@shalabhc.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, University of Canterbury, New Zealand | Foreign Policy, Narratives, Ontological Security, Emotions and Friendship
Grok's Turkish replies certainly have a different vibe. Is X blocked in Turkey yet?
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Beyond thrilled to have my new article on ‘radical contestion’ published in @risjnl.bsky.social!
Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Please feel free to share further 😊
@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
1/2 It's worth reflecting on the fact that the proscription of @palaction.bsky.social comes not because the state is strong, but because it is weak. The established methods of repression and criminalisation have not stood up to the bravery and commitment of activists.
04.07.2025 06:03 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Excited to share that I've been awarded the Ernst Mach Grant to work on a 4-month-long research project at the Diplomatische Akademie Wien (Vienna School of International Studies).
I presented the preliminary theoretical ideas for this project at the BISA Conference 2 weeks ago!
🎉 New @risjnl.bsky.social article by Jacqui Cho 🎉
'Making peace within hierarchy: Seeing international peacemaking, world order, and history from Cameroon' @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
🌟 Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
I have been honourably mentioned! Thanks so much to @mybisa.bsky.social and the judges and all of the people who helped get my thesis over the line!
20.06.2025 16:10 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
🏆🏆Absolute pleasure to be awarded the:
-RIS Best Article Prize for "Theorising the Memescape: The Spatial Politics of Internet Memes
-Honourable Mention for BISA Michael Nicholson Best Thesis Prize @MYBISA
-BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group Best Thesis Prize
1/3. We’re excited to share a new article: “China’s Passport Power and Belt‑and‑Road Initiative: An Investigation of Passport Relations”, by Jason Hung. It reveals how China’s BRI has reshaped its global travel freedom and soft power projection.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
Pleased my paper “American Pragmatism, The Frankfurt School and the future of Critical IR theory” has been accepted for publication in Review of International Studies. Abstract 👇
25.05.2025 18:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
we all fail rather frequently in different aspects of academic work - but we rarely talk about it
check out this🔥@ispjournal.bsky.social forum on understanding, reflecting, and coping with failure
@meibauir.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social @jrodehaun.bsky.social
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Our fifth monthly pick is "Re-thinking Global Governance as Fuzzy: Multi-Scalar Boundaries of Responsibility in the Arctic" by @hansenmagnusson.bsky.social (@culawandpolitics.bsky.social) and @charlygehrke.bsky.social (@hgir.bsky.social).
#Artic #Boundaries
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
You know it's bad when the introverts are here. ☹️
It's bad. It's really bad.
05.04.2025 19:04 — 👍 431 🔁 88 💬 3 📌 3
This study examines how US-China geopolitical rivalry is reshaping global economic order. It identifies gaps in existing research on hegemonic state behaviour and presents an alternative theory based on cultural realism. This latter builds on realism by arguing that political culture influences the intensity of geopolitical tensions. Drawing on domestic political discourse, this study demonstrates that US and China geopolitical tensions are driven by conflicting national political cultures that generate competing visions of global order, reducing the capacity of international institutions to sustain cooperation. This divergence manifest in geoeconomic competition and weaking multilateralism. Theoretical expectations suggest an emerging geoeconomic world economy operating alongside the WTO-based multilateral economic order. The article analyses recent US industrial policies as a case study illustrating this dual order. The simultaneous existence of multilateralism and geoeconomic competition, implies governments face a novel, highly complex policy domain in an era of rising national economic security needs. Keywords: security dilemma; cultural realism; geoeconomics; economic security; multilateralism.
🚨New online! "US-China competition, world order and economic decoupling: insights from cultural realism" by Naoise McDonagh. #openaccess ⬇️ #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations #AcademicSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
🚨New Special Forum🚨
Introducing a new special forum “Rethinking Failure: Feminist Peacebuilding and the Peace Continuum in Violent and Illiberal “Post-Conflict” Settings” by
Miriam J Anderson, Elizabeth S Corredor, & Julia Zulver
Read OPEN ACCESS here:
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Palestinian authorities have begun operating 13 mobile desalination stations in Gaza, where Palestinians are enduring a dire water crisis after Israeli forces destroyed 85% of the enclave’s water and sanitation facilities.
