Deepak Nair
@deepaknair.bsky.social
IR at ANU
International sociology | diplomacy | bureaucracy | Southeast Asia
Associate editor, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
www.deepaknair.org
International sociology | diplomacy | bureaucracy | Southeast Asia
Associate editor, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
www.deepaknair.org
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"‘Baleful influence’: a conceptual analysis of militarism" by Bryan Mabee and Srdjan Vucetic is out now in EJIR and available online.
You can read it here: t1p.de/4s6sq
You can read it here: t1p.de/4s6sq
October 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"‘Baleful influence’: a conceptual analysis of militarism" by Bryan Mabee and Srdjan Vucetic is out now in EJIR and available online.
You can read it here: t1p.de/4s6sq
You can read it here: t1p.de/4s6sq
Next in our ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series: Professor Itty Abraham (Arizona State University).
Online, 15 October 2pm AEST.
Abstract and registration:
events.humanitix.com/bandung-at-7...
Online, 15 October 2pm AEST.
Abstract and registration:
events.humanitix.com/bandung-at-7...
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Next in our ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series: Professor Itty Abraham (Arizona State University).
Online, 15 October 2pm AEST.
Abstract and registration:
events.humanitix.com/bandung-at-7...
Online, 15 October 2pm AEST.
Abstract and registration:
events.humanitix.com/bandung-at-7...
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In a day in which those who perpetrated a genocide and those who were complicit gather to pat themselves on the back as peacemakers, I recommend two books.
October 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
In a day in which those who perpetrated a genocide and those who were complicit gather to pat themselves on the back as peacemakers, I recommend two books.
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www.bradleyrsimpson.com/self-determi... Modeling archival sharing and collaborative research, @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social shares significant portions of the archival material behind THE FIRST RIGHT, his exciting new book on self-determination - global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Self-determination Documents — Bradley R. Simpson
www.bradleyrsimpson.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
www.bradleyrsimpson.com/self-determi... Modeling archival sharing and collaborative research, @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social shares significant portions of the archival material behind THE FIRST RIGHT, his exciting new book on self-determination - global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Its out in the world!
October 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Its out in the world!
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seeing the recognition of Palestinian statehood dismissed as 'performative' (US State Dept) makes me wonder how the meaning of the word 'performative' has gone from words that do things (Austin, Butler) to words that do nothing
September 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
seeing the recognition of Palestinian statehood dismissed as 'performative' (US State Dept) makes me wonder how the meaning of the word 'performative' has gone from words that do things (Austin, Butler) to words that do nothing
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy's Special Issue on Caste in Indian Diplomacy & IR is out. Edited by Vineet Thakur, Pavan Kumar & Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social @haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
September 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy's Special Issue on Caste in Indian Diplomacy & IR is out. Edited by Vineet Thakur, Pavan Kumar & Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social @haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
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At a time when politics feels bleak and frustrating, I wrote a book on empathy and politics to inject much needed hope into the conversation and offer some ideas for change.
Out soon with @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social and available for preorder now 📚
#Empathy #Politics #Leadership
Out soon with @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social and available for preorder now 📚
#Empathy #Politics #Leadership
August 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
At a time when politics feels bleak and frustrating, I wrote a book on empathy and politics to inject much needed hope into the conversation and offer some ideas for change.
Out soon with @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social and available for preorder now 📚
#Empathy #Politics #Leadership
Out soon with @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social and available for preorder now 📚
#Empathy #Politics #Leadership
Talk by @quahsayjye.bsky.social next week for the ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series. It's online. This pic of Lee Kuan Yew and Samuel Huntington from 1970 is a nice teaser of Quah's argument and his wider project on global intellectual history.
events.humanitix.com/the-singapor...
events.humanitix.com/the-singapor...
August 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Talk by @quahsayjye.bsky.social next week for the ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series. It's online. This pic of Lee Kuan Yew and Samuel Huntington from 1970 is a nice teaser of Quah's argument and his wider project on global intellectual history.
events.humanitix.com/the-singapor...
events.humanitix.com/the-singapor...
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Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
August 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
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Absolutely mind-blown! 🤯 What an honour to receive this prize. Enormous thanks to the prize committee, everyone who helped sharpen the argument & my incredible interlocutors in Crimea for whom the struggle for human rights continues.
🏆 We are pleased to announce @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social as the author of the Best Article in the European Journal of International Relations. Congratulations!
👏 Honorable mention to Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira
🔗 buff.ly/hqpQJSz
👏 Honorable mention to Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira
🔗 buff.ly/hqpQJSz
August 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Absolutely mind-blown! 🤯 What an honour to receive this prize. Enormous thanks to the prize committee, everyone who helped sharpen the argument & my incredible interlocutors in Crimea for whom the struggle for human rights continues.
IR Colleagues, please consider signing. It's been two years of petitioning and protesting, but ISA's Executive Leadership remains blind and mute to Israel's campaign of scholasticide.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter to ISA Executive Leadership to take action against the genocide and mass starvation in Gaza
Dear fellow ISA member,
The genocide in Gaza, Palestine is reaching a new threshold of catastrophe with exponentially growing numbers of Palestinians being killed through a premeditated calculus of ma...
docs.google.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
IR Colleagues, please consider signing. It's been two years of petitioning and protesting, but ISA's Executive Leadership remains blind and mute to Israel's campaign of scholasticide.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Fred Cooper tackling the concepts of decolonization and decoloniality in new Comparative Studies in Society & History article: "Decolonizing Decolonization."
