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Deepak Nair

@deepaknair.bsky.social
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IR at ANU International sociology | diplomacy | bureaucracy | Southeast Asia Associate editor, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy www.deepaknair.org

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kristin Oberiano’s landmark history of Guam and American Empire is out today. Essential reading for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social and other scholars of the Pacific world. uncpress.org/978146969391...
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Territorial Discontent
This one-hundred-year history of the island of Guåhan, also known as Guam, charts how Indigenous CHamorus and Filipino migrants navigated and negotiated t...
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Joseph MacKay @lefteleven.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Job! the IR Dept at ANU is hiring an entry-level position to teach both at ANU in Canberra and, intermittently, into our joint program with Ritsumeikan University in Osaka. Details in the ad. Happy to answer questions. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
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Lecturer - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $121,598- $137,870 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full time, Continuing (Contingent Funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded). The...
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David Brenner @davidbrenner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Germany reintroduced a soft form of military service in 2026. While service remains voluntary, all male 18‑year‑olds must undergo military medical tests, including a testicle check. But what is this sovereign touch about? Spoiler: it offers little medical value but plenty of sociological insight.
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When the state grabs you by the balls: reintroducing military service and corporeal power in Germany
This essay reflects on an intimate encounter with the German state: the compulsory medical examination that all male teenagers underwent as part of military conscription until its suspension in 201...
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 16/02/2026
It's got a cover! Coming out in June.
Book cover for *Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China* by Chenchen Zhang, published by Oxford. The cover features a building that is half Temple of Heaven and half Capitol Hill, set against a pale background.
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EJIR @ejir.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"‘Baleful influence’: a conceptual analysis of militarism" by Bryan Mabee and Srdjan Vucetic is out now in EJIR and available online. You can read it here: t1p.de/4s6sq
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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Next in our ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series: Professor Itty Abraham (Arizona State University). Online, 15 October 2pm AEST. Abstract and registration: events.humanitix.com/bandung-at-7...
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Lydia Walker @lydiawalker.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
www.bradleyrsimpson.com/self-determi... Modeling archival sharing and collaborative research, @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social shares significant portions of the archival material behind THE FIRST RIGHT, his exciting new book on self-determination - global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Self-determination Documents — Bradley R. Simpson
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Its out in the world!
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Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
seeing the recognition of Palestinian statehood dismissed as 'performative' (US State Dept) makes me wonder how the meaning of the word 'performative' has gone from words that do things (Austin, Butler) to words that do nothing
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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy's Special Issue on Caste in Indian Diplomacy & IR is out. Edited by Vineet Thakur, Pavan Kumar & Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social @haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal...
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Dr Claire Yorke @claireyorke.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
At a time when politics feels bleak and frustrating, I wrote a book on empathy and politics to inject much needed hope into the conversation and offer some ideas for change. Out soon with @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social and available for preorder now 📚 #Empathy #Politics #Leadership
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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Talk by @quahsayjye.bsky.social next week for the ANU Southeast Asia Institute seminar series. It's online. This pic of Lee Kuan Yew and Samuel Huntington from 1970 is a nice teaser of Quah's argument and his wider project on global intellectual history. events.humanitix.com/the-singapor...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
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Alvina Hoffmann @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Absolutely mind-blown! 🤯 What an honour to receive this prize. Enormous thanks to the prize committee, everyone who helped sharpen the argument & my incredible interlocutors in Crimea for whom the struggle for human rights continues.
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Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Fred Cooper tackling the concepts of decolonization and decoloniality in new Comparative Studies in Society & History article: "Decolonizing Decolonization."
