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🚨 New Blog Alert! 🚨

The latest co-authored blog post from our very own @jkaarbo.bsky.social and Julia Calvert, titled "Trump’s Tariffs and the Profits (and Deficits) of Personality."

www.duckofminerva.com/2025/05/trum...
Trump’s Tariffs and the Profits (and Deficits) of Personality
Dominant theories of international political economy leave little room for the influence of individuals. They also never anticipated that the United States might seek to completely upend the global…
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May 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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notdelilah.bsky.social
Scenes from the @standrewsir.bsky.social PhD writing retreat. Oh what a treat to learn and write in this countryside. Now on to that lit review redraft…
May 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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jkaarbo.bsky.social
2 new lecturer positions in the Middle East and Africa in the School of International Relations @standrewsir.bsky.social at the University of St Andrews: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
May 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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bblumenau.bsky.social
“Eighty years ago, Europe feared a strong Germany. Today, it can ill afford a weak one.”
My piece in today’s @scotsman.com

@cstpv.bsky.social @standrewsir.bsky.social

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
How Germany has gone from hated world war foe to indispensible ally
Europe once feared a strong Germany, now it needs the continent’s biggest economy to rise to its defence
www.scotsman.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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jasminekgani.bsky.social
Honoured to be giving the keynote speech tomorrow (25 Apr) at the inaugural Decolonial Methodologies conference at St Andrews. I'll be speaking about our intellectual and ethical responsibilities as scholars under the shadow of fascism and genocide
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@lseir.bsky.social
Decolonial Methodologies workshop University of St Andrews 25 April. Keynote Speech: Jasmine Gani (LSE)
April 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
standrewsir.bsky.social
🎉 We’re proud to announce that our department has been awarded the Athena Swan Bronze Award!

This recognises our ongoing commitment to advancing gender equality in academia.

#AthenaSwan #GenderEquality
@advancehe.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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jkaarbo.bsky.social
Happy to talk with @cglgsta.bsky.social about my research! @standrewsir.bsky.social
cglgsta.bsky.social Centre for Global Law and Governance @cglgsta.bsky.social · Mar 30
CGLG RESEARCHER OF THE MONTH 🔍

For her ongoing work on world leaders' personalities, Prof. Juliet Kaarbo @jkaarbo.bsky.social is the CGLG's March 2025 researcher of the month!

We spoke with her about her wider research and views on global governance 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2YZ...
PROF. JULIET KAARBO - CGLG Researcher of the Month (March 2025)
YouTube video by Centre for Global Law and Governance
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April 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
standrewsir.bsky.social
Check out this new article, "The Profits of Personality: Advancing the Fourth ‘I’ in International Political Economy Research," by our own @jkaarbo.bsky.social and Julia Calvert!

🔗 Full article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The profits of personality: advancing the fourth ‘I’ in international political economy research
Two decades after Hay’s classification of political economy research, not much has changed. Interests, institutions, and ideas continue to dominate, especially in international political economy (I...
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March 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
standrewsir.bsky.social
📢 Dr. Argomaniz's book on Basque Civil Resistance is out now, published by OUP! 📖

🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
March 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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bblumenau.bsky.social
Happening today! Looking forward to insightful discussions at the workshop on the current situation in, and future of, Europe @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @scga.bsky.social @archisturrock.bsky.social
@standrewsir.bsky.social

scga.scot/2025/03/11/e...
The Futures of Europe
Many longstanding policy strategies of the EU, its member states, and its close neighbours—not least the UK and its constituent nations—now require reassessment.
scga.scot
March 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
standrewsir.bsky.social
📢 Exciting news! Good Victims by Roxani Krystalli (OUP, 2024) has been shortlisted for the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025! 👏🎉

🔗 Read more: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin...

#evertoexcel

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March 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
standrewsir.bsky.social
👉https://stleonardscollege.st-andrews.ac.uk/community-and-events/postgraduate-research-experience-survey-2025/
March 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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cstpv.bsky.social
🚨 New book release!
'Resisting Terror' by CSTPV's Javier Argomaniz explores the power of civil action against terrorism in Basque Country
A vital read for understanding non-violent resistance.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/kvr93sk7
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March 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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rahulraothariel.bsky.social
book talks 📢📢📢
19/03 Housmans London: tinyurl.com/tta5dmur
21/03 SOAS London: tinyurl.com/y7bkzy36
24/03 Topping St Andrews: tinyurl.com/48szxjxf
28/03 Tigre de Papel Lisbon: tinyurl.com/mrx3kpuu
03/04 Lighthouse Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/mrxbsnaj
24/06 Rhodes House Oxford: tinyurl.com/ycx93naj
image of the cover of 'The Psychic Lives of Statues' by Rahul Rao featuring a picture of the Statue of Unity (Veena Nair/Alamy) endorsements of 'The Psychic Lives of Statues' by Rahul Rao, from Neel Mukherjee, Laleh Khalili, and Priyamvada Gopal
March 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
standrewsir.bsky.social
Our School Events Bulletin - WC 24th March

🗓️ Click here for more information on specific events: events.st-andrews.ac.uk
March 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
standrewsir.bsky.social
School Events - WC 17th March
March 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
standrewsir.bsky.social
🗓️ Monday 17th March 4PM
📍Arts Lecture Theatre

The Power of Narrative in Fuelling Social Change: Lessons from the Frontlines of Advocacy and Philanthropy

With Kindred Motes, Founder and Managing Director, KM Strategies Group

👉Further Information: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/the-p...
March 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
standrewsir.bsky.social
🗓️ School of International Relations Events Bulletin - WC 10th March

events.st-andrews.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
standrewsir.bsky.social
📚 Congratulations, soon to be added to our School display cabinet!
anettestimmer.bsky.social Anette Stimmer @anettestimmer.bsky.social · Feb 25
I'm very happy that my book 'The Politics of International Norms: A Rhetorical Approach' is out now! Thanks to everyone @cambridgeup.bsky.social, and to all those who have supported me in this journey. You can find more info in the link and this thread (1/6): cambridge.org/gb/universit...
February 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
standrewsir.bsky.social
Our successful staff-student mixer, held on Wednesday.

The panel focussed on the lessons learned and challenges posed in the three years since the beginning of Russia's war on Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
standrewsir.bsky.social
Methods Cafe 2025

Email irpg@st-andrews.ac.uk to register

#PhD #Research #StAndrews #EverToExcel
February 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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jkaarbo.bsky.social
Pleased to share my blog piece with International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social, linking my current Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.bsky.social research on how leaders change, my previous IA article on breaking bad, and Trump 2.0

medium.com/internationa...
Has Trump Changed?
Juliet Kaarbo discusses Trump’s ‘changed personality’ and how it may affect his second term.
medium.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
standrewsir.bsky.social
Tomorrow!
February 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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jasminekgani.bsky.social
I will be speaking on "Historicising Racial Militarism" at the Institute of historical Research @ihr.bsky.social on Tues 4th February, 5.30-7pm. The event is in-person and online. All welcome, but registration required - details in the link👇
www.history.ac.uk/events/histo...
Historicising Racial Militarism
www.history.ac.uk
January 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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cstpv.bsky.social
We're very much looking forward to welcoming Dr Rabea Khan next week who will be speaking on The Coloniality of the Religious Terrorism Thesis
📅 4 February
📍School III
⏰ 16.00-17.30
January 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM