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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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New piece "Russia’s war against Ukraine is no longer a foreign policy question for Europeans. It has become a domestic political battleground. This security–collaboration divide structures public opinion, reshapes party competition, and increasingly decides elections. In our research...

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Europe’s New Political Divide isn't Left-Right, it's About Russia - Policy Magazine

Across Europe, a new divide is hardening over how to respond to Russia’s aggression. The divide cuts across the familiar lines of left and right, and even

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

What are walls for? To keep people out, or in? The Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Congratulations to Lorenz Lüthi! share.google/1wLOhhtmI3Ni...

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Cambridge Core - Russian and East European History - The Iron Curtain

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Cambridge Core - Russian and East European History - The Iron Curtain

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20... Pls share & circulate to junior political theorists & scientists. CFP Political Theory In/And/As Political Science (PTPS) panels at the annual meeting of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society (PPE). Deadline April 10. #poliski #poltheory

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Inés Valdez’s response concludes this CRISPP book symposium, focusing on the role of class in her theoretical analysis; competing conceptualizations of popular sovereignty; and the implications of her analysis for contemporary politics, regressive and progressive.

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Will Roberts @marxinhell.bsky.social views Valdez’s book as ‘a welcome respite from nostalgia for democracy lost,’ but suggests that the new politics and language we need must conceptualize freedom beyond popular sovereignty and collective self-determination: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Out of time: does popular sovereignty contain emancipatory remainders?

Critical dissections of neoliberalism’s de-democratizing effects are ubiquitous today, both in the academy and in para-academic popular venues. Inès Valdez’s Democracy and Empire (2023) is a bracin...

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Ryoa Chung @ryoa.bsky.social draws attention to the strength of Valdez’s analysis in integrating Marxist analysis of class struggle with the history and configuration of modern political bodies formed by the logics of ‘social, racialized and gendered exclusion’: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The anatomy of social dismemberment

Ines Valdez’s theses in Democracy and Empire on the material bases of popular sovereignty and the internal mechanisms of imperialism represent hermeneutical breakthroughs for understanding the hist...

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Robin Celikates's contribution to the Valdez symposium explores radical visions of popular sovereignty that ‘do not fit the dominant imperial register and subvert it from its margins and from below': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Migration beyond self-determination? On Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire

In what follows, I formulate three interrelated challenges in response to the powerful critique of imperial popular sovereignty and the vision of anti-imperial popular sovereignty that Inés Valdez ...

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Thanks to Yves Winter @why-winter.bsky.social for organizing the publication of this symposium. His commentary focuses on implications of Valdez's insistence that an adequate account of the relationship between freedom and empire requires a theory of capitalism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Class and racial capitalism: lessons from Valdez’ Democracy and Empire

Recent work in political theory has shown that republican and democratic freedom has often depended on settler colonialism, empire, and racial domination, raising the question whether collective se...

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Delighted to have this published: Symposium on Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism. The contributions are based on a Lin Centre roundtable held at McGill University in spring of 2024. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What’s left of democracy: introduction to the symposium on Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire

This is the introduction to the symposium on Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism, providing a brief summary of her book’s main contributions to the...

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Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS) @cipss-mcgill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🌟 The CIPSS Winter 2026 Speaker Series is here! 🌟 We are excited to welcome a distinguished lineup of scholars who will present their research on a wide range of topics in international security. 🗓️ Mark your calendars and join us—don’t miss out!

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Reading about PRC President Xi Jinping's speech vowing to realize his 'one China' plan - 'The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable' - brought this to my mind. Stay sane in 2026!

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

'The superior man brings the good things of others to completion and does not bring the bad things of others to completion. The inferior man does just the opposite.' Confucius

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

'He who assists the ruler with Tao does not dominate the world with force. The use of force usually brings requital. Wherever armies are stationed, briers and thorns grow.' Lao Tzu

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social explaining how current US(Russia) 'peace talks' lead to the peace of the graveyard for Ukraine and Ukrainians.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Honestly, I’m furious. Sandy Hook should have been the end of this. Yet on its anniversary more children are dead, injured, and traumatized. It is a horror that is entirely preventable. And we should prevent it. It is not impossible. No matter what the received wisdom has become.

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Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Excellent, can’t wait to watch/listen. Obviously I recommend it to you all.

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

A wide-ranging video podcast in which I answer questions about why & how we should argue, the importance of thinking clearly & academic freedom, what to think about historic, structural and global justice, who broke international order & how did we get here. Happy 10th Anniversary to the Lin Centre!

