First IR Conference. Walks in, turns around and wisely walks right out.

Souvenir from a "spirited" discussion on status in world politics. Great to chat with Michelle Murray, @AliBilgicLboro, & Steven Ward. Hosted by the inimitable @dhnexon & @profptj. Looking forward to the @whiskeyIRT episode! #BISA2023 BISA - British International Studies Association

Happy 4th, y’all!

So proud of my former advisee, Edris…one of the best students I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with at Bard College . He’s on to my alma mater UChicago CIR this fall as he charts a career in international relations. chronicle.com/featured/stude…

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Applications for Dartmouth’s postdoc fellowship in int’l security are due on Dec 29th. I can attest this is a wonderful program, in an amazing intellectual community, with simply great people! Apply!!

My latest The Costs of War Project research, out today, shows that the widespread myth in the US that the so-called "war on terror" is over could not be further from the truth.

UChicago fourth-year student Xavier Wu, graduate student Edris Tajik and Wesley Fang, AB’23, have been awarded prestigious Schwarzman Scholarships to pursue graduate study in China. Learn more about this year's winners: ms.spr.ly/6002iruKq

Buy this book! Owen gives it 2 thumbs up! Chris McIntosh cambridge.org/us/universityp…

If you haven't already, check out Chris McIntosh excellent The Time of Global Politics. Long-awaited for those of us who've been fans since Chris wrote one of the first-ever conference papers featuring time and IR way back in 2006. Congrats mate! cambridge.org/core/books/t...

During my research pertaining to "Power Transition Theories", I came across a book titled "The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations" written by Michelle Murray. Her constructivist approach to PTT blew my mind. I recommend everyone to read this book.

I'm so thankful to Josh Rovner Paul MacDonald and Joshua Freedman for their thoughtful engagement with my book! I learned so much from this exchange. Check it out! issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJISS…

Rising great powers want others to recognize their greatness - but they don’t always get what they want. An intriguing roundtable on a critical issue

Omer Bartov Genocide, the Holocaust, and October 7: ​On the Use and Misuse of Terminology antisemitismstudies.com/omer-bartov.ht…

"We urge you to listen to us–not political figures,not the radical fringes and not misguided media.Across the country, non-violent protests and encampments on college campuses have been touted by administrations, media and bad-faith actors to be hateful" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies MA scholarship 2024/25. Priority to applicants from the Occupied Palestinian Territories, especially Gaza soas.ac.uk/study/student-…

Of all the criticisms of the ongoing student protests, there is nothing that offends me more than the bare assertion that words have fixed, obvious, and timeless meanings, and that it is the privilege of these critics to declare what those meanings are. What mindless bullshit.

Always a war abolitionist

We have a new, terrific H-Diplo, with RJISSF roundtable on Rohan Mukherjee much-celebrated book, Ascending Order, w/thoughtful comments by Lora Viola @DrIanHall Michelle Murray @lincolnhines Manjeet S. Pardesi: networks.h-net.org/group/discussi… Glad to have commissioned the discussion, which Lora perfectly sums up:

Very happy that Karl Gustafsson and I have been awarded the Jacqui Briggs Prize for best article published in European Political Science Journal in 2024. The statements by the jury and the editor can be read here: ecpr.eu/News/News/Deta…