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Het misverstand van onze tijd is dat de belangrijkste politieke kloof die tussen globalisten en nationalisten is. De Canadese historicus Quinn Slobodian ziet in plaats daarvan een krachtenbundeling van geradicaliseerde neoliberalen en uiterst rechts, ook buiten de VS. @koenhaegens.bsky.social

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Very good reporting here on this awful story: direct language, full context, multiple perspectives. Many other journalists should be taking notes.

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JOB: Lecturer in US Politics. Great job in a great department. You have to work with me but, besides that, there are lots of upsides. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Missed this published at the end of last year: My review of @elinevanommen.bsky.social award-winning, fabulous book, Nicaragua Must Survive! A must-read 🎉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The richest 1% of people now own nearly 45% of all wealth, while 44% of humanity are living below the World Bank poverty line of $6.85 per day, per Oxfam.

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Honoured and grateful thay Nicaragua Must Survive was awarded the 2025 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award. 🥳📚 Thank you to the prize committee and to LASA! lasaweb.org/en/lasa2025/...

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Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...

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Fue un placer escribí para JLAS esta reseña del lindo libro de @elinevanommen.bsky.social "Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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"New official figures showed the wealthiest 1 per cent of households held at least £3.1 million individually and collectively as many assets as the whole bottom half combined." @tom-clark.bsky.social on why Labour must tackle wealth inequality to uplift Britain's youth @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

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This is great, but right now I think remembering Panamá's agency in this process is crucial. That included an effective UNSC push, detailed here: www.jstor.org/stable/26376... And a decades-long govt and popular effort: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

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This seems like an excellent opportunity for early career historians of the Americas! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ757/t...

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Call for Papers for PhD/PGR international historians based in the North of England. Feel free to get in touch with any questions!

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For historians of Latin America based in the UK: you can now submit materials to the 2025 UK Latin American Historians Early Career Article Prize AND the 2025 UKLAH Dissertation Prize. Deadline is 31 March 2025. Please spread the word! More information here: uklah.wordpress.com/opportunitie...

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For historians of Latin America based in the UK: you can now submit materials to the 2025 UK Latin American Historians Early Career Article Prize AND the 2025 UKLAH Dissertation Prize. Deadline is 31 March 2025. Please spread the word! More information here: uklah.wordpress.com/opportunitie...

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The Americas published - open access🎉 - a review essay, entitled "Beyond US Hegemony: Reevaluating Central America’s Cold War Through Local Agency and Transnational Dynamics." Thank you Carmen Kordick for the thougthful review, including books by Schmidli, Wells, Foss, and myself. shorturl.at/FZFzA

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The Americas published - open access🎉 - a review essay, entitled "Beyond US Hegemony: Reevaluating Central America’s Cold War Through Local Agency and Transnational Dynamics." Thank you Carmen Kordick for the thougthful review, including books by Schmidli, Wells, Foss, and myself. shorturl.at/FZFzA

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Excited to share news that the Spanish edition of Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America is now out with LOM! Please share with anyone you know who might be interested @lseid.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social lom.cl/products/bea...

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Congratulations to my PhD student Leonardo Barbosa with this publication on China and Brazil during the Cold War in Nuevos Mundos (In Spanish) - check it out: journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/9...

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Very grateful to Vanja Celebicic for these beautiful images of the Dead Sea area. #deadsea #jordan #photography

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Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

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Finishing up the reading list for a module on transnational activism in the 20th century. Any recommendations? Looking for texts on environmental activism, feminism, racial justice, human rights, humanitarianism et cetera

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Dear NDH'ers, we start the new year with a new social platform. We hope many of you will join us here as before. Spread the word! And we hope to see you in Aix for NDH6! ❤️ @lukasschemper.bsky.social @elineceulemans.bsky.social @elinevanommen.bsky.social @giusirusso.bsky.social @luikki.bsky.social

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Finishing up the reading list for a module on transnational activism in the 20th century. Any recommendations? Looking for texts on environmental activism, feminism, racial justice, human rights, humanitarianism et cetera

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0a... The Dead Sea is shrinking. Its level drops by about a meter every year. Here's a short clip on why floodwater that reaches the lake after heavy rains is so important. @yalebooks.bsky.social #DeadSea #Jordan #Israel #Lakes

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If you protest against the destruction of our planet, you are more likely to be arrested in Britain than anywhere else in the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Dear colleagues, this is going on and the deadline is approaching. The symposium is titled The Montreal Moment: Ozone Depletion and the Rise of International #EnvironmentalGovernance. Please share widely. #Diplomacy #EnvironmentalPolitics www.roosevelt.nl/en/nieuws/ca...

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I absolutely loved @juliairwin.bsky.social's recent book Catastrophic Diplomacy, and enjoyed contributing to this fantastic roundtable review of it for @h-diplo.bsky.social: networks.h-net.org/group/discus... Check it out if you're interested in disaster relief, foreign aid, and US foreign policy!

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In the collection “How to Make Peace with History While Making History with Peace,” authors address questions of war and peace from their own historiographical perspectives and consider the potential peace history has to offer the historical discipline. 🗃️

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“Assad bears the primary guilt, but the Dutch government is jointly responsible for his death,” said Khader, who believed the Dutch asylum system had failed his friend. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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royalhistsoc.org/society-now-... Great opportunity here for ECR historians.

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To celebrate the recent FT 'best books of 2024' news and because tariffs & trade wars are now back in a big way, I'm giving away a free copy of my new book Pax Economica press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... One winner will be chosen at random. To be considered, just 'repost' and 'like' this post!

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Ya está a la venta en diferentes sitios web el libro "Saberes globales y expertos locales en América Latina en el siglo XX", editado por José Ignacio Allevi y Stefan Rinke. Acá su humilde servidor tiene un breve capítulo basado en una ponencia.

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Usual caveats apply go.bsky.app/Gaka15u

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Historians of Catholic Mexico is very happy to announce the release of a forum of articles in the forthcoming issue of Diplomatic History (@SHAFRhistorians) - Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2025 - "Connecting Histories of US-Mexican Relations through Catholic Perspectives." 1/

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My department are hosting The Britain and the World conference, 25-27 June 2025. It ‘is concerned with interactions between Britain&the wider world, past&present,&will highlight the importance of transnational perspectives.’ Come to Liverpool #skyhistorians! britainandtheworld.org/2025 #BATW2025

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‘We need a cultural revolution’: femicide victim’s family seek change in Italy www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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The Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" here in Regensburg has announced a one-year post-doctoral position (deadline: January 12, 2025, position runs from April 2025-March 2026). Feel free to write to me with questions: europeamerica.de/news-and-eve...

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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. Tell Everyone www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

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Rethinking Global History edited by Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel is out now - in open access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

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