Adam Humphreys

Fabulous discussion of a new benchmark text in the theory and methods of causal inquiry. Quizzed by data scientists, IR theorists, comparativists and policy-facing colleagues, Adam had compelling answers for us all. 👏🏻

It was a pleasure to speak to Exeter SSI and @cais-exeter.bsky.social yesterday about my new book Causal Inquiry in International Relations
(open access: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...). Thanks to @blagdendavid.bsky.social and @profalexp.bsky.social for organizing

YouTube video by International School History Hawley–Smoot Tariff - Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

I miss the world in which this was commonplace knowledge.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...

As @bsky.app thinks a book prize call is Spam....

📢 We invite submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Details below. Please share widely! 🚨 #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

@mybisa.bsky.social

@isanet.bsky.social

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.

tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

The Path to American Authoritarianism What comes after democratic breakdown.

All too plausible :(
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Friendly reminder to submit to our @europeanisa.bsky.social #EWIS25 workshop on deception in IR if you haven't yet! 👇

I was delighted to talk earlier today to the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, about my new book Causal Inquiry in International Relations, which is available free and open access: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Thanks for the great comments and questions!

Interview – Adam Humphreys Adam Humphreys expands on theoretical approaches to causation in international relations, and its implications both in research and in practice.

I'm delighted to share an interview with e-IR, in which I discuss my recent book Causal Inquiry in International Relations as well as themes from earlier work and broader trends in IR:
www.e-ir.info/2025/01/07/i...

Free digital copies of the book can be found here: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

Interview – Adam Humphreys Adam Humphreys expands on theoretical approaches to causation in international relations, and its implications both in research and in practice.

I'm delighted to share an interview with e-IR, in which I discuss my recent book Causal Inquiry in International Relations as well as themes from earlier work and broader trends in IR:
www.e-ir.info/2025/01/07/i...

Free digital copies of the book can be found here: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

Need holiday reading recommendations?📚

Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question by @rkrystalli.bsky.social
Causal Inquiry in International Relations by
@adamhumphreys.bsky.social & Hidemi Suganami

More books from our members👉https://www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/latest-ir-autumn-book-round-2

#BISA AUTUMN book round up! 📚

Featuring the latest IR from our BISA members, inc.:

@edmundsprof.bsky.social
@adamhumphreys.bsky.social
@rkrystalli.bsky.social
+ many more!

See the list here👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/lat...

@brisunipress.bsky.social
@york.ac.uk
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

The Pentagon Papers of Pete Hegseth Trump's New Secretary of Civil War Meets the Press

I gathered up my reading notes on the deeply fascist new book by Trump's Defense Secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, on my substack, Scenes from a Slow Civil War. I think I may rev that thing up again, too. Please consider subscribing. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-pentag...

Russia academics: I need ONE more paper for a BISA panel by tomorrow! We have papers on Russian militarism, violence, identity...if you want to submit or have colleagues/grad students who are interested, please let them know asap!

(And please share this post - we're up against a deadline)

Direct link to free download here: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

I would be delighted to give talks about the ideas in the book either in person (UK-based) or online. Please do get in touch!

- anyone interested in how causal inquiry relates to other approaches to the study of world politics, including normative, interpretive, critical, and historical inquiry

We hope it will be of interest to
- anyone conducting causal inquiry and interested in the reasoning and assumptions which underpin it
- anyone seeking to make sense of ongoing debates, in IR and philosophy, about causation, causal inference, and causal explanation

In this book, we try to do 3 things:
1. Demonstrate what is problematic about some established ways of thinking
2. Provide a new, improved account of the 'deep logic' of causal inquiry
3. Show how causal inquiry can contribute to empirically rich but critically aware scholarship about world politics

Out today from OUP: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Free and open access anywhere in the world, and the product of nearly 10 years work with the inestimable Hidemi Suganami, this book seeks to provide a fuller, more adequate account of causal inquiry than has so far been developed in IR

My new book (with Hidemi Suganami) now has a cover! Coming out October, and open access, too!

On the matter of the British Library cyber incident The most important lesson to figure out is why it is taking so long to restore services. That will tell us how to prevent such a calamity in other vital national institutions.

Excellent article on the cyber attack on the British Library; my guess is that the lessons apply very strongly to most universities: ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/on-the-mat...