I am very pleased to finally have this piece out in @millennjournal.bsky.social, together with Valentin Clavé-Mercier! doi.org/10.1177/0305... 1/10
Lucas Knotter
@lucaslitmanen.bsky.social
Lecturer in Politics and IR @PoLIS_Bath | IR Theory | State Creation | Recognition | Sovereignty | Football | Left-Handed
Reading this - both The Guardian's and OP's take - and just yelling CYCLING!!!! till I'm blue in the face......
No, it's because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population. The Guardian really needs to stop publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap as news. (The Avondvierdaagse is a nice tradition though.) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
JOB! My department at the @uniofbath.bsky.social is opening up TWO Lecturer positions in Environmental Politics (broadly defined)! I came to PoLIS at Bath a few years ago, and it has been such a great place to work. Make sure to apply! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
ED13504 Lecturer in Environmental Politics - Jobs at Bath
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Thanks @aspirenetwork.bsky.social for including me in such an important and interesting conversation last year! To be continued!
'Keeping the human in the loop: Reassuring educators in the age of AI' 🎉 This briefing draws on insights from the BISA - International Studies Association joint Workshop sponsored The ASPIRE Network in October! 📚 Find the full briefing here! 👉 https://ow.ly/5NvY50Y9Q1B Dr Anna Plunkett
Great to see this piece published by @hepi-news.bsky.social its one of the outputs from a @mybisa.bsky.social workshop organised with HillaryBriffa and @annaplunkett.bsky.social We look at the lessons #UKHE can learn on regulating #Al from global partners www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/12/16/g...
Global lessons for the UK: how Singapore and India are embedding AI in education - HEPI
This blog was kindly authored by Dr Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano (Research Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Dr Gayatri Devi Pillai (Assistant Professor, HHMSPB NSS College for...
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Very exciting to join the #BISAISA2025 conference in Newcastle last weekend! Thank you to the @aspirenetwork.bsky.social - especially Hillary Briffa and Chris Featherstone - for organising such a fun conversation on the challenges and opportunities of AI for teaching IR! Discussion to be continued!
🌟Ep 4 of the @risjnl.bsky.social podcast! 🌟 Hosted by @sebkaempf.bsky.social this week is w/ Maria Mälksoo & her selection of articles conceptualising & applying ritual dynamics in the context of IR 🌎 Inc: @lucaslitmanen.bsky.social @simonkoschut.bsky.social listen 👉
Review of International Studies podcast - episode four
In the fourth podcast episode, Seb Kaempf discusses rethinking ritual dynamics with Maria Mälksoo.
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📺 Watch: University of Bath on the rise within Global Top 150 in QS #WorldUniversity Rankings 2026 www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
Excited to be back on King's College campus to attend the #aspirelaunch! 'Teaching-track jobs are so good that even men want to do them!' (Cathy Elliott)
Really insightful piece on the potential ramifications of a Trumpian foreign policy. 'For independence movements, the new rules of secession mean a more volatile and uncertain future.'
what does trump's foreign policy mean for separatists and secession movements around the world? our new piece with @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social argues breakaway regions could find new opportunities but also a lot more risks www.foreignaffairs.com/world/new-pr...
Postgraduate study opportunity for Palestinian scholars at the University of Bath. www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/hi...
Classic Dutch facetiousness combined with classic 'safe haven NZ' trope. Classic Rutte foot-in-mouth awkwardness too.
Hard no to see a link between social media pile-ons on English Lit phds, and governments ending ALL hum/socsci funding...
Many thanks to the team at @9dashline.bsky.social for allowing me to comment on Aotearoa's supposed recent 'turn' in foreign policy! www.9dashline.com/article/new-...
9DASHLINE — New Zealand foreign policy: From ‘independence’ to ‘realism’?
Written by Lucas Knotter. NZ’s supposedly ‘new’ foreign policy is thus neither truly independent, nor truly realist, nor prompted to safeguard Aotearoa’s public interest.
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It's real! My book on de facto statehood and classical realism is now available as a possible Christmas present ;)! Very exciting! www.routledge.com/A-Theory-of-...
Thanks 9DASHLINE for allowing me to express my thoughts on last month's #nzpol elections in Aotearoa! www.9dashline.com/article/new-...
Excited to see that my book is now available on pre-order! www.routledge.com/A-Theory-of-... It's a heavily edited outcome of my PhD dissertation, and has been a looong time in the making. I must thank everyone who has helped me getting the book out in the world. I hope that people will enjoy it!
A Theory of De Facto States: Classical Realism and Exceptional Polities
A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states — political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international le...
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