Spalinska@alexspalinska.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thrilled to say that my new book, "Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire," has officially gone into production with Routledge in the book series The New International Relations, and will be published this summer! 😃😊

Delighted to be one of the keynote speakers at this event in Saint Andrews.

St Andrews IPT Conference@standrewsipt.bsky.social · 7mo ago

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN International Politics/(Un)Ethical Worlds: Morality, Power, Resistance and the Aesthetics of Politics in Dark Times. 20th-21st July 2026 │In-Person @standrewsir.bsky.social Keynotes: - Dr. Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social - Dr. James Souter Call closes: 20th April 2026

Universalise this practice across the academic world!

Elise Wang@elisewang.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

My latest article ‘“Signifying Nothing”: Shakespeare’s Cascading Nihilism in Macbeth,” has just been published in Philosophy and Literature. lnkd.in/evMcJv9f

📣We have kicked off todays #virtual workshop, 'Teaching ethics in dark times' with our Ethics and World Politics Working Group! 👉Todays workshop features papers on Pedagogy, moral uncertainty and the rise of populism. @negsaunders.bsky.social @seanmolloyir.bsky.social

A brief piece by me in E-IR on the shift from hegemony to primacy heralded by the U.S. National Security Strategy. There’s a _lot_ going on in that document but I think that the explicit abandonment of hegemony for primacy is perhaps the most important. www.e-ir.info

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Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 "Neoclassical Realist Theory of Populist Foreign Policy" just out with @risjnl.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S026... I explore how populism affects state behavior over time. This aims at further integrating populism scholarship into, and combining it with, IR theory. 1/9

#Ethics people - get your 250 abstracts to Natasha and/or I asap for our January #BISA Ethics and World Politics online event in “Teaching Ethics in Dark Times.” Details below!

BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🌟 Ethics and World Politics BISA call for papers 🌟 "Teaching ethics in dark times" exploring innovative approaches to ethics education 🎉 Deadline to submit - 15 October ⏰ Workshop date: 14 January Find out more here 👉 https://ow.ly/7LOv50X6UGE Seán Molloy Natasha Saunders

Does anyone know of good recent pieces on Realist ethics in IR / IPT? Am giving a lecture on this in a few weeks and would be good to have a few up to date pieces.

Pondering Rashomon to teach the benefits of the English School in IR. Idea = 3 perspectives on international society > 1 B/c 3 allows discussion => more depth re Int Soc. ES ≠ “answer” to Int Soc but more fruitful than any single theory. But would students be too freaked out by Rashomon?

Machiavelli is unexpectedly proving to be every bit as tricky as Hegel. I need to find people to write about who aren’t so goddamn tricky!

EISA in Bologna is uncommonly stacked with interesting panels. The Working with the Negative and the Realist Thought, Theory, and Analysis sections look particularly good. eisa-net.org/event/pec-20...

Off to EWIS in Kraków to discuss Hegel and international law over the next couple of days.

BISA gets off to a bizarre start with a weird, wheel bump the ground landing followed by an immediate take off again abd impromptu aerial tour of Belfast and environs. Landed the second time with no difficulty. It’s going to be one of _those_ BISAs …

Ultimately, portability will more than likely be granted because universities will want their new staff members’ outputs counted as part of their submission.

Christopher Pittard@christopherpittard.bsky.social · last yr.

Wait, is this the REF saying there is no clear definition or records relating to academic staff who have been made redundant? That is… not the case.

This is how you do it, kids!

Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · last yr.

incredible Brian Wilson self-edit here:

More excellent work from the powerhouse that is @felixroesch.bsky.social!

Felix Rösch@felixroesch.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New paper with @thorstenwojczewski.bsky.social in @cambridgecria.bsky.social: In "Theorizing populism in international relations: a classical realist perspective", we explore the prospects of IR theories, focusing on classical #realism, for studying #populism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Are you short of a listen or interested in the links b/t IR theory & political ideology? @risjnl.bsky.social has just the thing for you - a new pod on our recent editor's selection, featuring our @sebkaempf.bsky.social interviewing (also our) Ben Martill: www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...

Editor's Selection: Theory/Ideology with Benjamin Martill - Review of International Studies – The podcast

Creating conversations across articles, identifying linkages, bringing together articles that speak to similar topics is the purpose of our editor's selections. In this episode, Dr Benjamin Martill, o...

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I don’t find John McCormick’s attempts to revise the role of Agathocles in Machiavelli’s writings convincing but I’m glad he is out there arguing against the grain.