Aleksandra Spalinska
@alexspalinska.bsky.social
IR theory, world order, non-state actors, polity formation, new medievalism, postmodernity.
Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Research Associate at the University of Sussex, and a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute.
Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Research Associate at the University of Sussex, and a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute.
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Delighted to say that at the upcoming RUTA Conference
(@associationruta.bsky.social)I will present my poetry project, "A Song of Sunrise and Blood: Cartographies of Terror, Endurance and Revival"! It covers my poems on Ukraine, mapping wartime terrors, grief, and resilience through verse. See you!
(@associationruta.bsky.social)I will present my poetry project, "A Song of Sunrise and Blood: Cartographies of Terror, Endurance and Revival"! It covers my poems on Ukraine, mapping wartime terrors, grief, and resilience through verse. See you!
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Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social!
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social!
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
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Please check out this fantastic review of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social by @alexspalinska.bsky.social in @iajournal.bsky.social 🥳
Many thanks to @alexspalinska.bsky.social for her generous review in @iajournal.bsky.social!
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
She writes: "Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary and transhistorical orientation. ... The combination of analytical rigour with empirical detail strengthens the book’s relevance...
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Please check out this fantastic review of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social by @alexspalinska.bsky.social in @iajournal.bsky.social 🥳
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This year the Standing Section on World Politics Beyond the State System (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social) has 12 sessions, including two RTs! Panels cover heterarchy, societal multiplicity, the New Cold War, private and substate actors, and insurgency!
See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25
See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25
August 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This year the Standing Section on World Politics Beyond the State System (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social) has 12 sessions, including two RTs! Panels cover heterarchy, societal multiplicity, the New Cold War, private and substate actors, and insurgency!
See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25
See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25
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My new article on “Conceptual Entrapment” is out online-first with @EuroJournIR!
Proud of this one: critical concept studies, autoethnography & soft power all come together to reflect on the researcher–concept relationship.
Take a look here!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Proud of this one: critical concept studies, autoethnography & soft power all come together to reflect on the researcher–concept relationship.
Take a look here!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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August 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My new article on “Conceptual Entrapment” is out online-first with @EuroJournIR!
Proud of this one: critical concept studies, autoethnography & soft power all come together to reflect on the researcher–concept relationship.
Take a look here!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Proud of this one: critical concept studies, autoethnography & soft power all come together to reflect on the researcher–concept relationship.
Take a look here!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This year the Standing Section on World Politics Beyond the State System (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social) has 12 sessions, including two RTs! Panels cover heterarchy, societal multiplicity, the New Cold War, private and substate actors, and insurgency!
See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25
See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25
August 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This year the Standing Section on World Politics Beyond the State System (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social) has 12 sessions, including two RTs! Panels cover heterarchy, societal multiplicity, the New Cold War, private and substate actors, and insurgency!
See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25
See you in Bologna! #EISAPEC25
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Mam gdzieś obu prezydentów i tego byłego i tym bardziej przyszłego . Za to wieczór dzisiaj był cudny
August 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Mam gdzieś obu prezydentów i tego byłego i tym bardziej przyszłego . Za to wieczór dzisiaj był cudny
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☀️ The wait is over: our summer reading list 2025 is here!
Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...
Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...
The International Affairs summer reading list 2025
There is nothing quite like spending the summer lost within the pages of a great book — or ten. Every year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana…
medium.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
☀️ The wait is over: our summer reading list 2025 is here!
Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...
Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...
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No bigger concepts than "Great Power" and "multipolarity". This piece highlights how the two intersect...to disastrous results
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-trump-rus...
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-trump-rus...
Welcome to the Era of Great Power Stupidity
The U.S. is throwing out all its goodwill while Russia and China seem determined to shoot themselves in the foot. The reason why is simple: stupidity.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
No bigger concepts than "Great Power" and "multipolarity". This piece highlights how the two intersect...to disastrous results
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-trump-rus...
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-trump-rus...
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Great Power stupidity might be unavoidable, simply because the international system is complex. Even when it is "rational", it can still not result in "smart" decisions.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/foreign-poli...
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/foreign-poli...
