On this week’s episode, Prof. Sarah Pink chats with Dr. Tusharika Deka (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) in this second episode of two about futures anthropology, emerging technologies, influencing policy, advice to early career researchers, and much more.

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Professor Sarah Pink is Professor and Director of FUTURES Hub and the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, where she engages and innovates interdisciplinary and international research approaches to offer fresh perspectives and realistic future visions and foresight about the role of human futures in shaping digital and net zero transitions. She has a joint appointment across the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture and the Faculty of Information Technology. She is an Australian Research Council Laureate Professor and has over 25 years of experience of working with academic and industry research partners internationally and frequently gives keynote and public lectures in academic and business environments. She has published numerous books, including Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future and Doing Visual Anthropology and has directed several documentaries. She is known for her career-long focus on innovating new research and dissemination methodologies, and engaging design futures, digital, visual and sensory methods in interdisciplinary projects to engage with contemporary issues and challenges.

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In this week's episode of the Thinking Global podcast, Cynthia Enloe talks with the team. To begin with, Professor Enloe unfolds her claim that "The international is personal; the personal is international", before exploring the idea of 'womenandchildren' rhetoric in contemporary conflict. Following this, Professor Enloe discusses the marginalisation of Feminist International Relations and how Feminist International Relations can challenge the dominant narratives the discipline has constructed. Lastly, prior to a brief exploration of masculinity and militarisation, Professor Enloe talks about her new book 'Twelve Feminist Lessons of War', available from ⁠University of California Press⁠ and ⁠Footnotes Press⁠.

Professor Cynthia Enloe is a Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment, with affiliations with Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science, all at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts (@ClarkUniversity⁠). Some of Professor Enloe’s books include: 'Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives' (2000), 'The Curious Feminist' (2004), 'Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War' (2010), 'Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered' (2013), 'Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link' (2016), and of course her seminal work: 'Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics' (1989).

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In this week's episode of Thinking Global, Wendy Brown speaks with the Thinking Global team. First, Professor Brown explores Nihilism as contemporary political condition, discussing her new book 'Nihilistic Times', which can be found on the ⁠Harvard University Press⁠ Website. From here, the team explore the central thesis of 'Walled States, Waning Sovereignty' (2010) and reflect on Professor Brown's well-known article 'Resisting Left Melancholy' (1999), prior to a short concluding discussion on Neoliberalism in the contemporary world.

Professor Wendy Brown is Professor Emerita in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley (@UCBerkeley). Professor Brown’s fields of interest include the history of political theory, feminist theory, contemporary critical theories of law, nineteenth and twentieth century Continental theory, and contemporary American political culture. She is best known for intertwining the insights of Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Frankfurt School theorists, Foucault, and contemporary Continental philosophers to critically interrogate formations of power, political identity, citizenship, and political subjectivity in contemporary liberal democracies.

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James Der Derian talks with the Thinking Global team about Quantum International Relations, revealing what this could mean for International Relations Theory and International Security. In this episode, Professor Der Derian speaks about the future of International Theory and International Relations broadly, reminding us of the importance of 'quantizing' the discipline and the benefits this can bring.

Professor James Der Derian is the Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies and Director of the Centre for International Security Studies at University of Sydney (⁠@Usyd_ssps⁠). His research and teaching interests are in international security, information technology, international theory and documentary film.

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Professor Arne Westad (Yale University) talks with the Thinking Global team about what it is to 'think globally' when it comes to international politics, the potential for a new Cold War, Sino-US relations, developing states in the international order, and what it is to think about global politics 'in language'. Thinking Global is a podcast from E-International Relations – the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics.

Since the mid-2000s, Westad has been concerned with more general aspects of post-colonial and global history, as well as the modern history of China. The three key works from this period are The Global Cold War, which argues for ways of understanding the Soviet-American conflict in light of late- and post-colonial change in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean; Restless Empire, which discusses broad trends in China’s international history since 1750; and The Cold War: A World History, which summarizes the origins, conduct, and results of the conflict on a global scale. Today he is mainly interested in researching histories of empire and imperialism, first and foremost in Asia, but also world-wide. He is also trying to figure out how China’s late twentieth century economic reforms came into being and how their results changed the global economy. Professor Westad can be found on Twitter: @OAWestad.