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Decolonizing Decolonization | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
Decolonizing Decolonization
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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
From Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding to Zohran Mamdani – Mira Nair is a gift that keeps giving.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
These "hunger games" being played by Israel and the US are so disgusting. The humiliation and terrorizing and murdering of Palestinians via inhumanitarian aid is further evidence of how dehumanized Israel and the US are. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians seeking food in Gaza, health officials say
Dozens more wounded as crowds approached food distribution centres run by Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
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Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
SecDef Hegseth's Shangri-La Dialogue speech repeated conventional wisdom that's already eroded. No longer a functional division of getting security from US, prosperity from China. China's emerged as a global security provider, as @ibkardon.bsky.social and I show in @intsecurity.bsky.social:
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Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
For a supposedly ‘international’ organisation, the email sent by the ISA President basically begging and browbeating scholars to make the trip to Columbus, Ohio is just amazingly tone deaf. Attending is couched in smorgasbord of hyperbolic rhetoric, WW2(!), the Cold War(!), Gandhi (!) without so
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If I read this correctly, I should not let my pithy self-interest in not getting deported to El Salvador allow me to evade my moral responsibility to hang out in some Hilton hallway (and pay conference fees).
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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology: #Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan Find the paper here (open-access): academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
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Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
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LSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Join us for the Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture 2024/25, where Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics. 🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4kh5uTy
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Joseph MacKay @lefteleven.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
My article with Jamie Levin, on nuclear strategy, firearms analogies, and settler colonialism, is now out at Security Dialogue. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Firearms analogies and settler colonialism in US nuclear deterrence strategy - Joseph MacKay, Jamie Levin, 2025
Nuclear strategy has long been formulated through analogies. We focus on one in particular: guns. Early nuclear strategists in the United States used multiple a...
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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The editors Matthew Phillips & Naoko Shimazu (neither of whom are on Bluesky) have asked me to share news of this new book: A visual history of diplomacy in Cold War Asia. I'm very pleased to have contributed a chapter #HistIR @ndh-network.bsky.social #diplomacy @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@georgelawson.bsky.social reflecting on 75 years of IR/area studies at the ANU. This intro to the special issue is a compelling set of reflections on Aussie IR from a UK expat. Main takeaway: the ANU is still a cracking place to do IR, and the future of IR, at the ANU at least, is in good hands. 🙌🏻
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‘Looking back, looking around, looking forward: ANU’s Department of International Relations at 75’
This introduction to the forum marking the 75th anniversary of the Department of International Relations (IR) at the Australian National University (ANU) is organised in three parts. First, it ‘loo...
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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
By the brilliant @rahulraothariel.bsky.social
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Imperial boomerang all the way down
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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A very good piece. Perhaps the somewhat benign sub-heading "US diplomats first persuaded the World" should better capture the core point here that this shift came about with the US experimenting with new models of Empire (unlike, say, the Dutch or the French).
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
🎓 New article by @quahsayjye.bsky.social which looks at Sukarno and proposes three dimensions of worldmaking: discursive, institutional, and dramaturgical.
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Ben Christian @benchristian.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Why do many IOs struggle to learn despite a plethora of formal learning processes and tools? In my new ISQ article, I argue that the criticism culture—the way IOs deal with criticism from their employees—is an overlooked but crucial variable to explain (the lack of) learning in IOs. 🧵 lmy.de/DsCjm
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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The president’s address at @isanet.bsky.social was peacefully disrupted to draw institutional attention to the issue of democratisation in ISA governance and the acknowledgement of scholasticide in how we conduct research ‘as normal’ #isa2025
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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I’ve been going to ISA since 2018. Past the disappointment of not going this year long ago, really glad not to be in #Chicago in March for #ISA2025 . So sad to have to read this. Good luck to all going.
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Breathtaking historical illiteracy combined with multiple levels of dehumanisation. At least 1 million people died and more than 15 million people were displaced as a consequence of partition, followed by decades of trauma.
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Luke Glanville @lukeglanville.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
RFK Jr’s ideas about Black people’s immune systems (theguardian.com/us-news/2025...) can be traced back to past medical claims about Black people's suitability for enslavement (academic.oup.com/isq/article/...).
