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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

✉️ Editors' letter ⭐️ Read the letter from The International Spectator's editors @leogoretti.bsky.social and @dhuber.bsky.social to the journal readers 🔗 www.theinternationalspectator.com/post/editor-...

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🛡️Legal Mobilisation in #EU #ForeignPolicy: A Framework for Going Beyond Case Studies 🔍 doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2026.2647886 ✒️Andreas Hofmann (@unileiden.bsky.social)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

⭐️ The International Spectator welcomes #NewSubmissions! ✒️ Are you an #author and have an unpublished, original #article or #bookreview? 📩#peerreview process! 🔎 Check it out for more info: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

⚠️New #article online! 🛡️Navigating the Law: Undocumented #Migration to the #EuropeanUnion, #SeaRescue Organisations and Legal Mobilisation 🔍 Find out more: doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2026.2640920 ✒️Federico Alagna (@sns.it) & @eugenioc.bsky.social (@unimessina)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🛡️Space, #Security and #SovereignPower: The Case of #Bahrain 🔍 How has Bahrain used space as a tool of securitisation since 2011? l1nq.com/vzmnf3o ✒️@profmabon.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social & John Nagle (Queens University Belfast)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🌐 Join us TODAY @ the launch online event of the new Special Issue of The International Spectator 👥 Guest Editors Javier Bordón, @profmabon.bsky.social, in dialogue with @leogoretti.bsky.social, @dhuber.bsky.social and Tamirace Fakhoury 🔗 Info & registration: shorturl.at/8r9zk

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

📢 New #SpecialIssue Online! 👉 Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rspe20/c... 📹 Register for the launch webinar with Javier Bordón, @profmabon.bsky.social, @leogoretti.bsky.social, @dhuber.bsky.social and Tamirace Fakhoury tomorrow! 🔗 shorturl.at/8r9zk

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🌐 Join us @ the launch online event of the new Special Issue of The International Spectator 👥 Guest Editors Javier Bordón, @profmabon.bsky.social, in dialogue with @leogoretti.bsky.social, @dhuber.bsky.social and Tamirace Fakhoury 🔗 Info & registration: shorturl.at/8r9zk

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🛡️ Security and Space: Salafism, Shi‘ism and the State in #Morocco 🔍 How was Salafi and Shi‘ite communities’ repression enabled through a securitisation process? Find out more here: shorturl.at/ydUAc ✒️ @guyeyre.bsky.social (Edinburgh University)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🌐 Join us @ the launch online event of the new Special Issue of The International Spectator 👥 👥 Guest Editors Javier Bordón, @profmabon.bsky.social, in dialogue with @leogoretti.bsky.social, @dhuber.bsky.social and Tamirace Fakhoury 🔗 Info & registration: shorturl.at/8r9zk

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🗑️ Beyond discards: Navigating #security and #space through waste in Postwar #Beirut 🔍 Discover more: loom.ly/pP9DXR8 ✒️ Ana Kumarasamy @lancasteruni.bsky.social

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

📢 New book review! 📗 The International Legal Subalternity of #Palestine in the #InternationalCommunity, review of the book by Ardi Imseis 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✒️ @dhuber.bsky.social

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online 🛡️Theorising from #Beirut’s Southern Suburbs: Spatialised Capital and Habitus in ‘Nested Everyday Security Fields’ 🔍Find out more here: shorturl.at/Hmarh ✒️Dima Smaira & @jeroengunning.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

⚠️ New book review! 🌍 The survival of international organization, @hdijkstra.bsky.social, @lvapolsci.bsky.social, Leonard Schütte and Giuseppe Zaccaria, @oxunipress.bsky.social 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✒️Theresa Squatrito @lseir.bsky.social

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

⚠️New #article online! 🛡️Spatial Entanglements of (In)Security and Violence: Exploring the Politics of Syria’s Urban Reconstruction under #Asad 🔍 How was Asad’s reconstruction policy linked to the building of a new sociopolitical order? Find out here: shorturl.at/bJNfH ✒️Gabriel Garroum Pla

