Ty Solomon
@tsolomon.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social. But mostly hiking, cycling, and running around Scotland.
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Ty Solomon
@tsolomon.bsky.social
· Mar 1
The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations
Abstract. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot ad
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Psyched to have a short chapter on "Collective Emotions Beyond the State" in @andrewagross.bsky.social and @simonkoschut.bsky.social's fantastic new Handbook of Emotions in IR! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
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🚨Special issue on Global Politics of Cultural Heritage edited by @elifkalay.bsky.social and yours truly for @risjnl.bsky.social is now fully out! The project is about placing cultural heritage at the core of IR. Here is the intro, individual articles in thread👇
Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics
www.cambridge.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🚨Special issue on Global Politics of Cultural Heritage edited by @elifkalay.bsky.social and yours truly for @risjnl.bsky.social is now fully out! The project is about placing cultural heritage at the core of IR. Here is the intro, individual articles in thread👇
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Check out this intro to our forthcoming special issue, by two scholarly forces of nature
#FirstView from @risjnl.bsky.social -
Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics - https://cup.org/4qUpTSA
- @elifkalay.bsky.social & @jelenasubotic.bsky.social
Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics - https://cup.org/4qUpTSA
- @elifkalay.bsky.social & @jelenasubotic.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Check out this intro to our forthcoming special issue, by two scholarly forces of nature
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New paper!
Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
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Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Wha’s like us? The desecuritisation of migration as ontological security-seeking in Scotland | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Wha’s like us? The desecuritisation of migration as ontological security-seeking in Scotland
www.cambridge.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
New paper!
Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🔔Reminder that there’s just one week to go to make your submissions for #BISA2026! Deadline: 3 Nov
We’re looking forward to your panel/paper submissions to our section✊🏻👇🏻
We’re looking forward to your panel/paper submissions to our section✊🏻👇🏻
🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉
'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎
Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM
@visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social
'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎
Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM
@visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
🔔Reminder that there’s just one week to go to make your submissions for #BISA2026! Deadline: 3 Nov
We’re looking forward to your panel/paper submissions to our section✊🏻👇🏻
We’re looking forward to your panel/paper submissions to our section✊🏻👇🏻
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📢Call for Abstracts📢
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📢Call for Abstracts📢
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
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The people behind the inflated protests are performing a monumental service to democracy & peace in the US. The Regime wants riots, but these animal characters are not only an effective protest, grabbing attention & mocking ICE, they seem to reduce the risk of violent protests. It's perfect.
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.
This is truly terrifying.
This is truly terrifying.
October 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The people behind the inflated protests are performing a monumental service to democracy & peace in the US. The Regime wants riots, but these animal characters are not only an effective protest, grabbing attention & mocking ICE, they seem to reduce the risk of violent protests. It's perfect.
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Call for Papers! Excited to be putting together a panel on more-than-human and posthuman IR for the BISA 2026 conference. Deadline Fri 24 Oct - details below. Please reach out with any queries
October 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Call for Papers! Excited to be putting together a panel on more-than-human and posthuman IR for the BISA 2026 conference. Deadline Fri 24 Oct - details below. Please reach out with any queries
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Reminder that our #BISA2026 call & homepage is OPEN NOW - we can't wait to see you in Brighton! 🎉
🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Reminder that our #BISA2026 call & homepage is OPEN NOW - we can't wait to see you in Brighton! 🎉
🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
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One reason I am American by birth and British by naturalization is that my father faced such terrifying racial hazing in 1980s London that he emigrated. When I moved here as an adult, he was worried about me. I told him it'd be fine, it had all changed.
Instead:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Instead:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police assaulted as far-right rally led by Tommy Robinson sparks clashes
More than 110,000 people join Tommy Robinson-organised protest featuring racist conspiracy theories and hate speech
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
One reason I am American by birth and British by naturalization is that my father faced such terrifying racial hazing in 1980s London that he emigrated. When I moved here as an adult, he was worried about me. I told him it'd be fine, it had all changed.
Instead:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Instead:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Big news! #BISA2026 is already in the works, so be sure to submit papers and panels. The submission site opens on September 24 ⬇️
🎉 Our #BISA2026 call and homepage is OPEN NOW 🎉
Have a look at our call for papers down below - submissions for papers open on the 24th of September 🌟
We are so excited - more here 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
Have a look at our call for papers down below - submissions for papers open on the 24th of September 🌟
We are so excited - more here 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Big news! #BISA2026 is already in the works, so be sure to submit papers and panels. The submission site opens on September 24 ⬇️
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If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The various WWII commemoration events demonstrate just how important ritual is for international relations. Take a look at the special collection put together by our editor Maria Mälksoo on ritual in IR ⤵️
buff.ly/qQ3aS9C
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September 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The various WWII commemoration events demonstrate just how important ritual is for international relations. Take a look at the special collection put together by our editor Maria Mälksoo on ritual in IR ⤵️
buff.ly/qQ3aS9C
buff.ly/qQ3aS9C
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I've followed defence tech industry (war tech?) narratives for a while - renaming of the DoD as Department of War, & the pivot to some crude ideation of war, victory and warriors is a longer-standing fantasy floated by figures like Alex Karp (Palantir) and Palmer Luckey (Anduril). 1/
September 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I've followed defence tech industry (war tech?) narratives for a while - renaming of the DoD as Department of War, & the pivot to some crude ideation of war, victory and warriors is a longer-standing fantasy floated by figures like Alex Karp (Palantir) and Palmer Luckey (Anduril). 1/
This is *really* worth your time...