In Foreign Policy, Being Smart Is a Pretty High Bar
The idea of “smart power” seems especially relevant today. But foreign policy choices usually don’t boil down to obvious outcomes.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Great Power stupidity might be unavoidable, simply because the international system is complex. Even when it is "rational", it can still not result in "smart" decisions.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/foreign-poli...
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/foreign-poli...
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With the holiday, no new column this week.
Instead, here's a 🧵 highlighting some of the @wpr.bsky.social pieces I've written so far this year and how they can be used to teach International Relations concepts.
Instead, here's a 🧵 highlighting some of the @wpr.bsky.social pieces I've written so far this year and how they can be used to teach International Relations concepts.
July 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
With the holiday, no new column this week.
Instead, here's a 🧵 highlighting some of the @wpr.bsky.social pieces I've written so far this year and how they can be used to teach International Relations concepts.
Instead, here's a 🧵 highlighting some of the @wpr.bsky.social pieces I've written so far this year and how they can be used to teach International Relations concepts.
Reposted by Aleksandra Spalinska
Looking forward to hearing you, indeed on a powerful panel on planting, eating and resisting together with Mariia Banko speaking on cooking, solidarity and resistance, Saltanat Shoshanova on the queeering of traditional food rituals and Maya Hayda on artistic engagements with seeds and displacement
Delighted to say that at the upcoming RUTA Conference
(@associationruta.bsky.social)I will present my poetry project, "A Song of Sunrise and Blood: Cartographies of Terror, Endurance and Revival"! It covers my poems on Ukraine, mapping wartime terrors, grief, and resilience through verse. See you!
(@associationruta.bsky.social)I will present my poetry project, "A Song of Sunrise and Blood: Cartographies of Terror, Endurance and Revival"! It covers my poems on Ukraine, mapping wartime terrors, grief, and resilience through verse. See you!
June 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Looking forward to hearing you, indeed on a powerful panel on planting, eating and resisting together with Mariia Banko speaking on cooking, solidarity and resistance, Saltanat Shoshanova on the queeering of traditional food rituals and Maya Hayda on artistic engagements with seeds and displacement
Reposted by Aleksandra Spalinska
New book on #infrastructure and #international_relations out now - including my reflections on how infrastructural development has enabled (re)formations of #international_society. Check it out! @iratut.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Transnational Infrastructures and the Transformation of Global Orders
This book offers a multidisciplinary insight into the significance of infrastructural change for global orders.
link.springer.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New book on #infrastructure and #international_relations out now - including my reflections on how infrastructural development has enabled (re)formations of #international_society. Check it out! @iratut.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Delighted to say that at the upcoming RUTA Conference
(@associationruta.bsky.social)I will present my poetry project, "A Song of Sunrise and Blood: Cartographies of Terror, Endurance and Revival"! It covers my poems on Ukraine, mapping wartime terrors, grief, and resilience through verse. See you!
(@associationruta.bsky.social)I will present my poetry project, "A Song of Sunrise and Blood: Cartographies of Terror, Endurance and Revival"! It covers my poems on Ukraine, mapping wartime terrors, grief, and resilience through verse. See you!
June 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Delighted to say that at the upcoming RUTA Conference
(@associationruta.bsky.social)I will present my poetry project, "A Song of Sunrise and Blood: Cartographies of Terror, Endurance and Revival"! It covers my poems on Ukraine, mapping wartime terrors, grief, and resilience through verse. See you!
(@associationruta.bsky.social)I will present my poetry project, "A Song of Sunrise and Blood: Cartographies of Terror, Endurance and Revival"! It covers my poems on Ukraine, mapping wartime terrors, grief, and resilience through verse. See you!
Reposted by Aleksandra Spalinska
📚 New 👉 "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and Ukrainian civil society in wartime"
@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social draws on a four-year study (2018–22) of civic engagement in wartime Ukraine, examining through a vernacular security lens
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social draws on a four-year study (2018–22) of civic engagement in wartime Ukraine, examining through a vernacular security lens
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
May 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
📚 New 👉 "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and Ukrainian civil society in wartime"
@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social draws on a four-year study (2018–22) of civic engagement in wartime Ukraine, examining through a vernacular security lens
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social draws on a four-year study (2018–22) of civic engagement in wartime Ukraine, examining through a vernacular security lens
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Happy to share my chapter on Zelenskyy's populist aesthetics of security in the Routledge Handbook of #Populism and #ForeignPolicy. Many thanks to editors @davidcadier.bsky.social, @achryssogelos.bsky.social & @sdestradi.bsky.social
@lsemethodology.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...
