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Gregorio Bettiza

@gregoriobettiza.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Exeter. Ideology, religion, identity, and world order. Ambivalent about modernity.

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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Thrilled to join the Stanford-Göttingen "The Civilizationism Project" network. By way of introduction I was asked to share some brief reflections, here are my thoughts on civilizationism as critique and alternative vision of world order: thecivilizationismproject.stanford.edu/people/grego...
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Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
H-Diplo Roundtable on Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World
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H-Diplo Roundtable on Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 16-39 Marc-William Palen, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World. Princeton University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9780691199320. 19 May 2025 | PDF: | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Editor: Diane LabrosseCommissioning Editor: Diane LabrosseProduction Editor: Christopher BallPre-Production Copy Editor: Bethany S. Keenan Contents Introduction by Jamie Martin, Harvard University.
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We are accepting a new round of book proposals for this new Routledge series on "Identity, Ideology, and Worldviews in Global Politics" that Stephane Baele (UCLouvain), Beverley Loke (Australian National University), and I edit. #IR Send us your great ideas!
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Why do we have such difficulty making sense of our current moment? I brainstorm some possible answers www.theideasletter.org/essay/certai...
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Certainty and Strange Thoughts - The Ideas Letter
Zarakol reflects on the collapse of the post–Cold War liberal international order and contrasts today's disorientation with the bold, definitive visions offered by thinkers like Fukuyama, Huntington, ...
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 14/05/2025
DEADLINE: June 15, 2025 Call for Submissions from @iojournal.bsky.social - Special Section on the Future of IR cup.org/4iGlq0B In fall 2025, IO will publish a supplemental, online-only issue of the journal, focused on the Future of Global Governance and World Order.
Logo with the text 'IO Call for Submissions' on a navy blue background.
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Just arrived! Honored to be part of this "Oxford Handbook of Illiberalism" edited by the intrepid Marlene Laruelle @illsp.bsky.social which includes so many colleagues I admire. My chapter focuses on the illiberal global politics of religion and civilizations: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Transparent corruption. @dandrezner.bsky.social describes it well. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
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The Trump Administration Has No Shame
They are still lying badly -- but for how long?
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Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Funded workshop at Southampton on the topic of "Public Opinion, Identity, and Security in Europe"! Workshop will be held on June 16. Please submit your proposals/abstract by May 21. (Please help circulate widely!) Kamil Zwolski, John Denham, and I are the coordinators of this event.
Public Opinion, Identity, and Security in Europe

The Centre for Comprehensive European Security at the University of Southampton is pleased to invite paper submissions for an upcoming workshop on Public Opinion, Identity, and Security in Europe. The workshop will take place on June 16 at the University of Southampton.
Europe is currently navigating a period marked by significant political upheaval and realignments – both domestically amidst the rising tide of populism and internationally with the second Trump Administration. We invite papers that explore the relationship between identity (broadly defined) and public opinion about European security. 

Globalisation, energy security, and the rise of a multi-polar world (inter alia) significantly challenge the ability of nation states to meet the aspirations of voters in both domestic and international affairs. Yet, the nation state retains its place as the primary site of political contest and preference aggregation. We seek papers that explore the how this space between expectation and delivery has implications for comprehensive European security.
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Very interesting project, international network of scholars, and reading resources on "Civilizationism" #IR thecivilizationismproject.stanford.edu
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The Civilizationism Project
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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
we all fail rather frequently in different aspects of academic work - but we rarely talk about it check out this🔥@ispjournal.bsky.social forum on understanding, reflecting, and coping with failure @meibauir.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social @jrodehaun.bsky.social academic.oup.com/isp/article/...
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Forum: Dead-Ends, Disasters, Delays? Reflecting on Research Failure in International Studies and Ways to Avoid It
Abstract. This forum urges international relations (IR) practitioners to rethink the nature of both failure and success, and their own responsibility in bu
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Despite its ambiguous nature Nye's concept of SOFT POWER captures in unique ways the importance of ideas and beliefs in generating consent, attraction, and legitimacy. In this OUP edited volume by P. Mandaville we explore its applicability to the religious field: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The Princeton University Press team is thrilled to congratulate Benjamin Nathans, whose book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement is the winner of 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction! 🎉 www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Attention Higher Education, which has much more in common with Starbucks than it would like to acknowledge: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Starbucks says cutting shop staff in favour of automation has failed
Chief executive Brian Nicoll vows to ‘fundamentally change’ strategy in face of worse-than-expected results
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May Day!! 😍🌹 youtu.be/15Nht-_smm8?...
