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Haro Karkour

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Senior Lecturer in IR, Cardiff University

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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thank you @isanet.bsky.social for sending the plaque for the Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical IR that @harokarkour.bsky.social and I won earlier this year for our paper on racial justice and classical #realism. The tangible experience of holding the plaque makes it feel real.
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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚨 New Publication 🚨 My latest paper "Theorising Practices, #Time, and #Emotions. Time for #Sociability at the Potsdam Conference?" has been published in the @pvs-journal.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @sussexfss.bsky.social
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Theorising Practices, Time, and Emotions. Time for Sociability at the Potsdam Conference? - Politische Vierteljahresschrift
So far, practice theory has not considered in detail how practices contribute to the constitution of time. This paper aims to address this lacuna by investigating what role emotions play in this proce...
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
1/- VERY important new article to describe our current moment: "Fossil fascism is defined here as a political, legal & cultural system revolving around an ultra-nationalist defence of fossil fuel extraction, while silencing & suppressing any opposition to it." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Fossil fascism: the supreme form of climate obstruction?
The last decade witnessed a proliferation of literature on far-right nationalism and climate obstruction. Scholars referred to “fossil fascism” to discuss these trends. This article emphasises foss...
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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New article available #OpenAccess: Public intellectual and the prison of theory: John J. Mearsheimer Authored by Haro Karkour #IR #Theory #Mearshheimer #Intellectual #Responsbility ⤵️⤵️⤵️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Thank you @hist-isanet.bsky.social! 🙏 @harokarkour.bsky.social and my paper on racial justice and the national interest in classical #realism won the Merze Tate Prize for the Best Article in Historical IR @sussexfss.bsky.social Find the article here (OA) 👇 academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
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Toward IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism
Abstract. This article addresses growing calls for a fifth debate on international relations’ (IR) “race amnesia.” The central argument is two-fold. First,
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Historical IR Section (ISA) @hist-isanet.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
According to the committee, a "valuable contribution" that "deserves to be read not only by historical IR scholars, but also by IR scholars interested in classical realism or race and racism more generally". Congratulations! 🎉 Read the article here: academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
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Historical IR Section (ISA) @hist-isanet.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🏅 Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations Committee: Justin Rosenberg (Chair), Jaakko Heiskanen, Andrea Paras The award goes to ... 🥁 Haro Karkour and Felix Rösch (2024) "Towards IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism"
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Thomas Leahy @thomasdmleahy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
New article out with Iker Erdocia ‘The politics of abstentionism: Comparing Sinn Féin’s Westminster abstentionism to Basque Nationalist Left’s engagement with the Spanish Parliament’ with @bjpir.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... thanks reviewers, colleagues, interviewees.
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Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The paper @florianstoeckel.bsky.social and I wrote showing that Brexit prejudice is a) alive and well and b) manifests in a variety of ways now has a volume and issue number! Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The limits of Brexit prejudice
Since the Brexit referendum, two novel political identities, Leaver and Remainer, have gained political salience in the United Kingdom. Some work contends that Leavers and Remainers display great ani....
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Joseph MacKay @lefteleven.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Very glad to have published this, at International Affairs. doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
Historical sources of Russian imperial legitimation claims

