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Andreas Malm on Palestine, Climate Activism and over-shooting 1.5 °C – interview on video with Sebastian Budgen Andreas Malm is a Swedish climate activist, associate professor of human ecology at Lund University, and author of the best-selling How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning … Continue reading →

Jean-Numa Ducange  and Anthony Burlaud (eds.), Marx, A French Passion: The Reception of Marx and Marxisms in France’s Political-Intellectual Life – trans. David Broder, Brill, 2023 Paperback after 12 months with Haymarket Despite the collapse of Soviet-style socialism, the spectre of … Continue reading →

Call for Papers 2023: Global Histories of International Thought and Geopolitical Concepts RUG-NUPI Research Workshop in the History and Theory of International Relations Keynote speaker: Prof. Lucian Ashworth  Location: University of Groningen, 9712 CP Netherlands Date: Thursday 23th – Friday … Continue reading →

Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iversen, Svalbard Imaginaries: The Making of an Arctic Archipelago – Palgrave Macmillan, November 2023 Hardback and e-book at present; paperback due in December 2024 By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, this book … Continue reading →

Robert Zaretsky, The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas – University of Chicago Press, 2021, paperback 2023 Known as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909–43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a … Continue reading →

Henri Hubert’s History of the Celtic Peoples (which contains two of his French books in translation); Karl Meyer and Sharon Brysac, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia; Gören Larsson (ed.), The Legacy, Life … Continue reading →

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State – Stanford University Press, February 2024 Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement … Continue reading →

Burak Kadercan, Shifting Grounds: The Social Origins of Territorial Conflict – Oxford University Press, October 2023 Territory has always played a key role in the origins, conduct, and consequences of armed conflict. For territories to exist in any meaningful sense, … Continue reading →