Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT)

Congratulations to our CAIT director, @felixroesch.bsky.social, who has received the 2026 Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations. 🏆

Find more details below 👇 and the paper is available (open access) here:

academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

More information about the Centre for Advanced International Theory can be found here:

www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

If you have any questions, feel free to DM @felixroesch.bsky.social .

🚨 2026 Sussex International Theory Prize 🚨

📚 All monographs that advance the discipline of International Relations theoretically (broadly conceived) or engage with international political thought and have been published in 2025 are eligible.

📌 Deadline: 4th May 2026.

Please circulate widely!

Discourses in Global Political Theory This book traces narratives of belonging around the globe from a political theory perspective. It highlights the context of cultural exchange

🚨 Our edited volume "Discourses in Global Political Theory. Reimagining #Peace in the 21st Century Through Narratives of Belonging" has been published with Palgrave Macmillan @springer.springernature.com

With the code 💷 PALAUT you get 20% off:

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

For the nomination statement, please see below and the book can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

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Rita Abrahamsen @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social, Jean-François Drolet @jeanfrancoisdrolet.bsky.social, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic @srdj.bsky.social, Karin Narita, and Alexandra Gheciu received an honourable mention for "World of the Right. Radical Conservatism and Global Order"

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For the nomination statement, please see below and the book can be found here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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We are pleased to announce the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize winner and honourable mention.

The panel selected Patrick Quinton-Brown @pquintonbrown.bsky.social "Intervention before Interventionism. A Global Genealogy" for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize

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Reminder about the BISA - ISA workshop in Newcastle and our workshop on temporalities, improvisation and uncertainty.

Might be particularly interesting to scholars working on practice theory, emotions, and ontological security.

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📯 Our director @felixroesch.bsky.social has a new publication in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs @cambridgecria.bsky.social on populism and classical realism.

To access the paper, please follow the link below 👇

📢 New publication by CAIT director @felixroesch.bsky.social in International Political Sociology on "Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan"

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Dynastic International Relations: understanding race and the crisis of liberal order through Ibn Khaldun - Faiz Sheikh, Owen David Thomas, 2025 This paper offers insights into the Crisis of Liberal International Order by combining Ibn Khaldun’s theory of change with scholarship on liberalism and race. W...

📢 New publication by CAIT member Faiz Sheikh and @drowendthomas.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social on "Dynastic International Relations: understanding race and the crisis of liberal order through Ibn Khaldun"

For the open access copy follow this link:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Contender States and Modern Chinese International Thought This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature

Great talk by Ferran Perez Mena today on Chinese International Thought and Global IR.

Find more information about his book here:

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Join us Monday (19th May, 2-4pm, Arts C333) for the last CAIT talk this semester.

Ferran Perez Mena talks about Contender States and Modern Chinese International Thought: From the Republican era until the ‘Chinese School of International Relations​.

Get in touch, if you want to join online.

Rebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Ethnic armed organisations or EAOs play a pivotal role in the revolutionary war against Myanmar’s junta. These ethno-national rebel movements have not only captured large swathes of territory, but ...

Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) are key actors in Myanmar's revolutionary war. But their positioning towards the crisis has been far from clear. How do we make sense of their strategies?

I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047...

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📣 Join us this Friday (9th May), when we welcome Alistair Markland to talk about "Whose Age of Anxiety? Provincialising Ontological Insecurity".

If you are in Brighton, the talk will take place in Arts C333 from 1pm - 3pm. Get in touch if you want to join online.

🚨 Last call for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Deadline for submissions is next Friday (2nd May 2025). Further details below 👇

Great “Sussex International Theory Book Prize” lecture by Ajay Parasram on his book “Pluriversal sovereignty and the State”

And a reminder that we still accept applications for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Book Prize. More information can be found here:

www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Manchester University Press - Pluriversal sovereignty and the state Pluriversal sovereignty and the state - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Pluriversal sovereignty and the state by Ajay Parasram

More about his book can be found here:

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526148407/

On Wednesday (9th April), we host our Sussex International Theory Book Prize Lecture. Ajay Parasram will talk about his book "Pluriversal sovereignty and the state", the 2024 winner.

If you are in Brighton, join us in Fulton A from 4pm - 6pm. If you want to join online, please get in touch.

@support.bsky.team what would one need to do to get any reply from you guys whatsoever?

Ethnos of the Earth Cambridge Core - Global History - Ethnos of the Earth

Great talk yesterday by Jaakko Heiskanen about his new book "Ethnos of the Earth". Thank you very much for coming! Find more details about it here:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

This Thursday (3 April), CAIT welcomes Jaakko Heiskanen (QMUL) to talk about his book "Ethnos of the Earth. International Order and the Emergence of Ethnicity", currently shortlisted for the @mybisa.bsky.social L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Award. Join us in C333 (2-4pm) if you are in Brighton.

🚨 A reminder that we still welcome submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize until 2nd May. Further details below. #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

📣 Great to see Beate Jahn's and Sebastian Schindler's Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations published with 179 (!) entries on all things #IR. 🚨 @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Find my chapter on #realism here:

www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder While the idea of a cosmopolitan order embracing all humankind is ancient, after the Cold War it was widely believed to be an emerging future. As global interdependence and interaction through new tec...

Next Tuesday (18th March, 1pm-3Pm), CAIT welcomes Aaron McKeil @lseideas.bsky.social to talk about his recent book "Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder".

If you want to join remotely, get in touch.

press.umich.edu/Books/C/Cosm...

As @bsky.app thinks a book prize call is Spam....

📢 We invite submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Details below. Please share widely! 🚨 #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

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📢 We invite submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Details below. Please share widely! 🚨 #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

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