🏆 The Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) invites submissions for the 2026 Sussex International Theory Prize. @sussexfss.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
Further information below 👇 Please circulate widely!
🚨EPIR THESIS PRIZE CALL
We are pleased to announce our 2026 Thesis Prize, to be awarded for the best doctoral thesis on emotions in Politics and IR.🏆
The Prize is a collaboration with he Brill Critical Emotion Studies book series.
Deadline: 20 March 2026
@mybisa.bsky.social
A great opportunity: the winner of BISA Global Nuclear Order Working Group's first Paper Prize for Early Career Researchers will receive a *guaranteed* peer review at EJIS! 🚀
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The registration deadline for #BISA2026 is today ‼️
Join us in Brighton in June: 'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🎉
Register now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk
Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social VisitBrighton Juanita Elias
Trump Tweet from 2013 Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!
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🪖📚 NEW: "The emotional politics of sovereignty: On dignity, state personhood, and kidnappings" from @nckc.bsky.social & @minseonku.bsky.social.
👉 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Very excited to see Cian O'Driscoll's and my article 'Dressed to kill: the material ethics of war' out now in @ejir.bsky.social. It's open source so please check it out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Call for applications: Undergraduate research presentations 🌟
Are you excited by a piece or work you have written? Come present your work and get feedback from your peers & academics with BISA/ British Foreign Policy Group UGN on 2 June in Brighton 🎉
Submit now 👉 https://ow.ly/YT6c50Yitzb
Forum in ISR! "New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts" - With contributions by Nick Wheeler, @profmholmes.bsky.social, Brian Rathbun, Amitav Acharya and @jennifermitzen.bsky.social. Edited by @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social, @cdaase.bsky.social, @ndeitelhoff.bsky.social and me. Short 🧵 1/5
New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts
Ein Open-Access-Forum im International Studies Review (ISR) von @tobiaswille.bsky.social, @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social, @ndeitelhoff.bsky.social, @cdaase.bsky.social, @jennifermitzen.bsky.social, et al.
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/isr/...
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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It even contains a chapter on #Morgenthau and translation. A couple of years ago, I also reflected on the role of languages and translation for the thought of European emigre scholars that have been transformative for #IR. See here 👇
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526135711/
This @uofmpress.bsky.social edited volume by Mauro José Caraccioli and Einar Wigen seems very interesting and timely with a rising interest in the role of languages for world politics. And what a stellar cast it has. It is open access available here 👇
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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....
NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
Cover of edited volume "Experts in a Turbulent World" (OUP)
Now with a cover! 😎
"Experts in a Turbulent World" @academic.oup.com – out soon! 👇
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📌 If you want to know more about our postgraduate courses, please see here:
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/master...
🎒 Great day for our @sussex.ac.uk International Relations postgraduate students at the Houses of Parliament and the #FCDO. Thank you very much to @greenparty.org.uk Siân Berry, MP for Brighton Pavilion, to host us at the Parliament and to Rosie Grieves to welcome us at the FCDO.
Delighted to share this EJIR paper, co-authored with my brilliant friend Maarten Meijer.
We track the story of how hydroponics triggered connected geopolitical fantasies before and after 1945, from the Pacific to Israel and Bengal.
Hope it's a good read!
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This is the first book to cover the evolution and scope of Aldous Huxley’s socio-political ideas in a concise and highly accessible manner, both for political theorists and interested students from various disciplines. Read more here: bit.ly/4rjTHHK. #BookSky
For more information on the series and the books we published so far, please follow the link below. If you are interested in contributing, you find the book proposal form there as well. For questions or if you need further info, feel free to DM me.
link.springer.com/series/15014
🚨The latest addition to our @hss.springernature.com Global Political Thinkers series has arrived. Uwe Rasch's timely contribution on Aldous #Huxley and the Enemies of #Freedom.
Social media card with the British Council logo and the words in partnership with and the BISA logo. Beneath it says 'Masters dissertation prize in International Relations, New voices in cultural relations. Open to all international relations masters students in the UK. Showcase your work, boost your profile and compete for exciting prizes. Check the link for details and submit your entry today! Entries close 3 February 2026.
Don't forget that our joint 'new voices in cultural relations prize' with British Council is open for nominations! 🌟
IR masters students in the UK: showcase your work and establish yourself in the field! 🎉
Apply today 👉 https://ow.ly/c4t450XSQ6X
Here's an older article from yours truly on the "Global South" as metageography. In short: it's not a bloc of countries or some such thing.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social organsied a Special Issue on Erased, including a reply. I'm so grateful to Helen M. Kinsella, Joseph MacKay, Christine Sylvester, Immi Tallgren, and Tarak Barkawi for their commentaries. Links to each below...
Adam Lerner and Jarrod Hayes, "Historical IR and the Promise of Renewed Dialogue between IR and History," Cooperation & Conflict (2026)
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Online first article available #OpenAccess:
The rise and fall of liberal aspirations in international politics: the good governance agenda in the United Nations General Assembly (1970–2020)
Authored by Jens Steffek, Ana Schenk and Marcus Müller
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
Delighted to join the podcast of the @risjnl.bsky.social - one of my favorite journals - to discuss the topic of my @mybisa.bsky.social keynote in Belfast last June - Seeing and Sensing World Politics - with my colleague @sebkaempf.bsky.social.
"From trust to trusting: Bringing a practice perspective to bear on trust research in IR" Just out with @coco-journal.bsky.social! The article explores how ideas from practice theory can improve our understanding of trust in IR. @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @trust-ir.bsky.social 1/3
Social media card with the British Council logo and the words in partnership with and the BISA logo. Beneath it says 'Masters dissertation prize in International Relations, New voices in cultural relations. Open to all international relations masters students in the UK. Showcase your work, boost your profile and compete for exciting prizes. Check the link for details and submit your entry today! Entries close 3 February 2026.
Applications are open now for our 'new voices in cultural relations prize' with British Council
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Open to all IR masters students in the UK to showcase your work, establish yourself in the IR field and boost your profile! 🌟
Apply today before 3 Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/c4t450XSQ6X