Decolonizing Decolonization | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Decolonizing Decolonization
www.cambridge.org
July 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Fred Cooper tackling the concepts of decolonization and decoloniality in new Comparative Studies in Society & History article: "Decolonizing Decolonization."
From Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding to Zohran Mamdani – Mira Nair is a gift that keeps giving.
June 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
From Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding to Zohran Mamdani – Mira Nair is a gift that keeps giving.
Excellent commentary by @drbeezee.bsky.social
I'm the guest for today's episode of the ABC News Daily podcast with Samantha Hawley on "Was Iran Really About to Build a Nuclear Bomb?": www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Was Iran really about to build a nuclear bomb? - ABC listen
Israel has been ramping up pressure on Donald Trump for the US to join its strikes on Iran.
It’s believed that only the US has the bombs that could destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities hidden deep under...
www.abc.net.au
June 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Excellent commentary by @drbeezee.bsky.social
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These "hunger games" being played by Israel and the US are so disgusting. The humiliation and terrorizing and murdering of Palestinians via inhumanitarian aid is further evidence of how dehumanized Israel and the US are.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians seeking food in Gaza, health officials say
Dozens more wounded as crowds approached food distribution centres run by Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
These "hunger games" being played by Israel and the US are so disgusting. The humiliation and terrorizing and murdering of Palestinians via inhumanitarian aid is further evidence of how dehumanized Israel and the US are.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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SecDef Hegseth's Shangri-La Dialogue speech repeated conventional wisdom that's already eroded. No longer a functional division of getting security from US, prosperity from China. China's emerged as a global security provider, as @ibkardon.bsky.social and I show in @intsecurity.bsky.social:
May 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
SecDef Hegseth's Shangri-La Dialogue speech repeated conventional wisdom that's already eroded. No longer a functional division of getting security from US, prosperity from China. China's emerged as a global security provider, as @ibkardon.bsky.social and I show in @intsecurity.bsky.social:
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For a supposedly ‘international’ organisation, the email sent by the ISA President basically begging and browbeating scholars to make the trip to Columbus, Ohio is just amazingly tone deaf. Attending is couched in smorgasbord of hyperbolic rhetoric, WW2(!), the Cold War(!), Gandhi (!) without so
May 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
For a supposedly ‘international’ organisation, the email sent by the ISA President basically begging and browbeating scholars to make the trip to Columbus, Ohio is just amazingly tone deaf. Attending is couched in smorgasbord of hyperbolic rhetoric, WW2(!), the Cold War(!), Gandhi (!) without so
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If I read this correctly, I should not let my pithy self-interest in not getting deported to El Salvador allow me to evade my moral responsibility to hang out in some Hilton hallway (and pay conference fees).
I can’t put a finger on it, but somehow I get the impression that submissions for #ISA2026 are dropping off a cliff.
May 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
If I read this correctly, I should not let my pithy self-interest in not getting deported to El Salvador allow me to evade my moral responsibility to hang out in some Hilton hallway (and pay conference fees).
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🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology:
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
academic.oup.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology:
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
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Join us for the Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture 2024/25, where Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics.
🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4kh5uTy
🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4kh5uTy
May 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Join us for the Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture 2024/25, where Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics.
🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4kh5uTy
🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4kh5uTy
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My article with Jamie Levin, on nuclear strategy, firearms analogies, and settler colonialism, is now out at Security Dialogue. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
May 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
My article with Jamie Levin, on nuclear strategy, firearms analogies, and settler colonialism, is now out at Security Dialogue. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The editors Matthew Phillips & Naoko Shimazu (neither of whom are on Bluesky) have asked me to share news of this new book: A visual history of diplomacy in Cold War Asia. I'm very pleased to have contributed a chapter #HistIR @ndh-network.bsky.social #diplomacy @cambridgeup.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The editors Matthew Phillips & Naoko Shimazu (neither of whom are on Bluesky) have asked me to share news of this new book: A visual history of diplomacy in Cold War Asia. I'm very pleased to have contributed a chapter #HistIR @ndh-network.bsky.social #diplomacy @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles
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@georgelawson.bsky.social reflecting on 75 years of IR/area studies at the ANU. This intro to the special issue is a compelling set of reflections on Aussie IR from a UK expat. Main takeaway: the ANU is still a cracking place to do IR, and the future of IR, at the ANU at least, is in good hands. 🙌🏻
‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’
This introduction to the forum marking the 75th anniversary of the Department of International Relations (IR) at the Australian National University (ANU) is organised in three parts. First, it ‘loo...
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March 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
@georgelawson.bsky.social reflecting on 75 years of IR/area studies at the ANU. This intro to the special issue is a compelling set of reflections on Aussie IR from a UK expat. Main takeaway: the ANU is still a cracking place to do IR, and the future of IR, at the ANU at least, is in good hands. 🙌🏻