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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Super excited that @mybisa.bsky.social Critical Military Studies Working Group will be hosting a 'Zoomside' chat about my book 'Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield' on 22 June, 2to4pm. Stellar line up of discussants. The event is open to the public. Register at: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

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Zoomside chat: military victory beyond the battlefield: outside wartime- Critical Military Studies | BISA

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Mirko 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'. ⬇️⬇️

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New book talk alert 🚨 Excited to be heading to Lisbon later this week to talk all things Military Victory to the students of Forward College Lisbon. April 23, 5pm | Soriano Learning Center. Full details here below

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Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) @warwickpais.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Next term may still feel a long way off but the events calendar is already filling up! On May 13th, the International Relations and Security Cluster we will be hosting @palestrinomirko.bsky.social for a talk on his new book Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime.

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I had the absolute pleasure to chat with Will Cooper on the Books and More Podcast about Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime. The episode is now out both on Spotify and Apple Podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/5pGG...

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DoingIPS @doingips.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Join us for this event on solar geoengineering and its planetary consequences! @palestrinomirko.bsky.social and Jef Huysmans will be in conversation with Joanne Yao and Danielle Young. April 15, 4.30pm @qmulsse.bsky.social L. Coffee, tea and cake will be served 🥳🥳

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DoingIPS @doingips.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Join us on 22 April 2026 @qmulsse.bsky.social, QMUL for the 4th Edition of the DoingIPS Spring Symposium, this year on 'Enchanting the Social: Rituals for Collective Life'. Full programme and registration link at www.doingips.org/symposium-2026. Please do share far and wide within your networks!

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Trump has recently claimed to have 'won' the war in Iran, but also not 'won it enough'. How is that possible? @mbarnfield.bsky.social, from @qmulsse.bsky.social, has an answer for you in this excellent short read. Thx Matt for quickly putting my book to work! open.substack.com/pub/drmatthe...

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How can a war be over before it has begun?

Why Trump claims to have won, but not won enough

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The official book launch of Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime is only one week away! Join us at @qmulsse.bsky.social on 3 March 2026, from 17.15 onwards. Register at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Book Launch: Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield

Join us for the launch of Mirko Palestrino’s Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime (Oxford University Press, 2025).

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

In lieu of more book spoilers in post form… here below an interview from the fantastic Keren Weitzberg for the @qmulsse.bsky.social We talked about my book, its relevance for world politics today, key takeaways, and what’s next for me. It’s a super short read, but it does have it all!

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School of Society & Environment, Queen Mary University @qmulsse.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"Trump is a paradigmatic example. Think about how he renamed ‘Veterans Day’ to ‘Victory Day’; how he has claimed over and over again that he has ended numerous wars[...]" Read the full interview with @palestrinomirko.bsky.social 👇 www.qmul.ac.uk/society-and-...

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Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Interview with Author Mirko Palestrino

Mirko Palestino is a senior lecturer in International Policy Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Politics and International Relations. His new book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outs...

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

⬇️ Discount on Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime! ⬇️ OUP has also made the Introduction available for free until the official book launch, on March 3 - academic.oup.com/book/60859 Book launch registration at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🚨🚨 The launch of Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime will be on 3 March 2026, 5.15pm @qmulsse.bsky.social Chuffed to be joined by Aggie Hirst, Paul Higate, Kim Hutchings, @therealisthom.bsky.social, and @debbielisle.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Today is (print!) publication day! My book ‘Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime’ is finally out in the world as an actual object - author-posing picture to follow ASAP, stay tuned! Buy the book at: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Frederik Carl Windfeld @fredwindfeld.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.

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Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment - Frederik Carl Windfeld, 2025

Contemporary discussions over emergent and disruptive technologies in military affairs are often framed in futurist and existential terms. The article theorises...

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

In an expected, but timely, turn of events, with @europeanisa.bsky.social in full swing, my first book “Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield” has been now published digitally, with the EISA-OUP Series Voices in IR. Print version in December. academic.oup.com/book/60859?s...

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Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime

Abstract. This book rethinks hegemonic understandings of military victory as the outcome of war by focusing on the relationship between victory and time. W

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Matthew Barnfield @mbarnfield.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I have a new article out at @polstudies.bsky.social. In "Electoral Hope", I make the case that supposedly irrational "wishful thinking" is actually a crucial part of how voters make rational sense of their role in democracies. OA link: doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Title page of article "Electoral Hope" in journal Political Studies.

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EJIR @ejir.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🧵1/10 “’Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory“ by @palestrinomirko.bsky.social t1p.de/ajj2p

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🚨 My book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime, has a webpage! As Trump seeks to rename Veterans Day to Victory Day, the timing couldn’t be better. Out in December with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social as part of @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices in IR. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:

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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 17/03/2025

Looking forward to welcoming Jaakko Heiskanen (QMUL) for a launch event on his exciting book "Ethnos of the Earth" (CUP) this week Thursday. Join us if you're in Oxford! 20 March, 4pm • Brasenose College, Lecture Room VII With comments from Faridah Zaman & Musab Younis

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EJIR @ejir.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In his new article in EJIR, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social examines the social construction of victory through the example of wartime gardening. You can find the full publication here: t1p.de/8n0sh

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Andy Hom @therealisthom.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Read this as soon as you can!

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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DoingIPS @doingips.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Last chance to register for the 2nd DoingIPS Spring Symposium @QMUL, this year co-organised with @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social's @elkeschwarz.bsky.social, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social and @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social Sign-up link below. Pls share widely!! www.doingips.org/symposium2024

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Happening tomorrow at QMUL, co-organised by @doingips.bsky.social and Global Politics Unbound. Join Hannah, Melissa and myself for what promises to be a great discussion of an incredibly exciting book!!

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DoingIPS @doingips.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Cheer up this rainy Thursday with some of the latest research in IPS! Read this brief post about Jef Huysmans and Joao Nogueira latest article in @ejir.bsky.social and how it relates to their previous work on IPS and critique!!

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New article on IPS and critique: Against Resistance? — DoingIPS

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DoingIPS @doingips.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Only one week to go until this talk on ‘International Organizations and Research Methods’ (online). Make sure to register before!

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DoingIPS @doingips.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Read about what IPS Brazil have been up to this past summer and how the 8th edition of the IPS Winter School went!!

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IPS Winter School PUC-Rio 2023 — DoingIPS

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Matthew Barnfield @mbarnfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Today is the first day of my British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at QMUL! I'll be studying 'The Political Psychology of the Future' – an attempt to do some blue sky thinking of my own about how politics works in people's heads.

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