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Global Society is a journal of international studies published by Taylor & Francis. Editors: Rubrick Biegon, Tom Casier, Hendrik Huelss, Melita Lazell, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Peter Marshall

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January 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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We are starting 2026 with the publication of Global Society 40(1). We will be highlighting each of the articles over January. If you would like to read the whole issue now, it is linked below.

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January 5, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Before the Global Society team sign off for the winter break, we want to remind you that Global Society has an open call for special issue proposals. Please follow the link below for more details. We look forward to receiving your proposals!
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We are accepting special issue proposals! We welcome proposals relating to any area of global and international studies as well as interdisciplinary scholarship. For more info, contact us or follow the link below 👇
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December 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Our final monthly pick for December is the #OpenAccess article, "WAW, No Women? Foucault’s Reverse Discourse and Gendered Subjects in Diplomatic Networks" by @anntowns.bsky.social (@ University of Gothenburg). Be sure to give it a read!

#Diplomacy #Gender #Women

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This study has two aims. Empirically, it examines women ambassador networks, hitherto overlooked in diplomacy scholarship. Such women-only networks are fascinating, as they cut across state-based alignments that typically shape diplomatic networks. Using Women Ambassadors of Warsaw (WAW) as a case, the analysis is based on interviews with its members in 2020. Theoretically, the aim is to draw on Michel Foucault’s notion of “reverse discourse” to build upon but trouble prior attempts to theorise the place of women and femininities in diplomacy. Rather than coherent scripts or stable roles, I argue, “women” are better conceived as a discursive subject position that is unstable, contradictory and reversing. Indeed, the members of WAW articulate surprisingly shifting and contradictory claims about women and the rationales of a women-only diplomatic network. Reverse discourse provides leverage for understanding these shifts, the article contends, but the analysis also shows the difficulties in reversing fragmented discourse.
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Our final monthly pick for December is the #OpenAccess article, "WAW, No Women? Foucault’s Reverse Discourse and Gendered Subjects in Diplomatic Networks" by @anntowns.bsky.social (@ University of Gothenburg). Be sure to give it a read!

#Diplomacy #Gender #Women

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This study has two aims. Empirically, it examines women ambassador networks, hitherto overlooked in diplomacy scholarship. Such women-only networks are fascinating, as they cut across state-based alignments that typically shape diplomatic networks. Using Women Ambassadors of Warsaw (WAW) as a case, the analysis is based on interviews with its members in 2020. Theoretically, the aim is to draw on Michel Foucault’s notion of “reverse discourse” to build upon but trouble prior attempts to theorise the place of women and femininities in diplomacy. Rather than coherent scripts or stable roles, I argue, “women” are better conceived as a discursive subject position that is unstable, contradictory and reversing. Indeed, the members of WAW articulate surprisingly shifting and contradictory claims about women and the rationales of a women-only diplomatic network. Reverse discourse provides leverage for understanding these shifts, the article contends, but the analysis also shows the difficulties in reversing fragmented discourse.
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Our second monthly pick for December is "The Organisation Matters: Comparing Christine Lagarde’s Policies on Gender Equity at the IMF and the ECB" by Pamela Blackmon (Penn State University). Be sure to give it a read!

#OpenAccess #IMF #Gender

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The Organisation Matters: Comparing Christine Lagarde’s Policies on Gender Equity at the IMF and the ECB
Published in Global Society (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2025)
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December 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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We have a new #OnlineFirst article out, "“Anti-Intellectualism?” Situating Javier Milei’s Discourse About Science" by @valearvejita.bsky.social and @claudiocormick.bsky.social (both @CONICET). Be sure to give it a read!

#Milei #Science #Neoliberalism

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The relationship between far-right and science has gained increasing scholarly attention, yet existing analyses often rely on broad labels such as “anti-scientific” or “anti-intellectual” without sufficient conceptual precision. This lack of precision, in turn, commonly leads to an inadequate analysis of the discourse of figures such as Argentine President Javier Milei. This article attempts to overcome this limitation by applying to Milei’s case a novel theoretical framework that distinguishes between two complementary dimensions of anti-science attitudes: an epistemological axis and an ethical–political axis. Empirically, the study draws on roughly 109 h of public statements produced by Milei between December 2023 and July 2025, analysed through a qualitative discourse approach inspired by grounded theory. The findings show that Milei selectively targets publicly funded intellectuals and institutions, framing them as corrupt, useless, or indoctrinating, while simultaneously praising market-oriented knowledge producers. Epistemologically, however, he does not reject science per se; instead, he frequently celebrates scientific progress and expert authority, except in specific cases such as climate change where his market fundamentalism overrides scientific consensus. We show that Milei’s discourse is better understood as a “war over science” – an attempt to appropriate science under neoliberal logics – rather than as wholesale anti-scientific rejection.
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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We have a new #OnlineFirst article out in Global Society: "Artificial Intelligence and the Algorithmic Discursive Sphere: Policymaking Dilemmas and the Rise of a New Public Intellectual" by Branislav Radeljić (@nebrija.bsky.social).

