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Nicolai Gellwitzki

@ngellwitzki.bsky.social
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of York. Researching public moods, emotions, and ontological security in International Relations

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Eric Van Rythoven @ericvanr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy to chat with CNN about mockery and the Canada-U.S. relationship for this article. www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/a...
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Trump’s been lobbing insults at Canada’s leader for more than a year. Now Carney is hitting back | CNN
More than a year into Carney’s tenure, with trade talks once-again stalled and a flashy new alliance blooming with the European Union, the Canadian leader appears to be done taking the high road.
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How does masculinity shape the 2024 US presidential election and Trump’s foreign policy? If you are interested in this quesiton, read our new open access article with @veronicabarfucci.bsky.social and Deborah Faudoa Rodriguez in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
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From Domestic Contestation to Alpha Male Foreign Policy: Phantasies of Masculinity and the US Self
Abstracts. How does masculinity inform the 2024 US presidential election and subsequent US foreign policy? To address this question, we develop the concept
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How does masculinity shape the 2024 US presidential election and Trump’s foreign policy? If you are interested in this quesiton, read our new open access article with @veronicabarfucci.bsky.social and Deborah Faudoa Rodriguez in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
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From Domestic Contestation to Alpha Male Foreign Policy: Phantasies of Masculinity and the US Self
Abstracts. How does masculinity inform the 2024 US presidential election and subsequent US foreign policy? To address this question, we develop the concept
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
'CPD Paper Prize Winner 2026 - The coloniality of exploitation in fast fashion manufacturing in the UK' 🌍 Join Andy Hom as he talks to Susy Williams who won the BISA CPD Working Group's 2026 ECR Paper Prize 🎉 👉 ow.ly/JnTm50ZsV0X Review of International Studies
Andy Hom and Susy Williams sat on a sofa having a conversation
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"Agreements can be negotiated, but if old emotional narratives continue to frame how these developments are understood, the politics of Brexit will continue to influence UK-EU relations." ✍️ @annemhoude.bsky.social & @ngellwitzki.bsky.social on the UK-EU relationship 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-a-dec...
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Brexit a decade later: Why emotions still shape UK-EU relations - UK in a changing Europe
Anne-Marie Houde explores how emotional narratives associated with the Brexit years continue to shape how disagreements between the UK and the EU are interpreted.
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"While the political context has changed, the emotional dynamics that characterised Brexit continue to shape how disagreements between the UK and the EU are interpreted." @annemhoude.bsky.social & @ngellwitzki.bsky.social on why emotions still shape UK-EU relations 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-a-dec...
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Brexit a decade later: Why emotions still shape UK-EU relations - UK in a changing Europe
Anne-Marie Houde explores how emotional narratives associated with the Brexit years continue to shape how disagreements between the UK and the EU are interpreted.
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Jeremy Moulton @jeremymoulton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Carney and Macron's comments at Davos make clear that leaders are recognising what others have long suspected - that the international order's previously dominant myths have been shattered in recent years. The question is now - what will replace them? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order | International Organization | Cambridge Core
The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order - Volume 79 Issue S1
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
In light of current events, this seems an apt moment to revisit our article with @jeremymoulton.bsky.social "The New Age of Myth" in @iojournal.bsky.social. Do we now witness the rise of a political myth of a new age of empires? www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @uoypolitics.bsky.social
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The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order | International Organization | Cambridge Core
The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order - Volume 79 Issue S1
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
In light of current events, this seems an apt moment to revisit our article with @jeremymoulton.bsky.social "The New Age of Myth" in @iojournal.bsky.social. Do we now witness the rise of a political myth of a new age of empires? www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @uoypolitics.bsky.social
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The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order | International Organization | Cambridge Core
The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order - Volume 79 Issue S1
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚨 New Publication in International Organization! 🚨 Happy to share our latest paper with @jeremymoulton.bsky.social:“The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order”, part of SI #IOFoGG on the Future of Global Governance. doi.org/10.1017/S002... @iojournal.bsky.social
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The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order | International Organization | Cambridge Core
The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order - Volume 79 Issue S1
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚨 New Publication in International Organization! 🚨 Happy to share our latest paper with @jeremymoulton.bsky.social:“The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order”, part of SI #IOFoGG on the Future of Global Governance. doi.org/10.1017/S002... @iojournal.bsky.social
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Nina C. Krickel-Choi @nckc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Consider this call for a BISA panel on state personhood ✨ - and share widely!🙏
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Nina C. Krickel-Choi @nckc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
📢Call for Abstracts📢 Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026! We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨ @mybisa.bsky.social
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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
New paper out in @risjnl.bsky.social! 🚨 I explore the everyday foundations of structural power in the international system and advance a new theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the state as a mediator between the two levels. Time for a short thread! 🧵👇
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Jakub Eberle @jeberle.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
NEW ARTICLE OUT IN OPEN ACCESS How do small and peripheral states respond to big EU initiatives? In a new article by Daniel Šitera and myself, we look at Czechia's reluctant and gradual warming to the idea of "EU digital sovereignty". 1/2
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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
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Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations
Abstract. This paper draws on previous scholarship on humor, memes, and seriousness in International Relations to produce a novel means for understanding o
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Dr Fran Melhuish @fransplains.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ‪✍️ ✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism ✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias 💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain @sotonpolitics.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Politics journal article: A new Elizabethan age: The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) and the nostalgic politics of Anglofuturism
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Eric Van Rythoven @ericvanr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A very neat piece.
