Aleksandra Spalinska

This year the Standing Section on World Politics Beyond the State System (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social) has 12 sessions, including two RTs! Panels cover heterarchy, societal multiplicity, the New Cold War, private and substate actors, and insurgency! 

See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25

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My new article on “Conceptual Entrapment” is out online-first with @EuroJournIR!
Proud of this one: critical concept studies, autoethnography & soft power all come together to reflect on the researcher–concept relationship.

Take a look here!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

To explore other sessions in our section, please check out the conference programme! Each year we have more 😃😎
@europeanisa.bsky.social

The second RT, organised and chaired by Justin Rosenberg, will address the problem of "Thinking the International" with Sebastian Schindler, Pinar Bilgin, Oliver Kessler, and Rob B. J. Walker! Thursday, 28 August, at 11.00-12.30.

We would like to highlight the RTs: first, we will discuss the "Spaces, Relations and Struggles of Ukrainians in International Theory" with Bohdana Kurylo, Cornelia Baciu, Olena Snigyr, Mateusz Filary Szczepanik, Victoria Vdovychenko, Jochen Kleinshmidt, and me. Wednesday, 27 August at 11.00-12.30.

This year the Standing Section on World Politics Beyond the State System (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social) has 12 sessions, including two RTs! Panels cover heterarchy, societal multiplicity, the New Cold War, private and substate actors, and insurgency! 

See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25

Mam gdzieś obu prezydentów i tego byłego i tym bardziej przyszłego . Za to wieczór dzisiaj był cudny

The International Affairs summer reading list 2025 There is nothing quite like spending the summer lost within the pages of a great book — or ten. Every year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana…

☀️ The wait is over: our summer reading list 2025 is here!

Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...

Welcome to the Era of Great Power Stupidity The U.S. is throwing out all its goodwill while Russia and China seem determined to shoot themselves in the foot. The reason why is simple: stupidity.

No bigger concepts than "Great Power" and "multipolarity". This piece highlights how the two intersect...to disastrous results

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-trump-rus...

In Foreign Policy, Being Smart Is a Pretty High Bar The idea of “smart power” seems especially relevant today. But foreign policy choices usually don’t boil down to obvious outcomes.

Great Power stupidity might be unavoidable, simply because the international system is complex. Even when it is "rational", it can still not result in "smart" decisions.

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/foreign-poli...

With the holiday, no new column this week.

Instead, here's a 🧵 highlighting some of the @wpr.bsky.social pieces I've written so far this year and how they can be used to teach International Relations concepts.

Looking forward to hearing you, indeed on a powerful panel on planting, eating and resisting together with Mariia Banko speaking on cooking, solidarity and resistance, Saltanat Shoshanova on the queeering of traditional food rituals and Maya Hayda on artistic engagements with seeds and displacement

Transnational Infrastructures and the Transformation of Global Orders This book offers a multidisciplinary insight into the significance of infrastructural change for global orders.

New book on #infrastructure and #international_relations out now - including my reflections on how infrastructural development has enabled (re)formations of #international_society. Check it out! @iratut.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Delighted to say that at the upcoming RUTA Conference
(@associationruta.bsky.social)I will present my poetry project, "A Song of Sunrise and Blood: Cartographies of Terror, Endurance and Revival"! It covers my poems on Ukraine, mapping wartime terrors, grief, and resilience through verse. See you!

photo of a protest, one poster reads 'stand with ukraine'

📚 New 👉 "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and Ukrainian civil society in wartime"

@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social‬ draws on a four-year study (2018–22) of civic engagement in wartime Ukraine, examining through a vernacular security lens

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to share my chapter on Zelenskyy's populist aesthetics of security in the Routledge Handbook of #Populism and #ForeignPolicy. Many thanks to editors @davidcadier.bsky.social, @achryssogelos.bsky.social & @sdestradi.bsky.social

@lsemethodology.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

Photographer: „do you want the BISA banner?“ - Me/ :
„no we‘re enough“ (because, look who’s next to me!)

What an honour to finally meet this absolutely brilliant mind I‘ve been admiring for over two years now @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social

@mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025

UN collusion with the Taliban is betraying Afghan women Once again, the world has failed Afghan women and girls. 15 August 2024 marks three years of devastating attacks on women's rights, and freedom of movement under the gender-apartheid Taliban regime. L...

🎉 Congratulations to our winners of the Loop Best Blog prize 2024, @priscyll.bsky.social and Lida Ahmad!
🥇 Read their winning article selected by our jury Benjamin Carver, @alexspalinska.bsky.social and 2023 prize winner, Brandon Mack.
#SupportAfghanWomen
➡️ ow.ly/W6zz50W3gpU

Publication Alert 📝

New article with @lucasschramm91.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social

It contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of differentiation in the EU. Case studies from EMU & Schengen show how issue-specific incentives lead to atypical integration patterns.

The very presence of Crimean Tatars on their ancestral land is an act of resistance. How will the next generation, born and raised under occupation, define its reality, and what is the most desirable future for Crimea? Join us for a webinar with Emine Ziyatdin, Maria Shynkarenko and Suleiman Mamutov

The lack of expertise on East-Central Europe - or perhaps more precisely the lack of recognition that expertise is actually needed - across sectors, from the media to arts to academia, is often breathtaking… including the too often terrible pronunciation of people’s names once it gets to spoken word

We're still looking forward to seeing your abstracts! Deadline: 20th March. #EISAPEC25

See you in Bologna! 😃

@europeanisa.bsky.social

Our Standing Section at EISA conference (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social)explores non-state and societal dimensions of world politics: non-state actors, limited statehood, channels for foreign influence, policies and practices at the intersection of hierarchy and anarchy. #EISAPEC25 1/4

The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change Sovereignty is a crucial and contested concept in International Relations (IR). As Terje Rasmussen's book shows, it is also dynamic and constantly evolving

🎓 Check out @alexspalinska.bsky.social's review of Terje Rasmussen's "The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change" in International Affairs
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...

Thank you! Unfortunately, it's not available at this moment. Currently I'm working on the book based on my dissertation. Hopefully, it will be published next year.

To oszałamiające zdjęcie uchwyciło eteryczne piękno kultowego efektu „firefall” w Parku Narodowym #Yosemite, gdzie światło słoneczne lub księżycowe oświetla Horsetail Fall, sprawiając, że świeci jak roztopiona lawa. Magia natury w najlepszym wydaniu.

The EISA @europeanisa.bsky.social
conference is scheduled for 25th-29th August 2025.

3. Struggles: conflict, collaboration, persistence, survival and securitization among the state, non-state and societal actors. That includes related struggles in IR theory such as attempts to debunk statism and Eurocentrism.
See you in Bologna! Abstracts due by 20th March.

2. Relations: dynamics, developments, strategies, and patterns of interactions and coexistence among state, non-state and societal actors. The contestation and the dynamics of the international beyond the state system.

We explore beyond-the-state world politics through:

1. Spaces: the outside(s), frontiers, boundaries, liminal spaces, "uncharted" terrains beyond the state power. Spatiality and territoriality beyond the modern state system; the international as a relational and liminal space.