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Oliver Turner

@oturner.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in IR, University of Edinburgh.

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
How has the threat construction of China in US discourse evolved over the past decade? Revisiting this 2013 article by @oturner.bsky.social demonstrates how much has changed with Trump, and how much has stayed the same ⤵️ buff.ly/RsUu47W
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jeremydieudonne.bsky.social @jeremydieudonne.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
📚 My latest paper is out now in Open Access in @gsqjournal.bsky.social and I am so proud of this one! 🎉 In this paper, co-written with @oturner.bsky.social , we challenge prevailing interpretations of international as a set of material structures and as a means to enhance security.
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Writing International Order, Ordering Insecurity
Abstract. International order (IO) remains one of the most powerful ideas in global politics. This article challenges prevailing scholarly interpretations
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Meanwhile, outside the UK...
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Just me, or would it be a bit daft to collectively threaten a group of big states with very few common worldviews beyond a dissatisfaction with American hegemony and the feeling that it abuses its power?
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
At the end of his first term Obama said in a CBS interview that he had focused on policy and not enough on getting the narrative right. Arguably of course he never did. With Reform doing the opposite and flying high, a Trumpian UK takeover are real unless Labour radically improves its storytelling
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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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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Oh my word...😃
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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"I don't know what I get paid - but it's a lot!" is not a great look for someone presiding over job cuts.
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Anne-Marie Houde @annemhoude.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Honoured to be this year’s winner of the @epir-bisa.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social best thesis prize, and to share this recognition with the amazing @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social ⭐️ Thank you to the judges!
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Linus Hagström @linushagstrom.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Very happy that @profgustafsson.bsky.social and I have been awarded the Jacqui Briggs Prize for best article published in @ecprinterestgroups.bsky.social journal European Political Science in 2024. The statements by the jury and the editor can be read here: ecpr.eu/News/News/De...
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Announcing the winners of the 2024 Jacqui Briggs EPS Prize
European Consortium for Political Research
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Citizen Participation @oliverescobar.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
📺 The video of my inaugural lecture is now available 👉🏼 www.sps.ed.ac.uk/inaugural-le... We had some laughs and brightness, as well as some heavier/darker moments, as befits a lecture about #democracy in troubled times. Thanks to everyone who made the occasion and the professorship possible 🙏🏼
Inaugural Lecture, Professor Oliver Escobar: "Democracy as if the future mattered: Can democratic innovation change the world?"

We are undergoing an unprecedented global democratic recession, but also a period of democratic innovation. What is at the heart of this apparent contradiction? Can democracy evolve to improve the prospect of desirable futures for people and planet?

The world faces social, political, economic and ecological crises, and there is doubt that traditional forms of democratic governance can cope or even survive. In this context, what can the field of democratic innovation offer to the task of sociopolitical reimagining and change? The field is advancing globally, based on the premise that the challenges of our time require mobilising the collective intelligence and capabilities of citizens and communities.