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
September 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is *really* worth your time...
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🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
August 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
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Making sure my memes are on trend for the new academic year
August 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Making sure my memes are on trend for the new academic year
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Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ still speaks to a nation vacillating between hope and despair
@us.theconversation.com
Louis P. Masur
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Louis P. Masur
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Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ still speaks to a nation vacillating between hope and despair
Springsteen initially hated the album so much that he tossed a test pressing into a pool. But its operatic tracks about freedom and fate, triumph and tragedy, continue to resonate today.
theconversation.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ still speaks to a nation vacillating between hope and despair
@us.theconversation.com
Louis P. Masur
theconversation.com/bruce-spring...
@us.theconversation.com
Louis P. Masur
theconversation.com/bruce-spring...
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As Colin Hay put it nearly 30 years ago: '‘Crisis then is not some objective condition or property of a system defining the contours for subsequent ideological contestation. Rather, it is subjectively perceived and hence brought into existence through narrative and discourse'.
Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
August 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
As Colin Hay put it nearly 30 years ago: '‘Crisis then is not some objective condition or property of a system defining the contours for subsequent ideological contestation. Rather, it is subjectively perceived and hence brought into existence through narrative and discourse'.
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Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social podcast: a must listen! 🎙️
@sebkaempf.bsky.social
looks at the most pressing issues of our time and reflects on the latest IR developments 🌟
ft guests: @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @drbeezee.bsky.social @naomukoyama.bsky.social & more
Find it here 👉
@sebkaempf.bsky.social
looks at the most pressing issues of our time and reflects on the latest IR developments 🌟
ft guests: @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @drbeezee.bsky.social @naomukoyama.bsky.social & more
Find it here 👉
Editor's Selection: Theory/Ideology with Benjamin Martill - Review of International Studies – The podcast
Creating conversations across articles, identifying linkages, bringing together articles that speak to similar topics is the purpose of our editor's selections. In this episode, Dr Benjamin Martill,…
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August 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social podcast: a must listen! 🎙️
@sebkaempf.bsky.social
looks at the most pressing issues of our time and reflects on the latest IR developments 🌟
ft guests: @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @drbeezee.bsky.social @naomukoyama.bsky.social & more
Find it here 👉
@sebkaempf.bsky.social
looks at the most pressing issues of our time and reflects on the latest IR developments 🌟
ft guests: @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @drbeezee.bsky.social @naomukoyama.bsky.social & more
Find it here 👉
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Thrilled that my article on treason and political community is (finally) out with International Political Sociology!
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August 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Thrilled that my article on treason and political community is (finally) out with International Political Sociology!
academic.oup.com/ips/article-...
academic.oup.com/ips/article-...
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Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr
August 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr
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So, @jelenasubotic.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue on heritage politics for @risjnl.bsky.social, and the contributions are starting to drop on first view!
Stay tuned for our co-authored introductory essay and more contributions but here is what we have so far:
Stay tuned for our co-authored introductory essay and more contributions but here is what we have so far:
July 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
So, @jelenasubotic.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue on heritage politics for @risjnl.bsky.social, and the contributions are starting to drop on first view!
Stay tuned for our co-authored introductory essay and more contributions but here is what we have so far:
Stay tuned for our co-authored introductory essay and more contributions but here is what we have so far:
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Hi folks,
My new article looking at what happens to digital diplomacy after Elon Musk’s transformation of Twitter is now published at JIRD.
rdcu.be/ev4XQ
If you’re interested in reactionary politics, digital diplomacy, and aesthetics, here is a short thread…
My new article looking at what happens to digital diplomacy after Elon Musk’s transformation of Twitter is now published at JIRD.
rdcu.be/ev4XQ
If you’re interested in reactionary politics, digital diplomacy, and aesthetics, here is a short thread…
After Twitter: aesthetic insecurity and the future of digital diplomacy
rdcu.be
July 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Hi folks,
My new article looking at what happens to digital diplomacy after Elon Musk’s transformation of Twitter is now published at JIRD.
rdcu.be/ev4XQ
If you’re interested in reactionary politics, digital diplomacy, and aesthetics, here is a short thread…
My new article looking at what happens to digital diplomacy after Elon Musk’s transformation of Twitter is now published at JIRD.
rdcu.be/ev4XQ
If you’re interested in reactionary politics, digital diplomacy, and aesthetics, here is a short thread…