Landed in Lisbon for #EISAPEC26 - looking forward to great discussions with old friends and new. Holler if you're around & want to go for a coffee! Also, come check out our excellent #REALism section program, including two fabulous roundtables, one on theory/theorizing in IR & one on order/chaos.

Audrey Alejandro and I have a new preprint online - check out "The Social in International Relations: Mapping IR Theory through Social Theory"! 👉 osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨 Going up on eJobs later today: Harvard has an open-field tenure-track search this fall, with priority areas in American Politics, International Relations, Formal Theory, and Quantitative Methods. Feel free to reach out with any questions! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16668

🎉 Wheeee - "Strategies of Deception in International Relations" forthcoming in ISR, co-authored with the inimitable @panosvasileiadis.bsky.social 🎉

We are hiring a postdoc in Comparative Politics at JGU Mainz! Join our friendly and productive team, led by Armin Schäfer (@arminschaefer.bsky.social). • Full-time position • Five-year contract (!) • Start: from 1 October Apply by 22 August: stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/56328 Please share!

Them: The giant steel monster right next to the children's playground isn't real. It can't hurt you. The monster:

Seid ihr schon heiß wie Frittenfett auf die Neue Folge #DEFCON4? Dann seid ihr hier richtig. Wir diskutieren die Rückkehr der Geopolitik mit special Guest Star Gesine Weber. Konstruktivistische Hüte, realistische Brillen und kritische Stiefel (?), für alle was dabei! open.spotify.com/episode/27F9...

Die Rückkehr der Geopolitik mit Gesine Weber

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Geopolitik – Modewort oder echtes Analysewerkzeug? 🎙️ @gloefflmann.bsky.social, @meibauir.bsky.social und @malteriemann.bsky.social diskutieren mit Episodengästin @gesineweber.bsky.social, wer von der Rede über Geopolitik eigentlich profitiert. open.spotify.com/episode/27F9...

Die Rückkehr der Geopolitik mit Gesine Weber

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🚨 Die #Geopolitik ist zurück (?!) - und mit ihr eine neue Folge DEFCON 4. 🚨 Zusammen mit @malteriemann.bsky.social @gloefflmann.bsky.social und Episodengästin @gesineweber.bsky.social diskutieren wir die "Geopolitik" von der Klassik bis zum Buzzword. Hört mal rein! open.spotify.com/episode/27F9...

Die Rückkehr der Geopolitik mit Gesine Weber

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Neue Folge 🎙️ Geopolitik ist in aller Munde – aber was meinen wir damit? Analysewerkzeug oder politisches Narrativ? @gloefflmann.bsky.social , @meibauir.bsky.social und @malteriemann.bsky.social mit Episodengästin @gesineweber.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/d...

Die Rückkehr der Geopolitik mit Gesine Weber

Podcast-Folge · DefCon 4 - Der Podcast zur internationalen Politik · 30. Juli · 54 Min.

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Latest Spiegel update corroborates but does not confirm the white van detail, as well as the unclear status of the driver. A massive police operation is now in progress here in Berlin www.spiegel.de/panorama/csd...

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Berlin Pride today From a different post: "Tabloid newspaper Bild cited a witness as saying a white van drove ​into the crowd at high speed ​and ⁠a man then got out of the vehicle and fled on foot."

The true art of the deal is the deals we make and then immediately retract while throwing our staff under the bus along the way.

Ich verstehe Ihre Frage so, dass es in Deutschland 🇧🇪 Menschen gibt, die wünschen, dass wir die Wissenschaftler @gloefflmann.bsky.social, @meibauir.bsky.social, @malteriemann.bsky.social dazu mobilisieren, eine Podcast Folge aufzunehmen. Mir ist nicht bekannt, dass eine solche… 1/2

Wir suchen Verstärkung für die Greifswalder Politikwissenschaft! Die Stelle (E13, unbefristet) umfasst u.a. Lehraufgaben in der Politischen Theorie und Ideengeschichte. Bei Fragen gerne bei mir melden. t1p.de/3kgfv

We're recruiting for a full professor in IR, with a preference for someone with 'a clear understanding of the current and future challenges to IR, especially in the domain of security, as well as a clear idea of how to take on these challenges in research, education and impact strategies'. 👇

Department of Political Science, Radboud University Nijmegen@radboudpol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 The Department of Political Science at Radboud University Nijmegen is recruiting for a Full Professor in International Relations. More information on this vacancy is available here: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Application deadline is 16 August 2026.

🚨Departmental Newsletter - June '26 🚨

Leroy Sané looks like one of these academics hired on "promise" ten years ago, then tenured on "potential", and since permanently very publicly applying but never quite getting way-too-large grants.

curaçao's football team is officially equal to brazil's

I have questions.

We are hiring! Please share 👉 💡 2 PhD positions 🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen 🗓️ 4 years 💶 Fully funded 👩‍🏫 25 % teaching ⏳ 11 August 2026 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Just like my newest article is also 95% done. The remaining 5% of writing will focus on setting up a structure, reading relevant literature, developing an argument, and testing it empirically.

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

Hating AI is good, actually

LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.

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Wrote a thing on why buying into the “generative AI is inevitable so we need to stuff it into all crevices of higher ed” narrative is not only bad pedagogy, but bad Political Science. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Generative AI in the Political Science Classroom: Bringing Politics Back In

Large language models (LLMs) have disrupted higher education, prompting a wave of scholarship on generative AI in the Political Science classroom. This emerging literature largely converges in argu...

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'Frontiers' are now inviting 'handling editors' for individual manuscripts instead of simply reviewers - what fresh unpaid hell is this?

🚨 DEFCON-4 UPDATE 🚨 Israel-Libanon und die sog. "Pufferzone" - jetzt als kurze Einschätzung von mir auf Spotify, Apple und co. open.spotify.com/episode/474z...

Trump tut ja was er kann, aber wieder waren die Chinesen schneller. www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

Modekonzern in China hat Konzernzentrale in Nazi-Optik

HLA ist einer der größten Modekonzerne Chinas. Für sein Hauptquartier hat sich das Unternehmen von den Nazis inspirieren lassen. Die F.A.Z. hat sich umgeschaut.

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A lot of questions raised by my KA$H bottles are already answered by my KA$H bottles.

🚨 NEW: "Why US–China relations have not escalated yet: Power rise, power transition, and perceptions of resolve" from Michiel Foulon and @meibauir.bsky.social. 📑👉 Read, in full, for free: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

When the child has to stay home sick but it's also ice cream weather. 🦖🍦

I'm quoted in this excellent @deutschewelle.dw.com analysis on the politics and law of buffer zones, in the context of Israel's incursion into South Lebanon - check it out here: www.dw.com/en/israel-in...

Israel in Lebanon: Is the 'security buffer zone' legal?

Buffer zones occupy a grey area in international humanitarian law, as rules around them in contemporary warfare are not particularly clear.

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