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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 3d

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.

Ekrem Baser @ekrembaser.bsky.social · 3d

🚨We’re hiring!🚨 Bilkent IR seeks two open-rank faculty: one open specialization, one in Historical IR / Historical Political Economy.

Deadline: Dec 15. Please reach out with any questions!
Full ad: ir.bilkent.edu.tr?page_id=3396

#polisky #poliscijobs #poliscijobmarket #psjminfo #academicjobs

Two Open Rank Positions in International Relations

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Candan Badem @candanbadem.bsky.social · 3d

Our (I & Alexander Morrison) article on Kars is out.
The stronghold of strongholds: Kars and the Russian military, 1807-1878
@routledgehistory.bsky.social @crimeanwar.bsky.social @mesutuyar.bsky.social @mhafhs.bsky.social
journals.openedition.org/chreecc/15443

The stronghold of strongholds: Kars and the Russian military, 1807-...

On the morning of 25th June 1829, a young Russian poet gazed with awe at the supposedly impregnable Ottoman fortress of Kars, which had been captured by the Russian Army of the Caucasus just a year...

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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 3d

Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.

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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 4d

Hi

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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!

Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, Howard!

Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you!

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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 7d

The list of past winners includes many scholars whose works were inspiration for my own. I am honored that my book was chosen for this award.

ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations to Samuel J. Hirst, winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize for Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 with Oxford University Press.
#ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/rh9Tt7b

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations to Anne O’Donnell, whose book Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution won the @aseees.bsky.social's Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia, and/or Eastern Europe!

Read about her book here: hubs.ly/Q03LB1yv0

Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution by Anne O'Donnell

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations to Samuel Hodgkin, winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize for, Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism with Cambridge University Press. #ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/nwIZZjj

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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 24d

Has anyone written on Donald Mills's visit to Turkey in 1978? (2/2)

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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 24d

Great article. (1/2)

American Historical Association @historians.org · Sep 17

In the September issue of the #AHR, Giuliana Chamedes provides a novel account of the New International Economic Order (NIEO) in “Unpaid Debts,” focusing on Jamaican activists and their efforts to redefine “socialist internationalism.”🗃️

Unpaid Debts: Socialist Internationalism and Jamaica’s Bid for a New International Economic Order

Abstract. “Unpaid Debts” provides a novel account of the New International Economic Order (NIEO), from the economic crises of the 1970s to the lost develop

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 25d

New article on Open Access! Georgios Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social on 'Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940'

academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940*

Abstract. This article re-examines the international thought of British historian Robert W. Seton-Watson during a period of intense national and imperial t

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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · 28d

Congratulations!

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Onur Isci @onurisci.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yıllar süren uzun bir yolculuğun sonunda yeni kitabımızın Ekim ayında @kronikkitap.bsky.social tarafından yayımlanacağını paylaşmaktan mutluluk duyuyoruz. Kitapta gökyüzünde bir anda belirip, muazzam bir enerjiyle parlayıp kayan bir yıldızın hikayesini anlattık, umarım beğenirsiniz.

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · Jul 19

Considering discussing this essay on the first day of the semester in my class on Historical Research and Writing 🗃️

The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · Jul 7

Congratulations Harrison King, 2025 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellow!
“The Mountains Above the Black Sea: A History of the Georgian-Turkish Border, 1878-1965”
buff.ly/wl2Qp6V

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History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · Jun 30

#History #SkyStorians Triple review klaxon! Andrew Peak on Samuel J. Hirst's Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 (OUP, 2024).
doi.org/10.1111/1468...

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Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social · Jun 17

As am I, Jim!

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · Jun 17

Really looking forward to talking with my friend, @samueljhirst.bsky.social, about his excellent new book on Friday.

The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association @andottoman.bsky.social · May 1

Join OTSA and Samuel J. Hirst, Bilkent University, for a WOT’SAp Friday event on June 20 at 12PM CST “Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalist 1919- 1939." To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...