Felix Rösch
@felixroesch.bsky.social
Associate Professor University of Sussex | Director Centre for Advanced Intternational Theory | FRHistS. Historical IR, Intellectual History, Practices, Emotions. Personal account. RT ≠ endorsement
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Felix Rösch
@felixroesch.bsky.social
· May 20
Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
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🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology:
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
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#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
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Here's an older article from yours truly on the "Global South" as metageography. In short: it's not a bloc of countries or some such thing.
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January 21, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Here's an older article from yours truly on the "Global South" as metageography. In short: it's not a bloc of countries or some such thing.
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social organsied a Special Issue on Erased, including a reply. I'm so grateful to Helen M. Kinsella, Joseph MacKay, Christine Sylvester, Immi Tallgren, and Tarak Barkawi for their commentaries. Links to each below...
January 19, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social organsied a Special Issue on Erased, including a reply. I'm so grateful to Helen M. Kinsella, Joseph MacKay, Christine Sylvester, Immi Tallgren, and Tarak Barkawi for their commentaries. Links to each below...
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Adam Lerner and Jarrod Hayes, "Historical IR and the Promise of Renewed Dialogue between IR and History," Cooperation & Conflict (2026)
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January 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Adam Lerner and Jarrod Hayes, "Historical IR and the Promise of Renewed Dialogue between IR and History," Cooperation & Conflict (2026)
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Online first article available #OpenAccess:
The rise and fall of liberal aspirations in international politics: the good governance agenda in the United Nations General Assembly (1970–2020)
Authored by Jens Steffek, Ana Schenk and Marcus Müller
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
The rise and fall of liberal aspirations in international politics: the good governance agenda in the United Nations General Assembly (1970–2020)
Authored by Jens Steffek, Ana Schenk and Marcus Müller
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Online first article available #OpenAccess:
The rise and fall of liberal aspirations in international politics: the good governance agenda in the United Nations General Assembly (1970–2020)
Authored by Jens Steffek, Ana Schenk and Marcus Müller
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
The rise and fall of liberal aspirations in international politics: the good governance agenda in the United Nations General Assembly (1970–2020)
Authored by Jens Steffek, Ana Schenk and Marcus Müller
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
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Delighted to join the podcast of the @risjnl.bsky.social - one of my favorite journals - to discuss the topic of my @mybisa.bsky.social keynote in Belfast last June - Seeing and Sensing World Politics - with my colleague @sebkaempf.bsky.social.
In this @risjnl.bsky.social podcast, @bleiker.bsky.social talk to @sebkaempf.bsky.social about ‘seeing and sensing world politics’, the title of his keynote address delivered at #BISA2025.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Delighted to join the podcast of the @risjnl.bsky.social - one of my favorite journals - to discuss the topic of my @mybisa.bsky.social keynote in Belfast last June - Seeing and Sensing World Politics - with my colleague @sebkaempf.bsky.social.
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"From trust to trusting: Bringing a practice perspective to bear on trust research in IR" Just out with @coco-journal.bsky.social! The article explores how ideas from practice theory can improve our understanding of trust in IR. @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @trust-ir.bsky.social 1/3
From trust to trusting: Bringing a practice perspective to bear on trust research in International Relations - Tobias Wille, 2025
In this analytical essay, I aim to advance the debate on trust in International Relations (IR) by clarifying how trust can be understood in practice-theoretical...
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January 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
"From trust to trusting: Bringing a practice perspective to bear on trust research in IR" Just out with @coco-journal.bsky.social! The article explores how ideas from practice theory can improve our understanding of trust in IR. @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @trust-ir.bsky.social 1/3
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Applications are open now for our 'new voices in cultural relations prize' with British Council
🎉
Open to all IR masters students in the UK to showcase your work, establish yourself in the IR field and boost your profile! 🌟
Apply today before 3 Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/c4t450XSQ6X
🎉
Open to all IR masters students in the UK to showcase your work, establish yourself in the IR field and boost your profile! 🌟
Apply today before 3 Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/c4t450XSQ6X
January 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Applications are open now for our 'new voices in cultural relations prize' with British Council
🎉
Open to all IR masters students in the UK to showcase your work, establish yourself in the IR field and boost your profile! 🌟
Apply today before 3 Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/c4t450XSQ6X
🎉
Open to all IR masters students in the UK to showcase your work, establish yourself in the IR field and boost your profile! 🌟
Apply today before 3 Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/c4t450XSQ6X
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Nochmal Schlögel:
"...dass die Geschichtsschreibung, die den melancholischen Moment erkennt und heuristisch für sich nutzt, einen Erfahrungs- und Erkenntnisgewinn daraus ziehen könnte."