In this inaugural lecture, Oliver Escobar will offer a critical but optimistic take on democratic innovation. He will argue that the next decade will be crucial for the future of democracy and for the democracy of the future. And that we all have a role to play.
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Andy Hom @therealisthom.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Are you short of a listen or interested in the links b/t IR theory & political ideology? @risjnl.bsky.social has just the thing for you - a new pod on our recent editor's selection, featuring our @sebkaempf.bsky.social interviewing (also our) Ben Martill: www.buzzsprout.com/2395572/epis...
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Editor's Selection: Theory/Ideology with Benjamin Martill - Review of International Studies – The podcast
Creating conversations across articles, identifying linkages, bringing together articles that speak to similar topics is the purpose of our editor's selections. In this episode, Dr Benjamin Martill, o...
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Linus Hagström @linushagstrom.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The Swedish Defence University advertises a postdoc focused on ”narrative geopolitics” - or how widespread and emotionally charged narratives influence international security, great power relations, and geostrategic rivalry. Deadline August 31: fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Postdoc with a focus on narrative geopolitics
Description The postdoctoral position is part of the interdisciplinary research environment on narrative geopolitics, established with funding from the Swedish Armed Forces. The role involves interdis
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I assigned @flavialucenti.bsky.social's 2024 article on representations of the 'China Threat' to my course reading list this year, and in the student assignments...it was a hit! (A fraction of them pasted here). Not surprising, it's really good Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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jeremydieudonne.bsky.social @jeremydieudonne.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I'll be in Bologna for #EISAPEC25! I will present two papers: "Of world-making and world-breaking: The discursive projections of international order", co-authored with @oturner.bsky.social and "Beyond Securitization: The Western Double Standard on Gaza", co-authored with @marionzhr.bsky.social!
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Full house for the inaugural professorial lecture of the brilliant @oliverescobar.bsky.social! Fantastic to hear all about his life, work, and achievements.
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Regan Burles @rmburles.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I'll be speaking about 'Reanimating Geopolitics' at this exciting IPS Symposium in London next month:
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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A few years ago, I published this paper about the EU's handling of trade relations with the US under Trump. At the time, I did not anticipate that it would ever become relevant again. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The art of the deal? The EU’s strategic adaptation to Trump’s transatlantic trade policy - Journal of Transatlantic Studies
In 2003, the EU’s European Security Strategy called for the development of “strategic partnerships” with established and emerging powers to support and reinforce the advancement of European goals and ...
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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 14/01/2025
GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!
A group of men sit in front of a chart that incorrectly spells "military" as "miltary."
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Here it is: a tribute to Emma Hutchison, my amazing wife and research collaborator. I hope it does justice to the brilliant scholar and the remarkable person she was. Sorry it took me a while after Emma’s passing to gather enough strength to honour her. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
You can't have a democracy when one party does not accept election losses as legitimate
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Adrian Gallagher @adriangallagher.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
University of Leeds is offering scholarships for citizens of Gaza to study at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It is aimed at those who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region & are living in a different country (outside of the UK). www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 21/11/2024
Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network www.ft.com/content/30510160-88d0-4d…
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Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network
Creatives and freelancers miss opportunity and inspiration after decline of X
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Andy Hom @therealisthom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you're interested in learning more about academic publishing, please join the @risjnl.bsky.social editorial team in a couple weeks for a webinar sponsored by @mybisa.bsky.social and @ceeisa.bsky.social -- all welcome (registration required)! #polisky www.bisa.ac.uk/events/writi...
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Writing International Relations: A Publishing Webinar with the Review of International Studies
Review of International Studies (RIS) and the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association’s doctoral network are holding a publishing webinar
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We may just be the answer to world peace. ✌🏻 #WorldBollardAssociation
A yellow bollard stops a huge tank.
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Great to see more and more people here fleeing the dark side, though I can't help worry a bit that we're creating two unhealthy echo chambers. Still, the absence of maniacal tech bros and infuriating troll bots over here makes it very much worth it for now #Xismyex
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Happy to say the article I co-authored with the awesome @alexhlar.bsky.social on 'narrative alliances' as discursive foundations of international order is out now with International Affairs. Check it out! academic.oup.com/ia/article/100/1/203/7506707?searchresult=1
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
A good read on how AI is being used to momentarily steal academic identities - as very recently happened to me - and mask what looks like state propaganda as informed academic opinion... www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0e1a...
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Article sadly published by a different current affairs website. No checks run to ensure I was the author. Won't link to avoid promoting it, requested it be removed. Can't imagine this has only happened to me? I may never have become aware of it if a better editor hadn't alerted me. Careful everyone!
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Early Christmas present. My book now has an online presence on the Edinburgh University Press website. Thanks to Loch Johnson and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social for the fantastic endorsements. The President's Kill List is coming. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pre...
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Received an email from the editor of a current affairs website to say they've received a short article pitch from someone claiming to be me. Looks AI generated. Anyone else experienced this? What would someone stand to gain by publishing in my name?
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Karl Gustafsson @profgustafsson.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Happy to have received a 3-year research grant together from the Swedish Research Council together with @linushagstrom.bsky.social for the project "Societal Security and Threats to Democracy". Looking forward to carrying out this project!
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Alternative view: The term 'rise' has never brought any real use or value. The possibility that we could ditch that story overnight in favour of one that contradicts it largely confirms that.
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China’s rise is reversing
The past two years have seen the largest drop in the nation’s share of global GDP since the Mao era
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Lots of hot takes on Cameron's return. I say Sunak's bringing home the bacon #yourewelcome
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Richard Maass @richardmaass.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
International Security new issue cover just dropped! 😲 The issue itself will follow next week - sharing here since the journal isn't on BlueSky yet (@drjlhazelton.bsky.social I have invites if you need one!)
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Nicely done, Edinburgh
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Consuelo Thiers @consuelothiers.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Here is a piece I wrote some months ago on hiring processes in academia pointing out some major problems I’ve encountered while looking for jobs 👇🏼 www.duckofminerva.com/2023/08/sele...
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Alex Homolar @alexhlar.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
I've written a short blog piece, which summarizes some of the key points of my new book "The Uncertainty Doctrine: Narrative Politics and US Hard Power after the Cold War”. This is the link: t.co/unhcVMtuYj
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How Narrative Politics Shapes American Military Might
The end of the Cold War heralded a substantial ‘peace dividend’ during the 1990s, a series of large cuts in defense spending by the United States, the world’s sole remaining military superpower.
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Lauren Rogers @laurenrogers.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Doing a PhD in the UK means at some point writing something about Brexit. So I did! First conference paper, first publication, first time crying over semicolons. And it's not even open access. Anyway, enjoy: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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@Maxine David.bsky.social.com @maxinedavid.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
"Israel is fighting this war on behalf of all of us" - for those who like to follow how narratives travel.
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India takes strong pro-Israel stance under Modi in a departure from the past
While previous governments kept dealings with Israel largely quiet, the ruling BJP has different priorities
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
One day I'll quit Twitter completely but possibly not until the World Bollard Association joins us over here
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Research news 👀
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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Are you a European-based scholar working on US foreign policy? Sign our petition to create a US Foreign Policy Research Network within the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)! Contact Dr. Steve Hurst (s.hurst@mmu.ac.uk) so we can register your "vote." Or get in touch with me! polisky
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Linus Hagström @linushagstrom.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Why do grad students often struggle with research problems despite available methods? As a sequel to rdcu.be/dnvJc @profgustafsson.bsky.social & I delve into the vital role of anxiety in drivning research. Read more in our new article in European Political Science: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The insecurity of doing research and the ‘so what question’ in political science: how to develop...
Research problems are crucial in the sense that they provide new research with purpose and justification. So why, despite the abundance of guidance available from an extensive methods literature, do g...
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Oliver Turner @oturner.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Nice to have escaped to a seemingly better place 😀 If my timeline ends up less than 50% crypto bros, made-up tech trends, and unfathomably irrelevant adverts, I'll be happy...
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