Veronica Barfucci
@veronicabarfucci.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick
My research is at the intersection between Ontological Security, Critical Military Studies and Post-Structural Feminism. I work on Japan and the Japan Self-Defense Forces.
My research is at the intersection between Ontological Security, Critical Military Studies and Post-Structural Feminism. I work on Japan and the Japan Self-Defense Forces.
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My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ✍️
✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias
💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias
💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
July 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ✍️
✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias
💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias
💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity.
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations
Abstract. This paper draws on previous scholarship on humor, memes, and seriousness in International Relations to produce a novel means for understanding o
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July 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity.
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
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My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧
My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧
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July 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧
My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧
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🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 EPIR Thesis Prize!
🏆 Winners: Anne-Marie Houde & Uygar Baspehlivan
🎖 Honourable Mention: Shambhawi Tripathi
Their theses impressed our judges with originality, critical insight, and innovative methods. Congratulations to all! 👏
🏆 Winners: Anne-Marie Houde & Uygar Baspehlivan
🎖 Honourable Mention: Shambhawi Tripathi
Their theses impressed our judges with originality, critical insight, and innovative methods. Congratulations to all! 👏
June 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 EPIR Thesis Prize!
🏆 Winners: Anne-Marie Houde & Uygar Baspehlivan
🎖 Honourable Mention: Shambhawi Tripathi
Their theses impressed our judges with originality, critical insight, and innovative methods. Congratulations to all! 👏
🏆 Winners: Anne-Marie Houde & Uygar Baspehlivan
🎖 Honourable Mention: Shambhawi Tripathi
Their theses impressed our judges with originality, critical insight, and innovative methods. Congratulations to all! 👏
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The Swedish Defence University advertises a postdoc focused on ”narrative geopolitics” - or how widespread and emotionally charged narratives influence international security, great power relations, and geostrategic rivalry. Deadline August 31:
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoc with a focus on narrative geopolitics
Description The postdoctoral position is part of the interdisciplinary research environment on narrative geopolitics, established with funding from the Swedish Armed Forces. The role involves interdis
fhs.varbi.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The Swedish Defence University advertises a postdoc focused on ”narrative geopolitics” - or how widespread and emotionally charged narratives influence international security, great power relations, and geostrategic rivalry. Deadline August 31:
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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A great discussion and fantastic questions! These @mybisa.bsky.social working groups aren't just good fun, they're great spaces to share and develop ideas in a friendly academic space. 10/10 would recommend. Thank you for organising @epir-bisa.bsky.social and @annemhoude.bsky.social !
📢We had a fascinating concluding event for the year today with @epir-bisa.bsky.social !
👉📚Topic 'Emotions and the right – navigating feeling in the study of populism and reactionary politics' w/ @theoaiolfi.bsky.social
@charlieprice.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social and Elisabeth Mörking
👉📚Topic 'Emotions and the right – navigating feeling in the study of populism and reactionary politics' w/ @theoaiolfi.bsky.social
@charlieprice.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social and Elisabeth Mörking
May 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A great discussion and fantastic questions! These @mybisa.bsky.social working groups aren't just good fun, they're great spaces to share and develop ideas in a friendly academic space. 10/10 would recommend. Thank you for organising @epir-bisa.bsky.social and @annemhoude.bsky.social !
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In his paper in EJIR, charlieprice.bsky.social analyses the Nordic Resistance Movement’s fantasy of the Nordic Nation and shows how collective ideological fantasies become grounded in present bodies to make such fantasies intelligible.
You can read it here: t1p.de/lpjet
You can read it here: t1p.de/lpjet
April 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In his paper in EJIR, charlieprice.bsky.social analyses the Nordic Resistance Movement’s fantasy of the Nordic Nation and shows how collective ideological fantasies become grounded in present bodies to make such fantasies intelligible.
You can read it here: t1p.de/lpjet
You can read it here: t1p.de/lpjet
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Hegseth's recent assertions about Japan's 'warrior ethos' (str.sg/EB3A) could be dismissed as wishful thinking given its peace constitution and 'military allergy' reputation. However, as outlined in my latest article, there are signs Japan is recovering its 'warrior ethos'.
doi.org/10.1080/0951...
doi.org/10.1080/0951...
