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In @eui-eu.bsky.social this week presenting a new paper draft. Join if you can! I’d love your feedback.Working on this project has provided solace amidst global chaos. Thanks to the Stephanie Hofmann 🙏🏻 for the invite. @campolis.bsky.social @christscollegecam.bsky.social www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

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Cambridge is looking for an Assistant Prof in the History of International Political Thought 👇 #HistIR www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU018/a...

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Join us at #EISAPEC2025 in Bologna! @profbode.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your papers and panels on all things international practices at this year's @europeanisa.bsky.social conference! 🔎 More info and abstract of the Standing Section "International Practices" ➡️ eisa-net.org/pec-2025/

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⚡️New article on how to study narratives in IR ⚡️This article by @ksailormoon.bsky.social, Stefan Groth and myself might be helpful in showing how narrative analysis can be applied to questions within IR. Interesting for all practice, visuality and discourse scholars!! academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...

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I'm looking for contributions to a panel on histories & futures of international human rights for EISA 2025. We could explore questions of impunity, alternative histories of international human rights, creative strategies around the language of international human rights, transversal alliances

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Hello academic @bsky.app! I’m a PhD researcher at @eui-sps.bsky.social. I read and write on international relations, order(ing), security, intervention, peacekeeping and protection. Also following discussions on research ethics and qualitative methods.

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It's here! 🥳 Very excited to finally hold "Global Governance on the Ground" in my hands. Through an in-depth look at the case of migration and asylum, the book argues that IOs not only govern global challenges through rules, standards, expertise, and numbers but also through practice in the field.

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Already excited to attend #ESIL2025 in Berlin - don't forget to send in your abstract this month!

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In a month, I'll speak at the @eui-schuman.bsky.social about our work-in-progress with Sarah von Billerbeck on implicit racial biases among officials in IOs - many thanks to @stephofmann.bsky.social for the kind invitation! If you're in or around Florence, please feel free to join!

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YAY - It's out! - Interested in how less represented actors ( #youth & #children) try to engage with (open?) #IOs? What role #socialmedia can play here? And how ideas of "aesthetic politics" ( #Rancière) can be used to better understand Global Governance? 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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✨ @sarabkn.bsky.social and I have a new article out: "A Voice or an Echo? Women in the UN Human Rights Expert Bodies"✨ We study the impact of biographies on the behavior of experts in IOs. Most interesting finding: female members are more active. Open Access: brill.com/view/journal...

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Submission time! Incredibly after 2 ys of hard & focused collaboration w/ an absolutely outstanding group of Section Editors “The Oxford Handbook on Norms in International Relations” was submitted w/ 57 chapters today. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 @sassangholiagha.bsky.social @philorchard.bsky.social @cenunihh.bsky.social

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Call for Papers! Panel: Innovations in Research on International Organizations: Representation, Discrimination and Power Dynamics Join @andrealiese.bsky.social and me at the upcoming @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference 2025. www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/pr...

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A Festschrift is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It often takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the honoree's colleagues, former pupils, and friends 🙏 @halvardl.bsky.social, Alizera Lahijani and Einar Wigen

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Happy to share my first publication based on some reflections from my PhD research. In this forum contribution for International Politics, I hold that #far-right parties hold various visions and are spoilers, agnostics, or architects of #EuropeanSecurity. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Excited to share my new paper “Governing on par with states” published #openaccess in RIS @risjnl.bsky.social. I examine how private actors have shifted from entities to be regulated to being viewed as necessary part of solutions to global problems. 1/5 ⬇️ doi.org/10.1017/S026...

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Come and work with me at @prif.org! We are looking for a #Postdoc working on #peace and #security in the #Anthropocene (3 year contract, starting immediately, based in #Frankfurt) www.prif.org/en/career/va...

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🎉🔜My book "Global Governance on the Ground" is coming out in just two weeks! I will do a proper thread soon. For now, go have a look: global.oup.com/academic/pro... (and pre-order for your library 🤓)

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🇳🇴 Hei og salut 🇫🇷 Please read, share, and consider the CfP for a workshop on Pro Bono next June in Paris, organized together with the fantastic Lola Avril ✨ CfP (deadline 22 Nov): www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/... Hosted in collaboration with CUNP and co-funded by an ERC StG 🇪🇺

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''Beyond authority: governing migration and asylum through practice on the ground" by Nele Kortendiek is out now in EJIR! You can find the full article here: t1p.de/98e72

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10 days left to apply to our workshop on "The International Politics of the Far Right" @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in Prague, May 2025. The workshop is endorsed by @ecprsgir.bsky.social Let's discuss all things far-right and international politics! ddl: 21 November info: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

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Thrilled to have reviewed 2 remarkable new contributions to the study of norm contestation for @IAJournal_CH Contesting the world and International norm disputes academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...