@lsemethodology.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...
June 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Happy to share my chapter on Zelenskyy's populist aesthetics of security in the Routledge Handbook of #Populism and #ForeignPolicy. Many thanks to editors @davidcadier.bsky.social, @achryssogelos.bsky.social & @sdestradi.bsky.social
@lsemethodology.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...
@lsemethodology.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...
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Photographer: „do you want the BISA banner?“ - Me/ :
„no we‘re enough“ (because, look who’s next to me!)
What an honour to finally meet this absolutely brilliant mind I‘ve been admiring for over two years now @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
@mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025
„no we‘re enough“ (because, look who’s next to me!)
What an honour to finally meet this absolutely brilliant mind I‘ve been admiring for over two years now @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
@mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025
June 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Photographer: „do you want the BISA banner?“ - Me/ :
„no we‘re enough“ (because, look who’s next to me!)
What an honour to finally meet this absolutely brilliant mind I‘ve been admiring for over two years now @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
@mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025
„no we‘re enough“ (because, look who’s next to me!)
What an honour to finally meet this absolutely brilliant mind I‘ve been admiring for over two years now @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
@mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025
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🎉 Congratulations to our winners of the Loop Best Blog prize 2024, @priscyll.bsky.social and Lida Ahmad!
🥇 Read their winning article selected by our jury Benjamin Carver, @alexspalinska.bsky.social and 2023 prize winner, Brandon Mack.
#SupportAfghanWomen
➡️ ow.ly/W6zz50W3gpU
🥇 Read their winning article selected by our jury Benjamin Carver, @alexspalinska.bsky.social and 2023 prize winner, Brandon Mack.
#SupportAfghanWomen
➡️ ow.ly/W6zz50W3gpU
UN collusion with the Taliban is betraying Afghan women
Once again, the world has failed Afghan women and girls. 15 August 2024 marks three years of devastating attacks on women's rights, and freedom of movement under the gender-apartheid Taliban regime. L...
ow.ly
June 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🎉 Congratulations to our winners of the Loop Best Blog prize 2024, @priscyll.bsky.social and Lida Ahmad!
🥇 Read their winning article selected by our jury Benjamin Carver, @alexspalinska.bsky.social and 2023 prize winner, Brandon Mack.
#SupportAfghanWomen
➡️ ow.ly/W6zz50W3gpU
🥇 Read their winning article selected by our jury Benjamin Carver, @alexspalinska.bsky.social and 2023 prize winner, Brandon Mack.
#SupportAfghanWomen
➡️ ow.ly/W6zz50W3gpU
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Publication Alert 📝
New article with @lucasschramm91.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social
It contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of differentiation in the EU. Case studies from EMU & Schengen show how issue-specific incentives lead to atypical integration patterns.
New article with @lucasschramm91.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social
It contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of differentiation in the EU. Case studies from EMU & Schengen show how issue-specific incentives lead to atypical integration patterns.
Online first: "Insider, outsider, or both? Explaining discrepancies within differentiation in the European Union" by @aschilin.bsky.social & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
May 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Publication Alert 📝
New article with @lucasschramm91.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social
It contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of differentiation in the EU. Case studies from EMU & Schengen show how issue-specific incentives lead to atypical integration patterns.
New article with @lucasschramm91.bsky.social in @wepsocial.bsky.social
It contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of differentiation in the EU. Case studies from EMU & Schengen show how issue-specific incentives lead to atypical integration patterns.
