The Spy Who Came in From the Mold.
06.03.2026 10:23
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The Spy Who Came in From the Mold.
It is an excellent idea to expand on one of the more important ways of thinking about IR.
Delighted to be one of the keynote speakers at this event in Saint Andrews.
Universalise this practice across the academic world!
My latest article ‘“Signifying Nothing”: Shakespeare’s Cascading Nihilism in Macbeth,” has just been published in Philosophy and Literature.
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📣We have kicked off todays #virtual workshop, 'Teaching ethics in dark times' with our Ethics and World Politics Working Group!
👉Todays workshop features papers on Pedagogy, moral uncertainty and the rise of populism.
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A great piece!
A couple of observations:
The plan for the Global South is made clear in the section on Africa: “we wash our hands of you, unless you have valuable minerals - in which case, let’s talk.”
The rest of the economic strategy: “free trade for thee, but not for me!”
A brief piece by me in E-IR on the shift from hegemony to primacy heralded by the U.S. National Security Strategy.
There’s a _lot_ going on in that document but I think that the explicit abandonment of hegemony for primacy is perhaps the most important.
www.e-ir.info
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
🚨 Publication Alert 🚨
"Neoclassical Realist Theory of Populist Foreign Policy" just out with @risjnl.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
I explore how populism affects state behavior over time. This aims at further integrating populism scholarship into, and combining it with, IR theory.
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#Ethics people - get your 250 abstracts to Natasha and/or I asap for our January #BISA Ethics and World Politics online event in “Teaching Ethics in Dark Times.”
Details below!
Ugh, one of those prima donna academic types.
Never heard of him.
Does anyone know of good recent pieces on Realist ethics in IR / IPT? Am giving a lecture on this in a few weeks and would be good to have a few up to date pieces.
Pondering Rashomon to teach the benefits of the English School in IR.
Idea =
3 perspectives on international society > 1
B/c 3 allows discussion => more depth re Int Soc.
ES ≠ “answer” to Int Soc but more fruitful than any single theory.
But would students be too freaked out by Rashomon?
Machiavelli is unexpectedly proving to be every bit as tricky as Hegel. I need to find people to write about who aren’t so goddamn tricky!
EISA in Bologna is uncommonly stacked with interesting panels. The Working with the Negative and the Realist Thought, Theory, and Analysis sections look particularly good.
eisa-net.org/event/pec-20...
Off to EWIS in Kraków to discuss Hegel and international law over the next couple of days.
BISA gets off to a bizarre start with a weird, wheel bump the ground landing followed by an immediate take off again abd impromptu aerial tour of Belfast and environs. Landed the second time with no difficulty.
It’s going to be one of _those_ BISAs …
Ultimately, portability will more than likely be granted because universities will want their new staff members’ outputs counted as part of their submission.
This is how you do it, kids!
More excellent work from the powerhouse that is @felixroesch.bsky.social!
Looks fascinating, Andy.
Are you short of a listen or interested in the links b/t IR theory & political ideology? @risjnl.bsky.social has just the thing for you - a new pod on our recent editor's selection, featuring our @sebkaempf.bsky.social interviewing (also our) Ben Martill:
www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...
I don’t find John McCormick’s attempts to revise the role of Agathocles in Machiavelli’s
writings convincing but I’m glad he is out there arguing against the grain.
US to declare immediate 10% tariff on imports from K2-18b
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Have Trump et al said anything at all about international law? I don’t think they have; I get the impression that it’s not on their radar _at all_. Can anyone point me to any official statements regarding the USA and international law?
Good to see the entry on Realism in the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations was in safe hands!
One person I must look into more one day is R.N. Berki. Every so often I come into contact with his essays and they’re always impressive.
Just witnessed the perfect encapsulation of the Boomer spirit: a very tiny, elderly lady with two powerful dogs meets another tiny, elderly lady with a powerful dog. Between the two tiny, elderly ladies there was one leash and not a hope of controlling any of the three dogs.