Our article, "Colonial and Anti-Colonial Discourses of Peace in Ukraine", co-authored with two fantastic colleagues, @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social and @yuliaioffe.bsky.social, is forthcoming in @iajournal.bsky.social! While we wait for the proofs, here's the pre-print: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Dr Bohdana Kurylo@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social · last wk.

Not every call for #peace challenges the politics of violence; some reinforce it. Our new article starts here: ‘Colonial and Anti-Colonial Discourses of Peace in the Russo-Ukrainian War’, by me, @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social & @yuliaioffe.bsky.social in International Affairs (@iajournal.bsky.social)

“There is no independent Ukraine without an independent Poland, and no independent Poland without an independent Ukraine.” Came across this in Przemyśl during my fieldwork in Poland this summer, where I studied how cross-border infrastructure helps sustain Ukraine through the war.

Thrilled that my book, "Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire", has been selected as the IR Book of the Week" by @profpaulpoast.bsky.social! Looking forward to more discussions on medievalism, modernity, the international and empire in IR!

Paul Poast@profpaulpoast.bsky.social · last wk.

IR Book of the Week! "Neomedievalism in International Relations" by @alexspalinska.bsky.social. What's old is new again. Drawing on the work of Hedley Bull, book argues that, from tech firms to militant groups, we could be entering a new, global "Middle Ages"

Thrilled that my book, "Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire", has been selected as the IR Book of the Week" by @profpaulpoast.bsky.social! Looking forward to more discussions on medievalism, modernity, the international and empire in IR!

Paul Poast@profpaulpoast.bsky.social · last wk.

IR Book of the Week! "Neomedievalism in International Relations" by @alexspalinska.bsky.social. What's old is new again. Drawing on the work of Hedley Bull, book argues that, from tech firms to militant groups, we could be entering a new, global "Middle Ages"

IR Book of the Week! "Neomedievalism in International Relations" by @alexspalinska.bsky.social. What's old is new again. Drawing on the work of Hedley Bull, book argues that, from tech firms to militant groups, we could be entering a new, global "Middle Ages"

Neomedievalism in International Relations: Scattering the International, Elucidating the Empire (New International Relations)

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It's May Day, and I'm thrilled to say that this week I started my Visiting Fellowship at the Global Security Programme, Pembroke College, University of Oxford 😃 I will be a Visiting Fellow through the Trinity term and the summer. www.globalsecurity.pmb.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our...

Global Security Programme

The Global Security Programme ­­(GSP), is based at Pembroke College, University of Oxford

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It's May Day, and I'm thrilled to say that this week I started my Visiting Fellowship at the Global Security Programme, Pembroke College, University of Oxford 😃 I will be a Visiting Fellow through the Trinity term and the summer. www.globalsecurity.pmb.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our...

Global Security Programme

The Global Security Programme ­­(GSP), is based at Pembroke College, University of Oxford

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Syrian Kurds warn Iran’s Kurds against aligning with the U.S. to fight Tehran, citing their own experience of being “abandoned” by Washington after years of cooperation, - Reuters

Join us live now! snyder.substack.com/live-stream/...

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Join my conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social about Iran on Thinking Live at 12:00pm ET: snyder.substack.com Read his primer on the bombing of Iran: phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-usa-an... And my thoughts on the reasons behind attacking Iran: snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

Every year I teach Hedley Bull's version of Neomedievalism from the late 1970s. Looking forward to this! "Regional blocs" particularly relevant in the contemporary period.

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! 😃😊

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! 😃😊

Call for Papers, Contesting Imperialism(s), CEEISA Annual Conference, Sarajevo 17-19 June 2026. Submit your papers or panels until March 2026! Program chairs: Aida Hozić and Dženeta Karabegović ceeisa2026.com

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! 😃😊

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! 😃😊

🚨 The deadline for #EISAPEC26 abstract submission is tomorrow!

European International Studies Association (EISA)@europeanisa.bsky.social · 8mo ago

⏰ Remember to submit abstracts for #EISAPEC26 in Lisbon by 19 February! 🔗 Abstract submission guidelines can be found here: buff.ly/T1qTbM6

NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279

Utopia

Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

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Only 10 days to go -- submit your abstracts before it's too late! #EISAPEC26 @europeanisa.bsky.social Our Standing Section on "Exploring World Politics Beyond the State System" (with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social) examines non-state and societal dimensions of world politics. Deadline: 19 February

Aleksandra Spalinska@alexspalinska.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We're halfway there! Submit your abstracts to our Standing Section on "Exploring World Politics Beyond the State System: Spaces, Relations, and Struggles" at #EISAPEC26 by 19 February! @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social and I are looking forward to seeing you in beautiful Lisbon! @europeanisa.bsky.social

"By “unequivocally” rejecting all analogies, it [the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum] has erected a fence around the Holocaust that ensures that its moral lessons will be forgotten." www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

Never Again, Once Again | Peter E. Gordon

A few years ago, in the early summer of 2019, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared on its website that it “unequivocally rejects efforts

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Father-daughter relationships can be characterized by emotional distance, Isabel Woodford writes. She reports on what each side has to lose from a strained relationship, and how they can rebuild trust: theatln.tc/Z24T48bO

🧵Grim irony: boosters of Trump FP from his first term onwards have argued that, unlike this predecessors, he "gets" the transition from unipolarity to multipolarity. But the biggest part of that transition is the availability of alternative "goods providers" to the 🇺🇸 — which means reduced 🇺🇸leverage.

Dan Nexon@dhnexon.net · 8mo ago

The cliché explanation for how authority is more efficacious than coercion: "if I say I'll shoot you if you don't clean the blackboard, you'll only do what I want when there's a gun to your head." Trump is reaping the threat-adjustment-threat death spiral of doing FP exclusively through coercion.

✅ WS B - The Eastern Mediterranean in International Society: Identifying the Challenges and Opportunities for Building a Regional Order 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE

✅ WS A - Between Fragmentation and Solidarity: Memory and Identity in Post-Communist Central Europe 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE

✅ WS NA - Navigating a Fractured World: UCD and the Current Conjuncture 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE

✅ WS CB - Hybrid Security in a Fractured World: The Red Sea and Beyond 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE

✅ WS H - Memory in World Politics: Forms, Claims, and Mediating Structures 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE

✅ WS T - The Emotional Architecture of Global Peace: Gratitude, Empathy, and Affective Justice 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE

✅ WS WA - Second Atomic Youth? Middle Powers, Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and the Waning of the Liberal World Order 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE

Believe your own eyes. Not lies. Witnesses coming forward, with courage, not state propaganda.

Check out the new Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power edited by Peter Niesen, Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social and Lucia Rubinelli @luxirubsi.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...