Adam Humphreys
adamhumphreys.bsky.social
Adam Humphreys
@adamhumphreys.bsky.social
Associate Professor in International Relations and Head of Department, University of Reading. Causation, theory, war, foreign policy, and more. Dad to amazing soon-to-be-teenage twins. Generally trying to work life out.
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Fabulous discussion of a new benchmark text in the theory and methods of causal inquiry. Quizzed by data scientists, IR theorists, comparativists and policy-facing colleagues, Adam had compelling answers for us all. 👏🏻
It was a pleasure to speak to Exeter SSI and @cais-exeter.bsky.social yesterday about my new book Causal Inquiry in International Relations
(open access: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...). Thanks to @blagdendavid.bsky.social and @profalexp.bsky.social for organizing
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May 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
It was a pleasure to speak to Exeter SSI and @cais-exeter.bsky.social yesterday about my new book Causal Inquiry in International Relations
(open access: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...). Thanks to @blagdendavid.bsky.social and @profalexp.bsky.social for organizing
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May 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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I miss the world in which this was commonplace knowledge.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...
Hawley–Smoot Tariff - Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
YouTube video by International School History
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March 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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As @bsky.app thinks a book prize call is Spam....

📢 We invite submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Details below. Please share widely! 🚨 #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

@mybisa.bsky.social

@isanet.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.

tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Friendly reminder to submit to our @europeanisa.bsky.social #EWIS25 workshop on deception in IR if you haven't yet! 👇
🚨 Call for Abstracts - DECEPTION WORKSHOP 🚨

Panos Vasileiadis and I want your abstract for our #EWIS25 workshop on 🐍 "Deception and deceptive strategies in IR". 🐍

Check it out here: eisa-net.org/workshops-ew...

EWIS will take place in Krakow on 2-4 July. 🏰

Submission deadline: 11 Feb 📅
January 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I was delighted to talk earlier today to the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, about my new book Causal Inquiry in International Relations, which is available free and open access: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Thanks for the great comments and questions!
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January 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I'm delighted to share an interview with e-IR, in which I discuss my recent book Causal Inquiry in International Relations as well as themes from earlier work and broader trends in IR:
www.e-ir.info/2025/01/07/i...

Free digital copies of the book can be found here: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
Interview – Adam Humphreys
Adam Humphreys expands on theoretical approaches to causation in international relations, and its implications both in research and in practice.
www.e-ir.info
January 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I'm delighted to share an interview with e-IR, in which I discuss my recent book Causal Inquiry in International Relations as well as themes from earlier work and broader trends in IR:
www.e-ir.info/2025/01/07/i...

Free digital copies of the book can be found here: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
Interview – Adam Humphreys
Adam Humphreys expands on theoretical approaches to causation in international relations, and its implications both in research and in practice.
www.e-ir.info
January 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Need holiday reading recommendations?📚

Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question by @rkrystalli.bsky.social
Causal Inquiry in International Relations by
@adamhumphreys.bsky.social & Hidemi Suganami

More books from our members👉https://www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/latest-ir-autumn-book-round-2
December 30, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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#BISA AUTUMN book round up! 📚

Featuring the latest IR from our BISA members, inc.:

@edmundsprof.bsky.social
@adamhumphreys.bsky.social
@rkrystalli.bsky.social
+ many more!

See the list here👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/lat...

@brisunipress.bsky.social
@york.ac.uk
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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I gathered up my reading notes on the deeply fascist new book by Trump's Defense Secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, on my substack, Scenes from a Slow Civil War. I think I may rev that thing up again, too. Please consider subscribing. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-pentag...
The Pentagon Papers of Pete Hegseth
Trump's New Secretary of Civil War Meets the Press
slowcivilwar.substack.com
November 13, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Russia academics: I need ONE more paper for a BISA panel by tomorrow! We have papers on Russian militarism, violence, identity...if you want to submit or have colleagues/grad students who are interested, please let them know asap!

(And please share this post - we're up against a deadline)
November 13, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Direct link to free download here: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
October 25, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Out today from OUP: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Free and open access anywhere in the world, and the product of nearly 10 years work with the inestimable Hidemi Suganami, this book seeks to provide a fuller, more adequate account of causal inquiry than has so far been developed in IR
October 25, 2024 at 8:46 AM
My new book (with Hidemi Suganami) now has a cover! Coming out October, and open access, too!
July 17, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Excellent article on the cyber attack on the British Library; my guess is that the lessons apply very strongly to most universities: ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/on-the-mat...
On the matter of the British Library cyber incident
The most important lesson to figure out is why it is taking so long to restore services. That will tell us how to prevent such a calamity in other vital national institutions.
ciaranmartin.substack.com
January 22, 2024 at 10:47 AM