Ty Solomon

discount code for Subotic book

📚Book promotion day 📚 Here is a 30% discount code for my book AND the first chapter is ungated to read for free.

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The launch of Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime will be on 3 March 2026, 5.15pm @qmulsse.bsky.social

Chuffed to be joined by Aggie Hirst, Paul Higate, Kim Hutchings, @therealisthom.bsky.social, and @debbielisle.bsky.social.

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Just got my grubby hands on a hard copy of this gorgeous book, in which I'm grateful to have a chapter. Kudos and thanks again to @simonkoschut.bsky.social and @andrewagross.bsky.social for corralling us together to accomplish this!

2025 was a terrible, depressingly relevant year to be a scholar of technology and corporate power. Some of us tried to make sense of WTF happened here (free to read): doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Farewell The Hayseed Scholar podcast has come to a close. In this farewell episode, Brent's brother Kyle hosts it and they chat about the podcast and why Brent is closing it down. Two friends of the pod, Matt McDonald and Jelena Subotic, also join to mention what they liked and what they (Jelena) did not like about the podcast. Brent closes by asking Kyle, who is a LinkedIn rockstar, about the changing landscape of social media and reaching beyond an academic audience, before the two of them sign-off for good.

Farewell

The Hayseed Scholar podcast has come to a close. In this farewell episode, Brent's brother Kyle hosts it and they chat about the podcast and why Brent is closing it down. Two friends of the pod, Matt McDonald and Jelena Subotic, also join to mention what they liked and what they…

Emotions in Politics and International Relations seminar series: An introduction to Jacques Lacan- Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) | BISA - Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) Working Group

🚨NEXT EVENT🚨

📖 Seminar series session with Todd McGowan (U of Vermont), presenting his new ‘Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan’ and introducing Lacanian psychoanalysis for politics & IR.

🗓️ Wednesday 10 December, 4pm BST (online)

🔗Register here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Transnational Kleptocracy and American Authoritarian Consolidation - Lawyers, Guns & Money Last week, Netflix reached a deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s studios and streaming business. Some right-wing influencers were livid, because Netflix produces a fair amount of LGBTQ-friendly c...

I had *planned* on writing a post today about the ongoing sane-washing of the U.S. National Security Strategy, but I decided instead to put up a more detailed version of my skeets about the entanglement of Trump corruption, overseas autocratic wealth, and U.S. media consolidation.

Jervis Forum Review 149: Steele on Hom, International Relations and the Problem of Time H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 149 Andrew R. Hom. International Relations and the Problem of Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780198850014 28…

It's a humbling, thrilling trip to have my book, IR & the Problem of Time, reviewed so generously by him who directly inspired me to do IR, Brent Steele @utah.edu Thanks also to @h-diplo.bsky.social & @szarejko.bsky.social for commissioning

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Congrats, Nicolai!!

🚨 New Publication in International Organization! 🚨

Happy to share our latest paper with @jeremymoulton.bsky.social:“The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order”, part of SI #IOFoGG on the Future of Global Governance. doi.org/10.1017/S002...
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Graphic showing double page opening of emblem book from Stirling Maxwell Collection featuring portrait of a man on the left and a printed emblem of text and image on the right. The image is overlaid with information about the fellowship scheme welcoming researchers and repeating closing date and URL to follow.

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!

We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.

Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

📆Closing date: 5 January 2026

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🚨Special issue on Global Politics of Cultural Heritage edited by @elifkalay.bsky.social and yours truly for @risjnl.bsky.social is now fully out! The project is about placing cultural heritage at the core of IR. Here is the intro, individual articles in thread👇

Check out this intro to our forthcoming special issue, by two scholarly forces of nature

New paper!

Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.

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🔔Reminder that there’s just one week to go to make your submissions for #BISA2026! Deadline: 3 Nov

We’re looking forward to your panel/paper submissions to our section✊🏻👇🏻

📢Call for Abstracts📢
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!

We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨

@mybisa.bsky.social

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

The people behind the inflated protests are performing a monumental service to democracy & peace in the US. The Regime wants riots, but these animal characters are not only an effective protest, grabbing attention & mocking ICE, they seem to reduce the risk of violent protests. It's perfect.

A screenshot of the Call for Papers - please message me for the text version

Call for Papers! Excited to be putting together a panel on more-than-human and posthuman IR for the BISA 2026 conference. Deadline Fri 24 Oct - details below. Please reach out with any queries

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Reminder that our #BISA2026 call & homepage is OPEN NOW - we can't wait to see you in Brighton! 🎉

🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT

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Police assaulted as far-right rally led by Tommy Robinson sparks clashes More than 110,000 people join Tommy Robinson-organised protest featuring racist conspiracy theories and hate speech

One reason I am American by birth and British by naturalization is that my father faced such terrifying racial hazing in 1980s London that he emigrated. When I moved here as an adult, he was worried about me. I told him it'd be fine, it had all changed.

Instead:
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Big news! #BISA2026 is already in the works, so be sure to submit papers and panels. The submission site opens on September 24 ⬇️

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.

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The various WWII commemoration events demonstrate just how important ritual is for international relations. Take a look at the special collection put together by our editor Maria Mälksoo on ritual in IR ⤵️

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I've followed defence tech industry (war tech?) narratives for a while - renaming of the DoD as Department of War, & the pivot to some crude ideation of war, victory and warriors is a longer-standing fantasy floated by figures like Alex Karp (Palantir) and Palmer Luckey (Anduril). 1/

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🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.

The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Making sure my memes are on trend for the new academic year

Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ still speaks to a nation vacillating between hope and despair Springsteen initially hated the album so much that he tossed a test pressing into a pool. But its operatic tracks about freedom and fate, triumph and tragedy, continue to resonate today.

Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ still speaks to a nation vacillating between hope and despair
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