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Shalabh Chopra
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PhD Candidate, University of Canterbury, New Zealand | Foreign Policy, Narratives, Ontological Security, Emotions and Friendship
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jpict.bsky.social
🚨📖 Next up in our 20th birthday series we have Vidgen, Yasseri and Margetts with a fascinating study on the use of Twitter by the far-right. You can get a sneak peek of "Islamophobes are not all the same!" here ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1833...
November 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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tonirodon.bsky.social
Parents exhibiting greater ideological constraint are more successful at passing along their political views to their children than are less ideologically constrained parents link.springer.com/article/10.1...
On Ideological Consistency and the Intergenerational Transmission of Political Attitudes - Political Behavior
Over the past 50 years there have been significant changes in the political environment that may have affected parents’ ability to socialize their children into similar political attitudes and beliefs...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Grok's Turkish replies certainly have a different vibe. Is X blocked in Turkey yet?
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July 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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ruji-aue.bsky.social
Beyond thrilled to have my new article on ‘radical contestion’ published in @risjnl.bsky.social!

Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Please feel free to share further 😊

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July 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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crossdale.bsky.social
1/2 It's worth reflecting on the fact that the proscription of @palaction.bsky.social comes not because the state is strong, but because it is weak. The established methods of repression and criminalisation have not stood up to the bravery and commitment of activists.
July 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
shalabhc.bsky.social
Excited to share that I've been awarded the Ernst Mach Grant to work on a 4-month-long research project at the Diplomatische Akademie Wien (Vienna School of International Studies).

I presented the preliminary theoretical ideas for this project at the BISA Conference 2 weeks ago!
July 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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mybisa.bsky.social
🎉 New @risjnl.bsky.social article by Jacqui Cho 🎉

'Making peace within hierarchy: Seeing international peacemaking, world order, and history from Cameroon' @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

🌟 Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Making peace within hierarchy: Seeing international peacemaking, world order, and history from Cameroon | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Making peace within hierarchy: Seeing international peacemaking, world order, and history from Cameroon
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June 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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benrosher.bsky.social
I have been honourably mentioned! Thanks so much to @mybisa.bsky.social and the judges and all of the people who helped get my thesis over the line!
June 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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ubaspehlivan.bsky.social
🏆🏆Absolute pleasure to be awarded the:
-RIS Best Article Prize for "Theorising the Memescape: The Spatial Politics of Internet Memes
-Honourable Mention for BISA Michael Nicholson Best Thesis Prize @MYBISA
-BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group Best Thesis Prize
June 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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politicsjournal.bsky.social
1/3. We’re excited to share a new article: “China’s Passport Power and Belt‑and‑Road Initiative: An Investigation of Passport Relations”, by Jason Hung. It reveals how China’s BRI has reshaped its global travel freedom and soft power projection.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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May 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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jasonralph.bsky.social
Pleased my paper “American Pragmatism, The Frankfurt School and the future of Critical IR theory” has been accepted for publication in Review of International Studies. Abstract 👇
May 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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matthiasleese.bsky.social
we all fail rather frequently in different aspects of academic work - but we rarely talk about it

check out this🔥@ispjournal.bsky.social forum on understanding, reflecting, and coping with failure

@meibauir.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social @jrodehaun.bsky.social

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Forum: Dead-Ends, Disasters, Delays? Reflecting on Research Failure in International Studies and Ways to Avoid It
Abstract. This forum urges international relations (IR) practitioners to rethink the nature of both failure and success, and their own responsibility in bu
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May 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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globalsociety.bsky.social
Our fifth monthly pick is "Re-thinking Global Governance as Fuzzy: Multi-Scalar Boundaries of Responsibility in the Arctic" by @hansenmagnusson.bsky.social‬ (@culawandpolitics.bsky.social) and @charlygehrke.bsky.social (@hgir.bsky.social).

#Artic #Boundaries

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Re-thinking Global Governance as Fuzzy: Multi-Scalar Boundaries of Responsibility in the Arctic
The article reconsiders global governance as fuzzy and situated across multiple scales rather than multi-level. It revisits Global Governance research, whose introspective focus on opening “black b...
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April 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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scottsantens.com
It's bad. It's really bad.
You know it's bad when the introverts are here. ☹️
April 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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austjia.bsky.social
🚨New online! "US-China competition, world order and economic decoupling: insights from cultural realism" by Naoise McDonagh. #openaccess ⬇️ #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations #AcademicSky
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This study examines how US-China geopolitical rivalry is reshaping global economic order. It identifies gaps in existing research on hegemonic state behaviour and presents an alternative theory based on cultural realism. This latter builds on realism by arguing that political culture influences the intensity of geopolitical tensions. Drawing on domestic political discourse, this study demonstrates that US and China geopolitical tensions are driven by conflicting national political cultures that generate competing visions of global order, reducing the capacity of international institutions to sustain cooperation. This divergence manifest in geoeconomic competition and weaking multilateralism. Theoretical expectations suggest an emerging geoeconomic world economy operating alongside the WTO-based multilateral economic order. The article analyses recent US industrial policies as a case study illustrating this dual order. The simultaneous existence of multilateralism and geoeconomic competition, implies governments face a novel, highly complex policy domain in an era of rising national economic security needs. Keywords: security dilemma; cultural realism; geoeconomics; economic security; multilateralism.
March 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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gsqjournal.bsky.social
🚨New Special Forum🚨