Manga and militarism: rehabilitating military violence in Japan
There is an impasse in Japan’s security debate. Realists emphasise defence build-up programmes and policy reforms that are cumulatively developing Japan’s autonomous security capabilities to argue ...
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April 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Hegseth's recent assertions about Japan's 'warrior ethos' (str.sg/EB3A) could be dismissed as wishful thinking given its peace constitution and 'military allergy' reputation. However, as outlined in my latest article, there are signs Japan is recovering its 'warrior ethos'.
doi.org/10.1080/0951...
doi.org/10.1080/0951...
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Have your parents accidentally gone on holiday with conspiracy theorists? Mine have and they let me write about it in Critical Studies on Security!
Help! My parents are normies: family friends, GPS, and the World Economic Forum
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Help! My parents are normies: family friends, GPS, and the World Economic Forum
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Help! My parents are normies: family friends, GPS, and the World Economic Forum
Many of us know we can never understand everything, but for some this is unacceptable and solutions must be found; for two of my parents’ friends, the world makes sense, but the globalists try to h...
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March 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Have your parents accidentally gone on holiday with conspiracy theorists? Mine have and they let me write about it in Critical Studies on Security!
Help! My parents are normies: family friends, GPS, and the World Economic Forum
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Help! My parents are normies: family friends, GPS, and the World Economic Forum
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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You know how the far-right is pretty big right now? Well I've got a 🚨New Publication🚨 on interpreting far-right ideologies!
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in
@ejir.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in
@ejir.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement - Charlie W. Price, 2025
In recent years, the concept of fantasy has been afforded increased attention in psychoanalytic IR. While this scholarship does address bodies and fantasy, the ...
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March 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
You know how the far-right is pretty big right now? Well I've got a 🚨New Publication🚨 on interpreting far-right ideologies!
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in
@ejir.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in
@ejir.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Co-editor-in-chief Brent Steele accepted the ISA international ethics section distinguished scholar award this evening
March 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Absolutely brilliant presentation from @josephhaigh.bsky.social at #ISA2025
“Remembrancing isn't just for Poppymas’: how competing existential anxieties influence the spatial and temporal presentation of British remembrance rituals”
@warwickpais.bsky.social
“Remembrancing isn't just for Poppymas’: how competing existential anxieties influence the spatial and temporal presentation of British remembrance rituals”
@warwickpais.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Absolutely brilliant presentation from @josephhaigh.bsky.social at #ISA2025
“Remembrancing isn't just for Poppymas’: how competing existential anxieties influence the spatial and temporal presentation of British remembrance rituals”
@warwickpais.bsky.social
“Remembrancing isn't just for Poppymas’: how competing existential anxieties influence the spatial and temporal presentation of British remembrance rituals”
@warwickpais.bsky.social
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Happy pancake day everyone! Here’s a brand new recipe that I’ve spent months working on. Please download and tell your friends! It’s called:
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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March 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Happy pancake day everyone! Here’s a brand new recipe that I’ve spent months working on. Please download and tell your friends! It’s called:
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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🚨New Research Seminar
The EASG is delighted to host Prof Garren Mulloy from Daito Bunka University for a talk on
Asian NATO: Ishiba’s Odessey or Strategic Fool’s Gold?
The seminar is online only. Please email easg@warwick.ac.uk for the access link
@warwickpais.bsky.social
The EASG is delighted to host Prof Garren Mulloy from Daito Bunka University for a talk on
Asian NATO: Ishiba’s Odessey or Strategic Fool’s Gold?
The seminar is online only. Please email easg@warwick.ac.uk for the access link
@warwickpais.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🚨New Research Seminar
The EASG is delighted to host Prof Garren Mulloy from Daito Bunka University for a talk on
Asian NATO: Ishiba’s Odessey or Strategic Fool’s Gold?
The seminar is online only. Please email easg@warwick.ac.uk for the access link
@warwickpais.bsky.social
The EASG is delighted to host Prof Garren Mulloy from Daito Bunka University for a talk on
Asian NATO: Ishiba’s Odessey or Strategic Fool’s Gold?
