Matt Castle

Matt Castle

@matthewcastle.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington. https://sites.google.com/site/matthewcastle

24 Followers 124 Following 5 Posts Joined Nov 2024
11 months ago
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A truly inspirational lecture from Amitav Acharya, 2025's visiting Kippenberger Prof @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social's Centre for Strategic Studies. Fitting end to April 2/3 to hear 5000 years of context for thinking about world order

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11 months ago

This is so crazy

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11 months ago
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Wow this is wild.

James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

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11 months ago

He's getting emotional. You can see the delirium setting in.

I want a Thurmond-record countdown clock, C-SPAN! Three hours and 15 minutes to go.

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11 months ago

There was a point in 2019, when everyone was generally not thrilled with their available choices in the Democratic primary, when this version of Cory Booker should have cooked.

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11 months ago
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Responding to Unilateral Challenges to International Institutions Abstracts. How do international institutions respond to unilateral challenges by its member states, such as non-compliance, blocking of reforms, renegotiat

Every once in a while, we write articles we truly care about.

This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ:

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1 year ago
APSR 2025

Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise.

How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support?

In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social
paper exploring
Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out

shorturl.at/xgeho

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1 year ago
Pūkenga | Lecturer in International Relations/International Security Join our Political Science and International Relations Programme in this permanent, full-time role.

We are hiring! Come and work in Wellington in a wonderful department stacked with great people.

Search is for IR/strategic studies, focus on Asian IR and/or Asian security. Interest in NZ-Asia or Australia-Asia relations a plus.

Close date 17 March 2025

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1 year ago

Media: "Elon Musk stirs debate by changing the logo of X to the swastika, a Hindu glyph symbolizing the sun, prosperity, and good luck."

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1 year ago
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A Great Power War Is Coming The implicit assumption behind a lot of recent rhetoric.

As of today I'll be a monthly contributor to World Politics Review. A link to my cheery, super-upbeat column is contained in this post! danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-great-po...

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1 year ago
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Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz – live Chancellor triggered path to elections, due to take place on 23 February, by firing finance minister Christian Lindner last month Scholz, who is deeply unpopular, will begin the session at 1pm CET with a short speech presenting his reasons for calling…

Germany: parliament to declare no confidence in chancellor Olaf Scholz – live

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1 year ago

Great thread and discussion here

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1 year ago
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Really enjoyed our intense, stimulating, and fun workshop on when, why, and how the accommodation dilemma shapes how the international community deals with noncooperation. Looking forward to co-editing a special issue on this with the wonderful @lisadellmuth.bsky.social!

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1 year ago

Congrats and thanks to @stefwalter.bsky.social and @lisadellmuth.bsky.social for organising a super workshop - such a rich couple of days (and in a very beautiful spot!). Feeling lucky to be working with such a great bunch of people.

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