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

⚠️New #article online! 🛡️From Subjects to Agents: Spatialising Security and Reverse Securitisation in #Sweida's Uprisings 🔍https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03932729.2025.2506436 ✒️Rahaf Aldoughli (University of Lancaster)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

⚠️ New book review! 🌍 Struggles for political change in the Arab world: regimes, oppositions, and external actors after the Spring, @lisablaydes.bsky.social, Amr Hamzawy and @wazirelkif.bsky.social, @uofmpress.bsky.social 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✒️Silvia Colombo

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

🌟Exciting news! "The banality of Normalisation", @maricalc.bsky.social's article published on TIS, has been translated into Arabic! 🔎Read it here: shorturl.at/l53B0

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🇪🇺 Spatialising Security, Securitising Space: Ways into the Politics of the #MiddleEast and #NorthAfrica 🔍 Discover more: shorturl.at/ucjfY ✒️ Javier Bordón & @profmabon.bsky.social (@lancasteruni.bsky.social)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📢 New #SpecialIssue Online! 👉 Spatialising Security, Securitising Space: Ways into the Politics of the Middle East and North Africa 🔗 Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rspe20/6...

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🇪🇺 Balancing Rights, Interests and Values: How #EU Institutions Use Law in #EUForeignPolicy 🔍 Read it here: shorturl.at/Sly85 ✒️ @luigilonardo.bsky.social (University of Luxembourg)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

⚠️#openaccessarticle 🇪🇺EU Policy towards #Ukraine: Entering Geopolitical Competition over European Order 🔍loom.ly/pvQxlsA ✒️ @kristiraik.bsky.social @stevenblockmans.bsky.social , Anna Osypchuk & Anton Suslov

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Manuela Moschella @manuelamoschella.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Super glad to see the review of my book #unexpectedrevolutionaries @cornellupress.bsky.social ☺️ Thanks to @intlspectator.bsky.social for hosting it

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Ludovica Castelli, PhD @ludovicacast.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My review of Manuel Herrera's book "The European Union’s nuclear non-proliferation policy : performance and contestation" is out with @intlspectator.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Paradoxes of Procedural Power? Opportunities and Constraints in the EU’s Nuclear Non-proliferation Policy

Published in The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

⚠️ New book review! 🌍 Europe as ideological resource: European integration ad far right legitimation in France and Italy, @mlorimer.bsky.social @academic.oup.com 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✒️ Marianna Griffini

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

⚠️New #article online! 🛡️A Vanishing Normative Power? The Changing Dynamics of #EUArmsExports: Trade, Geopolitics and Ethics from the First #GulfWar to the War in Ukraine 🔍 Find out more: loom.ly/sEklxzg ✒️Chiara Bonaiuti (newcastleuni.bsky.social) & Luca Bortolotti (University of Bologna)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

⚠️ New book review! 🌍 A new Cold War : US-China relations in the 21st century, Zeno Leoni, brisunipress.bsky.social 🔗 shorturl.at/6oRlP ✒️ @francescolizzi.bsky.social

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

⭐️Exciting news! The winning article for the TIS Global Voices Award 2025 has been chosen, and it will have full access! 🏆Congratulations to ‘From Engaging to Containing China: US Attempts to Fill Power-role Gaps (2000–2018)’ by Zakiyeh Yazdanshenas! Read it here🔗 shorturl.at/UKqrF

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

⚠️ New book review! 🌍 The once and future world order: why global civilization will survive the declin of the West, Amitav Acharya @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✒️Sanket Kumar Prajapati

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

⚠️ New book review! 🌍 World of the right: radical conservatism and global order, @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social et al. @universitypress.cambridge.org 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✒️Laura Wolters

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

⚠️ New book review! ☢️The European Union’s nuclear non-proliferation policy: performance and contestation, Manuel Herrera 🔗 Link in bio! ✒️ @ludovicacast.bsky.social

