Seán Molloy

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"Neoclassical Realist Theory of Populist Foreign Policy" just out with @risjnl.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

I explore how populism affects state behavior over time. This aims at further integrating populism scholarship into, and combining it with, IR theory.

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#Ethics people - get your 250 abstracts to Natasha and/or I asap for our January #BISA Ethics and World Politics online event in “Teaching Ethics in Dark Times.”

Details below!

Ugh, one of those prima donna academic types.

Never heard of him.

Does anyone know of good recent pieces on Realist ethics in IR / IPT? Am giving a lecture on this in a few weeks and would be good to have a few up to date pieces.

Pondering Rashomon to teach the benefits of the English School in IR.

Idea =

3 perspectives on international society > 1

B/c 3 allows discussion => more depth re Int Soc.

ES ≠ “answer” to Int Soc but more fruitful than any single theory.

But would students be too freaked out by Rashomon?

Machiavelli is unexpectedly proving to be every bit as tricky as Hegel. I need to find people to write about who aren’t so goddamn tricky!

EISA in Bologna is uncommonly stacked with interesting panels. The Working with the Negative and the Realist Thought, Theory, and Analysis sections look particularly good.

eisa-net.org/event/pec-20...

Off to EWIS in Kraków to discuss Hegel and international law over the next couple of days.

BISA gets off to a bizarre start with a weird, wheel bump the ground landing followed by an immediate take off again abd impromptu aerial tour of Belfast and environs. Landed the second time with no difficulty.

It’s going to be one of _those_ BISAs …

Ultimately, portability will more than likely be granted because universities will want their new staff members’ outputs counted as part of their submission.

This is how you do it, kids!

More excellent work from the powerhouse that is @felixroesch.bsky.social!

Looks fascinating, Andy.

Editor's Selection: Theory/Ideology with Benjamin Martill - Review of International Studies – The podcast Creating conversations across articles, identifying linkages, bringing together articles that speak to similar topics is the purpose of our editor's selections. In this episode, Dr Benjamin Martill, o...

Are you short of a listen or interested in the links b/t IR theory & political ideology? @risjnl.bsky.social has just the thing for you - a new pod on our recent editor's selection, featuring our @sebkaempf.bsky.social interviewing (also our) Ben Martill:
www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...

I don’t find John McCormick’s attempts to revise the role of Agathocles in Machiavelli’s
writings convincing but I’m glad he is out there arguing against the grain.

Scientists find promising hints of life on distant planet K2-18b Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

US to declare immediate 10% tariff on imports from K2-18b

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have Trump et al said anything at all about international law? I don’t think they have; I get the impression that it’s not on their radar _at all_. Can anyone point me to any official statements regarding the USA and international law?

Good to see the entry on Realism in the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations was in safe hands!

One person I must look into more one day is R.N. Berki. Every so often I come into contact with his essays and they’re always impressive.

Just witnessed the perfect encapsulation of the Boomer spirit: a very tiny, elderly lady with two powerful dogs meets another tiny, elderly lady with a powerful dog. Between the two tiny, elderly ladies there was one leash and not a hope of controlling any of the three dogs.

Excellent work - well done.

Does #Thucydides have lessons to teach _beyond_ the strong doing what they will and the weak suffering what they must? A brief thought piece by me in Logos Magazine on the relevance of Thucydides to contemporary events in international politics. 

logosjournal.com/between-the-...

My former PhD student, Carmen Chas’s forthcoming book. A groundbreaking study that combines International Law and Realist IR theory to excellent effect.

How eruption of Vesuvius turned man’s brain to glass Ferociously hot ash cloud from the volcano that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD79 created a phenomenon not seen at any other archaeological site

*sings in Blondie*

Saw Vesuvius
And it was a gas
Soon turned out
I had a brain of glass

www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

I have an alibi …

I’m enjoying this book but can’t help feeling it’s a bit long at just short of 500 pages; that said, there’s a lot going on in Machiavelli )and the sources he draws upon) and it’s difficult to see what she could have left out.

Abstract: "One of the most influential international law articles of the past 20 years is entitled ‘International Law: A Discipline of Crisis’. Authored by Hilary Charlesworth in the aftermath of the NATO intervention in Kosovo, the article articulated a compelling feminist critique of the politics, aesthetics and implications of the discipline’s over-emphasis on crises. I revisit Charlesworth’s article with an eye on the field’s profound divisions regarding Israel’s war on Gaza. Charlesworth’s critique correctly assumed a degree of disciplinary convergence when it came to the identification of crises, even as opinions about the right response diverged. This background consensus has disintegrated in light of the field’s divergent attitudes towards the war on Gaza. As different sections of the discipline adopt diametrically opposed positions regarding the severity of the facts on the ground and their importance for international law as a field of practice and study, international law moves from being a discipline of crisis into being a discipline in crisis." Keywords: International Law; Charlesworth; crisis; Gaza; Palestine

'Towards a new IR' special section includes- Is international law a discipline OF crisis, or a discipline IN crisis? The discipline's divergent responses to Gaza suggest the latter. ⬇️ @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social #openaccess #AcademicPublishing #InternationalLaw
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why do students think they don’t have to include page numbers in their citations anymore? How did they all decide en masse _not_ to include them? Phenomenon is particularly marked in the accursed in text citation formats.

Don’t know whether to be disappointed or relieved that Foucault didn’t choose this picture to introduce The Order of Things.