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Reposted by Ayşe Zarakol

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‪Are we living through an unprecedented 'polycrisis' or have we seen this before?

🗺️ Join IR scholar @aysezarakol.bsky.social and @us.theguardian.com editor Betsy Reed at this year's Vienna Humanities Festival, as they examine whether history does indeed rhyme: humanitiesfestival.at/zarakol
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Reposted by Ayşe Zarakol, David A. Welch

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#OpenAccess -

Reply to ‘How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder’ - cup.org/45b9yPh

- Michael Barnett & @aysezarakol.bsky.social

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Logo for International Theory, featuring the text "International Theory" and "#OpenAccess" over a stylized globe background.
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Tomorrow
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 26
Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam
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We provide lunch and there’s a small reception after
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We have a few spaces left still. This Friday
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 26
Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam
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Reminder, next week!
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 26
Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam
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by Ayşe Zarakol

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Now available for pre-order from OUP, more musings by me and others about the 1990s...

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by Ayşe Zarakol — Reposted by Patricia Owens

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Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam
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Haha
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It's just a title, the article doesn't exist. I assume one or both of the citers has used AI for literature review (I could not access the publications) and this is what it coughed up as something I could have written. Now that it is cited twice Google Scholar is trying to give me credit for it.
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Maybe. But there is also an undercurrent of fragmentation
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Reposted by Ayşe Zarakol

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Social media platform X has blocked the account of Ekrem İmamoğlu, a leader of Turkey's opposition movement and political nemesis of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Musk’s X blocks account of jailed Erdoğan rival
Musk’s platform is challenging the government order to block Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s account.
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And how you stop your friends from editing them
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All of them
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Duncan, if you are not part of the solution…😉
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Don’t give people ideas 🤣
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Only if it is the last handbook ever!
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I do have the card btw but if this was the level of service I was offering I would be ashamed to hassle people about anything
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Getting hassled about my railcard for a tiny discount on an extremely overpriced journey on a train with no flat surfaces to work on, no wifi + half the way is a bus replacement 💁‍♀️
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Yet another day of travelling to Oxford for an event and realising it is almost easier to travel internationally. It’s amazing we manage to collaborate at all
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IO has just released a call for short essays on the future of IR, given all that is going on. Deadline June 15

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...?
Call for Submissions: Special Section on the Future of IR
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Cambridge IR & History group hosted Julia Costa Lopez @jcostalopez.bsky.social today for her presentation on ‘Can women rule? A processual approach to legitimacy and international order through a 15th century succession dispute’. Looking forward to the book version of the project!
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Talking about global disorder with my academic fathers in Tokyo @davidleheny.bsky.social
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Amazing performance by the Cambridge teams today!

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing...
Boat Race 2025: Cambridge win men's & women's races
Cambridge continue their recent dominance over Oxford by winning the men's and women's Boat Races in London.
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Talking about Trump and other strongmen

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How do Donald Trump’s policies change other countries’ politics?
Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, we examine how Trump is boosting the domestic popularity of some leaders abroad—and making life more difficult for others
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Hard to pay attention to the academy these days but do check out Martin’s excellent article on elites & ontological security @campolis.bsky.social

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What's the Deal with Elites? The Role of Political Elites in Identifying Critical Situations in Ontological Security Theory
Abstract. Traditionally, Ontological Security Studies (OSS) have focused on the anxieties and crises of unitary states. More recent scholarship, however, h
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Starmer’s silence criticised by Turkish opposition

www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkeys...
Turkey's opposition threatens to block UK Labour return to Socialist International
CHP leader Ozgur Ozel blasts Labour and Keir Starmer for silence over Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu's arrest, saying 'they will face consequences from me'
www.middleeasteye.net
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giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Autocrats behaving badly: Donald Trump emboldens global strongmen
Autocrats behaving badly: Donald Trump emboldens global strongmen
From Turkey to Israel, leaders make the most of a world without US censure
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Reposted by Ayşe Zarakol

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Major and timely collection from @chathamhouse.org on competing visions of international order including a contribution on Turkey co-authored by @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow @aysezarakol.bsky.social
www.chathamhouse.org/2025/03/comp...
Competing visions of international order | 13 Envisioning the future international order
Responses to US power in a fracturing world
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by Ayşe Zarakol

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I thought I had cured myself of 'being too distracted by breaking developments to concentrate on work' but the last week has shown it was all hubris on my part
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