Someone please inform ISA

Looking forward to this.

My review of historian Mattias Fibiger's new book "Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World" Pacific Affairs pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/s…

The new Al Jazeera English documentary series by my friend and colleague Antony Loewenstein documents how Israel has used Palestinians and Palestine as a laboratory for showcasing and testing new weapons and surveillance technology. Watch Episode 1 below 🔽 youtu.be/1GvkFwpzDhI?si…

i’m withdrawing my labor from ISA until further notice. this organization doesn’t speak to my values or ethics

Thread: At yesterday's governing council meeting for ISA, a motion was put forward calling for end to genocide, adoption of BDS, and commitment to aid in reconstruction of Gaza. The president blindsided us by declaring the motion out of order, denying any discussion or vote

The editors Matthew Phillips & Naoko Shimazu (both Twitterless) have asked me to share news of this new book: A visual history of diplomacy in Cold War Asia. I'm very pleased to have contributed a chapter. ISA DiplomacySection Historical International Relations Section Cambridge University Press

Israel’s leading human rights organization

Today in The Washington Post we published a portion of the known names of 18,500+ Gazan children killed in the war, in Arabic and English. We could only fit 18% of the names on these 2 pages – it would have taken 5 more pages to list them all:

We're very proud at the ANU of Liz Allen's courage, collegiality and intelligence. ANU academic accuses Julie Bishop of bullying and threats during Senate inquiry into university governance msn.com/en-au/news/aus…

Talk by Quah Say Jye next week for the ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series. It's online. This pic of Lee Kuan Yew and Samuel Huntington from 1970 is a nice teaser of Quah's argument and his wider project on global intellectual history. events.humanitix.com/the-singapore-…

I was a war correspondent in Vietnam. Some 63 journalists were killed there in 10 years. But never did we fear we were deliberately targeted by the VC or the NVA. The UN says the Israelis have killed >240 journalists in Gaza in less than two years. Deliberately and criminally.

So glad this is out, please have a look at our table of contents and even better read the pieces, for seeing how caste shapes Indian diplomacy and a thorough critique of much of the scholarship around the latter. Shout out to the amazing Deepak Nair दीपक for shepherding the effort.

Do read our article on diplomacy/IR’s widespread, uncritical usage of the highly derogatory caste slur ‘pariah’ - we unpack how caste hierarchies have long permeated these disciplines and shaped foundational analytical categories such as the ‘pariah state’.

A Special Issue that will hopefully shape conversations in IR, political sociology, and diplomacy studies for years to come.

In a ballroom in midtown, it’s the ministerial of The Hague Group, 34 countries that are calling for the toughest measures against Israel to stop the war.

Kissinger has one. Obama has one. The European Union has one. What more proof do you need that this prize isn’t for peace, but for managing empire gracefully?

My article with Austin Carson, “Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb,” is now available at American Political Science Review [Thread]. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Surreal as it feels, my book Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy is out with Hurst Publishers. It has been shaped by the support of an incredible community of scholars. Grateful for the generous endorsements from Vineet Thakur Rahul Rao Kate Sullivan de Estrada Order now! shorturl.at/55NjW