The 7th article in our special issue ‘Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security’ is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social. Barak Kushner explores how authoritarian states in 20th-century East Asia sought to reeducate captives for security reasons. doi.org/10.1017/eis....
Interesting. Did he do it as an experiment or to make some kind of point?
Also point 4: 'We haven't managed to improve the quality of regular journal submissions by humans, so let's compound the problem by adding low-qualitty submissions from AI. Not doing so is an absurd double standard.' ?!?!?
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if you think this or are acting upon it you don’t deserve an academic job. people who boast publicly about how they’re too lazy to do their own research and writing and by extension make it harder for anyone else to do it properly are scabs and should be shunned by any serious researchers
I only made it to the second paragraph before getting triggered 😅
"Users will skim AI summaries. The real science is the question, the pre-analysis plan, and the analysis."
I'm sorry but don't you do your THINKING while READING and WRITING? Research questions don't appear out of nowhere!!!
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Four more weeks to submit your proposals for this amazing conference!👇
Thank you! 🙏You possibly encountered a very early version of the dignity argument at the online version of 2022 ISA Northeast. Am I remembering that correctly..?
The emotional politics of sovereignty: On dignity, state personhood, and kidnappings
My co-authored article with @nckc.bsky.social is published in @ejisbisa.bsky.social with #openaccess!
We theorize captivity/kidnapping as a sovereignty violation, and states respond with emotional performativity to protect their dignity, constructing personhood.
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It's publication day!🎊🤗
One of the best analyses of Israel's post-Oct 7 actions I have come across. Highly recommend!👇
New paper!
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Where does accountability lie in contemporary border regimes?
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
I’m very excited to share that my co-authored article with Todd Hall is now published in the @ejisbisa.bsky.social !
Many thanks to @profgustafsson.bsky.social and @rjsamuels.bsky.social for organising the special issue and for their guidance throughout the process.
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discount code for Subotic book
📚Book promotion day 📚 Here is a 30% discount code for my book AND the first chapter is ungated to read for free.
🚨 The Czech Journal of International Relations has just published a new article that provides a dataset of all instances when diplomatic missions raised rainbow flags 🏳️🌈. May seem unlikely now, but the US leads the pack. Full access here: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
My co-authored (with Richard Samuels) special issue introduction 'Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security', has just been published open access in @ejisbisa.bsky.social. The forthcoming special issue will contain 9 articles that will soon be published.
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There’s no such thing as an unbiased chatbot. Academic librarian Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social on how “AI” developers ignore how people actually become informed. From Ep. 51 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, “The War on Knowledge”.
(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
New article of mine with Tizian Metzner: "Worrying about the bomb? – Nuclear proliferation fears & China's foreign policy": www.oiip.ac.at/en/publikati...
- #proliferation risks rise (no #disarmament, nuclear #threats, no trust in #US)
- official / expert debates in #China
@infooiip.bsky.social
RIS has over a dozen special collections on our website. These collections show the breadth of research in our journal, and they are put together by excellent scholars around the world. A great resource for students!
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Delighted to announce publication of a special issue on Defence and Cliamte Change in @cspjournal.bsky.social, featuring outstanding scholars & papers! The Introduction is available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
WS EB - Ontological Security in Geopolitical Times. Bahar Rumelili.
✅ WS EB - Ontological Security in Geopolitical Times
🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice
New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
News from CEEISA. Save the date!!
Join us in Izmir for #EWIS2026!
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In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...
“The particular rage women elicit when they undermine male authority figures, and the way they are then read as bitches who deserve to be shot, is an archetypical example of a distinctively gendered dynamic that we ignore to our peril.“ - @katemanne.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant