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Anne-Marie Houde @annemhoude.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧
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Anne-Marie Houde @annemhoude.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Find mine and @ngellwitzki.bsky.social’s new article on EU-UK relations and the emotional (de)politicisation of the Covid-19 vaccine in International Affairs' new issue 📄
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...
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New Methods for New Histories (Online)
Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities
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Gabriel Siles-Brügge @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
✍️ If you are a scholar working in EU Studies and comparative regionalism, please do send us your best work! We're a multi-disciplinary, methodologically and theoretically pluralist journal open to the full range of rigorous work in our scope. We also publish policy commentaries.
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Department of Politics and International Relations @uoypolitics.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New article by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social ai and Anne-Marie Houde in International Affairs that explores the emotional dynamics underpinning the UK’s ‘vaccine war’ with the EU post-Brexit. Read the article in full here academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
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EU–UK relations after Brexit: the emotional (de)politicization of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine
To what extent does the politics of emotions drive processes of (de)politicization? This article studies the case of the intense ‘vaccine war’ between the
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Department of Politics and International Relations @uoypolitics.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New article by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social and Anne-Marie Houde in International Affairs that explores the emotional dynamics underpinning the UK’s ‘vaccine war’ with the EU post-Brexit. Read the article in full here tinyurl.com/484vn386
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EU–UK relations after Brexit: the emotional (de)politicization of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine
To what extent does the politics of emotions drive processes of (de)politicization? This article studies the case of the intense ‘vaccine war’ between the
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Outstanding work by exceptional scholars and truly admirable people. Huge congratulations @annemhoude.bsky.social and @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social ! 🤓⭐🥳🙌
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Lauren Rogers @laurenrogers.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Luke and I wrote a paper! Two years ago, the Sycamore Gap Tree was cut down in the dead of night. Responses to this "act of vandalism" made us think about the role of nature in ontic space, and dualism between human and non/human allows for destruction of nature. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Today is the deadline — last chance to apply if you have not done so yet 🤓👇
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Delighted to see this out! It was a real pleasure to co-author this piece with the brilliant @annemhoude.bsky.social on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ vaccine and its significance for EU–UK relations. It’s open access - do have a look! 🔗: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a... 🧵👇
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EU–UK relations after Brexit: the emotional (de)politicization of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine
To what extent does the politics of emotions drive processes of (de)politicization? This article studies the case of the intense ‘vaccine war’ between the
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Final Version: 225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right Text & signatories here - www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
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OPEN LETTER: 225 UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
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Jonas Rusche @oskarnarcho.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I am really excited to share my new article at @jisb.bsky.social "Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace" I argue that economic policy for peacebuilding needs to escape the ever same prescriptions and instead become an inventory of emancipatory possibilities.
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Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace
Extensive research shows how neoliberal economic policies, enforced through international peacebuilding interventions, exacerbate inequality and undermine their intended goal of fostering peace. Ye...
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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology: #Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan Find the paper here (open-access): academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
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Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop. All details below 👇 www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
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Nina C. Krickel-Choi @nckc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
📢Publication alert!📢 I have a small part in this forum on Charlotte Epstein's excellent book 'The Birth of the State'.✨ doi.org/10.1177/0010... I was invited to reflect on the link between her argument and ontological security - not an easy task and probably the hardest 2,000 words of my life. 1/2
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Forum on Charlotte Epstein’s Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics - Jens Bartelson, Nina C Krickel-Choi, R B J Walker, Lauren Wilcox, 2025
In this forum, four authors discuss Charlotte Epstein’s book Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics published in 2021. After havi...