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This week on Thinking Global, Professor Sarah Pink chats with Dr. Tusharika Deka (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) in this first episode of two about her journey into academia, interdisciplinary research, futures anthropology, digital ethnography, emerging technologies and much more.

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Sarah Pink is Professor and Director of FUTURES Hub and the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, where she engages and innovates interdisciplinary and international research approaches to offer fresh perspectives and realistic future visions and foresight about the role of human futures in shaping digital and net zero transitions. She has a joint appointment across the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture and the Faculty of Information Technology. She is an Australian Research Council Laureate, has over 25 years experiences of working with academic and industry research partners internationally, and frequently gives keynote and public lectures in academic and business environments.

She has published numerous academic books, including Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future, Doing Visual Anthropology. She has also directed several documentaries and is also known for her career-long focus on innovating new research and dissemination methodologies, and engaging design futures, digital, visual and sensory methods in interdisciplinary projects to engage with contemporary issues and challenges.

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On this week’s episode of Thinking Global, Professor Brent J. Steele (@UUtah) speaks with Kosta Kambouris about ontological security studies, its methods, its various factions, constructivism, and much more.

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Professor Brent J. Steele is the Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair and University Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, and the co-editor in chief of Global Studies Quarterly. His most recent works include Vicarious Identity in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2021), with Chris Browning and Pertti Joenniemi, and Restraint in International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which co-won the ISA Theory section book award for 2020.

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On this week’s episode, Professor Nando Sigona (@nandosigona) speaks with Marianna Karakoulaki (@Faloulah), with the return of our Thinking Borders series. In this episode, Marianna and Professor Sigona discuss migration, borders, the power of narratives, the impact of Brexit on migration in the UK and much more.

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Professor Nando Sigona is Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement at the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham and is the Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity (IRIS). His research interests include: Irregularised migrant families in Europe (I-CLAIM), the politics of migration in the age of ‘Global Britain’ (MIGZEN), Intra-EU mobility, mixed-EU families, Eurochildren and Brexit, The EU and the refugee crisis (MEDMIG) among other themes. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, Senior Research Associate at ODI, and Visiting Professor at Utrecht University. Nando is also a founding editor of the journal Migration Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of Global Migration and Social Change book series for Bristol University Press. He is the author and/or co-editor of books and journal’s special issues including Becoming Adult on the Move (with Elaine Chase and Dawn Chatty, Palgrave), The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (with Fran Meissner and Steven Vertovec, Oxford University Press), Undocumented Migration (Roberto G. Gonzales, Martha C. Franco, and Anna Papoutsi, Polity), The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Katy Long and Gil Loescher, Oxford University Press).

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On this week’s episode, Dr Nathan Critch chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Marianna (@Faloulah) about his new book The Politics of Public Inquiries: Crises, Containment and Contestation, public inquiries in the UK, their efficacy, their politicisation, and much more.

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Dr. Nathan Critch is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on UK Governance and public policy. He is the author of The Politics of Public Inquiries: Crises, Containment and Contestation (Palgrave Macmillan). Nathan’s research has been published in British Politics and the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, he has contributed to both The Conversation and LSE British Politics and Policy and has given testimony as an expert witness before the House of Lords Select Committee on Statutory Inquiries.

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Prof. Joseph S. Nye. Jr. chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Edward (@edwarddcurry5) about his latest book A Life In The American Century (Polity, 2024), soft power, international relations theory, US foreign policy, the current crisis in the Middle East, and the question of US decline.

