📄 Jeg har en kronikk ute i @dagsavisen.bsky.social i dag. På papir og på nett. USA har blitt en kødd. Men det er ikke bare vi allierte som taper på det. USA risikerer å miste ett viktig utenrikspolitisk verktøy: prestisje

"In Britain and across Europe I fear free speech is in retreat"

-JD Vance

23/ 📄 Rethinking status-seeking in IR

In the concluding article, @wwohlforth.bsky.social critically examines the contributions and agenda of the special issue. He distinguishes “small-s” status (everyday symbols) from “big-S” great power status

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21/ 📄 When status symbols backfire

@pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social, @lucasdopaes.bsky.social & @crismaglia.bsky.social explore how high-cost status symbols can become liabilities.

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19/📄 The Ottoman Empire’s shifting status symbols

Fulya Hisarlıoğlu & Lerna K. Yanık analyze how Ottoman status symbols transformed as the empire integrated into Western-led international politics

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16/📄 Climate leadership as a status symbol

@ksailormoon.bsky.social & Thomas Müller show how climate rankings & COP presidencies and performance rankings became new markers of global prestige

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13/ 📄 Summits as platforms for status performance

@tristennaylor.bsky.social ethnographically explores global summits (G7) as carefully choreographed status performances

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10/📄 US military presence as a status symbol

10/ Maria Mälksoo explores how US troops in Poland & the Baltics became prestige markers rather than just security necessities

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7/ 📄 British imperial status symbols in Cyprus

While Leira & de Carvalho focus on gradually evolving symbols, Maria Hadjiathanasiou examines a manipulated top-down imposed status symbol that was created, sustained, and declined over a relatively short period

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4/ 📄 Opera houses as status symbols

@halvardl.bsky.social & @bdecarvalho.bsky.social examine opera houses as status symbols from the 16th century to today

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3/ Our contributors answered the call—and then some.
A thread on their brilliant articles & what they tell us about status symbols 🧵👇

2/ Why status symbols? Without them—and without shared ideas of what grants higher status—status-seeking would be a crapshoot. Our special issue thus asks: how do status symbols rise and fall? How and where do they travel? How do they work? And how manipulable are they?

Jeg har en kronikk i dagens Klassekampen om polaritet og de mulige fatale følgene av Kinas økonomiske stagnering.

Jeg har en kronikk i Dagsavisen om USAs supermaktstatus. Lander kommer til å bli en kjipere - men sannsynligvis den eneste - supermakten i tiden fremover. www.dagsavisen.no/debatt/2024/...

I have been thinking about polarity lately and today I'm stoked to say that @gsqjournal.bsky.social has published a piece of mine where I say that the unipolar era still isn't over: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...