Nick Kitchen
@nickkitchen.bsky.social
Associate Professor in International relations at University of Surrey. IR theory, great power politics and net assessment.
New Article Alert! “If You Build It, They Will Come.” Infrastructure, Hegemonic Transition, and Peaceful Change, with Simon Curtis is out in @gsqjournal.bsky.social. Thanks to the team there for a really smooth review process. doi.org/10.1093/isag... (1/)
“If You Build It, They Will Come.” Infrastructure, Hegemonic Transition, and Peaceful Change
Abstract. Hegemonic transition is typically associated with major power war. Relatively neglected is its association of systemic change with shifts in mate
doi.org
April 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New Article Alert! “If You Build It, They Will Come.” Infrastructure, Hegemonic Transition, and Peaceful Change, with Simon Curtis is out in @gsqjournal.bsky.social. Thanks to the team there for a really smooth review process. doi.org/10.1093/isag... (1/)
New piece out! Thread coming on it soon (with added Costner references), but if you can’t wait, click away, it’s open access!
🚨New Article🚨
“‘If You Build It, They Will Come.’ Infrastructure, Hegemonic Transition, and Peaceful Change” by Nicholas Kitchen & Simon Curtis
Read OPEN ACCESS here
academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
“‘If You Build It, They Will Come.’ Infrastructure, Hegemonic Transition, and Peaceful Change” by Nicholas Kitchen & Simon Curtis
Read OPEN ACCESS here
academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
“If You Build It, They Will Come.” Infrastructure, Hegemonic Transition, and Peaceful Change
Abstract. Hegemonic transition is typically associated with major power war. Relatively neglected is its association of systemic change with shifts in mate
academic.oup.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New piece out! Thread coming on it soon (with added Costner references), but if you can’t wait, click away, it’s open access!
The thing about Europe's challenges is that, despite Russian aggression, US abandonment, rise of radical right, it looks increasingly attractive in comparison to totalitarianism in China, bankrupt authoritarianism in Russia, and nakedly corrupt oligarchy in the US. Come along and join the debate!
📢 Join us in Surrey, UK, for the "Challenges to Europe – European Challenges" Conference, exploring the forces shaping politics, society, and democracy across the continent 🇪🇺
📅 28-29 May 2025 | 📍University of Surrey
🔗 Free registration, courtesy of PSA: 2025cbeeuropeanchallenges.eventbrite.com
📅 28-29 May 2025 | 📍University of Surrey
🔗 Free registration, courtesy of PSA: 2025cbeeuropeanchallenges.eventbrite.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The thing about Europe's challenges is that, despite Russian aggression, US abandonment, rise of radical right, it looks increasingly attractive in comparison to totalitarianism in China, bankrupt authoritarianism in Russia, and nakedly corrupt oligarchy in the US. Come along and join the debate!
This ‘agreement’ is less substantive than almost any international accord I’ve ever read. There’s almost nothing in it that constitutes a commitment by either party. on.ft.com/4ihKjzH US-Ukraine minerals deal: the full text
US-Ukraine minerals deal: the full text
The terms of the bilateral agreement between Kyiv and Washington
on.ft.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This ‘agreement’ is less substantive than almost any international accord I’ve ever read. There’s almost nothing in it that constitutes a commitment by either party. on.ft.com/4ihKjzH US-Ukraine minerals deal: the full text
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We are pleased to confirm our keynote speakers for the Challenges to Europe-European Challenges Conference: @exadaktylos.bsky.social and @nickkitchen.bsky.social Meanwhile, if you are interested in presenting, abstract submission is open until 20th Jan! More updates to come!📬
✳️CALL FOR PAPERS✳️
The CBE, with @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social German, Italian & Greek Specialists, invites you to the Challenges to Europe - European Challenges Conference at the University of Surrey, 28-29 May 2025.
Submit your abstract by 20 Jan 2025!
Details: surrey.ac.uk/news/call-pa...