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Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion
Abstract. We are encouraged to think of refugees as resilient people with agency and capacity for flourishing, rather than passive victims needing help. Th
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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
My review of historian Mattias Fibiger's new book "Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World." pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews...
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SUHARTO’S COLD WAR: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World | By Mattias Fibiger - Pacific Affairs (UBC Journal)
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Ben Christian @benchristian.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
"Bourdieu & IR": Our IPS group @DVPW is organizing an online talk on Bourdieu-inspired IR research with three excellent speakers: Catriona Standfield, @deepaknair.bsky.social & Leonie Holthaus (@tuda.bsky.social). 17 January, 2pm - please join us! :) Registration: holthaus@pg.tu-darmstadt.de
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Colum Graham @clmgrhm.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
newbooksnetwork.com/suhartos-col... Great to talk with Mattias Fibiger about Suharto's Cold War on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Suharto's Cold War book cover
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Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I had an unforgettable book workshop last week in Western Sweden, discussing manuscripts by @deepaknair.bsky.social and Ann Towns with Ole Jacob Sending, @aglas.bsky.social and Vincent Pouliot. I feel lucky to have such wonderful friends and colleagues who write such creative and important books
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
No paywall. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/w...
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Stripped, Beaten or Vanished: Israel’s Treatment of Gaza Detainees Raises Alarm
A U.N. office said Israel’s detention and treatment of detainees might amount to torture. It estimated thousands had been detained and held in “horrific” conditions. Some were freed wearing only...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2023
"During the first six weeks of the war in Gaza, Israel routinely used one of its biggest and most destructive bombs in areas it designated safe for civilians, according to an analysis of visual evidence by The New York Times."
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A Times Investigation Tracked Israel’s Use of One of Its Most Destructive Bombs in South Gaza
A Times visual investigation reveals that one of Israel’s largest munitions was regularly being dropped in areas designated safe for i
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
It is so heartening to see the peoples of tri-continents uniting in bidding good riddance to the man who facilitated genocide on three continents and burnt entire countries down to the ground.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Podcast episode featuring Sally Abed, Amjad Iraqi, Orly Noy, and me and Joey Ayoub as co-hosts. I wanted to listen and learn from the folks doing the most to uphold radical empathy and justice in Israel Palestine podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM...
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The Fire These Times - Jewish Safety Means Palestinian Liberation: Organizing In Israel-Palestine Af...
In episode 146, Joey Ayoub and Dana El-Kurd talk to Sally Abed, Orly Noy and Amjad Iraqi. Abed is a member of the national leadership of Standing Together (עומדים ביחד نقف معًا), a gr...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
What a glorious, powerful, beautiful letter of resignation: "So I refuse. I won’t write about poetry amidst the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more sanitized hell-words. No more warmongering lies."
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Read Anne Boyer’s extraordinary New York Times resignation letter.
It’s been a hell of a 24 hours for writers demonstrating moral courage. Last night at the National Book Awards, over a dozen NBA finalists took to the stage to use their moment in the spotlig…
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Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
So much respect.
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IN FULL: UN Special Rapporteur on occupied Palestinian territories addresses Press Club | ABC News
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, addresses the National Press Club of Australia on why previous approaches i...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Chotiner interviewed a member of the Klan www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers
A leader of the settlement movement on expanding into Gaza, and her vision for the Jewish state.
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Our new symposium out in International Theory on Global IR and how it can avoid the essentialism trap. tl;dr we recommend more global history! (On that 🤝 I also had a nice chat with Glenda Sluga & Heidi Tworek, out from Toynbee Prize Foundation site soon) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/11/2023
The United Nations has recorded 222 settler attacks against Palestinians over the past month. Eight people, including a child, have been killed. Another 64 Palestinians have been injured, more than a quarter by live ammunition.
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Settler violence is erasing Palestinian communities in the West Bank
Attacks against Palestinians by radical settlers have surged since Oct. 7, as vigilantes seek to exploit the war in Gaza to remake the map of the West Bank.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Reuters' Kevin Lamarque
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