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McGill PoliSci @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

See you tonight!

Max Bell School of Public Policy @maxbellschool.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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If you missed last week’s "Climate at a Crossroads," the recordings are now up! Hosted by The Walrus, the Max Bell School and the Centre for MTD, expert panels examined how climate disinformation crosses borders and shapes global action. Watch the recordings below.

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Climate at a Crossroads | Ecofiscal Annual Conference - YouTube

Thursday, October 9, 2025 https://www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/events/past/2025/climate-crossroads At a time of mounting climate urgency, the integrity of our...

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Congratulations, Manon! Can't wait to read.

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Manon Garcia @manongarcia.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Hi anglo friends! Living with men came out in the UK this weekend! I went to talk about it on BBC Woman’s Hour (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...) and on ABC Late night if you want to listen, otherwise you can read this wonderful interview ⬇️ I hope it’ll make you want to read the book!

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Today and tomorrow! Learning about democracy and design from Black feminist perspectives, at the Lin Centre conference at McGill University. @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social @gripp-montreal.bsky.social @lecre.bsky.social

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Anna Jurkevics @annajurkevics.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Hello APSA folks, please come and join me Catherine Lu, Arturo Change, Matt Longo, and Niklas Plaetzer for an author-meets-critics roundtable on my new book, Contested Territory (OUP 2025) on Thursday morning at 10am! Thu Sept 11 10am Vancouver Convention Centre, East Ballroom C

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This enthralling examination of a tragic personal/political story reimagines how people respond to politically tumultuous times, uncertainty & injustice. A bold, riveting, humbling reflection on humanity & human dignity. Congratulations, @leaypi.bsky.social! www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/752510...

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Indignity by Lea Ypi | Penguin Random House Canada

The award-winning author of Free returns with an extraordinary investigation into historical injustice, personal and collective dignity, truth and imagination

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

'It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.' Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

A very important message that everyone who assumes Ru victory needs to hear. But unfortunately Ru’s deluded fans and paid stooges in the West are so disconnected from reality they repeat that Ru has won already or will win tomorrow every day for 3.5yrs now.

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This Fourth of July, remember Fritz Gerlich, who warned his fellow Germans of Hitler and the road to ruin, and who was shot and killed on the Night of the Long Knives, 30 June 1934, during a purge of critics of the Nazi regime.

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Juneteenth is a celebration of Black resiliency and joy. It’s also a day to think about systemic inequalities Black Americans face in criminal justice. Read the latest from @brownphdgirl.bsky.social & @christines.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/junetee...

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Juneteenth is a celebration of Black resiliency and joy.

It’s also a day to think about systemic inequalities Black Americans face in criminal justice.

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Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Tonight it is finally time for Tommie Shelby's first Benjamin Lecture! He will begin with the topic of "Race and Class in the Political Ethics of the Oppressed". We are looking forward to seeing many of you at Haus der Kulturen der Welt at 6pm! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_...

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NPR @npr.org · 12/06/2025

JUST IN: Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was removed from a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.

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Sen. Padilla removed from DHS press conference

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was removed from a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Tomorrow

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Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique @gripp-montreal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Co-lauréats 2025 du Prix de l’atelier annuel de théorie politique de Montréal du GRIPP: Charles Girard, La liberté d’expression à l’épreuve: Dilemmes démocratiques @charlesgirard.bsky.social Jakob Huber: Diachronic Democracy: A Political Philosophy of Hope @jakobhuber.bsky.social Dates à venir

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Gagnants du Prix de l’atelier annuel de théorie politique de Montréal du GRIPP 2025 | GRIPP Montréal

Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique @gripp-montreal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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GRIPP Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award 2025 co-winners: Jakob Huber: Diachronic Democracy: A Political Philosophy of Hope @jakobhuber.bsky.social Charles Girard, La liberté d’expression à l’épreuve: Dilemmes démocratiques @charlesgirard.bsky.social Dates TBA

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GRIPP 2025 Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award Winners | GRIPP Montréal

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Sadly, this warning is even more true today. Courage to my American friends.

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Make no mistake about what the unfolding political struggle in California is about. Are Americans free from tyranny and enslavement? 'This is what it means to be a slave: to be abused and bear it, compelled by violence to suffer wrong.' Euripides, Hecuba. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump authorizes 2,000 national guard troops to deploy to LA amid Ice protests

California governor calls move ‘purposefully inflammatory’ and says it will ‘escalate tensions’ amid immigration crackdown