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Dear co-authors, please list 5 things you did on our paper last week.
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ABSTRACT "This article presents a psycho-cultural framework for analysing US-China relations in the context of the great power competition, explaining the escalation of their rivalry and the proliferation of conflict. It emphasises the critical role of self-esteem and culture in shaping domestic and international dynamics, focusing on the interplay between honour and face as distinct expressions of self-esteem in US and Chinese societies. The study illustrates how pursuing national self-esteem drives confrontational interactions between these two powers, with the 2018-2020 US-China trade war as a prime example. Here, nationalist narratives were crafted to evoke emotional resonance with domestic audiences, intensifying the conflict beyond mere economic competition into a struggle for national self-esteem. The rise of identity politics in both countries has further exacerbated tensions, as perceived disrespect has triggered coercive responses, worsening bilateral relations". Keywords: US-China relations; trade war; national identity; self-esteem.
🚨New online! @yexue001.bsky.social discusses "Honour versus face: a psycho-cultural approach to US-China great power politics". 🇨🇳-🇺🇸 #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations #US-China #AcademicSky ⬇️
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Stephen Fry, "I'm deeply worried about the darkening shadow that's going over the world, the shadow of fascism"
Laura Kuenssberg, "You would use that word?"
Stephen Fry, "Absolutely. It's a cult of power. And power only speaks to power"
What exactly is ontological (in)security? And what is ontological security's ethical, reparative, and transformative potential? In my new article in
@internatltheory.bsky.social, I suggest drawing on Melanie Klein rather than Giddens to conceptualise these questions
doi.org/10.1017/S175...
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Screenshot of a paper in the International Journal of Press/Politics. Title: When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries. Authors: Petter Törnberg and Juliana Chueri. Abstract: The spread of misinformation has emerged as a global concern. Academic attention has recently shifted to emphasize the role of political elites as drivers of misinformation. Yet, little is known of the relationship between party politics and the spread of misinformation—in part due to a dearth of cross-national empirical data needed for comparative study. This article examines which parties are more likely to spread misinformation, by drawing on a comprehensive database of 32M tweets from parliamentarians in 26 countries, spanning 6years and several election periods. The dataset is combined with external databases such as Parlgov and V-Dem, linking the spread of misinformation to detailed information about political parties and cabinets, thus enabling a comparative politics approach to misinformation. Using multilevel analysis with random country intercepts, we find that radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Populism, left- wing populism, and right-wing politics are not linked to the spread of misinformation. These results suggest that political misinformation should be understood as part and parcel of the current wave of radical right populism, and its opposition to liberal democratic institution.
This multi-year, multi-country analysis shows that right-wing populist politicians spread more online misinfo than their mainstream counterparts and explains how “the rise of political misinformation is associated to the recent wave of radical-right populism.”
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New paper 🚨with Natasha Wunsch in EJPR
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization
We theorize & empirically explore how democratic backsliding may shape an affective divide between government & opposition supporters
doi.org/10.1111/1475...
Interesting. SF writers have often contributed to policy scenarios. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
19.01.2025 12:59 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Free Palestine.
15.01.2025 19:06 — 👍 2112 🔁 666 💬 42 📌 20"But not everyone is as downcast as the Europeans: 84% of Indians told pollsters they thought Trump would be good for #India; only 6% thought his return would hurt their national interests."
www.euractiv.com/section/poli...
Use your excitement and relief to help a Palestinian in Gaza today - share their fundraisers, donate, use this energy to help them survive. They have a long road ahead.
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Interesting piece 👇 on foreign policy preference formation in the US, 'introducing the Prejudice First Model, arguing that foreign policy preferences and orientations are driven by attitudes toward the groups being affected by specific policies'
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Today is the day! Delighted that this is out! Co-authored with Amitav Acharya @yalepress.bsky.social 1/n
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Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals!
More info here:
csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...