Prof. Joseph. S. Nye Jr. (Harvard Kennedy School – @Kennedy_School @Harvard) is University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology. His books include, but by no means limited to, Power and Interdependence (TBS, 1977) co-written with Robert O. Keohane; Soft Power: The Means To Success in World Politics (PublicAffairs, 2004); The Powers to Lead (Oxford University Press, 2008) ; The Future of Power (Hachette, 2011); Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era (Princeton University Press, 2013); Is the American Century Over? (Polity, 2015); Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (Oxford University Press, 2020); and Soft Power and Great-Power Competition ([Open Access] Springer, 2023). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers.

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Professor Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London - @QMHistory) speaks with the team about contextualism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and more. Professor Skinner chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Tusharika (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) about what contextualism is as a methodological approach to political thought, how he applies this to Machiavelli and Hobbes, and how this relays back to what it is to think about global politics.

Quentin Skinner is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London (@QMHistory). Prof. Skinner has published on a number of philosophical themes, including the nature of interpretation and historical explanation, and on several issues in contemporary political theory, including the concept of political liberty and the character of the state. He has written extensively on questions about historical method and historical explanation, being a key figure in the ‘Cambridge’ contextualist school of political thought (@cambridge_cpt). Many of these essays have been collected in the volume, edited by James Tully, Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics (1988).

His historical research centres on early-modern Europe, and one of his principal interests lies in the Italian Renaissance. He has  published books on Machiavelli, on early Renaissance political painting, on ideals of civic virtue, and has edited Machiavelli’s The Prince. These include Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction (2000), Machiavelli (1981) and more. The other main focus of his research concerns seventeenth century England, writing on the relations between rhetoric and philosophy, including a book on Shakespeare’s use of classical rhetoric – Forensic Shakespeare (2014) – and on debates about political liberty in the English revolution – Liberty Before Liberalism (1998). He has also published three books on the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes – Hobbes and Republican Liberty (2008), Reason and Rhetoric in The Philosophy of Hobbes (2010), From Humanism to Hobbes (2018) and more. His best-known multi-volume works, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978) and Visions of Politics (2002), attempt to span his insight into the whole early-modern period. This is without mentioning a host of influential articles, such as his famous ‘Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas’ (1969).

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On this episode of the Thinking Global Podcast, Dr. Rahul Verma chats with Tusharika (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) about The 2024 Indian Elections. Dr. Verma speaks about India’s electoral system, the party system of India, forecasting the outcome, voting behaviour, the effect of ‘regional’ parties, how these elections may have a global effect, and so much more. This is the first episode of our multilingual ‘India Votes’ series of 2024.

Rahul Verma (@rahul_tverma) is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is also Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Ashoka University. His research interests include voting behaviour, party politics, political violence, and media. He is a regular columnist for various news platforms and has published papers in Asian Survey, Economic & Political Weekly, and Studies in Indian Politics. He is the co-author of Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India (2018, Oxford University Press) .

Lastly, this week we have another Open Letter Competition. The best entry will be read out on next week’s episode. Please do email your answers (no more than 300 words) to: thinkingglobal.eir@gmail.com.

This week’s challenge seeks to answer the question: To what extent has the post-cold war liberal order been successful?

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Professor Fawaz Gerges speaks with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Edward (@edwarddcurry5) about his latest book What Really Went Wrong: The West and The Failure of Democracy in the Middle East (Yale University Press, 2024 - available to pre-order), conceptualising the Middle East, political Islam, Pan-Arabism, alongside colonialism and imperialism in the region. This is followed by a discussion of the causes leading to the Israeli-Hamas conflict and what must happen for peace to transpire.

Fawaz Gerges (@FawazGerges) is Professor of International Relations at The London School of Economics and Political Science (@LSEIRDept, @lseideas). He is the holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies and was also the inaugural Director of the LSE Middle East Centre from 2010 until 2013. His special interests include Islam and the political process, social movements, including mainstream Islamist movements and jihadist groups, Arab and Muslim politics in the 20th century, the international relations of the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict, American foreign policy towards the Muslim world, the modern history of the Middle East, and more. Some of Prof. Gerges’ works include: Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash that Shaped the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2018), ISIS: A History (Princeton University Press, 2016), The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy (Harcourt Press, 2007), and The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global (Cambridge University Press, 2005). 