"...dass die Geschichtsschreibung, die den melancholischen Moment erkennt und heuristisch für sich nutzt, einen Erfahrungs- und Erkenntnisgewinn daraus ziehen könnte."
January 4, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Nochmal Schlögel:
"...dass die Geschichtsschreibung, die den melancholischen Moment erkennt und heuristisch für sich nutzt, einen Erfahrungs- und Erkenntnisgewinn daraus ziehen könnte."
"...dass die Geschichtsschreibung, die den melancholischen Moment erkennt und heuristisch für sich nutzt, einen Erfahrungs- und Erkenntnisgewinn daraus ziehen könnte."
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Beobachtung von Karl Schlögel:
"Und ich bin überhaupt der Auffassung, dass die Erfahrung des Scheiternkönnens und des Verstumenmüssenkönnens eine zentrale und wesentliche Erfahrung aller Arbeit von Historikern ist.“
"Und ich bin überhaupt der Auffassung, dass die Erfahrung des Scheiternkönnens und des Verstumenmüssenkönnens eine zentrale und wesentliche Erfahrung aller Arbeit von Historikern ist.“
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Beobachtung von Karl Schlögel:
"Und ich bin überhaupt der Auffassung, dass die Erfahrung des Scheiternkönnens und des Verstumenmüssenkönnens eine zentrale und wesentliche Erfahrung aller Arbeit von Historikern ist.“
"Und ich bin überhaupt der Auffassung, dass die Erfahrung des Scheiternkönnens und des Verstumenmüssenkönnens eine zentrale und wesentliche Erfahrung aller Arbeit von Historikern ist.“
Sonne lacht überm sternig flimmernden Schnee, …
Alles ist neu, alles ist Glut und Glanz,
Kein Schatten drückt, keine Sorge tut weh,
Atmen tut wohl, Atmen ist Seligkeit,
Ist Gebet und Gesang,
Atme, Seele, öffne der Sonne dich weit
Deine flüchtige Stunde lang! (Hermann Hesse)
Alles ist neu, alles ist Glut und Glanz,
Kein Schatten drückt, keine Sorge tut weh,
Atmen tut wohl, Atmen ist Seligkeit,
Ist Gebet und Gesang,
Atme, Seele, öffne der Sonne dich weit
Deine flüchtige Stunde lang! (Hermann Hesse)
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Sonne lacht überm sternig flimmernden Schnee, …
Alles ist neu, alles ist Glut und Glanz,
Kein Schatten drückt, keine Sorge tut weh,
Atmen tut wohl, Atmen ist Seligkeit,
Ist Gebet und Gesang,
Atme, Seele, öffne der Sonne dich weit
Deine flüchtige Stunde lang! (Hermann Hesse)
Alles ist neu, alles ist Glut und Glanz,
Kein Schatten drückt, keine Sorge tut weh,
Atmen tut wohl, Atmen ist Seligkeit,
Ist Gebet und Gesang,
Atme, Seele, öffne der Sonne dich weit
Deine flüchtige Stunde lang! (Hermann Hesse)
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I’m truly excited to share that The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations, co-edited with Andrew Ross , is finally out in the world. lnkd.in/dZYNS2Jb
This project has been a journey: full of ideas, conversations, challenges, and inspiration.I’m deeply grateful to all contributors.
This project has been a journey: full of ideas, conversations, challenges, and inspiration.I’m deeply grateful to all contributors.
December 31, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I’m truly excited to share that The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations, co-edited with Andrew Ross , is finally out in the world. lnkd.in/dZYNS2Jb
This project has been a journey: full of ideas, conversations, challenges, and inspiration.I’m deeply grateful to all contributors.
This project has been a journey: full of ideas, conversations, challenges, and inspiration.I’m deeply grateful to all contributors.
