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Jan Eijking

@janeijking.com
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Assistant Professor, Leiden University. International Relations Theory & History. Out now: "The Technocratic International" (OUP) "Experts in a Turbulent World" (ed) (OUP) www.janeijking.com

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Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today’s the day! 🥳
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Women in the History of Political Thought @whpt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social and Geertje Bol wrote on why flattery of rulers isn't the kind of flattery you should be worried about... Tory feminists show us that flattery is particularly dangerous when it is used to subordinate. 👩‍🏫 First presented at the 2024 WHPT conference in Ghent!
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Mary Jo MacDonald @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
New book alert🚨 Geertje Bol's Partisan Virtue is out online! The book offers a timely defence of partisanship by turning to two 18th century women—Astell &Macaulay—for whom parties were a vehicle for political participation. So excited to dig into this! academic.oup.com/book/62949
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Partisan Virtue: The Politics of Inclusion in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Political Thought
Abstract. Partisan Virtue recovers an overlooked tradition of thinking about partisanship in the political thought of two eighteenth-century women writers
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 29/09/2026
Excellent new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social by Geertje Bol ( @whpt.bsky.social ) and @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social 👏 "From Courtiers to Courtship: Tory Feminism and the Political Dangers of Flattery" 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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From Courtiers to Courtship: Tory Feminism and the Political Dangers of Flattery | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
From Courtiers to Courtship: Tory Feminism and the Political Dangers of Flattery
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More happy news! @henrikdku.bsky.social’s and my other project, on the politics and normative significance of the pace of social and technological change, was awarded 6M sek by Formas Research Council. www.vr.se/english/swec...
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Swecris – search for Swedish research projects
Swecris is a national database, where you can see how the participating research funding bodies have distributed their funds to researchers in Sweden. The database contains data from both governmental...
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 09/09/2026
Haven't read this yet but looks pretty interesting – in a cool journal: "Fortified Luxury: How High-Security Residential Architecture is Evolving in an Age of Unrest" 👇
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Fortified Luxury: How High-Security Residential Architecture is Evolving in an Age of Unrest
This research investigates the evolution of high-security residential architecture, where luxury and fortification intersect in response to growing geopolitical instability, crime, and economic unc...
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Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The @magdalenoxford.bsky.social junior research fellowships are now open, including for politics. Due 15 Oct. 3 years of 100% research time to those who submit their PhD between July 2025-Oct 2027. Comes with good ECR pay, relatively generous support funds. www.magd.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
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Job Vacancies - Magdalen College
Magdalen College is one of the oldest, largest, and most beautiful colleges in Oxford – it is a wonderful place to work. You can explore and apply for current vacancies on our recruitment website via ...
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 29/08/2026
My latest for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social — with many thanks to Nick Harris for excellent edits.👇
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The loathing of technocracy
"Technocrats" are the sworn enemy of populists. But who are they?
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A few things (international) commentatoes should remember. Only 2 million people live in Sachsen-Anhalt. Half of Berlin, a tenth of NRW. Around 400k will vote AfD. Even with this strong result, 80% of people living in S-A will not have voted for the AfD. In a state that is a far-right stronghold.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AfD gets 44.5 % in the exit poll. Absolutely dramatic!
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 05/09/2026
Thanks @europeanisa.bsky.social for organizing a great conference in beautiful Lisbon!
Streetcar through old town, LisbonJardim da Estrela, Lisbon
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Catherine Baker @cat-baker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My first solo-author article, Is the Far-Right Anti-Science?, is now published in Social Epistemology. It explores the far-right’s epistemic struggle to claim scientific authority, attacking and co-opting science to legitimise white supremacy & misogyny—an issue academia must increasingly attend to
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 04/09/2026
“The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.”
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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 04/09/2026
The Merchants of Doubt are back in full swing! New research published by investigative journalists of #FollowtheMoney show that Big Tobacco is back on track of (ab)using both science and politics to roll back laws and regulation in Europe. Read story here: tinyurl.com/4t4xbd4s
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Big Tobacco stops Brussels from getting tough on vaping, despite proven harm
The tobacco industry is pouring millions of euros into research and lobbying to promote the idea that vapes and other new products are less harmful than cigarettes. In Brussels, that controversial mes...
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 04/09/2026
Really happy to receive an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant, for a project on the history of transnational regulation in shipping, agriculture, and telecommunications, 1850-1950. Thanks so much to everyone who’s helped me prepare and practice along the way. 🙏
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Daniel R. McCarthy @drmccarthy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Missed this one when it first came out: @janeijking.com on Jules Verne, fiction/literature, and technocratic worldmaking in RIS. Very good, very interesting piece 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Machine conquest: Jules Verne’s technocratic worldmaking | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Machine conquest: Jules Verne’s technocratic worldmaking - Volume 51 Issue 2
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
NEW PAPER Duncan Bell, "Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain" (2026) Forthcoming in Duncan Bell & Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain
Draft chapter - a version of this essay is forthcoming in Duncan Bell and Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature. <div> <br> </div> <
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
JOB vacancies in International Relations at LSE: Two Assistant Professorships, focusing on Geoeconomics and Global Environmental Politics. Just over a week until the deadline, 7 Sept 👇
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 29/08/2026
My latest for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social — with many thanks to Nick Harris for excellent edits.👇
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The loathing of technocracy
"Technocrats" are the sworn enemy of populists. But who are they?
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 28/08/2026
Really interesting forum with excellent contributions on science under attack, and what to do about it 👇
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 28/08/2026
Really interesting forum with excellent contributions on science under attack, and what to do about it 👇
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The Public’s Science @thepublicsscience.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In the @bostonreview.bsky.social forum, "How to Save Science," @alondra.bsky.social and Jenny Reardon @scijust.bsky.social argue that neither of the architects of the postwar federal science framework adequately considered the role of the public. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-to...
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The Standing the Public Deserves
Alondra Nelson and Jenny Reardon respond to Zeynep Pamuk in our forum, “How to Save Science.”
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Susan Hyde @sdhyde.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Job alert! We are hiring in IR at UC Berkeley this fall. Assistant level position. Please share. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05400
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Assistant Professor - International Relations - Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It also became clear that Uni exec were leaning on the advice of a consultancy firm that has been shaping HE policy in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK: Nous (or Nousferatu, as they’re now known). The fact VCs and others are delegating policy to consultants, despite £400k salaries, is disgusting
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Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The political risk of regulatory capture by the AI inustry is really compounding with the risk of user-lock-in. The big players' ideal scenario would be that AI is indispensable in life and workflows (after eroding human education and training) and regulated as to become an uncompetitive market.
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Historical IR Section (ISA) @hist-isanet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🤓 "What's historical about historical IR?" An exciting new article by @mjbayly.bsky.social in CRIA, on "the role of narrative in Historical IR and the study of world orders." Well worth a read! 👇
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Historical IR Section (ISA) @hist-isanet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Congrats! 🎉👏
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 18/08/2026
A really great essay @aeon.co by Geertje Bol, on the case for righteous zeal:
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Polite debate has privilege. The marginalised need zealotry | Aeon Essays
Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why?
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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
THE SHAH'S GREAT TOUR has a cover (and please judge the book by it...) - out on 8 October! @lsehy.bsky.social @academic.oup.com
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 19/08/2026
The @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC is around the corner! Excited to discuss & discover new work-in-progress in Lisbon. I will also discuss my book at a roundtable with Joanne Yao, Jens Steffek, @olejacobsending.bsky.social & @littozmonnet.bsky.social. 🗓️ Tue 1/9, 14:00, C4.02 (Building 2) #HistIR
Book panel "The Technocratic International": Tuesday, September 1st, 14:00-15:30, C4.02 (Building 2)
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Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I wrote about Locke, the liberal establishment, and the role of universities for Persuasion, here: open.substack.com/pub/persuasi... Come for Guy Verhoefstadt's Locke tweets, stay for the (unsung) significance of William Popple for so-called "Lockean" toleration...
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What Locke Knew About Elites
How liberals learned to stop worrying and love the establishment.
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 18/08/2026
#HistIR 👇👇
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 18/08/2026
A really great essay @aeon.co by Geertje Bol, on the case for righteous zeal:
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Polite debate has privilege. The marginalised need zealotry | Aeon Essays
Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why?
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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I spoke to @theguardian.com about the future of online dating: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems?
Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as ‘swipe fatigue’ grows
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Chris Aalberts @chrisaalberts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Goed stuk over het wankele onderzoek op basis waarvan #FvD een school mag openen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Forum voor Democratie breidt zijn ecosysteem uit met een nieuwe Almeerse basisschool – maar deze keer betaalt het Rijk
Politiek: Met een basisschool in Almere wil FVD de eerste stappen zetten richting een eigen onderwijszuil. Haar eerste publiek bekostigde basisschool opent maandag, mogelijk gemaakt door een nieuwe re...
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A 3-year-long strike against Tesla in Sweden is over after the company *buys out all of the strikers.* The union calls Tesla "an entirely exceptional employer." Remarkable language in these statements. Elon Musk is truly a global villain. www.industriall-union.org/if-metall-en...
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Started a Substack called "The History of Now." Features new/forthcoming books, interviews, my podcast and academic work. etc. Here's the 1st post. The 2nd will be an interview with Duncan Kelly about his important new book on WWI: open.substack.com/pub/historyo...
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The History of Now
A Resource for New and Forthcoming Books, New Articles, Interviews, Podcast, Archival finds and more...
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 31/07/2026
As @janeijking.com argues in this Essay, technocracy lies at the heart of the legitimacy crisis that international organisations face today. The problem is not expertise, but the technocratic use of expert advice
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Are we witnessing the end of the technocratic international? | Aeon Essays
Through international organisations, they wield power under the pretence of simply following the experts. Don’t believe them
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 31/07/2026
Here’s a piece I wrote for @aeon.co on some of the themes of my book: aeon.co/essays/are-w... #HistIR
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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“…the most ardent supporters of ‘independence from politics’ have, historically, been those setting the terms of its inverse. To ‘soar above the mists of prejudice’ often was the privilege of none other than the mist-makers. Freedom from power comes easy when you wield it yourself.”
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Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happy Birthday to.... us?! Die »Blätter« werden in diesem Jahr 70 🥳 Davon sollt auch ihr etwas haben: 👉️ Unser Jubiläums-Abo: Print- und Digital-Abo + USB-Archiv zum Aktionspreis www.blaetter.de/abo70
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Das »Blätter«-Jubiläumsabo
Zum 70. Geburtstag der »Blätter« haben wir ein besonderes Angebot für Sie
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 31/07/2026
Here’s a piece I wrote for @aeon.co on some of the themes of my book: aeon.co/essays/are-w... #HistIR
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 30/07/2026
A very good essay about “decadence without pleasure”. “Why strive for pleasure? Why long for it? Because – contra the Bryan Johnsons of the world – we will die.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson
Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/07/2026
What should replace the American-led world order? | Aslı Bâli and Samuel Moyn
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What should replace the American-led world order? | Aslı Bâli and Samuel Moyn
The task now is to stop mourning the old order and build the foundations of the new multipolar world
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 27/07/2026
“The simple act of holding a camera in my homeland of Western Sahara can be a crime.“
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Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat
The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 27/07/2026
“The simple act of holding a camera in my homeland of Western Sahara can be a crime.“
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Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat
The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 17/07/2026
📚🤓➡️ The print version is officially available now too, at global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history
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