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Lucian Ashworth

@lucianashworth.bsky.social
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Purveyor of fine international relations. The history of international thought a speciality. Just don't ask where I'm from (it's complicated). professor @ MUNL

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Daniel R. McCarthy @drmccarthy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Those interested in the historiography of IR/its continued salience see Sean Molloy on debate btw Normal Angell & Thayer Mahan 👇 My exposure to Angell was via @lucianashworth.bsky.social founder of the 'Limerick School' - big impact on a wide # of IR scholars journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Angell versus Mahan: revisiting International Relations on the eve of World War I - Seán Molloy, 2024
In 1912 a debate erupted between Alfred Thayer Mahan and Norman Angell. The debate revolved around what motivates states and what constitutes the fundamental ba...
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Nice review of Erased in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-a...
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An Active Project of Exclusion | Los Angeles Review of Books
Geertje Bol and Jan Eijking review “Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men,” by Patricia Owens.
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Historical IR Section (ISA) @hist-isanet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚨 2025 HIST prize details Our ISA section website will be updated shortly. In the meantime, have a look at this thread for all up-to-date information about our prizes 👇 Note that *all nominations* are due August 1st and should be sent (by email) to the respective committee chair. 🧵
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
‘When asked if he'd consider using military force to annex Canada, Trump said he thinks "we're not gonna ever get to that point" but "something could happen with Greenland" — the autonomous Danish territory which he's also mentioned absorbing.’ www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Trump reiterates 51st state threat as Carney prepares for critical White House meeting | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump is doubling down on threats to make Canada the 51st state and says he'll "always talk about that" as Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares for a crucial White House meeting a...
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Ruling through fear www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
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I live in the US and have a green card. If I leave the country, will I be allowed back in? | Arwa Mahdawi
Even a summer holiday isn’t straightforward any more - and all across the US, millions of people are having to make calculations like mine, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
As the guardrails of free speech & the rule of law buckle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Denied, detained, deported: the people ensnared in Trump’s immigration crackdown
The White House is targeting people seen as opponents of its agenda – here are some of the most high-profile cases
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Someone who can’t take a hint. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media
Former PM says she wants to protect free speech after being ‘cut off at the knees’ by ‘the elite’ while at No 10
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Ain't Going to Play Sun City www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
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CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
'Digital fossils' theconversation.com/a-weird-phra...
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A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Callous… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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El Salvador president refuses to order return of wrongly deported US man
Trump officials claim they’re not legally bound to bring Kilmar Abrego García back despite supreme court ruling
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It's only April, but it looks like JD Vance has the World's Worst Diplomat 2025 award in the bag. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Beijing attacks JD Vance’s ‘Chinese peasants’ remark in tariffs interview
Chinese foreign ministry calls comments by US vice-president ‘ignorant and disrespectful’
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is the basic problem. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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There Are No Adults in the Room
A brief note on the inherent media problem with covering galactically stupid policies.
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Video obtained by @nytimes.com confirms the IDF fired on and killed clearly identified Red Crescent medics in Gaza. 15 were killed. Satellite pics analyzed by @ckoettl.bsky.social & @sanjanamv.bsky.social show the IDF then buried the medics andambulances. Story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 04/04/2025
In sum, the US is fucked. Geopolitical suicide and economic self-immolation, both at the same time. ⛔
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
While the Trump Administration strives to liberate itself from reality... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Now they are just having a laugh... www.reuters.com/world/us-off...
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US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally
U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I have uploaded the introductory chapter to my book, 'No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech' to ResearchGate and Academia dot Edu. www.researchgate.net/publication/... www.academia.edu/44497710/No_...
Cover of my book, 'No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech' (Routledge, 2020).
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
World's Worst Diplomat. I would use James Der Derian's concept of anti-diplomacy, but that might be giving a solid meaning to an approach that has more in common with a badly made blancmange. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Observer view on JD Vance: spurned in Greenland and humiliated at home, the vice-president should resign
His foolish foreign trip and the response to the Signal chat leak reflect the irresponsibility of White House team
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
... and now coming after UNCLOS III www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed
Environmentalists call bid to skirt UN treaty ‘reckless’ amid fears that mining will cause irreversible loss of biodiversity
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Where we are www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This op-ed could lead to me being deported from America | Berna León
I could never have imagined that writing a critical piece about the government could put me at risk of deportation
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=H400...