The seminar is online only. Please email easg@warwick.ac.uk for the access link
@warwickpais.bsky.social
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💡 New Research Seminar
The EASG is delighted to host Dr Dorothy Pihaj from @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a talk on the construction of Japan's national identity
More info here: tinyurl.com/3pnty976
Please contact easg@warwick.ac.uk for the access link
@warwickpais.bsky.social
The EASG is delighted to host Dr Dorothy Pihaj from @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a talk on the construction of Japan's national identity
More info here: tinyurl.com/3pnty976
Please contact easg@warwick.ac.uk for the access link
@warwickpais.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
💡 New Research Seminar
The EASG is delighted to host Dr Dorothy Pihaj from @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a talk on the construction of Japan's national identity
More info here: tinyurl.com/3pnty976
Please contact easg@warwick.ac.uk for the access link
@warwickpais.bsky.social
The EASG is delighted to host Dr Dorothy Pihaj from @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a talk on the construction of Japan's national identity
More info here: tinyurl.com/3pnty976
Please contact easg@warwick.ac.uk for the access link
@warwickpais.bsky.social
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🚨 New Research Seminar
The EASG is delighted to host Dr Ra Mason from the University of East Anglia for a talk on Okinawa and great power competition
More info: tinyurl.com/53dpceh8
If you'd like to join us online, please email easg@warwick.ac.uk
@warwickpais.bsky.social
The EASG is delighted to host Dr Ra Mason from the University of East Anglia for a talk on Okinawa and great power competition
More info: tinyurl.com/53dpceh8
If you'd like to join us online, please email easg@warwick.ac.uk
@warwickpais.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🚨 New Research Seminar
The EASG is delighted to host Dr Ra Mason from the University of East Anglia for a talk on Okinawa and great power competition
More info: tinyurl.com/53dpceh8
If you'd like to join us online, please email easg@warwick.ac.uk
@warwickpais.bsky.social
The EASG is delighted to host Dr Ra Mason from the University of East Anglia for a talk on Okinawa and great power competition
More info: tinyurl.com/53dpceh8
If you'd like to join us online, please email easg@warwick.ac.uk
@warwickpais.bsky.social
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Join me and @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social at @warwickpais.bsky.social for a workshop combining our research interests: #performance 🎭and #polarisation ↔️! With a keynote by Professor Paula Diehl, discussed by Professor Michael Saward and YOUR paper presentations!
✨Hope to see you there!✨
✨Hope to see you there!✨
February 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Join me and @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social at @warwickpais.bsky.social for a workshop combining our research interests: #performance 🎭and #polarisation ↔️! With a keynote by Professor Paula Diehl, discussed by Professor Michael Saward and YOUR paper presentations!
✨Hope to see you there!✨
✨Hope to see you there!✨
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🚨 Friendly reminder for tomorrow's research seminar!
If you can't be there in person and would like to join us online, please email the EASG at easg@warwick.ac.uk and we will provide an access link
Hope to see you there tomorrow! ✨
If you can't be there in person and would like to join us online, please email the EASG at easg@warwick.ac.uk and we will provide an access link
Hope to see you there tomorrow! ✨
🚨Research Seminar
The EASG is delighted to host Dr. William Reynolds @warstudent.bsky.social from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
🗺️ 'From Oslo to Tokyo: Britain's Cold War Strategy and Japan'
📅 February 4th, 2025 - 2.15-3.30PM (hybrid)
More info at tinyurl.com/48puxnzc or easg@warwick.ac.uk
The EASG is delighted to host Dr. William Reynolds @warstudent.bsky.social from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
🗺️ 'From Oslo to Tokyo: Britain's Cold War Strategy and Japan'
📅 February 4th, 2025 - 2.15-3.30PM (hybrid)
More info at tinyurl.com/48puxnzc or easg@warwick.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🚨 Friendly reminder for tomorrow's research seminar!
