Aida A. Hozic
@hozic.bsky.social
IR/IPE,aesthetics,feminism, Balkan,ephemera. Co-Lead Editor @ripejournal.bsky.social & Ed Team of International Political Sociology.
Never gets old.
Scandalous Economics.
“The smart need money; the rich want to seem smart; the staid seek adjacency to what Mr. Summers called ‘life among the lucrative and louche.’”
All on the bodies of young women recruited at Mar-a-Lago and flown around Clintonworld on Epstein’s jet.
“The smart need money; the rich want to seem smart; the staid seek adjacency to what Mr. Summers called ‘life among the lucrative and louche.’”
All on the bodies of young women recruited at Mar-a-Lago and flown around Clintonworld on Epstein’s jet.
January 31, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Never gets old.
When it comes to Eastern Europe/the Balkans, Epstein could not have found a better play pal. The disastrous trail of Lajčák’s ambition and mediocrity set back BiH and Kosovo in particular; his jokes about Ukrainian and Russian women in Epstein files speak volumes about his democratic credentials.
Slovakia adviser Lajčák resigns amid Epstein revelations
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s national security adviser stepped down after his name appeared in newly released documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
www.politico.eu
January 31, 2026 at 7:05 PM
When it comes to Eastern Europe/the Balkans, Epstein could not have found a better play pal. The disastrous trail of Lajčák’s ambition and mediocrity set back BiH and Kosovo in particular; his jokes about Ukrainian and Russian women in Epstein files speak volumes about his democratic credentials.
Scrolling through @financialtimes.com headlines: the fiction is so transparent that it seems surreal. DB profits - its offices were raided just yesterday for money laundering? Venezuela paid for its own oil through Qatar? Iran bombing imminent? Cuba screwed? Blackstone’s IPOs through the roof?
January 29, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Scrolling through @financialtimes.com headlines: the fiction is so transparent that it seems surreal. DB profits - its offices were raided just yesterday for money laundering? Venezuela paid for its own oil through Qatar? Iran bombing imminent? Cuba screwed? Blackstone’s IPOs through the roof?
Meanwhile, in the nice parts of the world: Let them drown.
Hundreds feared dead in attempt to cross Mediterranean during cyclone
Fifty killed in one incident as Italian authorities estimate 380 people may have drowned last week
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Meanwhile, in the nice parts of the world: Let them drown.
It should be possible to oppose aggression without rewriting history, n’est-ce pas @nytimes.com?
January 20, 2026 at 2:08 PM
It should be possible to oppose aggression without rewriting history, n’est-ce pas @nytimes.com?
Reposted by Aida A. Hozic
If anyone wants the unpublished second draft @hozic.bsky.social @dorobohle.bsky.social and me paper on this, DM or email me at my official UVa email. Also see @steffenmurau.bsky.social and me papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... free download.
January 19, 2026 at 1:28 PM
If anyone wants the unpublished second draft @hozic.bsky.social @dorobohle.bsky.social and me paper on this, DM or email me at my official UVa email. Also see @steffenmurau.bsky.social and me papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... free download.
It never ceases to amaze me how the category of “ordinary people” is deployed in political analyses, even critical ones, as if to underscore the extra-ordinariness, exception and/or elite membership of those who are doing the analysis (journalists, pundits, academics).
a little girl is sitting on a couch with her hands in her pockets
ALT: a little girl is sitting on a couch with her hands in her pockets
media.tenor.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:08 PM
It never ceases to amaze me how the category of “ordinary people” is deployed in political analyses, even critical ones, as if to underscore the extra-ordinariness, exception and/or elite membership of those who are doing the analysis (journalists, pundits, academics).
Shades of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, when women warned of the arrival of the British troops by banging bin lids on street pavements.
Inside Minneapolis’s Sprawling Network of ICE Watchers
Renee Nicole Good lived in a community where residents by the thousands are using text alerts, whistles and Google documents to shadow federal agents
www.wsj.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Shades of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, when women warned of the arrival of the British troops by banging bin lids on street pavements.
Last morning of a brief holiday from history, in which so much history happened, and not for the better.
January 11, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Last morning of a brief holiday from history, in which so much history happened, and not for the better.
A welcome reminder of the classic book on masculinities, class politics, and Nazism - Male Fantasies by Klaus Theweleit. Originally published in German in 1977, translated and published in the U.S. in 1987.
I also find Barbara Ehrenreich's preface to the book compelling, which you can read here: monoskop.org/images/5/54/...
Good material to put in conversation with discourses on the imperial boomerang, as we do the work of tending to our analyses in service of building grounded strategies ♥️
Good material to put in conversation with discourses on the imperial boomerang, as we do the work of tending to our analyses in service of building grounded strategies ♥️
monoskop.org
January 11, 2026 at 1:28 PM
A welcome reminder of the classic book on masculinities, class politics, and Nazism - Male Fantasies by Klaus Theweleit. Originally published in German in 1977, translated and published in the U.S. in 1987.
Reposted by Aida A. Hozic
Here’s the better long form on the “interiorization” of the border regime and the coercive side of the US empire:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enf...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enf...
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Here’s the better long form on the “interiorization” of the border regime and the coercive side of the US empire:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enf...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enf...
Few scholars understand the arms trade and its implications as well as @annastavrianakis.bsky.social
🎙️ Available tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts...
