Such a fantastic and truly interdisciplinary collaboration; I learned a lot and am thrilled to see that the book is finally out:)! Thx @tobiaswille.bsky.social and @mershoncenter.bsky.social for shepherding it to completion

Tobias Wille@tobiaswille.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’m very excited that years of work with Dorry Noyes (@mershoncenter.bsky.social) and a fantastic group of friends and colleagues finally resulted in this, I think, rather beautiful object. The Global Politics of Exemplarity! @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @brisunipress.bsky.social 1/4

The History Department at The Ohio State University is searching for an assistant professor of modern Japanese history, check it out, share, apply! #OhioState #ModernJapan #history 🗃️ jobs.chronicle.com/job/37884726...

Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese History - Columbus, Ohio job with The Ohio State University, Department of History | 37884726

The Department of History at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of modern Japanese history.

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Please share widely! IR Theory Colloquium (IRTC) 2025-2026 Call for applications / Due July 31 IRTC is a monthly, 90-minute Zoom workshop for early career researchers, aimed at improving theoretical arguments and expanding the IR Theory community. More info below:

The season of Western multilateral summitry (G7, NATO) may be over, but the diplomatic show must go on. In this @ejir.bsky.social piece, I argue that summitry is a performance producing what I call the "social international," or the intl system of state persons journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

“‘…the legislative justification for the Chase Center — that teaching and research at Ohio State is ideologically biased rather than evidence-based — is based on fundamentally false premises,’ said University Senate Faculty Council Chair Sara Watson, an associate professor of political science.”

Ohio State Trustees approve state-mandated 'intellectual diversity' center

A 2023 state law required OSU to create an "independent academic unit" to teach and research the U.S. Constitution.

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📈Trending in RIS 📈 Check out @minseonku.bsky.social and Brian Finch's article on ontological security and audience agency! It's one of our top trending articles for the last few months, and it's #OpenAccess 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New article with @briantfinch.bsky.social is now available online with OA at @risjnl.bsky.social We argue for broadening the scope of audience agency theorized in securitization by bringing in the ontological security lens, centering the importance of routines. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Now with a volume, issue and page numbers in Millennium. @chrsjcksn.bsky.social and I wrote about the craziness of Skopje's faux neoclassical revamp, a huge statue of Alexander the Great, copy of Arc de Triomphe and things that are supposed to look like... Venice? It's a riot. Pics 👇

The Ontological Security-Seeking Paradox: Domestic and International Effects of Public Architecture in North Macedonia’s ‘Skopje 2014’ Project - Christopher M. Jackson, Jelena Subotic, 2024

This article theorises the relationship between material environment and state ontological security by analysing how public architecture is used to defend, asse...

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Happy to announce the birth of a new book! How/why did empires relentlessly expand - and worked together? Not competition but transaction and cooperation was key to the Age of Empires in the long 19th century. With brilliant colleagues Erik de Lange & Ozan Ozavci: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/securing-...

Securing Empire

This volume explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the structures, hierarchies and dynamics of int…

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IMHO the coup botched not because it was not well thought out. Yoon lacks political allies. His only ally is the military, supporting his rhetoric of freedom/liberalism targeted at so-called pro-North Korea anti-state forces. He has no political allies within the ruling party.

I have an issue. Or, more specifically, this article I published together with Linus Hagström now has an issue! It is now out (open access) in the latest issue of European Political Science. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The insecurity of doing research and the ‘so what question’ in political science: how to develop more compelling research problems by facing anxiety - European Political Science

Research problems are crucial in the sense that they provide new research with purpose and justification. So why, despite the abundance of guidance available from an extensive methods literature, do g...

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NEW ISSUE from Ethics & International Affairs - cup.org/491dJPn Includes a roundtable: The Problem with International Order Papers by @trineflockhart.bsky.social, @aysezarakol.bsky.social, @linabenabdallah.bsky.social, @jennifermitzen.bsky.social, @ncrenic.bsky.social, and more