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Ty Solomon

@tsolomon.bsky.social
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Professor of International Relations at @glasgow.ac.uk. But mostly hiking, cycling, and running around Scotland.

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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"What no competent government can deliver is Scandinavian levels of welfare provision sustained on American levels of taxation, with immigration reduced. Yet since [Brexit], this has been the quixotic demand of the UK electorate." Me, on Starmer, Burnham and Brexit: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
While public tastes are moving away from tighter regulation and audit culture in the information sphere, higher education moves inexorably towards it substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Rest is Academic Research
What happens when Gary Lineker comes for the universities?
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?
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International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#OpenAccess - Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics - cup.org/4bpYz8z "we introduce and build on existing scholarship that presents emotions as central to how rituals create a sense of collective unity" - Emma Hutchison & @bleiker.bsky.social #FirstView
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The justices that upheld birthright citizenship in 1898 were racist men in a racist era who still could not avoid the plain text of the Constitution. What changed between is that the GOP now sees multiracial democracy as a threat rather than an ideal or aspiration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Fourteenth Amendment has not changed since 1898. What have changed are the Republican Party and the modern conservative movement. Trump believes that “if you import the Third World, you become the Third World.” His rise to power began with his willingness to be a standard-bearer for a movement that cast the first Black president as an illegitimate invader and demanded to see his birth certificate. Trump’s second-term campaign promised “mass deportation” of those very same “Third World” immigrants, and since taking office, he has established an effectively whites-only refugee policy, specifically for white South Africans, illustrating that his objection is less to immigration itself, or to immigrants from the “Third World,” than to immigrants who are not white.
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Ty Solomon @tsolomon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Jesus, that's horrific. I hope some pushback can soften the blow a bit. Take care of yourself, Scott.
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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
What would Adam Smith say about tech oligarchs, finance bros and the global super rich? On BBC Radio 4 at 9pm tonight, I answer: "break up their monopoly businesses and ban their corrupt rent-seeking." www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Wealth
Can the accumulation of wealth be ethical and what can we learn from Adam Smith's enquiry?
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Thomas Hegghammer @hegghammer.net · 04/06/2026
All Souls College, Oxford, is seeking 5 Postdoctoral Research Fellows in - Asian and Middle Eastern Studies - History of Art/History of Music - Law - Life Science - Theoretical Computer Science These are 5-year appointments starting autumn 2027. Deadline: 4 Sep 2026 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships | All Souls College
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Ty Solomon @tsolomon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Thank you so much for the productive conversation! It was a genuine pleasure and privilege speaking with everyone...🙏
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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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Ty Solomon @tsolomon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Thank you for the invitation! Looking forward to the conversation...
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Completely unsurprising to anyone who's thought about this for even two minutes
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Nina C. Krickel-Choi @nckc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I'll be presenting my ongoing work on security and Existentialism in the Anthropocene at the University of Tübingen next week! 🤗 🎉 Wednesday, 13 May, 4pm CET. Anyone can join - Zoom link below 👇
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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Next week, my younger brother Craig will attempt a massive physical challenge by climbing 36 Munros (Scottish mountains with a peak over 3,000ft/914m) over 6 days while carrying an additional 36lbs of weight. Why would he do that, you might ask? Good question! Read on...
Craig Brown pretending not to know he's being photographed
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🎧 Reminder: RIS has a podcast! 🎧 We now have EIGHT episodes of the Review of International Studies podcast - well worth a listen, friends! buff.ly/CJdduct
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Tom Scotto @tjscotto.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A brilliant, if sobering, piece from my former Essex sparring partner, Adam Wright. It captures something uncomfortable about UK higher ed over the last decade: those who cared enough to question relentless expansion were often the ones pushed aside for doing it: wonkhe.com/blogs/someth...