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

⚠️New #article online! 🌐 A Demand-side Explanation of Offshore #Autocratic Assistance: 🔍 shorturl.at/WvxcN ✒️ Diego Telias (Universidad ORT Uruguay), Luciano Quispe (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) & Stefano Palestini (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

⚠️ New book review! ⚖️Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: between Justice and Sovereignty, Delia Duong Wendel (dukepress.bsky.social) 🔗 www.theinternationalspectator.com/post/book-re... ✒️Beatrice Morani

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

⚠️New #article online! ⚖️ Sanctions Litigation before the #EuropeanUnion’s Court of Justice 🔍 What motivates individuals and entities to challenge EU sanctions before the CJEU? shorturl.at/Bi2CP ✒️ Francesca Finelli (uni.lu)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

❗️Read our #openaccess #article! 🇪🇺Constraints, Dilemmas and Challenges for EU Foreign Policy in #Venezuela 🔍 shorturl.at/oUf4U ✒️ ayusoanna.bsky.social (cidobbarcelona.bsky.social), tizbreda.bsky.social (acleddata.bsky.social), Elsa Lilja Gunnarsdottir & Marianne Riddervold (nupinytt.bsky.social)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The International Spectator's team would like to wish you a joyful #newyear filled with our knowledge, insights and updates!

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🧭 #Iran and #CentralAsia: Eurasian #Geopolitics in a Changing World Order 🔍 loom.ly/Fx-mKrk ✒️ Aigerim Altynbek, Edward Wastnidge (@openuniversity.bsky.social) & Adilbek Yermekbayev (a al-Farabi Kazakh National University)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

⚠️New #article online! 🛡️ The #SouthCaucasus Reconstructed: Polarity and Regional Security Order after the #NagornoKarabakh War in 2020 🔍 Read it here: shorturl.at/zzqQa ✒️ Narek Sukiasyan & Erik Davtyan (Yerevan State University)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

🎄The International Spectator team would like to wish you #happyfestivities and a joyful #newyear filled with our knowledge, insights and updates! 🎁

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

⚠️New #article online! 🤝Alliance Management and Binding Strategy: Why the #UnitedStates Has Failed to Prevent #Turkey from Strategic Rapprochement with #Russia 🔍 Find out more: shorturl.at/4hSfM ✒️ İsmail Akdoğan (Bursa Technical University)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

⚠️New #article online! 🌱Greening the #BeltandRoad Initiative and the #2030Agenda: #China’s #EnvironmentalDiplomacy Discourse in Focus 🔍Is Green BRI driving real progress on climate goals? shorturl.at/w97EL ✒️Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska, Kerry Longhurst & Katarzyna Skiert-Andrzejuk, Civitas University

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🔍 Take a look inside our New #Issue! 👉 Focus on Gulf States' mediation as a foreign policy strategy, China’s pivot to South and Central Asia and Changing alignments from the Black to the Caspian Sea, and more! 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rspe20/6...

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

⚠️New #article online! 🌐 #China’s Economic Engagement as Strategic Deterrence in #Afghanistan 🔍 Find out more: loom.ly/t8zaty8 ✒️ Nishtha Kaushiki, Victor Sathyadas, Sarita Yadav & Hans Raj (Central University of Punjab)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

⚠️New #article online! 🛡️ Joseph Nye’s #SoftPowerTheory and the Dynamics of #China-India Soft Power Competition in #SouthAsia: A Comparative Analysis 🔍 Find out more here: shorturl.at/CKvRe ✒️ Mohammed Nuruzzaman & Noor Mohammad Sarker (North South University)

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

⚠️ New book review! 📗 Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa, G. Denoeux, R. Springborg & H. Alaoui (@lynneriennerpub.bsky.social) 🔗 shorturl.at/SwxGI ✒️ Antonia Ricciardiello

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The International Spectator @intlspectator.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

⚠️New #article online! 🥇Imane Khelif: Women’s Boxing, Geopolitical Power and Gendered Media Narratives 🔍 Find out more: shorturl.at/SDcQi ✒️ Amara Mahfoud & Kamal Hamidou (Qatar University), Nida Ahmad

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