Amazing!!! Congrats, my dear. Can't wait to read it once it's published.

12/ A necessary experience, but one that leaves me with more questions than answers. Three more days to go. I hope to be wrong—but the emperor’s wardrobe isn’t looking promising.

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11/ If ISA chooses the latter, then scholars from the Global South must create our own spaces—where our theories, empirical work, and perspectives are not add-ons, but central to the field.

10/ ISA has a choice: truly engage with a diverse intellectual world, with multiple methods and approaches—or continue pretending nothing has changed.

9/ The truth is out in the open: the king is naked. And yet, many here go on as if draped in the finest robes of relevance and authority.

8/ The reason Global IR isn’t making the impact some expect isn’t a lack of ideas or scholarship. It’s the relentless gatekeeping, the cognitive dissonance, the refusal to acknowledge that the world has changed.

7/ Our panels feel like an exercise in tokenism. We are acknowledged as a symbolic necessity, while the illusion persists that IR happens only in Western ivory towers.

6/ If ISA wants to adapt to the shifting global order, it must stop treating conferences as business as usual. Otherwise, why should scholars from the Global South keep engaging with an organisation that only pays lip service to our contributions?

5/ From an anthropological lens, it’s fascinating. But practically? This isn’t an International Studies Association. It’s a North American (minus Mexico) Studies Association—big enough to attract diverse voices, but not built to listen to them.