I'm delighted to announce that the upcoming issue of Global Society will be an SI on the global politics of humour, co-edited by I-Peel.Org, Chris Browning and myself. The first contributions are online now - inc. this excellent piece by @BrentJSteele1! Check it out below:

"#Affect, #practice, and change: Dancing world politics at the Congress of Vienna" was published online today with Cooperation and Conflict #openaccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Fascinating podcast by @dhnexon and @profptj about the work of my friend, colleague and collaborator David Campbell, Honorary Professor UQ POLSIS. Shows how Writing Security remains important even after almost 3 decades. Part 1 of 2: podomatic.com/podcasts/whisk…

Delighted to see our Special Issue out and in the wild! Lots of hard work has gone into this, most of it by our superb contributors. Every piece is a winner, and worth your time. Check it out below:

We are also happy to announce that the winner of the International Ethics Frances V. Harbour Grad. Student Paper Award is Rhiannon Neilsen for her paper, "The Responsibility to Deceive? Online Disinformation for Atrocity Prevention"! Congratulations, Rhiannon! Rhiannon Neilsen #ISA2022

Meet the Research Centres! Hear from the Directors of our research centres at the school; the Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC), the Global Europe Centre (GEC) and the Comparative Politics Group. Join in the Q & A. Weds 29th, 2.30pm Teams: ow.ly/bPRM50GhL3T

📸In our current age, images have greater capacity to shape public opinion and policymaking than ever before. This reading list 📄considers how visuality interacts with politics, from drone imagery in combat, to the use of pictures of suffering children > academic.oup.com/ia/pages/visua…

A short 🧵 on my new International Studies Quarterly article, co-written with Ben Day, on Trump, wrestling, and the role of performance in the practice of diplomacy and foreign policy: academic.oup.com/isq/article/66…

FULLY FUNDED PhD to work with my excellent supervisor Roland Bleiker and a super team part of an ARC linkage project on “Visualising Humanitarian Crises: How Images Can Transform Aid Policy." graduate-school.uq.edu.au/project/politi… Message me for any support/details. And APPLY

This is a wonderful opportunity to work with one of the very best scholars in IR on a cutting-edge project.

Reading List: Visuality and Politics 👁️ This reading list considers the ways that visuality interacts with politics, from the use of drone imagery in propaganda to the aesthetics of violence in popular culture. Explore the articles here > academic.oup.com/ia/pages/visua…

This looks like. a very intersting International Affairs special issue on feminist and decolonial approches to nuclear politics. Congratulations to the editors, shine choi and @DrCEschle and all contributors.

New Article with Marieke de Goede on 'Infrastructural Geopolitics' out in International Studies Quarterly International Studies Quarterly We analyze how seemingly technical financial infrastructures have become the site of high geopolitics. Read the full Article here (OA) doi.org/10.1093/isq/sq… Thread

My article "Love is Worldmaking: Reading Rabindranath Tagore's Gora as International Theory" has just been published (open access) in International Studies Quarterly. Thinking with Tagore's "Gora", I ask: How does love "make" worlds?

The imagination is at the heart of what it means to be human. Tim Aistrope, Shannon Brincat and Caitlin Sparks co author this new article on Imagination and International Relations. blogs.kent.ac.uk/polir-news/202…