On advance access: "A revisionist history of the United Nations" by Alanna O'Malley (@Unileiden) and Lydia Walker (OSU History Department) doi.org/10.1093/pastj/…

Excited to present new stuff at #EISAPEC24 next week! Come join some funky Historical IR panels: 📚 Thu 9AM, LW104: Time, History, Speculative Fiction 🌱 Thu 2PM, LW304: Geopolitics of Earthly Limits 🏗️ Thu 4PM, LW216: Projects & Politics of the International in the Long C19

Throughout history, sugar from cane has been associated with enslavement or coercion. Born in Blackness. "Sugar Industry Faces Pressure Over Coerced Hysterectomies and Labor Abuses" nytimes.com/2024/08/22/wor…

My essay on military-business relations in Mexico, written together with Carlos A. Pérez Ricart, has now been published. Great to be part of such an exciting compilation put together by Carnegie Endowment. Thank you, Hamza Meddeb and Yezid Sayigh يزيد صايغ for the invitation! bit.ly/3AoGxnt

This week! 👇

From MIH Archives: Sarah Dunstan and Patricia Owens analyze Trinidad-born Marxist journalist Claudia Jones’ geopolitical languages during WWII and reflect on black women's intellectual history and history of international thought bit.ly/4e1258a

Excited to be in Lille for this year's EISA #EISAPEC24 Come join us for interesting discussions on expertise, knowledge, and political economy!

By invoking the language of democracy without considering how best to ensure collective governance, tech companies fail to offer a truly democratic AI. Writing w/ Stanford Ethics colleagues Diana Acosta Ting-an Lin 林庭安 Lorenzo Manuali Rhiannon Neilsen and Rob Reich. newglobalpolitics.org/democratizing-…

New paper! Geertje Bol shows how an exclusive feminist focus on historical women philosophers imposes a double standard and can stand in the way of inclusion by obscuring other important aspects of women’s political thought. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Great paper!

So, I am in nothing less than a UN-podcast (!) I was interviewed for "The Next Page", a podcast on multilateralism run by the UN Library&Archives Geneva . In the pod, the excellent Amy Smith interviews me on my book, and I hope you'll listen to it #twitterstorians! unitednationslibrarygeneva.podbean.com/e/informing-in…

Fascinating article by Geertje Bol History of European Ideas, arguing that studying women's political thought requires attention to its full spectrum, whether feminist or unfeminist. A must-read for anyone working in/on the history of political thought! Institute of Intellectual History tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This new EJIR (European Journal of International Relations) article looks v interesting: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday, some really great discussions in beautiful Lille! #EISAPEC24

🚨 Postdoc Alert 🚨 Please join my project on 'Deception in World Politics' (27 months, full-time) Politicologie, Radboud University! Are you into the linkages between IR/pol. theory, FPA, pol. comm., language? Why/when do states/others deceive/lie/bullshit/etc.? ➡️Apply! academictransfer.com/en/344831/post…

👏Congratulations and a warm welcome to alumnus Musab Younis, who joins Oxford Politics and IR today as Associate Professor in Political Theory in association with St Edmund Hall!: ow.ly/btpp50Tcnfs

Applications are invited for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for History and Economics in Paris (CHEP), Sciences Po, starting on 1 September 2025, in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. histecon.fr/en/fellowships…

I have a piece in the new Political Theory on Selma James -- her account of wagelessness, her critique of capitalism’s organization of the displacement of work and workers, and her class-struggle identity politics in Wages for Housework and elsewhere doi.org/10.1177/009059…

This looks great, looking forward to reading! 👇