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Professor of International Relations, National University of Singapore. International Relations | History of International Thought | Political Theology
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‘Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government.’ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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A very good book indeed

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The world is on fire, ISA paper is not done, poor FPL week in the making, so I’m trying cats now. Meet Frankie

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The unreliable ally

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'But if America, which controls approximately 25 percent of the global economy, pursues a punishing trade war with Canada and its other allies, all of us will have no choice but to seek other friends, wherever we can find them.' www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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How very nice it is to read this article and to see it quotes the important research of my colleague @chongjaian.bsky.social China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan  www.economist.com/internationa... from The Economist

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A superb account of naturalism and the myths that have grown up around it, by Peter Harrison aeon.co/essays/inves...

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The end of the American republic, in current form, and the birth of a new one? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

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Anne Phillips on how she's come to see the history of concepts like equality to be much more important to doing political philosophy link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

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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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This is no mere episode or dispute; the damage will be long lasting

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A most welcome change from the world at the moment

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As Donald Trump takes aim at global norms and institutions, the question of what parts of the post-Cold War order can be saved – and for whom – requires urgent attention.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine has fundamentally shifted and intensified the Russo-Iranian relationship, the core of which is a mutually binding interest in challenging and eventually overturning the US-led world order. 🧵 (1/5) isw.pub/RussiaIranCo...

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Is Trump a realist? Jonathan Kirshner says 'no' www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Signal is the way forward

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The idea that the United States upholds global stability by leading a “rules-based” order tends to generate more ill will than goodwill in many parts of the world … it has come to symbolize American hypocrisy and double standards. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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The latest from @fplgeneral.bsky.social

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The hawker centre is one of those great ideas that makes life better Singapore’s government is determined to keep hawker centres alive www.economist.com/asia/2024/12... from The Economist

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Donald Trump, American Imperialist open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

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The JEWEL ceiling last night at Changi Airport, Singapore

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Latest instalment of perhaps the best FPL pod going, featuring @fplgeneral.bsky.social

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👀 A very special episode of @theairshowpodcast.com drops at 6am ET/3am PT on Tuesday. You’re gonna want to set an alarm for this one. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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I have tried to outline a "capital theory of race" here. The paper's historical argument in a nutshell: "even though the panic over the “yellow peril” was coded in the language of insurmountable difference, that is, race, the social logic of that threat was one of equivalence, that is, capital."

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New The Air Show is out

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With all the institutional vandalism and normative transgression in the world today, and now this. Barbarians are well and truly at the gates…

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The new issue of the journal features the second installment of Sophie Smith’s two-part article, “Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century: Activists, Academics, and the Future"—open access for the next few weeks. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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A few thoughts on the first of what will no doubt be dozens of cycles of Trump attempts at economic coercion. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-first-...

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Wither a professional military? www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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