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📣New Publication📣
My article in The Conversation on reading Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism 50 years after her death is available here: tinyurl.com/yeyp3yy8 #Populism #PoliticalTheory #Totalitarianism #HannahArendt #Democracy #TheConversation
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My article in The Conversation on reading Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism 50 years after her death is available here: tinyurl.com/yeyp3yy8 #Populism #PoliticalTheory #Totalitarianism #HannahArendt #Democracy #TheConversation
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How Hannah Arendt can help us understand this new age of far-right populism
One of the main lessons of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism is that we must actively think in the now, and try to grasp new realities on their own terms.
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December 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
📣New Publication📣
My article in The Conversation on reading Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism 50 years after her death is available here: tinyurl.com/yeyp3yy8 #Populism #PoliticalTheory #Totalitarianism #HannahArendt #Democracy #TheConversation
@sgiadurham.bsky.social
@theconversation.com
My article in The Conversation on reading Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism 50 years after her death is available here: tinyurl.com/yeyp3yy8 #Populism #PoliticalTheory #Totalitarianism #HannahArendt #Democracy #TheConversation
@sgiadurham.bsky.social
@theconversation.com
Interesting new article: The rise and fall of liberal aspirations in international politics: the good governance agenda in the United Nations General Assembly (1970–2020) by Jens Steffek, Ana Schenk, and Marcus Müller
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December 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Interesting new article: The rise and fall of liberal aspirations in international politics: the good governance agenda in the United Nations General Assembly (1970–2020) by Jens Steffek, Ana Schenk, and Marcus Müller
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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This, with @claroche.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, was the most fun I’ve had writing a paper in years. A quick thread on what we do here. This paper argues IR theories tell stories, and stories get their meaning from their particular endings. /1
Stories derive much of their meaning from how they end. Joseph MacKay and Christoph LaRoche‘s article in EJIR asks how endings shape the historical narratives at the heart of IR theories. Read the full paper here: t1p.de/voqhz
@lefteleven.bsky.social @claroche.bsky.social
@lefteleven.bsky.social @claroche.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This, with @claroche.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, was the most fun I’ve had writing a paper in years. A quick thread on what we do here. This paper argues IR theories tell stories, and stories get their meaning from their particular endings. /1
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A brief piece by me in E-IR on the shift from hegemony to primacy heralded by the U.S. National Security Strategy.
There’s a _lot_ going on in that document but I think that the explicit abandonment of hegemony for primacy is perhaps the most important.
www.e-ir.info
There’s a _lot_ going on in that document but I think that the explicit abandonment of hegemony for primacy is perhaps the most important.
www.e-ir.info
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December 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A brief piece by me in E-IR on the shift from hegemony to primacy heralded by the U.S. National Security Strategy.
There’s a _lot_ going on in that document but I think that the explicit abandonment of hegemony for primacy is perhaps the most important.
www.e-ir.info
There’s a _lot_ going on in that document but I think that the explicit abandonment of hegemony for primacy is perhaps the most important.
www.e-ir.info
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EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
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December 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Ein neuer Blog zur Anwendung der #Staatsräson in der deutschen Politik
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@politikuhh.bsky.social @esrah.uni-hamburg.de
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@politikuhh.bsky.social @esrah.uni-hamburg.de
Gibt es ein unauflösbares Dilemma zwischen Staatsräson & Völkerstrafrecht? Nein, schreibt @antjewiener.bsky.social in ihrem Text: Mithilfe der Methoden der IB-Normenforschung lasse sich zeigen, dass die Normenkollision ein hausgemachtes & auflösbares Problem deutscher Politik sei. #blogsymposium25
Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Normenkollision zwischen Staatsräson und Völkerstrafrecht: Ein hausgemachtes Dilemma der deutschen Politik
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December 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Ein neuer Blog zur Anwendung der #Staatsräson in der deutschen Politik
👇🏻👇🏻
@politikuhh.bsky.social @esrah.uni-hamburg.de
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@politikuhh.bsky.social @esrah.uni-hamburg.de
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📣 Abstract submission for #EISAPEC26 is now open!
🗓️ Deadline: 19 February 2026
🔗 Visit our website for detailed guidelines: buff.ly/3a7EqAz
🗓️ Deadline: 19 February 2026
🔗 Visit our website for detailed guidelines: buff.ly/3a7EqAz
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
📣 Abstract submission for #EISAPEC26 is now open!
