⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.

In an expected, but timely, turn of events, with @europeanisa.bsky.social in full swing, my first book “Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield” has been now published digitally, with the EISA-OUP Series Voices in IR. Print version in December.

academic.oup.com/book/60859?s...

I have a new article out at @polstudies.bsky.social. In "Electoral Hope", I make the case that supposedly irrational "wishful thinking" is actually a crucial part of how voters make rational sense of their role in democracies.

OA link: doi.org/10.1177/0032...

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“’Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory“ by @palestrinomirko.bsky.social

t1p.de/ajj2p

🚨 My book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime, has a webpage! As Trump seeks to rename Veterans Day to Victory Day, the timing couldn’t be better. Out in December with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social as part of @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices in IR. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:

Looking forward to welcoming Jaakko Heiskanen (QMUL) for a launch event on his exciting book "Ethnos of the Earth" (CUP) this week Thursday. Join us if you're in Oxford!

20 March, 4pm • Brasenose College, Lecture Room VII
With comments from Faridah Zaman & Musab Younis

In his new article in EJIR, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social examines the social construction of victory through the example of wartime gardening.

You can find the full publication here: t1p.de/8n0sh

Fantastic new article by Mirko Palestrino in @EuroJournIN

- and what a timely and important argument!

Read this as soon as you can!

Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:

Last chance to register for the 2nd DoingIPS Spring Symposium @QMUL, this year co-organised with
@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social's @elkeschwarz.bsky.social, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social and @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social
Sign-up link below. Pls share widely!!

www.doingips.org/symposium2024

Happening tomorrow at QMUL, co-organised by @doingips.bsky.social and Global Politics Unbound. Join Hannah, Melissa and myself for what promises to be a great discussion of an incredibly exciting book!!

Cheer up this rainy Thursday with some of the latest research in IPS! Read this brief post about Jef Huysmans and Joao Nogueira latest article in @ejir.bsky.social and how it relates to their previous work on IPS and critique!!

Only one week to go until this talk on ‘International Organizations and Research Methods’ (online). Make sure to register before!

Read about what IPS Brazil have been up to this past summer and how the 8th edition of the IPS Winter School went!!

Today is the first day of my British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at QMUL! I'll be studying 'The Political Psychology of the Future' – an attempt to do some blue sky thinking of my own about how politics works in people's heads.