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📢 2 JOBS School of International Relations We are hiring 2 Associate Lecturers in International Relations, with a focus on Conflict and Security. Both will play a central role in supporting and teaching on a new online Postgraduate programme in Conflict & Security in Policy and Practice

A great special issue on academic freedom in @GlobConJournal Academic freedom: Global variations in norm conceptualization, diffusion and contestation – an introduction | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3VlnIZX

JGB 15: Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (youtu.be/s1QCAYbWM4I) What better way to celebrate Christmas than to discuss one of its most famous literary treatments with some friends? Even if one of them thinks Tiny Tim should go down. Cameos by Shakespeare, Dante, & the Grinch.

A really fun discussion on Joe's Great Books Joe Sharkey with two of my brothers, Jim Lang and Bill Lang on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: youtube.com/watch?v=s1QCAY…

When Ken Burns asked every living president to recite the Gettysburg Address in 2013, Pres. Carter shared this story about Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the Camp David Accords. (2023) UNUMKenBurns

These are the books I'm reading: Plato, The Laws; Hobbes, Behemoth; Hugo Grotius, The Truth of the Christian Religion; Alasdair MacIntyre, God, Philosophy, Universities; Akhil Reed Amar, America's Constitution; Patrick Jackson Facts and Explanations. I love being an academic!

You go Bernie.

Stay out of the UK, jackass: nytimes.com/2025/01/28/opi…

We are excited to announce our Call for Papers for the 13th Graduate Conference in International Political Theory at St Andrews! This year's theme is (In)justice and the Global and our keynotes are: David Owen @artsofdenial Lisa Tilley Lisa Tilley Jason Ralph Jason Ralph

Reading list on International Law and Palestine, pulled from my foundational undergraduate module on International Law. By no means comprehensive, but perhaps useful to some wondering which resources to integrate into teaching syllabi.

An excellent (and depressing) analysis: The Path to American Authoritarianism foreignaffairs.com/united-states/… via Foreign Affairs

My friend Phillips P. OBrien has helped me understand Russian weaknesses in its war with Ukraine, which this article supports. Clearly, the Trump Administration wants to support Russia rather than just end the war, espeically in light of these numbers: aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/14…

🔊 🔊 🔊 Mark your calendar 📅 📅 ... Tomorrow (Thursday: 20 February 2025, 5.00 PM) at School of International Relations & St. Andrews University My amazing mentor TonyLang will be chairing the event!!! Come join us 👇👇 events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/the-ara… The Leverhulme Trust Cambridge Sociology

In light of the #Trump attempt to override basic checks and balances in the US, it's worth listening to this BBC episode on Montesquie. Better yet, read his Spirit of the Laws! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

📚Book Launch!📚 We’re thrilled to invite you to Anette Stimmer’s launch of 'The Politics of International Norms'! 📅17 April |⏰ 11.15am|📍Old Class Library, St Andrews We’ll discuss norm contestation, international law & foreign policy rhetoric. See👉 lnkd.in/dTxYTV54

We are hiring School of International Relations! If you work on African or Middle East politics, consider applying for a job at a great place to work: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/36…

⏰ Reminder: This Thurs 1 May at 5.15pm! Join Prof Holly Brewer (Maryland) at St Andrews for: “Forgotten Histories of Hard-Fought Limits on Executive Power” 📍 School V, followed by a reception.   🔗 Read her insights in The Times:  thetimes.com/us/news-today/…

📢 Join us for the 2025 Winch Lectures at St Andrews by Melissa Lane (Princeton) on "Authors of the Laws: Rethinking Rousseau through Ancient Lawgivers" 📅 12–14 May 📍 School V & Old Class Library 🍷 Wine reception Mon 12 May

Really sad to hear that Alasdair MacIntyre died. He was a great teacher, and I just wrote a piece on his thinking about war. RIP.