Deepak Nair

Next in our ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series: Professor Itty Abraham (Arizona State University).
Online, 15 October 2pm AEST.
Abstract and registration:
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In a day in which those who perpetrated a genocide and those who were complicit gather to pat themselves on the back as peacemakers, I recommend two books.

www.bradleyrsimpson.com/self-determi... Modeling archival sharing and collaborative research, @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social shares significant portions of the archival material behind THE FIRST RIGHT, his exciting new book on self-determination - global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Its out in the world!

seeing the recognition of Palestinian statehood dismissed as 'performative' (US State Dept) makes me wonder how the meaning of the word 'performative' has gone from words that do things (Austin, Butler) to words that do nothing

The gaze is up-close Indian & South Asian but the arguments are discipline facing and will hopefully shape conversations in IR broadly, especially since (globalized) caste vocabularies pervade world politics – from "outcastes" and "pariahs" to brahmins and pundits.

Many cracking reads in this Special Issue – from the diabolical politics of the category of "pariah states," and a scathing indictment of Indian secularism in its effacement of caste politics, to sensitive portraits of dalit and anti-caste figures like Ambedkar, KR Narayanan, and Kanshi Ram.

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy's Special Issue on Caste in Indian Diplomacy & IR is out. Edited by Vineet Thakur, Pavan Kumar & Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social @haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social

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At a time when politics feels bleak and frustrating, I wrote a book on empathy and politics to inject much needed hope into the conversation and offer some ideas for change.

Out soon with @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social and available for preorder now 📚

#Empathy #Politics #Leadership

Congrats, Claire! Look forward to reading.

Talk by @quahsayjye.bsky.social next week for the ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series. It's online. This pic of Lee Kuan Yew and Samuel Huntington from 1970 is a nice teaser of Quah's argument and his wider project on global intellectual history.
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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

Absolutely mind-blown! 🤯 What an honour to receive this prize. Enormous thanks to the prize committee, everyone who helped sharpen the argument & my incredible interlocutors in Crimea for whom the struggle for human rights continues.

Letter to ISA Executive Leadership to take action against the genocide and mass starvation in Gaza Dear fellow ISA member, The genocide in Gaza, Palestine is reaching a new threshold of catastrophe with exponentially growing numbers of Palestinians being killed through a premeditated calculus of ma...

IR Colleagues, please consider signing. It's been two years of petitioning and protesting, but ISA's Executive Leadership remains blind and mute to Israel's campaign of scholasticide.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Fred Cooper tackling the concepts of decolonization and decoloniality in new Comparative Studies in Society & History article: "Decolonizing Decolonization."

From Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding to Zohran Mamdani – Mira Nair is a gift that keeps giving.

Excellent commentary by @drbeezee.bsky.social

Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians seeking food in Gaza, health officials say Dozens more wounded as crowds approached food distribution centres run by Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

These "hunger games" being played by Israel and the US are so disgusting. The humiliation and terrorizing and murdering of Palestinians via inhumanitarian aid is further evidence of how dehumanized Israel and the US are.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

SecDef Hegseth's Shangri-La Dialogue speech repeated conventional wisdom that's already eroded. No longer a functional division of getting security from US, prosperity from China. China's emerged as a global security provider, as @ibkardon.bsky.social and I show in @intsecurity.bsky.social:

For a supposedly ‘international’ organisation, the email sent by the ISA President basically begging and browbeating scholars to make the trip to Columbus, Ohio is just amazingly tone deaf. Attending is couched in smorgasbord of hyperbolic rhetoric, WW2(!), the Cold War(!), Gandhi (!) without so

If I read this correctly, I should not let my pithy self-interest in not getting deported to El Salvador allow me to evade my moral responsibility to hang out in some Hilton hallway (and pay conference fees).

Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan

🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology:

#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan

Find the paper here (open-access):

academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Cheers. This looks great- congrats!

Join us for the Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture 2024/25, where Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics.

🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4kh5uTy

My article with Jamie Levin, on nuclear strategy, firearms analogies, and settler colonialism, is now out at Security Dialogue. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The editors Matthew Phillips & Naoko Shimazu (neither of whom are on Bluesky) have asked me to share news of this new book: A visual history of diplomacy in Cold War Asia. I'm very pleased to have contributed a chapter #HistIR @ndh-network.bsky.social #diplomacy @cambridgeup.bsky.social

Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles

‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’ This introduction to the forum marking the 75th anniversary of the Department of International Relations (IR) at the Australian National University (ANU) is organised in three parts. First, it ‘loo...

@georgelawson.bsky.social reflecting on 75 years of IR/area studies at the ANU. This intro to the special issue is a compelling set of reflections on Aussie IR from a UK expat. Main takeaway: the ANU is still a cracking place to do IR, and the future of IR, at the ANU at least, is in good hands. 🙌🏻

By the brilliant @rahulraothariel.bsky.social

Imperial boomerang all the way down