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✒️ Nishtha Kaushiki, Victor Sathyadas, Sarita Yadav & Hans Raj (Central University of Punjab)

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📗 The Caliph and the Imam: the making of Sunnism and Shiism, T. Matthiesen

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✒️ Giulia Daga

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📗 Geopolitics and democracy: the Western liberal order from foundation to fracture, P. Trubowitz, B. Burgoon. (ed. @oxunipress.bsky.social) | The wrecking of the liberal world order, V. E. Parsi (ed. Palgrave Macmillan)

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📗 The IPCC and the politics of writing climate change, H. Hughes

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✒️ Niklas Bremberg

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🌐 From Engaging to Containing #China: #US Attempts to Fill Power-role Gaps (2000-2018)

🔍 What has been the US strategic behaviour towards China's rising relative power? Find out more here: shorturl.at/79IzU

✒️ ‪Zakiyeh Yazdanshenas

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📗Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism, Alaa Tartir @sipri.org @timothyseidel.bsky.social, Tariq Dana

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🛡️ #EUPolicy towards the #IsraelPalestineConflict: The Limitations of #MitigationStrategies

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✒️ @sinemacikmese.bsky.social & Soli Özel (Kadir Has University)

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🛡️A Vanishing Normative Power? The Changing Dynamics of #EUArmsExports: Trade, Geopolitics and Ethics from the First #GulfWar to the War in Ukraine

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✒️Chiara Bonaiuti @newcastleuni.bsky.social & Luca Bortolotti University of Bologna

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🌐The Evolution of Chinese FDI in Europe and Its Implications for Technological Interdependence: A Geoeconomic Perspective

🔍Is Europe prepared for the outcomes of Chinese investment in its green technologies? shorturl.at/MCqQz

✒️Niky Brugnatelli (University of Catania)

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🇪🇺 Politicising #EuropeanIntegration: Emmanuel #Macron, Cleavage Unfreezing and Party System Transformation in #France

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✒️ Gabriel Goodliffe (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)

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🎙️ Giulia Daga unpacks her #article Tolerance as a Legitimation Strategy in Oman’s Political Discourse: From Religious to Foreign Policy Principle

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🛡️ From ‘Strategic Indispensability’ to ‘Comprehensive Offers’: Mapping Proposals for the EU’s Offensive Geoeconomic Turn

🔍 How can the EU push for a more assertive geoeconomic strategy? shorturl.at/yVrpu

✒️ Jaša Veselinovič (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social)

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🤝Alliance Management and Binding Strategy: Why the #UnitedStates Has Failed to Prevent #Turkey from Strategic Rapprochement with #Russia

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✒️ İsmail Akdoğan (Bursa Technical University)

📸Highlights from Naples!

📚 TIS Team is attending the #SISP2025 annual conference!

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📚 TIS Team will be attending the #SISP2025 annual conference!

🏛️ You can find us there from 4 to 6 September 2025 at ‪Federico II University

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🔍 Take a look inside our New #Issue!

👉 Focus on Understanding #GulfStates' foreign aid, dissecting narratives and politices of #EU #Geoeconomic turn, and more!

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📢 New #Issue Online!

👉 Focus on Understanding #GulfStates' foreign aid, dissecting narratives and politices of #EU #Geoeconomic turn, and more!

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📸 Highlights from Bologna!

📚 TIS Team is attending the #EISAPEC25 (@europeanisa.bsky.social), the 18th Pan-European Conference on IR at the University of Bologna, and you can still visit us today and tomorrow!

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⚠️New #openaccessarticle online

🛡️Theorising from #Beirut’s Southern Suburbs: Spatialised Capital and Habitus in ‘Nested Everyday Security Fields’

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✒️Dima Smaira & @jeroengunning.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social)

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📚TIS Team will be attending the #EISAPEC25 (@europeanisa.bsky.social), the 18th Pan-European Conference on IR!

🏛️Find us as partners from tomorrow until August 29 at the University of Bologna

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📚TIS Team will be attending the #EISAPEC25 (@europeanisa.bsky.social), the 18th Pan-European Conference on IR!

🏛️We will be there as partners, and you can find us there from 25 to 29 August 2024 at ‪@unibo.it‬, Italy‬‬‬

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New #openaccessarticle online

🛡️#ForeignAid, Identities and Interests: #Qatar and the #UAE in #Sudan

🔍How have geopolitical dynamics shaped Qatar and the UAE’s aid strategy toward Sudan? shorturl.at/90rkZ

✒️ Federico Donelli (University of Trieste) & Altea Pericoli cmeslund.bsky.social‬

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online!

🛡️ #Gulf Donors in the #MENA Region: Unravelling Motivations, Aid Strategies and Geopolitical Objectives in the Case of #Tunisia (2011-24)

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✒️ Assem Dandashly (maastrichtu.bsky.social)

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📚 TIS Team will be attending the #SISP2025 annual conference!

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⚠️New #article online!

🛡️ Adhocracy in Action: Gulf #HumanitarianInterventions in #Lebanon

🔍 How have Gulf states’ foreign aid strategies in Lebanon evolved since 2021? Discover more here: shorturl.at/767GO

✒️ Clothilde Facon-Salelles (University of Antwerp)

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online!

🛡️ Understanding #GulfStates’ #ForeignAid: A Conceptual Framework

🔍 What factors shape Gulf states' aid strategies in countries like Lebanon, Sudan, and Tunisia?? Discover more here: shorturl.at/8OEbF

✒️ Altea Pericoli (cmeslund.bsky.social‬)

📢 New #Issue Online!

👉 Focus on Understanding #GulfStates' foreign aid, dissecting narratives and politices of #EU #Geoeconomic turn, and more!

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