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Russia's war on Ukraine has given rise to a broad debate about Russian imperialism and colonialism. Yet despite Russia's significant imperial history, the field of International Relations has few detailed accounts of its distinguishing historical features. This article builds on existing work to unpack the varied attempts successive imperial projects made to legitimate Russia's rule over other populations and territories. Reconstructing Russia's imperial history, I show its claims to imperial legitimacy, past and present, varied widely. These claims were borrowed or otherwise acquired from an equally wide range of sources. They have tended to accumulate or sediment in Russian discursive practice. To illustrate this, I focus on the period that marked the height of Russian colonialism, the nineteenth century, showing a profusion of practices, styles and ways of speaking. I then argue Russia's wide-ranging claims to imperial legitimacy resurface in contemporary attempts to justify its expansionism. Recognizing the range of attempted imperial justifications helps analysts to better calibrate or specify critiques of Russian imperial ideas today.
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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
🚨The latest addition to our @hss.springernature.com Global Political Thinkers series has arrived. Uwe Rasch's timely contribution on Aldous #Huxley and the Enemies of #Freedom.
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Emmy Eklundh @emmyeklundh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
My new book is out now! Read for an alternative view on populism in Europe, influenced by decolonial theory, feminism and psychoanalysis. I'm available to do book talks in 2026! @populismpsa.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-popu...
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Europe’s Populist Condition
Europe’s Populist Condition; Challenging the notion that populism is an anomaly in European politics, this book argues that the main threat to democracy is the exclusionary nature of European democrat...
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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A brief piece by me in E-IR on the shift from hegemony to primacy heralded by the U.S. National Security Strategy. There’s a _lot_ going on in that document but I think that the explicit abandonment of hegemony for primacy is perhaps the most important. www.e-ir.info
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Regan Burles @rmburles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Grateful to be part of this new special issue on history and theory in IR in @ejir.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social : journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJT/curr...
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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🚨 Our edited volume "Discourses in Global Political Theory. Reimagining #Peace in the 21st Century Through Narratives of Belonging" has been published with Palgrave Macmillan @springer.springernature.com With the code 💷 PALAUT you get 20% off: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Discourses in Global Political Theory
This book traces narratives of belonging around the globe from a political theory perspective. It highlights the context of cultural exchange
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 "Neoclassical Realist Theory of Populist Foreign Policy" just out with @risjnl.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S026... I explore how populism affects state behavior over time. This aims at further integrating populism scholarship into, and combining it with, IR theory. 1/9
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Neoclassical realist theory of populist foreign policy
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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
My former PhD student, Zizhu Wang, published her first journal article. Check it out here: Licensing: Why is there no conceptual history of ‘international’: a semantic and translingual reinterpretation www.tandfonline.com/action/showC...
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Licensing: Why is there no conceptual history of ‘international’: a semantic and translingual reinterpretation
Licensing for Why is there no conceptual history of ‘international’: a semantic and translingual reinterpretation
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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Delighted to share my new article in Global Policy, part of the Special Issue “Re-imagining Middle Powers.” Grateful for the support of the Academy of Korean Studies, LSE IDEAS and the EUI Florence for convening the workshop that shaped this special issue. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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An Ontological Security Interpretation of Global South Middle Powers' Non‐Alignment in the Ukrainian War
This paper explores why a group of Global South middle powers has adopted stances on the Ukrainian war that diverged from the positions of the United States under President Joe Biden, the European Un...
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🚨 Publication Day 🚨 'The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy' is now in (online) bookstores near you - check it out here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-no-fly-z... 1/7
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Haro Karkour @harokarkour.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
New article on Morgenthau and the 'darker side' of democratic peace with RIS 🥳
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Emmy Eklundh @emmyeklundh.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
We are hiring in my department at Cardiff! Three positions available, closing date September 7th. I’m happy to talk with anyone interested!
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Stephanie Christine Winkler @scwinkler.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
My new article on “Conceptual Entrapment” is out online-first with @EuroJournIR! Proud of this one: critical concept studies, autoethnography & soft power all come together to reflect on the researcher–concept relationship. Take a look here! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Tony Lang @proftonylang.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Really enjoyed speaking with @kieranomeara.bsky.social and Dan Drury on @e-international.bsky.social on my intellectual journey in IR: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Thinking Global Podcast – Anthony F. Lang Jr.
Anthony F. Lang Jr. speaks about universal values, International Political Theory (IPT), normativity, ethics, Grotius and more.
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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
📚 Soon the results of our @dsfrieden.bsky.social supported project are out as an edited volume @hss.springernature.com During a workshop in bautiful Erfurt @unierfurt.bsky.social we interrogated how and if narratives of belonging beyond the western nation-state can contribute to peace.
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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🚨 New paper with @thorstenwojczewski.bsky.social in @cambridgecria.bsky.social: In "Theorizing populism in international relations: a classical realist perspective", we explore the prospects of IR theories, focusing on classical #realism, for studying #populism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Excellent thread by @mariosrichards.bsky.social looking further into partisan patterns in deciding what’s woke. Find the associated paper with @benji9253.bsky.social, Kal Munis, and Spencer Goidel here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
My former PhD student, Carmen Chas’s forthcoming book. A groundbreaking study that combines International Law and Realist IR theory to excellent effect.
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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
📢 New Article Alert! 📢 How does the notion of societal multiplicity in IR overlook the psychological impact of global hierarchies? Read more: @coco-journal.bsky.social #InternationalRelations #UnevenDevelopment #Psychoanalysis #SocietalMultiplicity doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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Uneven and combined desires: A psychological rethinking of societal multiplicity in world politics - Marco Vieira, 2025
This article contributes to the growing body of scholarship which claims the notion of societal multiplicity offers both a foundational ontology and novel theor...
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Emmy Eklundh @emmyeklundh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Blog post from me and Sebastián Ronderos about our latest article on affect and discourse theory
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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The pre-publication version of the first article of my @LeverhulmeTrust Major Research Fellowship on law and war theorised through Hegelian lenses is now available open access in Hegel Bulletin. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Hegel’s First Attempt to Re-Philosophize Natural Law: Undistorted Intuition, Dead Laws and Ethical Life in ‘On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law’ | Hegel Bulletin | Cambridge Core
Hegel’s First Attempt to Re-Philosophize Natural Law: Undistorted Intuition, Dead Laws and Ethical Life in ‘On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law’
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Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Now out at Current Psychology (with dozens of co-authors): The COVID-19 pandemic was stressful for everyone, but women disproportionately bore its emotional burdens. However, this gender gap was not the same everywhere. Why did it vary? link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵
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Gender inequality and cultural values in explaining gender differences in positive and negative emotions: A comparison of 24 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic - Current Psychology
The coronavirus pandemic posed a major challenge to mental health. Existing evidence shows that COVID-19 is related to poor emotional well-being, particularly among women. However, most work on the su...
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Emmy Eklundh @emmyeklundh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New article with Sebastián Ronderos in the Journal of Language and Politics on how we can use discourse theory to study affect. If you can’t access it, let me know. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
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Studying affect through discourse theory | John Benjamins
Abstract This article presents a methodological argument for examining the affective dimensions of political identity formation, with a pivotal focus on the role of practice. Grounded in a psychoanaly...
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Maja Davidović @majadav.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
In the olden days Twitter helped me create a network of mentors/mentees with women and minority scholars. If we knew each other there or have just met here and you think your work on transitional/epistemic justice, norms, could benefit from my thoughts, let me know. It's my favorite kind of work.
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Jamie Johnson @jamcjo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🙋‍♂️I've got an article in the new issue of Millennium: Journal of International Studies. It's about the intimate relationship between liberalism and war and you can find it published open access through the link below.
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Tony Lang @proftonylang.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Please join us for an what I hope will be an interesting discussion on academic freedom and professional associations!
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Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
www.e-ir.info/pdf/106801 We live in anti-theoretical times. All the more reason to share this short but insightful piece by @HaroKarkour on the value of much maligned IR theory to the contemporary age. #Realism #Trump #Morgenthau #Carr #Niebuhr.
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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I’ll be chairing a fantastic seminar this coming Wednesday on an extremely timely topic. Please join us in person or online. Follow link to register. bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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