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Stéphanie Martel

@smartel.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Political Studies (IR), Queen's University | IR; Southeast Asia; ASEAN; WPS; diplomacy; global governance; narratives. Mom of 2 (4YO & 1YO). Hobbies include (not being particularly good at) ballet & embroidery. She/Elle.

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Council on Foreign Relations @cfr.org · 14/07/2026
The war in Myanmar is now Asia’s deadliest conflict and a nearly unequalled humanitarian catastrophe with more than 100,000 killed, according to a conflict-monitoring group. The rest of the world has decided to ignore the conflict amid other major geopolitical developments, writes Josh Kurlantzick.
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How the Coup Turned Myanmar Into Asia’s Deadliest Conflict | Council on Foreign Relations
Five years after its generals seized power, Myanmar has collapsed into Asia’s deadliest war and a nearly unequalled humanitarian catastrophe. And yet, the rest of the world has decided to ignore the c...
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Such a huge loss for our community. I can’t think of a scholar more generous, and more committed to supporting ECR, making the invisible visible, and the academia more human. He will be missed by so many.
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Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Is that Alberta’s version of Quebec’s 1980 referendum strategy?
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Dan Cohen @dancohen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Accounting is truly a mystical realm of dark magic and wonder. With one assumption my university can present the Board of Trustees with an $84.5 million surplus while simultaneously telling faculty, staff, and students that we barely eeked out a $2.3 million surplus so the austerity must continue.
A figure showing a 84.5 million surplus based on investment income.A snippet of a university communique describing a $2.3 million surplus while admitting it is based on assumptions
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🚨 ICC judges unseal arrest warrant against #Philippines Senator Ronald Marapon Dela Rosa. According to the Court, Dela Rosa is allegedly criminally responsible as an indirect co-perpetrator for the crime against humanity of murder: icc-cpi.int/news/situati... #ICC #Philippines
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
+1 (and I wasn’t quite sure before given the power of the Strait). Invasion insurance is not optional when the other side cannot credibly commit to a deal. Even after Trump is gone, polarization still means a deal may not outlast a change in party in the White House.
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Strategic genius.
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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 08/04/2026
I can't see the election changing anyone's mind. Trump didn't vote himself into office twice, or force congress to sit back and do nothing while he waged an illegal war that explicitly violates the constitutional limits placed on his power. The US doesn't have a Trump problem, it has a US problem.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Trump’s desperate and bottomless need for self-congratulation and self-valorization make it entirely plausible that he migrate from “Thanks to me, Iran will be annihilated” to “Thanks to me, Iran will have a golden age” in 24 hours, as long as he never has to admit uncertainty or failure in between.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
8/ It's virtually certain that Iran would spend much of its newfound income on rearming itself to deter future attacks. The war could ultimately result – if it is not repeated – in Iran becoming one of the richest and most powerful countries in the region. /end
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
After Iranians, Lebanese, and Israelis suffer, the US thankfully surrenders war Israel instigated with Iran, agreeing to a two week ceasefire on Iran’s terms. Conflicting reports on agreement re war in Lebanon persist.
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
#DHS Noem out =>New dir. is a man who: • has no experience • Confuses Iraq / Iran • Opposes abortion in ALL cases - • Election denier • Only sen without bachelor's degree Meanwhile, "asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home" President : "some people will die."
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Trump's War
If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 04/03/2026
Why Rep. Greg Landsman thought talking on the phone with Isaac Chotiner was a good idea still baffles me. I would've immediately resigned from Congress and retreated into the abandoned Cincinnati Subway, never to be seen again
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/12/2025
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Immigrants are successfully challenging the Trump administration's mass detention policy and winning release from ICE custody—thanks to a centuries-old legal principle and constitutional right. My latest for @motherjones.com:
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24,403 lawsuits and counting: How habeas corpus became the front line of immigration defense
"We have to kick the door down."
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Catherine Gulsvig @crgulsvig.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It's the #MadLibWar --! We had to attack Iran because <of the Iranian people> ... because <there were missiles> ... because <of their nuclear program> ... because <of regime change> ... because <of naval ships (?? this is new as of today!!> h/t @profsaunders.bsky.social
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it
By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I study world politics for a living, and as much as I try, I still can't make sense of what's been coming out of Ottawa on Iran over the weekend aside from a mix of myopic risk aversion, incompetence, foolishness, and Stockholm syndrome relapse.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 02/03/2026
The American people deserved to get a clear explanation of why servicemembers lives are at risk and why their gas prices are about to skyrocket. Instead, they got this.
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Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Old enough to know that all wars start with wildly fanciful claims of quick success. Including the US civil war (I’m not *that* old but I do read history)
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
You're telling me that word association tools trained on internet comments don't know how to deescalate? www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
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AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is just so heartbreaking, among too many heartbreaking stories.
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Those people are so subtle.
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I guess we'll just have to reinvent the wheel, huh.
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Clearly.
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a blonde woman is talking to another woman and says why are you so obsessed with me
ALT: a blonde woman is talking to another woman and says why are you so obsessed with me
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I wonder how many "most embarrassing 20 seconds of television" JD Vance is able to count coming out of that Board of Peace meeting.
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm just a girl desperate for editors of academic journals to stop delegating what should have been obvious desk rejects to peer-reviewers already. /rant
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 12/02/2026
The response to the #TumblerRidgeShooting from far-right media, online commentators and even an elected official in Canada is another dark example of how pervasive anti-trans misinformation has become, even in Canada. Mel Woods writes. #bcpoli #bced
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As Tumbler Ridge Mourns, Anti-Trans Misinfo Spreads | The Tyee
No good will come from the conservative rush to weaponize the shooter’s identity in this story.
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"C’est la poutre dans l’œil de ceux qui ont excusé le trumpisme par l’économie. Si la peur d’être financièrement précaire justifie le populisme autocrate, voire la violence politique, pourquoi les femmes afro-américaines ne sont-elles pas les premières à succomber à la tentation fascisante ?"
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Déclassement
C’est un «ordre des choses» sous attaque qui alimente le mouvement MAGA, pas l’économie.
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
ICE is terrorizing Americans — Canada must not be complicit: ricochet.media/justice/poli...
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ICE is terrorizing Americans — Canada must not be complicit
From shutting down ICE offices to cancelling corporate contracts, Canadians have real power to stand in solidarity with those targeted by Trump’s secret police
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
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International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
📣 ISA Asia-Pacific announces its 2026 Conference at JNU, New Delhi! Theme: “From the Margins to the Helm: The Global South and the Future of the Asia-Pacific Regional Order.” 📅 Nov 28–30, 2026 📝 Submissions due Apr 30, 2026 More info: buff.ly/tJEmR08
Text: ISA-AP CONFERENCE 2026
“From the Margins to the Helm: The Global South and the Future of the Asia-Pacific Regional Order”
28-30 November 2026
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), 
New Delhi, India
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 05/02/2026
Someone remind me what Greek sources had to say about people living in the north and west of Europe.
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
And here I thought #notallmen. Which one is it? I'm confused...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...
In the last days, there has been an unprecedented attack targeting investigative journalists trying to seize their Signal accounts. This has gone largely unreported.

