A memorable night in London: private screening of The Secret Agent with Wagner Moura and director Kleber Mendonça Filho, kindly hosted by the Brazilian Embassy. Brazilian cinema at its best 🎥🇧🇷

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Delighted to share my new article in Global Policy, part of the Special Issue “Re-imagining Middle Powers.” Grateful for the support of the Academy of Korean Studies, LSE IDEAS and the EUI Florence for convening the workshop that shaped this special issue. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An Ontological Security Interpretation of Global South Middle Powers' Non‐Alignment in the Ukrainian War

This paper explores why a group of Global South middle powers has adopted stances on the Ukrainian war that diverged from the positions of the United States under President Joe Biden, the European Un...

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You know how the far-right is pretty big right now? Well I've got a 🚨New Publication🚨 on interpreting far-right ideologies! Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in @ejir.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement - Charlie W. Price, 2025

In recent years, the concept of fantasy has been afforded increased attention in psychoanalytic IR. While this scholarship does address bodies and fantasy, the ...

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Congrats Maysam on a stellar defense! It was a real pleasure engaging with your work. Huge thanks to Catarina Kinnvall and the colleagues at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, for the warm hospitality. www.svet.lu.se/en/article/m...

Maysam Behravesh has successfully defended his thesis!

Lund University. AbstractDriven by a core curiosity about the political psychology of change and change-seeking as opposed to continuity and status quo-keeping in world politics, this thesis undertake...

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📢 New Article Alert! 📢 How does the notion of societal multiplicity in IR overlook the psychological impact of global hierarchies? Read more: @coco-journal.bsky.social #InternationalRelations #UnevenDevelopment #Psychoanalysis #SocietalMultiplicity doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Why do I have to spend so much of my supervision time helping final-year students unlearn the idea that their dissertations must follow a ‘methods, theory, results, discussion’ template?

Must self-identified great powers use aggression after events challenging their sense of greatness? See my new OA article in @risjnl.bsky.social: “Unravelling military aggression: Ontological insecurity, great power narcissism, and Japan’s international relations 1868–1971” tinyurl.com/ytstzyya

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Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds

Institutions may be overlooking inadequate language skills to receive high fees from overseas students.

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Excellent, insightful and thought provoking presentation from @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social and Michael Williams on their new book. Big thanks/Obrigado to @fromagehomme.bsky.social & @macvieira.bsky.social for organising #cedar

Prof Heather Marquette@hamarquette.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join colleagues for this timely talk on 'World of the Right: Radical conservatism and global order'. 👇 27 November 1:00PM UK time Online via Zoom (follow link to register): lnkd.in/e9fqHbmN @macvieira.bsky.social @fromagehomme.bsky.social

Submissions are open for the DPLST-LAC-ABRI Conference taking place at the University of São Paulo (USP), in São Paulo, Brazil, July 21-24, 2025. The deadline for applications is March 10, 2025. lnkd.in/eD2FgXVi

I’ll be chairing a fantastic seminar this coming Wednesday on an extremely timely topic. Please join us in person or online. Follow link to register. bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Edward Said wrote about the racist function of the label "terrorist" back in 1986 in this book review: www.thenation.com/article/arch... The book he was critiquing was "Terrorism: How the West Can Win", by Benjamin Netanyahu.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2y ago

I was massively attacked when I last said this (including on instagram and linked in because some folks are batshit) so naturally I say it again: the word “terrorist” is a racialized slur that people of conscience should stop using all together.

I've set up a new Starter Pack for colleagues in the School of Government at the University of Birmingham. Such a fantastic and diverse range of academics (and far more than I expected when I thought I'd procrastinate for just a few minutes setting this up...). 👇 go.bsky.app/U3UQxZf

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I wonder if they also regret voting for Brexit?

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2y ago

Thousands of farmers in the UK say they bitterly regret voting for Labour in this summer's election. Now many are set to descend on Westminster today to protest budget measures which changed inheritance tax rules. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/uk-f...

Snow fun at 7am.

Following the recent trend on Bluesky and in the hope that more of us will soon join the "good place," I’ve created a starter pack for those studying ontological (in)security in global politics 🤓 go.bsky.app/9v5z4jX

Looking forward to engaging with the Bluesky community! In the meantime, feel free to check out my latest publication with Martin Maitino in Global Studies Quarterly academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Ontological Security and Climate Policy in Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil: Understanding the Emotional Underpinnings of Environmental Destruction

Abstract. In this paper, we examine Brazil's climate/environmental discourse and policy during Jair Bolsonaro's administration (2019–2022), focusing on the

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