iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 27/01/2026

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Governance by indicators and the re-politicisation of expertise - cup.org/467WBaf - @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & Ole Jacob Sending #FirstView

Promotional graphic for Review of International Studies, featuring a detailed image of the Earth in the background with the hashtag 'OpenAccess' on the bottom right corner.

064

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

📣 Yet another SI for you, folks! Delighted to announce the publication of a @gepjournal.bsky.social special issue on “Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene”, co-edited with my dear colleague Bruna Bosi-Moreira. 👉 direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...

direct.mit.edu

Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

1115

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

McGill PoliSci @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree... The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

086

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 15/07/2025

"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people." Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.

3248111

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

We’re c.2004 in the crypto-banking nexus. Everyone thinks they’re a stable genius & society is hailing them as such. But eventually the tide will go out & the inevitable Buffett moment will be incredibly ugly & costly. It always is. Over & over & over again. We keep forgetting what we’ve learned.

65713

Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

🐳 🥳 Happy news to share! My book - The Grammar of Status Competition - has been awarded the Jeffrey Friedman Best Book Award: The APSA's Knowledge, Ideas and Politics section book prize. This is the first - and perhaps last! - academic award I have ever received, so it means a lot. 1/4

160

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

📢 The volume "Governing Nature and the Making of World Order", edited by the great team of @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social, is out now. And it's OA. 👇 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com

121

Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

An excellent combination Matt! I would just add that the book is very flexible: pairs well with all known liquids. Thanks for your outstanding contribution! It is consistent with your much appreciated dedication to the project that you have gotten ahead of the editors on the promotion! :)

140

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

If climate finance only flows to what’s bankable, how do we fund what's actually necessary? My research contributes to the boon in evidence showing how derisking locks governments into private finance-oriented & ineffective transitions - leaving essential but unbankable sectors behind

231

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs @nupinytt.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🎯 Open research positions! We’re hiring three Postdoctoral candidates/Senior Researchers for Navigator – an ERC-funded project exploring how country performance indicators shape global governance. 📍Oslo | 🕐 Initial 2-year contract Apply here: www.nupi.no/en/about-nup...

034

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Those crazy hippies at the Financial Times are at it again. Why are our governments so afraid to face reality? who are they actually being led by? certainly not their voters.

0328

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Pål Røren @palroren.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Very happy to see my piece "The power of recognition: rethinking the instrumentality of status in world politics" being published in @iajournal.bsky.social Read the full OA-article here: academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...

academic.oup.com

The power of recognition: rethinking the instrumentality of status in world politics

Challenging the conventional view that status translates to power through voluntary deference, this article presents a new framework for the relationship b

1123

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

25% tariff on Johnny in the basement 24% on mixing up the medicine 37% on the pavement 66% on thinking about the government 45% the man in the trench coat 31% on badge out, laid off 61% on her bad cough Look out kid It’s somethin’ you did God knows when But you’re doin’ it again

021

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

#Britain’s populist surge isn’t born of rage, but neglect. What #ReformUK reaps in the local elections is not rebellion, but inheritance—from towns where policy forgot to tread and hope was for long left to rot. doi.org/10.1093/cjre... doi.org/10.1080/0013...

24110

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/04/2025

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

582202133895

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

Tim Naftali's tweet on the termination of the HAC members without cause.

8922561031

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

9865832191

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Very informative chart from Washington Post

17670202416

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

DREZNER: The people leading this are unserious, unknowing dotards. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/there-are-...

danieldrezner.substack.com

There Are No Adults in the Room

A brief note on the inherent media problem with covering galactically stupid policies.

1125460

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

i first called this "a public choice theory of recent developments in international trade" but I am weak so went for the clickbait

open.substack.com

#19 Trump's Tariffs Make a Bit More Sense if You Think Like a Mafia Boss

A Public Choice interpretation. Well, sort of.

1247

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Sakshi @sakshi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Your tariff is the number of times you have walked into a room and instantly forgotten why you went there multiplied by the love for your workplace and divided by the weight of Capital Volume 3.

1278

Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Great thread: excellent sketch of the potential explanations for why business and markets have so far proved relatively sanguine regarding Trump II breach with economic orthodoxy and indeed most heterodoxy.

020

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 02/04/2025

Trump's attacks on Canada and the EU are drastically shifting public opinion both in the US and abroad. Per Economist + YouGov www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

0199

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Heads up IR friends: you have five days left to submit your abstract to NUPI'a inaugural theory conference! 250-500€ travel reimbursements, plus (most) food will be provided. www.nupi.no/en/events/20...

nupi.no

Call for Abstracts: 2025 NUPI Theory Conference | NUPI

Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times

11613

Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

nupi.no

Call for Abstracts: 2025 NUPI Theory Conference | NUPI

Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times

11613

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

What @abenewman.bsky.social and I said back in 2019, right as stuff was beginning to kick off direct.mit.edu/isec/article...

