From Guantanamo to Gaza: I wrote an Op Ed which compares Israeli torture to the US and other cases of torture Brutal images, state denial, weak oversight - the parallels are grim /1 newarab.com/opinion/guanta… The New Arab Prof. Ruth Blakeley lisa stampnitzky 🤦🏻‍♀️ Prof Claudia Aradau Simon Frankel Pratt

I have 1 chapter in the left and 9 chapters in the right. Judging by the covers you might find some coherence. Thanks to Phil Orchard (philorchard.bsky.social) and Antje Wiener 🦋 [email protected] for leading the 'Contesting the World' eds. Delighted to be inc. in a great line up of contributors all reflecting on IR norms.

So Antje Wiener 🦋 [email protected] and my edited book- Contesting the World: Norm Research Theory and Practice- seems to now be out (even though Cambridge lists it as coming soon)! cambridge.org/au/universityp… (you can save 20% using the code CTTW2024

Lecturer in Global Political Economy at University of Leeds jobs.ac.uk/job/DIE109/lec…

New article accepted RIS! Trailer: Morgenthau said 'scientism' led to disasters. Solar geoengineering science assumes a rational 'global planner' (or Liberal governance to that effect) for global climate aims. So we explore some Realism. 🌟with Duncan McLaren & Nikolaj Kornbech

🥁 ⁦Phil Orchard (philorchard.bsky.social)⁩ ⁦chs: ⁦Andrea Liese⁩ ⁦Audie Klotz⁩ ⁦Simon Koschut⁩ ⁦Sassan Gholiagha⁩ ⁦Mitja Sienknecht⁩ ⁦Carla Winston⁩ ⁦Anette Stimmer⁩ ⁦Jacqui True⁩ ⁦Cecilia Jacob⁩ ⁦Jason Ralph⁩ cambridge.org/de/universityp…

Important UK development for the emergence of an anti-fossil fuel norm. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Recordings of our webinar with Prof. Jason Ralph are now online both as a video recording and podcast 😊 youtu.be/JOpE4hJa908?si… open.spotify.com/episode/6KQdpX…

Thanks OST Group in Turkey for this opportunity to discuss my recent Global Studies Quarterly paper on Pragmatist ontological security studies. Great questions and yes, it saved me from the 'anxiety' of watching England play in the Euros!! You can watch the talk on YouTube or listen on Spotify👇

In the USA in 1943 they produced a film 'Don't be a Sucker' about fascism. It perfectly explains Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman, Tommy Robinson and the entire Right.

The Department of International Relations at Hebrew University is seeking to fill two tenure-track positions: 👉Position in all areas and subfields of IR – see call here: shorturl.at/RfjeI 👉 Position in Gender and IR – see call here: shorturl.at/epZnv Deadline: 15 Sep. 2024.

For international observers I think this explains well what’s about to happen in UK. Even after Brexit Tories seen as party of sound economics until Truss, Tories sound govt, law & order until Johnson; Tories patriotism & armed forces until Sunak (D Day).

Labour landslide of 97 I was on DC. This one I was in Istanbul. From now on I’ll insist that a nice trip overseas is causation not correlation. Thanks #EWIS2024 Kadir Has ⁦EISA⁩ and beautiful Istanbul.

Politics is a serious business & UK now has serious leadership. Today’s challenges require a deliberative style to mobilise the solidarity that is necessary to solve our problems. This PM gets that. Blair let conviction get the better of his judgment. I don’t think Starmer will.

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Teaching Fellow in Security (Middle East) jobs.leeds.ac.uk/ESLPO1102

Now confirmed Mark Kersten A foreign policy change under Labour Jamie Gaskarth bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Our country needs to hear this right now… This is Jonathan Miller taking on Enoch Powell Calling out the baselessness of racial fear and hatred …and we need our leaders to follow suit.