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Join us for the launch of Kinna and Prichard’s new book Constitutionalising Anarchy, on the 30th of September. This is a joint event with the Centre for Political Thought, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the book. Online attendance encouraged and registration at the link below.

We will be launching Constitutionalising Anarchy at the University of Exeter the 30th of September. Zoom and registration link for those who can’t attend in person below. Thanks to the Centre for Political Thought and @cais-exeter.bsky.social for supporting the event. @spspa-uofexeter.bsky.social

2 days left in the Yale UP sale with 50% off books including Dictators Without Borders! Just £7. This pbk edition has an epilogue on Trump (written in 2018). Maybe even we are surprised at the extent to which Trump has adopted kleptocratic & authoritarian practices. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

An exhilarating few days of exchange of ideas & research at the Exeter Fudan Global Thought Network symposium, exploring how ideas & materiality spread across contexts, acquiring new meanings in the process. The network is going from strength to strength! @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

New analysis from @hannahbunting.bsky.social from the @exeter.ac.uk Elections Centre shows how this year's local elections will see many close contests – decided by just a few percentage points electionscentre.uk/2026-local-e...

Professor @blagdendavid.bsky.social gave evidence to the House of Commons Defence Committee on how the UK can play a part in the defence of the Arctic and High North region. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

Some thoughts from an extraordinary week in Ukraine. johnheathershaw.substack.com/p/five-thing...

📣 New #GIACE blog! @jheathershaw.bsky.social argues we need a legal conception of kleptocracy fit our current era of personalist global politics where transnational inter-elite relations and illicit activity have been revealed to span Epstein, Putin, and Gulf monarchies.

Young Israeli teens burning draft letters they received. A perfect example of noncompliance that people can participate in to fight back against fighting a foreign war. This is similar to how veterans here in the US are encouraging soldiers to refuse to carry out unlawful orders. #Israel #Gaza

Ever wondered if your academic research gets picked up in policy circles? I gotta say I was surprised to see mine cited in House of Lords reports on the ‘future governance of the UK’ and I suspect many others might be surprised too. See here: app.overton.io

Great double session on republican political economy and the problems with liberal representative democracy at the Centre of Political Thought yesterday. @spspa-uofexeter.bsky.social With Ruth Kinna, Stuart White and Clementina Fusillo. The chat at dinner was 🔥!! Thanks @bingshuz.bsky.social for 📸

We have a webpage! A HUGE thank you to Mark Bray, Gary Chartier, Patricia Owens, Tomas Ibañez, John McCormick, Manjeet Ramgotra, James Tully, and Antje Weiner for your endorsements. They're humbling. @whitproject.bsky.social @antjewiener.bsky.social @mark-bray.bsky.social

My latest article with Xuan Qin at Fudan Uni is online at The China Journal! Our research evidences the lasting transformations in China's grassroots bureaucracy wrought by 3 years of zero-COVID, in which biosecurity enhanced & deepened political security. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

✨ New publication alert ✨ @ripejournal.bsky.social just gave me the best birthday present! My paper, co-authored with Samuele Bibi and Nicole Cerpa Vielma, discusses how Latin America's integration into international trade and global finance has influenced political cycles.

With a focus on Brazil, Chile, and Peru, we argue that the deepening of productive and financial subordination is one of the reasons why the recent wave of left-wing governments has fallen short of the inclusionary impact of the 2000s Pink Tide. Check the #OA paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0969...

@tenaprelec.bsky.social @gulnazsharaf.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social See you next week!

We are launching a new Undergraduate Network for IR and Foreign Policy with British Foreign Policy Group 🎉 For undergrads across the UK interested in IR, diplomacy, and foreign policy 🌟 Join our first meeting to find out more about the network 👉 https://ow.ly/4nNu50X8uR7

Looking forward to tomorrow’s gig on Citizen Marx by @brunoleipold.com. @cais-exeter.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

The transition to the new academic year was so hectic that I forgot to report that @kovarek.bsky.social and I have been awarded a @britishacademy.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk Small Research Grant. Focusing on #Hungary, we will explore how populist frames shape the support for financial nationalism.

Call for #climatesim expressions of interest open NOW! 🌟 We are looking for institutions to take part in our annual climate negotiation simulation event - once again partnering with @chathamhouse.org 🎉 Deadline to apply is 19 October #climatesim 🌳 Info 👉 buff.ly/zPti35m @julietdryden.bsky.social

I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

Delighted to be co-hosting Professor Owens today with the Centre for Political Thought.

Want to stay updated on events at Exeter's Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (ECEEES)? Add your name/e-mail to our mailing list at eceees@exeter.ac.uk. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

👇 New article in @govandopp.bsky.social where Alfonso Casani, @fcolin.bsky.social and I bring together our theoretical and empirical work on foreign policy, opposition and authoritarianism through the extreme case of Morocco and Israel's wars on Gaza, and with material from field research since 2007

Excited to be offering our bespoke fieldwork methods course "Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts" with @xiananj.bsky.social for @komex.bsky.social next February, alongside a truly fantastic line-up of courses - with something for every methodological persuasion!

A cracker from my colleague John Heathershaw and his co-author Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. #Capitalismisthecrisis @jheathershaw.bsky.social

So this is what I'm up to this year - news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... Hugely grateful to @britishacademy.bsky.social for making this possible through an Innovation Fellowship award. @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social

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Congratulations, Andrea!

Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Congratulations to @yazidbenhadda.bsky.social from @cais-exeter.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva yesterday. Yazid explored legacies of colonial policing & migration in Europe & N.Africa Thanks to examiners @fionaadamson.bsky.social & Martin Thomas, and lead supervisor @irenefmolina.bsky.social

BISA, PSA and UACES Open letter to the UK Government: The future of International Studies and funding pressures in higher education

Delighted to report that our colleague Kevork Oskanian will be a permanent member of CAIS faculty from September! Congratulations, Kevork! @drkevorko.bsky.social experts.exeter.ac.uk/38375-kevork...

An absolute honour to host @petoandrea.bsky.social at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social for the launch of Exeter’s new Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies and hear her compelling and urgent talk on how anti-liberal actors use “gender” as symbolic glue to coordinate politics of hate

Fabulous discussion of a new benchmark text in the theory and methods of causal inquiry. Quizzed by data scientists, IR theorists, comparativists and policy-facing colleagues, Adam had compelling answers for us all. 👏🏻

Are you a Global Majority postgraduate researcher at a GW4 university? Applications are now open for the second GW4 Connect Peer Support Programme — a 10-month initiative offering coaching, peer support and space to explore identity, race and research culture. Apply by 9 July: lnkd.in/e5aAEugt

🚨 New paper out in European Journal of IR 🚨 Faiz Sheikh and I draw on Ibn Khaldun’s political thought to rethink the crisis of liberal international order—not as a problem of technique, but as an unresolved and destructive tension between LIO’s claim to universalism and its entrenched whiteness.

On 22 May we are launching @exeter.ac.uk 's new interdisciplinary Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, with a fantastic line-up of leading scholars of the region! More information about ECEEES here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen... @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social

Last week, the Indulging Kleptocracy tour went to Geneva to brief a special session of the UN on illicit finance and Paris to speak to the OCED on the book. Thanks to hosts and fellow speakers. unctad.org/meeting/spec... @tenaprelec.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social