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📢New publication! 📢I’m happy to say that my collaboration with Ching-Chang Chen 陳慶昌 has again been productive. "Reimaging IR's biomedical foundations" is now out in CRIA (OA) as part of a forthcoming SI on the ‘The medicalisation of/in global politics’🎉 doi.org/10.1080/095575…

For my international colleagues who are wondering what the heck is going in in the Netherlands: Dutch Academia is facing the largest budget cuts since the 1980s. Programs will disappear, work load will go up, students will be penalised. It's grim 1/x

Hitler’s Enablers. Great article on the resonances between the rise of Hitler and politics today. Includes a chilling quote from Goebbels: “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.” nybooks.com/articles/2024/… via The New York Review of Books

Always great to hear intelligence schooling the British Client Media.

Career advancement policies “used for wage theft”: Australian academics required to “act up” for years before being paid for it, analysis finds. John Ross reports bit.ly/48xP44D

🧵 Tips on Teaching the British Empire 1/8 Talking to teachers lately, it seems a condensed guide to the main foundations of the C19 British Empire might be helpful. Here's how I introduce if to first year undergrads in three 50m sessions.

As delegates digest the impact of USA #Election2024 on global diplomacy, spirited caucusing is underway at the UoL Social Political University of Lincoln, UK Lincoln Model United Nations

On the nostalgia of the colonised and the ambiguous contours of post/de-colonisation in the Taiwan-Japan relationship. Thought provoking stuff. mekongreview.com/the-nostalgia-…

(Saying it again) Watch this film. An extended musical riff around the story of the murder of Lumumba: on decolozination, neocolonialism, the UN, Third Worldism, CIA, jazz and so much more. Incredibly inventive formally and so powerful. Was left stunned at the end of it!

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One for Parliamentary Studies, Andrew Defty ?

New "AI" note for this semester's syllabus.

This is the first of several threads I will be posting over the next few weeks on Jeff Fynn-Paul’s book NOT STOLEN.

Family history is colonial history for the colonized and the colonizer. From my new chapter “Who gave you permission?” Scholars and their Kin, U Chicago Press

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Excited to be conducting an engaging Model UN session at the UoL Social Political alongside Andrew Defty and Simon Obendorf! Looking forward to insightful debates and dynamic discussions. #ModelUN #UniversityofLincoln #GlobalDiplomacy

It’s always a highlight of my year to chair the University of Lincoln, UK Model United Nations General Assembly - so many great speeches today and wonderful to see our students using the skills and knowledge they’ve picked up over a semester’s hard work. Thanks to Lincolnshire County Council as always.

Rosalie Chapman's call to rejoin the EU is a must watch - one of the best speeches by a young person 👏 "Years ago, the people of this country made a choice" "A choice that has left us isolated, diminished and weaker than before" "To those who voted leave, I say this. You were

It's obvious how much Boxphish constitutes a corporate ass-covering exercise with zero interest in the opinions of its "users" (compelled participants) when this is the response you get when trying to leave feedback on a particularly maddening and context-unaware "course":