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Daniela Lai

@danielalai.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in IR. Working on some combination of feminist IPE, transitions, steel, socioeconomic/post-war justice. Occasionally research methods. My views, etc... She/her/hers

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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New room for the GA taking place at lunchtime today! Follow the signs to Building 1, room JJ Laginha
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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 27/02/2026
Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
My favourite bit about ethnonationalist Matt Goodwin complaining that he lost to Muslim sectarianism is that Muslims voted for a party led by a gay Jewish man. Sectarianism eh.
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📣 Abstract submission for workshops at #EWIS2026 is now open! 🗓️ All abstracts must be submitted via our online system by 11 February 2026 🔗 Please read the submission guidelines carefully on our website: eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab...
1-3 July 2026. 13th European Workshops in International Studies. Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
What is the arms trade, and how does it shape our world? In our first @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices episode of 2026, I talk to the indomitable @annastavrianakis.bsky.social to explore this question and much more… voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/39-new-episode
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What is...the Arms Trade?
What is the arms trade, and how does it shape our world? In our first episode of 2026, we explore why scholars of international relations should pay closer attention to the arms trade, and what its dy...
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
📫 Check your inboxes - decision emails for workshop proposals at #EWIS2026 have been sent! ➡️ Abstract submission will open in January 2026...
1-3 July 2026. 13th European Workshops in International Studies. Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
📣 Abstract submission for #EISAPEC26 is now open! 🗓️ Deadline: 19 February 2026 🔗 Visit our website for detailed guidelines: buff.ly/3a7EqAz
1-4 September 2026. 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
📣 Calling all recently graduated or final year PhD students: applications for EISA's Postdoctoral Bridge Grants are now open! 💸 Up to 5 grants of €3,500 each 🗓️ Deadline: 19 March 2026 🔗 More information on eligibility and application details: buff.ly/9giEdNr
EISA Postdoctoral bridge grants will support recently graduated or final-year PhD students who have not secured an academic contract or fellowship.
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
⏰ The deadline for workshop submissions for #EISAPEC26 is coming up! 🔗 Submit a proposal here by 24 November: buff.ly/SpxSboT
1-3 July 2026. 13th European Workshops in International Studies. Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
So good to see this coming out soon - thanks to Aida and Jacqui's amazing work!
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Mike Bankole @mikebankole.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Hey peeps. I’ve started a Substack. I’ll be writing about politics and my research (with the odd piece on football)
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
📣 The Joint Management Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA are looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of ejir.bsky.social from 1 January 2027! 🔗 Find the complete Call for Editors document here: buff.ly/B4O8NdN
European Journal of International Relations (EJIR) Call for Editors, October 2025
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economyandspace.bsky.social @economyandspace.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
OnlineFirst - "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" by Daniela Lai: #steel #disarticulations #greentransition #steelmaking #politicaleconomy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Mate Subašić @matesuba.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📢 Roundtable: Dayton Peace Agreement – 30 Years On Join leading experts to discuss lessons learned since 1995. 🗓 19 Nov | 🕒 3–5 PM 📍 LJMU, John Foster Building, Room G.01, Liverpool 🔗 Register via eventbrite.com/e/dayton-peace… Speakers from Oxford, York, LSE & Liverpool Unis
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Very happy to share that my article "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" was just published in Environment and Planning A. This is truly made in @europeanisa.bsky.social, written in 2024 for EWIS and then revised for PEC! doi.org/10.1177/0308...
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Diolch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙌 nation.cymru/opinion/refo...
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Reform's defeat is a triumph for Wales
Martin Shipton Lindsay Whittle’s triumph in the Caerphilly by-election is a victory not only for Plaid Cymru, but for Wales. Like many others, I had been seduced into believing that the Farage bandwag...
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Andreu Casas @andreucasas.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
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Elliot Dolan-Evans @therealelliotde.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine has finally been released! Please ask your local or university library to get it! You can also use my author code (BUP50) if you'd really like to get it epub or hard-copy bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/making-war-s...
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Join us in Izmir next July for #EWIS2026!
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
www.rainews.it/video/2025/0...
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Flotilla: "Ecco l'istante in cui la Family Boat è stata colpita dall'alto"
La missione umanitaria afferma di essere stata attaccata da un drone in acque tunisine e pubblica un video. Le autorità locali smentiscono
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Thank you Beste! Very happy to start my term as President of the @europeanisa.bsky.social here at #EISAPEC25
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence, by @danielalai.bsky.social
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Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence
Steelmaking has come back to the forefront of discussions around war, in the context of the global political and economic reconfigurations brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite ...
