Lest we forget.

“The shocking and arbitrary detention of Mr. Chambers shows that the abuse of Article 112 is alive and well in #Thailand. Thai authorities must drop all charges against Mr. Chambers, immediately and unconditionally release him, and guarantee the right to freedom of expression in

Thailand-based American scholar Paul Chambers faces expulsion from the country he has long called home, after falling foul of the strict royal defamation law. Chambers’ visa was revoked by the Immigration Bureau after he was charged with lese majeste and computer crime on

Did you know that people have donated more than $400 to support Dr. Paul Chambers? Our petition needs your help. If you can help boost our petition, we'd be grateful! 🙏 change.org/p/free-dr-paul…

Information for the 2025 Journeys in World Politics workshop: saramitchell.org/journeysflyer2… Applications due on 5/30 for workshop held at the U of Iowa on 8/24-8/26. Our senior mentors are Kathleen Cunningham & Leah Windsor, along with Kelly Kadera, Jessica Weeks, Christina Schneider.

Defence and national security should absolutely figure prominently in this week's debates. That it won't is proof - yet again - that too many people in Canada still have their heads deeply buried in the sand. We simply don't have the luxury anymore of this complacence.

How involved are legislatures in overseeing military and defence issues? Our new Stanford Press book answers that question by comparing fifteen countries. "Overseen or Overlooked? Legislators, Armed Forces, and Democratic Accountability" sup.org/books/politics…

My take on the civil-military relations challenge facing Prime Minister Carney in Policy Magazine: policymagazine.ca/america-friend…

In light of this from The Economist... The UN could run out of cash within months economist.com/international/… ...perhaps it is a good time to re-up this debate about the life expectancy of the Organization from 2020: pairagraph.com/dialogue/f47ba…

Rules I live by: 1. Two is one, one is none. Ergo, two is also none. QED. 2. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. And also often shiny.

No, Harvard doesn't do a conclave: the heir just steps up and takes Joe's place. Allow me to introduce Bill Nye the POLITICAL Science Guy.

I hate it when this happens: I'm still writing Leo XIII on all my cheques.

This is probably what Priam said when he saw Odysseus's "gift" roll up to the gates of Troy... Only ‘Stupid’ People Reject Gifts nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/…

Thrilled to workshop my new book Humanity in War (under contract with OUP) in Oxford next week. It’s a global history of how actors from Global South & East reshaped law in war during decolonization & the Cold War, based on years of research in M-East, Africa, Asia & L-America.

published this week: my Sorbonne lectures on thinking, uncertainty, civil society, green politics and how democracies die, fast and slow…

So like most of us, I'm digesting the #StrategicDefenceReview. There is an irony to the whole document. It announces the Integrated Force. But when we turn to the different domains, the descriptions are entirely traditional single service. No integrated mission is identified.

There are few scholars as erudite, plainspoken, and authentic as Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin. She always stands out for her integrity. An inspiring exemplar.

International Relations. All week and twice on Sundays.