When interdependence is used by privileged states for strategic ends, other states are likely to start considering economic networks in strategic terms too. Targeted states—or states that fear they will be targeted—may attempt to isolate themselves from networks, look to turn network effects back on their more powerful adversaries, and even, under some circumstances, reshape networks so as to minimize their vulnerabilities or increase the vulnerabilities of others.114 Hence, the more that privileged states look to take advantage of their privilege, the more that other states and nonstate actors will take action that might potentially weaken or even undermine the interdependent features of the preexisting system.115 The ability of states to resist weaponized interdependence will reflect, in part, their degree of autonomy from those economic interests that hope to maintain the benefits of centralized exchanges even in the face of greater constraints on state authority.

0318

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

15249609026504

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Stephanie Hofmann @stephofmann.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Incredibly moved that @anaprokhorov.bsky.social and @raffaelemstr.bsky.social secretly orchestrated my nomination for ISA’s J. Ann Tickner award. Warm thanks to all of you who supported the nomination. I still can’t believe it. @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social

2510218

Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Got 5m to kill at #ISA2025? Check out this bumper thread discussing every contribution to our new special issue: "Status symbols in World Politics" in @coco-journal.bsky.social

071

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Bill Wohlforth @wwohlforth.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Life, and research on status in IR, goes on. So, you IR scholars who study role of status, check this out!

1112

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Pål Røren @palroren.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🚨 New Special Issue! 🚨 1/ What do opera houses, NATO troops & climate rankings have in common? Mine and @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social's special issue in @coco-journal.bsky.social answers just that: They are all status symbols 📖 Read the full issue (open access!) 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/toc/caca/60/1

journals.sagepub.com

Cooperation and Conflict - Volume 60, Number 1, Mar 01, 2025

Table of contents for Cooperation and Conflict, 60, 1, Mar 01, 2025

174

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Pål Røren @palroren.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Thrilled to announce that our special issue on status symbols in world politics is now out in the wild (and for a limited time free to read as well!) Read about our intro piece in @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social's thread below. Thread on each article in the SI coming very soon!

083

Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Conceived at Baltimore 2016, it's fitting that our special issue Status Symbols in World Politics is out in time for #ISA2025! The intro makes case for why status symbols warrant sustained attention in IR & develops a framework for studying them 🧵 1/: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

1175

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

2354221480

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Essential, if in that way that yields reams of new questions. For all their bloviating about state death, right accelerationists seem rather dependent on its coercive power. The contradictory fantasies that flourish precisely when entombed in a stumbling hegemon. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

nybooks.com

Speed Up the Breakdown | Quinn Slobodian

For the last month, the US opinion-making class has stared agog as Elon Musk and his minions have stormed the engine room of the federal government. Young

021

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Here is my third weekly dispatch, imagining how the US media *should* be covering the Musk coup if it was clear-eyed about the threat to our democracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

doomsdayscenario.co

Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America

A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas

33884373

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Really good article on why Elon Musk is vulnerable to a sustained boycott of Tesla. They worked against apartheid. Surely they could work against one South African. slate.com/business/202...

slate.com

Americans Are Actually in a Position to Make Elon Musk Feel Our Rage

His car company is in a precarious spot.

37899282

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

foreignaffairs.com

The Path to American Authoritarianism

What comes after democratic breakdown.

48866475

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Audrey Alejandro @audreyalejandro.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

📢 Call for papers 📢 Workshop "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" that I organise with colleague @dandekadt.bsky.social at LSE in November 2025. Anyone interested please send us a 250-word abstract by 26 March 2025 ! Learn more➡️ buff.ly/3CCijaY @lsemethodology.bsky.social

focus group overlayered with algorythmic code

04016

Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Publication alert! It was a joy & an honour to write the conclusion to this forum on "writing for reflexivity" (ft. Felix Anderl, Audrey Alejandro, & Carmina Yu Untalan), which I suspect may have permanently transformed what I consider "good academic writing" to be, and what it can aspire to do. 1/

1164

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

PARISS Journal @journalpariss.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

In an important paper following pieces published in 5.1, @audreyalejandro.bsky.social explores writing practices and their role in reflexivity, focusing notably on the denial of non-western agency. brill.com/view/journal...

142

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

PARISS Journal @journalpariss.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Following @audreyalejandro.bsky.social's piece, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social provides reflections on writing practices and their effects on readers. brill.com/view/journal...

132

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Audrey Alejandro @audreyalejandro.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🔥 New forum: "Decentring Agency in World Politics: Writing for Reflexivity as a Collective Experiment" @journalpariss.bsky.social We explore writing practices that foster reflexivity within readers. We focus on one reflexive process: decentring & one problem: the denial of non-Western agency 🤓

How can we help each other, through our writing, in challenging the potentially harmful perceptions we have unconsciously acquired? How can we assist readers in becoming more reflexive about the things we write about? Here, we build bridges between the methodology of reflexivity and the methodology of writing, focusing on writing practices that aim at fostering reflexivity within our readers.

2198

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

One of the less-noticed but more entertaining political subplots of this parliament is Labour MP Polly Billington writing repeatedly to Claire Coutinho to ask her why she is condemning green policies that she introduced herself while in government.

12337126

Reposted by Paul Beaumont

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

“What can be, unburdened by what has been”

0131