"How empires emerge" by @skumsrud.bsky.social has been recently published in EJIR and is available online!
You can read it here: t1p.de/w01bi
02.03.2026 14:07
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Here’s that (disturbing) new study about the effects of Twitter/X’s biased algorithm: bsky.app/profile/eliz...
24.02.2026 15:42
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Tag 2 unserer Fellow Assembly 🚀
Round Table zu „Verteidigung im Umbruch“ – mit intensiver Diskussion über Verteidigungspolitik, Resilienz, Wehrpflicht und aktuelle Herausforderungen.
Mit Oliver Hidalgo, @drfranksauer.bsky.social Sauer, Inga Schalinski, Axel Schulte & Bernhard Stahl.
13.02.2026 09:29
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Let’s go! 🚀
„Defuse it or lose it?“ – Wie Staaten Interdependenz strategisch nutzen und was das für die liberale Ordnung heißt.
Impuls: Abraham L. Newman (Underground Empire).
Gerade gestartet beim #MSC.
12.02.2026 18:00
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Lesenswert: Kurzanalysen der FoKS-Fellows für politische Entscheidungsträger*innen – herausgegeben von der Bayerischen Wissenschaftsallianz für Friedens-, Konflikt- und Sicherheitsforschung #FoKS
www.foks-allianz.de/outreach/fok...
09.02.2026 15:46
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Text: ISA Pretoria 2026
African States vs States in Africa: An Epistemological Interrogation of Africa and the World.
June 29 - July 1, 2026
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
Submission Deadline: February 27th
ISA’s Call for Proposals for the 2026 Midyear Conference at the University of Pretoria are open. The conference theme is African States vs States in Africa: An Epistemological Interrogation of Africa and the World. Deadline to submit is February 27th. For more info click here: buff.ly/ZzhcPFs
10.02.2026 15:30
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Defuse it or lose it? For those in/coming to Munich, join us for this essential #MSC2026 side event and discuss with us.
10.02.2026 16:55
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This article brings to fore long-standing intricacies and dilemmas in Brazil’s and China’s international positioning. It reveals the complex discursive repertoires shaping the Brazilian and Chinese sense of Self in the world, in the Global South, and, more particularly, in relation to Africa. It engages with the concept of “liminality” to highlight how constructing South–South relationships and invoking Southern identities have been ambiguous, indeterminate—thus liminal—endeavors in these countries’ international affairs. By dissecting their diplomatic and corporate narratives towards Africa, our analysis demonstrates, notwithstanding tensions and contradictions, how Brazilian and Chinese actors have creatively acted upon this liminality to pursue foreign policy goals and economic projects. In doing so, the article stresses the floating, ambiguous nature of powerful constructs such as “South” (and “West”), and binary oppositions between them. It concludes by discussing how a liminality perspective allows us to understand the unfixed and multifaceted nature of roles and identities in international relations.
Our second monthly pick for February is "Liminally Positioned in the South: Reinterpreting Brazilian and Chinese Relations with Africa" by @janahoenke.bsky.social, @eric-cezne.bsky.social, and Yifan Mia Yang. Do give it a read!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
09.02.2026 10:49
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So it is even getting coverage in the economist. A striking phenomenon in several African contexts.
@adamsandor.bsky.social
05.02.2026 19:26
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Our book was reviewed in @africaspectrum.bsky.social. I was not here for a while - belated thanks for engaging with the work and the generous remarks!
05.02.2026 19:20
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New article!
Youth climate activism in shrinking spaces: how Uganda’s activists navigate red lines by Jan Sändig, Laura Krehbiel & Jana Hönke.
@jan-saendig.bsky.social @janahoenke.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
19.01.2026 14:09
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Thrilled to announce that our study on youth climate activism in Uganda is now published in Environmental Politics! It was a pleasure to co-author this with Laura Krehbiel and @janahoenke.bsky.social #ClimateActivism #FridaysForFuture #Framing #ShrinkingSpaces
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
26.01.2026 10:03
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Processes linked to the militarization of technology are increasingly blurring the line between civilian and military or security applications. This Paper examines the diversion and misuse risks generated by these developments and assesses potential policy responses.
Read more: bit.ly/3KyZ2LF
16.12.2025 13:47
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We are happy to announce that the competence network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict(Hierarchies) has been granted a two-year extension by the BMFTR, beginning 1 April 2026.
11.12.2025 16:44
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Reminder – tomorrow with livestream!
09.12.2025 07:56
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📣 Bayreuth Peace Talk with Lina Benabdallah (Associate Professor at Wake Forest University) & Livestream!
"Whither Solidarity? The Global South between Fragmentation and Shifting Architectures of Power"
👉 www.peaceandconflict.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2025...
01.12.2025 07:17
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Archive of Silence | home
The archive of silence, listing people silenced because they spoke up for Palestine in Germany, now with a handy website with dates, links and more. archiveofsilence.org
23.11.2025 18:59
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Come work with us! This is an exciting role, to work with five cluster locations, to transform the structures we work in, plus shaping and doing research as well.
26.11.2025 21:45
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New IAS Expert Search! Bringing together the diverse expertise of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence & the Institute of African Studies at @unibayreuth.bsky.social. A hub for finding collaborators and connecting scholars across disciplines and regions. experts.ias.uni-bayreuth.de
26.11.2025 15:37
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Bubble-Grafik, die die verschiedenen Bereiche unseres Wissenstransfers mit Fotos darstellt: Vortragsveranstaltungen, Publikationen, Digitale & klassische Medien, Ausstellung, Peace Summer Schools, Politikberatung via FoKS, Nachwuchsförderung
Vorstellung unserer Forschungsergebnisse & Transferstrategien zu Deutungskämpfen im Übergang – heute bei der BMFTR-Statustagung zur Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in Bonn
Vortrag von @janahoenke.bsky.social & @jan-saendig.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social
04.11.2025 12:39
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📢 Join us this Thursday, 20 November, for a hybrid roundtable at the University of Bayreuth! Details can be found in the poster.
@unibayreuth.bsky.social @benjaminkirby.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social @debele.bsky.social
#UrbanStudies #AfricanCities #Migration #AfricaMultiple #BayreuthEvents
18.11.2025 14:56
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„Diese Absage ist nicht nur ein Rückschlag für den akademischen Diskurs über palästinensische Wissenschaft im Kontext schwerster Völkerrechtsverletzungen, sie wirft zugleich fundamentale Fragen nach Wissenschaftsfreiheit, institutionellem Rassismus & universitärem Selbstverständnis auf.“
18.11.2025 16:53
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