Reposted by Aleksandra Spalinska
The very presence of Crimean Tatars on their ancestral land is an act of resistance. How will the next generation, born and raised under occupation, define its reality, and what is the most desirable future for Crimea? Join us for a webinar with Emine Ziyatdin, Maria Shynkarenko and Suleiman Mamutov
March 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The very presence of Crimean Tatars on their ancestral land is an act of resistance. How will the next generation, born and raised under occupation, define its reality, and what is the most desirable future for Crimea? Join us for a webinar with Emine Ziyatdin, Maria Shynkarenko and Suleiman Mamutov
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The lack of expertise on East-Central Europe - or perhaps more precisely the lack of recognition that expertise is actually needed - across sectors, from the media to arts to academia, is often breathtaking… including the too often terrible pronunciation of people’s names once it gets to spoken word
Lost in translation .... @politico.com article on Romanian election and the banning of far-right candidate Călin Georgescu from running in the presidential election becomes a German-language WELT article on "former Soviet Republic" Romania.... Setzen, sechs, WELT! www.welt.de/politik/ausl...
Rumänien: „Moskau will gefürchtet werden. Und das wird bald erreicht sein“ – Rumänien in Aufruhr - WELT
In Rumänien weitet sich der Streit über einen Präsidentschaftskandidaten zu einer internationalen Krise aus. Nachdem der russlandfreundliche Kandidat Georgescu auch bei der Wahlwiederholung nicht antr...
www.welt.de
March 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The lack of expertise on East-Central Europe - or perhaps more precisely the lack of recognition that expertise is actually needed - across sectors, from the media to arts to academia, is often breathtaking… including the too often terrible pronunciation of people’s names once it gets to spoken word
We're still looking forward to seeing your abstracts! Deadline: 20th March. #EISAPEC25
See you in Bologna! 😃
@europeanisa.bsky.social
See you in Bologna! 😃
@europeanisa.bsky.social
Our Standing Section at EISA conference (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social)explores non-state and societal dimensions of world politics: non-state actors, limited statehood, channels for foreign influence, policies and practices at the intersection of hierarchy and anarchy. #EISAPEC25 1/4
March 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
We're still looking forward to seeing your abstracts! Deadline: 20th March. #EISAPEC25
See you in Bologna! 😃
@europeanisa.bsky.social
See you in Bologna! 😃
@europeanisa.bsky.social
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Our Standing Section at EISA conference (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social)explores non-state and societal dimensions of world politics: non-state actors, limited statehood, channels for foreign influence, policies and practices at the intersection of hierarchy and anarchy. #EISAPEC25 1/4
January 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Our Standing Section at EISA conference (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social)explores non-state and societal dimensions of world politics: non-state actors, limited statehood, channels for foreign influence, policies and practices at the intersection of hierarchy and anarchy. #EISAPEC25 1/4
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🎓 Check out @alexspalinska.bsky.social's review of Terje Rasmussen's "The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change" in International Affairs
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change
Sovereignty is a crucial and contested concept in International Relations (IR). As Terje Rasmussen's book shows, it is also dynamic and constantly evolving
doi.org
March 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🎓 Check out @alexspalinska.bsky.social's review of Terje Rasmussen's "The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change" in International Affairs
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
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To oszałamiające zdjęcie uchwyciło eteryczne piękno kultowego efektu „firefall” w Parku Narodowym #Yosemite, gdzie światło słoneczne lub księżycowe oświetla Horsetail Fall, sprawiając, że świeci jak roztopiona lawa. Magia natury w najlepszym wydaniu.
January 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
To oszałamiające zdjęcie uchwyciło eteryczne piękno kultowego efektu „firefall” w Parku Narodowym #Yosemite, gdzie światło słoneczne lub księżycowe oświetla Horsetail Fall, sprawiając, że świeci jak roztopiona lawa. Magia natury w najlepszym wydaniu.
Our Standing Section at EISA conference (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social)explores non-state and societal dimensions of world politics: non-state actors, limited statehood, channels for foreign influence, policies and practices at the intersection of hierarchy and anarchy. #EISAPEC25 1/4
January 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Our Standing Section at EISA conference (co-chaired with @jkleinschmidt.bsky.social)explores non-state and societal dimensions of world politics: non-state actors, limited statehood, channels for foreign influence, policies and practices at the intersection of hierarchy and anarchy. #EISAPEC25 1/4