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop. All details below 👇 www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
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Professor Indrajit Roy @indrajitroy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Call for papers: @annemhoude.bsky.social & I are convening a workshop on "The global politics of hope" for the inaugural @mybisa.bsky.social - ISA workshop later this year. Pl share & consider applying! DEADLINE: 30 May, 2025 More details 👇 www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
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'Race' and Socially Engaged Research Conference @arwg-york.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Please share - registration is open until June🌞 We have a very exciting lineup of speakers and facilitators this year! You can sign up here - store.york.ac.uk/product-cata... - and find out more about our programme here - sites.google.com/view/raceand...
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Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
My second journal article is out in Culture, Health & Sexuality. It is the final paper of the MANFOKUS project. Our paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2025.2458719
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‘How do I really want to be as a man?’ Masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraceptive decision-making – findings from an interview study in Germany
This paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. Through twelve qualitative interviews, three of which were couple interv...
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you haven’t already, do take a moment to read this brilliant piece by the great @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social on memes in International Relations. It is insightful, sharp, and a lot of fun! 🤓
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Department of Politics and International Relations @uoypolitics.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
@ngellwitzki.bsky.social has published a new article in IPS, exploring how fear and hate are mobilised in public discourse to (de)securitise and (de)politicise, linking macro-level narratives with micro-level affect and action for various political ends academic.oup.com/ips/article-...
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The Politics of Fear and Hate: Experience, (De)Legitimization, and (De)Mobilization
Abstract. Critical security studies and emotion research in international relations have highlighted that the emotion of fear is a pivotal driver of materi
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Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) @warwickpais.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Charlie Price and former PAIS PhD Nicolai Gellwitzki argue that fear dominates society due to a lack of positive political vision. To progress, we must transform this fear into hope for a better future. @iai.tv @ngellwitzki.bsky.social @charlieprice.bsky.social
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The politics of fear is in full effect | Nicolai Gellwitzki, Charlie Price
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Department of Politics and International Relations @uoypolitics.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
@ngellwitzki.bsky.social recently published an article with the Institute of Arts and Ideas, you can read the article here: iai.tv/articles/the...
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The politics of fear is in full effect | Nicolai Gellwitzki, Charlie Price
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🚨 New publication Alert 🚨 Why do political actors label micro-political events as driven by fear or hate? In my new article in IPS, I argue these labels are key to the politics of emotion & (de)securitisation dynamics🔗 academic.oup.com/ips/article/... @uoypolitics.bsky.social 🧵👇
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Eric Van Rythoven @ericvanr.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I was a reviewer for this. It is an exceptional piece of scholarship, and I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in security and the politics of emotion. Also very relevant to the United States today...
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Nina C. Krickel-Choi @nckc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Highly relevant piece on the politics of fear and hate👇
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🚨 New publication Alert 🚨 Why do political actors label micro-political events as driven by fear or hate? In my new article in IPS, I argue these labels are key to the politics of emotion & (de)securitisation dynamics🔗 academic.oup.com/ips/article/... @uoypolitics.bsky.social 🧵👇
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Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) @warwickpais.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Charlie Price and former PAIS PhD Nicolai Gellwitzki have recently written for the Institute of Art and Ideas. They make the case that fear is a dominant feature of our society. @iai.tv @ngellwitzki.bsky.social @charlieprice.bsky.social iai.tv/articles/the...
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The politics of fear is in full effect | Nicolai Gellwitzki, Charlie Price
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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We had a good time writing this and hopefully it provokes some discussion! @ngellwitzki.bsky.social and I based this piece on a paper that we wrote for @millennjournal.bsky.social which can be read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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FPA Journal @fpajrnl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🚨 New article🚨 How is diversity linked to credibility in foreign policy? Färber’s 2025 study finds that German foreign policy discourse frames equal representation as essential to being seen as a credible actor abroad. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
@charlieprice.bsky.social and I wrote a piece on fear and our contemporary political moment for @iai.tv based on our Millenium article which you can find here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Check it out below 👇🏻😊
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Not Just "Sinking Islands"! @virginiadebiasio.bsky.social discusses the importance of climate adaptation for the population of #Kiribati & defends a community-based approach to adaptation in #SIDS - buff.ly/098wZGx @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #climatechange @sagepub.com
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