#AI #Power #Democracy

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This paper explores the multifaceted relationship between artificial intelligence (AI), programming languages, and ethical-political structures, emphasising how AI development both reflects and reshapes global power dynamics. When prompted about its participation in political discourse or its potential to function as a public intellectual (a hybrid human–nonhuman actor that redefines the link between technology, politics, and public reason), generative AI often expresses a willingness to engage with complex ideas, while simultaneously acknowledging its limitations in terms of original thought and its inability to advocate for social change. It tends to prioritise neutrality over taking definitive stances, which raises critical concerns. This neutrality may inadvertently contribute to inequality, particularly in the context of the divide between the Global North and the Global South. Moreover, the geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China, combined with AI’s growing role in decision-making processes, underscores its potential to privilege certain agendas – often those aimed at power maximisation and wealth accumulation. This paper argues that the promise of AI must be weighed against its risks, especially in high-stakes domains, and that meaningful accountability demands more than ethics-as-branding. By framing AI as a sociotechnical artifact embedded in ideology and power, the study highlights the need for global, pluralistic, and enforceable ethical frameworks in the face of accelerating digital transformation.
December 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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We have a new #OnlineFirst article out, "“Anti-Intellectualism?” Situating Javier Milei’s Discourse About Science" by @valearvejita.bsky.social and @claudiocormick.bsky.social (both @CONICET). Be sure to give it a read!

#Milei #Science #Neoliberalism

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The relationship between far-right and science has gained increasing scholarly attention, yet existing analyses often rely on broad labels such as “anti-scientific” or “anti-intellectual” without sufficient conceptual precision. This lack of precision, in turn, commonly leads to an inadequate analysis of the discourse of figures such as Argentine President Javier Milei. This article attempts to overcome this limitation by applying to Milei’s case a novel theoretical framework that distinguishes between two complementary dimensions of anti-science attitudes: an epistemological axis and an ethical–political axis. Empirically, the study draws on roughly 109 h of public statements produced by Milei between December 2023 and July 2025, analysed through a qualitative discourse approach inspired by grounded theory. The findings show that Milei selectively targets publicly funded intellectuals and institutions, framing them as corrupt, useless, or indoctrinating, while simultaneously praising market-oriented knowledge producers. Epistemologically, however, he does not reject science per se; instead, he frequently celebrates scientific progress and expert authority, except in specific cases such as climate change where his market fundamentalism overrides scientific consensus. We show that Milei’s discourse is better understood as a “war over science” – an attempt to appropriate science under neoliberal logics – rather than as wholesale anti-scientific rejection.
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Our second monthly pick for December is "The Organisation Matters: Comparing Christine Lagarde’s Policies on Gender Equity at the IMF and the ECB" by Pamela Blackmon (Penn State University). Be sure to give it a read!

#OpenAccess #IMF #Gender

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The Organisation Matters: Comparing Christine Lagarde’s Policies on Gender Equity at the IMF and the ECB
Published in Global Society (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2025)
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December 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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We have a new #OnlineFirst article out in Global Society: "Artificial Intelligence and the Algorithmic Discursive Sphere: Policymaking Dilemmas and the Rise of a New Public Intellectual" by Branislav Radeljić (@nebrija.bsky.social).

