Imperialism, war and violence are connected to climate change. But analysis needs to go deeper than just making an argument for detaching from fossil fuels.
This endless violence is about who and what is valued, it's about US militarism, it's about white christian supremacy.
The 8th article from our special issue on captivity passions is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social! Jade McGlynn and Anastasiia Romanyuk show how Russia's child deportations seek to pressure local families, disrupt Ukrainian identity and facilitate demographic restructuring. doi.org/10.1017/eis....
The 7th article in our special issue โKidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international securityโ is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social. Barak Kushner explores how authoritarian states in 20th-century East Asia sought to reeducate captives for security reasons. doi.org/10.1017/eis....
Interesting. Did he do it as an experiment or to make some kind of point?
Also point 4: 'We haven't managed to improve the quality of regular journal submissions by humans, so let's compound the problem by adding low-qualitty submissions from AI. Not doing so is an absurd double standard.' ?!?!?
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if you think this or are acting upon it you donโt deserve an academic job. people who boast publicly about how theyโre too lazy to do their own research and writing and by extension make it harder for anyone else to do it properly are scabs and should be shunned by any serious researchers
I only made it to the second paragraph before getting triggered ๐
"Users will skim AI summaries. The real science is the question, the pre-analysis plan, and the analysis."
I'm sorry but don't you do your THINKING while READING and WRITING? Research questions don't appear out of nowhere!!!
alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/academics-...
Four more weeks to submit your proposals for this amazing conference!๐
Thank you! ๐You possibly encountered a very early version of the dignity argument at the online version of 2022 ISA Northeast. Am I remembering that correctly..?
The emotional politics of sovereignty: On dignity, state personhood, and kidnappings
My co-authored article with @nckc.bsky.social is published in @ejisbisa.bsky.social with #openaccess!
We theorize captivity/kidnapping as a sovereignty violation, and states respond with emotional performativity to protect their dignity, constructing personhood.
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One of the best analyses of Israel's post-Oct 7 actions I have come across. Highly recommend!๐
New paper!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Where does accountability lie in contemporary border regimes?
Call for Papers, Contesting Imperialism(s), CEEISA Annual Conference, Sarajevo 17-19 June 2026. Submit your papers or panels until March 2026!
Program chairs: Aida Hoziฤ and Dลพeneta Karabegoviฤ
ceeisa2026.com
Iโm very excited to share that my co-authored article with Todd Hall is now published in the @ejisbisa.bsky.social !
Many thanks to @profgustafsson.bsky.social and @rjsamuels.bsky.social for organising the special issue and for their guidance throughout the process.
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discount code for Subotic book
๐Book promotion day ๐ Here is a 30% discount code for my book AND the first chapter is ungated to read for free.
๐จ The Czech Journal of International Relations has just published a new article that provides a dataset of all instances when diplomatic missions raised rainbow flags ๐ณ๏ธโ๐. May seem unlikely now, but the US leads the pack. Full access here: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
My co-authored (with Richard Samuels) special issue introduction 'Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security', has just been published open access in @ejisbisa.bsky.social. The forthcoming special issue will contain 9 articles that will soon be published.
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Thereโs no such thing as an unbiased chatbot. Academic librarian Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social on how โAIโ developers ignore how people actually become informed. From Ep. 51 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, โThe War on Knowledgeโ.
(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
New article of mine with Tizian Metzner: "Worrying about the bomb? โ Nuclear proliferation fears & China's foreign policy": www.oiip.ac.at/en/publikati...
- #proliferation risks rise (no #disarmament, nuclear #threats, no trust in #US)
- official / expert debates in #China
@infooiip.bsky.social
RIS has over a dozen special collections on our website. These collections show the breadth of research in our journal, and they are put together by excellent scholars around the world. A great resource for students!
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Delighted to announce publication of a special issue on Defence and Cliamte Change in @cspjournal.bsky.social, featuring outstanding scholars & papers! The Introduction is available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
WS EB - Ontological Security in Geopolitical Times. Bahar Rumelili.
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WS EB - Ontological Security in Geopolitical Times
๐ Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
โฌ๏ธ Warmest ocean heat content
โฌ๏ธ Tied as second warmest surface temps
โฌ๏ธ Second warmest troposphere
โฌ๏ธ Record high sea level and GHGs
โฌ๏ธ Record low winter Arctic ice
New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
News from CEEISA. Save the date!!
Join us in Izmir for #EWIS2026!
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In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans โ 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...
