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ndmlees.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Liverpool. Foreign policy, global inequality, democracy and conflict. https://www.nicholasdmlees.net/
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Looking forward to @mybisa.bsky.social - where I'll be discussing 'Southern Strategies: Foreign Policy Perspectives of Global South States' with a great group of panelists. My paper offers a new way of looking at foreign policy differences between Global South states, using cluster analysis.

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My forthcoming book with Bristol University Press, The International Relations of the North-South Divide, now available to pre-order from Blackwells. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

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Forthcoming, my first book 'The International Relations of the North-South Divide' with Bristol University Press. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-internat...

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I have a lot of new followers, so I thought I’d introduce myself. I’m Nicholas Lees, Senior Lecturer (Associate Prof) of International Politics at Liverpool University. I mainly research role of material inequalities in shaping diplomatic relations between states. Recent research below.

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This is terrible news and a great loss for conflict studies. Valeriano made important contributions to research on international rivalries, territorial conflict and cyberwarfare. He also published a peer-reviewed forecast of the Russian war with Ukraine.

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Good to see this in print. New perspectives on some classic questions in international relations.

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There's a reason why even authoritarian powers like the USSR never pulled stunts like this even with vassals. Absolute amateurism.

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Very good, as usual. 'I don’t write about international power politics because normally I just don’t know enough about the countries and actors involved, even though it often seems as if this is also true of many of those who do talk about such things.' Very true.

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“We should no more support secular versions of blasphemy laws than the old religious variety.” My @observeruk.bsky.social column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

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It looks pretty certain that Global North-Global South relations will continue to be rocky for the next 4 years.

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Reminds me of when Jervis posed a puzzle for power political theories of IR: 'how can we explain the fact that the United States did not conquer Canada sometime in the past hundred years?'

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Alongside the dire implications for US democracy, the dismantling of USAID is hugely consequential for America's relationship with states of the Global South.

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As highlighted by this discussion between philosophers, Trump's presidency is a natural experiment testing different versions of the democratic peace thesis. The consequences might be unhappy, but we might learn quite a lot.

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Professionally, the best thing about 2024 has been the growing sense that I'm surrounded by a group of really great, supportive colleagues @livunipol.bsky.social Come study with us! We are great.

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What can conflict studies learn from a diversionary war that never happened because the leadership that needed the diversion was too incompetent?

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The rapid fall of the Assad regime is a great example of an information cascade. Repressive regimes lead to a lot of preference falsification, creating information problems for the authoritarian leader and for citizens.

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History & Politics at Edge Hill University is advertising an open call PhD scholarship - fees and stipend. This is a great programme which ensures that candidates exit with a solid teaching qualification as well as a PhD: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKY256/g...

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Kyung-Pil Kim in @jjps.bsky.social 'A series of revelations related to armed forces over the past few years in South Korea highlighted a problem in Korean democracy: the use of the military in domestic politics for the political interests of the ruling power.' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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