Everyone is talking about the Donroe Doctrine or whatever. Trump cannot recreate informal empire in the hemisphere if Latin American trade ties with 🇨🇳 and 🇪🇺 continue to increase in density.
Sure, it can "win" some battles.
Jeg skriver i Dagens Næringsliv om noe som har gått litt under radaren i utkastet til fredsavtalen mellom Russland og Ukraina: G7/8 medlemskap til Russland. Og om symbolikken bak det: www.dn.no/innlegg/ukra...
📣CfA for 1-2 Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in political science (3-4 years) as part of the ERC project “Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy” (GETGOV) - PI Jacob Nyrup. The application deadline is November 17, 2025.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Gratulerer Anna!
Really honored to be awarded the King’s Gold Medal for my dissertation!
You can read more about it below, and then I want to add that I was incredibly lucky with my workplace, colleagues, co-authors and supervisors during my PhD<3 feeling grateful!!
Jeg har en kronikk i @aftenposten.no i dag om at Kina ikke er supermakten du tror den er. Tidligere har jeg skrevet mye om at Kina ikke matcher USA militært. Ny forskning viser at USA også er økonomisk overlegen. Les mer her: www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
Kronikken er delvis basert på en nyutgitt forskningsartikkel som viser hvordan høystatusland kan bruke anerkjennelse som er redskap for å få stater til å gjøre ting de vanligvis kanskje ikke ville gjort. Les mer her: bsky.app/profile/palr...
Uten prestisje er det bare makt som står igjen. Det kan koste USA dyrere enn de tror. Les kronikken 👉https://www.dagsavisen.no/debatt/2025/06/02/hvem-vil-blo-for-usa/
📄 Jeg har en kronikk ute i @dagsavisen.bsky.social i dag. På papir og på nett. USA har blitt en kødd. Men det er ikke bare vi allierte som taper på det. USA risikerer å miste ett viktig utenrikspolitisk verktøy: prestisje
I dag har jeg en lang kronikk på trykk i Aftenposten, som er basert på mitt introduksjonsessay for den nyeste utgaven av Tidsskriftet Internasjonal Politikk. Jeg skriver om at USA nå er inne i en brytningstid, og at vi kan vinke den forrige æraen - www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...
I dagens @aftenposten.no skriver jeg og @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social om hvorfor Slovakia has blitt EUs hodepine. Statsminister Fico reiser til Moskva og lar seg bruke i russisk propaganda. Det setter både EUs troverdighet og enigheten om Ukraina-støtte på spill
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...
Slovak PM Fico is about to land in Moscow to stand by Putin, legitimizing Russia’s narrative and defying EU foreign policy. As @palroren.bsky.social and I argue, Fico’s domestic pressure is now a warning sign for EU unity.
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...
Thanks!
Very happy to see my piece "The power of recognition: rethinking the instrumentality of status in world politics" being published in @iajournal.bsky.social
Read the full OA-article here: academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...
Our May issue is OUT NOW!
➡️ Special section on boundary work & the (un)making of global cooperation
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📚25 book reviews
Read now: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3
The article develops this argument theoretically and through two cases: focusing on the Nordics' wars of visibility and Russia’s frustrated quest for recognition from the US. It shows both the power and limits of recognition in world politics (6/6)
I propose a "Gestalt switch" for how we think about status: Recognition is not just a reward for effort; it is the mechanism that turns status into real political influence. High-status states wield recognition like any other power resource (5/6)
Denmark and Norway joined US-led wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Why? Not to win wars. Not to gain resources. Not to become more secure. Instead, it was to earn recognition from Washington (4/6)
I argue that recognition is not just a means to achieve status; it is in itself a form of power. The desire for recognition means that high-status states can influence what lower-status states want, how they act, and who they align with (3/6)
In IR, we often assume that social status has instrumental value in the form of voluntary deference (to a higher-status actor's wishes). But to date, that hasn't been demonstrated
(2/6)
New article out in @iajournal.bsky.social: "The Power of Recognition: Rethinking the Instrumentality of Status in World Politics" Link: academic.oup.com/ia/article/d... (1/6)
Denmark and Norway killed for status. Status and recognition, not security or wealth, drove them to war.
New article out — full thread below🧵
This looks great - looking forward to reading!
📢 New article 🌟
👥 Paul David Hagen Beamont and Pål Kriachko Røren @palroren.bsky.social (ISV)
🔎 Status symbols in world politics.
📗 Open access in Cooperation and Conflict
doi.org/10.1177/0010...
Our data paper on the Regime Support and Opposition Groups data was just published in @bjpols.bsky.social !
Co-authored with @sirianned.bsky.social , @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social and @torewig.bsky.social
Here comes a relatively long thread (as is appropriate for a long-term project)
"In Britain and across Europe I fear free speech is in retreat"
-JD Vance
Life, and research on status in IR, goes on. So, you IR scholars who study role of status, check this out!
25/ Putting this issue together has been an incredible journey. Huge thanks to all our contributors, the reviewers, to @europeanisa.bsky.social, and to @coco-journal.bsky.social for making it happen!
📖 Read the full issue (open access!):
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/toc/caca/60/1
🚀 Hope you enjoy it!
24/ Wohlforth builds a typology of status symbols which he uses to challenge the idea that status competition is inherently irrational, showing how small-s status-seeking can be cost-effective & strategically beneficial
23/ 📄 Rethinking status-seeking in IR
In the concluding article, @wwohlforth.bsky.social critically examines the contributions and agenda of the special issue. He distinguishes “small-s” status (everyday symbols) from “big-S” great power status
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
