🚨 New paper out in European Journal of IR 🚨 Faiz Sheikh and I draw on Ibn Khaldun’s political thought to rethink the crisis of liberal international order—not as a problem of technique, but as an unresolved and destructive tension between LIO’s claim to universalism and its entrenched whiteness.

5/ We analysed 8,000+ social media comments, news op-eds & elite statements. We identify three modes of sensemaking—'discourses of denial'—that became ‘common-sensical’, defining the parameters of who or what was to blame and what should be done:

1/ 📢 New research! How do societies make sense of violent events? In a new paper with @politicsandspace.bsky.social, Victoria Basham, @rhyscrilley.bsky.social and I explore how the London Bridge attack & Grenfell Tower fire were understood in media & public discourse—and why this matters. 🧵👇