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Dr. Dimitrios Stroikos chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Romanos (@rmnorph) on security in outer space, a ‘new space race’, the militarization of space, sovereignty in outer space, conflict in space, alongside China and India’s weapons capabilities in outer space.

Dimitros Stroikos (@DStroikos) is currently an LSE Fellow at The London School of Economics (@LSEIRDept @lseideas) in the Department of International Relations. He is head of the Space Policy project at LSE IDEAS and his research interests cover the global politics of outer space activities, space policy and space security, the international relations of the Indo-Pacific and Asian security, with particular reference to China and India. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Space Policy, and has recently published the article 'Still Lost in Space? Understanding China and India’s Anti-Satellite Tests through an Eclectic Approach', a chapter entitled “China and India as rising powers and the militarisation of space”, and the article: ‘Space diplomacy? India’s new regional policy under Modi and the ‘South Asia Satellite’’.

Lastly, this week we have another ‘open letter challenge’. What is the role that collective memory plays in international relations? Our favourite entry will be read out on next week's podcast episode. Just email your answers (300 words max) to: thinkingglobal.eir@gmail.com. Alongside that, we want to hear from you! Which Thinking Global Podcast episodes have you been listening to? Which articles on E-International Relations have you enjoyed reading? What are you currently publishing on? Send us your letters to the email listed above and have them read out on the podcast! If you enjoy the output of E-International Relations, please consider a ⁠donation⁠.

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Prof. George Lawson chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Catharine (@catharinedamron) on why we should think of revolutions as international or global phenomena, ‘Unruly Politics’, ‘negotiated revolutions’ and more, in the second episode of this two-part series.

Prof. George Lawson (@GeorgeLawsonIR) is Professor in the Department of International Relations at Australia National University. His work centres primarily on historical sociology and revolutions. He is the author of Anatomies of Revolution (Cambridge, 2019); and Negotiated Revolutions: The Czech Republic, South Africa and Chile (Routledge, 2016/2005). Equally, Prof. Lawson is co-author of On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World (Oxford, 2022) with Colin Beck, Mlada Bukovanksy, Erica Chenoweth, Sharon Nepstad and Daniel Ritter; and The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations (Cambridge, 2015) with Barry Buzan. He is also the co-editor of Global Historical Sociology (Cambridge, 2017) with Julian Go, and The Global 1989 (Cambridge, 2010) with Chris Armbruster and Michael Cox.

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, George Lawson chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Catharine (@catharinedamron) on conceptualising Revolution, the debates within comparative political and sociological studies about revolution, whether history or comparative theory is more significant when thinking about revolution, and what ‘anatomies’ of revolution mean for him in the first episode of a two-part series.

Prof. George Lawson (@GeorgeLawsonIR) is Professor in the Department of International Relations at Australia National University. His work centres primarily on historical sociology and revolutions. He is the author of Anatomies of Revolution (Cambridge, 2019); and Negotiated Revolutions: The Czech Republic, South Africa and Chile (Routledge, 2016/2005). Equally, Prof. Lawson is co-author of On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World (Oxford, 2022) with Colin Beck, Mlada Bukovanksy, Erica Chenoweth, Sharon Nepstad and Daniel Ritter; and The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations (Cambridge, 2015) with Barry Buzan. He is also the co-editor of Global Historical Sociology (Cambridge, 2017) with Julian Go, and The Global 1989 (Cambridge, 2010) with Chris Armbruster and Michael Cox.

