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If you're in Oxford on 3 April, and would like to attend this event at the festival, then I have a couple of free tickets. Message me. oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-eve…

I'll be doing this event with the Orthodox Christian Studies Centre Fordham Alumni this Friday at 1200 EST. Registration is free. We'll be talking the relationship between IR and theology, and Qs around Russia's war in 🇺🇦. securelb.imodules.com/s/1362/18/inte…

Time to stop indulging kleptocrats: The UK and EU must step up as America steps back. national.thelead.uk/p/time-to-stop…

On the synthesis of secular & Orthodox fascism with lots of apocalyptic: "Where the dark pagan dualism, mixed with blood and the cult of death, triumphs, there is no place for Christ, in Whom all are alive and there are no national divisions (Col. 3:11)." novayagazeta.ru/articles/2025/…

Another short essay riffing on Security After Christendom. open.substack.com/pub/johnheathe…

Freedom of Speech and “Double Listening” open.substack.com/pub/johnheathe…

A short essay on what the trade war tells us about America's political economy under Trump. johnheathershaw.substack.com/p/trumps-trade…

I just wrote on the trending question of recent months. Short answer: no, its not. open.substack.com/pub/johnheathe…

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. Oxford Academic Tena Prelec Tom Mayne Exeter Politics unctad.org/meeting/specia…

johnheathershaw.substack.com/p/kleptocracy-…

I was not surprised but I was angry about Starmer's "island of strangers" speech. It came not 24 hours after we hosted one of his MPs are our cafe project for refugees and new immigrants. So, I had to write about it... open.substack.com/pub/johnheathe…

☹️How's press freedom going in Kyrgyzstan Edil Baisalov?

I wrote for my theological blog about the delusions of grandeur in the UK's strategic defence review. Wisdom of David Blagden quoted. johnheathershaw.substack.com/p/ploughshares…

Solar powered oil production in the ethnically-cleansed (sorry "liberated" [according to BP]) territories of Karabakh. Nice Orwellian PR. Western oil majors parroting the talking points of Eurasian dictators. It's all to be expected. azerbaycan24.com/en/bp-the-elec…

🎉Viviana García Pinzón's "Trajectories of Governance: Tracing the Entanglements of Order and Violence in Peripheral Cities of Latin America" published in our Shahar Hameiri @brisunipress series has won an award from the Latin American Studies Association. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trajectories-o…

Yes. It's such an unconvincing argument. It would be nice if Fiona Hill, who knows better, could have persuaded the SDR/HMG that 🇷🇺 invasion of UK is not on horizon. We have been in a hybrid war for a long time. It doesn't require 5%. Defend 🇵🇱🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪 but don't cry wolf.

Goodbye to James Nixey, a great director of CH Russia Eurasia Chatham House who, in my experience, has never entertained fools and despots. "When we met Putin [after Beslan, 2004], he got the numbers wrong and blamed the attack on the West." chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

Liberal-International-Order question of the day.. Does the new US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act guidance which prioritises national economic interests violate article 5 of the OCED anti-bribery convention? Or have states always done this and hence the LIO was and is a simulacrum?

I read the first line and thought Bob was talking about the President of the United States - a man who is making his country weak while declaring to do the opposite. In that case, I couldn't agree more.