#AI #Power #Democracy

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This paper explores the multifaceted relationship between artificial intelligence (AI), programming languages, and ethical-political structures, emphasising how AI development both reflects and reshapes global power dynamics. When prompted about its participation in political discourse or its potential to function as a public intellectual (a hybrid human–nonhuman actor that redefines the link between technology, politics, and public reason), generative AI often expresses a willingness to engage with complex ideas, while simultaneously acknowledging its limitations in terms of original thought and its inability to advocate for social change. It tends to prioritise neutrality over taking definitive stances, which raises critical concerns. This neutrality may inadvertently contribute to inequality, particularly in the context of the divide between the Global North and the Global South. Moreover, the geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China, combined with AI’s growing role in decision-making processes, underscores its potential to privilege certain agendas – often those aimed at power maximisation and wealth accumulation. This paper argues that the promise of AI must be weighed against its risks, especially in high-stakes domains, and that meaningful accountability demands more than ethics-as-branding. By framing AI as a sociotechnical artifact embedded in ideology and power, the study highlights the need for global, pluralistic, and enforceable ethical frameworks in the face of accelerating digital transformation.
December 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Our first monthly pick for December is the #OpenAccess article, "Gender, Financial Deepening and the Production of Embodied Finance: Towards a Critical Feminist Analysis" by Adrienne Roberts (@manchester.ac.uk). Be sure to give it a read!

#Equality #Finance

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This article critically interrogates the ways in which gender equality has been linked to processes of financial deepening, partly via a global coalition of public and private institutions that have come together in recent years to promote an instrumentalist gender equality agenda. Corporations, banks and financial firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping the contours of the global gender equality agenda and reproducing narratives regarding the need to (1) financially “empower” women, (2) uphold women as the “saviours” of national economies post-2008 and (3) “tap in” to the productive (i.e. profitable) potential of women's bodily capacities. Drawing on Marxist and feminist theory, I develop an approach to theorising the inherently embodied and gendered nature of finance that reveals the ways in which these tropes obscure the labour associated with social reproduction, promote the commodification of women's bodily capacities to produce, and support the differential production of bodies while simultaneously masking embodied forms of difference.
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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A new #OnlineFirst article, "For a Better Future: How Parenthood Affects Attitudes toward War" by Shih-chan Dai (@ National Chengchi University) and Navida Chun-han Wang (@umich.edu), is out with Global Society! Be sure to give it a read!

#War #Gender #Parent

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How does parenthood affect individuals’ attitudes toward war? Existing literature on public support for war offers some explanations as to when the public is more likely to support the use of military force. Yet, it has largely overlooked an essential factor: parenthood. Building on rational choice and social identity theories, we argue that individuals who are parents are less likely to support war. Individuals with children face greater uncertainty and are more vulnerable to the damages that war could bring. In addition, the shift in identity as parents affects how individuals perceive security threats. We test our hypothesis using the World Value Survey Wave 6 (2010-2014). The results show that parenthood decreases the likelihood of expressing support for war, for both females and males, even after controlling for other demographic traits and country-level covariates such as exposure to militarised violence and gender inequality. Our findings contribute to the literature on security studies and public opinion and suggest a need to consider the impact of parenthood.
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Our first monthly pick for December is the #OpenAccess article, "Gender, Financial Deepening and the Production of Embodied Finance: Towards a Critical Feminist Analysis" by Adrienne Roberts (@manchester.ac.uk). Be sure to give it a read!

#Equality #Finance

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This article critically interrogates the ways in which gender equality has been linked to processes of financial deepening, partly via a global coalition of public and private institutions that have come together in recent years to promote an instrumentalist gender equality agenda. Corporations, banks and financial firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping the contours of the global gender equality agenda and reproducing narratives regarding the need to (1) financially “empower” women, (2) uphold women as the “saviours” of national economies post-2008 and (3) “tap in” to the productive (i.e. profitable) potential of women's bodily capacities. Drawing on Marxist and feminist theory, I develop an approach to theorising the inherently embodied and gendered nature of finance that reveals the ways in which these tropes obscure the labour associated with social reproduction, promote the commodification of women's bodily capacities to produce, and support the differential production of bodies while simultaneously masking embodied forms of difference.
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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A new #OnlineFirst article, "For a Better Future: How Parenthood Affects Attitudes toward War" by Shih-chan Dai (@ National Chengchi University) and Navida Chun-han Wang (@umich.edu), is out with Global Society! Be sure to give it a read!