✅ #EISAVoices Episode 38 - 'What is... the Arms Trade?' with Anna Stavrianakis
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✅ #EISAVoices Episode 38 - 'What is... the Arms Trade?' with Anna Stavrianakis
🔗 Subscribe here: buff.ly/gQeZC0l
January 10, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Few scholars understand the arms trade and its implications as well as @annastavrianakis.bsky.social
Sobering analysis of transatlantic woes by @sophiabesch.bsky.social and @jyshapiro.bsky.social and some sage advice re alternatives. But, do European status-quo elites have the courage to face, let alone abandon, an abusive relationship?
The New American Imperialism: How Europe Can Deal With Trump’s Threat to Greenland
EU leaders will have to learn how to stand up to the bully in the White House.
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Sobering analysis of transatlantic woes by @sophiabesch.bsky.social and @jyshapiro.bsky.social and some sage advice re alternatives. But, do European status-quo elites have the courage to face, let alone abandon, an abusive relationship?
More from the land of Stranger Things. I thought this Administration was going to shut down Fannie and Freddie.
January 8, 2026 at 10:47 PM
More from the land of Stranger Things. I thought this Administration was going to shut down Fannie and Freddie.
Reposted by Aida A. Hozic
RIPE enters 2026 with an editorial transition. Huge thanks to outgoing team @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social, @skostem.bsky.social, Kevin Young & Hongying Wang! In the next few days, we’ll introduce new editors: @johannespetry.bsky.social, @alibhagat.bsky.social, Ida Bastiaens & @mbabic.bsky.social.
January 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
RIPE enters 2026 with an editorial transition. Huge thanks to outgoing team @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social, @skostem.bsky.social, Kevin Young & Hongying Wang! In the next few days, we’ll introduce new editors: @johannespetry.bsky.social, @alibhagat.bsky.social, Ida Bastiaens & @mbabic.bsky.social.
Nothing warms my heart like the generosity of spirit of my compatriots
January 7, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Nothing warms my heart like the generosity of spirit of my compatriots
This is all like Game of Thrones now. Winter is here.
January 5, 2026 at 4:01 AM
This is all like Game of Thrones now. Winter is here.
Reposted by Aida A. Hozic
Just got War Economy, ed. by Jacqui True and @hozic.bsky.social! My chapter, 'Conflict for fuel', studies energy within war economies in Gaza and Ukraine via a feminist political economy framework. Energy vital for Russia's aggression, Israel's genocide, & capital in Ukraine.
tinyurl.com/WaEc25
tinyurl.com/WaEc25
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Just got War Economy, ed. by Jacqui True and @hozic.bsky.social! My chapter, 'Conflict for fuel', studies energy within war economies in Gaza and Ukraine via a feminist political economy framework. Energy vital for Russia's aggression, Israel's genocide, & capital in Ukraine.
tinyurl.com/WaEc25
tinyurl.com/WaEc25
@seva.bsky.social is, of course, correct. Venezuela was a pre-arranged gift to (or from) Putin; Cuba is next. The spheres of influence and control are back. Yalta without the spectacle of Yalta.
Venezuela Is a Gift to Putin
and a harbinger of more Russian aggression in Europe
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
@seva.bsky.social is, of course, correct. Venezuela was a pre-arranged gift to (or from) Putin; Cuba is next. The spheres of influence and control are back. Yalta without the spectacle of Yalta.
If you had seen Dee Dee Halleck’s brilliant collage of Hollywood films and video representations of Latin America, Gringo in Mañanaland (1995), you would not have been surprised this morning.
Gringo in Mañanaland (1995) con subtítulos
YouTube video by verodemode
youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
If you had seen Dee Dee Halleck’s brilliant collage of Hollywood films and video representations of Latin America, Gringo in Mañanaland (1995), you would not have been surprised this morning.
Media coverage of Mamdani’s inauguration continues to paint him as an out-of-control radical. For insightful background of material struggles behind NY City Hall, read this piece by @ceaweaver.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social published last October.
Stabilization and Speculation | Cea Weaver
Struggles over New York City’s housing policy
www.phenomenalworld.org
January 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Media coverage of Mamdani’s inauguration continues to paint him as an out-of-control radical. For insightful background of material struggles behind NY City Hall, read this piece by @ceaweaver.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social published last October.
Reposted by Aida A. Hozic
RIPE had a banner year in 2025. Prior to this year, submissions to the journal were consistently increasing by about 2-10% per year. In 2025, submissions jumped by nearly 50%. RIPE received 910 manuscripts compared to 618 in 2024 and 552 in 2023, a significant deviation from our long-term trend.
December 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
RIPE had a banner year in 2025. Prior to this year, submissions to the journal were consistently increasing by about 2-10% per year. In 2025, submissions jumped by nearly 50%. RIPE received 910 manuscripts compared to 618 in 2024 and 552 in 2023, a significant deviation from our long-term trend.
Gramsci is everywhere.
December 19, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Gramsci is everywhere.
Given Sir Keir Starmer’s role in the Global War on Terror and his decisions related to Guantanamo, the stance on ECHR is not surprising. What human rights anyway?
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Given Sir Keir Starmer’s role in the Global War on Terror and his decisions related to Guantanamo, the stance on ECHR is not surprising. What human rights anyway?
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Hollywood has been bleeding jobs for decades and has not made boundary-pushing movies since the 1970s.
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Hollywood has been bleeding jobs for decades and has not made boundary-pushing movies since the 1970s.