Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026My book review of Shannon Brincat’s excellent Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations has just been published in Critical Sociology. An ambitious and erudite book, make sure you get this book for yourself or order it for your library. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...journals.sagepub.comBook review: Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations, by Shannon Brincat - Seán Molloy, 2026 030
Reposted by Seán MolloyDuncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026NEW PAPER Duncan Bell, "Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain" (2026) Forthcoming in Duncan Bell & Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comPsychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar BritainDraft chapter - a version of this essay is forthcoming in Duncan Bell and Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature. <div> <br> </div> < 79123
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026My latest article ‘Angell versus Mahan: Revisiting International Relations on the Eve of World War I,’ has just been published open access in International Relations 40 (3), 2026, pp. 375-398. Link to article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 010
Reposted by Seán MolloyInternational Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Realism, ideology, and exile - cup.org/3OnrUbp "This article reconceptualizes the realist relationship with ideology in terms of a recurring experience of ideological exile" - @lefteleven.bsky.social 063
Reposted by Seán MolloyProf Emmy van Deurzen @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026youtu.be/-d8hrtvqa4g Existential courage, as per Paul Tillich.youtu.beExistential Courage: TillichYouTube video by Emmy's Existential Zone 032
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 22/07/2026It was an honour and a privilege to act as a keynote speaker at this year’s Graduate International Political Theory conference at St.Andrew. Many thanks to the organisers @standrewsipt.bsky.social for inviting me to participate. 041
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 22/06/2026This and not understanding that Labour did not so much win a landslide as Tory fatigue created the conditions in which a rout was inevitable. 000
Reposted by Seán MolloySt Andrews IPT Conference @standrewsipt.bsky.social · 11/04/2026CALL FOR PAPERS! International Politics/(Un)Ethical Worlds: Morality, Power, Resistance and the Aesthetics of Politics in Dark Times. 20th-21st July 2026 │In-Person│@standrewsir.bsky.social Keynotes: - Dr. Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social - Dr. James Souter Call closes: 20th APRIL 2026 133
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 26/02/2026It is an excellent idea to expand on one of the more important ways of thinking about IR. 131
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Delighted to be one of the keynote speakers at this event in Saint Andrews. 041
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Universalise this practice across the academic world! 030
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 03/02/2026My latest article ‘“Signifying Nothing”: Shakespeare’s Cascading Nihilism in Macbeth,” has just been published in Philosophy and Literature. lnkd.in/evMcJv9f 030
Reposted by Seán MolloyBISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026📣We have kicked off todays #virtual workshop, 'Teaching ethics in dark times' with our Ethics and World Politics Working Group! 👉Todays workshop features papers on Pedagogy, moral uncertainty and the rise of populism. @negsaunders.bsky.social @seanmolloyir.bsky.social 042
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 18/12/2025A brief piece by me in E-IR on the shift from hegemony to primacy heralded by the U.S. National Security Strategy. There’s a _lot_ going on in that document but I think that the explicit abandonment of hegemony for primacy is perhaps the most important. www.e-ir.infoe-ir.infoE-International RelationsThe world's leading open access International Relations website with daily publications of unique content and free academic ebooks 073
Reposted by Seán MolloyHarry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard 144117824045
Reposted by Seán MolloyGustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 05/11/2025🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 "Neoclassical Realist Theory of Populist Foreign Policy" just out with @risjnl.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S026... I explore how populism affects state behavior over time. This aims at further integrating populism scholarship into, and combining it with, IR theory. 1/9cambridge.orgNeoclassical realist theory of populist foreign policy | Review of International Studies | Cambridge CoreNeoclassical realist theory of populist foreign policy 1146
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 06/10/2025#Ethics people - get your 250 abstracts to Natasha and/or I asap for our January #BISA Ethics and World Politics online event in “Teaching Ethics in Dark Times.” Details below! 042
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Does anyone know of good recent pieces on Realist ethics in IR / IPT? Am giving a lecture on this in a few weeks and would be good to have a few up to date pieces. 110
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Pondering Rashomon to teach the benefits of the English School in IR. Idea = 3 perspectives on international society > 1 B/c 3 allows discussion => more depth re Int Soc. ES ≠ “answer” to Int Soc but more fruitful than any single theory. But would students be too freaked out by Rashomon? 010
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Machiavelli is unexpectedly proving to be every bit as tricky as Hegel. I need to find people to write about who aren’t so goddamn tricky! 020
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 08/07/2025EISA in Bologna is uncommonly stacked with interesting panels. The Working with the Negative and the Realist Thought, Theory, and Analysis sections look particularly good. eisa-net.org/event/pec-20...eisa-net.orgPEC 2025 | EISA 010
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Off to EWIS in Kraków to discuss Hegel and international law over the next couple of days. 030
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 17/06/2025BISA gets off to a bizarre start with a weird, wheel bump the ground landing followed by an immediate take off again abd impromptu aerial tour of Belfast and environs. Landed the second time with no difficulty. It’s going to be one of _those_ BISAs … 030
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Ultimately, portability will more than likely be granted because universities will want their new staff members’ outputs counted as part of their submission. 020