#War #Gender #Parent

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How does parenthood affect individuals’ attitudes toward war? Existing literature on public support for war offers some explanations as to when the public is more likely to support the use of military force. Yet, it has largely overlooked an essential factor: parenthood. Building on rational choice and social identity theories, we argue that individuals who are parents are less likely to support war. Individuals with children face greater uncertainty and are more vulnerable to the damages that war could bring. In addition, the shift in identity as parents affects how individuals perceive security threats. We test our hypothesis using the World Value Survey Wave 6 (2010-2014). The results show that parenthood decreases the likelihood of expressing support for war, for both females and males, even after controlling for other demographic traits and country-level covariates such as exposure to militarised violence and gender inequality. Our findings contribute to the literature on security studies and public opinion and suggest a need to consider the impact of parenthood.
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Our final monthly pick for November is the #OpenAccess article "Counter-Conduct and the Everyday: Anthropological Engagements with Philosophy" by @olgademetriou.bsky.social (@sgiadurham.bsky.social). Be sure to give it a read!

#CounterConduct #Greece #Cyprus

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This article critically examines counter-conduct as an analytical tool for understanding minority subjectivity. It revisits the concept within its Collège lecture context and alongside alternative descriptions of opposing governmental power. Its affinities with the anthropological notion of the “everyday” are explored in depth. The anthropological everyday, it is argued, points to nuances that enrich our understanding of the political. Heidegger's notions of “everyday” and “they” are discussed alongside ethnographic insights from Greece and Cyprus. This anthropological-philosophical encounter yields a more meaningful understanding of counter-conduct, as embedded in the everyday, that addresses both its broad scope and its analytic specificity.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Our final monthly pick for November is the #OpenAccess article "Counter-Conduct and the Everyday: Anthropological Engagements with Philosophy" by @olgademetriou.bsky.social (@sgiadurham.bsky.social). Be sure to give it a read!

#CounterConduct #Greece #Cyprus

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This article critically examines counter-conduct as an analytical tool for understanding minority subjectivity. It revisits the concept within its Collège lecture context and alongside alternative descriptions of opposing governmental power. Its affinities with the anthropological notion of the “everyday” are explored in depth. The anthropological everyday, it is argued, points to nuances that enrich our understanding of the political. Heidegger's notions of “everyday” and “they” are discussed alongside ethnographic insights from Greece and Cyprus. This anthropological-philosophical encounter yields a more meaningful understanding of counter-conduct, as embedded in the everyday, that addresses both its broad scope and its analytic specificity.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Our third monthly pick is "The Impact of the Libya Intervention Debates on Norms of Protection" by @sarahbrockmeier.bsky.social (@prif.org), @oliverstuenkel.bsky.social, and Marcos Tourinho (both @fgvoficial.bsky.social). Be sure to give it a read!

#OpenAccess

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Resolution 1973, which authorised military intervention in Libya, marked the first time that the United Nations Security Council explicitly mandated the use of force against a functioning state to prevent imminent atrocity crimes. While some hailed the resolution and the subsequent intervention in Libya as a victory for the concept of the international community's “responsibility to protect” (R2P), others predicted its early death. This article argues for a more nuanced view on the impact of the Libya intervention on the debates on R2P. As we will show, the intervention in Libya demonstrated new areas of agreement and at the same time revealed persisting and new disagreements within the international community on the role of the use of force to protect populations.
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Our third monthly pick is "The Impact of the Libya Intervention Debates on Norms of Protection" by @sarahbrockmeier.bsky.social (@prif.org), @oliverstuenkel.bsky.social, and Marcos Tourinho (both @fgvoficial.bsky.social). Be sure to give it a read!

#OpenAccess

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Resolution 1973, which authorised military intervention in Libya, marked the first time that the United Nations Security Council explicitly mandated the use of force against a functioning state to prevent imminent atrocity crimes. While some hailed the resolution and the subsequent intervention in Libya as a victory for the concept of the international community's “responsibility to protect” (R2P), others predicted its early death. This article argues for a more nuanced view on the impact of the Libya intervention on the debates on R2P. As we will show, the intervention in Libya demonstrated new areas of agreement and at the same time revealed persisting and new disagreements within the international community on the role of the use of force to protect populations.
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Our 2nd pick for November is the #OpenAccess article "Organising Global Stratification: How International Organisations (Re)Produce Inequalities in International Society" by @carolinefehl.bsky.social (@prif.org) and @ksailormoon.bsky.social (Duisburg-Essen)!

