Reposted by Martin BaylyMaria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026After two years of inspiring collaboration, our ‘Arenas in Global History’ on ‘Women and Development in Asia and Africa, 1930–1980’ was published as First View. I am very grateful to my 12 co-authors for for taking part in this collaborative writing project. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1125
Reposted by Martin BaylyHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Applications are open for our (free) early career researcher leadership programme. We will provide 62 ECRs from humanities and social sciences with coaching, mentoring and peer networking. We can contribute to childcare costs. Apply by 28th October www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career...thebritishacademy.ac.ukBritish Academy Elevate Programme - Leadership Stream: key informationAn intensive, CPD‑accredited leadership programme for Early Career Researchers delivered through training, mentoring and coaching. 0713
Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My new article with CRIA is about the role of narrative in Historical IR and the study of world orders. With some notable exceptions, IR scholars have shown a surprising lack of interest in the way that history is pre-arranged into narrative structures ... 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comWhat’s historical about historical IR? narrativity, the philosophy of history and world order studiesHistorical International Relations (HIR) represents a growing subfield within the wider discipline, offering a ‘history-first’ approach, lessening the grip of more theory and/or methods-driven scho... 1165
Reposted by Martin BaylyLSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · 07/08/2026🚨 We're #hiring at LSE! Join our Department of International Relations: 🔹Assistant Professor in IR/IPE (Geoeconomics) ➡️ ow.ly/Ggxs50ZxHFG 🔹Assistant Professor in IR/IPE (Global Environmental Politics) ➡️ ow.ly/oGHT50ZxHGv 📆 Deadline: 7 September 2026. #AcademicJob #AcademicSky #PoliSky 032
Reposted by Martin BaylyAlice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 09/06/2026We have two new 12-month postdoctoral fellowship opportunities at the British Library! Applications open soon to co-design projects in the following areas: - Colonial Deposit and our Newspaper Collection - Local Large Language Models and Personal Born-Digital Archives www.bl.uk/services/res...bl.ukThe Joanna and Graham Barker Fellowship SchemeTwo funded-fellowship opportunities for early career, postdoctoral researchers. 13141
Reposted by Martin BaylyRoman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!international.au.dkAssistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus UniversityVacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University 1120124
Reposted by Martin BaylyRohan Mukherjee @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Why do nuclear dominoes not fall? The common wisdom holds that each new proliferator goads its rivals into following suit, but they rarely do. Yogesh Joshi and I argue that this gap between expectation and reality cannot be explained by the cost of nuclear pursuit alone. 1/6 2104
Reposted by Martin BaylyMirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 26/05/2026🚨🚨 Italo Brandimarte and I have a new article out in International Political Sociology! It is part of the IPS@20 Anniversary Special Issue and is open access at: academic.oup.com/ips/article/.... We call for de-centering the human in temporal world political analysis via 'Deep Global Futures'. ⬇️⬇️ 0136
Reposted by Martin BaylyRia Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Check this out! The introduction to a series that will feature some truly brilliant pieces from @smidbob.bsky.social @carolienstolte.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social @snehakrishnan.bsky.social and more! 1146
Reposted by Martin BaylyLSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · 14/04/2026📣 Dr @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social has edited a special issue of the journal Indian Politics & Policy. He also authored the issue’s introduction, “Domestic Change and Foreign Policy in Contemporary #India,” available here: bit.ly/4tQ0OZO 🔗 Explore the full special issue here: bit.ly/41xbtwo #PoliSkybit.lyGuest Editor’s Introduction: Domestic Change and Foreign Policy in Contemporary IndiaIndia has experienced over a decade of rule under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This special issue examines how domestic political change during this period has... 033
Reposted by Martin BaylyMillennium: Journal of International Studies @millennjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026📣 The call is open! Millennium's 2026 Symposium explores "The Global Politics of Liminality" — and we want to hear from you. Scholars from across the discipline (and beyond) are encouraged to submit. 🔗 Full details here: millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs... 0103
Reposted by Martin BaylyJoseph MacKay @lefteleven.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Very glad to see this article out in the world. In it, I argue for a critical reading of realism's political history, in terms of exile and how realists historically experienced it. /1 3175
Reposted by Martin BaylyShruti Balaji @shrutibalaji.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I’m pleased to share my new article out in the Journal of the History of Ideas (@jhideas.bsky.social) 📝✨ In this article, I (dis)locate ideas of “race” in the intellectual thought of elite Indian political thinkers in the early to mid twentieth century. Link to article and outline of arguments ⬇️ 171
Reposted by Martin BaylyDuncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 02/03/2026JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...cam.ac.ukUniversity Assistant Professor in Political TheoryApplications are invited for an Assistant Professor (Grade 9) in political theory, to be based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. The post will be 28296
Reposted by Martin BaylyInternational Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Reminder: Proposals for the ISA‑SAWP 2026 Conference, South Asia in a Changing International Order, are due 2 March. The conference meets 6–8 August at the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo. Details: buff.ly/k96ewHT 002
Reposted by Martin Baylynicoblar.bsky.social @nicoblar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com ISA-SAWP Colombo 2026: Call for Proposals 135552
