Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!),…

Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega

Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!), so I thought I’d have a go at a remembrance. Raúl lived his life…

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KNICKS IN FIVEEEEEE

New article out with Jamie Shenk! "Formalizing Corporate Counterinsurgency: State-Company Security Contracts in Colombia's Extractive Industries" now published open access in Latin American Research Review! 🧵 below

Word on the street is NO fossil fuel lobbyists at the Santa Marta, Colombia 'Transition Away' conference. But it does have some of the best climate scientists in the world for an advisory panel.

As the UN Global Climate Talks Lose Momentum, a Smaller Coalition Eyes a Fossil Fuel Exit - Inside Climate News

More than 50 countries will gather in Colombia to try to develop real-world timetables to phase out oil and gas amid global energy shocks and petrostate stalling.

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The Lula administration is bypassing environmental laws to renew a highway. Scientists warn paving this road through the Amazon could push it to a tipping point. The move has already triggered the resignation of top Brazilian environmental officials. @nandawenzel.bsky.social report for #Mongabay.

Brazil taps legal loophole to issue bids for Amazon ‘tipping point’ road

A strategic shift in law clears the way for a highway that scientists warn will push the Amazon to a tipping point.

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¡¡VOLUME 24, ISSUE 1 IS NOW OUT!! doi.org/10.1017/S153... www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Incl. work by @elliotaposner.bsky.social, @excubs.bsky.social, @roselynhsueh.bsky.social, @andresuribe.bsky.social, @phillegitimate.bsky.social, @natanski.bsky.social, @stephanieternullo.bsky.social...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

My fabulous colleague’s new book!

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 7mo ago

Economic Displacement by Francisco Urdinez China's economic displacement of the US in Latin America erodes US political leverage, challenging international order. 📚 https://cup.org/3NaVGPU

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.) This is an atrocity.

Gregg Levine@greggjlevine.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

Megan O’Toole@meganotoole.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Re-reading about IR’s “Great Debates” in preparation for my PhD seminar on IR theory this semester

Uncle Duke@uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 7mo ago

some shit is about to go down

Hey there #polisky does anyone have a good article recommendation about the formation of the liberal order after WW2 and its impending (?) collapse? Teaching a masters seminar this semester, and looking for something good to assign. Can be academic or more policy forward!

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism

The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

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My new article in Third World Quarterly is out! “El estado es un macho violador: Reconsidering the state as a site for peacebuilding.” It argues that the state reproduces patriarchal & colonial violence — and that peacebuilding must center feminist, decolonial practices of care & resistance.

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #International #Relations #Scholars, the #Media, & the #Dilemma of #Consensus By Irene Entringer García Blanes, @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social, Susan Peterson, @rmpowers.bsky.social & Michael J. Tierney doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Just out in Perspectives on Politics! 🎉 My co-authored article: “International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus.” We dig into how IR scholars navigate media engagement and balance consensus with debate—especially urgent in an era of growing backlash against experts.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last yr.

#OpenAcces from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - International Relations Scholars, the Media, and the Dilemma of Consensus - https://cup.org/42fbiGy - Irene Entringer García Blanes, @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social, Susan Peterson, @rmpowers.bsky.social & Michael J. Tierney #FirstView

Frente a una ola de presiones en su contra, el EMC está en modo de guerra. Generar miedo a través de ataques terroristas es, a la vez, una muestra de fortaleza, pero también de debilidad. Les contamos👇 @latam.crisisgroup.org @lasillavacia.bsky.social www.lasillavacia.com/red-de-exper...

Los cuatro frentes de batalla del Estado Mayor Central

Los recientes ataques terroristas a lo largo del país evidencian la desesperada situación en la que se encuentra este grupo armado sin opciones para negociar.

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Also, good news comes in spades! Very exciting to see this new article with former TRIP colleagues our about how gender impacts the way that political opinion is expressed, in both the public and in experts. Check it out ⬇️

Perspectives on Politics@poppublicsphere.bsky.social · last yr.

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Gender and Political Expression among #International #Relations #Scholars & the Public By Irene Entringer García Blanes, @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social‬, Emily Brooke Jackson, R Merriman-Goldring & Susan Peterson doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Exciting news article “Grammar of Threat” with co-author extraordinaire @phillegitimate.bsky.social just won the 2025 Lee Ann Fujii Best Article Award from @apsa.bsky.social ’s Interpretive Methods group! 🎉

Y en español: La COP30 asume que los Estados controlan sus territorios, pero la realidad es mucho más compleja. Las industrias extractivas, grupos armados y élites políticas suelen tener más poder que los gobiernos nacionales. Lee mi artículo en openDemocracy: www.opendemocracy.net/es/crisis-cl...

La COP del clima debe empoderar a la sociedad civil

La COP ignora la realidad de América Latina y asume erróneamente que los gobiernos son los principales conductores de las políticas climáticas

opendemocracy.net

COP30 assumes states control their territories—but in Latin America, the reality is far more complex. Extractive industries, armed groups, and political elites often hold more power than national governments. Read my latest for openDemocracy: www.opendemocracy.net/en/climate-c...

To fix climate crisis, COP30 must empower civil society

COP ignores reality on the ground in Latin America and wrongly assumes governments are key drivers of climate policies

opendemocracy.net

We are now receiving applications for one fully funded PhD position in peace and conflict research, with a focus on political violence in democratic countries. Read more 👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Applications are also open for our general PhD position👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #PhD #Democracy

The situation now in Tibú, Colombia: sources inside tell me that the army is bombarding ELN and FARC dissident guerrilla forces, who are pinned down. Residents in the urban sector have been told to shelter in place and fear clashes will reach them. #colombia #catatumbo #tibu #ELN #FARC

My website has recently undergone a major overall, thanks to dear friend and very talented UX designer Marc Robinson. To keep up with my ongoing research and articles, including a book manuscript that is under contract and almost done (!), check it out: shaunangillooly.com

Shauna N Gillooly PHD

Books An Incomplete Peace examines peacebuilding in Colombia, revealing how state structures often oppose inclusive peace. Communities view the state as a tool or obstacle but never a reliable source…

shaunangillooly.com

Musk/DOGE cuts are (1) wildly unpopular, (2) plainly illegal, and (3) utterly incompetent, and yet the DC political establishment is unwilling or unable to stop it. They are bowing to a regime of government by billionaire fiat.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 2y ago

DOGE's "receipts" continue to be complete nonsense. And now deliberately so, given that they were told this was false and they removed it, only to repost it. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...

🧵 Here's what @stephrschwartz.bsky.social and I have been fretting about: Crackdowns on immigrants, mass deportation, and internment camps (and the suffering they cause) are recurrent in US history. But this time, it's also one of the Trump admin's power grabs. 1/ www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The US Has Deported Immigrants En Masse Before. Here’s What Happened.

Donald Trump has promised to deport millions on “Day One.” He wouldn’t be the first president to round up undocumented immigrants en masse.

politico.com

🤩 Now available for purchase! 📚 Brave Women: Fighting for Justice in the 21st Century 🌎 Chapters by activists & academics from 🇲🇽🇨🇴🇵🇪🇧🇷🇺🇬🇧🇮🇿🇦🇬🇪🇲🇲🇺🇸🇦🇫 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

As promised: Tinto keeping me in good company as I slog through final edits on my ¡book! manuscript due next month