We also have two honourable mentions. First up is "Military Victory beyond the Battlefield. Outside Wartime" by @palestrinomirko.bsky.social Mirko Palestrino. Find more information about his book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I still can’t believe it! My book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime has received an honourable mention for the Sussex International Theory Prize 🥳🥳

Felix Rösch@felixroesch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Many congratulations to @whitproject.bsky.social Patricia Owen’s for winning this year’s #Sussex International Theory Prize. And to Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social and Aaron McKeil @acmckeil.bsky.social for their honourable mentions 👏🏻

Super excited that @mybisa.bsky.social Critical Military Studies Working Group will be hosting a 'Zoomside' chat about my book 'Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield' on 22 June, 2to4pm. Stellar line up of discussants. The event is open to the public. Register at: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Zoomside chat: military victory beyond the battlefield: outside wartime- Critical Military Studies | BISA

- Critical Military Studies Working Group

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🚨🚨 Italo Brandimarte and I have a new article out in International Political Sociology! It is part of the IPS@20 Anniversary Special Issue and is open access at: academic.oup.com/ips/article/.... We call for de-centering the human in temporal world political analysis via 'Deep Global Futures'. ⬇️⬇️

New book talk alert 🚨 Excited to be heading to Lisbon later this week to talk all things Military Victory to the students of Forward College Lisbon. April 23, 5pm | Soriano Learning Center. Full details here below

Next term may still feel a long way off but the events calendar is already filling up! On May 13th, the International Relations and Security Cluster we will be hosting @palestrinomirko.bsky.social for a talk on his new book Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime.

I had the absolute pleasure to chat with Will Cooper on the Books and More Podcast about Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime. The episode is now out both on Spotify and Apple Podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/5pGG...

Mirko Palestrino

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Join us for this event on solar geoengineering and its planetary consequences! @palestrinomirko.bsky.social and Jef Huysmans will be in conversation with Joanne Yao and Danielle Young. April 15, 4.30pm @qmulsse.bsky.social L. Coffee, tea and cake will be served 🥳🥳

Join us on 22 April 2026 @qmulsse.bsky.social, QMUL for the 4th Edition of the DoingIPS Spring Symposium, this year on 'Enchanting the Social: Rituals for Collective Life'. Full programme and registration link at www.doingips.org/symposium-2026. Please do share far and wide within your networks!

Trump has recently claimed to have 'won' the war in Iran, but also not 'won it enough'. How is that possible? @mbarnfield.bsky.social, from @qmulsse.bsky.social, has an answer for you in this excellent short read. Thx Matt for quickly putting my book to work! open.substack.com/pub/drmatthe...

How can a war be over before it has begun?

Why Trump claims to have won, but not won enough

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The official book launch of Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime is only one week away! Join us at @qmulsse.bsky.social on 3 March 2026, from 17.15 onwards. Register at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Book Launch: Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield

Join us for the launch of Mirko Palestrino’s Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime (Oxford University Press, 2025).

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In lieu of more book spoilers in post form… here below an interview from the fantastic Keren Weitzberg for the @qmulsse.bsky.social We talked about my book, its relevance for world politics today, key takeaways, and what’s next for me. It’s a super short read, but it does have it all!

School of Society & Environment, Queen Mary University@qmulsse.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Trump is a paradigmatic example. Think about how he renamed ‘Veterans Day’ to ‘Victory Day’; how he has claimed over and over again that he has ended numerous wars[...]" Read the full interview with @palestrinomirko.bsky.social 👇 www.qmul.ac.uk/society-and-...

"Trump is a paradigmatic example. Think about how he renamed ‘Veterans Day’ to ‘Victory Day’; how he has claimed over and over again that he has ended numerous wars[...]" Read the full interview with @palestrinomirko.bsky.social 👇 www.qmul.ac.uk/society-and-...

Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Interview with Author Mirko Palestrino

Mirko Palestino is a senior lecturer in International Policy Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Politics and International Relations. His new book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outs...

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⬇️ Discount on Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime! ⬇️ OUP has also made the Introduction available for free until the official book launch, on March 3 - academic.oup.com/book/60859 Book launch registration at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

🚨🚨 The launch of Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime will be on 3 March 2026, 5.15pm @qmulsse.bsky.social Chuffed to be joined by Aggie Hirst, Paul Higate, Kim Hutchings, @therealisthom.bsky.social, and @debbielisle.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Today is (print!) publication day! My book ‘Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime’ is finally out in the world as an actual object - author-posing picture to follow ASAP, stay tuned! Buy the book at: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.

Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment - Frederik Carl Windfeld, 2025

Contemporary discussions over emergent and disruptive technologies in military affairs are often framed in futurist and existential terms. The article theorises...

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In an expected, but timely, turn of events, with @europeanisa.bsky.social in full swing, my first book “Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield” has been now published digitally, with the EISA-OUP Series Voices in IR. Print version in December. academic.oup.com/book/60859?s...

Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime

Abstract. This book rethinks hegemonic understandings of military victory as the outcome of war by focusing on the relationship between victory and time. W

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I have a new article out at @polstudies.bsky.social. In "Electoral Hope", I make the case that supposedly irrational "wishful thinking" is actually a crucial part of how voters make rational sense of their role in democracies. OA link: doi.org/10.1177/0032...

🧵1/10 “’Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory“ by @palestrinomirko.bsky.social t1p.de/ajj2p

🚨 My book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime, has a webpage! As Trump seeks to rename Veterans Day to Victory Day, the timing couldn’t be better. Out in December with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social as part of @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices in IR. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:

Looking forward to welcoming Jaakko Heiskanen (QMUL) for a launch event on his exciting book "Ethnos of the Earth" (CUP) this week Thursday. Join us if you're in Oxford! 20 March, 4pm • Brasenose College, Lecture Room VII With comments from Faridah Zaman & Musab Younis

In his new article in EJIR, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social examines the social construction of victory through the example of wartime gardening. You can find the full publication here: t1p.de/8n0sh

Read this as soon as you can!

Mirko Palestrino@palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:

Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:

Last chance to register for the 2nd DoingIPS Spring Symposium @QMUL, this year co-organised with @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social's @elkeschwarz.bsky.social, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social and @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social Sign-up link below. Pls share widely!! www.doingips.org/symposium2024

Happening tomorrow at QMUL, co-organised by @doingips.bsky.social and Global Politics Unbound. Join Hannah, Melissa and myself for what promises to be a great discussion of an incredibly exciting book!!

Cheer up this rainy Thursday with some of the latest research in IPS! Read this brief post about Jef Huysmans and Joao Nogueira latest article in @ejir.bsky.social and how it relates to their previous work on IPS and critique!!

New article on IPS and critique: Against Resistance? — DoingIPS

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