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Toscanini dirige l'Internazionale
YouTube video by robisc01
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Juliet Kaarbo @jkaarbo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
2 new lecturer positions in the Middle East and Africa in the School of International Relations @standrewsir.bsky.social at the University of St Andrews: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
In this TRIUM CONNECTS podcast, I talk to Matt Mulford about my new book 'The Market in Global International Society' (with Barry Buzan, OUP) & why the global market norm has proved so volatile over its 200-year history. Esp now during Trump's anti-globalist battle. shows.acast.com/trium-connec...
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Short but incisive reflections by @dhnexon.bsky.social on one of the sexy concepts of the moment, "great power competition" #IR #HistIR So much for “Great Power Competition”, The Duck of Minerva www.duckofminerva.com/2025/03/so-m...
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So much for “Great Power Competition”
The buzzword of the first Trump administration was “Great Power Competition.” That was also a lie.
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 29/04/2025
Happy to be ISA HIST Communications Officer for the next two years! If you don't yet, make sure to follow @hist-isanet.bsky.social for any and all Historical IR updates. Check out the section website here: www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections... 1/3
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Historical International Relations Section (HIST)
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Terrific new handbook on International Political Sociology, a what's what and who's who in the field: "The Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology" eds. Stacie E. Goddard, George Lawson, and Ole Jacob Sending global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Check out this new @ejir.bsky.social article by Zikun Yang, who's writing richer histories and theory abt China's performance across key areas of multilateralism @campolis.bsky.social based on primary research in multiple countries and languages. She's on the academic job market too - hire her!
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Illiberalism Studies Program @illsp.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
New piece! Sam Hamad on the relationship between the Global War on Terror and the transnational illiberalism of today. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social
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Illiberalism in its Epoch: Modern Illiberalism as a Consequence of the Global War on Terror illiberalism.org |
Sam Hamad on the relationship between the Global War on Terror and the transnational illiberalism of today.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This semester, I am organizing weekly International Office Hours that are open to everyone. Wanna talk about your research? Have questions about European politics, about the far right, or about soccer and politics? Sign up now or a next time! 👇
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Office Hours Sign-Up Sheet
SIGN-UP SHEET FOR “INTERNATIONAL OFFICE HOURS” WITH CAS MUDDE IN SPRING 2025, I WILL HOLD “INTERNATIONAL OFFICE HOURS” FOR COLLEAGUES/STUDENTS/OTHERS WHO WANT TO TALK TO ME ABOUT THEIR RESEARCH OR...
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 22/04/2025
"Elegantly written and logically constructed, it is a must-read for anyone interested in the dynamics of regime change, democratization and revolution." Return of Tyranny by Killian Clarke, Coming September 2025 cup.org/42QxbvA
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Return of Tyranny
Cambridge Core - Middle East Studies - Return of Tyranny
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Looking forward to reading this new article by Stacey Goddard: "The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition: Trump’s New Spheres of Influence" Stacie E. Goddard @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition
Trump’s new spheres of influence.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Since everyone has got interested in succession of religious leaders you might find this of interest economist.com/1843/2023/07...
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China wants to choose the next Dalai Lama. He has other plans
As rival candidates are lined up to succeed the Tibetan spiritual leader, Brook Larmer unpicks the politics of reincarnation
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Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Submitted the final version of my next book on AI, Big Tech, and the geopolitical struggles over them. Now hopefully nothing important happens on those topics before it comes out... Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...
Table of Contents
1 / Where is the Value of Generative AI?
Beyond ChatGPT
The Generative AI Stack
Tensions and Trajectories
Conclusion
2 / Strategies of Capture
Strategies of Capture
Amazon and the Infrastructure Strategy
OpenAI and the Frontier Strategy
Google and the Conglomerate Strategy
Meta and the Open Strategy
Conclusion
3 / An Interregnum
The Silicon Valley Consensus
Technodevelopmentalism
Consensus Undone
The Tech-Industrial Complex
The Disorderly Expansion of Capital
Conclusion
4 / The Future of Silicon Empires
America’s Innovation Strategy
China’s Diffusion Strategy
Silicon Empires
Conclusion
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
What a sad and dangerous state of affairs in the US and so many other parts of the world "Why Authoritarians Attack Universities First" Foreign Poicy foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/16/t...