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Something fierce. What Essex tells us about the fate of the plate glass universities
The plate glass universities were founded on intimacy, radicalism and community. Adam Wright asks whether an obsession with growth has made those promises impossible to keep
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
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Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Students: if you really think that generative AI can do things better than you - not just quicker, but better - then why would anyone hire you? It is such a huge gamble to take that these tools will be around in this form in 2, 3, or 4 years and that you will never be in a work situation where you
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New paper! academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... What does “taking back control of borders” feel like when you are the one being bordered?
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In the Shadow of the Damoclesian Border
Abstract. In the contemporary international order, control of borders is the central totem of statehood. The call to “take back control” of borders was the
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
It’s a good un
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Poem about ‘relentlessness of the news cycle’ wins National Poetry Competition
Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It is really unbelievable in the literal sense.
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Ty Solomon @tsolomon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Congrats, Felix!!👍🎉
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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Thank you @hist-isanet.bsky.social! 🙏 @harokarkour.bsky.social and my paper on racial justice and the national interest in classical #realism won the Merze Tate Prize for the Best Article in Historical IR @sussexfss.bsky.social Find the article here (OA) 👇 academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
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Toward IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism
Abstract. This article addresses growing calls for a fifth debate on international relations’ (IR) “race amnesia.” The central argument is two-fold. First,
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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We are living through an era of imperial polycrisis much like the one Smith tried to make sense of. Here at @uofgsocsci.bsky.social, our program of conferences, exhibits and interactive experiences on “The World in 1776/2026” begins in June: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
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The World in 1776/2026: The Wealth of Nations at 250
This conference examines the continuing relevance of The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, highlighting how his Enlightenment ideas about freedom, empire, and political economy shaped modern debates on...
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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
250 years ago today, Adam Smith published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Contrary to popular belief, it is not a proto-libertarian paean to free markets, but a blistering critique of vested interests, corporate power and the British Empire. Some favorite bits:
Cover page, Wealth of Nations, First Edition 1776
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Ty Solomon @tsolomon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Fascinating, and sobering, exploration of how most of us no longer see the stars, and why that matters for how we see ourselves... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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Stars are disappearing before our eyes — and something in us is shifting
For most of human history, the night sky has been a shared inheritance, a source of wonder. Now, more than a billion children see barely any stars in the night sky above their homes. So what does that...
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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📚Book promotion day 📚 Here is a 30% discount code for my book AND the first chapter is ungated to read for free.
discount code for Subotic book
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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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Ty Solomon @tsolomon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Just got my grubby hands on a hard copy of this gorgeous book, in which I'm grateful to have a chapter. Kudos and thanks again to @simonkoschut.bsky.social and @andrewagross.bsky.social for corralling us together to accomplish this!
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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
2025 was a terrible, depressingly relevant year to be a scholar of technology and corporate power. Some of us tried to make sense of WTF happened here (free to read): doi.org/10.1017/S026...
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Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order
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Duck of Minerva @duckofminerva.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Farewell The Hayseed Scholar podcast has come to a close. In this farewell episode, Brent's brother Kyle hosts it and they chat about the podcast and why Brent is closing it down. Two friends of the pod, Matt McDonald and Jelena Subotic, also join to mention what they liked and what they…
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Farewell
The Hayseed Scholar podcast has come to a close. In this farewell episode, Brent's brother Kyle hosts it and they chat about the podcast and why Brent is closing it down. Two friends of the pod, Matt McDonald and Jelena Subotic, also join to mention what they liked and what they (Jelena) did not like about the podcast. Brent closes by asking Kyle, who is a LinkedIn rockstar, about the changing landscape of social media and reaching beyond an academic audience, before the two of them sign-off for good.
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Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) BISA Working Group @epir-bisa.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🚨NEXT EVENT🚨 📖 Seminar series session with Todd McGowan (U of Vermont), presenting his new ‘Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan’ and introducing Lacanian psychoanalysis for politics & IR. 🗓️ Wednesday 10 December, 4pm BST (online) 🔗Register here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
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Emotions in Politics and International Relations seminar series: An introduction to Jacques Lacan- Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) | BISA
- Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) Working Group
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 08/12/2025
I had *planned* on writing a post today about the ongoing sane-washing of the U.S. National Security Strategy, but I decided instead to put up a more detailed version of my skeets about the entanglement of Trump corruption, overseas autocratic wealth, and U.S. media consolidation.
