My latest op-ed. The fog of war in the age of AI will become thicker. Science fiction has become realist and under the Trumps administration, any potential guardrails are being degraded at warp speed 🧵https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-in-the-age-of-ai-the-fog-of-war-thickens/
Has anyone seen a poll result for the youth opinion on the US in Europe? My very limited anecdotal pool tells me a grand shift in the works: US seen as a primary threat for Europe even more so than Russia, which is an astonishing turn in perception
Without Bush jr.’s executive power grab and preventive war bs we would not have been here.
German universities using surveys on internationalization with German as the only option as the medium of participation.
🚨We have a stellar panel on populism and its effects on IOs at #ecpr2026 in Krakow @ecpr.bsky.social
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Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
All hierarchical structures create fertile ground for abuse of power. And the academic-scientific complex is a big fat hierarchy.
When I first read this post, I thought it was from a history account.
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
History shows a pattern here.
When governments begin criminalizing the observation of dissent—using technical oversteps as justification—it’s often a warning sign. We’ve seen similar patterns precede press crackdowns in countries like Turkey, Russia, and Myanmar.
Yes! “Das Betreuungsverhältnis ist in vielen politikwissenschaftlichen Instituten heute schon zu schlecht für die optimale Art von Lernen, die auf individueller Ansprache, Feedback und Überarbeitungen beruht – also einer Begleitung des Prozesses statt nur der Bewertung des Endprodukts.”
Vikings, famous for over-empathizing
Authoritarian governments claim to imprison journalists not b/o their journalistic activities but b/o something else of course 🙄 So if you let this one slip away, more journalists will be arrested for sure. They’re always testing, two step fwd, one step back.
🚨New First View Article🚨
"Staying with the trouble: Film-making and the politics of knowledge production in the IR classroom and beyond" by Marjaana Jauhola & Rahel Kunz is now available #OpenAccess!
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Their anti-gender policy is not part of their larger agenda, it is the larger agenda. Women, elderly, non-binary, and the disabled are seen as “lesser humans” in their ideology, which translates into anti-immigration. So, these groups will always be the backbone of resistance by definition
Yesterday, I awoke to news of another ICE killing in MN. On Bluesky, the conversation was deeply critical of ICE. But I wanted to see how things were going on X. Surprisingly, the attempts there to blame the victim weren't getting as much traction as I suspected. So I wrote a thing.
Look it’s “dış mihraklar” spin story. I have heard this story so many times growing up. Somehow protestors always come from afar, hence the “hostile foreign elements” discourse. If ever there was an authoritarian’s handbook, the US is following it to a T.
For those who don’t know/remember, during the Gezi Park protests in 2013, many AKP-affiliated TV outlets aired March of the Penguins instead of covering the protests and police brutality.
🚨 The Changing Global Orders Oral History Collection is now live! 🚨 #HistIR @oxmartinschool.bsky.social
🌍 A while back, for the Global Shocks podcast I spoke to former officials of a range of international organisations: EU, IMF, OECD, WHO, UN peacekeeping, Greenpeace, the ICRC ... 1/4
My best effort at understanding Trump's Board of Peace and its constituent parts.
This is the Trump Organisation that the UK, Europe and Arab countries are being asked to buy into as an alternative to the UN. Understandably, many are hesitant.
Margaret Atwood's poems in Turkish. I translated them. 😊
"Omzundaki o el. O elvari şey:
Seni almaya gelen şiir."
#okuyunduacımolursunuz
Feminist IR theory has no problem with explaining and predicting Trump’s foreign policy. It is hegemonic hypermasculinity stripped off of any pretensions of “high politics”.
Institutions guarantee nothing unless there are individuals upholding them.
In Turkey, analysts and experts were sounding the alarm from roughly 2013 about the economy and political pressure on the Central Bank. The economic crisis didn't fully arrive until 2018, after Erdoğan had consolidated power. These mechanisms are not self-defending
All these analyses on the possibility of Greenland’s invasion and the bargaining chips proposed to entice Trump... Look, I know when I see a three-year-old and there is no bargaining with them. You can distract them by tangling a shiny object but sooner or later they will throw that ball to the tv.
🔔 New on the GO: Eugene Chen unpacks the US memo on withdrawing from UN organizations—and why it may be more symbolic than seismic.
👉 https://bit.ly/4sxQeGR