Introducing a new special forum “Rethinking Failure: Feminist Peacebuilding and the Peace Continuum in Violent and Illiberal “Post-Conflict” Settings” by
Miriam J Anderson, Elizabeth S Corredor, & Julia Zulver

Read OPEN ACCESS here:
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Rethinking Failure: Feminist Peacebuilding and the Peace Continuum in Violent and Illiberal “Post-Conflict” Settings
Abstract. This article introduces the special forum, “Feminism in the Face of Failure: Peacebuilding in Violent and Illiberal ‘Post-Conflict Settings,'” by
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February 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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aljazeera.com
Palestinian authorities have begun operating 13 mobile desalination stations in Gaza, where Palestinians are enduring a dire water crisis after Israeli forces destroyed 85% of the enclave’s water and sanitation facilities.

🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
Three children freeze to death in Gaza as Israel blocks tents, mobile homes
Official says Jenin is ‘uninhabitable’ as Israeli forces make preparations to set up a base in the refugee camp.
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February 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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toddpugatch.bsky.social
Dear co-authors, please list 5 things you did on our paper last week.
February 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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austjia.bsky.social
🚨New online! @yexue001.bsky.social discusses "Honour versus face: a psycho-cultural approach to US-China great power politics". 🇨🇳-🇺🇸 #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations #US-China #AcademicSky ⬇️
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ABSTRACT "This article presents a psycho-cultural framework for analysing US-China relations in the context of the great power competition, explaining the escalation of their rivalry and the proliferation of conflict. It emphasises the critical role of self-esteem and culture in shaping domestic and international dynamics, focusing on the interplay between honour and face as distinct expressions of self-esteem in US and Chinese societies. The study illustrates how pursuing national self-esteem drives confrontational interactions between these two powers, with the 2018-2020 US-China trade war as a prime example. Here, nationalist narratives were crafted to evoke emotional resonance with domestic audiences, intensifying the conflict beyond mere economic competition into a struggle for national self-esteem. The rise of identity politics in both countries has further exacerbated tensions, as perceived disrespect has triggered coercive responses, worsening bilateral relations". Keywords: US-China relations; trade war; national identity; self-esteem.
February 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Stephen Fry, "I'm deeply worried about the darkening shadow that's going over the world, the shadow of fascism"

Laura Kuenssberg, "You would use that word?"

Stephen Fry, "Absolutely. It's a cult of power. And power only speaks to power"
February 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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ngellwitzki.bsky.social
What exactly is ontological (in)security? And what is ontological security's ethical, reparative, and transformative potential? In my new article in
@internatltheory.bsky.social, I suggest drawing on Melanie Klein rather than Giddens to conceptualise these questions
doi.org/10.1017/S175...
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The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management | International Theory | Cambridge Core
The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management
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January 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
This multi-year, multi-country analysis shows that right-wing populist politicians spread more online misinfo than their mainstream counterparts and explains how “the rise of political misinformation is associated to the recent wave of radical-right populism.”

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Screenshot of a paper in the International Journal of Press/Politics. Title: When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries. Authors: Petter Törnberg and Juliana Chueri. Abstract: The spread of misinformation has emerged as a global concern. Academic attention has recently shifted to emphasize the role of political elites as drivers of misinformation. Yet, little is known of the relationship between party politics and the spread of misinformation—in part due to a dearth of cross-national empirical data needed for comparative study. This article examines which parties are more likely to spread misinformation, by drawing on a comprehensive database of 32M tweets from parliamentarians in 26 countries, spanning 6years and several election periods. The dataset is combined with external databases such as Parlgov and V-Dem, linking the spread of misinformation to detailed information about political parties and cabinets, thus enabling a comparative politics approach to misinformation. Using multilevel analysis with random country intercepts, we find that radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Populism, left- wing populism, and right-wing politics are not linked to the spread of misinformation. These results suggest that political misinformation should be understood as part and parcel of the current wave of radical right populism, and its opposition to liberal democratic institution.
January 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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gessler.bsky.social
New paper 🚨with Natasha Wunsch in EJPR
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization

We theorize & empirically explore how democratic backsliding may shape an affective divide between government & opposition supporters
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A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization
Partisan-based affective polarization has been posited as a key explanation for citizens' tolerance towards democratic backsliding, with voters more likely to overlook democratic violations conducted....
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January 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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lucatrenta.bsky.social
Interesting. SF writers have often contributed to policy scenarios. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK Ministry of Defence enlists sci-fi writers to prepare for dystopian futures
Imaginations of science fiction community used to help policymakers prepare for potential crises in Britain
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January 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM