Job! the IR Dept at ANU is hiring an entry-level position to teach both at ANU in Canberra and, intermittently, into our joint program with Ritsumeikan University in Osaka. Details in the ad. Happy to answer questions. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

Lecturer - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $121,598- $137,870 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full time, Continuing (Contingent Funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded). The...

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Germany reintroduced a soft form of military service in 2026. While service remains voluntary, all male 18‑year‑olds must undergo military medical tests, including a testicle check. But what is this sovereign touch about? Spoiler: it offers little medical value but plenty of sociological insight.

When the state grabs you by the balls: reintroducing military service and corporeal power in Germany

This essay reflects on an intimate encounter with the German state: the compulsory medical examination that all male teenagers underwent as part of military conscription until its suspension in 201...

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It's got a cover! Coming out in June.

"‘Baleful influence’: a conceptual analysis of militarism" by Bryan Mabee and Srdjan Vucetic is out now in EJIR and available online. You can read it here: t1p.de/4s6sq

Next in our ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series: Professor Itty Abraham (Arizona State University). Online, 15 October 2pm AEST. Abstract and registration: events.humanitix.com/bandung-at-7...

www.bradleyrsimpson.com/self-determi... Modeling archival sharing and collaborative research, @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social shares significant portions of the archival material behind THE FIRST RIGHT, his exciting new book on self-determination - global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Its out in the world!

Rob Rakove@robrakove.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Big delivery in the mail @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social

seeing the recognition of Palestinian statehood dismissed as 'performative' (US State Dept) makes me wonder how the meaning of the word 'performative' has gone from words that do things (Austin, Butler) to words that do nothing

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy's Special Issue on Caste in Indian Diplomacy & IR is out. Edited by Vineet Thakur, Pavan Kumar & Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social @haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal...

At a time when politics feels bleak and frustrating, I wrote a book on empathy and politics to inject much needed hope into the conversation and offer some ideas for change. Out soon with @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social and available for preorder now 📚 #Empathy #Politics #Leadership

Talk by @quahsayjye.bsky.social next week for the ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series. It's online. This pic of Lee Kuan Yew and Samuel Huntington from 1970 is a nice teaser of Quah's argument and his wider project on global intellectual history. events.humanitix.com/the-singapor...

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

Absolutely mind-blown! 🤯 What an honour to receive this prize. Enormous thanks to the prize committee, everyone who helped sharpen the argument & my incredible interlocutors in Crimea for whom the struggle for human rights continues.

European International Studies Association (EISA)@europeanisa.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🏆 We are pleased to announce @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social as the author of the Best Article in the European Journal of International Relations. Congratulations! 👏 Honorable mention to Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira 🔗 buff.ly/hqpQJSz

Fred Cooper tackling the concepts of decolonization and decoloniality in new Comparative Studies in Society & History article: "Decolonizing Decolonization."

From Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding to Zohran Mamdani – Mira Nair is a gift that keeps giving.

These "hunger games" being played by Israel and the US are so disgusting. The humiliation and terrorizing and murdering of Palestinians via inhumanitarian aid is further evidence of how dehumanized Israel and the US are. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians seeking food in Gaza, health officials say

Dozens more wounded as crowds approached food distribution centres run by Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

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SecDef Hegseth's Shangri-La Dialogue speech repeated conventional wisdom that's already eroded. No longer a functional division of getting security from US, prosperity from China. China's emerged as a global security provider, as @ibkardon.bsky.social and I show in @intsecurity.bsky.social:

For a supposedly ‘international’ organisation, the email sent by the ISA President basically begging and browbeating scholars to make the trip to Columbus, Ohio is just amazingly tone deaf. Attending is couched in smorgasbord of hyperbolic rhetoric, WW2(!), the Cold War(!), Gandhi (!) without so

If I read this correctly, I should not let my pithy self-interest in not getting deported to El Salvador allow me to evade my moral responsibility to hang out in some Hilton hallway (and pay conference fees).

Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann@gloefflmann.bsky.social · last yr.

I can’t put a finger on it, but somehow I get the impression that submissions for #ISA2026 are dropping off a cliff.

🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology: #Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan Find the paper here (open-access): academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan

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Join us for the Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture 2024/25, where Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics. 🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4kh5uTy

My article with Jamie Levin, on nuclear strategy, firearms analogies, and settler colonialism, is now out at Security Dialogue. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Firearms analogies and settler colonialism in US nuclear deterrence strategy - Joseph MacKay, Jamie Levin, 2025

Nuclear strategy has long been formulated through analogies. We focus on one in particular: guns. Early nuclear strategists in the United States used multiple a...

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Joseph MacKay@lefteleven.bsky.social · last yr.

Proofs!

The editors Matthew Phillips & Naoko Shimazu (neither of whom are on Bluesky) have asked me to share news of this new book: A visual history of diplomacy in Cold War Asia. I'm very pleased to have contributed a chapter #HistIR @ndh-network.bsky.social #diplomacy @cambridgeup.bsky.social

Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

@georgelawson.bsky.social reflecting on 75 years of IR/area studies at the ANU. This intro to the special issue is a compelling set of reflections on Aussie IR from a UK expat. Main takeaway: the ANU is still a cracking place to do IR, and the future of IR, at the ANU at least, is in good hands. 🙌🏻

‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’

This introduction to the forum marking the 75th anniversary of the Department of International Relations (IR) at the Australian National University (ANU) is organised in three parts. First, it ‘loo...

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By the brilliant @rahulraothariel.bsky.social

Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️@chenchenzhang.net · last yr.

🔥🔥 New Books in Critical Theory: Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025) newbooksnetwork.com/category/pol...

A very good piece. Perhaps the somewhat benign sub-heading "US diplomats first persuaded the World" should better capture the core point here that this shift came about with the US experimenting with new models of Empire (unlike, say, the Dutch or the French).

Alvina Hoffmann@alvinahoffmann.bsky.social · last yr.

A brilliant essay on the history of how US imperialism abolished conquest, by as of now bluesky-less Kerry Goettlich. How did we come to have an international order that is so radically protective of the territorial status quo?

🎓 New article by @quahsayjye.bsky.social which looks at Sukarno and proposes three dimensions of worldmaking: discursive, institutional, and dramaturgical.

Duncan Bell@duncanbell.bsky.social · last yr.

Quah Say Jye, "An Anatomy of Worldmaking: Sukarno and Anticolonialism from Post‐Bandung Indonesia," American Journal of Political Science (2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social

Why do many IOs struggle to learn despite a plethora of formal learning processes and tools? In my new ISQ article, I argue that the criticism culture—the way IOs deal with criticism from their employees—is an overlooked but crucial variable to explain (the lack of) learning in IOs. 🧵 lmy.de/DsCjm