I have been repeatedly targeted by phishing, and I learned that also colleagues from other outlets were targeted, with the attackers unfortunately managing to compromise at least one colleague’s account. What’s worrying: this doesn’t seem like an isolated case. A broader wave is apparently hitting journalists (and some civil society actors) via Signal.

How it works: Attackers message you on Signal pretending to be “Signal Support,” warning about “suspicious activity,” and urging you to “re-verify” your account. Once you accept the chat, you receive a real Signal SMS verification code, because the attacker is actively trying to register your number on a new device. If you share that code, you’re handing them the keys. 

Signal’s extra protection is the Signal PIN. If an attacker also tricks you into giving up your PIN (or you don’t have strong protections enabled), they can see your contacts and networks, potentially join chats going forward, and lock you out by changing settings. 

Quick protections worth doing today:
- Signal will never contact you via a two-way in-app support chat. Treat those messages as hostile. 
- Never share SMS codes, Signal PIN, or anything called “registration lock.” 
- Turn on Registration Lock (Settings → Account → Registration Lock). 
- If you see a “safety number changed” alert: verify the person via a different channel (call/video), not just Signal text. 
- Report + block suspicious requests, and review linked devices. 

If you work with sensitive sources: this isn’t just about losing an account, it’s about exposing networks. Please share this with colleagues who rely on Signal day-to-day.
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
M'kay.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Carney said what critical voices - and most of the non-West - have being saying for years: the rules-based order is structurally unjust and unequal - and is decaying as a result. Carney didn't say anything new. But he has granted the mainstream the ability to voice & accept this reality.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If I were a PM who had delivered a seminal speech on the global rupture and the need for new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t send hundreds of layoff notices to my foreign affairs department the next day www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
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Tracking job cuts in the federal public service
Workforce adjustment notifications have hit thousands of employees across dozens of government departments and agencies.
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🇨🇦 CPSA ACSP 🇨🇦 @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
JOB ADVERTISEMENT-POSSIBILITÉ D’EMPLOI #CPSA_ACSPJobs 🔴Buchanan Post-Doctoral Fellowship 🔴Peacock Post-Doctoral Fellowship 🔴Skelton-Clark Post-Doctoral Fellowship ⏰Jan 31 2026 👉 conta.cc/4b5BYPr @raulpachecovega.bsky.social #polisci @csnrec.bsky.social #cdnpoli #PoliSciTwitter
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"Stop making everything about gender."
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Damn, that's a good speech. I've got a lot of thoughts to sort out about this, as I prepare to give a talk on the crisis of international order at @queenspols.bsky.social next week - my inaugural lecture as the Hardy Chair of Political Science. I *might* come back here and share some later.
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Excellente chronique d'Élizabeth Vallet (Chaire Raoul-Dandurand/CMR Saint-Jean) dans Le Devoir ajd: www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...
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Égopolitique
Le président états-unien est entouré d’une coque décisionnelle qui donne corps à ses idées fantasques.
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Stéphanie Martel @smartel.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"Greenland isn’t only a treasure trove for [...] oligarchic forces to mine or to extract. It’s also a place for experimentation [...] in how to create a world in which all of these oligarchic figures’ utopian (or dystopian, for the rest of us) fantasies can come true."
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The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland
Trump’s fixation on filching the island territory from Denmark may seem like the demented ravings of a mad king. But to a cohort of plutocrat weirdos, it makes perfect sense.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14/01/2026
Reuters: Two European officials assess U.S. military intervention is likely—possibly within 24 hours. An Israeli official says Trump appears to have decided to intervene, though scope and timing remain unclear.
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
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The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
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