History of Political Thought Graduate Conference @history-thought.bsky.social The Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought 'States and Spaces' - 19-20 June at LSE.
Department of Politics & International Studies, Uni of Cambridge @campolis.bsky.social The Department of POLIS at the University of Cambridge - teaching and researching the world's most complex and pressing issues in politics around the world.
www.polis.cam.ac.uk
Shruti Balaji @shrutibalaji.bsky.social British Academy postdoctoral fellow, POLIS & Research Associate, King’s College, University of Cambridge.
📚20th C. Indian women thinkers, history of international thought, race, gender, empire. Often thinking about flowers, cricket, and tea.
LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social A blog that explores the co-constitution of law and political economy. Part of the @lpeproject.bsky.social. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://lpeproject.org/subscribe/
The LPE Project @lpeproject.bsky.social Legal scholars, students, & practitioners working to expose & transform law's role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality. & check out our Blog: @lpeblog.bsky.social
Jeanne Morefield @morefius.bsky.social Political theory prof at Oxford, screed writer, rabid Seattlite.
António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social Lecturer in Geopolitics @King's College London; interested in the history of geopolitical thought, territory and environmental politics. Erstwhile @Univesity of Groningen
David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social Philosopher working on dehumanization, race, Freud, and other stuff.
MY SUBSTACK: https://davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/
MY WEBPAGE: www.davidlivingstonesmith.com
Jonathan Leader Maynard @jleadermaynard.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Politics, King’s College London & Parliamentary Academic Fellow, UK House of Commons
Philosophy Bites @philosophybites.bsky.social Philosophy Bites podcast - co-hosted by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Maha Ali @mahaali.bsky.social PhD Candidate/Lecturer, Leiden University.
Associate Editor, London Review of International Law, OUP.
History of human rights-making. Feminist movements in Asia.
International organisations and development.
Taif Alkhudary @alktaif.bsky.social PhD student at POLIS, Uni of Cambridge
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social Teach political theory
Kevin Pham @kdpham.bsky.social Political Theorist. University of Amsterdam.
Patti T Lenard @pattitlenard.bsky.social Prof of political theory and applied ethics at UO; advocate for lgbtiq+ refugees 🌈; defender of multiculturalism; sloth in profile pic is named Mani
Jennie Ikuta @jennieci.bsky.social assoc prof of political theory • moral psychology & democracy • 📚: ‘contesting conformity’ (oxford UP) • views my own, not my employer’s • reposts ≠ endorsements •
Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social associate professor of political science at Ohio State University // global justice, supply chains, populism, climate change, critical theory, etc // all tweets (skeets?) produced accidentally by having my phone in a pants pocket while I walk the dog
David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan || book: REMAPPING SOVEREIGNTY (2023) || Currently writing: WAGES FOR EARTHWORK
Sam Galloway @srgalloway.bsky.social political theorist | they/them | "for hope is a faithless steersman."
Juliet Hooker @juliethooker.bsky.social Professor. Feminist. Books: Black Grief/White Grievance: the Politics of Loss | Theorizing Race in the Americas: Sarmiento, Douglass, Du Bois & Vasconcelos | Race and the Politics of Solidarity.
Jamie Mayerfeld @jmayerfeld.bsky.social political theorist, University of Washington, author of "The Promise of Human Rights," http://bit.ly/3ZQzYT3. Posts express personal views only.
Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social Political scientist writing on law, guns, originalism, and abortion. Born in Queens but now proud Jersey Girl. Co-host of New Books in Political Science Podcast
Repost and ❤️ ≠ endorsement -- I read from many points of view! She/Her.
erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social “middle-brow theorist” aiming for low-brow. just a private citizen speaking on matters of public concern
Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social Economic journalist and utility pundit. http://lbo-news.com.
Jakeet Singh @jakeet.bsky.social
Benjamin Boudou @bboudou.bsky.social Professor of political theory at the University of Rennes | Editor of Raisons Politiques | Migration, citizenship, democracy
tatiana llaguno @tatianallaguno.bsky.social assistant professor of critical & political theory @upf.edu | organizing member https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk 🌹🇵🇸
https://philpeople.org/profiles/tatiana-llaguno
Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social Lecturer in IR and Political Theory at University of St Andrews. Interested in: Migration | Rights | Borders | Digital Tech | Activism
When not working, I’m travelling, eating nice food, and being a mum to Chocolate Labrador Bonnie.
Prithviraj Datta @prithvirajdatta.bsky.social Political theorist, Franklin & Marshall College. Work on campaign finance, political inequality, and freedom of speech. Reposts go on the reading list
King's Political Theory Research Group @kingspoltheory.bsky.social News from the Political Theory Group in the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/political-theory-research-group-dpe
York Centre for Social Justice and Democracy @ycpt.bsky.social News from the Political Theory group at the University of York. https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/cpt/
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social History, IR, Oxford, Brighton. 🇮🇪 🌈 Mum of two. First Gen academic. Arsenal Women. She/her. Author of award-winning Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton, 2025)
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691266442/erased
Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list. Financial Times “Best Books.”
