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Bri N Hernandez
@brihernandez.bsky.social
Feminist IR, global governance, environment, WPS 📚 PhD at FIU 🐾 Gordon Morgan Fellow at UArk 🐗
ISA’s Lee Ann Fujii book award recognizes diversity within the field of IR. If you have a book from the previous two calendar years you think would be eligible. Nomination are due July 15th. @isanet.bsky.social
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Lee Ann Fujii Book Award
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June 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Our book has a website! @suzwi.bsky.social, @turbinotorres.bsky.social, and I worked with a diverse group of wonderful scholars and activists to reflect on crises and resistance from feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives.
Feminist Responses to Crises and Dehumanization: Transnational Scholar-Activist Perspectives
Feminist Responses to Crises and Dehumanization brings together academic knowledge with activist strategies and lived experiences from different socio-geographic angles – bridging the gap between theo...
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June 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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My colleague and I just published a piece @thediplomat.com complicating purely geopolitical takes on China-Iran BRI ties. We spotlight the domestic drivers: China’s push to develop its interior, and Iran’s bid to be a Eurasian trade hub. thediplomat.com/2025/05/beyo...
Beyond Geopolitics: The Domestic Drivers of China-Iran Cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative
The alignment of domestic socioeconomic interests is a key driver for continued Sino-Iranian cooperation, despite U.S.-led sanctions.
thediplomat.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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In our new publication in CJIP, @pguer.bsky.social and I analyze the BRI through a technopolitical lens, tracing how it connects China’s frontier governance with regional integration, thus reshaping both China’s domestic peripheries and peninsular Southeast Asia.
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May 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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🚨 New publication w/ my colleague, John Nagl:
"Ukraine and Taiwan: Why Learning the Right Lessons Matters"

Understanding today’s conflicts is key to preparing for tomorrow’s

Read the full article here 👉 mwi.westpoint.edu/ukraine-and-...

#Ukraine #Taiwan #Strategy #Geopolitics
Ukraine and Taiwan: Why Learning the Right Lessons Matters - Modern War Institute
As the world watches the war in Ukraine reshape the global order, the United States and its allies are seizing the moment to extract hard-earned lessons on the art of managing great power rivalry, cri...
mwi.westpoint.edu
June 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
@isanet.bsky.social always a time
March 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This article briefly discusses the nexus of #gender and #extractivism and the global extractivist financial model. It then turns to practices of resistance and hope where examples of alternative frameworks and strategies of Indigenous women organizers are explored.
Extractivism and Resistance: Gendered Perspectives on the Global Resource Economy
Moving beyond extractivism is essential for transforming the way societies interact with the environment and ensuring sustainable development.
www.e-ir.info
March 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Dear #PhD candidates and #academics at large,

You decide what is important when writing up your #research.

Sincerely,
Candidate who needed to hear this from her advisor today

#dissertation
January 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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As a PhD, what I lack in money, fame, and job security, I make up for in ability to answer questions no one asked
January 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Released our edited volume on transnational #feminism, scholar-activism, and crises to the series editors today!
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December 24, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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In academia, "friends with benefits" is someone who'll read your draft
December 15, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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How your email finds me
December 12, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Students in #IPE spent their last class on pt 3 of a sim. They negotiated the political and economic structures of a version of Panem 20y post books. Districts crafted agreements based on their resources, identities, and goals - w/environmental crises as a backdrop. #pedagogy #popculture #teaching
December 5, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Excited publish this short piece with @ejiltalk.bsky.social @brihernandez.bsky.social and I explore how the definition of rape used by international courts makes certain types of male victimization difficult to recognize: www.ejiltalk.org/male-victims.... Now just to finish the full article version
Male Victims of SGBV and Definitional Challenges
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, numerous reports have shown the widespread use of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against detained civilians and prisoners of war. A significant portion of thi…
www.ejiltalk.org
December 3, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Male Victims of SGBV and Definitional Challenges | by Christine Bianco and Brianna Hernandez
Male Victims of SGBV and Definitional Challenges
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, numerous reports have shown the widespread use of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against detained civilians and prisoners of war. A significant portion of thi…
www.ejiltalk.org
December 3, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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I couldn't find a #FeministIR starter pack, so I took a first rather random stab at it. As I am bound to have missed relevant people (still struggling with the platform), so please let me know if you would like to be added. Apologies in advance.

#gender #feminism #IR
November 29, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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I’m working on a starter pack for those interested in WPS. I’m struggling with the search function on Blue Sky. Please let me know if you’d like to be added.

go.bsky.app/QF29N6Y
November 13, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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📣 Attention book people: The University of Michigan Press currently has a holiday sale, and you can get *50% off* with promo code HOLIDAY24.

That includes my own book "The Politics of Military Force":

#SiPo #Germany #Bundeswehr #foreignpolicy #discourse #Laclau, bit of #gender and #coloniality
The Politics of Military Force
The Politics of Military Force examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture. Once consider...
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November 30, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Three takeaways concerning what happened at #COP29 concerning #gender and #climatechange by the Georgetown institute for Women, Peace and Security

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Three Takeaways from COP29
The stakes were high for advancing gender-responsive climate action going into the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) after gender negotiators received pushback on advancing the gender and climate age...
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November 27, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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Upsetting facts: Most male killings occur outside their homes and families. Most female killings occur within their homes and families. #HumanRights f24.my/AlZi.X
Violence Against Women: Deadliest place for women is at home, UN report says
A UN report released on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women said that "almost 60 percent of all women who were intentionally killed in 2023" died at the hands of partne...
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November 26, 2024 at 3:54 PM
“it is tragically appropriate on the 25th anniversary of this International Day [for the elimination of violence against women] to acknowledge that the women and girls of Sudan have been raped and murdered for 21 of those 25 years” (PassBlue).
November 26, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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Happy to share that my paper titled “Nepal’s Status-Seeking Endeavors: Between Normative Convergence and Geopolitical Interests” is available in open-access format. #smallstates #Nepal #statusinIR #internationalrelations #norms #SouthAsia #globalpolitics

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Nepal’s Status‐Seeking Endeavors: Between Normative Convergence and Geopolitical Interests | Article | Politics and Governance
Bibek Chand
www.cogitatiopress.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:11 PM