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 03/06/2025More excellent work from the powerhouse that is @felixroesch.bsky.social! 141
Reposted by Seán MolloyAndy Hom @therealisthom.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Are 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...buzzsprout.comEditor's Selection: Theory/Ideology with Benjamin Martill - Review of International Studies – The podcastCreating 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... 11112
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I don’t find John McCormick’s attempts to revise the role of Agathocles in Machiavelli’s writings convincing but I’m glad he is out there arguing against the grain. 000
Reposted by Seán MolloyBleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025US to declare immediate 10% tariff on imports from K2-18b www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukScientists find promising hints of life on distant planet K2-18bScientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. 2152
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Have Trump et al said anything at all about international law? I don’t think they have; I get the impression that it’s not on their radar _at all_. Can anyone point me to any official statements regarding the USA and international law? 000
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Good to see the entry on Realism in the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations was in safe hands! 141
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 19/03/2025One person I must look into more one day is R.N. Berki. Every so often I come into contact with his essays and they’re always impressive. 110
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Just witnessed the perfect encapsulation of the Boomer spirit: a very tiny, elderly lady with two powerful dogs meets another tiny, elderly lady with a powerful dog. Between the two tiny, elderly ladies there was one leash and not a hope of controlling any of the three dogs. 000
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Does #Thucydides have lessons to teach _beyond_ the strong doing what they will and the weak suffering what they must? A brief thought piece by me in Logos Magazine on the relevance of Thucydides to contemporary events in international politics. logosjournal.com/between-the-...logosjournal.comDo the Strong Suffer When They Do What They Want? - Logos JournalThe early days of Donald Trump’s presidency have featured a series of clashes with allies and other states. The first real squall between Trump and an ally was the notably ‘fiery’ dialogue with the Da... 032
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 28/02/2025My former PhD student, Carmen Chas’s forthcoming book. A groundbreaking study that combines International Law and Realist IR theory to excellent effect. 162
Reposted by Seán MolloyAdam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 27/02/2025*sings in Blondie* Saw Vesuvius And it was a gas Soon turned out I had a brain of glass www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...thetimes.comHow eruption of Vesuvius turned man’s brain to glassFerociously hot ash cloud from the volcano that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD79 created a phenomenon not seen at any other archaeological site 56612
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I’m enjoying this book but can’t help feeling it’s a bit long at just short of 500 pages; that said, there’s a lot going on in Machiavelli )and the sources he draws upon) and it’s difficult to see what she could have left out. 030
Reposted by Seán MolloyAustralian Journal of International Affairs @austjia.bsky.social · 13/02/2025'Towards a new IR' special section includes- Is international law a discipline OF crisis, or a discipline IN crisis? The discipline's divergent responses to Gaza suggest the latter. ⬇️ @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social #openaccess #AcademicPublishing #InternationalLaw www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 0115
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Why do students think they don’t have to include page numbers in their citations anymore? How did they all decide en masse _not_ to include them? Phenomenon is particularly marked in the accursed in text citation formats. 010
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Don’t know whether to be disappointed or relieved that Foucault didn’t choose this picture to introduce The Order of Things. 010
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 27/01/2025I’ve written an op-ed on Trump and Denmark and now face a dilemma: I have to hope the issue remains relevant in what is a hectic Trump news cycle but also hope that it doesn’t trigger some kind of global conflagration. 010
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 21/01/2025The pre-publication version of the first article of my @LeverhulmeTrust Major Research Fellowship on law and war theorised through Hegelian lenses is now available open access in Hegel Bulletin. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgHegel’s First Attempt to Re-Philosophize Natural Law: Undistorted Intuition, Dead Laws and Ethical Life in ‘On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law’ | Hegel Bulletin | Cambridge CoreHegel’s First Attempt to Re-Philosophize Natural Law: Undistorted Intuition, Dead Laws and Ethical Life in ‘On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law’ 043
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Fare thee well, David Lodge. Lodge’s books were a humorous insight into an academic world that has since disappeared but perhaps they are all the more valuable now because they show that another academic way of life is possible. 141
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Weird discovery of the day: GHW Bush watched the bombing of Baghdad in 1991 on CNN with Barbara Bush and … Billy Graham! 010
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 27/12/2024The extent to which USFP elites were haunted by the Vietnam War is made very clear in GHW Bush’s wartime speeches when he reflects upon and justifies Operation Desert Storm, especially when he talks to military audiences. 000
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Anyone going to EISA Bologna? I’ve a paper on #Hegel and International Law that needs a home. 020
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Reading a George H.W. Bush speeche from 1990 and it’s clear that the USFP elite don’t think that the Gorbachev reforms and reorientation are going to stick. The “threat” is described as “altered” and the U.S. needs to be ready for a reversal of Soviet intention. 010
Seán Molloy @seanmolloyir.bsky.social · 17/12/2024It never ceases to amaze me how people find new and interesting ways to misunderstand and misuse Ken Waltz’s neorealism. 000