The CBE, with @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social German, Italian & Greek Specialists, invites you to the Challenges to Europe - European Challenges Conference at the University of Surrey, 28-29 May 2025.
Submit your abstract by 20 Jan 2025!
Details: surrey.ac.uk/news/call-pa...
CALL FOR PAPER: Challenges to Europe – European Challenges | University of Surrey
surrey.ac.uk
January 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We are pleased to confirm our keynote speakers for the Challenges to Europe-European Challenges Conference: @exadaktylos.bsky.social and @nickkitchen.bsky.social Meanwhile, if you are interested in presenting, abstract submission is open until 20th Jan! More updates to come!📬
.@thepriceoffootball.bsky.social given the reports of utd being prepared to sell mainoo for PSR reasons, is there a case for making homegrown first team player wages deductible for PSR? How much impact would that have on FFP at Mainoo levels? Or Rashford? @nqatpod.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
.@thepriceoffootball.bsky.social given the reports of utd being prepared to sell mainoo for PSR reasons, is there a case for making homegrown first team player wages deductible for PSR? How much impact would that have on FFP at Mainoo levels? Or Rashford? @nqatpod.bsky.social
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Another great piece from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on "Inequality hasn’t risen. Here’s why it feels like it has" www.ft.com/content/b325...
January 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Another great piece from @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on "Inequality hasn’t risen. Here’s why it feels like it has" www.ft.com/content/b325...
I read right through, and though I initially went ‘Stephen, what are you doing?’ I didn’t feel the need to do anything other than go, hey, this is fun, Bluesky. Love Jurassic Park, love all its silliness.
Something I don't know how to overcome: whenever the topic of a policy debate is a report, however important or trivial the topic, is that people treat 'have you, uh, read it?' as a kind of trick and not an essential prerequisite to having an opinion about it.
The thread has been pulled. What do you think was wrong with the 2022 inquiry, and why do you think its chair is wrong to say need to focus on implementing it, not doing another one?
January 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I read right through, and though I initially went ‘Stephen, what are you doing?’ I didn’t feel the need to do anything other than go, hey, this is fun, Bluesky. Love Jurassic Park, love all its silliness.
Roll up! Great opportunity to present work on all things Europe - from populist politics to the Western alliance. I'll be giving a keynote entitled 'Sleeping with a stricken elephant' but don't let that particular imagery put you off - get your abstracts in!
✳️CALL FOR PAPERS✳️
The CBE, with @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social German, Italian & Greek Specialists, invites you to the Challenges to Europe - European Challenges Conference at the University of Surrey, 28-29 May 2025.
Submit your abstract by 20 Jan 2025!
Details: surrey.ac.uk/news/call-pa...
The CBE, with @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social German, Italian & Greek Specialists, invites you to the Challenges to Europe - European Challenges Conference at the University of Surrey, 28-29 May 2025.
Submit your abstract by 20 Jan 2025!
Details: surrey.ac.uk/news/call-pa...
CALL FOR PAPER: Challenges to Europe – European Challenges | University of Surrey
surrey.ac.uk
December 20, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Roll up! Great opportunity to present work on all things Europe - from populist politics to the Western alliance. I'll be giving a keynote entitled 'Sleeping with a stricken elephant' but don't let that particular imagery put you off - get your abstracts in!
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It was MOOCs 15 years ago. Now, it's AI. Wonder what silver bullet the higher-ed consultants and tech set will offer next that will simultaneously lower standards for students and increase workloads for instructors.
December 15, 2024 at 2:14 AM
It was MOOCs 15 years ago. Now, it's AI. Wonder what silver bullet the higher-ed consultants and tech set will offer next that will simultaneously lower standards for students and increase workloads for instructors.