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, 2026) and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2019)
Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social I write books and academic things. OG AI hater.
https://jsubotic.com
I have a new book! "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-art-of-status-9780198909750?lang=3n&cc=at#
Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford; lives in York (the old one).
Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social
Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social Historian of US foreign aid, disasters, and international humanitarianism. Author of *Making the World Safe* (OUP ’13) and *Catastrophic Diplomacy* (UNC ’24). Co-editor of *InterConnections: The Global 20th Century* (UNC) and *Journal of Disaster Studies*.
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social The class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter, http://Un-Diplomatic.com. Co-host, https://www.BangBangPod.com; https://www.undiplomaticpodcast.com. 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇳🇿. https://www.vanjackson.org
Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social Political Ecologist/Economist at SOAS
Carolyn Eichner @eichnercarolyn.bsky.social Historian 19th c. France & empire; gender, race, & sexuality; social movements; Paris Commune;
names.
Joseph MacKay @lefteleven.bsky.social Canadian in Oz. IR academic. History of international ordering, history of international thought. He/him. Book, "The Counterinsurgent Imagination." https://bit.ly/3h86v4Y
International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social An Journal of International Politics, Law and Philosophy from @universitypress.cambridge.org.
Since the start of 2024 International Theory is an open access journal.
cambridge.org/int
IRsky
Swati Srivastava @swatisrivastava.bsky.social Associate Professor, Government and Politics and AI Interdisciplinary Institute, University of Maryland. Faculty associate at Berkman Klein Center, Harvard.
Writes about global corporate power, sovereignty, Big Tech, AI
swatisrivastava.com
Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social Teaching history and politics at City St George's. Work on Asia and the Caribbean. Too much time thinking about RPGs. Currently Brighton, previously Hong Kong, New York, Copenhagen.
Dexter Fergie @dexterfergie.bsky.social
Helen M Kinsella @hmkinsella.bsky.social U of MN Political Science & Law, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, HHH School of Public Policy: gender, laws of war, violence. Feminist. She/her
Minneapolis, MN. helenmkinsella.com
Halvard Leira @halvardl.bsky.social Research Director and Research Professor at NUPI, ass. ed. EJIR. Comment here primarily as a private citizen. I do research on conceptual history, privateers and diplomacy etc. I like mountains, skiing and my woodfired pizza oven.
Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social Senior Researcher at NUPI; Editor at Cooperation & Conflict. Interests: global environmental politics, international institutions, nukes, hierarchies & dodgy-indicators. If you really do learn most from mistakes then I'm a genius.
Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Sciences Po, Paris | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social History prof @ Yale, writing book on history of offshore capitalism and tax havens. Also feminism, climate emergency, LGBTQ+. Obsessed road and gravel cyclist 🏳️🌈
Nina Reiners @ninareiners.bsky.social Human Rights and Social Sciences, Uni Oslo // Global Governance, Graduate Institute Geneva
www.ninareiners.com
Marina Duque @mduque.bsky.social Political scientist at UCL | Research on international status, hierarchy, diplomacy, networks | marinagduque.com | Book: The Making of International Status (https://amzn.to/3U99Jpi)
Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social Assistant Professor at William & Mary.
www.eunajo.com
Jennifer Mitzen @jennifermitzen.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof @OhioState |
IR theory, ontological sec'ty, diplomacy, int'l history |
author, _Power in Concert_ | co-editor, _Ontolog (in)Security in the EU_
Quentin Bruneau @qbruneau.bsky.social Associate Prof of Politics @The New School. History & theory of int’l relations/Int’l political economy. 🇨🇦/🇪🇺🇫🇷 in NYC www.quentinbruneau.com
Benjamin de Carvalho @bdecarvalho.bsky.social Research Professor at NUPI. Editor in Chief of Cooperation and Conflict. IR scholar interested in privateering, sovereignty, state formation and empires. And most things historical. And food and wine.
Gregorio Bettiza @gregoriobettiza.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Exeter. Ideology, religion, identity, and world order. Ambivalent about modernity.
Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social Academic, writer, artist. Author of Cable Empires (https://a.co/d/0isFzRjZ)
Associate Professor of Law at Capital Law School | Instructor, Harvard Summer School
www.roxanav.com
subsurfacegovernance.substack.com
French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the French Colonial Historical Society.
Eline van Ommen @elinevanommen.bsky.social Associate Professor of International History at the University of Leeds, UK. Historian of Latin America, revolutions, peace processes, and the Cold War. Author "Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War" (UC Press)
Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social Not going to be invited to a UN xmas party any time soon
Senior Lecturer in foreign policy & security at City St George’s, UoL. Historian of UN peacekeeping and humanitarianism. Author of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: http://shorturl.at/aoxzM. she/her
Cooperation and Conflict @coco-journal.bsky.social Cooperation and Conflict (CoCo) is a Nordic peer-reviewed IR journal publishing articles on a broad range of topics.
Editors in Chief: @bdecarvalho.bsky.social & @kristinhaugevik.bsky.social
Editors: @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @oyvinds.bsky.social
George Lawson @georgelawson.bsky.social No comment
Deepak Nair @deepaknair.bsky.social IR at ANU
International sociology | diplomacy | bureaucracy | Southeast Asia
Associate editor, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
www.deepaknair.org
Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social Associate Professor, @LSEIRDept. Views my own. Interested in history, theory, empire, anti-imperialism, and South Asia. www.martinbayly.com
Andrew Payne @andypayne.bsky.social Lecturer in Foreign Policy and Security at City, University of London. Research Associate at Oxford University. Member of Council at Chatham House. Author of "War on the Ballot" (Columbia University Press, 2023).
@stephenpampinella.bsky.social @stephenpampinella.bsky.social
Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín @drqv.bsky.social PhD (SLF) in International Law and History, Geneva Graduate Institute (2024). Abogado Uniandes (2018).
Gert Huskens @gerthuskens.bsky.social Historian | Belgian Expatriates in Egypt, 1882-1936 | Postdoc at Ghent University | PhD at Université libre de Bruxelles and Ghent University | Diplomacy, Egypt & Levant, Global Belgium | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6879-2823
Adam B. Lerner @adamblerner.bsky.social Associate Prof working on IR, pol theory, etc.
Sindre Gade Viksand @gadeviksand.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Gothenburg. International theory and the history of international thought
Tobias Lemke @tlemke.bsky.social Poli Sci & IR Assistant Professor @ Francis Marion University (SC) - orchid enthus’d & bread baking. Studies nationalism, identity, digital comm & security. Teaches a lot 👨🏼🏫 … Go Birds!
Lia Brazil @liabrazil.bsky.social Leverhulme Fellow, Uni of Manchester, on sexual violence and humanitarian actors. Interested in histories of international law, humanitarianism and imperialism.
Lorena De Vita @lorenadevita.bsky.social Working on reparations, memory & diplomacy • Associate Professor • History of International Relations • Utrecht University • Author of ISRAELPOLITIK
📚 https://tinyurl.com/yxj5x5xv
🎓 https://www.uu.nl/staff/LDeVita- B Benjamin Herborth @bherborth.bsky.social I'm just here for the structural transformation of the public sphere.
Thinking politics, international and otherwise @University of Groningen
Ann Towns @anntowns.bsky.social I am Professor of pol sci and Director of the GenDip Program on the gender of diplomacy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. My research pivots around diplomacy, gender, global hierarchies and global historical IR.
A McKeil @acmckeil.bsky.social Researching international (dis)order and cosmopolitan global order alternatives LSEIDEAS
Heather Penatzer @cloutatlas.bsky.social Princeton Politics PhD interested in sovereignty, authority, and international order. Not active here, find me on Twitter. https://www.heatherpenatzer.com
Lydie Cabane @lydiec.bsky.social Assistant prof. Leiden University. Crisis Governance, Public Policy, EU crises, Climate & social protection, Disasters and anything that can go wrong.
Editor International Review of Public Policy (IPPA) https://tinyurl.com/ydxcuhar
Zeynep Gülşah Çapan @zgc.bsky.social
Arthur Duhé @arthurduhe.bsky.social Postdoc at Université Paris 8 (ANR Access ERC, 2025-2027)
D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in International Relations (University of Oxford)
Historical IR / Political Theory / History of Political Thought
Kye Allen @kjallen.bsky.social PhD, University of Oxford | Studies Far-Right Extremism, AI Safety, the History of International Thought, & Fascism- J Janice Bially Mattern @jbiallymattern.bsky.social
Carsten-Andreas Schulz @caschulz.bsky.social
Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social History, empire and the politics of knowledge. University of Technology Sydney
Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social History, strategy & communication | game designer | researcher in applied history | PhD early modern history, MPhil international relations | www.branwenadvisors.com, www.sunkentower.be
Gabriel Glickman @gabrielglickman.bsky.social PhD: Middle East Studies, @KingsCollegeLon. Research/Writing: history of international relations. Book: US-Egypt Diplomacy under Johnson (@IBTauris).
Matthew Longo @matthewblongo.bsky.social Asst Prof of Political Science @PolSciLeiden. Author: THE PICNIC (2024) https://bit.ly/42unDVV) & THE POLITICS OF BORDERS (2018). Native New Yorker.
Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social This account is dedicated to the recently published book "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" by @mihatsch.bsky.social & Michael J. Mulligan. We post about new research on sovereignty & debates from news and social media.
edin h @edinh.bsky.social
Alan Maričić @alanmaricic.bsky.social Historian. Posts on the Cold War, Germany, Yugoslavia, and anything else relevant to my interests.
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MaricicYugoslavia
http://nanrep.org | https://mastodon.social/@terraform
Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social Associate Prof of International Relations, Uni of Exeter. EUCU Vice President and Penryn campus rep. Researches participation, governance, knowledge production, Eurasia. Cyclist. Junglist. Tea obsessive. Constantly restless. Green 🌱