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Why Authoritarians Attack Universities First
A Yale professor and expert on fascism talks about why he’s leaving the United States under Trump.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A friend sent me this. 😂
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Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“Today the idea that free trade brings peace looks like bygone naïveté at best and neoliberal apologism at worst. At a time when it can be hard to remember why anyone ever thought otherwise […] Palen has excavated a history of those who believed that free trade and peace went together.”
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I thought this @poltheoryother.bsky.social episode w/ @quinnslobodian.com was excellent, highly recommended! It starts by stating something obvious, but often overlooked: We need to understand the politics of the capitalist class as structured both by shared interests, and by internal conflict
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Hayek's bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian | Politics Theory Other
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Halvard Leira @halvardl.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What sort of animal would you prefer to receive as a gift if you were a state leader? Panda, platypus, puppy? Yours truly with the story (via BBC):
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The 2,000-year-old history of animal gift giving
Before panda diplomacy, there was elephant diplomacy. We spoke to a foreign affairs expert to find out more.
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Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The @economist.com recommends 4 books 'to read to understand tariffs' in advance of today, Trump's 'Liberation Day', meaning a new round of US tariffs. Honored to find Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World included w/@douglasirwin.bsky.social's excellent Clashing Over Commerce. 👇
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Very sad to see this www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies
Our polling shows that Americans’ and Europeans’ attitudes towards each other are changing quickly
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 01/04/2025
The forthcoming Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology, edited by Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social, and @olejacobsending.bsky.social, looks great. Including some exciting #HistIR contributions 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
We are pleased to announce that @qbruneau.bsky.social 's STATES AND THE MASTERS OF CAPITAL is the Winner of the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations from the @hist-isanet.bsky.social‬ section of the International Studies Association. buff.ly/A3KP6vj
Graphic announcing States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New by Quentin Bruneau as the winner of the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations. The left side has a blue background with bold orange and black text stating "Winner! Quentin Bruneau States and the Masters." Below, in gray text, is the award name. The book cover on the right shows a historical painting with the title in white text. At the bottom, a banner offers 20% off with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I can hear the tectonic plates shifting as every pundit, textbook, and article begins to drop the word 'globalization' replacing it with 'geopolitics' "Conquest Is Back: A Peace Deal in Ukraine Could Further Normalize What Was Once Taboo" Tanisha Fazal 2025 www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/conqu...
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Conquest Is Back
A peace deal in Ukraine could further normalize what was once taboo.
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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Congrats to Cecelia Lynch, @ucirvine.bsky.social political science professor, who has been named the 2025 Distinguished Scholar of the Religion and International Relations (REL) Section of @isanet.bsky.social for her pathbreaking contributions to the field! @uofcalifornia.bsky.social
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Lynch named International Studies Association’s Religion and International Relations Distinguished Scholar
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New original article on civilizational standards in world politics: "Short-haired modern girls: colonial Korean women’s fashion as the standards of civilization". Kwon, M. (2025) @ejir.bsky.social #IR #HistIR journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Terrific piece unpacking the (multiple) geopolitical and civilizational imaginaries of the European New Right: "International relations and the revolutionary geopolitics of the European New Right" Drolet J.F. , & Williams, M. C. (2025) @ejir.bsky.social #IR journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I guess I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. Fuck decorum. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/american-f...
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American Foreign Policy Is Being Run by the Dumbest Motherfuckers Alive
The fuckwittery on display right now by Trump's foreign policy team boggles the mind.
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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Wondering why the libertarian to alt-right pipeline is a thing? Wonder no more.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
powerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Some personal reflections by the great Michael Cox on BISA at 50 BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - Michael Cox @mybisa.bsky.social #IR www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/bis...
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BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - Michael Cox
In the first of a series of articles, Michael Cox discusses memories of BISA and its achievements.
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The 2026 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities CANCELLED because of "increased political pressure on academic institutions... we will not be able to find a host... in time...". Appalling.
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 19/03/2025
Chatham House experts and researchers are available to follow on Bluesky. Connect with them here and follow them for their latest analysis on international events and global trends. ⬇️ go.bsky.app/UKHXrog
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