How utterly ridiculous. There’s upholding standards in public life, and god knows they’ve been poor over the past few years. but having to resign for a spent conviction, already disclosed to your boss when he appointed you, is absurd.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Louise Haigh resigns as UK transport secretary after admitting phone offence
Haigh tells PM she is ‘totally committed’ but leaves role after incorrectly telling police a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:19 AM
How utterly ridiculous. There’s upholding standards in public life, and god knows they’ve been poor over the past few years. but having to resign for a spent conviction, already disclosed to your boss when he appointed you, is absurd.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Very good 😂
But also, check out how much regular inflation expectations have changed.
But also, check out how much regular inflation expectations have changed.
November 27, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Very good 😂
But also, check out how much regular inflation expectations have changed.
But also, check out how much regular inflation expectations have changed.
It would be much more helpful to most readers if we just said ‘purged’.
He is the third consecutive serving or former defence minister to be investigated for alleged corruption.
www.ft.com/content/6414...
www.ft.com/content/6414...
China’s defence minister placed under investigation for corruption
US officials say probe is part of a wider operation to uncover graft in the People’s Liberation Army
www.ft.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:22 AM
It would be much more helpful to most readers if we just said ‘purged’.
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New data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland.
The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.
The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.
November 24, 2024 at 9:00 AM
New data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland.
The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.
The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.
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Putin has staged another performance concerning the "missile": kremlin.ru/events/presi.... He bragged about the specs and promised to start serial production. A master bullshi**er, he delights in intimidation. You can tell from his demeanor here that he thinks his tactic has worked.
Совещание с руководством Минобороны, представителями ВПК и разработчиками ракетных систем
Президент провёл совещание с руководством Министерства обороны, представителями ВПК и разработчиками ракетных систем.
kremlin.ru
November 23, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Putin has staged another performance concerning the "missile": kremlin.ru/events/presi.... He bragged about the specs and promised to start serial production. A master bullshi**er, he delights in intimidation. You can tell from his demeanor here that he thinks his tactic has worked.
Amorin’s physical performance coach has a PhD in hamstring injury prevention. Good news for Mason Mount? Not so fast: sadly, Paulo Barreira’s research failed to identify significant differences between study and control groups @nqatpod.bsky.social researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/57...
researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Amorin’s physical performance coach has a PhD in hamstring injury prevention. Good news for Mason Mount? Not so fast: sadly, Paulo Barreira’s research failed to identify significant differences between study and control groups @nqatpod.bsky.social researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/57...
IR is the child of the science of imperial management: Foreign Affairs started life as the journal of race development, and it remains focused on imperial powers, with ‘development’ - the white man’s civilising burden - hived off to a strange coterie of enabling post-anti-imperialists 🤷♂️
An intellectual history of international relations in one graph.
The term "international" rarely used in the early 19th century. In contrast, "empire" was a common term. That flipped right around the start of the 20th century.
Bottom line: IR is the outgrowth of imperialism's decline
The term "international" rarely used in the early 19th century. In contrast, "empire" was a common term. That flipped right around the start of the 20th century.
Bottom line: IR is the outgrowth of imperialism's decline
November 19, 2024 at 11:43 PM
IR is the child of the science of imperial management: Foreign Affairs started life as the journal of race development, and it remains focused on imperial powers, with ‘development’ - the white man’s civilising burden - hived off to a strange coterie of enabling post-anti-imperialists 🤷♂️
Rivals reminds me of the only fallback idea I ever had if academia didn’t work out: a jodhpur-based posh porn site called the horsebox. What? You’re all watching it already.
don't know if it's properly escaped British containment yet but I really need the whole world to know that Rivals is maybe the single most entertaining TV show made this year, I promise you that even if you think "horny Brits who work in TV in the 80's" isn't your thing: it will be your thing
November 14, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Rivals reminds me of the only fallback idea I ever had if academia didn’t work out: a jodhpur-based posh porn site called the horsebox. What? You’re all watching it already.
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I set this up a while back, but the most recent exodus prompted me to re-share. If you want to be added, let me know.
November 10, 2024 at 6:54 PM
I set this up a while back, but the most recent exodus prompted me to re-share. If you want to be added, let me know.