What "counts" as "International Relations"? Cynthia Enloe challenged IR scholars to answer that question, turning our understanding of international politics upside down. [THREAD]

Extremely Severe Cyclone Mocha is expected to make landfall around the Bangladesh-Myanmar coast tomorrow morning. Strong winds, heavy rain and storm surge will be hitting vulnerable communities, likely to bring devastating consequences. bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… | Simon

Dangerous Tropical Cyclone #Mocha intensifying quickly in the Bay of Bengal, headed for landfall in Myanmar/extreme SE Bangladesh. Vulnerable region for storm surge flooding in particular.

A truly horrifying sight in the Bay of Bengal right now. Cyclone Mocha making a run at Category 5 in remaining hours before landfall near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. Worst case-scenario event.

hang out with non-PhD friends

Some North American scholars used to respond to my emails when I was a doctoral student at Cambridge. They stopped responding after I started teaching in India. Good luck with decolonising the academia. Just saying.

"Made significant contributions to their field" = They've developed a new acronym or framework that only they use or understand.

"Expert in their field" = Spent so many years immersed in a narrow topic that they've forgotten how to converse with people. Yet, just like everyone else, they also cringe at the word “expert”.

Is #democracy backsliding in #Asia? In a new article Comparative Political Studies, Andrew Yeo & I argue: No, actually. What look like signs of democratic regress are part of a distinct & less obvious--but no less important--phenomenon we call democratic ceilings.🧵/1 doi.org/10.1177/001041…

PhD students, how do you deal with writer's block when working on your dissertation? Let's share and learn together.

Congratulations to our Monzima Haque who passed her prospectus defense this morning! Her project is titled "Transboundary Waters as Discursive Battlegrounds." Thanks to her excellent committee @KenConca Amitav Acharya and Yang Zhang

Call for Submissions! We are inviting proposals for full papers (6000-9000 words) on various themes. Please visit our website for more details. Submit an abstract of 500-1000 words by September 20th, 2023. #IAS_NUQ

You can see my essay, "How International Relations Theory on Norm Cascades Can Inform the Politics of Climate Change" in PS: FirstView

This semester I asked my UGs to critique a ChatGPT4 critique of an academic paper. This has been a great way to encourage students to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs while also getting them to think critically about an academic paper. 10/10 would assign again.

Announcing 2024 PhD Program award winners! First is Monzima Haque who won the "Excellence in Research Assistance" award, nominated by her supervisor @TazreenaSajjad who writes "Monzima has been invaluable in my ongoing project on Rohingya reception in Bangladesh." 👏👏👏

📸: The original manuscript of the UN Charter preamble, complete with handwritten notes. On this day 79 years ago, 50 nations came together in San Francisco, California, to create a new organization for peace, prosperity & human rights. un.org/en/about-us/un… #CharterDay

A new National Democratic Institute paper authored by SIS professor Samantha Bradshaw and PhD candidate Monzima Haque explores how strategic authoritarian narratives are shaping conversations about democracy in the Sahel. Read more about their research in this new Q&A: bit.ly/4fr7YMi

I you'd like to learn about economics from a political economy perspective — which is the true roots of economics — this is the absolute primer. It's accessible, fun, and honestly the first book I'd recommend to anyone who wants an introduction to economics.

The collapse of sincerity?