If you can't be there in person and would like to join us online, please email the EASG at easg@warwick.ac.uk and we will provide an access link
Hope to see you there tomorrow! ✨
If you can't be there in person and would like to join us online, please email the EASG at easg@warwick.ac.uk and we will provide an access link
Hope to see you there tomorrow! ✨
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#OpenAccess -
The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management - cup.org/3PSh0Yr
- C. Nicolai L. Gellwitzki
The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management - cup.org/3PSh0Yr
- C. Nicolai L. Gellwitzki
January 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
#OpenAccess -
The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management - cup.org/3PSh0Yr
- C. Nicolai L. Gellwitzki
The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management - cup.org/3PSh0Yr
- C. Nicolai L. Gellwitzki
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🚨Research Seminar
The EASG is delighted to host Dr. William Reynolds @warstudent.bsky.social from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
🗺️ 'From Oslo to Tokyo: Britain's Cold War Strategy and Japan'
📅 February 4th, 2025 - 2.15-3.30PM (hybrid)
More info at tinyurl.com/48puxnzc or easg@warwick.ac.uk
The EASG is delighted to host Dr. William Reynolds @warstudent.bsky.social from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
🗺️ 'From Oslo to Tokyo: Britain's Cold War Strategy and Japan'
📅 February 4th, 2025 - 2.15-3.30PM (hybrid)
More info at tinyurl.com/48puxnzc or easg@warwick.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🚨Research Seminar
The EASG is delighted to host Dr. William Reynolds @warstudent.bsky.social from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
🗺️ 'From Oslo to Tokyo: Britain's Cold War Strategy and Japan'
📅 February 4th, 2025 - 2.15-3.30PM (hybrid)
More info at tinyurl.com/48puxnzc or easg@warwick.ac.uk
The EASG is delighted to host Dr. William Reynolds @warstudent.bsky.social from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
🗺️ 'From Oslo to Tokyo: Britain's Cold War Strategy and Japan'
📅 February 4th, 2025 - 2.15-3.30PM (hybrid)
More info at tinyurl.com/48puxnzc or easg@warwick.ac.uk
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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...
🧵👇
@internatltheory.bsky.social, I suggest drawing on Melanie Klein rather than Giddens to conceptualise these questions
doi.org/10.1017/S175...
🧵👇
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
doi.org
January 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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...
🧵👇
@internatltheory.bsky.social, I suggest drawing on Melanie Klein rather than Giddens to conceptualise these questions
doi.org/10.1017/S175...
🧵👇
Hi Bluesky friends! I am part of this research group at Warwick - we are very new to Bluesky so it would be really helpful if you could follow us and spread the word so more people get to know about us and what we do 💫
Hello Bluesky people!
We are a University of Warwick research group and we organise regular research seminars on the politics and international relations of the East Asian region 🌏
Most of our seminars are in hybrid format so follow us to be up to date and participate in our research activities!
We are a University of Warwick research group and we organise regular research seminars on the politics and international relations of the East Asian region 🌏
Most of our seminars are in hybrid format so follow us to be up to date and participate in our research activities!
January 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Hi Bluesky friends! I am part of this research group at Warwick - we are very new to Bluesky so it would be really helpful if you could follow us and spread the word so more people get to know about us and what we do 💫
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🚨Publication alert! 🚨
Happy to announce the publication of my first solo academic work! I critique how 'convergence' is deployed in debates about the Eurozone crisis and beyond, offering a constructivist edge to discussions about capitalist restructuring in the Eurozone.
doi.org/10.1111/jcms...
Happy to announce the publication of my first solo academic work! I critique how 'convergence' is deployed in debates about the Eurozone crisis and beyond, offering a constructivist edge to discussions about capitalist restructuring in the Eurozone.
doi.org/10.1111/jcms...
Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis
‘Convergence’ stands out as a prominent signifier in discourse about the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), recently also gaining prominence in debates within Comparative Political Economy (...
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December 12, 2024 at 4:16 PM
🚨Publication alert! 🚨
Happy to announce the publication of my first solo academic work! I critique how 'convergence' is deployed in debates about the Eurozone crisis and beyond, offering a constructivist edge to discussions about capitalist restructuring in the Eurozone.
doi.org/10.1111/jcms...
Happy to announce the publication of my first solo academic work! I critique how 'convergence' is deployed in debates about the Eurozone crisis and beyond, offering a constructivist edge to discussions about capitalist restructuring in the Eurozone.
doi.org/10.1111/jcms...
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Following the recent trend on Bluesky and in the hope that more of us will soon join the "good place," I’ve created a starter pack for those studying ontological (in)security in global politics 🤓
go.bsky.app/9v5z4jX
go.bsky.app/9v5z4jX
November 18, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Following the recent trend on Bluesky and in the hope that more of us will soon join the "good place," I’ve created a starter pack for those studying ontological (in)security in global politics 🤓
go.bsky.app/9v5z4jX
go.bsky.app/9v5z4jX