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Very happy to have this article out with RIPE: Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Nice to have landed back in the UK as it confirms its sure and steady decline into authoritarianism
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Greetings from #EWIS2025 where @europeanisa.bsky.social president @besteisleyen.bsky.social gives an overview of the grants EISA has been able to give out as part of our redistributive policies
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The original title of this article, straight out of 2003, was that Israel's attack has a "real chance of bringing about regime change" in Iran. With not a hint of criticism.
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How the dismantling of Iran’s regional proxies paved way for Israel’s attack
Netanyahu has been systematically and successfully weakening his regional foes, now Tehran is in the crosshairs
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
EISA statement on attacks to higher education funding across Europe
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🎉 The full programme for #EWIS2025 is now available on our website: bit.ly/3TcCKjh 🇵🇱 We look forward to seeing many of you in Krakow next month...
EWIS 2025 graphic reads: #EWIS2025. 12th European Workshops in International Studies. Hybrid, Liminal, Ambiguous? International Politics 'In-between'. 2-4 July 2025. Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"diverted" is when the 75 bus goes through an alternative route due to roadworks, not when a boat is seized in international waters
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
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Not In Our Name - Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out - with signatures
To co-sign the statement, fill in this form: https://forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiScaMEt5 Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia We are non-trans feminist academics...
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Katarina Kušić @katkusic.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Over the last few months, I've been working with colleagues in BiH and @ecodiya.bsky.social on updating the #LandMatrix database on land deals in BiH. We also wrote a small report, now published! You can check out the database here: landmatrix.org/map/
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Took me a while to find time to read this, but I'm glad I did www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My thoughts on the government intervention to save British Steel
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Beste İşleyen @besteisleyen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Many @europeanisa.bsky.social colleagues have received phishing emails from me. Do not reply to these emails, delete them and report as spam.
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Sharing the PSA Teaching and Learning conference call for abstracts! It's at Royal Holloway this year, send your abstracts by 17 April to Nat and Lyn: full info at the link! www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...
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Call for Papers Political Studies Association Teaching and Learning Network Conference | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
Theme: Teaching Well4th-5th September 2025 This year’s PSA TLN annual conference will take place on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of September at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Egham, Surrey. ...
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is us now. Happy days in UK HE!
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
So lucky I got to spend time with these amazing, inspiring people in Liverpool! Thank you @matesuba.bsky.social @ebstavrevska.bsky.social and Nina for bringing us together
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🗳️ 11 EISA members have been shortlisted for election to the Governing Board! 📩 Members will receive a voting link via email 🗓️ Voting is open until 21 April 2025 13:00 CET ⬇️ Candidate profiles below...
Tuğba Bayar (Bilkent University)
Samarjit Ghosh (Özyeğin University)
Laura Horn (Roskilde University)
Sibel Karadağ (Kadir Has University)
Gustav Meibauer (Radboud Universiteit)
Iratxe Perea Ozerin (University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU))
Francesco Ragazzi (Leiden University)
Eric Sangar (Sciences Po Lille / CERAPS, University of Lille)
Henrique Tavares Furtado (University of the West of England)
Rens van Munster (Danish Institute for International Studies)
Štěpánka Zemanová (Prague University of Economics and Business)
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BISA South East Europe @bisasee.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We are pleased to mark 20 years since our @mybisa.bsky.social working groups emerged. Thanks to @livunipol.bsky.social at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for welcoming us to Liverpool for a full-day workshop. The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.
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Denisa Kostovicova @denisakost.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I’m grateful to @danielalai.bsky.social for such an insightful review of my book Reconciliation by Stealth & noting its relevance also for studies of colonialism, racism & climate justice @cornellupress.bsky.social
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
My review of @denisakost.bsky.social's book Reconciliation by Stealth is now out on Southeastern Europe doi.org/10.30965/187...
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Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk about War Crimes, written by Denisa Kostovicova
"Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk about War Crimes, written by Denisa Kostovicova" published on 12 Feb 2025 by Brill | Schöningh.
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
There is still time to register for this important event on mobility injustices in academia
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It's deadline day for #EWIS2025!
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🚨 Remember to submit your abstracts for #EWIS2025 workshops by Tuesday February 11th! 🔗 Find a full list of workshops and more information here: buff.ly/3XOXyk1
EWIS 2025 graphic reads: #EWIS2025. 12th European Workshops in International Studies. Hybrid, Liminal, Ambiguous? International Politics 'In-between'. 2-4 July 2025. Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Keep the abstracts coming! The deadline for #EWIS2025 submissions is Tuesday 11 February!
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We should stop treating things Trump says as crazy banter. He hosted someone under an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, and they are plotting more crimes together? It's not mad or surprising, he will keep pushing until people let him. People in Gaza need us to take this seriously.
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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I read Burawoy's extended case method article when I was a first-year PhD student, and since then his work has had a huge influence on me. Very sad to hear of his tragic passing.
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
⏰ Reminder: there's just one week left to submit abstracts for #EWIS2025!
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