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End of an era for Canada-US ties, says PM Carney
YouTube video by Guardian News
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Right. Visitors risk detention if they express certain opinions.
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Billy No-Mates
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Tomorrow!
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“[Climate breakdown] is a recipe for permanent recession,” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds
Third of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs unchecked, says report
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Trying to break the last guardrails... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump ramps up retribution campaign against legal community
President ordered attorney general to refer partisan lawsuits to White House and recommend sanctions against firms
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It's the pettiness... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US blocks Canadian access to cross-border library, sparking outcry
US officials claim move was to curb drug trafficking while Quebec town says it ‘weakens collaboration’ among nations
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Prosecutor: Now, Mr. Hoffman, what were you wondering when you wrote this passage? Hoffman: Does wondering mean dreaming? P: Yes, that's right. H: I've never been on trial for my dreams before... - Abby Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🚨Department of Political Science Presents🚨 As part of #MemorialU100 @memorialu.bsky.social Thursday, 27th March at 7pm-9pm The ALT Hotel moderated by CBC's Adam Walsh "A Century of Politics & the Next 100 Years" Register for the event at: eventbrite.com/e/a-century-...
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Creating their own reality www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study
Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
JOB Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present, University of Cambridge (this is a permanent/tenured position, open to those with a specialism in any period since 1700) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50242/
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Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"...any pretence of a special relationship between Canada and the United States is dead." Asa McKercher on Canada and Trump 2.0
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
US foreign policy, AD 2025... "Trump insists ‘everybody loves’ his plan for US to ‘take over’ Gaza amid global condemnation" - Guardian online headline.
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
In the face of increased laws to criminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people, and increased incidents of hate speech and violence, I and my colleagues stand against these laws and this hate.
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
So much for United States leadership (not to mention 'the art of the deal').
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Pretty much...
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I remember the claims, at the beginnings of NAFTA, that North America now had a free trade regime that surpassed the EU. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
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The End of North America
Trump pulls the trigger on tariffs
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Trumponomics
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Climate change and food supply. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
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The wildfires and the food supply
As the death and destruction in LA shows, extreme weather is already impacting our lives —and indeed the food we eat
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
‘Horrendous’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Trump again demands to buy Greenland in ‘horrendous’ call with Danish PM
Source says: ‘The Danes are in crisis mode’ after US president’s call with prime minister Mette Frederiksen
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Well deserved...
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Kelly Blidook @kblidook.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I’m giving a talk Wednesday, Feb. 5 @ 2pm in IIC-2014 at MUNL
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Student numbers tend to go up as the crisis deepens...
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
@quinnslobodian.com on the new oligarchy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that | Quinn Slobodian
The convergence of money and politics isn’t new. What’s different is the Silicon Valley right’s hostility to the nation state, says author Quinn Slobodian
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Now, on that 'costs of net zero' discussion... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries
Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
@berytia.bsky.social writing for Aeon: "Our culture is cosmopolitan because we are a cosmopolitan species... What has allowed us to thrive, physically and culturally, is not our rootedness but our mobility. Without it, we would already be extinct." aeon.co/essays/there...
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There are no pure cultures - we have always been global | Aeon Essays
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
@sashaetkind.bsky.social on oil and catastrophic learning. www.theideasletter.org/essay/oil-as...
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Oil as Sin - The Ideas Letter
In September 2024, Saudi Arabia withdrew from its policy of stabilizing oil prices at the symbolic level of $100 per barrel. Having stopped price-gouging, the Saudis intended to displace Russia…
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Lucian Ashworth @lucianashworth.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The limits of the edgelord www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Majority of Britons believe Musk having negative impact on UK politics
More voters think tech tycoon’s comments on grooming gangs are unhelpful than those who back him
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