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The article makes the case for scrutinising international organisations (IOs) as key sites and agents of inequality reproduction and transformation in international society. Drawing on sociological inequality research and institutionalist approaches to International Relations, we argue that IOs reproduce and transform broader stratification patterns in their global social environment through intertwined processes of categorisation and distribution. We propose to capture these twin processes from three observation points, which highlight different material and symbolic practices operating within IOs and at the interface between IOs and their environment.
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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We have a new #OnlineFirst article out in Global Society. "The Ties that Bind?: Affinity and Challenges in Contemporary Brazil-China Relations" is by Pedro Abelin band Margaret M. Pearson (both @univofmaryland.bsky.social). Do give it a read!

#China #Brazil

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As China’s diplomatic and economic outreach towards the Global South has expanded in recent decades, so too have its efforts to align with important Global South countries and create movement away from US hegemony. Brazil’s relationship with China is emblematic, as it is a big player in Latin America and in multilateral bodies, and due to its historical relationship with the United States. While theories about China’s rise lead us to expect that relations between China and Global South countries such as Brazil should be positive and straightforward due to economic interests, normative identity, and successful diplomatic outreach, empirical studies yield mixed results, with challenges arising from host state domestic politics. We explore how Brazil’s domestic policy preferences, public opinion, and polarisation shape China’s ability to achieve its diplomatic goals in multilateral (focusing on BRICS) and bilateral (especially agribusiness trade) settings. We find that despite an overall strong relationship, Brazil diverges from China’s policies and preferences in important ways, exposing limits on China’s efforts. In addition to tracing major diplomatic statements, we draw on newly collected survey data reflecting Brazilian public opinion on salient issues.
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Our 2nd pick for November is the #OpenAccess article "Organising Global Stratification: How International Organisations (Re)Produce Inequalities in International Society" by @carolinefehl.bsky.social (@prif.org) and @ksailormoon.bsky.social (Duisburg-Essen)!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The article makes the case for scrutinising international organisations (IOs) as key sites and agents of inequality reproduction and transformation in international society. Drawing on sociological inequality research and institutionalist approaches to International Relations, we argue that IOs reproduce and transform broader stratification patterns in their global social environment through intertwined processes of categorisation and distribution. We propose to capture these twin processes from three observation points, which highlight different material and symbolic practices operating within IOs and at the interface between IOs and their environment.
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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We have a new #OnlineFirst article out in Global Society. "The Ties that Bind?: Affinity and Challenges in Contemporary Brazil-China Relations" is by Pedro Abelin band Margaret M. Pearson (both @univofmaryland.bsky.social). Do give it a read!

#China #Brazil

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As China’s diplomatic and economic outreach towards the Global South has expanded in recent decades, so too have its efforts to align with important Global South countries and create movement away from US hegemony. Brazil’s relationship with China is emblematic, as it is a big player in Latin America and in multilateral bodies, and due to its historical relationship with the United States. While theories about China’s rise lead us to expect that relations between China and Global South countries such as Brazil should be positive and straightforward due to economic interests, normative identity, and successful diplomatic outreach, empirical studies yield mixed results, with challenges arising from host state domestic politics. We explore how Brazil’s domestic policy preferences, public opinion, and polarisation shape China’s ability to achieve its diplomatic goals in multilateral (focusing on BRICS) and bilateral (especially agribusiness trade) settings. We find that despite an overall strong relationship, Brazil diverges from China’s policies and preferences in important ways, exposing limits on China’s efforts. In addition to tracing major diplomatic statements, we draw on newly collected survey data reflecting Brazilian public opinion on salient issues.
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Our first monthly pick for November is "Guardians of the Future: International Organisations, Anticipatory Governance and Education" by Susan L. Robertson (@ Cambridge University). Be sure to give it a read!

#OpenAccess #Anticipation #Governance

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This paper is a comparative analysis of the anticipatory practices deployed by two international organisations (IOs), UNESCO and the OECD, to govern education futures. I show how their coordination of education futures is mediated by: (1) their different histories, missions, resources and geo-political alliances; (2) use of different anticipatory practices; (3) ongoing tensions between the two organisations around who dominates future-making in education; and (4) the challenges to be negotiated when anticipated futures arrive as a problematic present. My argument develops around three moments of crisis as new arenas for what Ann Mische calls “hyper-projectivity” around futures. In each moment I explore the way UNESCO and the OECD engage in, and compete over, framing, shaping and materialising future presents. In doing so, they claim to be guardians of education futures.
November 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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We are accepting special issue proposals! We welcome proposals relating to any area of global and international studies as well as interdisciplinary scholarship. For more info, contact us or follow the link below 👇
1. globalsociety@kent.ac.uk
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October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM