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Marco Vieira

@macvieira.bsky.social
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Associate Prof. at University of Birmingham. Ph.D LSE

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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A memorable night in London: private screening of The Secret Agent with Wagner Moura and director Kleber Mendonça Filho, kindly hosted by the Brazilian Embassy. Brazilian cinema at its best 🎥🇧🇷
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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Venezuela and the return of imperial power in the Americas - University of Birmingham
Dr Marco Vieira examines the return of imperialism to the Americas following the US's removal of Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela.
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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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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
You know how the far-right is pretty big right now? Well I've got a 🚨New Publication🚨 on interpreting far-right ideologies! Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in @ejir.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement - Charlie W. Price, 2025
In recent years, the concept of fantasy has been afforded increased attention in psychoanalytic IR. While this scholarship does address bodies and fantasy, the ...
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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Congrats Maysam on a stellar defense! It was a real pleasure engaging with your work. Huge thanks to Catarina Kinnvall and the colleagues at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, for the warm hospitality. www.svet.lu.se/en/article/m...
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Maysam Behravesh has successfully defended his thesis!
Lund University. AbstractDriven by a core curiosity about the political psychology of change and change-seeking as opposed to continuity and status quo-keeping in world politics, this thesis undertake...
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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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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Why do I have to spend so much of my supervision time helping final-year students unlearn the idea that their dissertations must follow a ‘methods, theory, results, discussion’ template?
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Linus Hagström @linushagstrom.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Must self-identified great powers use aggression after events challenging their sense of greatness? See my new OA article in @risjnl.bsky.social: “Unravelling military aggression: Ontological insecurity, great power narcissism, and Japan’s international relations 1868–1971” tinyurl.com/ytstzyya
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Unravelling military aggression: Ontological insecurity, great power narcissism, and Japan’s international relations, 1868–1971 | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Unravelling military aggression: Ontological insecurity, great power narcissism, and Japan’s international relations, 1868–1971
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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds
Institutions may be overlooking inadequate language skills to receive high fees from overseas students.
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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Tim Haughton @timhaughton.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Excellent, insightful and thought provoking presentation from @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social and Michael Williams on their new book. Big thanks/Obrigado to @fromagehomme.bsky.social & @macvieira.bsky.social for organising #cedar
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International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Submissions are open for the DPLST-LAC-ABRI Conference taking place at the University of São Paulo (USP), in São Paulo, Brazil, July 21-24, 2025. The deadline for applications is March 10, 2025. lnkd.in/eD2FgXVi
Text: Submissions are Open for the DPLST-LAC-ABRI São Paulo 2025 conference.
Image: light blue background with faded world map on top. ISA logo in middle.
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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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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Edward Said wrote about the racist function of the label "terrorist" back in 1986 in this book review: www.thenation.com/article/arch... The book he was critiquing was "Terrorism: How the West Can Win", by Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The Essential Terrorist
With the "war on terror" now official nomenclature, the problematic conflating of ethnic, religious and "terrorist" identities is now a matter of policy as well as media distortion. In a 1986 book rev...
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Prof Heather Marquette @hamarquette.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I've set up a new Starter Pack for colleagues in the School of Government at the University of Birmingham. Such a fantastic and diverse range of academics (and far more than I expected when I thought I'd procrastinate for just a few minutes setting this up...). 👇 go.bsky.app/U3UQxZf
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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Brazilian police arrest five over plot to assassinate Lula after 2022 election win | Brazil | The Guardian
Four military personnel and a police agent held on suspicion of plan to prevent inauguration of president
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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I wonder if they also regret voting for Brexit?
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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Snow fun at 7am.
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Following the recent trend on Bluesky and in the hope that more of us will soon join the "good place," I’ve created a starter pack for those studying ontological (in)security in global politics 🤓 go.bsky.app/9v5z4jX
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Marco Vieira @macvieira.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Looking forward to engaging with the Bluesky community! In the meantime, feel free to check out my latest publication with Martin Maitino in Global Studies Quarterly academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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Ontological Security and Climate Policy in Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil: Understanding the Emotional Underpinnings of Environmental Destruction
Abstract. In this paper, we examine Brazil's climate/environmental discourse and policy during Jair Bolsonaro's administration (2019–2022), focusing on the
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