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Transnational Kleptocracy and American Authoritarian Consolidation - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Last week, Netflix reached a deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s studios and streaming business. Some right-wing influencers were livid, because Netflix produces a fair amount of LGBTQ-friendly c...
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Andy Hom @therealisthom.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's a humbling, thrilling trip to have my book, IR & the Problem of Time, reviewed so generously by him who directly inspired me to do IR, Brent Steele @utah.edu Thanks also to @h-diplo.bsky.social & @szarejko.bsky.social for commissioning issforum.org/reviews/jerv... @edinburghpir.bsky.social
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Jervis Forum Review 149: Steele on Hom, International Relations and the Problem of Time
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 149 Andrew R. Hom. International Relations and the Problem of Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780198850014 28…
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Ty Solomon @tsolomon.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Congrats, Nicolai!!
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚨 New Publication in International Organization! 🚨 Happy to share our latest paper with @jeremymoulton.bsky.social:“The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order”, part of SI #IOFoGG on the Future of Global Governance. doi.org/10.1017/S002... @iojournal.bsky.social
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The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order | International Organization | Cambridge Core
The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order - Volume 79 Issue S1
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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows
Graphic showing double page opening of emblem book from Stirling Maxwell Collection featuring portrait of a man on the left and a printed emblem of text and image on the right. The image is overlaid with information about the fellowship scheme welcoming researchers and repeating closing date and URL to follow.
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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🚨Special issue on Global Politics of Cultural Heritage edited by @elifkalay.bsky.social and yours truly for @risjnl.bsky.social is now fully out! The project is about placing cultural heritage at the core of IR. Here is the intro, individual articles in thread👇
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Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics
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Andy Hom @therealisthom.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Check out this intro to our forthcoming special issue, by two scholarly forces of nature
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
New paper! Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Wha’s like us? The desecuritisation of migration as ontological security-seeking in Scotland | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Wha’s like us? The desecuritisation of migration as ontological security-seeking in Scotland
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Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) BISA Working Group @epir-bisa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🔔Reminder that there’s just one week to go to make your submissions for #BISA2026! Deadline: 3 Nov We’re looking forward to your panel/paper submissions to our section✊🏻👇🏻
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Nina C. Krickel-Choi @nckc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
📢Call for Abstracts📢 Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026! We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨ @mybisa.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The people behind the inflated protests are performing a monumental service to democracy & peace in the US. The Regime wants riots, but these animal characters are not only an effective protest, grabbing attention & mocking ICE, they seem to reduce the risk of violent protests. It's perfect.
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Ebony Young @ebonyyoung.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Call for Papers! Excited to be putting together a panel on more-than-human and posthuman IR for the BISA 2026 conference. Deadline Fri 24 Oct - details below. Please reach out with any queries
A screenshot of the Call for Papers - please message me for the text version
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Reminder that our #BISA2026 call & homepage is OPEN NOW - we can't wait to see you in Brighton! 🎉 🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT @simonrushton.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social
BISA social media card with the BISA logo, #BISA2026, Brighton, UK, 3-5 June, conference.bisa.ac.uk
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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
One reason I am American by birth and British by naturalization is that my father faced such terrifying racial hazing in 1980s London that he emigrated. When I moved here as an adult, he was worried about me. I told him it'd be fine, it had all changed. Instead: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Police assaulted as far-right rally led by Tommy Robinson sparks clashes
More than 110,000 people join Tommy Robinson-organised protest featuring racist conspiracy theories and hate speech
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Big news! #BISA2026 is already in the works, so be sure to submit papers and panels. The submission site opens on September 24 ⬇️
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