Reposted by Martin BaylyHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche... 1173250
Reposted by Martin BaylyDóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 17/12/2025My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions. careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...careers.ceu.eduAssistant Professor (f/m/d)Assistant Professor (f/m/d) 11521
Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social · 09/12/2025On Wednesday evening we're hosting @jelenasubotic.bsky.social at @lseir.bsky.social to talk about her fantastic new book 'The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution'. It's free to attend, but registration is necessary. Please come along! Details below... 111
Reposted by Martin BaylyWoohyeok Seo @seowoohyeok.bsky.social · 04/12/2025🎉I am very pleased to share the publication of our @millennjournal.bsky.social Vol. 53 Special Issue: Traversing Memories in Global Politics. You can read our Introduction, co-authored with Kinti Orellana Matute and Pauline Zerla, here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...doi.orgTraversing Memories in Global Politics - Kinti Orellana Matute, Woohyeok Seo, Pauline Zerla, 2025 1138
Reposted by Martin BaylyTom Long @tomlongphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025The new special issue of EJIR is a wonderful and diverse look at "History and Theory in International Relations". The issue includes my article with @caschulz.bsky.social on critical junctures in IR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🧵🧵🧵 @ejir.bsky.social @warwickpais.bsky.socialjournals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 174
Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social · 21/11/2025In light of yesterday's news on the COVID inquiry in relation to political decision-making, I'm re-posting our recent ISQ article. We show how political elites in the UK, Italy, and Germany varied in the ways they communicated the inevitability of mass death during the onset of the pandemic. 🧵... 132
Reposted by Martin BaylyMariah Thornton (宋妍嫵) @mariahtthornton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Exciting to see my recent article about #disinformation, whole-of-society resistance, and #Taiwan with @ejir.bsky.social was trending in IR according to OOIR. 👉The article: shorturl.at/0DCPz 👉OOIR's post: x.com/ObserveIR/st... 042
Reposted by Martin BaylyDuncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025JOB College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge [This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations] www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...trin.cam.ac.ukCollege Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and PoliticsApplications are invited for appointment to a College Lectureship in Modern History and Politics, together with a Fellowship, tenable for five years in the first instance, with the possibility of… 03031
Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Please join us this evening for an LSE guest lecture from Iver Neumann, with Federica Bicchi and Jennifer Jackson-Preece, on 'The Changing Geopolitics of Northern Europe'. Covering the Arctic, the Nordics, and the Baltics. Free to all. No registration necessary www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...lse.ac.ukThe changing geopolitics of Northern Europe6.30pm Thurs 30 Oct | Iver B Neumann, Federica Bicchi, Jennifer Jackson-Preece | Free public event at LSE 001
Reposted by Martin BaylyReview of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 28/10/2025🚨New First View Article🚨 "Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs" by Nikhil Kalyanpur is now available #OpenAccess! Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/1rgOv0s 011
Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Please join us next week for the LSE launch of Kerry Goettlich's terrific new book, 'From Frontiers to Borders', with an all-star panel of @aysezarakol.bsky.social, Joanne Yao, and Edward Keene. Weds 29 Oct. 6.30pm. No registration necessary. All welcome. Details below www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...lse.ac.ukFrom Frontiers to Borders: How colonial technicians created modern territoriality6.30pm Weds 29 Oct | Kerry Goettlich, Eddie Keene, Joanne Yao, Ayşe Zarakol | Free public event at LSE 133
Reposted by Martin BaylyJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 14/10/2025This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome). 📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!) Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...cais.cass.anu.edu.auCAIS Public Lecture Series | Severing Colonial Relationality: Towards an Islamicate Theory of Autonomy and Refusal | Centre for Arab & Islamic StudiesIn this paper I seek to bring to the fore the theological sources of everyday resistance in the Islamicate, focusing specifically on emancipatory detachment. In doing so, I think with anti-colonial th... 1189
Reposted by Martin Baylyprofmiskimmon.bsky.social @profmiskimmon.bsky.social · 03/10/2025jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR845/lecturer-in-international-relations and jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR850/l... @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social Deadline is 13 October 2025 #InternationalRelations #PublicPolicyjobs.ac.ukLecturer in International Relations at Queen's University BelfastApply now for the Lecturer in International Relations role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details. 043
Reposted by Martin BaylyTimothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025This call for applications for a First Book Workshop from @toynbeeprize.bsky.social looks like a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars working on "global, imperial, comparative, world, or transnational history": toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f.... Deadline is November 2, 2025.toynbeeprize.orgCall For Applications: Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition 2025-26 | Toynbee Prize Foundation 01517
Reposted by Martin BaylyWilliam A. Callahan 柯嵐安 @billcallahan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Hey all, my article "The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line" is published in _Geopolitics_ today: it's OA, so please click and download, for free! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comThe Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped LineThis article develops ‘the imperial gaze’ concept to explore how maps not only represent the world, but also do things in geopolitics, even provoking mass demonstrations. It examines China’s early-... 064
