Rafi Youatt
@rafiyouatt.bsky.social
global politics assoc professor, nssr
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Southeast Asian history shows us that there are other pathways to international order and that, contrary to Western modes of thinking, a hegemonic power is not required for stability
What Southeast Asian history tells us about a multipolar order | Aeon Essays
As Pax Americana ends, a multipolar order is emerging. The history of Southeast Asia holds lessons for what’s to come
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October 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Southeast Asian history shows us that there are other pathways to international order and that, contrary to Western modes of thinking, a hegemonic power is not required for stability
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The green transition has a surprising new home: the global south. (Gift article.)
The green transition has a surprising new home
Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling
economist.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The green transition has a surprising new home: the global south. (Gift article.)
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Well, UChicago has paused new PhD admissions in my department now, too. One of the flagship departments for anthropology in the US and worldwide.
This on top of hum, social thought, social work, and others. What happens to UChicago's brand--the so-called "life of the mind"--now?
This on top of hum, social thought, social work, and others. What happens to UChicago's brand--the so-called "life of the mind"--now?
August 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Well, UChicago has paused new PhD admissions in my department now, too. One of the flagship departments for anthropology in the US and worldwide.
This on top of hum, social thought, social work, and others. What happens to UChicago's brand--the so-called "life of the mind"--now?
This on top of hum, social thought, social work, and others. What happens to UChicago's brand--the so-called "life of the mind"--now?
Back from the Dead: The Ecology of IR, by Peter Newell. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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July 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Back from the Dead: The Ecology of IR, by Peter Newell. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The history of world politics as a whole is both more continuous and connected than we have ever allowed for, and ‘the international’ as we understand it today is a product of all of those interactions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Greater Implications of Bartelson’s Becoming International
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The history of world politics as a whole is both more continuous and connected than we have ever allowed for, and ‘the international’ as we understand it today is a product of all of those interactions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations Quentin, well deserved!
Delighted that my first book was awarded the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations! Many thanks to the prize committee and to my friends and colleagues in the Historical IR section at ISA!
The @isanet.bsky.social Convention is upon us; time for a happy countdown: Congratulations to @qbruneau.bsky.social for the 2025 Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical IR for his masterful book, "States and the Masters of Capital" published with @columbiaup.bsky.social! Stay tuned for more..
June 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Congratulations Quentin, well deserved!
Interview with my colleague Sandipto Dasgupta about his excellent new book, Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony.
Today on the blog, Sandipto Dasgupta discusses his new book on the transition from anticolonialism to postcolonialism in the writing of the Indian constitution. He questions narratives of a conflict between singular "indigenous" vs. "Western" political traditions.
From Anticolonialism to Constitutional Capture: An Interview with Sandipto Dasgupta
by Zainab Firdausi
web.sas.upenn.edu
June 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Interview with my colleague Sandipto Dasgupta about his excellent new book, Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony.
Planetary Justice Reconsidered -by Milja Kurki www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Planetary justice reconsidered: developing response-abilities in planetary relations
This contribution puts forward a relational and posthumanist engagement with the idea of planetary justice. The planetary from this perspective should be conceived not to re-enforce, but rather to ...
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May 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Planetary Justice Reconsidered -by Milja Kurki www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Shock: “Now it appears increasingly likely that if there were any drones at all, it was very few, and that most of the drones people did see — stay with this — were up there looking for the drones people thought they were seeing." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/n...
How Drone Fever Spread Across New Jersey and Beyond
The first sighting was at a military site in New Jersey, then the phenomenon spread into neighboring states. Government assurances that most “drones” were not drones at all has not tamped down curiosi...
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Shock: “Now it appears increasingly likely that if there were any drones at all, it was very few, and that most of the drones people did see — stay with this — were up there looking for the drones people thought they were seeing." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/n...
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9
#Books
#BookSky
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#BookChallenge
Day 9
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
December 16, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Day 9
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
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Our Fall 2024 issue is out now!🎉
It is available to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social
Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53301
It is available to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social
Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53301
November 29, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Our Fall 2024 issue is out now!🎉
It is available to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social
Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53301
It is available to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social
Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53301
“Growth is often taken for granted as a natural purpose of states and an appropriate basis of public policy. However, it has a recent political-economic and cosmological history. This suggests that an age after growth is not only possible but likely.”
"An age after growth is not only possible but likely."
Check out Bentley B. Allan's article: "Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth" in our latest issue. It's free to read now!
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Check out Bentley B. Allan's article: "Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth" in our latest issue. It's free to read now!
📄 ➡️ buff.ly/3ZeVi5h
December 11, 2024 at 1:22 PM
“Growth is often taken for granted as a natural purpose of states and an appropriate basis of public policy. However, it has a recent political-economic and cosmological history. This suggests that an age after growth is not only possible but likely.”
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📢 Proud to share a collective effort to better understand what post-growth International Relations may look like. I had the privilege of guest-editing this Editors Forum on "Towards post-growth IR" in @risjnl.bsky.social together with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social! 🧵 /1
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Review of International Studies: Volume 50 - Issue 5 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Review of International Studies - Volume 50 - Issue 5
www.cambridge.org
December 5, 2024 at 2:07 PM
📢 Proud to share a collective effort to better understand what post-growth International Relations may look like. I had the privilege of guest-editing this Editors Forum on "Towards post-growth IR" in @risjnl.bsky.social together with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social! 🧵 /1
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The "benefits of climate change" argument is back, thanks to incoming Energy Secretary, and just as wrong as last time you heard it.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
December 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM
The "benefits of climate change" argument is back, thanks to incoming Energy Secretary, and just as wrong as last time you heard it.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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🥁 Drumroll!! it's here. Check out the new @pollenetwork.bsky.social starter pack and welcome POLLEN to Bluesky 🎉
The new political ecology starter pack is here go.bsky.app/Kr7iPwr
December 9, 2024 at 8:00 AM
🥁 Drumroll!! it's here. Check out the new @pollenetwork.bsky.social starter pack and welcome POLLEN to Bluesky 🎉
I've been on here for a bit without posting, mostly because I had just tried Mastodon and couldn't face yet another platform change. Let's see where this goes....
November 21, 2024 at 3:07 PM
I've been on here for a bit without posting, mostly because I had just tried Mastodon and couldn't face yet another platform change. Let's see where this goes....