Wonderful to have been able to attend #LASA2024 and catch up with Sussex IR🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 colleagues and meet some folks doing amazing research on elites, geopolitics, climate change and the energy transition.

Please take a moment to read Head of School of Global Studies Professor Geert De Neve’s statement regarding unrest in the UK. If you are in any way affected, please make use of the support available to you within the University.  Find information about wellbeing below.

📰 Prof Anna Stavrianakis was quoted in the Middle Eastern Eye, after a report claimed that civil servants had frozen all applications for new arms export licences to Israel - despite the government saying that there has been no change to their approach on export licenses."

Brighton was an antifascist festival tonight ✊

*The Holy Family: Iranian Leftists and the Kurdish Movement* Looking forward to delivering this talk as part of Berkeley Lecture Series 📅 August 11 ⏲️ 7pm BST 📍Zoom For more information & attendance click below: berkeleylectures.org/the-holy-famil… #Iranian_left #Kurdistan

Back from the dead: the ecology of IR. My new article in ⁦International Relations⁩ in the special issue edited by ⁦Hannah Hughes⁩ & ⁦Milja Kurki⁩ ⁦Sussex IR🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

The far-right riots in the UK have led to calls for more police powers and surveillance. But that may make many communities, minority groups and legitimate acts of protest less safe. New piece by Andrea Brock, @anthropogo & Pat Huff theconversation.com/why-we-dont-ne…

📰 Andrea Brock along with two other authors, comment on the recent UK riots, arguing that expanding police powers in response to far-right violence will harm communities and supress legitimate protests. theconversation.com/why-we-dont-ne…

I would add Fayez Sayegh’s incredibly acute, theoretically, historically and comparatively mind-blowing Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965) to the list. freedomarchives.org/Documents/Find…

I gave a long interview to #Germany's public broadcaster ARD Online on the #Iran-led #axis_of_resistance which features in a tagesschau report (link below). A longer report based on the interview will be released soon. Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex staff news Sussex IR🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Uni News

How are military elites imagining climate apocalypse, and what's at stake as they gear up to prepare for it? Discussing militaries' false climate solutions again this Thursday at EISA - next to brilliant panellists Danielle Young Nuclear Knowledges Thomas Fraise #EISAPEC

Did you know that Sophocles' play Antigone, not the theory of recognition, is where Hegel locates discussions of ethics and politics in his early writing? David Karp's latest article in EJIR reinterprets recognition theory, and moves past statism and Eurocentrism, to

Honored to be speaking at this Scientists for Global Responsibility online conference on 'Defusing carbon bombs' on October 16th. Sign up below. Hope you can join us. @suspol Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Rapid Transition Alliance Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative Fossil Free Politics

Curious about the intricacies of the F-35 programme. Why can't the UK government just take Israel off its list of approved recipients? It doesn't have to stop sending parts to other countries. /1

Check out Dr Andrea Brock Andrea Brock 🇵🇸 speaking about ecocide and policing, counterinsurgency and the German Rhineland, and the modern social ecological order in the newest episode of the #exaltPodcast! Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 University of Sussex Sussex staff news

Listen to the brilliant Prof Anna Anna Stavrianakis explain the UK's partial suspension of arms exports to Israel, its loophole and why the government must do better. Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 University of Sussex Sussex staff news

Black Marxism Reader: Here are some texts by Marxist thinkers in the black radical tradition. I have focused on well-known figures and good introductory texts. I’m sure I left plenty of important authors and texts out, so please add suggestions! 🧵

This fantastic analysis by University of Sussex IR MA graduate Johanna Siebert shows how colonialism was central to the emergence of the fossil economy, challenging the Eurocentrism in Marxist IR and existing analyses of the fossil economy. A must-read!

🌟🌏 A brand new year of Global Studies at University of Sussex! 🤩 A MASSIVE welcome to all of our undergrads who have been busy attending lots of welcome talks today! We cannot wait to see you more this week. Don't forget we have undergrad socials on Wednesday! ✨ 🍕

It's that time of year again, bringing back the Student Guide to 'Doing' Development I made when I started Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿, now in more printer-friendly colors! Feel free to use as a teaching resource 👇