Reposted by Martin BaylyDan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 16/09/2025What have we got in the bank? 1) Roundtables on the practice turn, ontological security, and historical international relation. 2) An unreleased recording of a "live taping" a few years back at the LSE. 3) An episode on @profptj.bsky.social's favorite "hate read," the Clash of Civilizations. 182
Reposted by Martin BaylyLSE South Asia Centre @lsesouthasia.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Was it just #US withdrawal & #Taliban capture that ended the #Republic in #Afghanistan in 2021? Basir Arian @ids.ac.uk @cheveningfcdo.bsky.social summarises the wider malaise & crisis of legitimacy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20... @lseir.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social 001
Reposted by Martin BaylyInternational Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 13/08/2025#OpenAccess from our new issue - Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders - cup.org/3F8FkmN - @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social 084
Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Two permanent posts at the Assistant Professor grade going in the IR Department at LSE. One with specialism in International Security; one with specialism in International Political Economy (and climate change, or environment, and/or global business). Deadline 7 September. Details below! 120
Reposted by Martin BaylyJanina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Devastating account of -the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza -our collective moral failure -applicable legal obligations right NOW by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal & @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...justsecurity.orgTime Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global ImperativeIt is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative. 12320
Reposted by Martin BaylyJelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 07/07/2025🚨My new article, part of a @risjnl.bsky.social special issue on heritage I co-edited with the wonderful @elifkalay.bsky.social. I explore how the frenzy for acquiring antiquities in early 19th century (most famously, the Parthenon Marbles) was really international competition for cultural status.cambridge.orgThe 19th-century ‘antiquities rush’ and the international competition for cultural status | Review of International Studies | Cambridge CoreThe 19th-century ‘antiquities rush’ and the international competition for cultural status 3275
Reposted by Martin BaylyLSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · 24/06/2025What are Trump's ICE raids really about? To mark World Refugee Day, stephrschwartz.bsky.social reflects on Trump’s immigration crackdown and the extreme measures sparking nationwide protest. Is this restoring order or eroding democracy? #USImmigration #WorldRefugeeDay #LSE youtu.be/xQyUSGN4YY4?...youtu.beWhat are Trump's ICE raids really about? #USImmigration #WorldRefugeeDay #LSEYouTube video by LSE 042
Reposted by Martin BaylyTimothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025This online workshop on academic publishing (July 9 at 15:00 GMT) from the Toynbee Prize Foundation and the Journal of Global History, hosted by @emleake.bsky.social @heiditworek.bsky.social looks like a great opportunity for early career #skystorians: toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f...toynbeeprize.orgCall for registration: JGH x TPF Publishing Workshop II | Toynbee Prize Foundation 042
Reposted by Martin BaylyHistorical IR Section (ISA) @hist-isanet.bsky.social · 20/06/2025👉 Take a look at this CfP for the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History, for those working on "any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined" 👇 Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social, @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR 0118
Reposted by Martin BaylyGiuseppe Grieco @giuseppegrieco.bsky.social · 17/06/2025I am very excited to be giving the opening remarks at the annual History of Political Thought Conference this Thursday at LSE. Thanks to the organisers for the invitation! Check out the programme and come listen to these fantastic papers. 063
Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social · 16/06/2025indiasworld.in/70-years-of-... An interview with India's World Magazine on the significance of Sapru House, the home of the Indian Council of World Affairs, as it celebrates its 70th anniverary.indiasworld.in70 Years of Sapru House: Reimagining Global IR Through India’s Intellectual Legacy | Dr. Martin Bayly Speaks to India's World | India's WorldAs Sapru House marks its 70th anniversary in 2025, commemorating its founding in 1955 by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as the home of the Indian Council o ... 020
Reposted by Martin BaylyLuca Tardelli @lucatardelli.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Come along tonight to what will be a great Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture. Speaker: George Lawson Discussant: Jasmine Gani Chair: Toby Dodge www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/... @lseir.bsky.sociallse.ac.ukRevolutions and world order: still the 'Sixth Great Power'?6.30pm Tues 27th May | Jasmine Gani, George Lawson | Free public event at LSE 184
Reposted by Martin BaylyOr Rosenboim @orrosenboim.bsky.social · 26/05/2025My new article on the international thought of Hans Kelsen is now out on @globalhistjnl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...doi.orgLaw, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s | Journal of Global History | Cambridge CoreLaw, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s 0206
Reposted by Martin BaylyAyşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam 14417
Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Happening on Thursday this week at City University (London). Free, in person, and online. I’ll be speaking on the Indian independence struggle as a form of world ordering, culminating in the 1947 Asian Relations Conference. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...citystgeorges.ac.ukGlobal Order and Governance beyond the West - History and International Affairs Workshop | City St George's, University of LondonThis roundtable conversation will reflect on these historical experiences to reimagine order and governance in today’s multipolar world. 032
Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Happening on Tuesday next week. Online and in person. Don’t miss out! 051