🗓️ Deadline: 19 February 2026
🔗 Visit our website for detailed guidelines: buff.ly/3a7EqAz
🗓️ Deadline: 19 February 2026
🔗 Visit our website for detailed guidelines: buff.ly/3a7EqAz
📚 Great to get a copy of the latest addition on Giovanni #Sartori to our @hss.springernature.com series on Global Political Thinkers.
📌 If you are interested in contributing to the series, dm me. We publish pivots, monographs, and edited volumes.
📌 If you are interested in contributing to the series, dm me. We publish pivots, monographs, and edited volumes.
December 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
📚 Great to get a copy of the latest addition on Giovanni #Sartori to our @hss.springernature.com series on Global Political Thinkers.
📌 If you are interested in contributing to the series, dm me. We publish pivots, monographs, and edited volumes.
📌 If you are interested in contributing to the series, dm me. We publish pivots, monographs, and edited volumes.
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Check out our special forum on why IR needs to engage area studies in analysing #RussiaUkraineWar.
In my contribution, I argue that IR risks erasing Ukrainian agency by framing the war as primarily about NATO, Putin and the West.
More brilliant contributions here:
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In my contribution, I argue that IR risks erasing Ukrainian agency by framing the war as primarily about NATO, Putin and the West.
More brilliant contributions here:
academic.oup.com/isr/article-...
December 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Check out our special forum on why IR needs to engage area studies in analysing #RussiaUkraineWar.
In my contribution, I argue that IR risks erasing Ukrainian agency by framing the war as primarily about NATO, Putin and the West.
More brilliant contributions here:
academic.oup.com/isr/article-...
In my contribution, I argue that IR risks erasing Ukrainian agency by framing the war as primarily about NATO, Putin and the West.
More brilliant contributions here:
academic.oup.com/isr/article-...
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📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
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What role do #Emotions play in #IR? Watch our video for a discussion on this critical aspect of #Global #Politics & how the study of emotions has transformed #Theories and #Practices in #International order, #Diplomacy, #War, & #Peace, as well as what challenges remain: youtu.be/P1_D19xUjgE
The Emotional Turn in International Relations: How Emotions Have Shaped the Field
Over the past two decades, emotions have moved from the margins to the center of international relations (IR) scholarship.
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What role do #Emotions play in #IR? Watch our video for a discussion on this critical aspect of #Global #Politics & how the study of emotions has transformed #Theories and #Practices in #International order, #Diplomacy, #War, & #Peace, as well as what challenges remain: youtu.be/P1_D19xUjgE
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Alexander Borum December IR career starters is out now & with Christmas round the corner there is no better time to grind away at those applications! 🌟
inc: OECD, Human Rights Watch, CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies, CEPS, RAND Europe & more! 🎉
Link - https://ow.ly/BF6S50XCBri
inc: OECD, Human Rights Watch, CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies, CEPS, RAND Europe & more! 🎉
Link - https://ow.ly/BF6S50XCBri
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Alexander Borum December IR career starters is out now & with Christmas round the corner there is no better time to grind away at those applications! 🌟
inc: OECD, Human Rights Watch, CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies, CEPS, RAND Europe & more! 🎉
Link - https://ow.ly/BF6S50XCBri
inc: OECD, Human Rights Watch, CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies, CEPS, RAND Europe & more! 🎉
Link - https://ow.ly/BF6S50XCBri
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Apologies for X-posting.
Special Issue alert: The December issue of EJIR is now live. The editors are REALLY proud of this collection. 10 articles at the cutting edge of History and Theory in International Relations. If you get this in your stocking, you have been a GOOD academic this year!
Special Issue alert: The December issue of EJIR is now live. The editors are REALLY proud of this collection. 10 articles at the cutting edge of History and Theory in International Relations. If you get this in your stocking, you have been a GOOD academic this year!
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December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Apologies for X-posting.
Special Issue alert: The December issue of EJIR is now live. The editors are REALLY proud of this collection. 10 articles at the cutting edge of History and Theory in International Relations. If you get this in your stocking, you have been a GOOD academic this year!
Special Issue alert: The December issue of EJIR is now live. The editors are REALLY proud of this collection. 10 articles at the cutting edge of History and Theory in International Relations. If you get this in your stocking, you have been a GOOD academic this year!