Brian Finch
@briantfinch.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the Ohio State University. International relations and temporality.
Fantastic new article in @ejir.bsky.social from @minseonku.bsky.social !!
The season of Western multilateral summitry (G7, NATO) may be over, but the diplomatic show must go on.
In this @ejir.bsky.social piece, I argue that summitry is a performance producing what I call the "social international," or the intl system of state persons
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
In this @ejir.bsky.social piece, I argue that summitry is a performance producing what I call the "social international," or the intl system of state persons
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
July 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Fantastic new article in @ejir.bsky.social from @minseonku.bsky.social !!
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Great to hear that our article is trending in @risjnl.bsky.social!
📈Trending in RIS 📈
Check out @minseonku.bsky.social and Brian Finch's article on ontological security and audience agency! It's one of our top trending articles for the last few months, and it's #OpenAccess 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Check out @minseonku.bsky.social and Brian Finch's article on ontological security and audience agency! It's one of our top trending articles for the last few months, and it's #OpenAccess 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Great to hear that our article is trending in @risjnl.bsky.social!
Great to see such strong interest in the article with @minseonku.bsky.social !
📈Trending in RIS 📈
Check out @minseonku.bsky.social and Brian Finch's article on ontological security and audience agency! It's one of our top trending articles for the last few months, and it's #OpenAccess 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Check out @minseonku.bsky.social and Brian Finch's article on ontological security and audience agency! It's one of our top trending articles for the last few months, and it's #OpenAccess 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Great to see such strong interest in the article with @minseonku.bsky.social !
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Yoon’s security team is reportedly getting ready to escort him.
January 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Yoon’s security team is reportedly getting ready to escort him.
Real talk: US liberals have put forward no vision of the future besides t+1.
This is actually a very good question because liberal foreign policy in the future can no longer assume the degree of continuity after elections required to do most of the stuff we want to do. The best plan I’ve got for the future is idk bro.
it is hard to tell what america IS, america contains a lot of things and a bunch of them are good, where do you go from saying this is who we are?
January 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Real talk: US liberals have put forward no vision of the future besides t+1.
Nice summary of the need for a positive, aspirational vision of the future vs. the demotivational effects of only articulating futures that must be avoided.
Strongly agree. Or even a vision of utopia! The opposite of doom! What does success, and a bright future look like?
Something in this ... if social democrats want to win the culture war, they need to start offering something big and weird and maybe even kinda mental when it comes to how they talk about the future
January 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Nice summary of the need for a positive, aspirational vision of the future vs. the demotivational effects of only articulating futures that must be avoided.
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New article with @briantfinch.bsky.social is now available online with OA at @risjnl.bsky.social
We argue for broadening the scope of audience agency theorized in securitization by bringing in the ontological security lens, centering the importance of routines. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We argue for broadening the scope of audience agency theorized in securitization by bringing in the ontological security lens, centering the importance of routines. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Routines die hard: Ontological security and audience agency in securitisation | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Routines die hard: Ontological security and audience agency in securitisation
www.cambridge.org
December 16, 2024 at 1:28 PM
New article with @briantfinch.bsky.social is now available online with OA at @risjnl.bsky.social
We argue for broadening the scope of audience agency theorized in securitization by bringing in the ontological security lens, centering the importance of routines. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We argue for broadening the scope of audience agency theorized in securitization by bringing in the ontological security lens, centering the importance of routines. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Me ahead of the National Assembly’s voting on Yoon’s impeachment motion later. The motion will pass but the Constitutional Court’s decision is going to cause another six months of stress.
a panda bear with the words inner peace inner peace
ALT: a panda bear with the words inner peace inner peace
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December 14, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Me ahead of the National Assembly’s voting on Yoon’s impeachment motion later. The motion will pass but the Constitutional Court’s decision is going to cause another six months of stress.
Even setting aside all other objections to this BS, it is pretty hilarious that the linked report shows the public has a much more negative view of how Trump has handled his two transitions compared to the transitions of Biden, Obama, Bush, and Clinton.
FYI Bluesky folks. Keep this in mind. CNN "Most Americans approve how Trump is handling his return to the White House" Important to keep perspective. This site is an echo chamber of sorts. Just like Twitter has become. www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/p...
CNN Poll: Most Americans approve how Trump is handling his return to the White House | CNN Politics
Most Americans expect President-elect Donald Trump to do a good job upon his return to the White House next month (54%), and a majority approves of how he’s handling the presidential transition so far...
www.cnn.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Even setting aside all other objections to this BS, it is pretty hilarious that the linked report shows the public has a much more negative view of how Trump has handled his two transitions compared to the transitions of Biden, Obama, Bush, and Clinton.
Told the POS to butt out.
December 8, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Told the POS to butt out.
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In a piece co-authored w/ @briantfinch.bsky.social forthcoming at @risjnl.bsky.social we conceptualize ontological agency or the prioritization of daily routines in the face of reminders of insecurity. We offer one way of understanding SKoreans’ alleged indifference to security threats.
December 4, 2024 at 3:49 AM
In a piece co-authored w/ @briantfinch.bsky.social forthcoming at @risjnl.bsky.social we conceptualize ontological agency or the prioritization of daily routines in the face of reminders of insecurity. We offer one way of understanding SKoreans’ alleged indifference to security threats.
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This may not seem politically significant but the ontological security lens is instructive when understanding when and how SKoreans’ latent anxiety shaped by their collective experience of war with NKorea and decades of authoritarianism manifests as overt (re)action.
Sale of canned food skyrocketed after Yoon declared martial law at 11 pm. It seems like Koreans feared the worst, because they experienced dictatorship (in)directly.
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naver.me/GV20gn9z
한밤중 계엄령에 편의점 통조림 매출 330%↑
“시민 불안감 높아져” 지난 3일 윤석열 대통령의 비상계엄령 선포 이후 시민들의 불안감이 높아지면서 유통 채널에서 비상식량 등 생필품 사재기 현상이 나타났다. 4일 업계에 따르면 전날 비상계엄령이 발동하면서 라면,
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December 4, 2024 at 3:31 AM
This may not seem politically significant but the ontological security lens is instructive when understanding when and how SKoreans’ latent anxiety shaped by their collective experience of war with NKorea and decades of authoritarianism manifests as overt (re)action.