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lucianashworth.bsky.social
Purveyor of fine international relations. The history of international thought a speciality. Just don't ask where I'm from (it's complicated). professor @ MUNL
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Creating their own reality www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

JOB Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present, University of Cambridge (this is a permanent/tenured position, open to those with a specialism in any period since 1700) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50242/

"...any pretence of a special relationship between Canada and the United States is dead." Asa McKercher on Canada and Trump 2.0

US foreign policy, AD 2025... "Trump insists ‘everybody loves’ his plan for US to ‘take over’ Gaza amid global condemnation" - Guardian online headline.

In the face of increased laws to criminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people, and increased incidents of hate speech and violence, I and my colleagues stand against these laws and this hate.

So much for United States leadership (not to mention 'the art of the deal').

Pretty much...

I remember the claims, at the beginnings of NAFTA, that North America now had a free trade regime that surpassed the EU. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

Trumponomics

Climate change and food supply. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...

‘Horrendous’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Well deserved...

I’m giving a talk Wednesday, Feb. 5 @ 2pm in IIC-2014 at MUNL

Student numbers tend to go up as the crisis deepens...

@quinnslobodian.com on the new oligarchy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Now, on that 'costs of net zero' discussion... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@berytia.bsky.social writing for Aeon: "Our culture is cosmopolitan because we are a cosmopolitan species... What has allowed us to thrive, physically and culturally, is not our rootedness but our mobility. Without it, we would already be extinct." aeon.co/essays/there...

@sashaetkind.bsky.social on oil and catastrophic learning. www.theideasletter.org/essay/oil-as...

The limits of the edgelord www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Waiting for Amazon to make this a thing www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Sadly, what we had been expecting. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

... and after that, playing Fallout 4 just didn't feel like escapism anymore... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Starting the process of cutting the ties with Twitter. I'll be on here more regularly from now on as we rebuild our online communities.

Report on a piece in Science www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In case you missed it: Volume 49(5) is hot off the digital press. This Special Issue was edited by @therealisthom.bsky.social & Cian O'Driscoll with nine articles reflecting on existentialism in global politics. Have a read! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Vol 49(5) is out! This Special Issue was edited by @therealisthom.bsky.social & Cian O'Driscoll with nine articles reflecting on existentialism in global politics. Read Here: cambridge.org/core/journal...

My contribution to the RIS SI on Existentialism and IR, published in the current December issue. An experiment in autobiography and IR. Open access, with a video abstract: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...