Lucas Knotter

@jeremymosesnz.bsky.social apparently 'human dignity' is all over this book haha - reminds of your piece (brill.com/view/journal...)!

Ah tino pai Russell - congratulations!

It's done!

This is the least salient issue here, but these barriers also look nothing like timtams...?!

Review of International Studies podcast - episode four In the fourth podcast episode, Seb Kaempf discusses rethinking ritual dynamics with Maria Mälksoo.

🌟Ep 4 of the @risjnl.bsky.social podcast! 🌟

Hosted by @sebkaempf.bsky.social this week is w/ Maria Mälksoo & her selection of articles conceptualising & applying ritual dynamics in the context of IR 🌎

Inc: @lucaslitmanen.bsky.social @simonkoschut.bsky.social

listen 👉

Could an explanation be that the most privileged people also see the least need to disclose such identity markers (see also pronouns)? I.e. those lower on the pay scale are also more likely to understand the intersectional importance of disclosing sex.or. and/or (dis)ability...? Just spitballing...

Perhaps @fr33palest1ne.bsky.social and/or @winterchristine.bsky.social could be of help...?

Gefeliciteerd Hilde!

📺 Watch: University of Bath on the rise within Global Top 150 in QS #WorldUniversity Rankings 2026

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I bet that if you'd ask GenAI to produce a movie about a US civil war, it would produce this movie - just acontextual imagery, content without meaning or takeaway. See also 'Warfare'. Watch 'Lee' if you want to watch a movie about war photography.

Excited to be back on King's College campus to attend the #aspirelaunch! 'Teaching-track jobs are so good that even men want to do them!' (Cathy Elliott)

Check out contributions from the likes of @msanjaume.bsky.social, Lesley-Ann Daniels, Janis Grzybowski, @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social, @irenefmolina.bsky.social, Megan Price, @georgekyris.bsky.social, Maurice Brisland, and Argyro Kartsonaki!

Contested Statehood in a Contested International Order: Furthering a Research Agenda Abstract. This article serves as the introduction to this Special Forum on Contested Statehood in a Contested International Order. The articles in this Spe

My colleagues and I tried to grapple with similar questions last year in this @gsqjournal.bsky.social Special Forum academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic....

Really insightful piece on the potential ramifications of a Trumpian foreign policy.

'For independence movements, the new rules of secession mean a more volatile and uncertain future.'

Amazing image

Fair enough - I'd be in favour of those things in general, but I'm not sure shunning LLMs is the same as LLM-proof. Insofar we want to make our students LLM-proof (ie able to critique), I don't know if that happens with such kinds of assessment...

What does 'LLM-proof' mean? Because everyone agrees that unis should become 'LLM-proof' - the crux is what that means, which brings us back to square one...

If Peter Dutton himself losing his actual seat is not a message...

Postgraduate study opportunity for Palestinian scholars at the University of Bath.

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Classic Dutch facetiousness combined with classic 'safe haven NZ' trope. Classic Rutte foot-in-mouth awkwardness too.

"The people's" response to this is pretty unequivocal indeed. Consensus is basically that the guy deserved it...

...or in other words... bsky.app/profile/luca...

Hard no to see a link between social media pile-ons on English Lit phds, and governments ending ALL hum/socsci funding...

After sound and colour, I feel that Xavier Guillaume owes us 'the smell of International security' ;)

9DASHLINE — New Zealand foreign policy: From ‘independence’ to ‘realism’? Written by Lucas Knotter. NZ’s supposedly ‘new’ foreign policy is thus neither truly independent, nor truly realist, nor prompted to safeguard Aotearoa’s public interest.

Many thanks to the team at @9dashline.bsky.social for allowing me to comment on Aotearoa's supposed recent 'turn' in foreign policy!

www.9dashline.com/article/new-...

It's real! My book on de facto statehood and classical realism is now available as a possible Christmas present ;)! Very exciting!

www.routledge.com/A-Theory-of-...

Thanks 9DASHLINE for allowing me to express my thoughts on last month's #nzpol elections in Aotearoa!

www.9dashline.com/article/new-...

The tragedy is that a government on its way out COULD use that that time to try and realise some final ideals to shape the country into what the government thinks is something better. But all the tories have left is pandering to humans' most basic vices.

Ah thanks Liberty :)!

A Theory of De Facto States: Classical Realism and Exceptional Polities A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states — political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international le...

Excited to see that my book is now available on pre-order!

www.routledge.com/A-Theory-of-...

It's a heavily edited outcome of my PhD dissertation, and has been a looong time in the making. I must thank everyone who has helped me getting the book out in the world. I hope that people will enjoy it!