Rafi Youatt

What Southeast Asian history tells us about a multipolar order | Aeon Essays As Pax Americana ends, a multipolar order is emerging. The history of Southeast Asia holds lessons for what’s to come

Southeast Asian history shows us that there are other pathways to international order and that, contrary to Western modes of thinking, a hegemonic power is not required for stability

Three Images of Planetary Politics Abstract. Three images may help to understand planetary politics. The first refers to a Nomos of the Earth defined as a conquest of lands between States. W

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The green transition has a surprising new home Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling

The green transition has a surprising new home: the global south. (Gift article.)

Well, UChicago has paused new PhD admissions in my department now, too. One of the flagship departments for anthropology in the US and worldwide.

This on top of hum, social thought, social work, and others. What happens to UChicago's brand--the so-called "life of the mind"--now?

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Back from the Dead: The Ecology of IR, by Peter Newell. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Greater Implications of Bartelson’s Becoming International Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2025)

The history of world politics as a whole is both more continuous and connected than we have ever allowed for, and ‘the international’ as we understand it today is a product of all of those interactions.
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Congratulations Quentin, well deserved!

Interview with my colleague Sandipto Dasgupta about his excellent new book, Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony.

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'

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Planetary justice reconsidered: developing response-abilities in planetary relations This contribution puts forward a relational and posthumanist engagement with the idea of planetary justice. The planetary from this perspective should be conceived not to re-enforce, but rather to ...

Planetary Justice Reconsidered -by Milja Kurki www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting

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How Drone Fever Spread Across New Jersey and Beyond The first sighting was at a military site in New Jersey, then the phenomenon spread into neighboring states. Government assurances that most “drones” were not drones at all has not tamped down curiosi...

Shock: “Now it appears increasingly likely that if there were any drones at all, it was very few, and that most of the drones people did see — stay with this — were up there looking for the drones people thought they were seeing." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/n...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 9

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Our Fall 2024 issue is out now!🎉

It is available to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social
Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53301

“Growth is often taken for granted as a natural purpose of states and an appropriate basis of public policy. However, it has a recent political-economic and cosmological history. This suggests that an age after growth is not only possible but likely.”

📢 Proud to share a collective effort to better understand what post-growth International Relations may look like. I had the privilege of guest-editing this Editors Forum on "Towards post-growth IR" in @risjnl.bsky.social together with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social! 🧵 /1
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky

Day 11: Grégoire Chamayou, Manhunts: A Philosophical History (2012)

The "benefits of climate change" argument is back, thanks to incoming Energy Secretary, and just as wrong as last time you heard it.

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🥁 Drumroll!! it's here. Check out the new @pollenetwork.bsky.social starter pack and welcome POLLEN to Bluesky 🎉

I've been on here for a bit without posting, mostly because I had just tried Mastodon and couldn't face yet another platform change. Let's see where this goes....