Lastly, this week we have our first ‘open letter challenge’. What is your favourite international relations theory to read about and why? – the best entry will be read out on next week’s episode. Just email your letters to: thinkingglobal.eir@gmail.com. Alongside that, we always enjoy hearing from you! Which Thinking Global Podcast episodes have you been listening to? Which articles on E-International Relations have you enjoyed reading? What are you currently publishing on? Send us your letters to the email address above and have them read out on the podcast! If you enjoy the output of E-International Relations, please consider a ⁠donation⁠.

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Prof. Maria Popova and Prof. Oxana Shevel talk with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Jennifer (@JenniferEngl) about their new book 'Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States' (Polity, 2023).

Maria Popova (@PopovaProf) is Associate Professor of political science and Jean Monnet Chair at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her research focusses on The Russo-Ukrainian War, the prosecution of political corruption in the Balkans and East Central Europe, alongside political development in Ukraine, judicial and anti-corruption reforms, and EU accession reforms. Her previous works include Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine. (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Oxana Shevel (@OxanaShevel) is an Associate Professor of comparative politics at Department of Political Science at Tufts University and Director of Tufts International Relations program. Her research and teaching focuses on the post-Soviet region, especially Ukraine and Russia, and issues such as nation building and identity politics, citizenship policies, memory politics, church-state relations, and democratization process in the post-Soviet region. Her previous works include the award winning Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe (Cambridge, 2011).

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Dr. Simon Curtis chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Romanos (@rmnorph) on conceptualising the ‘global city’, the role of the urban in the global order, why we should focus more on ‘the urban’ in International Relations, China and the Belt and Road Initiative in such a schema, and the future of the global city in a post-pandemic world.

Dr. Simon Curtis (University of Surrey - @UniOfSurrey @SurreyPolitics) is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at The University of Surrey. His current research investigates the relationship between transnational processes and the society of sovereign states, with particular reference to transnational urbanism and global cities. His books include Global Cities and Global Order (Oxford University Press), which was awarded the 2018 Hedley Bull Prize by the European Consortium for Political Research, and the forthcoming The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China’s Search for a New International Order (Yale University Press, 2024) co-written with Ian Klaus. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow on Global Cities at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and an Honorary Professor in International Relations at the University of East Anglia.

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Prof. Jamie Gaskarth speaks with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Romanos (@rmnorph) about the defining features of British Foreign Policy, the ‘indo-pacific’ tilt, the Commonwealth, what we should expect from David Cameron (@David_Cameron) as Foreign Secretary, the effect of Brexit, and evaluating William Hague (@WilliamJHague) as an ‘activist’ foreign minister.

Prof. Jamie Gaskarth (@GaskarthJamie) was appointed Professor of Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Open University in February 2021, having previously been a Reader in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the University of Birmingham, and Senior Lecturer at Plymouth University. His research looks into issues of ethics, decision making and accountability, with a particular focus on UK foreign policy. His most recent book Secrets and Spies: UK Intelligence Accountability After Iraq and Snowden (Chatham House/Brookings Institution Press, 2020) explored the challenges of holding intelligence agencies accountable when what they do is secret. Also, check out his recent article for the Cambridge Review of International Affairs ‘William Hague’s activist foreign policy: the perils of merging practices’. He is currently developing projects on the ethical dilemmas of disinformation; and how to persuade leaders to respect human rights, using positive as well as negative reinforcement.

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Dr. Maurice Stierl speaks with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Marianna (@Faloulah) about how time can be weaponised, how this relates to EU Maritime Migration Policy, migrant resistance and solidarity, the entanglement of borders, and resistance as method.

Dr. Maurice Stierl (@MauriceStierl) leads the research group ‘The Production of Knowledge on Migration’ at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at Osnabrück University. His research focuses on migration struggles in contemporary Europe and (northern) Africa and is broadly situated in the fields of International Political Sociology, Political Geography, and Migration, Citizenship and Border Studies. He is the author of Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe(Routledge, 2019) and recently published an article in Security Dialogue entitled: ‘Rebel spirits at sea: Disrupting EUrope’s weaponizing of time in maritime migration governance’.

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