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🚨New Article🚨 From special forum Liberal Order and Endogenous Sources of Contestation-"Contestation from Within: Norm Dynamics and the Crisis of the Liberal International Order" by Max Lesch, Lisbeth Zimmermann, & Nicole Deitelhoff Read OPEN ACCESS; academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

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When does norm contestation challenge international orders as a whole? In this new @gsqjournal.bsky.social article with Lisbeth Zimmermann & @ndeitelhoff.bsky.social, we explore how built-in hierarchies of liberal orders drive the diffusion & radicalization of contestation. doi.org/10.1093/isag...

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Send your abstract proposals to @lvapolsci.bsky.social and me for our CEEISA-ISA 2024 Panel "Conflict, Contestation and Crises: International Organizations in Turbulent Times" by 10. Dec! Hope to see you in Rijeka!

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France has issued an arrest warrant for Syria’s Assad in connection with his use of chemical weapons. What are the consequences for international law? @krisburck.bsky.social examines the case on the #PRIFblog ⬇️ blog.prif.org/2023/11/29/t...

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I wrote a piece for TIME Magazine on US-China deep-sea cable competition and the historical role of the ITU: time.com/6338911/us-c...

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📢CALL FOR PAPERS: Interdisciplinary Berlin Workshop ‘Comparative International Legal Policy: National Political Approaches towards International Legal Order’, 5-6 June 2024, jointly convened by @mpil.de & Humboldt University of Berlin. Submission details via website: www.mpil.de/en/pub/resea...

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Mein erster Post hier, für mich ein wichtiger. Irene Weipert-Fenner und ich haben die letzten Tage lange an diesem Text gefeilt. blog.prif.org/2023/11/21/i... Es ist eine Analyse eines deutschen Kriegsdiskurses, der in normativer, analytischer und strategischer Hinsicht problematisch ist.

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My ISR article on international fact-finding missions is now open access 🥳 Take a look if you’re interested in knowledge production, expertise, trustworthiness & authority of international organizations – and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Human Rights in Chile in the 1970s. doi.org/10.1093/isr/...

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My ISR article on international fact-finding missions is now open access 🥳 Take a look if you’re interested in knowledge production, expertise, trustworthiness & authority of international organizations – and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Human Rights in Chile in the 1970s. doi.org/10.1093/isr/...

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Our edited volume with Nico Krisch is now available with #openaccess thanks to generous support from the European Research Council. Currently, open access is limited to certain regions. Here are instructions to access the entire book, no matter where you are. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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In my contribution, I introduce confined knowledge flows as a particular form shaping governance orders. I work out how knowledge flows and is confined in transitional justice, through workshops & trainings, but also infrastructure & the built environment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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We are hiring: Our research department “International Institutions” is looking for a Postdoc (100%) & a Doctoral Researcher (65%). 📅 Deadline Nov 22 Our research group “Terrorism” is hiring a student assistant. 📅 Deadline Nov 24 See all vacancies ⬇️ www.prif.org/en/career/va...

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My book, Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture, is finally published with #openaccess with generous support from the European Research Council. You can access the book here: 🔗 tinyurl.com/4mx237uw #AcademicSky #Polisky #lawsky #HiSciSky

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This semester, Lora Viola is organising a lecture series on Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Institutions, which I’m really looking forward to! Wednesdays 4-6pm, John F. Kennedy Instituts, FU Berlin 👇🏼

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✨ I have a new article out in the Leiden Journal of International Law ✨ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Yesterday, we launched our book Goethe University! A wonderful opportunity to wrap up this project and a great discussion with Lisbeth Zimmermann, @ndeitelhoff.bsky.social @antonpeez.bsky.social moderated by @tobiaswille.bsky.social. The book is now available online: academic.oup.com/book/46746

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The “Strategic Use of Law in Global Politics” is now out in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. In it, I overview the how, when, and why of international law as a strategic tool and what this means for IL. poliski intlaw doi.org/10.1093/acre...

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Excited to share my first piece as a @goodauth.bsky.social contributor on the International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin, re: war crimes in #Ukraine. He may never stand trial but that’s not all that matters. Read here: goodauthority.org/news/what-th... #polisky

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🚨New Article🚨 From our special issue The African Union, Pan-Africanism, and the Liberal World (Dis)Order: 'Forging an African Union Identity: The Power of Experience' by Antonia Witt Read OPEN ACCESS: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

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ICYMI, I have a new article in BJPS: "Social Pressure in the International Human Rights Regime"! Building on two ISQ articles, Zvobgo et al. (2020) and Eldredge & Shannon (2022), we explain why states lift treaty reservations and improve their legal commitments. doi.org/10.1017/S000... #polisky

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Hi Bluesky ✨ I have a new article out #OpenAccess: "The power of interpersonal relationships: A socio-legal approach to international institutions and #HumanRights advocacy" ✨ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Today's the day! @goodauth.bsky.social is here! Good Authority is the successor to The Monkey Cage, a site about politics + political science founded in 2007 + published at The Washington Post from 2013-22. The spirit of TMC will carry on here. Excited to be on the team! goodauthority.org #polisky

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