Cooperation and Conflict

My latest article is out now open access with @coco-journal.bsky.social.

'Gaza and the failure of atrocity prevention...' examines the need for closer integration between the cosmopolitan harm duty and atrocity prevention under the R2P.

Many thanks to all those who provided feedback along the way.

The Global South and the contestation of unilateral sanctions against Russia - Stefano Palestini, Clara Portela, 2025 States from the Global South have long advanced normative claims against the legitimacy of unilateral sanctions. These arguments have been routinely voiced thro...

Delighted to announce that my article on #GlobalSouth #contestation of unilateral #sanctions against #Russia at #UN fora, co-authored with Stefano Palestini is now out with the journal Co-operation and Conflict @coco-journal.bsky.social !
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My paper, published in @coco-journal.bsky.social, demonstrates the relevance of operational claims for IO legitimation. I focus on one common type of operational claim-making whereby IOs invoke tradeoffs between norms to account for perceived legitimacy deficits. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Cooperation and Conflict - Volume 60, Number 1, Mar 01, 2025 Table of contents for Cooperation and Conflict, 60, 1, Mar 01, 2025

🚨 New Special Issue! 🚨
1/ What do opera houses, NATO troops & climate rankings have in common? Mine and @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social's special issue in @coco-journal.bsky.social answers just that: They are all status symbols
📖 Read the full issue (open access!)
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Cooperation and Conflict - Volume 60, Number 1, Mar 01, 2025 Table of contents for Cooperation and Conflict, 60, 1, Mar 01, 2025

25/ Putting this issue together has been an incredible journey. Huge thanks to all our contributors, the reviewers, to @europeanisa.bsky.social, and to @coco-journal.bsky.social for making it happen!

📖 Read the full issue (open access!):
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🚀 Hope you enjoy it!

Got 5m to kill at #ISA2025? Check out this bumper thread discussing every contribution to our new special issue: "Status symbols in World Politics" in @coco-journal.bsky.social

Great discussion with superb IR editors. Thanks for representing us, @kristinhaugevik.bsky.social !

Conceived at Baltimore 2016, it's fitting that our special issue Status Symbols in World Politics is out in time for #ISA2025! The intro makes case for why status symbols warrant sustained attention in IR & develops a framework for studying them 🧵 1/: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Come meet our EIC @kristinhaugevik.bsky.social today SC13: 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM in Williford B, Chicago Hilton to discuss publishing in IR journals. With @risjnl.bsky.social @iojournal.bsky.social among others. #ISA2025

IR scholars working in/on the Nordic countries: Join us for the Inaugural Meeting of the Nordic Caucus (NOCA) of the @isanet.bsky.social at #ISA2025 (Sunday March 2, 12:30-13:30 in Buckingham, Chicago Hilton)!

Call for Abstracts: 2025 NUPI Theory Conference | NUPI Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times

The Call for Abstracts for the first ever NUPI (@nupinytt.bsky.social) Theory Conference in Oslo 22-24 September: "Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times". With a keynote by the excellent Stefano Guzzini, and a roundtable tba. We hope to see you there!

📢 New Article Alert! 📢

How does the notion of societal multiplicity in IR overlook the psychological impact of global hierarchies? Read more: @coco-journal.bsky.social

#InternationalRelations #UnevenDevelopment #Psychoanalysis #SocietalMultiplicity

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A gentle reminder to all IR scholars out there: proposals for KICKASS SPECIAL ISSUES are due in about TWO WEEKS.

Does economic globalization promote civil peace in developing countries? - Christopher Kollmeyer, 2024 This study questions the widely supported claim that economic globalization benefits developing countries by enhancing their prospects for civil peace. Drawing ...

Noted with interest: 'Does economic globalization promote civil peace in developing countries?' Kollmeyer in @coco-journal.bsky.social
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IR scholars: We've gathered the associations and groups we could find thus far. Shout out to be added.
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Of course! Done.

Shameless self-promotion! Have you ever wondered why there is an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle? Why opera houses keep sprouting in countries with no tradition for opera? @bdecarvalho.bsky.social and I certainly wondered, and had our splendid Oslo opera house as a local source of inspiration.

New & still feeling my way around here so trying an introduction via a recent essay Emma Hutchison & I wrote for @coco-journal.bsky.social with our wonderful colleagues, Josephine Bourne & Hoang Young-ju: the result of a long collaboation and much soul-searching. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Cooperation and Conflict has just published its annual call for Special Issue proposals. Deadline is 15 December: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020 - Nicholas Lees, 2024 Class is often neglected as a factor influencing foreign policy. While recent research explains the foreign policy positions of states in terms of the preferenc...

Freshly published 'Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020'
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Some International Relations (IR) journals (including ourselves) that we've encountered on Bluesky. Shout out if you see more!

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@ejir.bsky.social , @internatltheory.bsky.social , @coco-journal.bsky.social are here

Come one, come all! 🤗🎉

Welcome to BlueSky, EJIR! @ejir.bsky.social 🤗

We are thrilled to see fellow IR journals joining this platform!

Members of the CoCo editorial team will be at EISA in Potsdam this week!

Look for one of these fancy badges - and seize the opportunity to talk to one of our editors about your work!

@bdecarvalho.bsky.social
@oyvinds.bsky.social
@pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social

💫Constitutional inclusion in divided societies: Conceptual choices, practical dilemmas and the contribution of the grassroots in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland💫

Joanne McEvoy & Jennifer Todd explore the value of radical inclusion in divided places

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💫United clubs of Europe: Informal differentiation and the social ordering of intra-EU diplomacy💫

Kristin Haugevik makes the case for integrating informal, social & minilateral dynamics in analyses of ‘differentiated integration’ in the European Union context.

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💫Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations💫

Daniel Sobelman seeks to promote our understanding of triangular coercion. He proposes a conceptual model distilling its logic into the components vulnerability, resilience, and leverage.

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💫State commitments and inhumane conventional weapons: An explanatory analysis of treaty ratification💫

Jan Karlas theorises state decisions to ratify inhumane conventional weapons (ICW). He finds that insecure external environment impedes or delays ratification.

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💫 Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19 💫

Linus Hagström, Charlotte Wagnsson & Magnus Lundström explore the logics of "Othering", proposing an ideal-typical model with four forms: Emotional, strategic, analytic and nuanced othering.

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