🇪🇺EUrope's success hinges on solving collective action problems. When it works, we all win; when it doesn't, we all feel it. The EU can navigate this. And did it so many times by adapting institutions. Time to recognize it should do the same for security. bit.ly/3YGJABw

Out Now! Pick up a copy of our (w Rui Lopes) #OpenAccess edited volume ‘Globalising Independence struggles in Lusophone Africa’. Many thanks to our authors from across the world and to Bloomsbury for making it happen ! #twitterstorians Department of Humanities, Uni Strathclyde NOVA FCSH

Join us in honoring David Myer Temin, the co-winner of the APSA Foundations of Political Theory Best First Book Prize for his book Remapping Sovereignty! You can check out the book for 30% off at our booth or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA! #APSA2024

The proofs here! In this article, I propose the notion of “double decolonization” to capture how western & East Asian hegemonies co-produce the essentialization & orientalization of East Asia. As a result, Confucianism is often evoked out of context in global events such as COVID

"The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa - The Coloniality of Data" By Everisto Benyera. The PDF link : drive.google.com/file/d/1Ziveqo…

Bloomsbury just published Dam Internationalism: Rethinking Power, Expertise and Technology in the Twentieth Century. The volume sheds new light on the globalization of technology and international power struggles in the twentieth century through the perspective dams.

Forthcoming: “the definitive history of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe.”: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lyndal-…

My book review on Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest, and Foreign Control in Asia (2022) edited by David Baillargeon and Jeremy E. Taylor finally came out from the Journal of Asian Studies. I submitted my manuscript a year ago 😅 read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-asi…

First #IIRLeiden2024 post: as we discuss History of IR & esp. legacies of the Westphalia, sharing a great reading from Claire Vergerio on how states have been mythologized as the natural unit of political order (& hints on how we can think beyond them) bostonreview.net/articles/beyon…

As we discuss Westphalia, sovereignty, & international & global orders within & beyond the West this week in #IIRLeiden2024 I highly recommend this ISR podcast w Ayşe Zarakol (interview by Huss Banai) on her excellent "Before the West" book open.spotify.com/episode/0zF8T4…

Machine and Sovereignty will be released by University of Minnesota Press next month. It is the final volume of the trilogy that began with Recursivity and Contingency. I’m happy to share the endorsements — I feel both humbled and proud. upress.umn.edu/9781517917418/…

A new article of mine - "Globalization or Empire? Revolution, the State, and the Geopolitics of Chinese Debt, 1895–1914". It is a part of my Australian Research Council Future Fellowship research. bit.ly/4gjdhPG

Have you read Volume 50(4)? It's out now with NINE new research articles from: Daniel R. McCarthy Michael Livesey Prof Anastasia Sh @WolfgangMinatti Peter Verovšek Heidi Wang-Kaeding & More! 📚Read Here ➡️ buff.ly/4dg0QlG

For The Nation, I wrote about John Washington's great "The Case For Open Borders," the border as death drive, and the myriad evils of the international border system that the book lays bare thenation.com/article/cultur…

Deft storytelling and history, By the Fire We Carry is an intergenerational story of dispossession and the pursuit of Justice. I just got my copy of Rebecca Nagle’s pathbreaking research on the long struggle for tribal land and sovereignty in Eastern Oklahoma. Check it out!

Coming out in paperback on 29th Oct, and now dedicated to our late friend and co-editor, Trevor Burnard.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159557/

Spying in South Asia releases today. It takes a village to produce a book & for those who helped to get this one over the line, thank you. You know who you are &, if you’ve forgotten, check out the acknowledgements! Treat yourself to a copy from CUP at: cambridge.org/9781108843676

From MIH Archives: Emma Hunter Emma Hunter reflects on intellectual histories of mid-twentieth century decolonization in Africa, the importance of putting the past into dialogue with the present, and the need of deessentializing the concept of democracy bit.ly/4cXBKHi

Coming soon 👀 Progressive International

I have an essay out in the Cairo Review on the questions of sovereignty and security in Palestine. The upshot is that Palestinian sovereignty is necessary for Palestinian security yet both are sacrificed in Western visions of a so-called 2-state solution. thecairoreview.com/essays/less-th…